HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 153 FILED ON: 1/5/2009
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 3698
[LOCAL APPROVAL RECEIVED.]
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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PRESENTED BY:
F. Jay Barrows
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To the Honorable Senate
and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:
The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the passage of the accompanying bill:
An Act
relative to the Town
of Norton Water and Sewe
r Commission
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PETITION OF:
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Name:
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District/Address:
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F. Jay Barrows
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1st Bristol
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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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In the Year Two Thousand and Nine
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An Act RELATIVE TO THE TOWN OF NORTON WATER AND SEWER
COMMISSION.
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 the provisions of section 16 of chapter 83 of the General Laws, or of any other general or special law to the contrary, the water and sewer commissioners of the town of Norton, or other board or officer of said town acting as sewer commiss
ioners, may from time to time establish just and equitable annual charges for the use or availability of common sewers, which shall be paid by every person who enters, or has an entitlement to enter by means of an allocation of wastewater treatment facilit
y capacity, his particular sewer therein. The money so received may be applied to the payment of the cost of maintenance and repairs of such sewers, of any debt contracted for sewer purposes, or of any payment, including capital cost payments, due to anot
her municipality under an inter-municipal agreement to provide wastewater disposal and treatment, or due to a regional wastewater authority. Said water and sewer commissioners are hereby authorized to promulgate regulations to implement the provisions of
this act.
Section 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.
