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Section 1 - Definitions - Section 1. In this chapter, the following words and phrases...
Section 2 - Powers and Duties of Commission - Section 2. In addition to its other powers and duties,...
Section 3 - Rules - Section 3. The administrator shall make and amend rules which...
Section 4 - New or Amended Rules; Hearings; Publication - Section 4. A new rule of the administrator and any...
Section 5 - Powers and Duties of Administrator - Section 5. In addition to his other powers and duties,...
Section 6 - Appointments; Requisitions - Section 6. Each appointment to a civil service position shall...
Section 6a - Performance Evaluation System; Implementation - Section 6A. The administrator shall establish a program for the...
Section 6b - Weight of Performance Evaluation in Promotions - Section 6B. The weight given to performance evaluation in promotional...
Section 6c - Employee Disagreement With Evaluation; Appeal - Section 6C. A civil service employee, except an employee serving...
Section 7 - Promotional Appointments in Official Service - Section 7. Each promotional appointment within the official service shall...
Section 8 - Promotional Appointments in Official Service Within Same Departmental Unit - Section 8. An appointing authority, with the approval of the...
Section 9 - Departmental Promotional Examinations - Section 9. Pursuant to the provisions of this section, an...
Section 10 - Alternate Departmental Promotional Examinations - Section 10. An appointing authority may make a promotional appointment...
Section 11 - Competitive Promotional Examinations - Section 11. An appointing authority may make a promotional appointment...
Section 12 - Provisional Appointments - Section 12. An appointing authority may make a provisional appointment...
Section 13 - Provisional Appointments; Notice; Filing - Section 13. An appointing authority, in requesting authorization to make...
Section 14 - Provisional Appointments; Authorization; Reports; Length of Service; Termination - Section 14. Upon receipt of the notice described in section...
Section 15 - Provisional Promotions - Section 15. An appointing authority may, with the approval of...
Section 16 - Scope of Examinations; Marks; Appointments Based Solely on Training and Experience - Section 16. Examinations shall be conducted under the direction of...
Section 17 - Persons With Bachelor's Degrees; Examination; Eligible List; Certification - Section 17. The administrator, without requisition from an appointing authority,...
Section 18 - Notice of Examinations for Original Appointments; Posting - Section 18. The administrator shall prepare notices of all examinations...
Section 19 - Notice of Examination for Promotional Appointments; Posting - Section 19. The administrator shall prepare a notice of each...
Section 20 - Applications for Examination or Registration; Fees; Requests for Information - Section 20. Each application for examination or registration pursuant to...
Section 21 - Educational and Physical Requirements; Eligibility Based on Gender - Section 21. The administrator may establish educational requirements and alternatives...
Section 22 - Passing Requirements of Examinations; Credits; Requests for Review - Section 22. The administrator shall determine the passing requirements of...
Section 23 - Review of Examination Papers; Errors - Section 23. Within six weeks after receipt of a request...
Section 24 - Appeals; Petitions - Section 24. An applicant may appeal to the commission from...
Section 25 - Eligible Lists; Certification; Refusal to Accept Employment - Section 25. The administrator shall establish, maintain and revise eligible...
Section 26 - Order of Persons on Eligible Lists; Veteran's Preference; Disabled Veterans; Fire and Police Service - Section 26. The names of persons who pass examinations for...
Section 27 - Appointment or Promotion; Manner of Selection - Section 27. Except as provided otherwise by section fifteen, if...
Section 28 - Labor Service Applicants; Eligibility; Age Limit; Veteran's Preference - Section 28. Except as provided in the last paragraph of...
Section 28a - Appointment of Apprentice Lineman; Age Restrictions - Section 28A. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the...
Section 29 - Labor Service Appointments; Promotional Bulletins - Section 29. An appointing authority shall, prior to any request...
Section 30 - Promotional Appointments From Labor Service to Official Service - Section 30. Pursuant to the provisions of this section, an...
Section 31 - Emergency Appointments; Renewal - Section 31. An appointing authority may, without submitting a requisition...
Section 32 - Emergency Appointments to Laborer Positions; Renewal - Section 32. An appointing authority may make an emergency appointment...
Section 33 - Seniority; Computing Length of Service - Section 33. For the purposes of this chapter, seniority of...
Section 34 - Probationary Periods - Section 34. Following his original appointment to a civil service...
Section 35 - Transfers - Section 35. Subject to the provisions of section forty-one governing...
Section 36 - Transfers From Official Service to Labor Service Positions - Section 36. A person who has been employed in the...
Section 37 - Leaves of Absence - Section 37. An appointing authority may grant a permanent employee...
Section 38 - Unauthorized Leaves of Absence; Reports; Separation From Employment; Review - Section 38. Upon reporting an unauthorized absence to the administrator...
Section 39 - Separation From Employment; Lack of Work or Money; Abolition of Position; Disability - Section 39. If permanent employees in positions having the same...
Section 39a - Conditional Employees - Section 39A. Any fire service personnel subject to the retraining...
Section 40 - Reemployment List - Section 40. If a permanent employee shall become separated from...
Section 41 - Discharge; Removal; Suspension; Transfer; Abolition of Office; Reduction of Rank or Pay; Hearings; Review - Section 41. Except for just cause and except in accordance...
Section 41a - Discharge, Removal or Suspension; Hearing Before Disinterested Hearing Officer; Review - Section 41A. Upon the request of the appointing authority and...
Section 42 - Complaints; Hearings; Jurisdiction; Filing of Civil Action - [First paragraph effective until July 1, 2021. For text effective...
