[Listed below are Special Acts relating to
the City of Northampton as adopted by the General Assembly.]
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Enactment
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Title
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Acts of 1883, Chapter 250
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An act to establish the City of Northampton
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Acts of 1885, Chapter 115
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An act to authorize the City of Northampton
to renew a portion of its water loan
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Acts of 1886, Chapter 99
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An act to authorize the City of Northampton
to renew a portion of its water loan
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Acts of 1888, Chapter 354
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An act to establish a Board of Sewer Commissioners
for the City of Northampton
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Acts of 1890, Chapter 245
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An act to establish the salary of the Superintendent
of Schools (Rejected on referendum)
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Acts of 1892, Chapter 98
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An act to authorize the City of Northampton
to issue additional sewer scrip
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Acts of 1892, Chapter 311
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An act relative to the abolition of certain
grade crossings in the City of Northampton
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Acts of 1893, Chapter 289
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An act relating to the election of certain officers
in the City of Northampton
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Acts of 1894, Chapter 177
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An act to authorize the City of Northampton
to increase its water supply and incur indebtedness therefor
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Acts of 1895, Chapter 21
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An act relative to the trustees and secretary
and treasurer of the trustees of the Forbes Library
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Acts of 1895, Chapter 233
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An act relative to the abolition of grade crossings
in the City of Northampton
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Acts of 1895, Chapter 287
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An act relative to the power of the City Council
of the City of Northampton to make and establish ordinances and bylaws
for said City
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Acts of 1895, Chapter 414
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An act to authorize the City to accept a gift
of certain real estate (Academy of Music)
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Acts of 1900, Chapter 427
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An act to revise the Charter of the City of
Northampton (Rejected on referendum)
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Acts of 1901, Chapter 261
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An act to authorize the City of Northampton
to increase its water supply and incur indebtedness therefor
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Acts of 1902, Chapter 60
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An act to authorize the City of Northampton
to make an additional water loan
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Acts of 1902, Chapter 130
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An act to authorize the City of Northampton
to refund certain debts
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Acts of 1903, Chapter 266
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An act to authorize the City of Northampton
to issue additional sewer scrip
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Acts of 1906, Chapter 464
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An act relative to the terms of office of the
Park Commissioners of the City of Northampton
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Acts of 1907, Chapter 147
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An act relative to the salary of the Mayor of
the City of Northampton
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Acts of 1909, Chapter 480
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An act to establish the boundary line between
the City of Holyoke and Northampton
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Acts of 1910, Chapter 573
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An act to authorize the City of Northampton
to incur indebtedness for a new City Hall
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Acts of 1914, Chapter 395
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An act to establish the boundary line between
the City of Northampton and the Town of Easthampton
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Acts of 1914, Chapter 709
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An act relative to the bridge over the Connecticut
River between the City of Northampton and the Town of Hadley
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Special Acts of 1915, Chapter 191
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An act to authorize the building of a crossing,
roadway and ford over and in the Connecticut River to Elwell's Island
between Northampton and Hadley
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Special Acts of 1916, Chapter 201
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An act to authorize the Town of Easthampton
to supply the inhabitants of the City of Northampton and the Town
of Southampton with water
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Special Acts of 1918, Chapter 151
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An act establishing Smith's Agricultural School
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Acts of 1920, Chapter 14
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An act to increase the number of superintendents
or trustees of Smith's Agricultural School and Northampton School
of Industries
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Acts of 1921, Chapter 63
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An act authorizing the City of Northampton to
establish a Board of Public Works (Accepted by the City Council March
9, 1921)
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Acts of 1923, Chapter 174, and repealed Acts
of 1924, Chapter 41, Section 2
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An act authorizing the City of Northampton to
incur indebtedness for the purpose of constructing a City Hall
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Acts of 1924, Chapter 41
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An act relative to the incurring of indebtedness
by the City of Northampton for school and City Hall purposes
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Acts of 1927, Chapter 103
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An act relative to the appointment of the City
Solicitor of the City of Northampton (Accepted by City Council May
19, 1927)
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Acts of 1927, Chapter 265
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An act providing for biennnial municipal elections
in the City of Northampton (Accepted by voters on referendum December
6, 1927)
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Acts of 1929, Chapter 11
