SENATE DOCKET, NO. 782        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 437

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act to provide increased sewer rate relief.

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 2Z of Chapter 29 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2004 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding after the word project in line 21 the following:- “And any project in which construction has been initiated and for which completion has been scheduled in Fiscal Year 2009 or thereafter in which the total cost is greater than $8,000 per capita on a per resident basis as determined by the most recent United States census or any sewer system that experiences extraordinary rate increases due to a mandate pursuant to environmental laws and regulations.”