CHAPTER 121B HOUSING AND URBAN RENEWAL
- Section 1 Definitions
- Section 2 Severability
- Section 3 Housing authorities; creation; dissolution
- Section 3A Regional housing authorities; creation; dissolution
- Section 4 Redevelopment authorities; creation; dissolution
- Section 5 Membership; appointment; election; term of office
- Section 6 Charges against members; hearing; removal; resignation; suspension
- Section 7 Officers and executive director of authorities; compensation of members
- Section 8 Operating agencies; housing authorities
- Section 9 Urban renewal agencies
- Section 10 Designation of authorities
- Section 11 Powers of operating agencies
- Section 12 Wages; labor requirements; social security
- Section 13 Contract and tort liability; member’s personal liability; relocation of utility facilities
- Section 14 Federal loans; conveyance upon default
- Section 15 Bonds, notes, certificates; negotiable instruments
- Section 16 Exemption from taxation; revaluation or reassessment of real property; payments in lieu of taxes
- Section 17 Liability of commonwealth or political subdivisions for debts of housing authority
- Section 18 Preparation of master plans, etc. by city or town; appropriation and payment
- Section 19 Initial costs and annual operating expenses of operating agencies; appropriations and payment by city
- Section 20 Development, acquisition and operating costs; relocation payments; losses; appropriation and payment by city
- Section 21 Indebtedness limitation
- Section 22 Emergency finance board; permission to incur indebtedness
- Section 23 Municipal powers
- Section 24 Agreement to bear acquisition loss
- Section 25 Statement of emergency
- Section 26 Powers of a housing authority
- Section 26A Powers of department in city without housing authority; financing of projects; bonds and notes; issuance and sale; approval of city or town
- Section 27 Rural housing authority; additional powers
- Section 28 Application of laws, ordinances, and regulations of cities or towns relating to buildings, planning, zoning and public health
- Section 29 Accounts and reports of housing authorities; investigations by department; rules and regulations of department
- Section 30 Contract with federal government; acquiring federally owned project
- Section 31 Submission of plans for low-rent housing project to department; application; hearing; disposition
- Section 32 Maintenance and operation of project; rentals; tenant selection; eligibility for continued occupancy; hearings; waiver
- Section 32A Parking areas; rules and regulations; towing
- Section 32B Definitions
- Section 32C Unlawful conduct by tenant, members or non-members of tenant household; civil action by landlord for injunctive or other equitable relief
- Section 32D Actions by tenants or tenants’ organizations
- Section 32E Jurisdiction over civil actions; appellate review
- Section 32F Restraining orders and injunctions; form; service; enforcement; violations; effect; modification and vacation
- Section 33 Equivalent elimination of substandard dwelling units
- Section 34 State and federal financial assistance; general provisions
- Section 34A Contracts for state financial assistance on leased MHFA projects to provide replacement or relocation housing; annual contributions; limitations
- Section 34B Commonwealth guaranteed temporary notes; authorization and execution; sale and refunding limitations; terms
- Section 35 Contracts for supplementary state financial assistance
- Section 36 Receipt of loans and grants from federal sources or from other sources
- Section 37 Commonwealth grants; guarantee of temporary notes; sale, maintenance, and operation of relocation projects; limitations on eminent domain
- Section 38 Declaration of policy
- Section 38A Bureau of housing for the handicapped; director; functions
- Section 38B Service coordinator program
- Section 39 Power to provide housing for elderly and handicapped persons of low income; priorities in placement
- Section 40 Provisions applicable to housing for elderly and handicapped persons of low income
- Section 41 State financial assistance; housing for elderly persons of low income
- Section 41A State financial assistance; housing for handicapped persons of low income
- Section 42 Declaration of necessity
- Section 43 Contracts to rent, lease or provide financial assistance to housing units by housing authorities
- Section 43A Relocation of residents; leased housing units
- Section 44 Rentals and tenant selection
- Section 44A Leasing of housing units in MHFA projects for replacement or relocation housing authorized
- Section 45 Declaration of necessity
- Section 46 Powers of urban renewal agency
- Section 47 Acquisition by eminent domain; notice; petition
- Section 48 Public hearing; notice; urban renewal plans; approval; acquisition of property
- Section 49 Sale or lease of property acquired for urban renewal project
- Section 50 Delegation of power to municipality to plan and undertake project
- Section 51 Redevelopment authority taking over project initiated by housing authority
- Section 52 Accounts and reports of urban renewal agencies; civil service rules
- Section 53 Application for urban renewal assistance grant or urban revitalization and development grant
- Section 54 Determination of compliance and final approved cost; notice
- Section 55 Certification and payment of grants
- Section 56 Contract to provide financial assistance
- Section 57 Advance of funds; amount; payments
- Section 57A Community development projects; application for grants; notice; rules and regulations
- Section 58 Declaration of necessity
- Section 59 Contracts for state financial assistance; rehabilitation projects