If the city council or town meeting so votes a commission established hereunder shall have the powers and duties of an historical commission as provided in section eight D of chapter forty and, in this event, a commission may be entitled an historical commission.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 40C, § 14
Powers and duties of commissions established as historical commissions
Known as the Historic Districts Act
The act spans §§ 40C-1 to 40C-9 (18 sections).
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