“In order to promote equality for all persons, any person shall be allowed to be topless on any public or private beach within the Town of Nantucket.”
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey approved the bylaw on Tuesday, but it will only go into effect once the town meets appropriate posting and publishing requirements.
Nantucket resident Dorothy Stover proposed the law, which gained support among residents. She noted in an interview with the Boston Globe that other communities had similar laws already in place.
“I’m not saying that everybody has to be topless,” Stover said. “I want to support the love of the body.”
Stover recognized negative reactions to the proposal while also stating she has received an overwhelming number of positive responses.
Healey said that her office could “discern no conflict between the vote and the Constitution or laws of the Commonwealth.”
In a letter from Healey on the subject of the bylaw, Healy did not provide any specific deadline by which posting and publishing requirements must be met, but stressed that the law would only apply to specific beaches and not surrounding areas.
The Town Board proposed a phased implementation of the new law in order to help people acclimate to it.
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