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General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 121B Housing and Urban Renewal.
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Operating Agencies.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Housing authorities; creation; dissolution - Chapter 121B, Section 3
There is hereby created, in each city and town in the commonwealth, a public body politic and corporate to be known as the “Housing authority”...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Regional housing authorities; creation; dissolution - Chapter 121B, Section 3A
Any number of cities or towns may, with the approval of their respective municipal officers and of the department, create or disband by a contract...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Redevelopment authorities; creation; dissolution - Chapter 121B, Section 4
There is hereby created, in each city and town in the commonwealth, a public body politic and corporate to be known as the “Redevelopment authority”...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Membership; appointment; election; term of office - Chapter 121B, Section 5
Every housing and redevelopment authority shall be managed, controlled and governed by five members, appointed or elected as provided in this section, of whom three...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Charges against members; hearing; removal; resignation; suspension - Chapter 121B, Section 6
The mayor or city council or board of selectmen may make or receive written charges against, and the mayor with the approval of the city...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Officers and executive director of authorities; compensation of members - Chapter 121B, Section 7
A housing or redevelopment authority shall elect from among its members a chairman and a vice-chairman, and may employ counsel, an executive director who shall...
Powers and Liabilities of Operating Agencies.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Operating agencies; housing authorities - Chapter 121B, Section 8
The operating agencies having the powers and subject to the limitations provided in sections twenty-five to thirty-three, inclusive, shall be housing authorities.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Urban renewal agencies - Chapter 121B, Section 9
The operating agencies having the powers and subject to the limitations provided in sections forty-five to fifty-seven, inclusive, to be known as urban renewal agencies,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Designation of authorities - Chapter 121B, Section 10
Unless otherwise particularly provided in sections fifty-eight and fifty-nine the operating agencies having the powers and subject to the limitations provided in sections fifty-eight and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Powers of operating agencies - Chapter 121B, Section 11
Each operating agency shall have the powers and be subject to the limitations provided in sections one to sixteen, inclusive, shall have the powers necessary...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Wages; labor requirements; social security - Chapter 121B, Section 12
Each contractor with an operating agency and each subcontractor shall comply with the applicable requirements of chapter one hundred and forty-nine as to wages and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Contract and tort liability; member's personal liability; relocation of utility facilities - Chapter 121B, Section 13
An operating agency shall be liable in contract or in tort in the same manner as a private corporation. The members, employees, officers and agents...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Federal loans; conveyance upon default - Chapter 121B, Section 14
An operating agency may obligate itself, in any contract with the federal government for a loan or the payment of annual contributions authorized by section...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bonds, notes, certificates; negotiable instruments - Chapter 121B, Section 15
The bonds, notes and certificates of indebtedness of an operating agency, in the absence of an express recital to the contrary on the face thereof,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Exemption from taxation; revaluation or reassessment of real property; payments in lieu of taxes - Chapter 121B, Section 16
The real estate and tangible personal property of an operating agency including houses constructed by a housing authority on private land in rural areas under...
Municipal Powers and Liabilities.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Liability of commonwealth or political subdivisions for debts of housing authority - Chapter 121B, Section 17
No bond, note or other evidence of indebtedness executed or obligation or liability incurred by an operating agency shall be a debt or charge against...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Preparation of master plans, etc. by city or town; appropriation and payment - Chapter 121B, Section 18
Whether or not an operating agency has been created therein any city or town may undertake, itself or by or through any department, board, agency,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Initial costs and annual operating expenses of operating agencies; appropriations and payment by city - Chapter 121B, Section 19
Cities and towns may raise and appropriate money for the purpose of defraying the initial costs and annual administrative expenses of an operating agency authorized...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Development, acquisition and operating costs; relocation payments; losses; appropriation and payment by city - Chapter 121B, Section 20
A city or town in which an operating agency has been organized may raise and appropriate, or may borrow, or may agree with such agency...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Indebtedness limitation - Chapter 121B, Section 21
Indebtedness authorized under section twenty shall be outside the limit of indebtedness prescribed in section ten of chapter forty-four, and shall be payable within twenty...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Emergency finance board; permission to incur indebtedness - Chapter 121B, Section 22
So long as the emergency finance board, established under section one of chapter forty-nine of the acts of nineteen hundred and thirty-three, is in existence,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Municipal powers - Chapter 121B, Section 23
For the purpose of complying with the conditions of federal legislation, or in lieu of a contribution, loan or grant in cash to an operating...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Agreement to bear acquisition loss - Chapter 121B, Section 24
A city or town, in which the operating agency, pursuant to section forty-seven, proposes to take, acquire or clear land constituting the whole or part...
