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 any general or special law, the charter of the city of Lowell or any agreement among the member communities of the Greater Lowell Regional Vocational School District to the contrary, because the number of persons filing nomination papers for the office of school committee of the Greater Lowell Regional Vocational School from the city of Lowell is not more than 5, as certified by the city of Lowell election commission, for the election of 2 persons to that office to be held in the year 2003, there shall be no preliminary election in the city of Lowell for that office and all persons whose nomination papers have been duly certified shall be considered to have been nominated.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.