SENATE, No. 551

By Mr. Tarr, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 551) of Bruce E. Tarr, Anthony J. Verga, A. Raymond Randall, Jr., Mark Lynch and others for legislation to provide increased sewer rate relief. Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.
Version with line numberspdf logo

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

In the Year Two Thousand and Seven.

AN ACT to provide increased sewer rate relief

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 2Z of Chapter 29 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2004 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding after the word project in line 21 the following:-

“And any project in which construction has been initiated and for which completion has been scheduled in Fiscal Year 2005 or thereafter in which the total cost is greater than $8,000 per capita on a per resident basis as determined by the most recent United States census or any sewer system that experiences extraordinary rate increases due to a mandate pursuant to environmental laws and regulations.”