Massachusetts Statutes

Section 3. (a) Upon certifying and approving a zoning district as a smart growth zoning district under chapter 40R, the executive office of housing and livable communities shall provide a list of all addresses of new smart growth development within each smart growth zoning distri…

Section 4. The commissioners of revenue and education, the secretary of housing and livable communities and the registrar of motor vehicles shall annually report on the cost and effectiveness of the reimbursement program. This report shall include, but not be limited to, the numb…

Section 1. As used in this chapter, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— ''Affected municipality'', a city or town in which publicly-assisted housing is located. ''Affiliate'', an entity owned or controlled by an …

Section 10. For the purposes of sections 3 and 4, housing that qualified as publicly-assisted housing as of the effective date of this chapter shall be subject to this chapter for 4 years after the date of the last event or occurrence that constituted a termination; provided, how…

Section 2. (a) Except with respect to property subject to an affordability restriction which has less than 2 years remaining and, for which subsection (e) shall apply, the owner shall provide written notice to: (i) all tenants and the tenant organization, if any; (ii) the chief e…

Section 3. (a) An owner shall offer the department an opportunity to purchase publicly-assisted housing prior to entering into an agreement to sell such property pursuant to the time periods contained in this section, but no owner shall be under any obligation to enter into an ag…

Section 4. (a) Upon the expiration of the 90 day offer period in subsection (c) of section 3, but not later than 2 years after the date notice was provided to the department in subsection (c) of said section 2, the owner may execute a purchase contract with a third party to sell …

Section 5. An affected municipality shall not be subject to section 16 of chapter 30B.

Section 6. (a) Sections 3 and 4 shall not apply to the following: (i) a government taking by eminent domain or a negotiated purchase in lieu of eminent domain; (ii) a forced sale pursuant to a foreclosure; (iii) a deed-in-lieu-of foreclosure; (iv) a proposed sale to a purchaser p…

Section 7. For 3 years after termination, the rent for a protected low-income tenant who does not receive an enhanced section 8 voucher shall not be increased more than once annually by the increase in the consumer price index applicable to the area in which the publicly-assisted…

Section 8. A purchase by the department or by its designee pursuant to this chapter shall be subject to a regulatory agreement. A regulatory agreement shall not contain any terms that would preclude an owner or buyer from participating in, or diminishing the benefits that an owne…

Section 9. An owner who has complied with sections 2 through 4, inclusive, which has not resulted in a purchase by the department or which has resulted in a sale pursuant to section 4, may apply to the department for a certificate of compliance by submitting a written request for…

Section 1. ''Municipal hearing officer'', a person appointed by the appointing authority of a municipality to conduct hearings of alleged code violations pursuant to this chapter. ''Unpaid charge'', an unpaid fine incurred as a result of a violation of a rule, regulation, order, …

Section 10. Within 3 business days after completion of each shift, the officer or inspector shall give to his superior those copies of each notice of a violation issued during such shift. The superior shall retain and preserve 1 copy and shall, not later than the beginning of the…

Section 11. The municipality shall, by ordinance or by-law, establish a schedule of fines for violations subject to this chapter committed within the municipality; provided, however, that all such fines shall be uniform for the same offense committed in the same zone or district,…

Section 12. Where a notice of violation is issued for a code violation, the alleged violator, within 21 days, shall return the notice of violation by mail, personally or by an authorized person, to the municipal hearing officer and shall either: (1) pay in full the scheduled fine…

Section 13. Any person notified to appear before the municipal hearing officer, as provided herein may, without waiving the right to a hearing provided by this chapter and without waiving judicial review as provided in section 14 of chapter 30A, challenge the validity of the viol…

Section 14. Notwithstanding section 21D of chapter 40, a person who desires to contest a violation of any ordinance or by-law of a municipality alleged in a notice to appear, pursuant to violations issued by a municipality in accordance with said section 21D of said chapter 40, s…

Section 15. A person aggrieved by a decision of the municipal hearing officer may appeal to the district court, housing court or other court of competent jurisdiction pursuant to section 21D of chapter 40, on a form provided by the municipality, and shall be entitled to a de novo…

Section 16. Any person who has received a notice of violation issued in accordance with this chapter who, within the prescribed time, fails to pay the same or fails to request a hearing before the municipal hearing officer or who fails to appear at the time and place of the heari…

Section 17. All fines, penalties or assessments in actions under this chapter shall be paid to the general fund of the municipality.

Section 18. In a municipality that has accepted this chapter, this chapter shall supersede any local ordinances or by-laws to the contrary.

