Section 7C:73 - [Repealed Effective 8/4/2027](a) For the purposes of this section, "correctional facility" shall have the same meaning as provided in section 1 of chapter 125.(b) Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, a state agency or public agency shall not:(i) study, plan, design, acquire, lease, search for sites or construct new correctional facilities;(ii) expand, convert, renovate or activate an existing or dormant correctional facility beyond its current number of beds unless such expansion, conversion, renovation or activation is for the purpose of accommodating a transfer of incarcerated people caused by the temporary or permanent closure of another correctional facility; or(iii) increase the number of beds of the department of corrections.Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 7C, § 73
Repealed by Acts 2022 , c. 140, § 4, eff. 8/4/2027.Added by Acts 2022 , c. 140, § 3, eff. 8/4/2022.