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An act to appropriate money for facilities for
reunion of the One Hundred and Fourth United States Infantry Veterans
Association American Expeditionary Forces
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Acts of 1929, Chapter 27
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An act authorizing the Department of Public
Works to cooperate with others for purpose of procuring legislation
by Congress for protection of the Connecticut River Valley from flood
damage
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Acts of 1930, Chapter 104
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An act changing the date of the biennial municipal
election in the City of Northampton (Rejected by City Council October
16, 1930)
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Acts of 1931, Chapter 251
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An act relating to the care and maintenance
of a bridge over the Connecticut River between the City of Northampton
and the Town of Hadley
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Acts of 1934, Chapter 314
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An act providing for improvements for highway
purposes in connection with certain bridges over the Connecticut River
between the City of Northampton and the Town of Hadley
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Acts of 1936, Chapter 433
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An act providing for the construction or reconstruction
of three bridges over the Connecticut River and one bridge over Merrinack
River
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Acts of 1937, Chapter 72
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An act designating the new bridge to be constructed
over the Connecticut River between Northampton and Hadley as the Calvin
Coolidge Memorial Bridge
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Acts of 1937, Chapter 337
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An act providing for expediting reconstruction
of the bridge over Connecticut River between Northampton and Hadley
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Acts of 1938, Chapter 12
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An act authorizing the City of Northampton to
appropriate money to provide facilities for holding state convention
of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States
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Acts of 1939, Chapter 9
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An act relating to the construction by the City
of Northampton of flood protection works along the Connecticut and
Mill Rivers
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Acts of 1939, Chapter 426
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An act relating to diverting or altering the
course of the waters of Mill River in connection with the construction
by the City of North Hampton of certain flood protection works and
relative to the recovery of damages thereof
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Acts of 1943, Chapter 515
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An act amending laws relative to Mayor of the
City and providing for a unicameral City Council (Rejected on referendum,
December 7, 1943)
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Acts of 1946, Chapter 245
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An act changing the time for the holding of
the biennial municipal elections in the City of Northampton
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Acts of 1947, Chapter 436
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An act authorizing the City to retire Christopher
Adams
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Acts of 1948, Chapter 267
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An act authorizing the City of Northampton to
incur indebtedness for the construction of sewage treatment works
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Acts of 1950, Chapter 690
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An act revising the Charter of the City of Northampton
(Rejected by referendum November 7, 1950)
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Acts of 1951, Chapter 128
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An act requiring the City to repay certain members
of the Fire and Police Department the contribution made by them to
the contributory retirement systems of the City and establishing the
retirement rights of such members
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Acts of 1951, Chapter 653
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An act providing that married women teachers
be employed on a permanent basis and with the same tenure rights as
single women teachers in the public schools of the City (Approved
by voters on referendum November 6, 1951)
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Acts of 1952, Chapter 339
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An act authorizing the Department of Public
Utilities to make permanent the present temporary grade crossing of
the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company at South Street
in the City
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Acts of 1953, Chapter 63
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An act amending the Charter providing for the
initiative and referendum procedure for the City
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Acts of 1953, Chapter 375
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An act to ascertain the will of the voters with
regard to fluoridation of the public domestic water supply (Rejected
by the voters November 3, 1953)
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Acts of 1953, Chapter 598
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An act providing that the City may acquire certain
real estate in the City
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Acts of 1954, Chapter 86
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An act authorizing the School Committee to fix
the compensation of the Superintendent of Schools and the Secretary
of the Schools Committee (Amends Section 22 of Chapter 250 of the
Acts of 1883) (Accepted by the voters November 8, 1955)
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Acts of 1954, Chapter 123
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An act providing for an unicameral City Council
(Repealing Sections 7 and 8 and the last sentence of Section 9 of
the Charter) (Approved by voters November 8, 1955)
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Acts of 1955, Chapter 130
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An act authorizing the submission to the voters
of the questions of the acceptance of such provisions of law regulating
the hours and duties of permanent members of the Fire Department (Accepted
by the voters November 8, 1955)
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Acts of 1955, Chapter 462
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An act authorizing the City of Northampton to
incur indebtedness for the construction of sewage treatment works
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Acts of 1955, Chapter 547
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An act establishing a memorial to Calvin Coolidge
in the Forbes Library
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Acts of 1955, Chapter 650
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An act establishing a department of engineering
and board of engineering in the City of Northampton
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Acts of 1956, Chapter 188
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An act authorizing the City to reinstate O.
