Session Laws

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Clause (iii) of subsection (4) of section 15B of chapter 186 of the General Laws, as appearing in section 2 of chapter 553 of the acts of 1978, is hereby amended by adding the following sentence:- Nothing in this section shall limit the right of a landlord to recover from a tenant, who wilfully or maliciously destroys or damages the real or personal property of said landlord, to the forfeiture of a security deposit, when the cost of repairing or replacing such property exceeds the amount of such security deposit.