SENATE DOCKET, NO. 498        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 953

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to the Permitting of Trenches..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

Section 2 of Chapter 82a of the General Laws is amended by adding at the end thereof the following:- The department of public safety shall develop policies and procedures to assist municipalities of fewer than three thousand five hundred residents in complying with the requirements of this section.  Said policies and procedures may include but not be limited to regional cooperative efforts and cost-sharing plans.  The commonwealth shall establish a grant program to be accessed by municipalities of fewer than one thousand residents for the purpose of complying with the requirements of this section.