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The Town Talk reports that 29 of the 930 new laws passed by the 2004 legislature went into effect on January 1, 2005. Unless the associated bill stipulated a different effective date, remaining laws went into effect on August 15, 2004.

The newly effective laws stretch from the mundane (i.e. regulations governing water temperature at laundry mats) to the high-profile (i.e., White Lake Property Advisory Board under the state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries took over management of the White Lake Preservation Area). It is also noteworty that "mortgages can [now] be recorded in courthouses using only the last four digits of one's Social Security numbers, repealing a 1991 requirement that the full Social Security or taxpayer identification number be included."

Posted by AJR at January 2, 2005 09:17 PM