Massachusetts General Laws
Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts
Chapter 41 - Officers and Employees of Cities, Towns and Districts

Section 2 - Establishment of New Board or Office; Effect; Increase or Decrease in Board Membership or Number of Officers - Section 2. Where the town elects a new board or...

Section 3 - City Officers; Powers and Duties - Section 3. Officers of cities shall have the powers and...

Section 4 - Penalty for Failure to Choose Selectmen or Assessors - Section 4. A town which does not choose selectmen or...

Section 4a - Members of Town and District Boards Eligible to Hold Other Offices; Salary - Section 4A. Except as otherwise expressly provided, a district board,...

Section 5 - Voting List; Use - Section 5. The voting list shall be used and the...

Section 6 - Use of Official Ballots; Towns Authorized to Provide For - Section 6. A town may, at a town meeting, vote...

Section 7 - Use of Official Ballot; Determination of Extent - Section 7. If a town votes that official ballots shall...

Section 8 - Handling of Ballots - Section 8. At any meeting for the choice of town...

Section 9 - Handling of Ballots After Tabulation; Sealing - Section 9. If the town clerk, selectmen, assessors, treasurer, collector...

Section 10 - Failure to Elect; Procedure to Fill Vacancy; Notice - Section 10. If there is a failure at an election...

Section 11 - Appointment to Fill Vacancy in Town Office - Section 11. As used in this section, the term ''vacancy''...

Section 12 - City Clerks; Tenure - Section 12. In cities which accepted chapter three hundred and...

Section 13 - Bond of Town Clerk - Section 13. Every town clerk shall, within ten days after...

Section 13a - Bond of City Clerk - Section 13A. Each city clerk, except in Boston, shall, within...

Section 13b - Renewal of Licenses and Permits; Delegation of Authority - Section 13B. In a city in which the board of...

Section 14 - Temporary Clerk - Section 14. If the office of city clerk is vacant,...

Section 15 - Town Clerks; Powers and Duties - Section 15. The town clerk shall record all votes passed...

Section 15a - Certification of Appropriations - Section 15A. City and town clerks and clerks of districts...

Section 16 - Oaths of Town Officers; Return of Certificate - Section 16. A justice of the peace administering the oath...

Section 17 - Filing of City Contracts; Penalty for Noncompliance - Section 17. Every officer of a city who makes or...

Section 18 - Assistant City Clerk - Section 18. A city may by ordinance establish the office...

Section 18a - Records of City Clerk; Attestation - Section 18A. The records of the city clerk of a...

Section 18b - Facsimile Signatures of City Clerk or Assistant City Clerk - Section 18B. A facsimile of the signature of a city...

Section 19 - Assistant Town Clerks; Powers and Duties; Compensation - Section 19. The town clerk may in writing appoint an...

Section 19a - Certificate of Appointment or Election of Clerk; Filing Requirements - Section 19A. Upon the appointment or election of a clerk...

Section 19b - City and Town Clerks; Tenure of Office - Section 19B. Every city or town clerk under age seventy...

Section 19c - Acceptance of Sec. 19b; Procedure; Petition - Section 19C. In cities, and in any town using official...

Section 19d - Removal or Suspension of Clerk Having Permanent Tenure - Section 19D. After the acceptance of the provisions of section...

Section 19e - Procedure for Filling Vacancy Following Death or Removal of Clerk Having Permanent Tenure - Section 19E. In any city or town in which the...

Section 19f - Additional Compensation for Serving as Clerk of City Council - Section 19F. In any city which accepts this section, the...

Section 19g - Additional Compensation for Serving as Member of Registrars of Voters - Section 19G. A clerk of a city or town who...

Section 19h - Maximum Amount of Additional Compensation for Serving as Member of Registrars of Voters - Section 19H. Notwithstanding the limitation contained in section nineteen G,...

Section 19i - Additional Compensation for Serving in Other City or Town Positions - Section 19I. Notwithstanding the provisions of chapter two hundred and...

Section 19j - Additional Compensation for Serving as Member of Board of Registrars of Voters - Section 19J. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections nineteen G and...

Section 19k - Additional Compensation for Town Clerk - Section 19K. In any town, that accepts this section, a...

Section 20 - Selectmen; Duties and Oath; Penalty - Section 20. Selectmen shall, upon the receipt and approval of...

