AN ACT ALLOWING PRINT-FREE DIGITAL LEGAL NOTICES FOR THE TOWN OF LEXINGTON
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 subsection (c) of section 13 of chapter 4 of the General Laws or any other general or special law to the contrary, wherever the town of Lexington, or any committee, department, board, commission, or officer thereof, is required to publish a legal notice in a newspaper or newspaper of general circulation, such requirement may be satisfied by 1 or more of the following means, as authorized by local vote in section 3:
(i) a newspaper of local or general circulation’s print publication;
(ii) a newspaper of local or general circulation’s website;
(iii) websites reporting local news and opinion which satisfy all criteria for digital publication established in said subsection (c) of said section 13 of said chapter 4;
(iv) a statewide website that may be maintained as a repository for such notices; or
(v) a town wide website that may be maintained as a repository for such notices.
SECTION 2. (a) For all legal notices to be issued by a town of Lexington committee, department, board, commission or officer, other than the school committee, Lexington public schools or a department or officer of the school committee or Lexington public schools, the select board by majority vote shall determine at least 2 of the means of legal notice publication set forth in section 2 to satisfy publication requirements.
(b) For all legal notices to be issued by the school committee, Lexington public schools or a department or officer of the school committee or Lexington public schools or a department or officer of the school committee or Lexington public schools, the school committee by majority vote shall determine at least 2 of the means of legal notice publication set forth in section 2 to satisfy publication requirements.
(c) The select board and school committee may reconsider their means of publication votes at their discretion and elect different means of publication for the options established under section 2 by majority vote.
SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved, January 8, 2025.