SENATE DOCKET, NO. 1494        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1431

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to direct payments..

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.  Paragraph (1) of section 39F of chapter 30 of the general laws is hereby amended by striking said paragraph and inserting in place thereof the following:-  (1) Every contract awarded pursuant to sections forty-four A to L, inclusive, of chapter one hundred and forty-nine and every contract awarded pursuant to section thirty-nine M of chapter thirty shall contain the following subparagraphs and in each case those subparagraphs shall be binding between the general contractor and each subcontractor.