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By Mr. Jones of North Reading, petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 164) of Bradley H. Jones, Jr., and others relative to the resale of mattresses. Community Development and Small Business. |
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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PETITION OF:
Mary S. Rogeness
George N. Peterson, Jr.
John A. Lepper
Viriato Manuel deMacedo
Paul K. Frost
Robert S. Hargraves
Elizabeth A. Poirier
Karyn E. Polito
Susan Williams Gifford
Richard J. Ross
Donald F. Humason, Jr.
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In the Year Two Thousand and Seven.
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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: Section 270 of chapter 94 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2004 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting, in line 101, after the words “any furniture” the words: --
“, excluding mattresses, but”
SECTION 2: Section 270 of chapter 94 of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby amended by adding the following definition: --
““Reconditioned”, when used with respect to a mattress, shall mean any fabric case filled with cotton, hair, feathers, foam rubber, water, an arrangement of coiled springs or otherwise, used either alone as a bed or on a bedstead that had been previously sold as new and subsequently restored to good condition for the purpose of resale.”
SECTION 3: Subsection (a) of section 272 of chapter 94 of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby amended by inserting, in line 34, after the word “new” the following word: --
“, reconditioned,”
SECTION 4: Section 272 of chapter 94 of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby amended by adding, at the end of the section, the following two new paragraphs: --
No person shall sell a remade or renovated mattress to any person who is not the original owner of the mattress.
No person shall sell a renovated mattress to any person who is not the original owner of the mattress without first informing the purchaser that the mattress has been reconditioned.