The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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PETITION OF:
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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PETITION OF:
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In the Year Two Thousand and Eight.
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An Act Relative to Certain Affordable Housing In the City of Boston |
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
SECTION 1. Construction and development activity related to redevelopment by the Boston Housing Authority of the federally funded Washington Beech public housing project or any part thereof shall not be subject to any general or special law related to the procurement and award of contracts for the construction, reconstruction, installation, demolition, maintenance, or repair of buildings by a public agency but shall be subject to sections 2 G to 27 H, inclusive of chapter 149 of the General Laws. Contracts for the construction, reconstruction, alteration, remodeling or repair of any publicly owned public works that service this project that would be subject to section 39 M of chapter 30 of the General Laws shall be subject to said section 39 M if the redevelopment of the project is funded in part by a state or federal low income housing credit grant or loan or pursuant to the issuance of tax exempt bonds authorized by the General Laws. Any conveyance of the project, whether by leasehold or fee estate to an urban redevelopment corporation organized under chapter 121 A of the General Laws or to a nonprofit state and federally tax exempt corporation organized for the purpose of revitalizing the project shall be subject to chapter 30B of the General Laws to the extent that the project is conveyed to an entity that is not owned, controlled or managed by the Boston Housing Authority on the date of the conveyance.
SECTION 2. This act shall take affect upon its passage.