Section 11:
Powers of operating agencies
Section 11. Each operating agency shall have the powers and be subject to the limitations provided in sections one to sixteen, inclusive, shall have the powers necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate the purposes of the relevant provisions of the General Laws and shall have the following powers in addition to those specifically granted in this chapter:—
(a) To sue and be sued; to have a seal; to have corporate succession;
(b) To act as agent of, or to cooperate with the federal government in any clearance, housing, relocation, urban renewal or other project which it is authorized to undertake;
(c) To receive loans, grants and annual or other contributions from the federal government or from any other source, public or private;
(d) To take by eminent domain under chapter seventy-nine or chapter eighty A, or to purchase or lease, or to acquire by gift, bequest or grant, and hold, any property, real or personal, or any interest therein, found by it to be necessary or reasonably required to carry out the purposes of this chapter, or any of its sections, and to sell, exchange, transfer, lease or assign the same; provided, that in case of a taking by eminent domain under said chapter seventy-nine, the provisions of section forty of said chapter shall be applicable, except that the security therein required shall be deposited with the mayor of the city or the selectmen of the town in which the property to be taken is situated. Except as herein otherwise provided, the provisions of chapters seventy-nine and eighty A relative to counties, cities, towns and districts, so far as pertinent, shall apply to operating agencies, and the members of a housing or redevelopment authority shall act on its behalf under those chapters.