Massachusetts General Laws
Part I - Administration of the Government
Title VI - Counties and County Officers

Section 12 - Absence or Disqualification of Commissioners; Appointment of Substitute; Tenure - Section 12. In case of inability to attend, or interest...

Section 13 - Powers; Administration of Oaths; Punishment for Contempt - Section 13. When in session, the commissioners may administer oaths...

Section 14 - Additional Powers - Section 14. In addition to such powers and duties as...

Section 14a - Associate Commissioner for Affairs Concerning the Elderly - Section 14A. In any county which accepts this section by...

Section 14b - Associate Commissioner for Affairs Concerning Handicapped Persons - Section 14B. In any county which accepts this section by...

Section 15 - Qualification of Officers; Return to State Secretary - Section 15. They shall, upon administering the oaths of office...

Section 16 - Office Hours; Holidays; Certain Acts Performable on Next Business Day - Section 16. Except as otherwise provided by law, all offices...

Section 18 - Recognizances and Damages - Section 18. The commissioners shall require all applicants for the...

Section 19 - Proceedings at Other Times Than Regular Meetings and Returns Thereof - Section 19. The commissioners severally may, at other times than...

Section 20 - Applicability of Laws Relating to County Commissioners and Clerks to Certain Other Officers - Section 20. The laws relative to the powers, duties and...

Section 21 - Official Letters - Section 21. The provisions of section thirty of chapter thirty...

Section 22 - Breach or Neglect of Duty; Penalty - Section 22. For wilful breach or neglect of a duty...

Section 23 - Gifts; Use and Disposition - Section 23. Any county may receive, hold and manage any...

Section 24 - Federal Grants; Acceptance, Custody and Disposition - Section 24. Any county officer or department may, with the...

Section 25 - Acquisition of Real Property - Section 25. The commissioners may, subject to appropriation, acquire by...

Chapter 34a - County Charter Procedures

Section 1 - Short Title; Definitions - Section 1. This chapter may be cited as the ''County...

Section 2 - Power to Adopt or Revise Charters - Section 2. Every county, except Barnstable county, shall have the...

Section 3 - Elections to Create Charter Study Commissions; Petitions - Section 3. (A.) Whenever authorized by resolution of the county...

Section 4 - Election of Charter Study Commission Members - Section 4. (A.) At the same election as the public...

Section 5 - Candidates for Charter Commission; Nomination - Section 5. (A.) At-large candidates for the charter commission shall...

Section 6 - Members of Charter Commission; Boundaries of Election Districts - Section 6. (A.) A charter commission shall consist of fifteen...

Section 7 - First Meeting; Officers; Vacancies; Expenses - Section 7. The commission member who received the highest number...

Section 8 - Function of Commission - Section 8. It shall be the function and duty of...

Section 9 - Powers and Duties of Commission; Funds; Assistance; Tax Levy - Section 9. (A.) A charter commission may adopt rules governing...

Section 10 - Nonvoting Members - Section 10. (A.) In any county in which a charter...

Section 11 - Public Hearings; Reports; Publication of Proposed Charter - Section 11. (A.) The charter commission shall hold public hearings,...

Section 12 - Report and Recommendation; Findings and Determinations - Section 12. (A.) The charter study commission may report and...

Section 13 - Optional Forms of Government, Referendum; Special Charter, Enabling Legislation - Section 13. (A) If the charter commission shall have recommended...

Section 14 - Petitions for Adoption or Revision of Charters - Section 14. (a) The charter may be revised in the...

Section 15 - Application of Optional Plans and General Laws; Abolition or Consolidation of Agencies; Intent of Chapter - Section 15. (A.) Upon adoption by the registered voters of...

Section 16 - Powers and Duties of Counties - Section 16. (A.) Any county that has adopted a charter...

Section 17 - County Executive Plan - Section 17. (A.) Form of Government. (i) The form of...

Section 18 - County Manager Plan - Section 18. (A.) Form of Government. (i) The form of...

Section 19 - Board Chairperson Plan - Section 19. (A.) Form of Government. (i) The form of...

Section 20 - Relations Between Legislative and Executive Branches - Section 20. Relations between the Legislative and Executive Branches. A....

Section 21 - Applicability - Section 21. The provisions of this act shall not apply...

