Session Laws

Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend to defeat its purpose, which is to immediately authorize the placing of questions on the nineteen hundred and ninety-two biennial state election ballots, therefore it is hereby declared to be an emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation of the public convenience.

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 twenty-one of chapter fifty-three of the General Laws or any other general or special law to the contrary, the state secretary may accept applications for the submission of questions to be submitted to the voters under the provisions of sections nineteen and twenty of said chapter fifty-three for the biennial state election to be held in the year nineteen hundred and ninety-two.

SECTION 1A. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (i) of section twenty-one C of chapter fifty-nine of the General Laws, the state secretary may accept applications for the submission of questions to be submitted to the voters under the provisions of said paragraph (i) of said section twenty-one C of said chapter fifty-nine for the biennial state election to be held in the year nineteen hundred and ninety-two, or any other applicable law.

SECTION 1B. Notwithstanding the provisions of section forty-two C of chapter fifty-four of the General Laws, the state secretary may accept applications for the submission of questions to be submitted to the voters under the provisions of said section forty-two C of said chapter fifty-four for the biennial state election to be held in the year nineteen hundred and ninety-two, or any other applicable law.

SECTION 2. The provisions of this act shall expire on October first, nineteen hundred and ninety-two, at five o'clock post meridian.