City of Springfield, MA
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2024-03-18
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The Code
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Part I: Administrative Legislation
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Chapter 42 Finances
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Article III Public Hearings on Fee or Rate Increases
- The Charter
- Ch C Charter
- The Code
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 5 Administration
- Ch 10 Assessors
- Ch 16 Boards, Commissions and Committees
- Ch 23 Deeds, Leases and Mortgages
- Ch 25 Departmental Revolving Funds
- Ch 27 Departments
- Ch 32 Elections
- Ch 34 Emergency Services
- Ch 38 Ethics
- Ch 42 Finances
- Ch 42 Art III Public Hearings on Fee or Rate Increases
- § 42-11 Public hearings required.
- § 42-12 Procedures; exception.
- § 42-13 Effective date; voter protests.
- Ch 49 Historic Districts
- Ch 61 Mayor and Council; School Committee
- Ch 67 Officers and Employees
- Ch 73 Personnel
- Ch 78 Planning
- Ch 82 Purchasing and Contracts
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 100 Alarms
- Ch 105 Amusements
- Ch 110 Animals
- Ch 115 Auctions and Auctioneers
- Ch 118 Awnings, Canopies and Signs
- Ch 123 Biomedical Research
- Ch 131 Body Art Establishments
- Ch 140 Building Construction
- Ch 143 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 149 Buses
- Ch 154 Community Gardens
- Ch 157 Curfew
- Ch 165 Drugs and Drug Products
- Ch 172 Excavations
- Ch 173 Facial Recognition Surveillance Technology
- Ch 175 Fees
- Ch 178 Fire Prevention
- Ch 182 Foreclosures
- Ch 184 Fortunetellers
- Ch 190 Gang Activity
- Ch 201 Graffiti
- Ch 208 Hazardous Materials
- Ch 213 Health and Sanitation
- Ch 218 Historic Preservation
- Ch 229 Licenses and Permits
- Ch 235 Lodging and Rooming Houses
- Ch 238 Short-Term Rentals
- Ch 240 Loitering
- Ch 245 Marijuana
- Ch 247 Massage Businesses
- Ch 248 Military Leave
- Ch 259 Noise
- Ch 265 Parking, Valet
- Ch 270 Pawnbrokers and Junk Dealers
- Ch 275 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 279 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 282 Plastic Bag Reduction
- Ch 285 Property Maintenance
- Ch 300 Sewers
- Ch 304 Sex Offenders
- Ch 311 Skateboards and Scooters
- Ch 316 Smoking
- Ch 322 Snow and Ice
- Ch 327 Solid Waste
- Ch 334 Storm Drains
- Ch 336 Stormwater Management
- Ch 338 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 347 Swimming Pools
- Ch 351 Tag/Garage Sales
- Ch 355 Taxation
- Ch 362 Tobacco Products
- Ch 368 Tree Protection
- Ch 379 Vehicles, Abandoned and Unregistered
- Ch 385 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 390 Vehicles for Hire
- Ch 401 Waste Hauling Services
- Ch 405 Water
- Ch 412 Weapons and Explosives
- Ch 417 Wetlands
- Appendix
- Ch A450 Special Acts and Resolves
- Derivation Table
- Ch DT Derivation Table
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Adopted 7-27-1993 (Title 4, Ch. 4.22, of the 1986 Code)]
A.
Any department, board, commission or agency which has proposed a
fee or rate increase shall conduct two public hearings prior to increasing
the fee or rate as follows.
B.
The department, board, commission or agency shall file with the City
Clerk's office a notice stating the reasons for the increase,
the amount of revenue to be generated, the specific uses for the increased
revenues and the services which would be affected by the increase.
A.
The City Clerk shall establish two public hearing dates for the purpose
of soliciting public comments on the fee or rate increase. One public
hearing shall be at a location other than City Hall and one hearing
shall be at City Hall.
B.
Public notice of the hearings shall include publication of the proposed
increase in fees or rates in a newspaper of general circulation in
the City not less than 14 days prior to the first public hearing.
C.
The public hearing requirement stated above shall not apply to fee
or rate increases requested by any department, board, commission or
agency pursuant to a statute authorized by the General Laws of the
Commonwealth.
A.
The proposed increase shall take effect 20 days after its approval
by the City Council, if required, or within 20 days after the department,
board, commission or agency approves said fee or rate increase.
B.
If, within 20 days after the final passage of any such fee, rate, ordinance, resolution, order, or vote as stated in Subsection A above, a petition signed by registered voters of the City, equal in number to at least 12% of the total number of registered voters, and addressed to the City Council, protesting against the fee, rate, ordinance, resolution, order or vote, or any part thereof taking effect, is filed with the City Clerk, the same shall thereupon and thereby be suspended from taking effect in accordance with MGL c. 43, § 42.
