SENATE DOCKET, NO. 1058        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1369

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to property tax exemption for persons over the age of seventy..

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.  Clause Forty-first of section 5 of chapter 59 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2004 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out subclause (B), beginning in line 865, and inserting in place thereof the following subclause:-

            (B)  that such person’s income does not exceed that required to qualify under section 5 subsection (a) of chapter 62.

            SECTION 2.  Said clause Forty-first is hereby further amended by striking out the words “five hundred dollars”, in line 849, and inserting in place thereof the following figure:- $1,000.

            SECTION 3.  Clause Forty-first B of said section 5 is hereby amended by striking out the words “five hundred dollars”, in line 1035, and inserting in place thereof the following figure:- $1,000.