SECTION 1.Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, Section 2 of Chapter 403 of the Acts of 2000, as so appearing, is hereby amended by inserting at the end of the first sentence after the word “sent” the following words:- “or by April 1 of the tax year, whichever is later.”

SECTION 2.Notwithstanding section 59 of chapter 59 of the General Laws or any other general or special law to the contrary, with respect to each parcel of real property classified as Class One, residential, in the city of Boston, an application for exemption under clause Seventeenth, Seventeenth C, Seventeenth D, Eighteenth, Twenty-second, Twenty-second A, Twenty-second B, Twenty-second C, Twenty-second D, Twenty-second E, Thirty-seventh, Thirty-seventh A, Forty-first, Forty-first B, Forty-first C, Forty-second, Forty-third and Fifty-second of section 5 of chapter 59 of the General Laws may be made within three months after the date on which the bill or notice of assessment was sent or by April 1 of the tax year, whichever is later.  An application filed timely hereunder shall, for the purpose of this chapter, be treated as a timely filed application pursuant to section 59 of chapter 59 of the General Laws.

SECTION 3.Notwithstanding clause Eighteenth A of section 5 of chapter 59 of the General Laws or any other general or special law to the contrary, an application for exemption under clause Eighteenth A of section 5 of chapter 59 may be made within three months after the date on which the bill or notice of assessment was sent or by April 1 of the tax year, whichever is later. 

SECTION 4.Notwithstanding clause Forty-first A of section 5 of chapter 59 of the General Laws or any other general or special law to the contrary, an application for exemption under clause Forty-first A of section 5 of chapter 59 may be made within three months after the date on which the bill or notice of assessment was sent or by April 1 of the tax year, whichever is later. 

SECTION 5.This act shall take effect upon its passage.