Amendment #1327 to H4700

DCR Ice Time Clarification

Representatives Robertson of Tewksbury, Howard of Lowell and Nguyen of Andover SECTION 1. Chapter 21 of the General Laws is hereby amended by adding the following section:-

Section 68.  Requests for ice reservations for state-owned indoor and outdoor ice rinks, including but not limited to rinks leased by the department of conservation and recreation to private management contractors, shall be prioritized in the following order: (i) general public skating; (ii) a public school organized team; (iii) an entity which qualifies under applicable state and federal law as a nonprofit organization for youth sports; and (iv) all other private, for-profit parties. Any lease agreement or other instrument authorizing the lease of the ice rink to a private management contractor by the department of conservation and recreation shall include a provision requiring the prioritization of requests for ice reservations pursuant to this section. Any violation of such provision shall be deemed to be a civil penalty in the amount of $50,000 payable by the private management contractor upon notice of such violation. Any civil penalty collected under this section shall be deposited into the General Fund.

SECTION 2. The second sentence of section 68 of chapter 21 of the General laws, added by section 1, shall apply to leases entered into on or after the effective date of this act.