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SECTION 61. Authority of Public Facilities Commission to Lease or Sell Land.
Without obtaining the consent of any board or officer other than the mayor, the public facilities commission, without further authority, may, for such rent or price and upon such terms as said commission may deem appropriate, lease or sublease or sell, grant, and convey any surplus land, as hereinafter defined, to the federal government or any agency thereof, the commonwealth or any political subdivision or authority thereof or, if notice of intent to lease or sell such land or buildings together with a statement of when and where written details of such proposed lease or sale may be examined shall first have been publicly advertised in the City Record once a week for two successive weeks, to any person, firm, corporation or trust. “Surplus land”, as used in this section, shall be deemed to mean land, buildings and real estate now or hereafter belonging to the city and in the care, custody, management and control of said commission (except parks and playgrounds) which at the time of such lease or sale are or have been used for school purposes, or which have been acquired by foreclosure of tax titles or acquired under section eighty of chapter sixty of the General Laws, or which, irrespective of the manner or time of acquisition, are not held by the city for a specific purpose, or which have been transferred to the commission by the city council.
[Acts of 1909, c. 486, s. 31, amended by Acts of 1966, c. 642, s. 12]
SECTION 62. Establishment of the Surplus Property Disposition Fund.
Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary the proceeds from the disposition of any surplus property other than that acquired through tax title foreclosure shall be deposited in a separate fund which shall be set up on the books of the city and shall be known as the Surplus Property Disposition Fund, and shall be used only as follows:
(1) The amount equivalent to the debt incurred, and interest paid or payable thereon, as a result of the acquisition or improvement from time to time of the property shall be used only for purposes for which the city is authorized to incur debt for a period of ten years or more;
(2) All proceeds in excess of such amount shall be credited to the capital fund of the city unless the city council by a majority vote determines with the approval of the mayor to credit such proceeds to the general fund of the city.
[Acts of 1909, c. 486, s. 3, amended by Acts of 1941, c. 604, s. 1, amended by Acts of 1954, c. 24, amended by Acts of 1982, c. 190, s. 24, and further amended by Acts of 1986, c. 701, s. 4]
SECTION 63. Authority of the Public Facilities Commission to Dispose of Off-Street Parking Structures.
Notwithstanding the provisions of chapter four hundred and seventy-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and forty-six or any other general or special law to the contrary, the public facilities commission of the city of Boston may dispose of any or all of the off-street parking structures, including the real estate related thereto, owned by the city of Boston, as surplus property in accordance with sections thirty-one B and thirty-one C of chapter four hundred and eighty-six of the acts of nineteen hundred and nine, only when transferred to the commission by a majority vote of the city council.
[Acts of 1909, c. 486, s. 3, amended by Acts of 1941, c. 604, s. 1, amended by Acts of 1954, c. 24, amended by Acts of 1982, c. 190, s. 24, and further amended by Acts of 1986, c. 701, s. 4]
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
SECTION 64. Loans Issued by the City.
All loans issued by the city after the passage of this act shall be made payable in annual installments in the manner authorized by section thirteen of chapter twenty-seven of the Revised Laws as amended by section one of chapter three hundred and forty-one of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and eight. No sinking fund shall be established for said loan. All bonds shall be offered for sale in such a manner that the effect of the premiums, if any, shall be to reduce the total amount of bonds issued. No city or county money shall be deposited in any bank or trust company of which any member of the board of sinking fund commissioners of said city is an officer, director, or agent.
[Acts of 1909, c. 486, s. 26]
SECTION 65. List of Department Employees.
Every officer and board in charge of a department of the city of Boston or county of Suffolk shall, on or before the sixth day of February in each year, prepare and furnish to the city auditor a list of the officials and employees under said officer or board and paid by the city or county on the first day of such February. Such list shall give the name, residence by street and ward, designation, compensation, and date of election or appointment of each of said officials and employees and the date when each first entered the employ of the city or county. It shall be the duty of the city auditor to verify said lists by the pay rolls and to keep a copy of said lists open for public inspection, and to prepare and publish in the City Record on or before the tenth day of April in each year a comparative table containing the number of such officials and employees holding office or employed in each such department or board and paid by the city or county on the compilation date in each of the ten years next preceding such publication. The term “compilation date”, as herein used, shall be construed to mean ... the first day of February.
[Acts of 1909, c. 486, s. 27, amended by Acts of 1938, c. 263, s. 1, and further amended by Acts of 1951, c. 111]
SECTION 66. Establishment of the Board of Street Commissioners.
The jurisdiction [exercised by the board of alderman prior to the passage of the Acts of 1909, c. 486] concerning the naming of streets, the planting and removal of trees in the public ways, the issue of permits or licenses for coasting, the storage of gasoline, oil, and other inflammable substances or explosive compounds and the use of the public ways for any permanent or temporary obstruction or projection in, under, or over the same, including the location of conduits, poles, and posts for telephone, telegraph, street railway, or illuminating purposes, is hereby vested in the board of street commissioners, to be exercised by said board with the approval in writing of the mayor; and the mayor and city council shall have authority to fix by ordinance the terms by way of cash payment, rent, or otherwise, upon which permits or licenses for the storage of gasoline or oil, or other inflammable substances or explosive compounds, and the construction or use of coal holes, vaults, bay windows, and marquises, in, under, or over the public ways shall be issued.
[Acts of 1909, c. 486, s. 28]
SECTION 67. Publication of City Record.
[T]here shall be published at least once a week and distributed and sold under the direction of the mayor and on terms to be fixed by the city council and approved by the mayor a paper to be known as the “City Record.” All advertising with reference to the sale of property for non-payment of taxes shall appear exclusively in the City Record. All other advertising, whether required by law or not, with reference to the purchase or taking of land, contracts for work, materials or supplies, and the sale of bonds, shall appear in said paper, and in such newspaper or newspapers as the mayor, in his discretion, may order; a list of all contracts of one thousand dollars or more, as awarded, with the names of bidders, and the amount of the bids; appointments by the mayor; and changes in the number and compensation of employees in each department, shall be published in the City Record. Failure to publish in such newspaper or newspapers as the mayor may order shall not invalidate any purchase, contract or sale made or action taken by the city. The proceedings of the city council and school committee together with all communications from the mayor shall be published in the City Record; provided, that the substance of debates by and among the members of the city council shall not be so published or published elsewhere at the expense of said city.
[Acts of 1909, c. 486, s. 29, amended by Acts of 1934, c. 185, s. 1, and further amended by Acts of 1947, c. 447, s. 1]
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