The Dover Amendment is the common name for Massachusetts General Law (MGL) Chapter 40A, Section 3.
This law exempts agricultural, religious, and educational uses from certain zoning restrictions.
to be overly broad, the exemption granted by the Dover Amendment has been narrowed somewhat by recent [provide dates] court decisions.
The Massachusetts General Court approved exemptions for the City of Cambridge (Acts of 1979, Chap.
387) allowing it to regulate educational and religious uses of property, which Cambridge then incorporated into its zoning laws.