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| 2 | 2 | | HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 4513 FILED ON: 8/9/2023 |
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| 3 | 3 | | HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 4051 |
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| 4 | 4 | | Section 15 contained in the engrossed Bill making appropriations for the fiscal year 2024 for the |
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| 5 | 5 | | maintenance of the departments, boards, commissions, institutions and certain activities of the |
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| 6 | 6 | | Commonwealth, for interest, sinking fund and serial bond requirements and for certain |
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| 7 | 7 | | permanent improvements (see House, No. 4040), which had been returned by Her Excellency the |
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| 8 | 8 | | Governor with recommendation of amendment (for message see Attachment D of House, No. |
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| 9 | 9 | | 4055). August 9, 2023. |
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| 10 | 10 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 12 | 12 | | In the One Hundred and Ninety-Third General Court |
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| 13 | 13 | | (2023-2024) |
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| 14 | 14 | | _______________ |
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| 15 | 15 | | An Act relative to the distribution of alcoholic beverages consumed in gaming establishments |
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| 16 | 16 | | not within gaming areas. |
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| 17 | 17 | | Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend to defeat its purpose, which is to |
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| 18 | 18 | | the distribution of alcoholic beverages consumed in gaming establishments not within gaming |
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| 19 | 19 | | areas, therefore it is hereby declared to be an emergency law, necessary for the immediate |
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| 20 | 20 | | preservation of the public convenience. |
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| 21 | 21 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority |
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| 22 | 22 | | of the same, as follows: |
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| 23 | 23 | | 1 SECTION 1. Section 26 of chapter 23K of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby |
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| 24 | 24 | | 2amended by inserting after the word “commission”, in line 37, the following words:- ; provided, |
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| 25 | 25 | | 3however, that the division of gaming liquor enforcement of the alcoholic beverages control |
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| 26 | 26 | | 4commission, in consultation with the commission, shall, for violations of said chapter 138, |
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| 27 | 27 | | 5enforce, regulate and control the distribution of alcoholic beverages to be drunk in a gaming |
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| 28 | 28 | | 6establishment but not within a gaming area, including, but not limited to, restaurants and bars. |
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