Massachusetts General Laws
Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers
Chapter 30 - General Provisions Relative to State Departments, Commissions, Officers and Employees

Section 1 - ''departments'' Defined - Section 1. The word ''departments'' as used in this chapter,...

Section 2 - Executive and Administrative Offices, etc.; Placement Under Control of Some State Department - Section 2. All executive and administrative offices, boards, commissions and...

Section 3 - Establishment of Divisions; Approval of Governor and Council - Section 3. In all cases where the executive and administrative...

Section 4 - Organization of Departments; Report to State Secretary - Section 4. A state department, board or commission shall, upon...

Section 5 - Conflicting Orders or Regulations; Appeal to Governor and Council - Section 5. In all cases where a question arises between...

Section 6 - Absence or Disability of Department Heads - Section 6. If, during the absence or disability of a...

Section 6a - Absence or Disability of Members, of Permanent State Boards, Etc. - Section 6A. If any member of a permanent state board...

Section 7 - Confidential Secretaries; Appointment and Removal - Section 7. Each officer, board and commission having supervision and...

Section 7b - Change of Name - Section 7B. Upon the change of name of any person...

Section 8 - Public Officers Appointed by Governor; Tenure - Section 8. A public officer appointed for any term by...

Section 9 - Public Officers Appointed by Governor; Removal - Section 9. Unless some other mode of removal is provided...

Section 9a - Veterans Holding Unclassified Positions; Separation From State Service - Section 9A. A veteran, as defined in section one of...

Section 9b - Certain Permanent Public Employees; Arbitrary Removal; Protection; Disciplinary Proceedings for Abuse of Disabled Person - Section 9B. No person permanently employed in any institution under...

Section 9c - Mental Health, Developmental Services and Public Health Department Employees; Damages Caused by Patients - Section 9C. Any employee at the institutions under the control...

Section 9d - Teachers of Certain State Institutions; Removal; Lowering in Rank - Section 9D. No person permanently employed as a teacher in...

Section 9e - Chaplains; Exemption - Section 9E. No person employed as a chaplain by the...

Section 9f - State Employees Elected to Public Office; Leave of Absence - Section 9F. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the...

Section 9g - Public Employees Participating in World Athletic Competition; Leaves of Absence - Section 9G. Any employee of the commonwealth who qualifies as...

Section 9h - Public Employees Who Are Veterans; Participation in Veterans or Memorial Day Exercise; Time Off Granted; Exceptions - Section 9H. Any employee of the commonwealth, who is a...

Section 9i - Employees of Commonwealth; Leave of Absence With Pay for Serving as Red Cross Disaster Service Volunteers; Annual Report - Section 9I. (a) Any employee of the commonwealth may be...

Section 9j - Transfer of Employee Functions to Another Department or Agency; Employees Transferred; Wages, Seniority and Other Rights - Section 9J. In the event that the functions performed by...

Section 10 - Officers Requiring Gubernatorial Appointments; Filling Vacancies - Section 10. Any vacancy in any office, the original appointment...

Section 11 - Oaths of Office - Section 11. A person chosen or appointed to an office...

Section 12 - Oaths of Office; Failure to Take and Subscribe - Section 12. A person appointed to an office by the...

Section 13 - Fees for Certain Commissions, Etc. - Section 13. Before the delivery of a commission to a...

Section 14 - Approval of Bond; Withholding Commission - Section 14. If a bond is required of any person...

Section 15 - Bonds; Determining Amount - Section 15. When state officials or employees are required to...

Section 16 - Schedule Bonds - Section 16. State officers and heads of state departments may...

Section 17 - Bond Premiums; Reimbursement - Section 17. If an official having custody of property of...

Section 18 - Examination of Bonds - Section 18. Every public official having custody of any bond...

Section 19 - Failure to File Sufficient Bonds; Removal of Principal - Section 19. If a new bond is not filed, as...

Section 20 - Bonds Deposited With County Treasurers; Examination - Section 20. Bonds of public officers, except officers in Suffolk...

Section 21 - Multiple Salaries From Treasury - Section 21. A person shall not at the same time...

Section 22 - Plurality of Offices; Penalties - Section 22. Whoever wilfully violates the preceding section or wilfully...

