§ 17. Powers. 1. Subject to the limitations of this article, a company\nheretofore or hereafter organized under this chapter shall have the\npowers and be subject to the limitations contained in the business\ncorporation law or the not-for-profit corporation law, as the case may\nbe, and shall have the following additional specific powers:\n (a) To make and execute contracts and other instruments necessary or\nconvenient in the exercise of its powers;\n (b) To acquire or contract to acquire from any person, firm,\ncorporation, municipality, federal or state agency, by grant, purchase,\ncondemnation or otherwise, leaseholds, real, personal or mixed property\nor any interest therein, and to sell, assign, exchange, transfer,\nmortgage or encumber the same;\n (c) To own, hold, clear and improve, leasehold, real, personal or\nmixed property or any interest therein;\n (d) To construct, reconstruct, rehabilitate, improve, alter or repair\nor provide for the construction, reconstruction, improvement, alteration\nor repair of any project;\n (e) To lease or rent any of the housing or other accommodations or any\nof the lands, buildings, structures or facilities embraced in any\nproject and establish and revise the rents or charges therefor; or to\npurchase or lease a project or a part thereof from an authority,\npursuant to the provisions of section fifty-eight or article twelve-b of\nthis chapter.\n (f) To arrange or contract with a municipality for the planning,\nreplanning, opening, grading or closing of streets, roads, roadways,\nalleys or other places or for the furnishing of facilities or for the\nacquisition by a municipality of property or property rights or for the\nfurnishing of property or services in connection with a project;\n (g) To insure or provide for the insurance of its property or\noperations as required by law and also against such other risks as it\nmay deem advisable;\n (h) To limit by contract the exercise of any of its powers;\n (i) To invest any funds held in reserves or sinking funds, or any\nfunds not required for immediate disbursement in property or securities\nin which savings banks may legally invest funds subject to their\ncontrol;\n (j) To sue and be sued;\n (k) To have a seal and alter the same at pleasure;\n (l) To make and from time to time amend and repeal by-laws, rules and\nregulations not inconsistent with the provisions of this article;\n (m) To sell, lease, or otherwise convey all or any part of a project\nto an authority upon such terms and conditions as shall have the prior\napproval of the commissioner or the supervising agency, as the case may\nbe;\n (n) A non-profit company incorporated pursuant to the not-for-profit\ncorporation law and this article for the purpose of providing housing\nand auxiliary facilities for staff members, employees or students of any\ncollege, university, hospital, child care institution and their\nimmediate families; for aged or handicapped persons of low income or for\nany one of the above purposes, may, with the prior written consent of\nthe commissioner or the supervising agency, as the case may be, lease\nits project or any part thereof to any colleges, universities,\nhospitals, child care institutions or not-for-profit corporations. A\nlessee of a project may sublease all or any part of the project to\ninstitutions and not-for-profit corporations which would be an eligible\nsponsor pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and to staff members,\nemployees, and students of any college, university, hospital, child care\ninstitution, and to aged and handicapped persons of low income. Any\nproperty so leased or subleased shall remain subject to the provisions\nof this article and to the rules and regulations of the commissioner, or\nsupervising agency, as the case may be. A lease or sublease of the\nentire project may provide for the assumption by the lessee or sublessee\nof the management and control of the project, and all of the obligations\nt
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