HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 5036        FILED ON: 5/20/2010

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 4713

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Ten

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An Act Relative to the City of Chicopee and the Term of Mayor..

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 chapter 43 of the General Laws or any other general or special law to the contrary, the state secretary shall place upon the ballot for the biennial state election in the city of Chicopee in 2010 the following question “Shall the term of office of mayor of the city of Chicopee be increased from 2 years to 4 years?”

If a majority of the votes cast in answer to this question is in the affirmative, the term of office of the mayor of the city of Chicopee shall be increased from 2 years to 4 years beginning with the 2011 regular city election.

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