Section 21 - Authorization for Selectmen to Act as or Appoint Other Town Officers - Section 21. By vote of a town meeting called for...

Section 21a - Removal of Persons Appointed to Positions of Chief of Police or Head of Municipal Police Department - Section 21A. In any city or town which accepts the...

Section 22 - Officers Appointed by Selectmen; Tenure; Compensation; Vacancies - Section 22. Officers appointed by authority of a vote under...

Section 23 - Rescission of Vote by Selectmen; Election of Other Officers; Tenure - Section 23. A town may, after a vote under section...

Section 23a - Executive Secretary or Town Administrator; Appointment; Tenure - Section 23A. A town may by vote or by-law authorize...

Section 23b - Town Departments; Investigations and Reports - Section 23B. The selectmen of any town may make an...

Section 23c - Persons Acting on Behalf of Selectmen; Appointment and Removal - Section 23C. No person shall be authorized by vote of...

Section 23d - Municipal Data Processing Centers - Section 23D. A city by ordinance and a town by...

Section 24 - Assessors; Number; Method of Selection; Tenure - Section 24. There shall be one, three, five, seven or...

Section 25 - Appointment by Selectmen; Tenure of Office - Section 25. In towns which accept this section or have...

Section 25a - Assistant Assessors; Appointment by Assessors; Duties; Compensation; Tenure - Section 25A. The assessors may appoint as assistant assessors such...

Section 26 - Appointment by Selectmen Where Town So Votes - Section 26. If a town votes under section twenty-one to...

Section 26a - Employment of Counsel in Certain Proceedings - Section 26A. The assessors, or selectmen acting as assessors, may...

Section 28 - Powers and Duties of Assistant Assessors - Section 28. Assistant assessors shall, in their respective districts, assist...

Section 29 - Oath of Office; Penalty for Failure to Take Oath - Section 29. Any person chosen to assess taxes or to...

Section 30 - Penalty for False Valuation - Section 30. Any person chosen to determine the valuation of...

Section 30a - Vacancies; Effect on Powers of Remaining Assessors - Section 30A. A vacancy in the office of assessor shall...

Section 30b - Agreements for Joint and Cooperative Assessment, Classification and Valuation of Property - Section 30B. (a) Notwithstanding any general or special law or...

Section 34b - Identification of Husbands and Wives in Documents and Communications - Section 34B. Whenever the assessor, in any communication, document or...

Section 35 - Bond of Treasurer; Duties - Section 35. Every town treasurer shall give bond annually for...

Section 36 - Powers of Treasurer; Prosecution of Actions - Section 36. He may in his own name and official...

Section 38 - Powers of Tax Collector - Section 38. A town may authorize its collector of taxes...

Section 38a - Collection of Accounts Due City or Town; Powers and Duties of Tax Collector - Section 38A. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the...

Section 39 - Collection of Taxes by Constable - Section 39. If a person appointed to collect taxes in...

Section 39a - Assistant Treasurer - Section 39A. The treasurer of a city or town may...

Section 39c - Assistant Collector - Section 39C. The collector of a city or town may...

Section 40 - Temporary Town Officers - Section 40. If the office of town treasurer, town collector...

Section 41 - Payment of Compensation; Oath - Section 41. No treasurer or other fiscal officer of any...

Section 41a - Delivery of Payroll Checks to Department Heads - Section 41A. Notwithstanding the provisions of section thirty-five, the treasurer...

Section 41b - Payment of Public Employees by Direct Bank Credits - Section 41B. The treasurer of any city, town or district...

Section 41c - Deposits in Credit Union; Pension or Retirement Allowances - Section 41C. The treasurer of any city or town may...

Section 42 - Contents of Pay Roll - Section 42. Every such pay roll, bill or account shall...

Section 43 - Penalty - Section 43. Each appointing, employing or other officer, who wilfully...

Section 43a - Defense of Actions Against Treasurers and Collectors; Indemnification - Section 43A. If it appears to the mayor and city...

Section 44 - Sinking Fund Commissioners; Election; Tenure; Appointment of Secretary and Treasurer - Section 44. A city or town having a sinking fund...

Section 45 - Board of Commissioners of Trust Funds; Membership; Powers and Duties - Section 45. Any city or town, except Boston, may create...

Section 45a - Commissioners in Towns Under Five Thousand Population - Section 45A. If a town having less than five thousand...

