| By Ms. Resor, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate,
No. 9) of Pamela P. Resor and James B. Eldridge (by vote
of the town) for legislation to further regulate the
residency requirements for regular fire and police
officers. Rules(Senate). {Local approval received.} |
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 the provisions of section ninety-nine a of chapter forty-one of the general laws or any other general or special law to the contrary, any member of the regular police or fire department working in the Town of Boxborough appointed subsequent to August first, nineteen hundred and seventy-eight shall reside within forty miles of the limits of said town. Said distance shall be measured from the closest border limits of said city or town in which said member is employed to the closest border limits of the city or town in which said member lives.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
The General Court may only make clerical or editorial changes of form to the bill, unless the Selectmen approve amendments to the bill before enactment by the General Court. The Selectmen are hereby authorized to approve amendments which shall be within the scope of the general public objectives of the petition; or take any other action relative thereto.