Compiled August, 2024
Our review of the annotated history reveals the following legislative history (every “c.” below represents a separate legislative bill):
Added: 1978, c. 719
Amended:
• 1979, c. 878: in subdivision (b), in the first sentence, substituted “The party seeking review shall be the prevailing party if that party obtains” for “The prevailing party upon such judicial review shall be the party who recovers”, and added the third sentence relating to failure to appear at a hearing.
• 1982, c. 979: substituted “trial de novo” for “judicial review” or “review” in 5 places; and made nonsubstantive grammatical changes.
• 1984, c. 825: added subdivisions (b) and (c), redesignating former subdivisions (b) and (c) to be subdivisions (d) and (e); in subdivisions (a), (c), and (d), substituted “trial after arbitration” for “trial de novo”; in subdivision (a), inserted the second sentence relating to time limitations for seeking arbitration, and deleted the former second sentence; also deleted the second paragraph of subdivision (a); inserted subdivision (b) relating to rejection of arbitration; inserted subdivision (c) relating to initiation of a court action; and made nonsubstantive changes throughout.
• 1992, c. 1265: in subdivision (a), merged the second and third sentences, by deleting “Either party shall be entitled to a trial after arbitration” preceding “if sought within” and in the subdivision as amended inserted the exception in the second sentence, and added the third, fourth and fifth sentences; and in subdivision (d), deleted the third sentence.
• 1996, c. 1104: near the beginning of subdivision (a), inserted “at any time after the dispute over fees, costs, or both, has arisen”.
• 1998, c. 798: substituted near the beginning of subdivision (a) “arbitrators appointed pursuant to this article” for “the arbitrators”.
• 2009, c. 54: in subdivisions (b) and (c), substituted “ 30 days after service” for “30 days after mailing”; and in subdivision (d), in the second and third sentences, substituted “attorney’s” for “attorneys’ ” in two places.
• 2011, c. 417: in subdivision (a), in the second sentence, substituted “trustees” for “governors”.
Nine bills affected this section.
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