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:

For the purpose of ascertaining the will of the people of Barnstable county, the state secretary shall cause the following nonbinding question on public policy to be placed on the official ballot to be used in said county at the biennial state election to be held in the year nineteen hundred and ninety-six. This question is nonbinding.

Do you support the establishment of a Cape Cod Land Bank that would: protect public drinking water supplies, acquire open space and conservation land, provide bicycling and walking trails, enhance opportunities for recreation, assist first time home buyers, and be funded by a one percent fee on all land transfers at the Barnstable county registry of deeds, exempting the first one hundred thousand dollars of the purchase price