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CHAPTER 178 AN ACT ESTABLISHING A TOURISM FUND IN THE TOWN OF PROVINCETOWN.

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 fifty-three of chapter forty-four of the General Laws or any other general or special law to the contrary, the town of Provincetown is hereby authorized to establish a Tourism Fund to receive revenue under section three A of chapter sixty-four G of the General Laws, in the manner set forth in section two, and may appropriate monies in said fund to market, beautify, and enhance tourism in, said town.

SECTION 2. Twenty-five percent of the excise collected under section three A of chapter sixty-four G of the General Laws by the town of Provincetown for fiscal year nineteen hundred and ninety-seven shall be credited to the Tourism Fund, thirty-five percent of said excise collected for fiscal year nineteen hundred and ninety-eight shall be credited to said fund and forty-five percent of the excise collected shall be credited to said fund in each succeeding fiscal year.

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

Approved July 24, 1996.