By Mr. Turner of Dennis, petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 4108) of Cleon H. Turner  and Robert A. O'Leary (by vote of the town) that the town of Dennis be authorized to establish a waterways dredging and maintenance capital improvement fund. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PETITION OF:

Cleon H. Turner

Robert A. O'Leary

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In the Year Two Thousand and Seven.

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An Act establishing a waterways dredge and maintenance program  receipts reserved/capital improvements fund in the town of Dennis.

    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 section 53 of chapter 44 of the General Laws or any other general or special law to the contrary, there shall be a special fund in the town of Dennis to be known as the Waterways Dredge and Maintenance Program Receipts Reserved/Capital Improvements Fund. There shall be deposited into the fund, without further appropriation, a portion of the revenue collected from the operation of Dennis waterways. Appropriations from the fund shall be made by the town of Dennis only for Waterways Dredging and Maintenance.

SECTION 2. Deposited into the fund, without further appropriation, shall be a portion of the fees collected from the following: 1.) $2 per foot of the existing fee for rental of municipal slips; 2.) $2 per foot in addition to the existing fee for boats utilizing private docks; 3.) $1 in addition to the existing fee for the daily parking of vehicles and trailers and $5 in addition to the existing fee for the seasonal sticker for parking of vehicles with boat trailers; and 4.) a new fee of $2 per foot for owners of dry stored launched boats, also known as rack-stored boats.

Appropriations from said fund may be made at an annual or special town meeting to pay for the dredging of navigable waterways or harbors or miscellaneous expenses relative thereto.

SECTION 3. the Dennis Board of Selectmen may, if authorized by by-law, increase or decrease the portion of the above noted fees. The Waterways Dredge and Maintenance Program Receipts Reserved/Capital Improvements Fund shall be maintained by the town Treasurer as a separate account, subject to any applicable provision of Chapter 44 of the General Laws, and any interest accrued shall be credited to and become part of said Fund.

SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage.