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Section 1 - Creation; Secretary; Acting Secretary; Undersecretary - Section 1. There shall be an executive office of energy...
Section 2 - Duties and Functions; Inter-Agency Information, Services and Plans; Filing Applications; Core Administrative Functions - Section 2. The office and its appropriate departments and divisions...
Section 2a - Compromise or Settlement of Claims for Damages for Injury and for Destruction or Loss of Natural Resources; Authority of Secretary - Section 2A. The secretary shall be the state natural resource...
Section 3 - Functions of Secretary; Report - Section 3. The secretary shall conduct comprehensive planning with respect...
Section 4 - Powers and Duties of Secretary - Section 4. In order to enable him to coordinate and...
Section 4a - Coastal Zone Management Office - Section 4A. There is hereby established within the executive office...
Section 4c - Ocean Management Plan; Ocean Advisory Commission; Ocean Science Advisory Council; Duties of Secretary - Section 4C. (a) The ocean waters and ocean-based development of...
Section 5 - Program Review Boards; Appointment; Reports; Expenses - Section 5. The secretary shall have the power to appoint...
Section 6 - Experts and Assistants; Appointment; Qualifications; Classified Employees; Tenure - Section 6. Subject to appropriation, the secretary, with the approval...
Section 7 - Departments; Commissioners, Appointment, Removal, Qualifications, Functions, Salary - Section 7. In the executive office shall be an office...
Section 7b - State Geologist - Section 7B. The chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst...
Section 8 - Organization of Departments; Powers, Duties and Functions - Section 8. The department of environmental protection shall include the...
Section 8a - Water Resources Commission; Members; Terms - Section 8A. There shall be established within the executive office...
Section 8b - Chairman; Duties of Commission - Section 8B. The secretary shall be chairman of said commission....
Section 8c - Water Supply Policy Statement; Update and Report - Section 8C. The commission shall further be responsible for updating...
Section 8d - Rules and Regulations - Section 8D. The commission may establish rules and regulations as...
Section 8e - Director; Staff - Section 8E. The commission shall be staffed by a director...
Section 8f - Meetings; Expenses; per Diem - Section 8F. The commission shall meet at least once a...
Section 9 - Grants and Gifts; Expenditure; Records - Section 9. The office may accept any gifts or grants...
Section 10a - Office of Law Enforcement; Director; Deputies; Environmental Police Officers; Rules and Regulations - Section 10A. The office of law enforcement shall be in...
Section 10b - Enforcement of Penal Laws - Section 10B. It shall be the duty of the office...
Section 10c - Authority of Officers - Section 10C. The secretary, undersecretary, director, deputy directors of enforcement,...
Section 10d - Uniforms; Badges; Fine for Unlawful Use - Section 10D. Each deputy director of enforcement, chief of enforcement,...
Section 10e - Entry on Private Land; Disposition of Animals - Section 10E. The secretary, director, deputy directors of enforcement, chiefs...
Section 10f - Rules and Regulations; Hours and Pay for Boat Based and Land Based Personnel; Assignments - Section 10F. Notwithstanding chapter 149 or of any other general...
Section 10g - Requests for Name and Address; Penalties for Refusal to Provide Information; Notices of Violations; Appearances and Payment of Fines; Seizure and Forfeitures - Section 10G. If the director, his assistant or any environmental...
Section 10h - Fines for Categories of Violations - Section 10H. A person notified to appear before the clerk...
Section 10i - Surcharge Added on Fines for Violations Under Chapter 21a When Complaining Officer Is Environmental Police Officer or Deputy Environmental Police Officer - Section 10I. There shall be a surcharge of 20 per...
Section 10j - Incapacity of Environmental Police Officer Due to Injuries Sustained in Performance of Duties; Leave Without Loss of Pay - Section 10J. (a) Whenever an environmental police officer of the...
Section 11 - Boating Safety Advisory Board - Section 11. There shall be within the office of law...
Section 11a - Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Board - Section 11A. There is hereby established within the office of...
Section 11b - Public Access Board; Composition; Meetings; Designation of Public Access Points; Regulations; Purchase of Equipment - Section 11B. There shall be in the department of fisheries,...
Section 11c - Prohibition on Alteration or Pollution of Rivers and Streams; Scenic and Recreational Classifications; Restraint of Violations; Unreasonable Use Restriction Petitions; Uncompensated Taking Hearings; Damages - Section 11C. The commissioner, with the approval of the stewardship...
Section 12 - Rules and Regulations; Adoption; Review - Section 12. At least sixty days prior to the proposed...
Section 13 - State Environmental Code; Adoption; Preparation of Sewage Disposal Systems; Enforcement of Code - Section 13. The commissioner of the department of environmental protection...
Section 13a - System Inspectors of On-Site Sewage Disposal Systems; Penalty - Section 13A. A system inspector of on-site sewage disposal systems,...
Section 14 - Disposal of Dredged Materials - Section 14. The department of environmental protection is hereby authorized...
Section 16 - Civil Administrative Penalties - Section 16. As used in this section the following words...
Section 17 - Soil Containing Dangerous Levels of Lead; Cover and Disposal; Regulations - Section 17. The department of environmental protection shall in consultation...
Section 18 - Permit Application and Compliance Assurance Fees; Timely Action Schedules; Regulations - Section 18. As used in this section, the following words...
Section 18a - Federal Safe Drinking Water Assessment; Advisory Committee - Section 18A. (a) As used in this section, the following...
Section 19 - Definitions Applicable to Secs. 19 to 19j - Section 19. As used in this section, and in sections...
Section 19a - Board of Registration of Hazardous Waste Site Cleanup Professionals - Section 19A. There is hereby established within the executive office...
Section 19b - Regulations - Section 19B. (a) The board shall adopt, and may from...
Section 19c - Licensing - Section 19C. The board may license individuals to be hazardous...
Section 19d - License Requirement; Regulations - Section 19D. Effective on and after one year after publication...
Section 19e - Inspection of Known or Suspected Sites; Warrants - Section 19E. Personnel or authorized agents of the board or...
Section 19f - Violations; Orders Issued by Board; Notice to Department - Section 19F. Whenever it appears that there is a violation...
Section 19g - Civil Administrative Penalties - Section 19G. (1) The board may assess a civil administrative...
Section 19h - Adjudicatory Hearings; Judicial Review - Section 19H. Any person aggrieved by a determination by the...
Section 19i - Jurisdiction of Superior Court - Section 19I. The superior court department of the trial court...
Section 19j - Violations; Penalties - Section 19J. Any person who violates section nineteen D, or...
Section 20 - Joint Powers Agreements; Definitions; Approval; Administration - Section 20. (a) As used in this section, the following...
Section 21 - Competitive Procurement of Electric Generation - Section 21. The secretary, in conjunction with the secretary of...
Section 22 - Carbon Dioxide Cap and Trade Program - Section 22. (a) As used in this section, the following...
Section 23 - Off-Highway Vehicle Advisory Committee - Section 23. There is hereby established within the executive office...
Section 24 - Office of the State Climatologist; Powers and Duties; Term - Section 24. There shall be within the executive office of...
Section 25 - Water Infrastructure Advisory Committee; Members; Report - Section 25. (a) There shall be a water infrastructure advisory...
Section 26 - Local Seafood Marketing Program; Objectives; Steering Committee - Section 26. (a) There shall be within the division of...
Section 27 - Program to Facilitate Transfer of Development Rights to Protect Conservation Values and Encourage Development Through Market Incentives; Administration of Loan Program - Section 27. (a)(1) There shall be within the executive office...
Section 28 - Protection From Harmful Flame Retardants - Section 28. (a) As used in this section, the following...