Massachusetts Statutes

Section 14. (a) Once effective, the compact shall continue in force and remain binding upon each compacting state but a compacting state may withdraw from the compact by repealing the statute which enacted the compact into law in such state. (b) The effective date of withdrawal s…

Section 15. (a) If the interstate commission determines that any compacting state has at any time defaulted in the performance of any of its obligations or responsibilities under this compact, or the by-laws or duly adopted rules, the interstate commission may impose any or all o…

Section 16. The interstate commission may, by majority vote of the members, initiate legal action in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia or, at the discretion of the interstate commission, in the federal district wherein the interstate commission offices…

Section 17. (a) The compact shall dissolve effective on the date of the withdrawal or default of the compacting state, which reduces membership in the compact to 1 compacting state. (b) Upon the dissolution of this compact, the compact shall become null and void and shall be of n…

Section 18. (a) The provisions of this compact shall be severable and, if any phrase, clause, sentence or provision is deemed unenforceable, the remaining provisions of the compact shall be enforceable. (b) The provisions of this compact shall be liberally construed to effectuate…

Section 19. (a) Nothing in this compact shall prevent the enforcement of any other law of a compacting state that is not inconsistent with this compact. (b) All compacting states' laws other than state constitutions and other interstate compacts conflicting with this compact are …

Section 2. As used in this chapter the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly requires otherwise: ''By-laws'', those by-laws established by the interstate commission for its governance or for directing or controlling its actions or conduct. '…

Section 20. (a) All lawful actions of the interstate commission, including all rules and by-laws adopted by the interstate commission, shall be binding upon the compacting states. (b) All agreements between the interstate commission and the compacting states shall be binding in a…

Section 3. (a) The compacting states hereby create the interstate commission for juveniles. The commission shall be a body corporate and joint agency of the compacting states. The commission shall have all the responsibilities, powers and duties set forth herein, and such additio…

Section 4. The commission shall have the following powers and duties: (1) to provide for dispute resolution among compacting states; (2) to promulgate rules to effect the purposes and obligations as enumerated in this compact, which shall have the force and effect of statutory la…

Section 5. The interstate commission shall, by a majority of the members present and voting, within 12 months after the first interstate commission meeting, adopt by-laws to govern its conduct as may be necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of the compact including, …

Section 6. (a) The interstate commission shall, by a majority of the members, elect annually from among its members a chairperson and a vice chairperson, each of whom shall have such authority and duties as may be specified in the by-laws. The chairperson or, in the chairperson's…

Section 7. (a) The commission's executive director and employees shall be immune from suit and liability, either personally or in their official capacity, for any claim for damage to or loss of property or personal injury or other civil liability caused or arising out of or relat…

Section 8. (a) The interstate commission shall promulgate and publish rules in order to effectively and efficiently achieve the purposes of the compact. (b) Rulemaking shall occur pursuant to the criteria set forth in this section and the by-laws and rules adopted pursuant theret…

Section 9. (a) The interstate commission shall oversee the administration and operations of the interstate movement of juveniles subject to this compact in the compacting states and shall monitor such activities being administered in non-compacting states which may significantly …

Section 1. Unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context, the following terms, wherever used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings:— ''Blighted open area'', a predominantly open area which is detrimental to the safety, health, morals, welfare or sound g…

Section 10. For a period of fifteen years after the organization of any such corporation, such corporation and all its real and personal property, including all real and personal property leased by it from a housing authority or from a redevelopment authority or from a city or to…

Section 11. Any corporation authorized to undertake or acquire projects under this chapter may lease land or interests in land, including air rights, or may acquire such land or interests therein, including air rights, in fee, by gift, purchase or exchange or with approval of the…

Section 12. Any such corporation shall have power to receive loans and grants from the federal government or any agency or instrumentality thereof or from any other source, public or private, or to act as agent of or to co-operate with the federal government or any agency or inst…

Section 13. Any such corporation may apply to the housing board for leave to change the type and character of the buildings on a project. The housing board may approve such application, unless in its opinion the proposed change is a fundamental one, in which case the provisions o…

Section 14. Any such corporation, in accordance with the provisions of section six, may enter into a contract with the city or town in which its project has been authorized, or with the appropriate board or officer of such city or town, and any such city or town or such board or …

Section 15. Should the gross receipts of any such corporation from the operation of a project undertaken by it under authority of this chapter, in any year exceed (1) operating and maintenance expenses together with such reserves as are necessary to create a fund to replace furni…

Section 16. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, if a corporation organized under section three has carried out its obligations and performed its duties as imposed by this chapter for fifteen years from the date of its organization and for such further time any p…