Section 46 - Town Treasurer; Duties; Bond - Section 46. The town treasurer shall be the custodian of...

Section 47 - Powers and Duties - Section 47. The said board of commissioners shall, so far...

Section 48 - Tenure of City Auditor - Section 48. In cities which accepted chapter three hundred and...

Section 49 - Vacancy in Office of Auditor - Section 49. If the office of an auditor in a...

Section 49a - Assistant Auditors; Powers and Duties; Compensation - Section 49A. The auditor, accountant, or officer having similar duties,...

Section 50 - Powers and Duties of Auditors - Section 50. The auditors of a town shall examine the...

Section 51 - Accounts Payable; Notice to Creditors; Part Payments - Section 51. An auditor may notify a person to whom...

Section 52 - Approval of Bills - [ Section impacted by 2020, 92, Secs. 12, 13, 16...

Section 53 - Auditing of Public Trusts - Section 53. Town auditors shall at least once every year,...

Section 54 - Notice to Auditor of Payment of Public Funds to Treasurer - Section 54. Whenever any officer of the commonwealth, or of...

Section 54a - Notification to Assessors of Receipts - Section 54A. The auditor or similar officer in cities and...

Section 55 - Town Accountant; Tenure; Powers and Duties - Section 55. Any town may authorize the selectmen to appoint...

Section 56 - Warrants for Payment of Bills - [ Section impacted by 2020, 92, Secs. 12, 13, 16...

Section 57 - Books of Account and Financial Records - Section 57. The town accountant shall keep a complete set...

Section 58 - Duties; Notice of Condition of Appropriations; Record of Appropriations - Section 58. Whenever any appropriation shall have been expended or...

Section 59 - Annual Estimates; Furnishing to Town Accountant - Section 59. The selectmen and all boards, committees, heads of...

Section 60 - Table of Estimated Appropriations - Section 60. The town accountant shall immediately upon the close...

Section 61 - Annual Report - Section 61. The town accountant shall make an annual report,...

Section 61a - Appointment of Temporary Officers Upon Vacancy of Certain Offices; Tenure; Bond; Removal; Powers and Duties - Section 61A. If the office of city auditor, city treasurer,...

Section 62 - Highway Surveyor; Duties - Section 62. If a highway surveyor be chosen, he shall...

Section 63 - Road and Sewer Commissioners - Section 63. A town may at an annual meeting if...

Section 64 - Road Commissioners; Powers and Duties - Section 64. If road commissioners be chosen, they shall exclusively...

Section 65 - Sewer Commissioners; Powers and Duties - Section 65. If sewer commissioners be chosen, they shall, as...

Section 66 - Superintendent of Streets; Appointment; Tenure - Section 66. In a town which has not authorized the...

Section 67 - One Superintendent of Streets for Two or More Towns - Section 67. The selectmen of two or more towns may...

Section 68 - Superintendent of Streets; Powers and Duties - Section 68. The superintendent of streets shall, under the direction...

Section 69 - Superintendent of Water or Sewer Department - Section 69. If a town votes under section twenty-one to...

Section 69a - Water Commissioners; Election; Tenure; Quorum; Vacancies - Section 69A. Any town establishing a water supply or water...

Section 69b - Water Commissioners; Powers and Duties - Section 69B. The water commissioners, or the selectmen authorized to...

Section 69c - Submission of Adoption of Board of Public Works to Electorate; Ballot - Section 69C. By vote of a town meeting called for...

Section 69d - Board of Public Works; Membership; Election; Tenure; Powers and Duties - Section 69D. Any town which has accepted the provisions of...

Section 69e - Superintendent of Public Works; Appointment; Powers and Duties - Section 69E. The board shall appoint and fix the compensation...

Section 69f - Submission to Voters of Revocation of Acceptance; Conditions; Effect - Section 69F. Any town which has accepted the provisions of...

Section 69g - Office of Lands and Natural Resources; Establishment; Powers and Duties; Director and Assistants - Section 69G. Every city or town may establish an office...

Section 70 - Planning Board; Duties - Section 70. Every city and every town having a population...

Section 71 - Annual Report - Section 71. Every planning board shall make a report annually...

Section 72 - Ordinances and By-Laws - Section 72. Cities and towns may make ordinances and by-laws...

Section 73 - Board of Survey; Membership; Length of Existence; Suspension of Powers and Duties - Section 73. In cities which accept this section by vote...

