Chapter 529.          AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE FILING REQUIREMENTS FOR
REGULATIONS ADOPTED BY CERTAIN STATE AGENCIES.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
SECTION 1. The sixth paragraph of section 28 of chapter 7 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 1988 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following sentence:- Such rules and amendments thereto shall comply with filing provisions of section five of chapter thirty A and such regulations shall not take effect until so filed.
SECTION 2. Chapter 30 of the General Laws is hereby amended by striking out section 37, as so appearing, and inserting in place thereof the following section:-
Section 37. Every department, board, commission, division, authority or official of state government, or subdivision thereof, authorized by law to make regulations, shall comply with the filing provisions of section five of chapter thirty A and such regulations shall not take effect until so filed.
SECTION 3. Section 3 of chapter 31 of the General Laws, as so appearing, is 814
hereby amended by inserting after the first sentence the following sentence:- Such rules and amendments thereto shall comply with the filing provisions of section five of chapter thirty A and such regulations shall not take effect until so filed.
SECTION 4. Chapter 58A of the General Laws is hereby amended by striking out section 8, as so appearing, and inserting in place thereof the following section:-
Section 8. A hearing shall be granted if any party to an appeal so requests, and upon motion of any party to an appeal or by direction of the board, any appeal may be set down for a hearing. Hearings may be held before less than a majority of the members of the board, and the chairman may assign members to hold hearings. Hearings before the board or before members of the board shall be open to the public and such hearings and all proceedings shall be conducted in accordance with such rules of practice and procedure as the board may make and promulgate; provided, however, that such rules and amendments thereto shall comply with the filing provisions of section five of chapter thirty A and such rules and amendments shall not take effect until so filed. The chairman may direct that two or more petitions for abatement of the taxes assessed upon real estate situated in the same general locality of the same town be heard together, irrespective of the identity of the appellants.
SECTION 5. Section 5 of chapter 152 of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby amended by adding the following sentence:- Such rules and amendments thereto shall comply with the filing provisions of section five of chapter thirty A and such regulations shall not take effect until so filed.
Approved November 17, 1989.