The purpose of this chapter is to promote the educational, cultural, economic and general welfare of the public through the preservation and protection of the distinctive characteristics of buildings and places significant in the history of the commonwealth and its cities and towns or their architecture, and through the maintenance and improvement of settings for such buildings and places and the encouragement of design compatible therewith.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 40C, § 2
Purpose
Known as the Historic Districts Act
The act spans §§ 40–40 (18 sections).
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