Section 74 - Approval of Plans Filed by Citizens - Section 74. After the establishment of a board of survey...

Section 75 - Preparation of Plans by Board - Section 75. The board of survey may, and in cities,...

Section 76 - Substitution of New Plans - Section 76. The board of survey may from time to...

Section 77 - Construction or Alteration of Public Ways; Restrictions - Section 77. The powers of the city council or of...

Section 78 - Recordation of Plan; Necessity of Approval by Board - Section 78. No register of deeds shall record any plan...

Section 79 - Entry Upon Lands by Board of Survey for Examinations and Surveys - Section 79. Boards of survey, their officers and agents may,...

Section 80 - Establishment and Discontinuance of Exterior Way Lines - Section 80. A town which accepts section seventy-three or has...

Section 81 - Damages - Section 81. Sections seventy-three to seventy-nine, inclusive, shall not authorize...

Section 81a - Planning Board; Establishment; Membership; Tenure; Vacancies - Section 81A. Any city except Boston, and, except as hereinafter...

Section 81b - Planning Board; Powers and Duties - Section 81B. In any city or town in which a...

Section 81c - Studies and Reports of Board; Acting as Park Commissioners - Section 81C. The planning board established under section eighty-one A...

Section 81d - Master Plan; Economic Development Supplement - Section 81D. A planning board established in any city or...

Section 81e - Official Map; Purpose; Recordation - Section 81E. Each city or town having a planning board...

Section 81f - Alteration of Official Map; Damages for Injuries - Section 81F. A city or town so adopting an official...

Section 81g - Applicability of Municipal Planning Laws to Municipal Powers Over Public Ways and Parks - Section 81G. Sections eighty-one A to eighty-one J, inclusive, shall...

Section 81h - Part of Official Map; Laying Out, Altering or Relocating Public Ways - Section 81H. Upon final action by the proper authorities in...

Section 81i - Duties of Municipalities Having No Official Map in Respect to Construction of Ways; Reference to Planning Board - Section 81I. In a city or town having a planning...

Section 81j - Establishment and Discontinuance of Exterior Lines of Ways in Municipalities With Planning Boards; Damages for Injuries - Section 81J. A city or town which has a planning...

Section 81k - Designation of Subdivision Control Law - Section 81K. Sections eighty-one K to eighty-one GG, inclusive, shall...

Section 81l - Definitions - Section 81L. In construing the subdivision control law, the following...

Section 81m - Purpose of Law - Section 81M. The subdivision control law has been enacted for...

Section 81n - Territorial Extent of Law; Acceptance by Municipalities - Section 81N. Except as provided in section eighty-one EE, the...

Section 81o - Regulation of New Subdivisions - Section 81O. No person shall make a subdivision of any...

Section 81p - Approval of Plans Not Subject to Control Law; Procedure - Section 81P. Any person wishing to cause to be recorded...

Section 81q - Planning Board; Adoption of Rules and Regulations - Section 81Q. After a public hearing, notice of the time...

Section 81r - Waiver of Strict Compliance With Rules and Regulations - Section 81R. A planning board may in any particular case,...

Section 81s - Submission of Preliminary Plan; Approval or Disapproval; Recording - Section 81S. In the case of a subdivision showing lots...

Section 81t - Notice of Submission of Plan; Hearing - Section 81T. Every person submitting a definitive plan of land...

Section 81u - Approval, Modification or Disapproval of Plan by Board; Prerequisites for Decision - Section 81U. When a definitive plan of a subdivision is...

Section 81v - Final Approval of Plan; Endorsements; Certificate - Section 81V. In case of approval of a plan by...

Section 81w - Modification, Amendment or Rescission of Approval of Plan; Conditions - Section 81W. A planning board, on its own motion or...

Section 81x - Requirements for Registration of Plan - Section 81X. No register of deeds shall record any plan...

Section 81y - Restrictions on Construction of Public Ways, Improvements and Buildings; Liability of Grantors, etc.; Court Jurisdiction - Section 81Y. In any city or town in which the...

Section 81z - Board of Appeals; Membership; Tenure; Removal; Vacancies; Jurisdiction - Section 81Z. A city or town in which the subdivision...

Section 81aa - Board of Appeals; Rules; Meetings; Powers and Duties; Hearings - Section 81AA. The board of appeals appointed under section eighty-one...

