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Section 1 - Records of Votes Cast for Representatives; Certificates of Examination; Duties of State Secretary - Section 1. The state secretary shall receive the copies of...
Section 2 - Admission of Persons Listed to Take Seats as Representatives - Section 2. The persons named on the lists delivered to...
Section 3 - Calling House to Order; Presiding Officer - Section 3. On said first Wednesday of January, between the...
Section 4 - Unlisted Person May Present Certificate or Evidence of Election - Section 4. A person having a certificate or other documentary...
Section 5 - Presentation of Certain Petitions; Notice by Publication; Deposit and Filing of Petition and Bill; Fee - Section 5. Any petition to the general court for the...
Section 7 - Petitions for Legislation Respecting Corporations - Section 7. Any petition to the general court, except a...
Section 8 - Report on Financial Condition of Town Petitioning to Borrow Outside Statutory Debt Limit - Section 8. When evaluating a petition by a city or...
Section 8a - Petition by City or Town Pursuant to Home Rule Amendment; Number of Votes - Section 8A. A petition filed or approved by the voters...
Section 9b - Additional Regular Compensation for Certain Members - Section 9B. (a) The president of the senate and the...
Section 9c - Annual Expenses for Members of General Court - Section 9C. Each member of the general court shall annually...
Section 9d - Earned Income Not to Be Received by President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives; Enforcement - Section 9D. The president of the senate and speaker of...
Section 10 - Prorating of Additional Compensation and Expenses for Members Filling a Vacancy or Who Resign During a Regular Session - Section 10. Each member of the general court who is...
Section 10a - Reimbursement for Special Elections to Fill General Court Vacancies - Section 10A. In special elections, called for the purposes of...
Section 12 - Clerks, Salary and Tenure - Section 12. The clerk of the senate and the clerk...
Section 12a - Facsimile Signatures of Clerks - Section 12A. Facsimiles of the signatures of the clerk of...
Section 12b - Manual - Section 12B. The clerks of the 2 branches shall in...
Section 13 - Assistant Clerks and Clerical Assistance; Appointment, Salary and Tenure - Section 13. The clerks of the senate and house of...
Section 14 - Chaplain of House of Representatives; Salary - Section 14. The chaplain of the house of representatives shall...
Section 15 - Sergeant-at-Arms; Appointment, Tenure and Salary - Section 15. The general court shall choose a sergeant-at-arms who...
Section 16 - Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms; Appointment, Duties, Compensation and Removal - Section 16. In case of the disability or necessary absence...
Section 17 - Sergeant-at-Arms and Other Legislative Officers and Employees; Duties and Police Powers - Section 17. The sergeant-at-arms shall serve such processes and execute...
Section 18 - Other Legislative Employees; Compensation - Section 18. There shall be 2 chief general court officers...
Section 19 - Authorized Number of Certain Legislative Employees - Section 19. The number of chief general court officers, assistant...
Section 20a - Uniforms for Sergeant-at-Arms and Other Employees - Section 20A. Subject to appropriation, the sergeant-at-arms may purchase uniforms...
Section 21 - Appointment of Employees by Sergeant-at-Arms; Removal - Section 21. The sergeant-at-arms shall, immediately after his election, with...
Section 22 - Journals and Papers; Custody; Copies as Evidence - Section 22. The journals, files and papers of the senate...
Section 22a - Journals of Senate and House of Representatives; Copies - Section 22A. Such number of copies of the journals of...
Section 23 - Bills and Resolves; Form of Engrossment; Printing and Publication; Copies; Distribution - Section 23. Bills and resolves passed to be engrossed by...
Section 24 - Proposed Constitutional Amendments; Engrossment, Deposit - Section 24. All proposed amendments to the constitution which have...
Section 26 - Ordering of Books or Publications for Members - Section 26. No periodicals, publications or books, other than those...
Section 27 - Oaths Administered by Committee Members - Section 27. Senators and representatives, acting as members of a...
Section 28 - Self-Incriminating Testimony or Evidence Before General Court or Committee; Prosecution - Section 28. A person shall not be excused from attending...
Section 28a - Refusal of Summoned Witness to Appear or Testify; Penalty - Section 28A. Any person who, having been summoned as a...
Section 29 - Stenographic Reports of Hearings - Section 29. Stenographic reports of hearings before legislative committees or...
Section 30 - Expenses Incurred Under General Court Order; Approval - Section 30. Accounts for expenditures made or services rendered under...
Section 31 - Committee Expenses; Authorization by General Court - Section 31. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, no...
Section 32 - Expenses of Committees Acting During Recess - Section 32. No committee of the general court shall, after...
Section 32a - Committees, Sub-Committees and Special Commissions; Travel - Section 32A. No special commission, no special or standing committee...
Section 33 - Publication of Bulletins of Committee Hearings - Section 33. The committees on rules of the 2 branches,...
Section 35 - Advertisement of Legislative Committee Hearings; Publication - Section 35. Advertisements of hearings of legislative committees shall be...
Section 38a - Bills Reported Favorably by Joint or Ways and Means Committees; Fiscal Notes; Cost Limitation - Section 38A. Joint committees of the general court, the house...
Section 38b - Requests and Recommendations for Appropriations and Capital Outlay Programs or Projects; Public Hearings; Notice - Section 38B. The committee on ways and means of each...
