SENATE DOCKET, NO. 358        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1717

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act to increase the small claims statutory maximum..

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. Chapter 218, Section 21 of the General Laws is hereby amended by striking out the term “two thousand dollars” in line six and inserting in place thereof, the following:- “five thousand dollars”.             

SECTION 2. This Act shall take effect upon its passage.