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The 193rd General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF VOTING PRECINCTS IN THE TOWN OF LANCASTER.

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 section 6 of chapter 54 of the General Laws or any other general or special law to the contrary, the town of Lancaster shall not be required to establish separate voting precincts; provided, however, that the nonprisoner population of the town remains below the standard established by said section 6 of said chapter 54 requiring reprecincting.

SECTION 2. The nonprisoner population of the town of Lancaster shall be determined by subtracting the prisoner population as reported by the department of correction to the town from the total population as reported by the United States Census Bureau as calculated in the most recent decennial census. The prisoner population information shall be in the same form as the population information given to the town by the United States Census Bureau.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved, June 8 , 2011.