Section 23 - Full Time Devotion to Duties; Certain State Officers - Section 23. Any person in any executive or administrative department...

Section 23a - Certain Trustees of State Institutions; Plurality of Positions - Section 23A. Any trustee of a state institution who is...

Section 24 - Office Hours - Section 24. All offices under the jurisdiction of any department...

Section 24a - Working on Legal Holidays; Compensation; Exceptions - Section 24A. If any person employed by the commonwealth is...

Section 24b - Assignments of Employee From Lower to Higher Grade - Section 24B. Whenever an employee in a lower grade is...

Section 24c - Overtime Pay; Prior Written Approval - Section 24C. No compensation shall be paid to any employee...

Section 25 - Expenses of State Officers, Etc. - Section 25. State officers, and members of departments receiving a...

Section 25a - Death Away From Home; Return of Body; Expenses - Section 25A. If any state officer or member of a...

Section 25b - Out-of-State Travel Expenses; Restrictions - Section 25B. No officer or employee of the commonwealth may...

Section 27 - Money Received for Commonwealth; Daily Remittance; Exceptions - Section 27. Except as otherwise expressly provided, all fees or...

Section 28 - Books and Accounts; Fiscal Year - Section 28. All books and accounts of all offices, departments,...

Section 29 - State Institutions; Keeping Books and Accounts - Section 29. Every treasurer and disbursing officer of a state...

Section 30 - Official Letters; Size of Paper - Section 30. Official letters of departments, institutions or officials of...

Section 30a - Official Letterheads; Uniform Style - Section 30A. The state secretary, the commissioner of administration and...

Section 31 - Printing, Binding and Procuring Stationery for Commonwealth Offices and Departments - Section 31. The printing, binding and procuring of stationery for...

Section 32 - Annual Reports - Section 32. On or before the first Wednesday in December...

Section 33 - Annual Reports; Recommendations for Legislation - Section 33. Any state officer or department or head thereof...

Section 33a - Annual Reports; Recommendations to Avoid Special Legislation - Section 33A. If, in the opinion of a state officer...

Section 34 - Reports of Special Commissions; Drafts of Legislation - Section 34. All reports of special commissions recommending legislation shall...

Section 35 - Special Reports to State Purchasing Agent; Appeals - Section 35. State officers, departments or heads thereof may make...

Section 35a - Reports; Projects Requiring Assessments Upon Municipalities; Notice - Section 35A. Reports of state officers, departments or heads thereof,...

Section 36 - Motor Vehicles Owned by Commonwealth; Use and Marking; Regulations and Restrictions, Enforcement; Transfer - Section 36. The commissioner of administration shall establish and enforce...

Section 36a - Purchase, Replacement or Repair of Motor Vehicles; Authorization; Funds - Section 36A. Motor vehicles to be purchased from sums appropriated...

Section 37 - Rules and Regulations; Compliance With Statutory Filing Requirements - Section 37. Every department, board, commission, division, authority or official...

Section 38 - Reports on Public Employees; Central Personnel Register - Section 38. Every state officer, department or head thereof shall,...

Section 38a - Price Adjustment Clause in Contracts for Road, Bridge, Water and Sewer Projects Awarded Under Sec. 39m - Section 38A. Contracts for road and bridge projects awarded as...

Section 39a - Construction Contracts for Public Ways, Airports or Public Works; Truck Rentals; Security for Payment - Section 39A. Officers or agents executing a contract in behalf...

Section 39b - Construction Contracts for Public Ways, Airports or Public Works; Dump Trucks; Schedule of Rates; Disputes - Section 39B. Every contract entered into by the commonwealth or...

Section 39c - Actions Under Sec. 39a; Forbidden Defenses - Section 39C. In any action or claim instituted under section...

Section 39d - Additional Security - Section 39D. Nothing contained in section thirty-nine A shall be...

Section 39e - Inducing Rebates or Refunds of Transportation Charges; Penalties - Section 39E. Whoever, by force or the use of threats,...

