Massachusetts General Laws
Title XVII - Public Welfare
Chapter 121b - Housing and Urban Renewal

Section 5 - Housing and Redevelopment Authorities; Membership; Appointment; Election; Term of Office - Section 5. Every housing and redevelopment authority shall be managed,...

Section 5a - Waiver of Requirement to Appoint Tenant Member to Housing Authority Board - Section 5A. A housing authority may request a waiver of...

Section 5b - Comprehensive Training Program for Members of a Housing or Redevelopment Authority; Technical Assistance Training for Tenant Members - Section 5B. The department shall establish and implement a comprehensive...

Section 6 - Housing and Redevelopment Authorities; Charges Against Members; Hearing; Removal; Resignation; Suspension - Section 6. The mayor or city council or board of...

Section 7 - Officers and Executive Director of Housing and Redevelopment Authorities; Compensation of Members - Section 7. A housing or redevelopment authority shall elect from...

Section 7a - Guidelines for Contracts to Be Executed by Housing Authority and Executive Director - Section 7A. The department shall promulgate guidelines for contracts to...

Section 8 - Operating Agencies; Housing Authorities - Section 8. The operating agencies having the powers and subject...

Section 9 - Urban Renewal Agencies - Section 9. The operating agencies having the powers and subject...

Section 10 - Operating Agencies; Designation of Authorities - Section 10. Unless otherwise particularly provided in sections fifty-eight and...

Section 11 - Powers of Operating Agencies - Section 11. Each operating agency shall have the powers and...

Section 12 - Operating Agencies; Wages; Labor Requirements; Social Security - Section 12. Each contractor with an operating agency and each...

Section 13 - Operating Agencies; Contract and Tort Liability; Member's Personal Liability; Relocation of Utility Facilities - Section 13. An operating agency shall be liable in contract...

Section 14 - Operating Agencies; Federal Loans; Conveyance Upon Default - Section 14. An operating agency may obligate itself, in any...

Section 15 - Operating Agencies; Bonds, Notes, Certificates; Negotiable Instruments - Section 15. The bonds, notes and certificates of indebtedness of...

Section 16 - Exemption From Taxation for Real Estate and Tangible Personal Property of Operating Agency; Revaluation or Reassessment of Real Property; Payments in Lieu of Taxes - Section 16. The real estate and tangible personal property of...

Section 17 - Liability of Commonwealth or Political Subdivisions for Debts of Housing Authority - Section 17. No bond, note or other evidence of indebtedness...

Section 18 - Preparation of Master Plans, Etc. by City or Town; Appropriation and Payment - Section 18. Whether or not an operating agency has been...

Section 19 - Initial Costs and Annual Operating Expenses of Operating Agencies; Appropriations and Payment by City - Section 19. Cities and towns may raise and appropriate money...

Section 20 - Development, Acquisition and Operating Costs; Relocation Payments; Losses; Appropriation and Payment by City - Section 20. A city or town in which an operating...

Section 21 - Indebtedness Limitation - Section 21. Indebtedness authorized under section twenty shall be outside...

Section 23 - Municipal Powers - Section 23. For the purpose of complying with the conditions...

Section 24 - Agreement to Bear Acquisition Loss - Section 24. A city or town, in which the operating...

Section 25 - Housing Programs; Statement of Emergency - Section 25. It is hereby declared that substandard and decadent...

Section 26 - Powers of a Housing Authority - Section 26. A housing authority shall have the following powers...

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 26A. The department shall have all the powers of...

Section 26b - Performance-Based Monitoring Program; Assessment Standards - Section 26B. (a) A housing authority shall participate in the...

Section 26c - Best Practices Program for Allowing Authorities to Work Collaboratively; Provisions of Program; Capital Assistance Team; Director; Members - Section 26C. (a) The department shall establish a program based...

Section 26d - Names and Contact Information of All Members and Senior Staff to Be Posted on Wall of Community Center and on Website - Section 26D. Housing authorities shall post on the wall of...

Section 27 - Rural Housing Authority; Additional Powers - Section 27. If a housing authority organized in a city...

Section 28 - Application of Laws, Ordinances, and Regulations of Cities or Towns Relating to Buildings, Planning, Zoning and Public Health - [ Text of section effective until July 18, 2021. For...

Section 28a - Annual Plan; Availability to Public for Review and Comment - Section 28A. (a) Each housing authority shall submit to the...

Section 29 - Accounts and Reports of Housing Authorities; Review of Financial Records; Availability to Public; Audit; Investigations by Department; Rules and Regulations of Department - Section 29. The members of a housing authority shall annually,...

Section 30 - Contract With Federal Government; Acquiring Federally Owned Project - Section 30. A housing authority, with the written approval of...

Section 31 - Submission of Plans for Low-Rent Housing Project to Department; Application; Hearing; Disposition - Section 31. A housing authority shall not undertake a low-rent...

Section 32 - Maintenance and Operation of Project; Rentals; Tenant Selection; Eligibility for Continued Occupancy; Hearings; Waiver - Section 32. Upon the completion or acquisition of a housing...

Section 32a - Parking Areas; Rules and Regulations; Towing - Section 32A. A housing authority may make reasonable rules and...

Section 32b - Definitions - Section 32B. As used in sections thirty-two B to thirty-two...

Section 32c - Unlawful Conduct by Tenant, Members or Non-Members of Tenant Household; Civil Action by Landlord for Injunctive or Other Equitable Relief - Section 32C. Whenever a person who is not a member...

Section 32d - Actions by Tenants or Tenants' Organizations - Section 32D. A tenant or member of a tenant household...

Section 32e - Jurisdiction Over Civil Actions; Appellate Review - Section 32E. Civil actions under section thirty-two C or thirty-two...