Section 81bb - Appeal to Superior Court; Counsel; Costs; Surety or Bond; Speedy Trial - Section 81BB. Any person, whether or not previously a party...

Section 81cc - Powers of Planning Boards; Entry on Lands - Section 81CC. Planning boards and their officers and agents may,...

Section 81dd - Application of Law; Damages - Section 81DD. The subdivision control law shall not abridge the...

Section 81ee - Recordation; Evidence That Subdivision Control Law Is in Effect; Suspension - Section 81EE. Every board having on the first day of...

Section 81ff - Application of Subdivision Control Law on Registered and Unregistered Land; Jurisdiction of Land Court - Section 81FF. So far as land which has not been...

Section 81gg - Powers of Planning Boards Established Under Prior Law; Severability Provision - Section 81GG. Any planning board having powers of subdivision control...

Section 82 - Authority to Establish Art Commissions - Section 82. Cities and towns which accept this section or...

Section 83 - Appointment; Membership; Compensation; Tenure; Removal - Section 83. Within sixty days after the acceptance of the...

Section 84 - Powers and Duties; Penalty - Section 84. In any town which has accepted section eighty-two...

Section 85 - Weighers, Measurers and Surveyors of Goods or Commodities; Appointment; Qualifications; Tenure; Removal - Section 85. The mayor or the selectmen, on the written...

Section 86 - Powers and Duties; Penalty for Misrepresentation - Section 86. All persons appointed under section eighty-five shall keep...

Section 87 - Applicability of Secs. 85 and 86 to Weighers, etc., of Particular Commodities - Section 87. The two preceding sections shall not affect the...

Section 87a - Weighers and Measurers of Motor Vehicles and Trailers; Appointment - Section 87A. The director of standards, upon the written request...

Section 88 - Weighers of Fish - Section 88. The mayor of each city, and the selectmen...

Section 89 - Deputy Weighers of Fish - Section 89. A public weigher of fish may appoint, subject...

Section 90 - Weighers of Fish; Penalty for Violation of Oath of Office - Section 90. A weigher or any of his deputies who...

Section 90a - Interfering With Fish Weigher or Deputies; Penalty - Section 90A. Whoever hinders, or obstructs, or in any way...

Section 91 - Constables; Appointment and Removal in Cities - Section 91. In a city in which the city council...

Section 91a - Constables; Appointment in Towns - Section 91A. The selectmen in any town may from time...

Section 91b - Appointments; Qualifications; Application; Investigation - Section 91B. Constables shall not be appointed by mayors or...

Section 92 - Service of Civil Process - Section 92. A constable who has given bond to the...

Section 93 - Remedies on Bond - Section 93. The town clerk shall note upon every bond...

Section 94 - Powers and Duties - Section 94. Constables may serve the writs and processes described...

Section 95 - Territorial Jurisdiction - Section 95. A constable, in the execution of a warrant...

Section 95a - Service of Civil Process Fees - Section 95A. Constables appointed under sections 91, 91A, and 91B...

Section 95b - Records of Service of Civil Process Fees - Section 95B. Each constable shall annually on or before April...

Section 96 - Police Officers; Appointment; Tenure; Discharge - Section 96. In any town in which such appointments are...

Section 96a - Felons Disqualified - [Text of section effective until July 1, 2021. For text...

Section 96b - Police Training Schools; Supervisory Training; Attendance by Persons Exercising Police Powers; Wages and Expenses; Exceptions; Removal for Failure to Attend - Section 96B. Every person who receives an appointment to a...

Section 97 - Police Departments; Establishment - Section 97. In towns which accept this section or have...

Section 97a - Police Departments; Chief of Police; Powers and Duties - Section 97A. In any town which accepts this section there...

Section 97b - Rape Reporting and Prosecution Units Within Police Departments; Training and Funding; Personnel; Retention and Preservation of Forensic Evidence - Section 97B. There shall be within the police department of...

Section 97b1/2 - Notification to Local Law Enforcement by Medical Facilities When Evidence of Sexual Assault Obtained; Submission of Evidence Kit to Crime Laboratory; Entering of Evidence Into DNA Database and Statewide Sexual Assault Evidence Kit Tr... - Section 97B1/2. (a) A hospital licensed pursuant to chapter 111...