Section 39f - Construction Contracts; Assignment and Subrogation; Subcontractor Defined; Enforcement of Claim for Direct Payment; Deposit, Reduction of Disputed Amounts - Section 39F. (1) Every contract awarded pursuant to sections forty-four...

Section 39g - Completion of Public Works; Semi-Final and Final Estimates; Payments; Extra Work; Disputed Items - Section 39G. Upon substantial completion of the work required by...

Section 39h - Indemnification of Contractors - Section 39H. Every contract entered into by or on behalf...

Section 39i - Deviations From Plans and Specifications - Section 39I. Every contractor having a contract for the construction,...

Section 39j - Public Construction Contracts; Effect of Decisions of Contracting Body or Administrative Board - Section 39J. Notwithstanding any contrary provision of any contract for...

Section 39k - Public Building Construction Contracts; Payments - Section 39K. Every contract for the construction, reconstruction, alteration, remodeling,...

Section 39l - Public Construction Work by Foreign Corporations; Restrictions and Reports - Section 39L. The commonwealth and every county, city, town, district,...

Section 39m - Contracts for Construction and Materials; Manner of Awarding - Section 39M. (a) Every contract for the construction, reconstruction, alteration,...

Section 39m1/2 - Project Oversight; Owner's Representative; Qualifications; Procurement; Powers and Duties - Section 39M1/2. (a) The following words shall have the following...

Section 39n - Construction Contracts; Equitable Adjustment in Contract Price for Differing Subsurface or Latent Physical Conditions - Section 39N. Every contract subject to section forty-four A of...

Section 39o - Contracts for Construction and Materials; Suspension, Delay or Interruption Due to Order of Awarding Authority; Adjustment in Contract Price; Written Claim - Section 39O. Every contract subject to the provisions of section...

Section 39p - Contracts for Construction and Materials; Awarding Authority's Decisions on Interpretation of Specifications, etc.; Time Limit; Notice - Section 39P. Every contract subject to section thirty-nine M of...

Section 39q - Contracts for Capital Facility Construction; Contents; Annual Claims Report - Section 39Q. (1) Every contract awarded by any state agency...

Section 39r - Keeping and Maintaining of Books, Records and Accounts; Statement of Management on Internal Accounting Control; Financial Statements; Enforcement - Section 39R. (a) The words defined herein shall have the...

Section 39s - Contracts for Construction; Requirements - Section 39S. (a) As used in this section the word...

Section 39t - Controlled Insurance Program - Section 39T. Notwithstanding section 8 of chapter 268A, section 44F...

Section 40 - Discharge or Release of Bonds - Section 40. Bonds given to the commonwealth, any county, city,...

Section 41 - State Institutions; Sales of Property; Itemized Accounts - Section 41. If sales of property of the commonwealth are...

Section 42 - Records Conservation Board; Composition; Powers and Duties; Sale or Destruction of Records; Records Defined; Inquiries From Departments or Agencies - Section 42. The state librarian, the attorney general, the state...

Section 43 - Fees for Copying Records; Keeping by Employees; Penalties - Section 43. No person employed in any state department shall...

Section 44 - Employees as Agents for Others; Sale of Lands - Section 44. No officer or employee of the commonwealth shall...

Section 44a - Land Owned by Commonwealth; Sale to Counties, etc.; Highway Purposes - Section 44A. A commissioner or head of a state department...

Section 44b - Petroleum Pipe Line; Laying on State Lands - Section 44B. A commissioner or head of a state department...

Section 45 - Office and Position Classification Plan; Pay Plan - Section 45. The personnel administrator shall establish, administer and keep...

Section 46 - Administration of Classification and Pay Plans - Section 46. (1) The following shall be the salary schedule...

Section 46c - Management Pay Plan - Section 46C. (1) The following shall be the salary schedule...

Section 46d - Appointments to Positions; Promotions From Positions Classified Under Civil Service Provisions - Section 46D. Whenever it is deemed practicable in the judgment...

Section 46e - Civil Service Classifications; Positions Reimbursed by Federal Government - Section 46E. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary,...

Section 46f - Tenure - Section 46F. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections nine A, nine...

Section 46g - Overtime Compensation - Section 46G. Notwithstanding the provisions of section thirty B of...

