Section 94. Authorization to make subsidies  


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  • A municipality is authorized
      to make or  contract  to  make  capital  or  periodic  subsidies  to  an
      authority  operating within the territorial limits of such municipality,
      payable only with moneys locally appropriated therefor from the  general
      or  other  funds  available  for  current expenses of such municipality.
      Periodic subsidies shall not be contracted for a period longer than  the
      life  of  the  project  assisted  thereby, and in no event for more than
      fifty years. If the amount of any periodic subsidy shall be equal to  or
      greater  than  the interest on and the amounts required annually for the
      payment of the indebtedness contracted by the authority on account of  a
      project  in  any year, such contract shall constitute a guarantee of the
      principal of and the interest on such indebtedness,  and  such  contract
      and  the payments thereunder may be pledged by the authority as security
      in addition to all other security which the authority may give for  such
      indebtedness.
        A municipality may levy one or more of the taxes enumerated in section
      one  hundred  ten for the purpose of making municipal subsidies, and the
      revenues  resulting  from  the  imposition  of  such   tax   or   taxes,
      notwithstanding  the  provisions of any general, special or local law to
      the contrary, shall be deposited in the city treasury and credited to  a
      separate  account.  During  each  fiscal  year  of such municipality, an
      amount not in excess of the amount of the subsidies to be made  by  such
      municipality  during  such  fiscal year shall be charged to such account
      and credited to the general fund for the reduction of taxation  or  into
      the  general  or  other  fund  available  for  current  expenses of such
      municipality. No other payment shall be charged  to  such  account.  The
      provisions  of section one hundred eleven shall be applicable to any tax
      or taxes imposed pursuant to this section.