Section 30 contained in the engrossed Bill making appropriations for the fiscal year 2008 for the maintenance of the departments, boards, commissions, institutions and certain activities of the Commonwealth, for interest, sinking fund and serial bond requirements and for certain permanent improvements (see House, No. 4141), which had been returned by His Excellency the Governor with recommendation of amendment (for message, see Attachment D of House, No. 4156).  July 12, 2007.

HOUSE................................. No. 4158

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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IN THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND SEVEN.

An Act  RELATIVE TO SEX OFFENDERS ON PROBATION.

   Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend to defeat its purpose, which is to forthwith provide for the tracking of sex offenders on probation, therefore it is hereby declared to be an emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation of the public convenience.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Section 47 of chapter 265 of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby amended by striking out the second, third and fourth sentences and inserting in place thereof the following 2 sentences:- The commissioner of probation shall effectuate geographic exclusion zones, which shall be defined by the court and included as conditions of probation. If the commissioner or the probationer’s probation officer has probable cause to believe that the probationer has violated this term of his probation, the commissioner or the probationer’s probation officer shall notify the police in the location of the exclusion zone and shall arrest or cause the probationer to be arrested under section 3 of chapter 279.