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: Massachusetts Law UpdatesNew Laws for 2008
By Massachusetts Trial Court Law Libraries
- The minimum wage is now $8.00!
- Stores must start selling fire-safe cigarettes (but they can deplete their existing inventories first)
- Monthly penalties begin to accrue every month for failure to have health insurance
- Adoptees born from today forward may have access to their original birth certificates at age 18 (their adoptive parents may have access before they turn 18)
Happy new year!
Full post as published by Massachusetts Law Updates on January 01, 2008 (boomark / email).
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