General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 23B Department of Housing and Community Development
- Massachusetts General Laws - Department of housing and community development; appointment, duties and salary of director - Chapter 23B, Section 1
In the executive office of housing and economic development, there shall be a department of housing and community development, in this chapter called the department,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Divisions; associate directors; public instrumentalities - Chapter 23B, Section 2
(a) There shall be within the department such divisions as the director may establish for its efficient operation. Each such division shall be under the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and duties - Chapter 23B, Section 3
The department shall be the principal agency of the government of the commonwealth to: mobilize the human, physical and financial resources available to combat poverty...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bureaus; department’s description of organization; bureau chiefs - Chapter 23B, Section 4
There shall be established within the department such bureaus as the director shall from time to time deem necessary. All such bureaus shall be under...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1996, 58, Sec. 19 - Chapter 23B, Section 5
Repealed, 1996, 58, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Housing appeals committee - Chapter 23B, Section 5A
There shall be within the department a housing appeals committee, consisting of three members to be appointed by the director, of whom one shall be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Joint task force on housing for persons with disabilities - Chapter 23B, Section 5B
There shall be within the department a joint task force on housing for persons with disabilities, consisting of one employee of the department of housing...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Annual report; regulations - Chapter 23B, Section 6
The director shall prepare and submit to the governor and the general court an annual report which shall contain the description of organization of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Gifts or grants - Chapter 23B, Section 7
The department may accept any gifts or grants of money or property, whether real or personal, from any source, whether public or private, including but...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Employees; staff officers; appointment and removal - Chapter 23B, Section 8
The director shall appoint and may remove all employees in the department. Unless otherwise provided by law, all such appointments and removals shall be made...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certifications on validity or guaranty of bonds or notes of housing authorities and authenticity of documents on file - Chapter 23B, Section 9
The director or such person or persons he may designate from time to time may certify to the existence of any fact which may be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Construction - Chapter 23B, Section 10
Wherever, in any general or special law, there are used the following words:— (a) division of housing, (b) division of urban renewal, (c) bureau of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Contracts for non-interest bearing advances to housing authorities; construction of low rent housing projects; findings; reimbursement - Chapter 23B, Section 10A
The department may enter into a contract with a local housing authority for the purpose of assisting housing development by expending such monies as may...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions applicable to Secs. 12 to 15 - Chapter 23B, Section 11
As used or referred to in sections twelve to fifteen, inclusive, the following words shall, unless the context requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— (a)...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Urban job incentive bureau; programs - Chapter 23B, Section 12
There shall be in the Massachusetts office of business development an urban job incentive bureau. The bureau shall initiate, organize, develop and coordinate a statewide...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Eligible business facility; requirements - Chapter 23B, Section 13
A business facility may not become an eligible business facility for the purposes of this chapter unless it meets each of the following requirements:— (1)...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Eligible section of substantial poverty - Chapter 23B, Section 13A
For the purposes solely of a determination of the Bureau with reference to an application for a renewal or extension of a certificate of eligibility...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of eligible business facility; application - Chapter 23B, Section 14
Any corporation, with respect to any business facility which it owns or operates and which meets the requirements of section thirteen may file with the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Issuance of certificate of eligible business facility; requirements - Chapter 23B, Section 15
(a) If the bureau finds that a business facility described in an application for a certificate of eligibility meets the requirements of section thirteen, it...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1984, 348, Sec. 2 - Chapter 23B, Section 16 to 23
Repealed, 1984, 348, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Community action agencies; structure; qualification; contracts; applicability of section - Chapter 23B, Section 24
As used in this section the following words, unless the context requires otherwise, shall have the following meaning: “Community action agency”, a nonprofit agency which...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Fuel assistance and weatherization assistance programs; coordination - Chapter 23B, Section 24A
Subgrantees of fuel assistance programs shall provide written notice of the existence of weatherization assistance programs when such programs are available to all recipients of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Low-income sewer and water assistance program - Chapter 23B, Section 24B
The department shall, subject to appropriation, operate a low-income sewer and water assistance program to provide assistance in paying the sewer and water bills of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions applicable to Secs. 26 to 27 - Chapter 23B, Section 25
As used in sections twenty-six to twenty-seven, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meanings, unless a different meaning clearly is indicated from the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Public purpose for state assisted rental housing - Chapter 23B, Section 26
It is hereby found and declared that there now exists in many cities and towns in the commonwealth an acute shortage of decent, safe and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Contracts with rental housing project sponsors for financial assistance; loans; findings - Chapter 23B, Section 27
The commonwealth, acting by and through the department, may, to the extent of appropriations provided for such purpose, enter into contracts with sponsors of rental...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1993, 482, Sec. 1 - Chapter 23B, Section 28
Repealed, 1993, 482, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Confidentiality of community development block grant application materials - Chapter 23B, Section 29
As used in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly requires otherwise: “Community development block grant”, funds designated...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Emergency housing assistance program - Chapter 23B, Section 30
Subject to appropriation, the department shall administer a program of emergency housing assistance to needy families with children and pregnant woman with no other children....
Last modified: September 11, 2015