Massachusetts General Laws
Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts
Chapter 40b - Regional Planning

Section 1 - Title of Chapter - Section 1. This chapter shall be designated and may be...

Section 2 - Purpose of Chapter - Section 2. The purpose of this chapter is to permit...

Section 2a - Regional or District Groupings; Consent to Placement - Section 2A. No state agency shall place a city or...

Section 3 - Planning Districts; Establishment; New Members; Jurisdiction Area; Rights and Liabilities - Section 3. Any group of cities, towns, or cities and...

Section 4 - District Planning Commissions; Membership; Employees; Meetings - Section 4. In each planning district so established there shall...

Section 4a - Executive Committees; Establishment; Membership; Powers and Duties; Reports - Section 4A. Upon a two-thirds vote of all of the...

Section 4b - Seals Authorized - Section 4B. Each planning district may have a seal consisting...

Section 4c - Federal Military Installations Within Districts; Commanding Officer as Ex Officio Member of Commission - Section 4C. Whenever there is located, wholly or partially, within...

Section 5 - Powers and Duties; Reports - Section 5. A planning commission established hereunder shall make careful...

Section 5a - Agreement for Water Favorability Studies - Section 5A. Such commission may enter into an agreement with...

Section 5b - Economic Development Regional Commissions; Authorization to Act - Section 5B. A district planning commission may, by an affirmative...

Section 6 - Cooperation of State Agencies With Planning Commissions - Section 6. The several officers, boards, commissions, departments and divisions...

Section 7 - Preparation of Budget; Apportionment of Costs; Disbursement of Funds; Receipt of Gifts; Contracts for Planning Studies and Services - Section 7. Said commission shall, annually in the month of...

Section 8 - Borrowing in Anticipation of Revenue From Member Municipalities - Section 8. The district may authorize debt by a majority...

Section 9 - Southeastern Regional Planning and Economic Development District; Establishment - Section 9. The director of economic development may establish a...

Section 10 - Membership; Termination - Section 10. Upon the designation of the regional planning and...

Section 11 - Dissolution of Regional Planning Districts; Transitional Provisions; Procedure - Section 11. If the district boundary of the regional planning...

Section 12 - Commission; Membership; Appointment; Term - Section 12. In the regional planning and economic development district...

Section 13 - Advisory Committee; Membership; Appointment; Term; Removal; Vacancies - Section 13. Twenty-one persons residing within the district shall be...

Section 14 - Powers and Duties - Section 14. The regional planning and economic development district established...

Section 15 - Executive Officers; Committees; Meetings; Rules and Records; Expenses - Section 15. The commission shall elect annually at its meeting...

Section 16 - Executive Director; Employees; Tenure; Compensation - Section 16. The commission shall employ, and may remove, an...

Section 17 - Contracts; Expenditures and Obligations - Section 17. The commission is authorized to enter into contracts...

Section 18 - Estimate of Costs; Fiscal Year; Assessment; Limitation; Payment; Reserve Funds; Audit - Section 18. The commission so established shall not later than...

Section 19 - Data Exchange Between Agencies - Section 19. There shall be a mutual exchange between the...

Section 20 - Definitions - Section 20. The following words, wherever used in this section...

Section 21 - Low or Moderate Income Housing; Applications for Approval of Proposed Construction; Hearing; Appeal - Section 21. Any public agency or limited dividend or nonprofit...

Section 22 - Appeal to Housing Appeals Committee; Procedure; Judicial Review - Section 22. Whenever an application filed under the provisions of...

Section 23 - Hearing by Housing Appeals Committee; Issues; Powers of Disposition; Orders; Enforcement - Section 23. The hearing by the housing appeals committee in...

Section 24 - Metropolitan Area Planning Council; Composition; Appointments; Vacancies - Section 24. There shall be a metropolitan area planning council,...

Section 25 - Council; Officers; Meetings; Rules of Procedure; Report; Treasurer's Bond; Powers and Duties - Section 25. The council shall elect annually by and from...

Section 26 - Establishment; Composition - Section 26. There is hereby established a metropolitan area planning...

Section 27 - Mutual Exchange of Data, Etc. Between Council and Other Governmental Agencies - Section 27. There shall be a mutual exchange, between the...

Section 28 - Executive Committee of Council; Composition; Powers and Duties; Executive Director; Staff; Technical Advisory Committees - Section 28. There shall be an executive committee which shall...

Section 29 - Inter-Agency Agreements; Expenditures; Assessments; Gifts, Grants, etc.; Fund - Section 29. The council is authorized to enter into contracts...

Section 30 - Technical Assistance Center; Permitting Model; Evaluations and Reporting; Regional Planning Districts to Assist Municipalities - Section 30. (a) There shall be within each regional planning...