SENATE DOCKET, NO. 837        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1795

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act including "machetes" under the dangerous weapon law..

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 10 of chapter 269 of the General Laws is hereby amended, in subparagraph (b), by inserting after the word “vehicle”, in the first sentence, the following words: - a machete, or