SENATE DOCKET, NO. 1203        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 652

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act Empowering Zoning Boards of Appeals.

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. Chapter 40B of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting, after section 21, the following new section:- 

Section 21A. All low or moderate income housing constructed under a comprehensive permit must remain affordable in perpetuity.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect on July 1, 2009.