Section 97c - Special Telephone Exchange for Reporting of Rape - Section 97C. Each rape reporting and prosecution unit shall, in...

Section 97d - Confidentiality of Reports of Rape, Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence; Access by Victim and Certain Individuals in Performance of Their Duties; Violations; Penalties - Section 97D. All reports of rape and sexual assault or...

Section 97e - Chief of Police; Attendance at Conventions - Section 97E. In any city or town which accepts the...

Section 97f - Firefighter Duties; Performance by Police - Section 97F. No city or town shall require a member...

Section 98 - Powers and Duties - Section 98. The chief and other police officers of all...

Section 98a - Arrest on Fresh and Continued Pursuit - Section 98A. A police officer of a city or town...

Section 98b - Foot Patrol - Section 98B. In every city or town which has a...

Section 98c - Badges; Identification by Name or Number - Section 98C. In any city or town which accepts the...

Section 98d - Identification Cards - Section 98D. Each city or town shall issue to every...

Section 98e - Public Solicitations Using Words ''police'' or ''firefighters'' - Section 98E. No person or persons shall solicit the public...

Section 98f - Daily Logs; Public Records; Confidentiality of Certain Entries - Section 98F. Each police department and each college or university...

Section 98g - Domestic Abuse; Police Reports - Section 98G. Any city, town or district police department which...

Section 98h - Settlement Agreements for Professional Misconduct by Law Enforcement Officer; Nondisclosure, Non-Disparagement or Similar Clauses - Section 98H. An agreement by a law enforcement agency, as...

Section 99 - Requisition of Police Officers by Other Towns - Section 99. The mayor, selectmen, chief of police, or person...

Section 99a - Members of Regular Police or Fire Department and Fire Alarm Division; Residence Outside City or Town - Section 99A. Any member of the regular police or fire...

Section 99b - Regional Police District Law; Purpose of Secs. 99b to 99k - Section 99B. The purpose of this and the nine following...

Section 99c - Establishment - Section 99C. Any group of contiguous towns may, by vote...

Section 99d - Town Elections for Acceptance; Ballots - Section 99D. In towns using official ballots at town elections,...

Section 99e - Powers and Duties - Section 99E. A regional police district established under section ninety-nine...

Section 99f - Regional Police District Commission; Membership; Officers - Section 99F. The powers, duties and liabilities of a regional...

Section 99g - Budget; Apportionment; Appropriations - Section 99G. The regional police district commission shall annually determine...

Section 99h - Annual Audits - Section 99H. The director of accounts in the department of...

Section 99i - Costs and Expenses; Annual Estimates; Apportionment; Assessment of Towns - Section 99I. Said commission shall, annually not later than December...

Section 99j - Regional District Police Department; Pending Prosecutions; Personnel Transfers. - Section 99J. Each regional police district commission shall organize a...

Section 99k - Revocation of Acceptance of Regional Police District Law; Town Elections; Ballot; Continuity of District - Section 99K. In towns using official ballots at town elections,...

Section 100 - Indemnification of Police Officers, Firemen and Persons Aiding Them; Actions for Intentional or Negligent Injuries Inflicted Upon Same - Section 100. Upon application by a fire fighter or police...

Section 100b - Indemnification of Retired Police Officers and Fire Fighters - Section 100B. Any city operating under a Plan D or...

Section 100g - Payment of Funeral and Burial Expenses of Fire Fighters and Police Officers Killed in Performance of Duties; Acceptance of Section - Section 100G. Any city operating under a Plan D or...

Section 100g1/4 - Payment of Funeral and Burial Expenses of Firefighters and Police Officers Killed in Performance of Duties; Acceptance of Section - Section 100G1/4. A city operating under a Plan D or...

Section 100g1/2 - Attendance by Police Officers at Police Association Executive Board Meetings; Acceptance of Section - Section 100G1/2. Members of the police department in a city,...

Section 100h - Indemnification of Law Enforcement Officers for Dogs Used in Connection With Official Duties - Section 100H. If an action is brought against a law...

Section 101 - Commissioner of Public Safety; Powers and Duties - Section 101. If a town so votes under section twenty-one...

Section 101a - Police Officers or Firefighters; Tobacco Smoking - Section 101A. Subsequent to January first, nineteen hundred and eighty-eight,...

Section 102 - Inspector of Health - Section 102. If a town votes under section twenty-one to...