Section 38c - Health Insurance Coverage; Mandated Health Benefit Bills; Review and Evaluation; Report - Section 38C. (a) For the purposes of this section, a...
Section 39 - Definitions Applicable to Secs. 39 to 50 - Section 39. As used in sections thirty-nine to fifty, inclusive,...
Section 41 - Docket of Executive and Legislative Agents and Lobbyists; Educational Seminars for Legislative and Executive Agents;annual Registration Statements; Annual Filing Fee; Identification Cards; Advisory Opinions - Section 41. The state secretary shall keep a docket which...
Section 42 - Agreements to Pay Compensation Contingent Upon a Decision of an Executive Officer or Upon Passage or Defeat of Legislation Prohibited - Section 42. No person shall make any agreement whereby any...
Section 43 - Executive and Legislative Agents; Itemized Statement of Expenditures; Notification of Legislators; Public Inspection; Family Gifts Restricted - Section 43. On or before the fifteenth day of July,...
Section 44 - Registration of Organizations Attempting to Influence Legislation; Statement of Expenditures; Public Inspection; Penalty - Section 44. On or before the fifteenth day of July,...
Section 45 - Inquiry and Adjudicatory Proceedings Relating to Alleged Violations of Secs. 39 to 50 - Section 45. (a) Upon receipt of a sworn complaint signed...
Section 46 - Docket of Executive and Legislative Agents; Maintenance; Legislative Year - Section 46. The docket of executive and legislative agents shall...
Section 47 - Employers of Executive or Legislative Agents; Statement of Expenditures; Filing; Penalty; Public Inspection - Section 47. On or before the fifteenth day of July,...
Section 48 - Violation of Secs. 41 to 44 or 47 Respecting Executive or Legislative Agents; Penalties; Prosecutions; Enforcement Procedures - Section 48. Violation of any provision of sections forty, forty-one,...
Section 49 - Proceedings to Compel Filing of Proper Statement Required by Secs. 43, 44 or 47;equitable or Mandamus Relief to Enforce Secs. 41 to 43; Speedy Trial - Section 49. The supreme judicial court or superior court may...
Section 50 - Sections Inapplicable to Public Employees or Agents or Other Persons Requested to Appear Before Committee or Commission - Section 50. Sections thirty-nine to forty-nine, inclusive, shall not apply...
Section 51 - Continuous Consolidation of the General Statutes; Counsel to Senate and House; Appointment; Duties as to Statute Revision, Etc. - Section 51. The committees on rules of the senate and...
Section 52 - Continuous Consolidation of the General Statutes; Counsel's Assistance in Drafting Bills, Etc. - Section 52. The said counsel shall, under like direction, assist...
Section 53 - Continuous Consolidation of the General Statutes; Counsel; Proposal of Changes and Corrections; Preparation of Revisions - Section 53. Said counsel may, from time to time, submit...
Section 54 - Continuous Consolidation of the General Statutes; Counsel; Assistance and Expenses - Section 54. The said counsel may employ such legal and...
Section 55 - Continuous Consolidation of the General Statutes; Counsel; Exempt From Civil Service - Section 55. The said counsel shall not be deemed to...
Section 55a - Continuous Consolidation of the General Statutes; General Laws; Correction, Revision, Etc. - Section 55A. The committees on rules of the two branches,...
Section 62 - Advisory Commission on Local Government - Section 62. There shall be an advisory commission on local...
Section 63 - Definitions; Post Audit and Oversight Committees; Powers and Duties; Meetings; Reports; Expenses - Section 63. The following words and phrases, as used in...
Section 64 - Bureaus of Post Audit and Oversight; Legislative Auditors; Quarters; Powers and Duties - Section 64. There are hereby established in the legislative branch...
Section 65 - Senate Art Committee - Section 65. There is hereby established in the senate a...
Section 66 - Commission on the Status of Women; Membership; Powers; Funding - Section 66. (1) There is established a permanent commission on...
Section 67 - Commission on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Questioning Youth; Membership; Terms; Powers and Duties - Section 67. (a) There shall be a permanent commission on...
Section 68 - Commission on Status of Citizens of Asian Descent; Members; Terms; Powers and Duties - [ Text of section effective until July 1, 2021. For...
Section 69 - Commission on Status of Grandparents Raising Grandchildren; Membership; Powers and Duties; Report - Section 69. (a) There shall be a permanent commission on...
Section 70 - Commission on the Future of the Metropolitan Beaches; Membership; Terms; Powers and Duties; Report - Section 70. (a) There shall be a permanent commission on...
Section 71 - Commission on Older Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Adults and Their Caregivers - Section 71. (a) There shall be a permanent commission on...
Section 72 - Commission on the Status of African Americans - [Text of section added by 2020, 253, Sec. 1 effective...
Section 73 - Commission on the Status of Latinos and Latinas - [Text of section added by 2020, 253, Sec. 1 effective...
Section 74 - Commission on the Status of Persons With Disabilities - [Text of section added by 2020, 253, Sec. 1 effective...
Section 75 - Commission on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys to Examine Issues Causing a Disproportionally Negative Impact - [Text of section added by 2020, 253, Sec. 1 effective...