MAYOR OF BOSTON v. TREASURER & RECEIVER GENERAL


384 Mass. 718 (1981)

429 N.E.2d 691

MAYOR OF BOSTON & another vs. TREASURER AND RECEIVER GENERAL.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

December 15, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold J. Carroll, Corporation Counsel (Jacqueline A. Lillard, Assistant Corporation Counsel, with him) for the plaintiffs.

Donald K. Stern, Assistant Attorney General (James A. Aloisi, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, with him) for the defendant.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, LIACOS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.


WILKINS, J.

In providing an additional $348,000,000 in financial aid to the cities and towns in the budget for the current year, the Legislature imposed a specific limitation on the distribution of funds to the city of Boston. St. 1981, c. 351, § 2, item 0611-5500. That limitation conditioned the distribution to Boston on the city's maintaining "the same level of police and fire protective services as during fiscal...

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