Section 46h - Vacation, Sick-Leave, Personal Leave and Benefits - Section 46H. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary,...

Section 46i - Additional Duties of Personnel Administrator - Section 46I. In addition to his other responsibilities and duties,...

Section 48 - Incumbents of Positions Classified; Duties - Section 48. Incumbents of offices or positions classified under sections...

Section 49 - Appeal From Classification - Section 49. A manager or an employee of the commonwealth...

Section 50 - Limit of Application of Secs. 45 to 49 - [ Text of section effective until July 18, 2021. For...

Section 51 - Purchasing of Goods, Supplies, Equipment and Services for State Departments - Section 51. All goods, supplies, equipment and services, except for...

Section 52 - Approval of Purchases - Section 52. No goods, supplies, equipment or services, other than...

Section 53 - Grievances of Employees; Disposition; Appeals - Section 53. The personnel administrator shall make and from time...

Section 57 - Finality of Decision; Grievances Requiring Payment of Money; Disposition - Section 57. The decision of the civil service commission shall...

Section 58 - Injuries Sustained in Service of State; Compensation - Section 58. Any employee of the commonwealth eligible to receive...

Section 59 - Persons Under Indictment for Misconduct in Office; Suspension; Temporary Appointees - Section 59. An officer or employee of the commonwealth, or...

Section 60 - Co-Operative Education Programs; Employment of Students - Section 60. The personnel administrator shall cooperate with public and...

Section 61 - Determination of Impact by Agencies; Damages to Environment; Prevention or Minimization; Foreseeable Climate Change Impacts; Definition Applicable to This Section and Sec. 62 - Section 61. All agencies, departments, boards, commissions and authorities of...

Section 62 - Definitions - [ Introductory paragraph effective until June 24, 2021. For text...

Section 62a - Notice of Intent to Apply; Forms; Certification of Need for Environmental Impact Report; Application of Section - Section 62A. A person applying or intending to apply to...

Section 62b - Environmental Impact Reports; Preparation and Submission; Funding - Section 62B. In the case of projects directly undertaken by...

Section 62c - Notice of Availability of Environmental Impact Statement; Public and Agency Review - Section 62C. Any environmental impact report shall be submitted to...

Section 62d - Permit Applications; Time for Agency Determination - Section 62D. Agencies shall act on permit applications within ninety...

Section 62e - Categories of Projects and Permits Not Requiring Environmental Impact Reports; Establishment; Application - Section 62E. With the approval of the secretary of the...

Section 62f - Emergencies; Commencement of Projects; Land Acquisition - Section 62F. A project may commence prior to compliance with...

Section 62g - Federal Environmental Impact Statements in Lieu of Reports - Section 62G. In the case of projects for which an...

Section 62h - Action or Proceeding Alleging Improper Determination of Need for Environmental Impact Report or Noncompliance With Law; Notice; Commencement; Matters Raised - Section 62H. An agency or person intending to commence an...

Section 62i - Environmental Notification Forms Filed on or After November 15, 2007; Requirements - Section 62I. A person who is proposing a new use...

Section 62j - Opportunities for Public to Assess Impact of Proposed Projects; Impact on Environmental Justice Population; Measures to Improve Public Participation; Meaning of Designated Geographic Area - [ Text of section added by 2021, 8, Sec. 60...

Section 62k - Consideration of Environmental Justice Principles; Establishment of Standards and Guidelines - [ Text of section added by 2021, 8, Sec. 60...

Section 62l - Environmental Justice Council; Membership; Duties; Recommendations - [ Text of section added by 2021, 8, Sec. 60...

Section 63 - Notice to State Secretary; Specifications; Report - Section 63. Every holder, as that term is defined in...

Section 64 - Conversion of Hospitals; Approval of General Court - Section 64. No mental health hospital or public health hospital...

Section 65 - Legal Services for Commonwealth Provided Under Contract - Section 65. (a) A lawyer who is not a regular...

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Massachusetts General Laws Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers Chapter 30 - General Provisions Relative to State Departments, Commissions, Officers and Employees

Massachusetts General Laws
Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers
Chapter 30 - General Provisions Relative to State Departments, Commissions, Officers and Employees