HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 4987        FILED ON: 4/29/2010

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 4678

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Ten

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An Act further regulating tax titles in the town of East Bridgewater..

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. Whenever the town of East Bridgewater  has conveyed or sold any land or holds a tax title, pursuant to chapter 60 of the General Laws, by any instrument in writing, conveying or taking or purporting to convey or to take such land, and said instrument is duly recorded in the registry of deeds for the district wherein such land is situated and was or is located on any of the following East Bridgewater assessors’ maps: 85, 86, 87, 95, 96, 104, 105 or 115, and its description is based upon a plan entitled “Plan of Land Belonging to The Hanson Land Co. Situated in the Towns of East Bridgewater and Hanson, Mass. by J.C. Torrey C.E. dated July 1888,” filed on July 18, 1888 at the Plymouth county registry of deeds at plan 1, page 36, and the notice or procedure for the taking and sale or conveyance under said chapter, or the instrument or record thereof because of defect, irregularity, or omission fails to comply in any respect with any requirement of law relating thereto, including a failure by the town to foreclose the right of redemption, the instrument or record thereof shall, notwithstanding such defects, irregularities or omissions be effective for all purposes and shall operate to foreclose all rights of redemption to the same extent as though such notice or procedure or the instrument of record thereof had originally not been subject to any such defects, irregularities, or omissions, unless an instrument of redemption has been recorded prior to the effective date of this act.

SECTION 2. The provisions of this act shall only apply to the instruments pertaining to any fiscal years prior to, and including fiscal year 2008 and shall have no effect on any legal proceeding commenced prior to the effective date of this act in the courts of the commonwealth in which a party has appeared asserting a cause of action claiming the right to redeem.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect on July 1, 2011.