Section 32f - Restraining Orders and Injunctions; Form; Service; Enforcement; Violations; Effect; Modification and Vacation - Section 32F. Whenever a court, pursuant to section thirty-two C,...

Section 32g - Temporary Absences From Commonwealth; Presumption of Abandonment of Residency and Eligibility for Assistance - Section 32G. A temporary absence from the commonwealth which exceeds...

Section 33 - Equivalent Elimination of Substandard Dwelling Units - Section 33. No project for low-rent housing involving the construction...

Section 34 - State and Federal Financial Assistance; General Provisions - Section 34. The commonwealth acting by and through the department...

Section 34a - Contracts for State Financial Assistance on Leased Mhfa Projects to Provide Replacement or Relocation Housing; Annual Contributions; Limitations - Section 34A. The commonwealth, acting by and through the department,...

Section 34b - Commonwealth Guaranteed Temporary Notes; Authorization and Execution; Sale and Refunding Limitations; Terms - Section 34B. Any contract for state financial assistance entered into...

Section 35 - Contracts for Supplementary State Financial Assistance - Section 35. The commonwealth, acting by and through the department,...

Section 36 - Receipt of Loans and Grants From Federal Sources or From Other Sources - Section 36. The commonwealth shall have power to receive loans...

Section 37 - Commonwealth Grants; Guarantee of Temporary Notes; Sale, Maintenance, and Operation of Relocation Projects; Limitations on Eminent Domain - Section 37. For the purpose of avoiding, so far as...

Section 38 - Housing for the Elderly and the Handicapped; Declaration of Policy - Section 38. It is hereby declared that substandard and decadent...

Section 38a - Bureau of Housing for the Handicapped; Director; Functions - Section 38A. There shall be within the department a bureau...

Section 38b - Housing for the Elderly and the Handicapped; Service Coordinator Program - Section 38B. The department is authorized to establish a program...

Section 38c - Program to Conduct Annual Surveys of Public Housing Residents - Section 38C. The department shall establish and implement a program...

Section 38d - Regional Public Housing Innovation Program; Goals; Application for Participation in Program; Funds; Powers and Projects - Section 38D. (a)(1) As used in this section, the following...

Section 39 - Power to Provide Housing for Elderly and Handicapped Persons of Low Income; Priorities in Placement - Section 39. The housing authority of each city or town...

Section 40 - Provisions Applicable to Housing for Elderly and Handicapped Persons of Low Income - Section 40. The following provisions shall be applicable to housing...

Section 41 - State Financial Assistance; Housing for Elderly Persons of Low Income - Section 41. The commonwealth, acting by and through the department,...

Section 41a - State Financial Assistance; Housing for Handicapped Persons of Low Income - Section 41A. The commonwealth acting through and by the department,...

Section 42 - Rental Assistance Program; Declaration of Necessity - Section 42. It is hereby declared (a) that there does...

Section 43 - Contracts to Rent, Lease or Provide Financial Assistance to Housing Units by Housing Authorities - Section 43. In addition to its other powers and for...

Section 43a - Rental Assistance Program; Relocation of Residents; Leased Housing Units - Section 43A. If a person resides in a private dwelling...

Section 44 - Rental Assistance Program; Rentals and Tenant Selection - Section 44. The requirements with respect to rentals and tenant...

Section 44a - Leasing of Housing Units in Mhfa Projects for Replacement or Relocation Housing Authorized - Section 44A. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a...

Section 45 - Urban Renewal Programs Declaration of Necessity - Section 45. It is hereby declared that substandard, decadent or...

Section 46 - Powers of Urban Renewal Agency - Section 46. An urban renewal agency shall have all the...

Section 47 - Urban Renewal Programs; Acquisition by Eminent Domain; Notice; Petition - Section 47. Notwithstanding any contrary provision of this chapter, an...

Section 48 - Public Hearing; Notice; Urban Renewal Plans; Approval; Acquisition of Property - Section 48. No urban renewal project shall be undertaken until...

Section 49 - Sale or Lease of Property Acquired for Urban Renewal Project - Section 49. If an urban renewal agency shall sell or...

Section 50 - Delegation of Power to Municipality to Plan and Undertake Urban Renewal Project - Section 50. An urban renewal agency is hereby authorized to...

Section 51 - Redevelopment Authority Taking Over Project Initiated by Housing Authority - Section 51. A housing authority of a city or town...

Section 52 - Accounts and Reports of Urban Renewal Agencies; Civil Service Rules - Section 52. Each urban renewal agency shall keep an accurate...

Section 53 - Application for Urban Renewal Assistance Grant or Urban Revitalization and Development Grant - Section 53. Any city or town, acting by and through...

Section 54 - State Aid for Urban Renewal; Determination of Compliance and Final Approved Cost; Notice - Section 54. Upon receipt of an application under the provisions...

Section 55 - State Aid for Urban Renewal; Certification and Payment of Grants - Section 55. From time to time, the department shall certify...

Section 56 - State Aid for Urban Renewal; Contract to Provide Financial Assistance - Section 56. The commonwealth, acting by and through the department,...

Section 57 - State Aid for Urban Renewal; Advance of Funds; Amount; Payments - Section 57. The department may make advances of funds to...

Section 58 - Other Urban Renewal Programs; Declaration of Necessity - Section 58. It is hereby declared (a) that there exist...

Section 59 - Contracts for State Financial Assistance; Rehabilitation Projects - Section 59. The commonwealth, acting by and through the department,...

Section 60 - Housing Preservation and Stabilization Trust Fund - Section 60. (a) There shall be a Housing Preservation and...

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Massachusetts General Laws Title XVII - Public Welfare Chapter 121b - Housing and Urban Renewal

Massachusetts General Laws
Title XVII - Public Welfare
Chapter 121b - Housing and Urban Renewal