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English: Town seal for Brockton, MA, USA, my drawing.

A PNG version is at :Image:Brockton-MA-USA-town-seal.png, use that for articles. This version is good for editing, but seems to be too large for Wikipedia's renderererer to rasterize.

Town seals in Massachusetts are public information; however, under Mass. General Laws, Chapter 268, Section 35, it is a crime to use such a seal "with intent to give to such paper or article an official character which it does not possess".
Date 1951
Source Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons.; new version from Town and City Seals of Massachusetts; State Street Trust
Author IMeowbot at English Wikipedia
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A Guide to the Massachusetts Public Records Law, Published by William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth Division of Public Records, (Updated January 2017) can be found at https://www.mass.gov/files/2017-06/Public%20Records%20Law.pdf and page 7 says:

"With the exception of situations in which a records custodian is withholding records pursuant to Exemption (n), inquiries into a requester's status or motivation for seeking information are expressly prohibited. [1] Consequently, all requests for public records, even if made for a commercial purpose or to assist the requester in a lawsuit against the holder of the records, must be honored in accordance with the Public Records Law."

  1. ↑ See G. L. c. 66, § 10(a) (public records are to be provided to “any person”); see also 950 CMR 32.05(5) (custodian prohibited from inquiring into a requester’s status or motivation); but see G. L. c. 4, § 7(26)(n) (a records custodian may ask the requester to voluntarily provide additional information in order to reach a “reasonable judgment” regarding disclosure of responsive records).
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Public records are defined in A Guide to the Massachusetts Public Records Law, Published by William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth Division of Public Records, (Updated January 2017) at https://www.mass.gov/files/2017-06/Public%20Records%20Law.pdf on page 40, under M. G. L. c. 4, § 7(26) as:

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  • 2007-07-20 23:23 Zscout370 563×552× (1039765 bytes) SVG was rendering incorrectly.
  • 2006-04-30 16:47 IMeowbot 563×552× (971764 bytes) Town seal for Brockton, MA, USA, my drawing.

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