Section 2. This chapter shall take effect in a municipality upon its acceptance.

Section 3. A municipality that adopts this chapter shall, in the manner provided in this chapter adopt procedures for the payment of the municipal fines provided in this chapter and may revoke or rescind any such acceptance.

Section 4. The adoption of procedures for the payment of certain municipal fines under this chapter shall be by majority vote of the city council or town meeting.

Section 5. A municipality shall by ordinances and by-laws provide for the removal of snow and ice from sidewalks within such portions of the municipality as they consider expedient by the owner of land abutting such sidewalks. Such ordinances and by-laws shall determine the time …

Section 6. A municipality shall appoint a municipal hearing officer. The officer shall hear appeals of violation notices issued within the municipality. The municipal hearing officer may be the same person appointed as a municipal hearing officer pursuant to chapter 148A.

Section 7. A municipality may implement a system for the administrative disposition of noncriminal violations pursuant to section 21D of chapter 40.

Section 8. Every officer and inspector who takes notice of a violation of a rule, regulation, order, ordinance or by-law regulating the housing, sanitary or snow and ice removal requirement shall provide the offender with a notice forthwith, which shall be in tag form, to appear …

Section 9. The tag shall be affixed securely to the building or, for a building with an onsite professionally-managed property office, delivered to the office during normal business hours and shall contain, but shall not be limited, to: the date, time and place of the violation, …

Section 1. As used in this chapter, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— [Definition of ''Certified housing development project'' effective for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2017. See 2016, 219, Sec. …

Section 2. The department may from time to time designate 1 or more areas of a gateway municipality as an HD Zone and take any and all actions necessary or appropriate to such a designation, upon receipt of a municipal application requesting such designation and representing in i…

Section 3. Under section 5M of chapter 59, the department may approve a municipality's application for a tax exemption for a housing development project located within an approved housing development zone.

Section 4. (a) A project may be eligible to be a certified housing development project under this chapter; provided, however, that the proposed project: (i) contains 2 or more residential units; provided, however, the project may be a mixed-use development that includes commercia…

Section 5. The department may award tax credits available under subsection (q) of section 6 of chapter 62 or section 38BB of chapter 63 of not more than 25 per cent of the cost of qualified project expenditures allocable to the market rate units in a project, as determined by the…

Section 1. As used in this chapter the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:- ''Commissioner'', the commissioner of revenue. ''Elector'', a tourism destination marketing district member or the authorized representative …

Section 10. (a) Any tourism destination marketing district established or extended pursuant to this chapter may be disestablished by declaration of the local municipal governing body of the lead jurisdiction in either of the following circumstances: (i) if said local municipal go…

Section 11. (a) The validity of an assessment levied pursuant to this chapter shall not be contested in any action or proceeding unless the action or proceeding is commenced within 30 days after the formal approval of the tourism destination marketing district by the local munici…

Section 2. The rights and powers of the management entity of the tourism destination marketing district approved by a municipal governing body pursuant to section 3 shall include: (i) retaining or recruiting business; (ii) administering and managing the tourism destination market…

Section 3. (a) The organization of a tourism destination marketing district shall be initiated by a petition of the lodging business owners within the proposed tourism destination marketing district, which shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the municipality that is to s…

Section 4. (a) The municipal governing body of the lead jurisdiction shall hold a public hearing within 60 days of the receipt of a petition. Written notification of such hearing shall be sent to each tourism destination marketing district member within the boundary of the propos…

Section 5. (a) Each tourism destination marketing district shall be governed by a management entity's tourism destination marketing district committee to oversee its operations and ensure the implementation of the tourism destination marketing district plan. The management entity…

Section 6. All lodging businesses described in the petition and located within the proposed tourism destination marketing district shall be considered in the special assessment methodology for the supplemental services and programs as outlined in the tourism destination marketing…

Section 7. (a) By formal approval of a tourism destination marketing district, the municipal governing body of a lead jurisdiction shall adopt the special assessment methodology for the financing of supplemental services submitted in the tourism destination marketing district pla…

Section 8. (a) The municipal governing body of a lead jurisdiction shall notify the commissioner of its approval of a tourism destination marketing district, the rate at which the special assessment is to be imposed and the effective date of the special assessment. Such notificat…

Section 9. (a) At any time after the establishment of a tourism destination marketing district pursuant to this chapter, the tourism destination marketing district plan upon which the establishment was based may, upon the recommendation of the management entity's tourism destinat…