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Section 1 - Definitions - Section 1. For the purposes of this chapter— (1) ''Adjudicatory...
Section 1a - Department of Correction; Application of Chapter - Section 1A. The department of correction shall be subject to...
Section 1b - Department of Youth Services; Application of Chapter - Section 1B. The department of youth services shall be subject...
Section 1c - Parole Board; Application of Chapter - Section 1C. The parole board shall be subject to sections...
Section 1d - Criminal Record Review Board; Application of Chapter - Section 1D. The criminal record review board shall be subject...
Section 2 - Regulations Requiring Hearings; Adoptions, Amendments or Repeals; Small Business Impact Statement; Emergency Regulations - Section 2. A public hearing is required prior to the...
Section 3 - Regulations Not Requiring Hearings; Small Business Impact Statement; Adoptions, Amendments or Repeals - Section 3. Prior to the adoption, amendment, or repeal of...
Section 3a - Publication of Required Notices - Section 3A. Notices filed in accordance with sections two and...
Section 4 - Petitions for Adoption, Amendment or Repeal of Regulations - Section 4. Any interested person may petition an agency requesting...
Section 5 - Regulations; Filing; Small Business Impact Statement - Section 5. Two attested copies of the regulations of each...
Section 5a - Review of Rules and Regulations Regarding Economic Impact on Small Businesses - Section 5A. Rules and regulations shall be reviewed at least...
Section 6 - Massachusetts Register; Publication of Filed Documents and Regulations; Legal Effect; Distribution of Issues - Section 6. Documents required or authorized to be published by...
Section 6a - Code of Massachusetts Regulations; Publication - Section 6A. Prior to publication of the first issue of...
Section 6b - Agencies to Purchase Register Issues; Public Access - Section 6B. Each agency shall purchase a copy or copies...
Section 6c - Failure to Comply With Sec. 6b; Report - Section 6C. If the state secretary finds that any agency...
Section 6d - Expected Regulations; Publication of List - Section 6D. The state secretary shall publish, annually, in the...
Section 6e - Failure to Comply With Sec. 6d; Report - Section 6E. If the state secretary finds that any agency...
Section 7 - Judicial Review of Regulations - Section 7. Unless an exclusive mode of review is provided...
Section 8 - Advisory Rulings by Agencies - Section 8. On request of any interested person, an agency...
Section 10 - Adjudicatory Proceedings; Appeals - Section 10. In conducting adjudicatory proceedings, as defined in this...
Section 10a - Damage to Environment; Intervention in Adjudicatory Proceeding; Procedure - Section 10A. Notwithstanding the provisions of section ten, not less...
Section 11 - Adjudicatory Proceedings; Additional Requirements - Section 11. In addition to other requirements imposed by law...
Section 11b - Studies of State Boards, Commissions and Authorities; Notice to City or Town Affected - Section 11B. All state boards and commissions and the governing...
Section 11c - Hearings in Municipalities - Section 11C. Any agency which is required by law to...
Section 12 - Adjudicatory Proceedings; Subpoenas - Section 12. In conducting adjudicatory proceedings, agencies shall issue, vacate,...
Section 13 - Licenses; Revocation, etc.; Hearings; Exceptions; Student Loan Defaulters - Section 13. ''License'', as used in this section, includes any...
Section 13a - Issuance and Renewal of Licenses; Social Security Number of Applicant; Information Provided to Iv–d Agency - Section 13A. Agencies and political subdivisions of the commonwealth, that...
Section 14 - Judicial Review - Section 14. Except so far as any provision of law...
Section 15 - Supreme Judicial Court and Appeals Court; Concurrent Jurisdiction - Section 15. The supreme judicial court and the appeals court...
Section 16 - Supreme Judicial Court; Powers - Section 16. The supreme judicial court shall have the power...
Section 17 - Partial Invalidity of Chapter; Effect - Section 17. If any provision of this chapter or the...
Section 18 - Definitions Applicable to Secs. 18 to 25 - Section 18. As used in this section and sections 19...
Section 19 - Division of Open Government; Open Meeting Law Training; Open Meeting Law Advisory Commission; Annual Report - Section 19. (a) There shall be in the department of...
Section 20 - Meetings of a Public Body to Be Open to the Public; Notice of Meeting; Remote Participation; Recording and Transmission of Meeting; Removal of Persons for Disruption of Proceedings; Office Holders to Certify Receipt of Open Meeting Law a... - [Section impacted by 2020, 53, Sec. 17, as amended by...
Section 21 - Meeting of Public Body in Executive Session - Section 21. (a) A public body may meet in executive...
Section 22 - Minutes of Meetings - Section 22. (a) A public body shall create and maintain...
Section 23 - Enforcement of Open Meeting Law; Complaints; Hearing; Civil Action - Section 23. (a) Subject to appropriation, the attorney general shall...
Section 24 - Investigation by Attorney General of Violations of Open Meeting Law - Section 24. (a) Whenever the attorney general has reasonable cause...
Section 25 - Authority of Attorney General to Promulgate Rules and Regulations, Letter Rulings and Advisory Opinions - Section 25. (a) The attorney general shall have the authority...