HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3359        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 572

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to prohibiting the collection of signatures for initiative or referendum petitions for compensation. ..

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

Section 22A of chapter 53 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following sentence:— No person shall engage in the collection of signatures for a initiative or referendum petition for money or any other thing of value.