The following is a listing of General Laws and Special Acts
accepted by the Town of Great Barrington:
|
Year
Accepted
|
Reference
|
Subject
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|---|---|---|
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1865
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Ch. 198, Acts of 1865
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Great Barrington Fire District established
|
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1882
|
Ch. 154, Acts of 1882
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Public parks
|
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1886
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Ch. 264, Acts of 1886
|
Voting precincts
|
|
1886
|
Ch. 279, Acts of 1886
|
Improvements
|
|
1886
|
Ch. 311, Acts of 1886
|
Berkshire Heights Water Company
|
|
1887
|
Ch. 396, Acts of 1887
|
Great Barrington Water Company
|
|
1893
|
Ch. 417, Acts of 1893
|
Ballots
|
|
1904
|
Ch. 280, Acts of 1904
|
Old cemetery
|
|
1907
|
Ch. 560, Acts of 1907
|
Precinct voting
|
|
1907
|
Ch. 560, Acts of 1907
|
Town Clerk
|
|
1908
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Ch. 290, Acts of 1908
|
Forest fires
|
|
1908
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Ch. 476, Acts of 1908
|
Policemen's vacations
|
|
1909
|
Ch. 425, Acts of 1909
|
Sunday sales
|
|
1910
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Ch. 313, Acts of 1910
|
Act relative to construction of privy vaults in small towns.
|
|
1911
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Ch. 494, Acts of 1911
|
Eight-hour day
|
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1912
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Revised Laws, Ch. 75-70
|
Privy vaults
|
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1912
|
Ch. 503, Acts of 1912
|
Pensioning laborers
|
|
1913
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Ch. 671, Acts of 1913
|
Pensioning laborers
|
|
1913
|
Ch. 807, Acts of 1913
|
Workmen's compensation
|
|
1914
|
Ch. 217, Acts of 1914
|
Laborer's vacations
|
|
1914
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Ch. 352, Acts of 1914
|
Pensioning laborers
|
|
1914
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Ch. 688, Acts of 1914
|
Saturday half-holiday
|
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1914
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Ch. 790, Acts of 1914
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Party enrollment
|
|
1915
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Ch. 182, Acts of 1915
|
Ballots
|
|
1916
|
Ch. 293, Acts of 1916
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Licensing jitneys
|
|
1919
|
Ch. 311, Acts of 1919
|
Continuation schools
|
|
1920
|
Ch. 166, Acts of 1920
|
Day off for police
|
|
1920
|
Ch. 240, Acts of 1920
|
Sports and games on the Lord's Day
|
|
1921
|
Ch. 14, Acts of 1921
|
Assistant assessors
|
|
1921
|
MGL c. 41, § 25A
|
Assistant assessors
|
|
1922
|
Ch. 516, Acts of 1922
|
Accounting system
|
|
1923
|
Ch. 26, Acts of 1923
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Board of Public Welfare
|
|
1923
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Ch. 341, Acts of 1923
