HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 4682        FILED ON: 10/23/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 4465

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act to Protect Conservation Lands..

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. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, Chapter 132A of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2008 Official Edition is hereby amended by inserting after Section 18 the following section:-

Section 19. Any lands or easements taken or acquired for natural resource purposes under Article XCVII of the amendments of the Constitution, shall be subject to a moratorium prohibiting industrial development, including energy, on said lands, for a period of ten years after any disposition or change of use.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect immediately upon passage.