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. Chapter 73 of the acts of 1996 is hereby repealed.

SECTION 2. Notwithstanding the limitations of section 20A 1/2 of chapter 90 of the General Laws or any other general or special law to the contrary relative to the fines imposed for certain parking violations, the town of Chatham, acting by and through its board of selectmen, may establish a schedule of fines for parking violations as follows: for a fine paid within 21 days, not more than $50; for a fine paid after 21 days but before the parking clerk reports nonpayment to the registrar of motor vehicles, not more than $55; for a fine paid thereafter, not more than $70; but the issuance of a parking violation shall be subject to all other provisions of said section 20A 1/2 of said chapter 90.