SENATE DOCKET, NO. 942        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1625

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to the management of the trial court..

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 9 of chapter 211B of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2002 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out subsections xxiii(a) and (b) and inserting in place thereof the following subsections:

(xxiii)(a) notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the chief justice for administration and management may transfer funds from any item of appropriation of any trial court department to any other item of appropriation within the same trial court department and from any central item of appropriation, so called, to any other trial court item or items of appropriation including the central items of appropriation.