Housing Programs.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Statement of emergency - Chapter 121B, Section 25
It is hereby declared that substandard and decadent areas exist in certain portions of the commonwealth, and that there is not in the commonwealth, within...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Powers of a housing authority - Chapter 121B, Section 26
A housing authority shall have the following powers in addition to those set forth in section eleven or elsewhere in this chapter:— (a) To make...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Powers of department in city without housing authority; financing of projects; bonds and notes; issuance and sale; approval of city or town - Chapter 121B, Section 26A
The department shall have all the powers of a housing authority under this chapter and be subject to all the limitations on such powers, provided...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rural housing authority; additional powers - Chapter 121B, Section 27
If a housing authority organized in a city or town in which rural areas are located shall undertake the provision of housing for families of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Application of laws, ordinances, and regulations of cities or towns relating to buildings, planning, zoning and public health - Chapter 121B, Section 28
Except as provided in section thirty with respect to projects leased from the federal government, every housing project shall be subject to all laws and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Accounts and reports of housing authorities; investigations by department; rules and regulations of department - Chapter 121B, Section 29
Each housing authority shall keep an accurate account of all its activities and all its receipts and expenditures and shall annually in the month of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Contract with federal government; acquiring federally owned project - Chapter 121B, Section 30
A housing authority, with the written approval of the department and of the mayor of the city or selectmen of the town in which the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Submission of plans for low-rent housing project to department; application; hearing; disposition - Chapter 121B, Section 31
A housing authority shall not undertake a low-rent housing project until it has submitted to the department the plans and description of the project, the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Maintenance and operation of project; rentals; tenant selection; eligibility for continued occupancy; hearings; waiver - Chapter 121B, Section 32
Upon the completion or acquisition of a housing project by a housing authority, it shall be maintained and operated by such authority. It is hereby...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Parking areas; rules and regulations; towing - Chapter 121B, Section 32A
A housing authority may make reasonable rules and regulations for the use of parking areas under its control and may make reasonable charges for the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 121B, Section 32B
As used in sections thirty-two B to thirty-two F, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meanings unless the content otherwise requires: “Landlord”, the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Unlawful conduct by non-member of tenant household; civil action by landlord for injunctive or other equitable relief - Chapter 121B, Section 32C
Whenever a person who is not a member of a tenant household has, on or near a public housing development or a subsidized housing development:...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Civil action by tenants requiring landlord to seek injunctive or other equitable relief - Chapter 121B, Section 32D
A tenant or member of a tenant household in a public or subsidized housing development whose health or safety has been seriously threatened as described...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Housing, superior court departments; jurisdiction over equitable actions - Chapter 121B, Section 32E
Civil actions under section thirty-two C or thirty-two D shall be instituted in the housing or superior court departments having jurisdiction where the residential premises...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Temporary restraining or injunctive orders; contents; service; term; request for modification or vacation - Chapter 121B, Section 32F
Whenever a court, pursuant to section thirty-two C, issues a temporary restraining order or a preliminary or permanent injunction ordering a defendant to refrain from...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Equivalent elimination of substandard dwelling units - Chapter 121B, Section 33
No project for low-rent housing involving the construction of new dwellings shall be undertaken by a housing authority unless the city or town has entered...