E. Brainerd for the sole purpose of being retired and relative to
the amount of retirement allowance for said O. E. Brainerd
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Acts of 1957, Chapter 683
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An act amending Chapter 462 of the Acts of 1955
relative to the incurrence of indebtedness by the City for construction
of sewage treatment works
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Acts of 1961, Chapter 389
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An act establishing a Board of Public Works
and a Department of Public Works (Approved by voters November 7, 1961)
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Acts of 1962, Chapter 174
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An act providing tenure of office until age
70 for Joseph T. Mew, incumbent of the office of City Collector of
the City of Northampton (Approved by voters November 6, 1962)
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Acts of 1962, Chapter 176
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An act providing for tenure of office until
age 70 for David P. Sullivan, incumbent of the office of City Auditor
of the City of Northampton (Approved by voters, November 6, 1962)
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Acts of 1964, Chapter 45
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An act providing tenure of office until age
70 for George D. Adler, incumbent of the office of City Treasurer
of the City of Northampton (Approved by voters November 3, 1964)
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Acts of 1964, Chapter 46
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An act providing tenure of office until age
70 for James E. Falkner, incumbent of the office of City Clerk of
the City (Approved by voters November 3, 1964)
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Acts of 1964, Chapter 47
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An act providing tenure of office until age
70 for Frances C. McQuillan, incumbent of the Superintendent of Fire
Alarms and Inspector of Wires of the City of Northampton (Approved
by voters November 3, 1964)
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Acts of 1964, Chapter 96
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An act providing for party nomination for elective
municipal officers of the City of Northampton (Approved by voters
November 3, 1964)
[Repealed Acts of 1984, Ch. 253] | |
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Acts of 1964, Chapter 349
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An act providing tenure of office until age
70 for John J. Shurac incumbent of the office of Chairman of the Board
of Assessors of the City of Northampton (Approved by voters November
3, 1964)
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Acts of 1965, Chapter 255
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An act designating the District No. 2 headquarters
building of the Department of Public Works of the City of Northampton
as the John P. Foley Memorial Building
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Acts 1965, Chapter 666
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An act authorizing the City to pay certain sums
of money to certain retired employees of the City
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Acts of 1966, Chapter 201
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An act to authorize the will of the voters with
regard to acceptance of certain provisions of law relative to hours
of duty of permanent members of the Fire Department of the City (Approved
by voters November 8, 1966)
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Acts of 1966, Chapter 725
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An act authorizing the appointment of Kenneth
Boudah, a member of the City Council as a junior building custodian
in the School Department of the City
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Acts of 1967, Chapter 882
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An act authorizing the incorporation of Industrial
Realty Development Corporation
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Acts of 1977, Chapter 488
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An act authorizing the Town of Williamsburg
to construct and lay an interceptor sanitary sewer line and necessary
appurtenances thereto within the limits of the City of Northampton
for the purpose of tying into the Northampton sanitary sewer system
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Acts of 1979
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An act granting permanent civil service status
to certain employees of the School Department of the City of Northampton
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Acts of 1984, Chapter 67
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An act relative to Forbes Library in the City
of Northampton
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Acts of 1984, Chapter 252
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An act relative to the compensation of School
Committee members in the City of Northampton
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Acts of 1984, Chapter 253
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An act providing for the nominating of elective
municipal officers in the City of Northampton
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Acts of 1985, Chapter 500
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An act authorizing the licensing authority of
the City of Northampton to issue an additional license for the sale
of alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises to the faculty
center at Smith College
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Acts of 1987, Chapter 309
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An act authorizing the appointment of special
police officers in the City of Northampton
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Acts of 1987, Chapter 315
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An act providing for an emergency shelter for
the homeless in the City of Northampton
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Acts of 1988, Chapter 196
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An act authorizing the City of Northampton to
convey certain park land
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Acts of 1990, Chapter 450
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An act authorizing the City of Northampton to
grant a certain easement
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Acts of 1991, Chapter 343
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An act providing for the election of School
