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Petitioner seeks to remove procedural cliff for Sudbury'senior means'tested tax exemption
Summary
Ralph Tyler presented a citizen petition (Article 55) to amend the town's special act that authorizes a means'tested senior tax exemption so the benefit would not lapse automatically if Town Meeting fails to reauthorize it on a three'year cycle.
Citizen petitioner Ralph Tyler presented Article 55 on March 11, a proposed revision to Sudbury'specific legislation that authorizes the town'level means'tested senior tax exemption. Tyler said the 2016 special act that created the exemption requires periodic reauthorization by Town Meeting every three years and that, under the existing language, failing to reauthorize would render the special act void with no local mechanism to reinstate it without sending a new Home Rule petition to the legislature.
Tyler told…
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