The Community Preservation Act has been amended seven times since being signed into law in September of 2000. Click on the links below for details on each amendment.
Chapter 139, sections 69-83 of the Acts of 2012, An Act to Sustain Community Preservation: Added an additional $25 million for the statewide CPA Trust Fund in FY 2013; expanded flexibility for recreational projects; added an optional $100,000 exemption for commercial and industrial property; made numerous other technical and clarifying amendments.
Chapter 182 of the Acts of 2008: Clarified procedure for collecting the CPA surcharge at the Registries of Deeds.
Chapter 393 of the Acts of 2006: Provided a mechanism for granting CPA exemptions to members of cooperative corporations.
Chapter 289 of the Acts of 2006: Added "acquisition" of community housing as a CPA allowable use.
Chapter 38 of the Acts of 2006: Added "documents" and "artifacts" to the definition of historic resources in Section 2 of the CPA legislation.
Chapter 491, section 2 of the Acts of 2004: Authorized communities to appropriate CPA funds to an affordable housing trust fund (see page 3).
Chapter 46, section 38 of the Acts of 2003: Clarified that CPA acquisitions of real property interests are exempt from Chapter 30B procurement laws; provided procedures by which the value of CPA acquisitions is established (see page 35).
Chapter 165 of the Acts of 2002: Clarified that CPA funds may be used to rehabilitate historic resources.
