Massachusetts General Laws
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 43, § 7 (2026)
Adoption of plan; filing of petition calling for vote
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Section 7. A petition addressed to the city council, signed by qualified voters of the city to a number equal at least to ten per cent of the registered voters at the state election next preceding the filing of the petition and in the form provided in section eight may be filed with the city clerk who shall forthwith transmit the same to the registrars of voters, who shall within sixty days certify the signatures thereon in accordance with the provisions of law and return the petition to the city clerk.
The petition shall be filed with the city clerk at least one hundred and forty days before the date of the election at which the question proposed by the petition is to be submitted to a vote of the voters.
Notes of Decisions
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case, 1930–1930 · leading case: King v. Mayor of Quincy, 169 N.E. 894 (Mass. 1930).
King v. Mayor of Quincy, 169 N.E. 894 (Mass. 1930). “It is not necessary to determine whether, apart from G. L. c. 43, § 7 (formerly St. 1915, c. 267, Part I, § 7) the mayor would have authority to appoint the auditor of accounts under the provision constituting him “the chief executive officer of the city.”
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