SENATE DOCKET, NO. 136        FILED ON: 1/12/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1728

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to failing to appear in court after release on bail..

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 82A of chapter 276 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2004 Official Edition, is hereby amended in the first paragraph by inserting at the end thereof the following sentence:- “Any person who so fails to appear shall not have the right to bail or recognizance.”