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Somerville committee amends and recommends Home Rule petition to raise municipal fine caps and index them to inflation
Summary
The committee amended a Home Rule petition to raise the maximum civil fine the city may impose (currently $300), set a new maximum (up to $2,000 in the petition text) and alter the initial CPI-indexing date; the committee recommended the amended petition out to the full council.
The Legislative Matters Committee on Sept. 30 voted to recommend to the full council a Home Rule petition that would allow Somerville to raise the maximum civil fine the city may impose under Massachusetts General Laws chapter 40, section 21B and index that maximum to inflation.
Colin Ziegler, environmental health manager in Inspectional Services, told the committee the petition would not itself change individual penalties but would give departments the authority to propose higher fines for specified…
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