SENATE, No. 1195

By Ms. Resor, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1195) of Pamela P. Resor for legislation relative to the purchase of municipal bonds by municipal employees. Municipalities and Regional Government.
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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand and Seven.


AN ACT relative to the purchase of municipal bonds by municipal employees

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 twenty of chapter two hundred sixty-eighty-A is amended by adding the following after the first sentence of sub-section (a): 

This section shall not apply if such financial interest consists of the acquisition or ownership of a total of less than five per cent of the face value of any municipal bond issue of such city or town by a municipal employee (other than the mayor or a councilor of a city, a selectman of a town, or a treasurer or legal counsel of a city or town), a special municipal employee, or any member of his or her immediate family. 

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.