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Housatonic Fire and Water District
|
|
1924
|
MGL c. 41. § 34a
|
Overseers of poor to be Board of Public Welfare
|
|
1928
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Ch. 282, Acts of 1928
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Streetlighting; Great Barrington Fire District
|
|
1929
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Ch. 406, Acts of 1928
|
Sunday sports
|
|
1930
|
Ch. 157, Acts of 1930
|
Organized militia
|
|
1930
|
Ch. 351, Acts of 1930
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Uniforms for Police Department
|
|
1930
|
MGL c. 32, § 85
|
Police officers
|
|
1930
|
MGL c. 32
|
Pensions for police
|
|
1931
|
MGL c. 41, § 70-72
|
Planning Board
|
|
1931
|
MGL c. 143
|
Inspection of buildings
|
|
1931
|
MGL c. 143, § 3
|
Interim zoning
|
|
1931
|
MGL c. 40, § 6B
|
Police
|
|
1932
|
Revised Laws, Ch. 19
|
Civil service for police
|
|
1932
|
Ch. 42, Acts of 1932
|
Police Chief, Civil Service
|
|
1932
|
MGL c. 41
|
Police officers' vacations
|
|
1932
|
MGL c. 41, § 111A
|
Police vacations
|
|
1932
|
MGL c. 114
|
Cemetery Commissioners
|
|
1932
|
MGL c. 33, § 67
|
State and municipal employees in service
|
|
1934
|
MGL c. 131, § 105B
|
Trapping of animals suspended
|
|
1936
|
MGL c. 136, § 21 and 65
|
Sunday games
|
|
1938
|
Ch. 126, Acts of 1938
|
Fire District
|
|
1938
|
MGL c. 48, §§ 42-44
|
Establishment of Fire Department
|
|
1938
|
MGL c. 152, § 69
|
Workmen's compensation
|
|
1939
|
MGL c. 40, § 27A
|
Acting on rejected bylaws in 2 years
|
|
1939
|
MGL c. 40, § 30A
|
Appeals of rejected bylaws
|
|
1939
|
Ch. 403, Acts of 1936
|
Workmen's compensation
|
|
1941
|
MGL c. 41, § 4A
|
Appointment of physician by School Committee
|
|
1945
|
Ch. 723, Acts of 1945
|
Membership in district Town Meeting
|
|
1946
|
Ch. 166, Acts of 1946
|
Establishment of contributory retirement system
|
|
1948
|
MGL c. 32, § 85E
|
Police pension
|
|
1948
|
Ch. 231, Acts of 1948
|
Mahaiwe Cemetery Association
|
|
1949
|
MGL c. 147, §§ 22 and 47
|
Boxing matches
|
|
1952
|
MGL c. 54, §§ 86 to 103A
|
Absentee ballots
|
|
1952
|
Ch. 781, Acts of 1951
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Retirement pensions
|
|
1953
|
MGL c. 147, § 16B
|
Police excused from duty
|
|
1953
|
Ch. 426, § 2, Acts of 1938
|
Police excused from duty
|
|
1953
|
Ch. 638, Acts of 1949
|
Planning Board
|
|
1953
|
Ch. 434, Acts of 1953
|
Continuation of rent control
|
|
1955
|
Ch. 760, Acts of 1955
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Contributory Group Life Insurance
|
|
1958
|
MGL c. 32, § 85J
|
Pensions for police widows
|
|
1958
|
Ch. 75, Acts of 1958
|
Precinct voting
|
|
1961
|
MGL c. 58, § 7A
|
Installation of assessment system
|
|
1961
|
Ch. 760, Acts of 1960
|
Library funding and grants
|
|
1962
|
MGL c. 40, § 8C
|
Appointment of Conservation Commission
|
|
1964
|
Ch. 737, Acts of 1960, and Ch. 217, Acts of 1963
|
Gas inspector
|
|
1964
|
Ch. 127, Acts of 1964
|
Certain members of Fire Department exempt from Civil Service
laws and rules
|
|
1965
|
MGL c. 41, § 4A
|
Board of Assessors
|
|
1965
|
MGL c. 71, § 16-161
|
Regional School District
|
|
1965
|
MGL c. 71, § 14C
|
