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H1024 • 2025

An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to provide sewer services to a certain parcel of land in the town of Sharon

An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to provide sewer services to a certain parcel of land in the town of Sharon

Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Edward R. Philips
Last action
2025-11-19
Official status
Signed by the Governor, Chapter 62 of the Acts of 2025
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to provide sewer services to a certain parcel of land in the town of Sharon

An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to provide sewer services to a certain parcel of land in the town of Sharon By Representative Philips of Sharon, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.

What This Bill Does

  • An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to provide sewer services to a certain parcel of land in the town of Sharon By Representative Philips of Sharon, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.
  • 1024) of Edward R.
  • Philips for legislation to authorize the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to provide sewer services to a certain parcel of land in the town of Sharon.
  • Environment and Natural Resources.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-11-19 Executive

    Signed by the Governor, Chapter 62 of the Acts of 2025

  2. 2025-11-10 House

    Enacted

  3. 2025-11-10 Senate

    Enacted and laid before the Governor

  4. 2025-11-06 Senate

    Emergency preamble adopted

  5. 2025-11-05 House

    Emergency preamble adopted

  6. 2025-11-03 House

    House concurred in the Senate amendment

  7. 2025-10-22 House

    Referred to the committee on Bills in the Third Reading

  8. 2025-10-20 Senate

    Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session with an amendment

  9. 2025-10-20 Senate

    Rules suspended

  10. 2025-10-20 Senate

    Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on Senate Rules), ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed

  11. 2025-08-04 Senate

    Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Rules

  12. 2025-07-31 House

    Read third and passed to be engrossed

  13. 2025-07-21 House

    Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting

  14. 2025-07-21 House

    Rules suspended

  15. 2025-07-21 House

    Read second and ordered to a third reading

  16. 2025-07-10 House

    Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling

  17. 2025-04-23 Joint

    Hearing scheduled for 05/06/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-1

  18. 2025-02-27 House

    Referred to the committee on Environment and Natural Resources

  19. 2025-02-27 Senate

    Senate concurred

Official Summary Text

An Act authorizing the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to provide sewer services to a certain parcel of land in the town of Sharon
By Representative Philips of Sharon, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1024) of Edward R. Philips for legislation to authorize the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to provide sewer services to a certain parcel of land in the town of Sharon. Environment and Natural Resources.

Current Bill Text

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Bill H.1024

SECTION 1. Subject to receipt of all approvals required under section 2 and following satisfaction of all procedures adopted by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, including the payment to the authority of an entrance fee, the authority may provide sewer services through the town of Norwood to the property known and numbered as 313 and 317 Norwood Street and 5 Edge Hill Road in the town of Sharon, consisting of approximately 3.45 acres of land located at the intersection of Norwood street and Edge Hill road, which is more particularly described as Lots 1, 2 and 3 in a plan of land entitled ‘Plan of Land in Sharon, Mass.’ prepared by Paul N. Robinson, dated December 15, 1976, revised November 8, 1978, which is recorded in said registry in plan book 271, plan 995, currently owned by Peter J. Morandi, Trustee of the Morandi Family Realty Trust, u/d/t dated August 30, 2004 and recorded with the Norfolk county registry of deeds in book 21624, page 222, which property is currently under contract for sale to Sunrise Development, Inc. or its nominee, successor or assignee; provided, however, that discharges shall not exceed 10,000 gallons per day unless an additional volume is approved by the authority. The authority may allow the property to be used and serviced by the sewer system to the same extent as parcels of property located within the district currently served by the authority. All costs and expenses incurred for engineering, design and construction, inclusive of all supervision, labor, equipment and materials, relative to the sewer tie-in shall be paid by Sunrise Development, Inc, or its nominee, successor or assignee.

SECTION 2. The sewer connection to the town of Norwood’s infrastructure and the provision of sewer services by the authority for any discharges shall commence only after the authority’s board of directors has voted to approve the connection after having first made the findings set forth in paragraph (c) of section 8 of chapter 372 of the acts of 1984 and having made such other determinations in accordance with applicable policies of the authority and after all required approvals have been received including, as applicable, the approval of the community of origin, transporting community, all other local and state regulatory bodies where required and the authority’s advisory board.

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