Section 102a - Appointment in Towns Under Three Thousand Population - Section 102A. In any town of not exceeding three thousand...

Section 102b - Appointment in Towns of 5,000 or More Inhabitants - Section 102B. In any town of five thousand inhabitants or...

Section 103 - Purchasing Department; Purchasing Agent; Duties and Salaries - Section 103. A city which accepts this section in the...

Section 104 - Establishment of Purchasing Department; Submission to Electorate - Section 104. A city council, with the approval of the...

Section 105 - Board of Trustees for Soldiers' Memorials; Powers and Duties; Membership; Tenure; Vacancies; Rules and Regulations - Section 105. Towns which accept gifts or bequests or appropriate...

Section 106 - Tree Warden; Appointment; Term - Section 106. If the town provides by vote or by-law...

Section 106a - Town Physician; Appointment in Certain Towns - Section 106A. In any town of not exceeding three thousand...

Section 106b - Capital Planning Committee; Establishment; Duties - Section 106B. A town at its annual town meeting may...

Section 107 - Oath of Office; Beginning of Term - Section 107. A person who is elected town clerk shall...

Section 108 - Compensation - Section 108. The salary and compensation of all elected officers...

Section 108a - Classification of Positions; Compensation Plans; Rules and Regulations - Section 108A. A city by ordinance and a town by...

Section 108b - Assessors and Tax Collectors in Districts; Compensation and Expenses - Section 108B. In a town in which a district has...

Section 108c - By-Laws Pertaining to Administration of Personnel; Consolidation - Section 108C. A town may consolidate, in a single chapter...

Section 108d - Fire Fighters; Minimum Annual Compensation - Section 108D. Notwithstanding the provisions of section thirty-three A of...

Section 108e - Policemen; Schedule of Minimum Annual Compensation - Section 108E. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special...

Section 108f - Fire Fighters; Schedule of Minimum Annual Compensation - Section 108F. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special...

Section 108g - Policemen; Alternate Schedule of Minimum Annual Compensation - Section 108G. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special...

Section 108h - Fire Fighters Assigned to Photographic Work; Additional Compensation - Section 108H. In any city or town which accepts the...

Section 108i - Policemen Assigned to Photographic or Fingerprint Identification Work; Additional Compensation - Section 108I. In any city or town which accepts the...

Section 108j - Equal Pay of Male and Female Employees - Section 108J. In any city or town which accepts this...

Section 108k - Female Police Officers; Equality of Compensation - Section 108K. A female regular police officer in a city...

Section 108l - Police Career Incentive Pay Program; Salary Increases; Reimbursement of Cities or Towns - Section 108L. There is hereby established a career incentive pay...

Section 108m - Police Officers Attending Law Enforcement Courses at Accredited College or University for Degree; Payment of Salary; Duty Hours; Agreement - Section 108M. A city or town which employs a permanent...

Section 108n - Town Manager, Administrator, Executive Secretary, or Administrative Assistant; Employment Contract - Section 108N. Notwithstanding the provision of any general or special...

Section 108n1/2 - Employment Contracts for Appointed Municipal Treasurers, Assessors or Collectors - Section 108N1/2. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the...

Section 108o - Employment Contracts for Police Chiefs and Fire Chiefs - Section 108O. Any city or town acting through its appointing...

Section 108p - Additional Compensation for Collectors or Treasurers - Section 108P. In any city, town or district that accepts...

Section 109 - Resignation; Notice; Residence Requirements - Section 109. No resignation of a town or district officer...

Section 109a - Fidelity Bonds; Payment of Premiums - Section 109A. Every officer or employee of a city, town...

Section 110 - Authorization for Holidays - Section 110. The city council of a city may provide...

Section 110a - Office Hours on Saturday - Section 110A. Any public office in any city or town...

Section 111 - Vacations of Certain Employees - Section 111. In any city or town which has accepted...

Section 111a - Vacations for Police and Firemen - Section 111A. In any city or town which accepts this...

Section 111b - Sick Leaves; Accumulation - Section 111B. Any foreman, laborer, workman or mechanic regularly employed...

Section 111c - Attendance by Employee Veterans at Funerals or Memorial Services for Veterans - Section 111C. Any employee of a city or town who...

Section 111d - Vacations for Police and Firemen - Section 111D. In any city or town which accepts this...

