HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 4581        FILED ON: 8/26/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 4343

 

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act Further Defining the Membership of the Franklin Foundation..

 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1. Section 1 of chapter 569 if the Acts if 1908, as appearing in Section 1 of chapter 77 of the Acts of 1953, is herby amended by striking out the second, third, and fourth sentences and inserting in place thereof the following: The members of said corporation shall be the mayor of the city of Boston or the mayor’s designee for the time being and eleven to twenty other persons, as determined by said members in the by-laws of said corporation from time to time. If at any time a vacancy occurs from any cause, it shall be the duty of the members of said corporation to fill such vacancy by a procedure established in the by-laws of the corporation, provided that during such vacancy the remaining members may exercise all the powers of members notwithstanding the vacancy. The members may establish in the by-laws of the corporation such terms of office and additional terms and conditions of membership as they may in their discretion determine appropriate. Any member, other than the mayor of the city of Boston or the mayor’s designee, may be removed by a vote of two-thirds of the then-serving members, with or without cause.

SECTION 2.  The first sentence of Section 2 of chapter 569 if the Acts of 1908, as appearing in Section 2 of the chapter 77 of the Acts of 1953, is herby amended by striking out the first sentence and inserting in place thereof the following: Said corporation shall have the sole care, custody, management and control of the institution established from Franklin’s gift and known originally as the Franklin Union, now known as the Franklin Institute of Boston, an independent technical school.

SECTION 3.  This act shall take effect upon its passage.