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- Massachusetts General Laws - Title of chapter - Chapter 40B, Section 1
This chapter shall be designated and may be known as “The regional planning law”.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Purpose of chapter - Chapter 40B, Section 2
The purpose of this chapter is to permit a city or town to plan jointly with cities or towns to promote with the greatest efficiency...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Regional or district groupings; consent to placement - Chapter 40B, Section 2A
No state agency shall place a city or town individually or severally, within a regional or district grouping without the consent of the governing body...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Planning districts; establishment; new members; area jurisdiction; rights and liabilities - Chapter 40B, Section 3
Any group of cities, towns, or cities and towns may, by vote of their respective city councils or town meetings, vote to become members of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - District planning commissions; membership; employees; meetings - Chapter 40B, Section 4
In each planning district so established there shall be a district planning commission consisting of one member of the planning board of each city and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Executive committees; establishment; membership; powers and duties; reports - Chapter 40B, Section 4A
Upon a two-thirds vote of all of the members of the district planning commission there may be established an executive committee, elected annually from the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Seals authorized - Chapter 40B, Section 4B
Each planning district may have a seal consisting of a circular die bearing the words, “Commonwealth of Massachusetts, __________ Regional Planning District, (insert year)”, which...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Federal military installations within districts; commanding officer as ex officio member of commission - Chapter 40B, Section 4C
Whenever there is located, wholly or partially, within a planning district established hereunder, a federal military installation having a resident population of at least five...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and duties; reports - Chapter 40B, Section 5
A planning commission established hereunder shall make careful studies of the resources, problems, possibilities and needs of its district and, on the basis of such...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Agreement for water favorability studies - Chapter 40B, Section 5A
Such commission may enter into an agreement with the water resources commission for the purpose of conducting water favorability studies under the direction of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Economic development regional commissions; authorization to act - Chapter 40B, Section 5B
A district planning commission may, by an affirmative vote of two thirds of the representatives of the cities and towns comprising the district, agree to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Cooperation of state agencies with planning commissions - Chapter 40B, Section 6
The several officers, boards, commissions, departments and divisions of the commonwealth and city and town officials may consult with any such district planning commission and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Preparation of budget; apportionment of costs; disbursement of funds; receipt of gifts; contracts for planning studies and services - Chapter 40B, Section 7
Said commission shall, annually in the month of February, estimate the amount of money required to pay the costs and expenses of the district for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Borrowing in anticipation of revenue from member municipalities - Chapter 40B, Section 8
The district may authorize debt by a majority vote of the commission in anticipation of revenue to an amount not in excess of that to...
Southeastern Regional Planning and Economic Development District.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Southeastern regional planning and economic development district; establishment - Chapter 40B, Section 9
The director of economic development may establish a regional planning and economic development district consisting of all the cities and towns in the Southeastern Massachusetts...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Membership; termination - Chapter 40B, Section 10
Upon the designation of the regional planning and economic development district by the director of economic development, all cities and towns within the boundaries of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Dissolution of regional planning districts; transitional provisions; procedure - Chapter 40B, Section 11
If the district boundary of the regional planning and economic development district established in accordance with section nine includes a majority of cities and towns...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Commission; membership; appointment; term - Chapter 40B, Section 12
In the regional planning and economic development district established pursuant to section nine, there shall be a regional planning and economic development commission which shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Advisory committee; membership; appointment; term; removal; vacancies - Chapter 40B, Section 13
Twenty-one persons residing within the district shall be appointed to an advisory committee for the purpose of providing advice and guidance to said commission and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and duties - Chapter 40B, Section 14
The regional planning and economic development district established under the provisions of section nine shall have the following powers and duties: (a) to adopt a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Executive officers; committees; meetings; rules and records; expenses - Chapter 40B, Section 15
The commission shall elect annually at its meeting held in the month of June by and from its members a chairman, a vice-chairman, a secretary...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Executive director; employees; tenure; compensation - Chapter 40B, Section 16
The commission shall employ, and may remove, an executive director, who shall be qualified by education, training and experience in economic development, regional and program...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Contracts; expenditures and obligations - Chapter 40B, Section 17
The commission is authorized to enter into contracts and agreements with any department, agency or subdivision of federal or state government and any individual, corporation,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Estimate of costs; fiscal year; assessment; limitation; payment; reserve funds; audit - Chapter 40B, Section 18
The commission so established shall not later than fifty days from the issuance of a certificate of organization by the state secretary prepare an estimate...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Data exchange between agencies - Chapter 40B, Section 19
There shall be a mutual exchange between the commission and all agencies of the commonwealth and of each political subdivision thereof within the district, of...
Low and Moderate Income Housing.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 40B, Section 20
The following words, wherever used in this section and in sections twenty-one to twenty-three, inclusive, shall, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Low or moderate income housing; applications for approval of proposed construction; hearing; appeal - Chapter 40B, Section 21
Any public agency or limited dividend or nonprofit organization proposing to build low or moderate income housing may submit to the board of appeals, established...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Appeal to housing appeals committee; procedure; judicial review - Chapter 40B, Section 22
Whenever an application filed under the provisions of section twenty-one is denied, or is granted with such conditions and requirements as to make the building...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Hearing by housing appeals committee; issues; powers of disposition; orders; enforcement - Chapter 40B, Section 23
The hearing by the housing appeals committee in the department of housing and community development shall be limited to the issue of whether, in the...
Metropolitan Area Planning District.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Metropolitan area planning council; composition; appointments; vacancies - Chapter 40B, Section 24
There shall be a metropolitan area planning council, in this section and in sections twenty-five to twenty-nine, inclusive, called the council. Said council shall consist...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Council; officers; meetings; rules of procedure; report; treasurer's bond; powers and duties - Chapter 40B, Section 25
The council shall elect annually by and from its members a president, vice-president, secretary and a treasurer, each of whom shall hold his office until...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment; composition - Chapter 40B, Section 26
There is hereby established a metropolitan area planning district, in this section and sections twenty-seven to twenty-nine, inclusive, called the district, consisting of the following...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Mutual exchange of data, etc. between council and other governmental agencies - Chapter 40B, Section 27
There shall be a mutual exchange, between the council and all offices, boards, commissions, departments, divisions and agencies of the commonwealth, and all offices, boards,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Executive committee of council; composition; powers and duties; executive director; staff; technical advisory committees - Chapter 40B, Section 28
There shall be an executive committee which shall be composed of a chairman, who shall be the president of the council, a vice-chairman, who shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Inter-agency agreements; expenditures; assessments; gifts, grants, etc.; fund - Chapter 40B, Section 29
The council is authorized to enter into contracts and agreements with any department, agency or subdivision of the federal or state government and any individual,...
Last modified: March 17, 2010
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