Section 43 - Hearings Before Commission - Section 43. If a person aggrieved by a decision of...
Section 44 - Judicial Review - Section 44. The commission may institute appropriate proceedings in the...
Section 45 - Reimbursement for Defense Expenses - Section 45. A tenured employee who has incurred expense in...
Section 46 - Reinstatement; Hearings - Section 46. A permanent employee who becomes separated from his...
Section 47 - Blind Persons; Examinations; Temporary Appointment of Persons With an Intellectual Disability - Section 47. Upon application by a blind person to take...
Section 47a - Disadvantaged Persons; Certified Work-Training Programs; Examination; Eligible Lists; Appointment - Section 47A. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections six and twenty-eight,...
Section 48 - Civil Service Offices and Positions; Exemptions - [ First paragraph effective until July 18, 2021. For text...
Section 48a - Career Management Service Program; Designation of Positions; Selection of Persons; Annual Listing; Performance Appraisal System - Section 48A. (1) The administrator shall establish a career management...
Section 49 - Students in Temporary Position Appropriate to Academic Interest; Appointments to Certain State Positions Subject to or Exempt From Civil Service Law; Confidential Employees - Section 49. The administrator shall cooperate with degree-granting institutions of...
Section 50 - Persons Ineligible for Civil Service - Section 50. No person habitually using intoxicating liquors to excess...
Section 51 - Cities; Civil Service Offices and Positions - Section 51. All positions in all cities shall be subject...
Section 52 - Towns; Civil Service Offices and Positions - Section 52. The following offices and positions in towns shall...
Section 53 - Application of Chapter to Municipalities; School Districts; Elections - Section 53. (a) All non-academic positions in the service of...
Section 54 - Petitions; Number of Signatures; Filing - Section 54. If five per cent or five thousand of...
Section 55 - Signatures to Petitions; Certification; Objections - Section 55. Each person who signs a petition for the...
Section 56 - Incumbents; Status; Seniority; Transfer of School Employees - Section 56. Whenever any office or position exempt from the...
Section 57 - Permanent Positions in City Labor Service; Removal of Intermittent Junior Building Custodians; Certification of Inspector of Wires - Section 57. Every year-round temporary position in the labor service...
Section 58 - Municipal Police Officers and Firefighters; Qualification - Section 58. No person shall be ineligible for appointment and...
Section 58a - Municipal Police Officers and Firefighters; Maximum Age Restrictions - Section 58A. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special...
Section 59 - Municipal Police Officers and Fire Fighters; Examinations; Appointments and Promotions - Section 59. Original and promotional appointments in police and fire...
Section 60 - Intermittent or Reserve Police or Fire Forces; Appointments to Regular Force - Section 60. In any city or town having an intermittent...
Section 60a - Intermittent or Reserve Police or Fire Force Members; Effect of Refusals to Accept Employment on Permanent Basis in Regular Police or Fire Force - Section 60A. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 60 to...
Section 61 - Municipal Police Officers or Fire Fighters; Probationary Periods; Evaluation - Section 61. Following his original appointment as a permanent full-time...
Section 61a - Police Officer and Firefighter Health and Physical Fitness Standards - Section 61A. The administrator, with the secretary of public safety...
Section 61b - Wellness Program for Police Officers and Firefighters - Section 61B. Any city, town, district or other governmental unit...
Section 62 - Punishment Duty; Police Officers or Fire Fighters - Section 62. Punishment duty shall not be imposed without just...
Section 62a - Punishment Duty; Police Officers or Firefighters Employed by Cities or Towns - Section 62A. Notwithstanding the provisions of section sixty-two punishment duty...
Section 63 - Paraplegic Persons; Municipal Police or Fire Departments; Appointments - Section 63. An appointing authority may employ a paraplegic in...
Section 64 - Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Police; Qualifications - Section 64. No person shall be ineligible for appointment and...
Section 65 - Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Police; Appointments and Promotions; Probationary Periods; Evaluation - Section 65. Original and promotional appointments in the Massachusetts bay...
Section 66 - Labor Service Positions in Highways Department; Certification; Promotions; Districts - Section 66. The administrator shall certify persons to fill positions...
Section 67 - Annual List of Civil Service Employees; Posting; Enforcement; Penalties - Section 67. Each appointing authority shall submit to the administrator,...
Section 68 - Reports of Appointment, Promotion, Demotion, Leaves of Absence, Etc. - Section 68. Each appointing authority shall report in writing forthwith...
Section 69 - Reports of Appointment or Employment by Appointing Authority Upon Request; Enforcement; Penalties - Section 69. Every appointing authority shall file, within seven days...
Section 70 - Records; Examination Papers; Inspection; Destruction - Section 70. The commission and the administrator shall maintain on...
Section 71 - Rosters of Positions; Filing; Use; Penalties - Section 71. The administrator shall prepare and maintain in his...
Section 72 - Investigations; Subpoenas; Summoning Witnesses, Etc. - Section 72. The commission or the administrator may investigate all...
Section 73 - Violations; Notice; Writs of Mandamus - Section 73. If, in the opinion of the administrator, a...
Section 74 - Prohibited Activities; Penalties - Section 74. No person shall wilfully or corruptly alter any...
Section 75 - Rights of Municipal Employees - Section 75. No person shall deny or interfere with the...
Section 76 - Positions Subject to Federal Merit System Standards; Minimum Qualifications - Section 76. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary...
Section 77 - Enforcement of Laws and Rules - Section 77. The administrator may take any necessary and appropriate...