Special Acts - 1983 - Chapter 521 (LEXHab)

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SPECIAL ACTS Chapter 521 THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS In the Year One Thousand Nine Hundred and Eighty-three AN ACT ESTABLISHING A NONPROFIT HOUSING CORPORATION FOR THE TOWN OF LEXINGTON. 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. There is hereby established a nonprofit housing corporation to be known as the Lexington Housing Assistance Board, Inc. which shall be subject to the supervision of the board of selectmen of the town of Lexington. Said board shall consist of not less than five members, who shall be appointed by the board of selectmen for staggered three-year terms as designated by said board of selectmen, such appointments to be made annually by said board of selectmen on or before May thirty-first. Members shall serve until their successors are appointed and qualified. Continuing members may act despite a vacancy or vacancies in said board and for this purpose be deemed to constitute a full board. Any vacancy in said board, however occurring, may be filled by the board of selectmen for the unexpired portion of the term. Said board is hereby established and shall exercise its powers and perform its duties for the purpose of investigating and implementing alternatives for the provision of and providing affordable housing for persons of low, moderate and middle income, and others whose needs may be identified from time to time, in the town of Lexington. The powers and duties of said board as set forth herein are intended to be alternative and supplemental to, and not in limitation of, the powers and duties of the Lexington Housing Authority established pursuant to chapter one hundred and twenty-one B of the General Laws. The liability of said board and its members shall be limited to the same extent as the liability of a public employer and public employees as provided in section two of chapter two hundred and fifty-eight of the General Laws. SECTION 2. Said board shall have the powers and privileges conferred by the provisions of paragraphs (a) to (i), inclusive, and paragraph (k) of section nine of chapter one hundred and fifty- six B of the General Laws, and the following powers, provided that no such power shall be exercised either in a manner inconsistent with this act or any general or special law, or to carry on any activity which is not in furtherance of the purposes set forth in this act: (a) to adopt, amend and repeal by-laws for the regulation and conduct of its business including but not limited to the call and conduct of its meetings, the number of members which shall constitute a quorum and the mode of voting by proxy; (b) to elect a chairman and vice-chairman, each of whom shall be members of said board, and a secretary and a treasurer, who need not be members of said board, and who may be the same person. The treasurer shall give bond for the faithful performance of his duties in form and amount approved and fixed by the board of selectmen, the cost of which bond shall be paid from funds of said board. The chairman and in his absence the vice-chairman shall chair meetings of said board. The secretary shall be the custodian of A201:41 10-01-2008