[The following is a chronological list of Special Acts and Resolves
adopted in General Court pertaining to the Town of Westminster.]
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Year Enacted
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Resolve or Chapter
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Subject
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1933
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Resolve 28
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Resolve providing for an unpaid commission to consider the need of extending
relief because of loss of taxes in certain communities due to the construction
of certain additions to the metropolitan water system
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1933
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Resolve 14
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Resolve providing for an investigation by the Department of Public Works
as to the cost and detailed routes of two proposed state highways in or near
the City of Fitchburg and certain proposed extensions of one of said highways
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1949
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Ch. 513, Sec. 1, 2
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An act authorizing the Department of Mental Health to take or purchase
land in the Town of Westminster for the purpose of providing an additional
water supply for the Gardner State Hospital
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1950
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Ch. 369, Sec. 1-10
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An act authorizing the Town of Westminster to supply itself and its
inhabitants with water
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1951
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Ch. 554, Sec. 1-3
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An act increasing the amount of money that the Town of Westminster may
borrow for school purposes
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1951
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Ch. 732
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An act authorizing the City of Fitchburg to acquire water and other
property for the purpose of increasing its water supply
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1954
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Ch. 89, Sec. 1-4
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An act relative to assessments in connection with the operation of the
water supply system of the Town of Westminster
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1955
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Ch. 440, Sec. 1, 2
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An act validating action of the Town of Westminster relative to erecting
and equipping a fire station
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1955
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Ch. 86, Sec. 1-4
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An act relative to water bonds of the Town of Westminster
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1956
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Ch. 39, Sec. 1, 2
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An act authorizing the Town of Westminster to allow the use of its equipment
within its operator on private property for certain purposes
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1957
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Ch. 208, Sec.1-3
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An act authorizing the Town of Westminster to borrow money for the improvement
of an existing school playground
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1958
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Ch. 57, Sec. 1-3
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An act validating the establishment of a regional school district by
the Towns of Ashburnham and Westminster
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1960
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Ch. 133, Sec. 1-4
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An act relative to assessments in connection with the operation of the
water supply system of the Town of Westminster
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1960
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Ch. 393, Sec. 1-5
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An act to provide for the creation of a Board of License Commissioners
in the Town of Westminster
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1960
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Ch. 138
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An act providing life tenure for Toivo Tuominen, incumbent of the Office
of Chief of Police in the Town of Westminster
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1963
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Ch. 788, Sec. 1-15
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An act establishing the Holmes Park Water District in the Town of Westminster
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1963
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Ch. 485, Sec. 1-5
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An act authorizing the City of Gardner to sell water to the Town of
Westminster and authorizing said town to purchase the same
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1964
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Ch. 568
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An act authorizing the formation of a vocational regional school district
by the Cities of Fitchburg and Gardner and the Towns of Ashburnham, Ashby,
Harvard, Lunenburgm, Pepperell, Phillipston, Hubbardston, Templeton, Townsend,
Westminster and Winchendon
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1966
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Ch. 453
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An act designating certain bridges in the Town of Westminster as the
Veterans of Foreign Wars Bridge and the American Legion Bridge
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1968
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Ch. 429, Sec. 1, 2
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An act validating certain proceedings taken by the Town of Westminster
at its Annual Town Meeting in the current year
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1969
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Ch. 817, Sec. 1-4_
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of Fitchburg to purchase land in Town of Westminster (for sanitary landfill)
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1969
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Ch. 553, Sec. 1-3
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An act authorizing the Towns of Ashburnham and Westminster to make appropriation
from their respective stabilization funds toward the construction of a new
school building belonging to the Ashburnham-Westminster Regional School District
(Oakmont Regional High School)
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1970
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Ch. 323, §§ 1-8
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Sanitary landfill with the City of Fitchburg
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1971
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Ch. 616, Sec. 1, 2
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An act directing the transfer of certain lands of the Commonwealth to
the control of the Department of Public Works for highway purposes and authorizing
said departments to acquire certain public lands in the Town of Westminster
and the Cities of Fitchburg and Leominster for highway purposes
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1971
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Ch. 984, Sec. 1, 2
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An act providing that the Wachusett Mountain State Reservation and Mt.
Grylace State Reservation shall be included in any determination of valuation
for purposes of state reimbursement
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1971
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Ch. 823, §§ 1, 2
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An act repealing the law authorizing the imposition of special water
assessments upon certain estates within the Town of Westminster
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1974
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Ch. 488
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An act authorizing the Town of Westminster to grant certain alcoholic
beverage licenses within five hundred (500) feet of a church
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1974
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Ch. 532
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An act validating the acts and proceedings at the Annual Town Meeting
of the Town of Westminster held in the year 1974.
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1976
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Resolve 1976, Ch. 9
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Resolve providing for an investigation and study by the Department of
Public Works relative to the feasibility of constructing a bypass near Highway
Route 2 in the Town of Westminster
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1981
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Ch. 742
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An act relative to the alleviation of the financial burden imposed on
certain towns by the tornado of June 22, 1981
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1984
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Ch. 186
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An act establishing a Westminster Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners
in the Town of Westminster
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1984
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Ch. 385
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An act directing the Commonwealth to reimburse the Town of Westminster
for certain moneys expended for veteran's services
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1984
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Ch. 273
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An act authorizing the Ashburnham-Westminster Regional School District
to hold annual district-wide elections
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1985
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Ch. 398
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An act establishing the Leino Park District in the Town of Westminster.
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1986
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Ch. 459
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An act designating a certain bridge in the Town of Westminster as the
Michael J. Waterman Bridge
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1986
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Ch. 458
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An act designating a certain bridge in the Town of Westminster as the
Francis A. Bond Bridge
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1989
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Ch. 293
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An act authorizing the Town of Westminster to transfer certain park
land to the Cemetery Department of said town to be used for cemetery purposes
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1991
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Ch. 531
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An act authorizing the development and use by the City of Fitchburg
and the Town of Westminster of certain land located in said town for solid
waste management purposes
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1992
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Ch. 357
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An act authorizing the Division of Capital Planning and Operations to
grant an easement in certain lands located in the Town of Westminster
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1995
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Ch. 175
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An act providing for recall elections
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1996
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Ch. 404
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An act validating the proceedings of the Annual Town Election in the
Town of Westminster
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