HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1527        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 947

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act requiring proof of liquor legal liability insurance..

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 12 of chapter 138 of the General Laws, as most recently amended by section 20 of chapter 113 of the acts of 2008, is hereby further amended by adding the following paragraph:-

No license shall be granted or renewed under the provisions of this section until the applicant or licensee provides proof of coverage under a liquor legal liability insurance policy for bodily injury or death at a minimum limits of two hundred fifty thousand dollars on account of injury to or death of one person, and five hundred thousand dollars on account of any one accident resulting in injury to or death of more than one person.