Lease of high school and annex to Regional School District
|
|
1966
|
Ch. 40B
|
Membership in Berkshire County Planning District
|
|
1968
|
MGL c. 54, § 34
|
Lease or purchase of voting machines
|
|
1968
|
Ch. 772, Acts of 1967
|
Industrial Development Financing Authority
|
|
1969
|
MGL c. 41, § 81A
|
Reestablishment of existing Planning Board
|
|
1969
|
MGL c. 44, § 8(15)
|
Raise and appropriate money for sewers
|
|
1969
|
Ch. 685, Acts of 1966
|
Advances of funds to assist in financing sewer construction
|
|
1970
|
MGL c. 147, § 17G
|
Hours of employment of regular police officers
|
|
1971
|
Ch. 486, Acts of 1971
|
Beano
|
|
1972
|
MGL c. 40, § 44A
|
Regional Refuse Planning Commission
|
|
1972
|
Ch. 570, Acts of 1965
|
Winter season alcoholic beverage license
|
|
1973
|
MGL c. 220, § 8G
|
Mutual aid
|
|
1973
|
MGL c. 44, § 53C
|
Payment for off-duty police work
|
|
1974
|
MGL c. 40, § 8D
|
Historical Commission
|
|
1975
|
MGL c. 4, § 8D
|
Historical Commission
|
|
1975
|
MGL c. 131, § 35A
|
Conservation Commission
|
|
1976
|
MGL c. 41, § 38A
|
Town Collector
|
|
1976
|
Ch. 136, Acts of 1975
|
Fire District
|
|
1977
|
MGL c. 40, § 22D
|
Authority to adopt towing regulations
|
|
1977
|
MGL c. 40, § 21(14)
|
For prohibiting or regulating the leaving of vehicles unattended
within the limits of private ways furnishing means of access for fire
apparatus to any building
|
|
1978
|
MGL c. 138, § 17
|
Winter seasonal alcoholic beverage licenses
|
|
1979
|
MGL c. 138, § 17A
|
Alcoholic beverage licenses
|
|
1979
|
MGL c. 161B, § 3
|
Joining of Berkshire Regional Transit Authority
|
|
1981
|
MGL c. 148, § 26C
|
Smoke or heat detectors required
|
|
1982
|
MGL c. 83, §§ 16A through 16F
|
Authority to establish tax lien on property due to unpaid sewer
charge
|
|
1982
|
Ch. 743, Acts of 1981
|
Real estate tax exemption for elderly
|
|
1982
|
MGL c. 138, § 17A
|
Additional on-premises liquor licenses
|
|
1983
|
MGL c. 41, § 1
|
Terms of office for Assessor, Clerk, Treasurer, Tax Collector
and Tree Warden
|
|
1983
|
MGL c. 597, § 1
|
Tax exemption for former POWs
|
|
1985
|
Ch. 491, § 2 of the Acts of 1984
|
Alcoholic beverage licenses
|
|
1986
|
MGL c. 40, § 57
|
Revocation or refusal to issue permits due to delinquent tax
payments
|
|
1987
|
MGL c. 140, § 147A
|
Dog ordinances
|
|
1989
|
Ch. 409, Acts of 1989
|
Exemption of special police officers from provisions of Civil
Service Law
|
|
1990
|
MGL c. 59, § 5
|
Real estate tax exemption
|
|
1990
|
MGL c. 64, § 3A
|
Local excise occupancy tax
|
|
1991
|
MGL c. 40, § 57
|
Denial, suspension or revocation of licenses for failure to
pay taxes
|
|
1991
|
MGL c. 59, § 5
|
Tax exemptions for veterans organizations
|
|
1991
|
Ch. 291, Acts of 1990
|
Enhanced 911 service
|
|
1992
|
MGL c. 41, § 55
|
Town Accountant
|
|
1992
|
MGL c. 40, § 6A
|
Advertising of town's resources, advantages and attractions
|
|
1992
|
MGL c. 44, § 53F 1/2
|
Landfill Enterprise Fund
|
|
1992
|
MGL c. 44, § 53F 1/2
|
Wastewater Treatment Plant
|
|
1992
|
MGL Ch. 184, Acts of 1992
|
Enterprise Fund Board of Selectmen/Town Manager form of administration
|
|
1993
|
Ch. 133, § 48, Acts of 1992
|
Early retirement plan for certain municipal employees
|
|
1995
|
MGL c. 40, § 6C
|
