SENATE DOCKET, NO. 1020        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 905

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act Relative to Cigar Bars..

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. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, no municipality, through act of its board of public health or municipal health department, may unreasonably restrict, nor prohibit the operation of a smoking bar, as defined by section 5 of chapter 270, so long as such smoking bar complies with the provisions of this chapter.  Such reasonable restrictions and requirements for the licensed operation of a smoking bar, as provided under this chapter shall, shall be permitted.