SOUTHWICK — During the Conservation Commission’s meeting Monday, the commissioners continued the planning of revegetating the eroded areas of the North Pond Conservation Area, and approved supporting a bill working through the Statehouse that would fine contractors who perform work on private property without a permit.

“It’s the new proposal in a bill to hold contractors liable, just as liable as the landowners. So, what we’ve seen in the past, where a contractor comes in and a landowner thinks that they’ve pulled all the permits, [but the] permits haven’t been pulled and the contractors long gone [leaving] landowners responsible for everything,” said Conservation Commission Coordinator Sabrina Pooler about HB 3415 .

If the bill makes it to Gov. Maura Healey’s desk, it will mandate “fi

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