Section 16A. If an action is brought or if proceedings are undertaken for the foreclosure of a mortgage or lien upon a project or upon any severable portion thereof, or for the termination of the corporation's leasehold or other interest in the same, or if in order to avert such …

Section 18. An insurance company incorporated under the laws of the commonwealth or authorized to transact business in the commonwealth, instead of investing its funds in the stocks, bonds and other securities of a corporation organized under section three, or otherwise investing…

Section 18A. A savings bank or co-operative bank incorporated in this commonwealth, subject to such regulations as the commissioner of banks deems necessary or advisable, may, either alone or in conjunction with one or more other savings banks, co-operative banks, or savings bank…

Section 18B. Three or more persons may associate themselves by written agreement of association, in a form furnished or approved by the commissioner of revenue, with intent to form a corporation for the purpose of acquiring a project which has been authorized and approved and whi…

Section 18C. Individuals, and associations of persons organized in the commonwealth in the form of joint ventures, partnerships, limited partnerships or trusts, resident or organized in the commonwealth, or charitable corporations organized under chapter one hundred and eighty, m…

Section 18D. For the purposes of this section, it is hereby declared the public policy of the commonwealth to permit the creation of condominiums within project areas by corporations authorized to undertake projects under this chapter as an additional means of development of prop…

Section 19. The provisions of this chapter are hereby declared to be severable, and if any such provision, or the application of any such provision to any person or circumstance shall be held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such invalidity or unconstitutionality shall not be c…

Section 2. It is hereby declared that blighted open, decadent or sub-standard areas exist in certain cities and towns in this commonwealth, and that each of such areas constitutes a serious and growing menace, injurious and inimical to the safety, health, morals and welfare of th…

Section 3. Three or more persons may associate themselves by written agreement of association in a form furnished or approved by the commissioner of corporations and taxation with intent to form a corporation for the purpose of undertaking and carrying out in the city of Boston a…

Section 4. The housing board in consultation with the secretary of economic development, may make, and from time to time amend, reasonable rules and regulations in regard to the procedure for securing the approval of projects under this chapter and for the financing, construction…

Section 5. The persons who have executed an agreement of association under section three with intent to form a corporation for the purpose of undertaking and carrying out a project in a city, other than Boston and Springfield, or in a town shall, before presenting the agreement o…

Section 6. Whenever the housing board is asked to approve a project under this chapter, it shall transmit the application to the mayor of the city or the selectmen of the town in which the proposed project is to be located. The mayor or the selectmen, as the case may be, shall fo…

Section 6A. As soon as any such corporation determines to carry out a project approved by the housing board, such corporation and the city in which its project has been authorized, acting by its city manager or, if there is no such official, its mayor, or the town in which its pr…

Section 6B. The planning board shall give notice of each public hearing required by section six by publishing a notice in a newspaper of general circulation in the city or town in which the project is to be located once in each of two successive weeks, the first publication to be…

Section 6C. Any person aggrieved by the disapproval of a project by a hearing authority, or by disapproval of a project by the mayor or the selectmen or by the approval or disapproval of a project by the housing board, or by the failure of any of them to act within the time requi…

Section 7. No more than such proportion of the estimated cost of a project, not exceeding ninety per cent thereof, as the housing board will approve, shall be raised by borrowing the same, and the remainder of such estimated cost and such additional capital as the housing board h…

Section 7A. A corporation organized under section three or an insurance company or a group of insurance companies or a savings bank or group of savings banks operating under this chapter may purchase or lease from a housing authority, redevelopment authority, municipality or othe…

Section 8. The construction of all buildings upon a project shall be inspected by competent persons chosen by the housing board to the extent necessary to make certain that such construction is in conformity with the application as approved. Every such corporation shall be deemed…

Section 9. Except as provided in section sixteen, the stockholders of every such corporation shall be deemed, when they subscribe to and receive the stock thereof, to have agreed that they shall at no time receive or accept from the corporation, in repayment of their investment i…

Section 1. The following words, whenever used in this chapter shall, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context, have the following meanings:— ''Acquisition cost'', the amount prudently required to be expended by an operating agency in acquiring a housing or clea…

Section 10. Unless otherwise particularly provided in sections fifty-eight and fifty-nine the operating agencies having the powers and subject to the limitations provided in sections fifty-eight and fifty-nine of this chapter shall be either housing authorities or urban renewal a…

Section 11. Each operating agency shall have the powers and be subject to the limitations provided in sections one to sixteen, inclusive, shall have the powers necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate the purposes of the relevant provisions of the General Laws and shal…

Section 12. Each contractor with an operating agency and each subcontractor shall comply with the applicable requirements of chapter one hundred and forty-nine as to wages and hours of labor and any other conditions relating to employment. The attorney general shall enforce this …