Removal of snow and ice from private ways open to public use
|
|
1998
|
MGL c. 59, § 5, Clause (52)
|
Abatement on sewer bills for persons 65 years of age or older
|
|
1998
|
MGL c. 148, § 26E(a)
|
Installation of smoke detectors in residential buildings or
structures
|
|
1999
|
MGL c. 140 § 147A
|
Enactment of bylaws and setting and collecting fees relative
to the regulation of dogs and animals
|
|
2001
|
MGL c. 148, § 26I
|
Requiring new or rehabilitated multiunit residential structures
to be equipped with an adequate system of automatic sprinklers
|
|
2001
|
Community Preservation Act
| |
|
2003
|
MGL c. 148, § 26G
|
Requiring new nonresidential buildings or additions of more
that 7,500 gross square feet in floor area to be equipped with an
adequate system of automatic suppressant or automatic sprinklers
|
|
2003
|
MGL c. 40, § 22F
|
Allow Board of Health to charge higher fees than are set by
the state
|
|
2003
|
MGL c. 59, § 5K
|
Property tax work-off program for senior citizens beginning
in fiscal year 2005
|
|
2003
|
MGL c. 59, § 5, Clause 41C
|
Expansion of eligibility for senior citizen property tax exemptions
|
|
2005
|
MGL c. 59, § 59A
|
Cleanup and redevelopment of brownfield sites
|
|
2006
|
MGL c. 32B, § 18
|
Transfer of retirees, spouses and dependents enrolled in Medicare
Part A to Medicare Extension Plan
|
|
2006
|
MGL c. 44, §55C
|
Municipal Affordable Housing Trust Funds
|
|
2007
|
MGL c. 40, § 8G
|
Mutual aid agreements
|
|
2007
|
MGL c. 44, §55C
|
Municipal Affordable Housing Trust Funds
|
|
2010
|
MGL c. 64L, § 2(a)
|
Local meals tax
|
|
2010
|
Ch. 218, Acts of 2010
|
Exempting the Chief of Police from the Civil Service Law
|
|
2011
|
MGL c. 138, § 33B
|
Sale of alcoholic beverages on Sundays
|
|
2012
|
MGL c. 54, § 16A
|
Vacancies at polling
|
|
2012
|
Massachusetts Community Preservation Act
| |
|
2012
|
Ch. 1, Acts of 2012
|
Authorizing the Town to continue the employment of the Chief
and Deputy Chief of the Fire Department
|
|
2012
|
MGL c. 32B, §§ 21 through 23
|
Healthcare plan design
|
|
2013
|
MGL c. 44B, § 3(e)
|
Community preservation surcharge exemption
|
|
2013
|
MGL c. 59, § 5N
|
Reduction of property tax obligation of veteran in exchange
for volunteer services
|
|
2013
|
MGL c. 39, § 23D
|
Attendance and voting at adjudicatory hearings
|
|
2014
|
Ch. 372, Acts of 2014
|
Town Charter
|
|
2015
|
MGL c. 60, § 15B
|
Tax Title Collection Revolving Fund
|
|
2015
|
MGL c. 143, § 3Z
|
Permitting a part-time Building Inspector to engage in other
business while serving as Inspector
|
|
2016
|
MGL c. 59, § 5, Clause 41D
|
Tying income limits for senior citizens tax exemption and the
asset limits to the percentage increase in the CPI
|
|
2017
|
MGL c. 40, § 8J
|
Authorizing the creation of a Commission on Disability and the
appointment of members by the Selectboard
|
|
2018
|
MGL c. 64N, § 3
|
Impose a local sales tax on the retail sales of marijuana for
adult use within the Town at the rate of 3% of the total sales price
|
|
2020
|
MGL c. 59, § 57C
|
Establishing a quarterly tax payment system to be effective
beginning on 7-1-2021 (Fiscal Year 2022)
|
|
2023
|
MGL c. 41, § 110A
|
Closing of Town offices on Saturday
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