Committee members in the City of Northampton
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Acts of 1992, Chapter 63
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An act authorizing the establishment of residents
only parking areas in the City of Northampton
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Acts of 1992, Chapter 261
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An act directing the City of Northampton to
grant a pension to Axel Diaz
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Acts of 1994, Chapter 307
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An act authorizing the City of Northampton to
acquire by conveyance land belonging to the Department of Environmental
Management
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Acts of 1996, Chapter 237
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An act authorizing the conveyance of park land
located in the City of Northampton
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Acts of 2002, Chapter 328
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An act establishing a Board of Public Works
and a Department of Public Works in the City of Northampton
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Acts of 2004, Chapter 45
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An act providing for a Clerk of the City Council
of the City of Northampton
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Acts of 2004, Chapter 278
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An act authorizing the City of Northampton to
convey certain park land
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Acts of 2004, Chapter 494
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An act authorizing the City of Northampton to
convert seasonal licenses for the sale of wines and malt beverages
to be drunk on the premises
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Acts of 2004, Chapter 500
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An act relative to civil service positions in
the City of Northampton
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Acts of 2005, Chapter 67
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An act exempting certain positions in the Police
Department in the City of Northampton from the civil service law
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Acts of 2005, Chapter 68
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An act exempting certain position in the fire
department in the City of Northampton from the civil service law
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Acts of 2005, Chapter 166
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An act establishing the office of Finance Director
in the City of Northampton
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Acts of 2006, Chapter 281
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An act protecting certain real property in the
City of Northampton
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Acts of 2006, Chapter 430
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An act relative to the Charter of the City of
Northampton
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Acts of 2008, Chapter 43
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An act authorizing the investment of trust funds
for the City of Northampton
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Acts of 2008, Chapter 144
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An act authorizing the City of Northampton to
convert 5 seasonal licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages
to be drunk on the premises to annual licenses for the sale of all
alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises
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Acts of 2008, Chapter 408
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An act exempting certain positions from the
civil service law
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Acts of 2012, Chapter 249
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An act increasing the membership of the Board
of Health in the City of Northampton
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Acts of 2012, Chapter 277
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An act revising the Charter for the City of
Northampton
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Acts of 2012, Chapter 249
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An act increasing the membership on the Board of Health in the
City of Northampton
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Acts of 2012, Chapter 430
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An act designating a portion of Route 3 from the City of Northampton
to the City of Pittsfield as the Marine Corps League Highway
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Acts of 2013, Chapter 155
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An act relative to certain parcels of land in the City of Northampton
and the Town of Williamsburg
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Acts of 2014, Chapter 29
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An act relative to the conveyance of an easement in the City
of Northampton
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Acts of 2014, Chapter 34
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An act authorizing the conveyance or lease of a parcel of land
in the City of Northampton for park, recreation or open space purposes
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Acts of 2016, Chapter 109
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An act authorizing the City of Northampton to grant additional
licenses for the sale of all alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the
premises
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Acts of 2016, Chapter 241
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An act authorizing the Division of Capital Asset Management
and Maintenance to exchange certain parcels of land with the City
of Northampton
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Acts of 2021, Chapter 40
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An act amending the Charter of the City of Northampton
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Acts of 2022, Chapter 24
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An act authorizing the City of Northampton to amend a certain
conservation easement
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Acts of 2022, Chapter 46
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An act exempting the City of Northampton from appointments to
the Northampton License Commission on the basis of party affiliation
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