Massachusetts Statutes

Section 16. The secretary shall promulgate rules and regulations to implement this chapter.

Section 2. As used in this chapter, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— ''Governing body'', in a city having a Plan D or Plan E charter the city manager and the city council and in any other city the mayor and ci…

Section 3. (a) A governing body seeking designation of a priority development site shall file a formal proposal with the permit regulatory office. If the proposal includes an intention to develop housing within the priority development site, the governing body shall provide a cop…

Section 4. Within 120 days of the acceptance of this chapter the governing body shall implement the following: (a) appoint a single point of contact to serve as the primary municipal liaison for all issues relating to this chapter; (b) amend rules and regulations on permit issuan…

Section 5. (a) Priority development permit reviews and final decisions shall be completed within 180 days subject to the extension herein. The time period shall begin the day after the issuance of the notice that the application materials are complete pursuant to clause (e) of se…

Section 6. (a) In accordance with this chapter, the governing body may establish an informal procedure to allow permit applicants to obtain advisory review by a technical review team of any issue of law, policy, procedure, or classification that the applicant claims is in dispute…

Section 7. Failure by any issuing authority to take final action on a permit or approval within the 180–day period or extended time, if applicable, shall be considered a grant of the relief requested of that authority. In that event, within 14 days after the date of expiration of…

Section 8. The grant shall not occur where: (1) the governing body has made a timely determination that the application is not complete in accordance with its requirements and notified the applicant as set forth herein and the applicant has not made a timely response to complete …

Section 9. The 180 day time period may be waived or extended for good cause upon written request of the applicant with the consent of the governing body or upon written request of the issuing authority with the consent of the applicant. The 180–day period may be extended for up t…

Section 1. As used in this chapter, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— ''Growth district'', a district designated from time to time by the secretary of economic development, with the approval of the secretary of…

Section 2. (a) Issuing authorities shall complete permit reviews and final decisions within 180 days, or 210 days for permit processes requiring a public comment period, subject to an extension under section 5, for projects that are in: (i) priority development sites designated u…

Section 3. Failure by any issuing authority to take final action on a permit or approval within the 180–day or 210–day period or extended time, if applicable, shall be considered a grant of the permit requested of that authority. In that event, within 3 days after the date of exp…

Section 4. The grant shall not occur if: (1) the issuing authority has made a timely determination that the application is not complete in accordance with its requirements, properly notified the applicant and the applicant has not made a timely response to complete the applicatio…

Section 5. The 180 or 210 day time period may be waived or extended for good cause upon written request of the applicant with the consent of the issuing authority or upon written request of the issuing authority with the consent of the applicant. The 180 or 210 day time period sh…

Section 6. The commencement of the time period for an administrative or judicial appeal of a grant under section 3 shall be the date the applicant files notice of the grant under said section 3. The 180 or 210 day timeline shall not apply to an administrative appeal following the…

Section 7. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to alter the substantive jurisdictional authority of issuing authorities. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to modify any requirement of the State Implementation Plan or other requirement of law that is necessary to r…

Section 8. The secretary of economic development shall promulgate rules and regulations to implement this chapter with the approval of the secretary of energy and environmental affairs and the secretary of housing and livable communities. Any agency issuing permits under this cha…

Section 1. In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the following words shall have the following meanings: ''Revenue'', receipts from (1) the exercise of governmental power of taxation and police control; (2) donations, gifts, grants and subvention for governmental…

Section 10. Except as otherwise provided by law, a city or town shall not authorize indebtedness to an amount exceeding 5 per cent of the equalized valuation of the city or town. A city or town may authorize indebtedness in excess of 5 per cent but not in excess of 10 per cent, o…

Section 11. Cities, towns and districts may pay or provide for the payment of any debt at an earlier period than is required by this chapter or may appropriate money for the purchase and cancellation of outstanding indebtedness, and shall not refund any debt except as provided in…

Section 14. Nothing in this chapter shall exempt a city or town from its liability to pay debts contracted for purposes for which it may lawfully expend money.

Section 15. Cities, towns and districts authorized by special acts to incur debt shall not be exempt from liability to pay debts contracted for the purposes for which they may lawfully expend money under such acts, notwithstanding that the amount of the annual payment and the per…

Section 16. A city, town or district which has authorized a debt to be incurred within the limitations, as to amount and time of payment, prescribed by this chapter may issue therefor bonds or notes, or, in the case of a city, certificates of indebtedness, all of which shall be p…

Section 16A. Any officer authorized to sign bonds or notes of a city, town or district may execute such bonds or notes or cause them to be executed by a facsimile signature in lieu of his manual signature, provided that at least one signature required or permitted to be placed th…

Section 16B. The engraved or printed facsimile of a city, town or district seal on a bond, note or certificate of indebtedness of such municipality shall have the same legal effect as though such seal were impressed thereon.

