SENATE DOCKET, NO. 581        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 771

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to affordable housing use restrictions..

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: Section 21 of chapter 40B of the Massachusetts General laws is hereby amended by adding the following paragraph:-

All low and moderate income housing units built using a comprehensive permit must include a use restriction that remains in effect in perpetuity. Local boards shall have the sole discretion to waive this clause provided that it is replaced with a use restriction that remains in effect for a minimum of 30 years.