Section 1. Section 32 C of Chapter 121B of the Massachusetts General Laws is hereby amended by adding at the end the following text:  

Local housing authorities may prohibit access to public housing developments or remove persons from public housing developments who have undertaken the herein stated conduct by personally communicating to said person or persons by a police officer or other person in charge thereof a request to leave the premises.

Whoever knowingly, regardless of his or her intent, enters or remains in or upon the premises of a public housing development and defies an order not to enter or remain upon the premises of the public housing development or subsidized housing development that was personally communicated by a police officer or other person in charge thereof shall be subject to the penalties as stated in M.G.L. Chapter 266, Section 120.

A person who is found committing such trespass may be arrested by a sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable or police officer and kept in custody in a convenient place, not more than twenty-four hours, Sunday excepted, until a complaint can be made against him for the offence, and he be taken upon a warrant issued upon such complaint.