Section 111e - Vacation Pay for Terminated Employees; Conditions - Section 111E. Whenever the employment of any person subject to...

Section 111f - Leave With Pay for Incapacitated Employees - Section 111F. Whenever a police officer or fire fighter of...

Section 111g - Additional Vacation Time for Longevity - Section 111G. In any city or town in which the...

Section 111g1/2 - Vacations; Duration - Section 111G1/2. In any city or town in which the...

Section 111h - Overtime Pay for Police Officers; Conditions - Section 111H. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special...

Section 111i - Compensation Due Deceased Employees; Disposition - Section 111I. Whenever any officer or employee or former officer...

Section 111j - Attendance at Veterans' Conventions - Section 111J. Any employee of a city or town who...

Section 111k - Firemen; Summer Vacations - Section 111K. In any city or town which accepts this...

Section 111l - Policemen and Firemen; Vacations; 20 Years' Service - Section 111L. In any city or town in which the...

Section 111m - Emergency Medical Technicians; Leave Without Loss of Pay While Incapacitated - Section 111M. In any city or town which accepts this...

Section 111n - Indemnification of Emergency Medical Technicians for Certain Expenses - Section 111N. Any city operating under a Plan D or...

Section 112 - Preference in Public Employment - Section 112. In towns and regional school districts in which...

Section 112a - Veterans in Unclassified Positions; Procedure for Involuntary Separation - Section 112A. A veteran, as defined in section one of...

Section 113 - Use of Official Ballots - Section 113. A district situated in one or more towns...

Section 114 - Application of Election Laws - Section 114. Where official ballots are used nominations for district...

Section 115 - Nomination Papers; Filing; Certificates of Nomination - Section 115. Every nomination paper of a candidate for office...

Section 116 - Duties of Prudential Committee and Clerk in Certain Districts - Section 116. In carrying out the provisions of sections one...

Section 117 - District Elections; Provision for Election Equipment; Liability for Expenses - Section 117. The town where a district is situated shall...

Section 118 - District Elections; Provision for Forms, Tally and Vote Sheets - Section 118. Upon request of the clerk of a town...

Section 119 - District Meetings; Qualifications - Section 119. Said districts may hold the meeting for the...

Section 120 - Fiscal Year of Districts - Section 120. The fiscal year of all districts shall begin...

Section 121 - District Treasurers; Qualifications - Section 121. The provisions of section thirty-five of chapter forty-one...

Section 122 - Temporary Treasurer; Appointment; Bond - Section 122. Unless otherwise provided by law, if the office...

Section 123 - Temporary Clerk; Appointment; Bond - Section 123. Unless otherwise provided by law, if the office...

Section 123a - Assistant Treasurers and Assistant Clerks; Appointment; Bond - Section 123A. In a district, the prudential committee, if any,...

Section 124 - Fire and Water Districts; Appropriation for Cost of Water Favorability Studies - Section 124. Fire and water districts, whether established by general...

Section 125 - Temporary Housing Assistance Plans - Section 125. The city manager in cities having a plan...

Section 126 - Definitions - Section 126. The following words, as used in sections one...

Section 127 - Eligibility to Apply for Tenure; Offices Excepted; Restrictions; Duration of Tenure; Removal for Cause - Section 127. Any person who has held an appointive office...

Section 128 - City Offices; Application Statement; Filing; Approval Procedure; Denial, Re-Application Time Limit - Section 128. Any person applying for tenure in an appointive...

Section 129 - Town Offices; Application Statement; Filing; Approval Procedure; Denial, Re-Application Time Limit - Section 129. Any person applying for tenure in an appointive...

Section 130 - Applicability of Town Tenure Provisions to Districts - Section 130. The provisions of section one hundred and twenty-seven...

Section 131 - City or Town Offices; Application Statement by Head of Department for Tenure of Its Members; Filing; Approval Procedure; Denial, Re-Application Time Limit - Section 131. Any department head of a city or town...

Section 132 - Tenure Limitations - Section 132. The tenure provisions of sections one hundred and...

Section 133 - Appointment and Reappointment of Police Officers - Section 133. Pursuant to this chapter, and notwithstanding the provisions...

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Massachusetts General Laws Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts Chapter 41 - Officers and Employees of Cities, Towns and Districts

Massachusetts General Laws
Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts
Chapter 41 - Officers and Employees of Cities, Towns and Districts