SENATE DOCKET, NO. 872        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 439

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act requiring local approval for low level radioactive waste sites.

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 27 of Chapter 111H of the General Laws is hereby amended by adding the following subsection: -

(g)  Within sixty days of the selection of an operator under subsections (c) or (d), the city or town, or if the site is in more than one community, each city or town, shall hold an election for the purpose of approving the site.  Unless sixty percent of the voters casting ballots approve the site, the selection shall be void.