General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 161B Transportation Facilities, Highway Systems and Urban Development Plans
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 161B, Section 1
Wherever used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the following words or terms shall have the following meanings: “Authority”, an authority established by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Transit authorities authorized; territories; powers, duties and liabilities - Chapter 161B, Section 2
The territory within and the inhabitants of each of the following groups of cities and towns may, upon compliance with section fourteen, become a body...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Creation of regional transit authorities; name; notice to governor; appointment of administrator; powers, duties, etc.; joinder of contiguous territory - Chapter 161B, Section 3
Any city or town, or group or combination of cities or towns, other than a city or town included in the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Administrator; appointment; tenure; salary; bond - Chapter 161B, Section 4
The affairs of an authority shall be managed by an administrator who shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the advisory board...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Advisory board; members; vote; executive committee; meetings; expenses - Chapter 161B, Section 5
There shall be an advisory board to each authority consisting of the city manager, in the case of a Plan D or Plan E city,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Powers of authority - Chapter 161B, Section 6
In addition to all power otherwise granted to an authority by law, the authority shall have the following powers, in each case to be exercised...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Separate units of mass transportation facilities and equipment; authorization; unit lease arrangements; financing; bonds - Chapter 161B, Section 7
In addition to the powers granted to the authority under section six and all other powers granted by law, the authority shall have the power...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Limitations, conditions, obligations and duties of authority - Chapter 161B, Section 8
An authority shall be subject to the following limitations, conditions, obligations and duties:-- (a) The authority shall have the duty to develop, finance and contract for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Payment of net cost of service by state; assessment upon cities and towns in territory of transit authority - Chapter 161B, Section 9
If in any year the commonwealth shall be called upon to pay any amount on account of the net cost of service of any regional...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority; assessment upon member cities and towns - Chapter 161B, Section 9A
If in any year the commonwealth shall be called upon to pay any amount on account of the net cost of service of the Cape...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Year with net cost of service; payment by state; financing; notes; assessments on cities and towns constituting authority; year with excess; disposition of funds - Chapter 161B, Section 10
If as of the last day of June in any year there was any net cost of service, an authority shall notify the state treasurer...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2002, 184, Sec. 107 - Chapter 161B, Section 11
Repealed, 2002, 184, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Audit; report; provision of copies to committee chairs - Chapter 161B, Section 12
The state auditor shall biennially make an audit of the accounts of each authority and make a report thereon to the secretary, the governor and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Exemptions from taxation and license fees - Chapter 161B, Section 13
An authority and all its real and personal property shall be exempt from taxation and from betterments and special assessments; and an authority shall not...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment of authorities by vote of advisory board; nonparticipation by city or town; later joining - Chapter 161B, Section 14
An authority described in section two of this chapter shall be deemed to be established (a) after twenty per cent of the votes on the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - City or town assessed for net cost of service; ballot question upon continuation of membership; votes - Chapter 161B, Section 15
Any city or town which is a member of an authority may place upon the official ballot at any biennial or regular or special city...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Conflict of regulatory powers; resolution by department of telecommunications and energy - Chapter 161B, Section 16
In the event of any conflict between the regulatory powers and duties of the department of telecommunications and energy in respect to mass transportation service...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bonds; issuance authorized; limitations; terms; requirements; conditions; rules and regulations for assistance to private companies; disbursement of proceeds - Chapter 161B, Section 17
An authority is hereby authorized to provide by resolution at one time or from time to time for the issue of bonds of the authority...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Trust agreement to secure bonds - Chapter 161B, Section 18
In the discretion of the authority such bonds shall be secured by a trust agreement by and between the authority and a corporate trustee, which...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bonds issued under this chapter; authorized investments; use for legal deposits - Chapter 161B, Section 19
Bonds issued under this chapter are hereby made securities in which all public officers and public bodies of the commonwealth and its political subdivisions, all...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rights of bondholders and trustee; enforcement proceedings - Chapter 161B, Section 20
Any holder of bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter or of any of the coupons appertaining thereto, and the trustee under the trust...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Interest bearing or discounted notes and bond anticipation notes authorized; limitations; disposition of proceeds; payment - Chapter 161B, Section 21
An authority is authorized to provide by resolution at one time or from time to time for the issue of interest bearing or discounted notes...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Federal assistance - Chapter 161B, Section 22
Each authority is authorized and directed from time to time to take all necessary action to secure any federal assistance which is or may become...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Contract assistance - Chapter 161B, Section 23
The commonwealth, acting by and through the executive office for administration and finance, may enter into contract or contracts with the authorities created pursuant to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Application of other laws - Chapter 161B, Section 24
Section ten of chapter forty A, sections twenty-eight, fifty-nine to sixty-four, inclusive, eighty-three to eighty-five, inclusive, and ninety-two to one hundred and four, inclusive, of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Direct operation of mass transportation service - Chapter 161B, Section 25
Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to authorize or permit any authority established by this chapter to directly operate any mass transportation service.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Stabilization fund. - Chapter 161B, Section 26
Section 26. The regional transit authorities shall establish a stabilization fund into which the authorities shall deposit revenues in excess of expenditures. Said stabilization fund shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Regional transit authority council - Chapter 161B, Section 27
There shall be a regional transit authority council for the purposes of coordination and sharing information and best practices in matters of security and public...
Last modified: September 11, 2015