- Massachusetts General Laws - State and federal financial assistance; general provisions - Chapter 121B, Section 34
The commonwealth acting by and through the department may enter into a contract or contracts with a housing authority for state financial assistance in the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Contracts for state financial assistance on leased MHFA projects to provide replacement or relocation housing; annual contributions; limitations - Chapter 121B, Section 34A
The commonwealth, acting by and through the department, may enter into a contract or contracts with a housing authority for state financial assistance in the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Commonwealth guaranteed temporary notes; authorization and execution; sale and refunding limitations; terms - Chapter 121B, Section 34B
Any contract for state financial assistance entered into by the commonwealth with a housing authority pursuant to section thirty-four may provide for additional state financial...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Contracts for supplementary state financial assistance - Chapter 121B, Section 35
The commonwealth, acting by and through the department, may enter into a contract or contracts with a housing authority for supplementary state financial assistance in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Receipt of loans and grants from federal sources or from other sources - Chapter 121B, Section 36
The commonwealth shall have power to receive loans and grants from the federal government or any agency or instrumentality thereof, or from any other source,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Commonwealth grants; guarantee of temporary notes; sale, maintenance, and operation of relocation projects; limitations on eminent domain - Chapter 121B, Section 37
For the purpose of avoiding, so far as practicable, during the period of public exigency, emergency and distress now existing on account of the acute...
Housing for the Elderly and the Handicapped.
State Guarantee of Bonds and Notes.
Rental Assistance Program.
Urban Renewal Programs.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Declaration of necessity - Chapter 121B, Section 45
It is hereby declared that substandard, decadent or blighted open areas exist in certain cities and towns in this commonwealth; that each constitutes a serious...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Powers of urban renewal agency - Chapter 121B, Section 46
An urban renewal agency shall have all the powers necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate the purposes of relevant provisions of the General...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Acquisition by eminent domain; notice; petition - Chapter 121B, Section 47
Notwithstanding any contrary provision of this chapter, an urban renewal agency may, with the consent of the department and municipal officers, and after a temporary...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Public hearing; notice; urban renewal plans; approval; acquisition of property - Chapter 121B, Section 48
No urban renewal project shall be undertaken until (1) a public hearing relating to the urban renewal plan for such project has been held after...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sale or lease of property acquired for urban renewal project - Chapter 121B, Section 49
If an urban renewal agency shall sell or lease any property acquired by it for an urban renewal project, the terms of such sales or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Delegation of power to municipality to plan and undertake project - Chapter 121B, Section 50
An urban renewal agency is hereby authorized to delegate to a city or town or other public body or to any board or officer of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Redevelopment authority taking over project initiated by housing authority - Chapter 121B, Section 51
A housing authority of a city or town which, prior to the organization of a redevelopment authority in such city or town, has initiated an...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Accounts and reports of urban renewal agencies; civil service rules - Chapter 121B, Section 52
Each urban renewal agency shall keep an accurate account of all its activities, receipts and expenditures in connection with the planning and execution of urban...
State Aid for Urban Renewal.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Application for urban renewal assistance grant or urban revitalization and development grant - Chapter 121B, Section 53
Any city or town, acting by and through its urban renewal agency, may apply to the department for an urban renewal assistance grant to meet...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Determination of compliance and final approved cost; notice - Chapter 121B, Section 54
Upon receipt of an application under the provisions of section fifty-three the department shall examine such application and any facts, estimates or other information relative...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certification and payment of grants - Chapter 121B, Section 55
From time to time, the department shall certify to the comptroller, and the state treasurer shall, within thirty days after each such certification, pay to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Contract to provide financial assistance - Chapter 121B, Section 56
The commonwealth, acting by and through the department, may contract with the cities and towns of the commonwealth, acting by and through urban renewal agencies...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Advance of funds; amount; payments - Chapter 121B, Section 57
The department may make advances of funds to local urban renewal agencies for up to seventy-five per cent of the estimated cost of surveys and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Community development projects; application for grants; notice; rules and regulations - Chapter 121B, Section 57A
(a) Any eligible city or town, acting by and through its municipal officers or by and through any agency designated by such municipal officers to...
Other Programs.
Last modified: March 17, 2010
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