HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 4130        FILED ON: 7/17/2017

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3820

Section 8 contained in the engrossed Bill making appropriations for the fiscal year 2018 (see House, No. 3800), which had been returned by His Excellency the Governor with recommendation of amendment (for message, see Attachment D of House, No. 3828).  July 17, 2017.

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

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In the One Hundred and Ninetieth General Court
(2017-2018)

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An Act establishing the Nickerson State Park Trust Fund.

 

Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend to defeat its purpose, which is to establish forthwith the Nickerson State Park Trust Fund, therefore it is hereby declared to be an emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation of the public convenience.
 

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. Chapter 10 of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 35DDD the following section:-

Section 35EEE.  (a) There shall be a Nickerson State Park Trust Fund to be used, without further appropriation, for the long-term preservation and maintenance of Nickerson State Park in the town of Brewster.  Any balance in the fund at the end of a fiscal year shall not revert to the General Fund but shall remain available for expenditure in subsequent fiscal years.  No expenditure made from the fund shall cause the fund to become deficient at any point during a fiscal year.

(b)  The department of conservation and recreation shall impose a surcharge of $2 upon each fee charged and collected for admission to camping in Nickerson State Park.  The additional money collected from the surcharge shall be deposited into the Nickerson State Park Trust Fund.

(c)  An annual report, which shall include projects undertaken, expenditures made, and income received by the fund, shall be submitted to the clerks of the house of representatives and the senate and to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than December 31.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect as of July 1, 2017.