Section 17. If a city, town or district votes to issue bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness in accordance with law, the officers authorized to issue the same may, in the name of such city, town or district, make a temporary loan for a period of not more than 2 years in an…

Section 18. Notes issued under section four, five, five A, five B, six, six A or seventeen may be sold at such discount as the treasurer or other officer authorized to sell the same may, with the approval of the officer or officers whose counter-signature is required on said note…

Section 19. Cities, towns and districts shall not issue any notes payable on demand, but shall provide for the payment of all debts, except temporary loans incurred under sections 4, 6, 6A, 8C, and 17 or under section 3 of chapter 74 of the acts of 1945, by annual payments that w…

Section 19A. If it appears to the treasurer of a city, town or district, including a regional school district, that the city, town or district is, or is likely to be, unable to pay in whole or in part the principal or interest, or both, on any of its bonds, notes or certificates …

Section 2. Except as otherwise expressly permitted by law, cities, towns and districts shall incur debts only in the manner of voting and within the limitations as to amount and time of payment prescribed in this chapter; but this section shall not be construed as prohibiting any…

Section 20. The proceeds of any sale of bonds or notes shall be used only for the purposes specified in the authorization of the loan; provided, however, that such proceeds may also be used for costs of preparing, issuing and marketing the bonds or notes, except as otherwise auth…

Section 20A. Cities, towns and districts that have duly authorized the issuance of serial bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness may make expenditures for the purposes for which such serial bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness were authorized from any available reve…

Section 21. An officer of a city, town or district authorized to issue bonds or notes may provide that the bonds or notes of any issue may be called and redeemed, in whole or in part, prior to their maturity dates, at such price and under such terms and conditions as said officer…

Section 21A. The city council of a city, the board of selectmen of a town and the prudential committee, if any, otherwise, the commissioners of a district, may authorize and provide for the issuance of refunding bonds or notes of the city, town or district for the purpose of payi…

Section 21B. The city council of a city, and in the case of a city having a city manager and in the case of other cities, with the approval of the mayor the board of selectmen of a town, the school committee of a regional school district and the prudential committee, if any, othe…

Section 21C. A city, town or district may by a two-thirds vote of its legislative body, if recommended by its chief executive officer, authorize any department of the city, town or district to enter into a lease purchase financing agreement to acquire equipment or improve a capit…

Section 22. All bonds, notes and other securities issued by cities or towns shall bear such rate or rates of interest as may be fixed by the city or town treasurer, with the approval of the mayor or selectmen, notwithstanding any general or special provision of law enacted prior …

Section 22A. Bonds or notes issued by a city may be secured in whole or in part by insurance or by letters or lines of credit or other credit facilities upon a two-thirds vote of the city council with the approval of the mayor. Any such insurance, letter or line of credit or cred…

Section 22B. Any official statement prepared in connection with the sale of any bonds or notes of a city, town or district and all advertising of such bonds and notes, the interest on which is excludable from gross income for federal income tax purposes under the provisions of se…

Section 22C. Bonds or notes issued by a town or district may be secured in whole or in part by insurance or by letters or lines of credit or other credit facilities upon a two-thirds vote of the board of selectmen of the town or a two-thirds vote of the prudential committee, if a…

Section 23. The director shall furnish to the treasurer of every city, town and district, forms for the issue of notes for money borrowed by the city, town or district. Every such note shall contain blanks for insertion of the amount thereof, the date of issue, which shall be con…

Section 24. When a city, town or district votes to borrow money otherwise than by the issue of bonds, the treasurer thereof may make notes for the amount of the proposed loan, and may use one or more, in serial order, of the forms provided for in section twenty-three, with the bl…

Section 24A. City, town and district notes may be made payable to ''bearer'', and when so issued section twenty-four may be construed by the director as being properly complied with in so far as it relates to the proper filling in of any space provided for the name of the purchas…

Section 27. The certification of city, town or district notes by the director shall be prima facie evidence of the liability of such city, town or district therefor.

Section 27A. The provisions of sections twenty-three to twenty-seven, inclusive, shall be deemed to provide an additional and alternative means of carrying out the purposes thereof and shall not effect the power of cities, towns and districts to issue notes under and subject to o…

Section 28. Whenever a city, town or district votes to authorize the incurrence of indebtedness, the city, town or district clerk, as the case may be, shall, within forty-eight hours after the vote becomes effective, furnish to the director a copy thereof; and whenever a loan is …