Chapter 34b - Abolition of County Government

Section 1 - Transfer Date for Abolished Counties - Section 1. The government of each of the following counties,...

Section 2 - Governments of Abolished Counties - Section 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special...

Section 3 - County Commissioners; Terms - Section 3. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special...

Section 4 - Abolished Counties' Functions, Duties and Responsibilities Transferred to Commonwealth; Employees Transferred Under Administrative Office of Trial Court - Section 4. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special...

Section 5 - Liabilities, Debts and Assets of Abolished Counties - Section 5. All valid liabilities and debts of an abolished...

Section 6 - Real and Personal Property of Abolished Counties - Section 6. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or...

Section 7 - Leases and Contracts of Abolished Counties - Section 7. All valid leases and contracts of an abolished...

Section 8 - Plan to Recover Amounts Paid by Commonwealth for Liabilities and Debts of Abolished Counties - Section 8. (a) For the purpose of recovering amounts expended...

Section 9 - Treasurers of Abolished Counties - Section 9. The treasurer of an abolished county shall cooperate...

Section 10 - Registries of Deeds of Abolished Counties; Employees, Functions and Proceedings Transferred to Commonwealth - Section 10. (a)(1) Notwithstanding any general or special law to...

Section 11 - Rights of Employees of Registries of Deeds - Section 11. The rights of all employees of each registry...

Section 12 - Sheriffs of Abolished Counties - Section 12. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special...

Section 13 - Employees of Sheriffs of Abolished Counties - Section 13. An employee of a sheriff of an abolished...

Section 14 - Sheriffs, Deputies, Jailers, Superintendents, Keepers, Officers, and Assistants and Other Employees of the Sheriffs of Abolished Counties - Section 14. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or...

Section 15 - Statutory Rights of Employees of Abolished Counties - Section 15. All officers and employees of an abolished county...

Section 16 - Group Insurance Coverage for Employees - Section 16. (a)(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or...

Section 17 - Education Aid for Independent Agricultural and Technical Schools - Section 17. The amount of state education aid for an...

Section 18 - Retirement Systems - Section 18. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special...

Section 19 - Regional Retirement Systems; Boards; Members - Section 19. Notwithstanding the provisions of chapter 32 or any...

Section 19a - Essex Regional Retirement System; Essex Regional Retirement Board; Essex Regional Retirement Board Advisory Council; Benefits; Appointment of Receiver Upon Violation by Retirement Board - Section 19A. (a) The contributory retirement system for Essex county,...

Section 20 - Cities and Towns; Regional Charter Commissions; Regional Councils of Government - Section 20. (a) A city or town within or contiguous...

Section 21 - Secretary of Administration and Finance; Plans for Effective Transfer of County Functions to Commonwealth - Section 21. The secretary of administration and finance, in consultation...

Section 22 - Municipalities of Abolished Counties; Dog Funds - Section 22. Notwithstanding the provisions any general or special law...

Chapter 35 - County Treasurers, State Supervision of County Accounts and County Finances

Section 1 - Qualifications; Election; Tenure - Section 1. In Suffolk county the treasurer of Boston, and...

Section 2 - Assistant Treasurer; Bond; Duties - Section 2. In any county, except Suffolk and Nantucket, the...

Section 3 - Oaths; Bonds - Section 3. County treasurers, except in Suffolk and Nantucket counties,...

Section 4 - Salaries; Source of Payment - Section 4. The salaries of county treasurers shall be payable...

Section 7 - Commissioners Acting by Appointment; Compensation; Travel Expenses - Section 7. The treasurer shall be provided by the county...

Section 8 - Traveling Expenses - Section 8. The county treasurer shall be paid his actual...

Section 9 - Wilful Violation of Duty; Penalties - Section 9. For wilful violation of a duty imposed by...

Section 10 - Collection and Disbursement of County Funds; Investment of Funds - Section 10. The treasurer shall collect, receive and safely keep...

Section 10a - Disbursement of Matching Funds for Federally Funded Programs - Section 10A. The county treasurer may disburse sums appropriated as...

Section 11 - Payment of Expenses, etc.; Restrictions - Section 11. No payments, except payments of expenses in criminal...

Section 12 - Expenses of Court Sittings; Court Costs for Indigent Parties; Delivery of Bills to Treasurer - Section 12. Original bills or vouchers for services and expenses...

Section 13 - Filing of Bills - Section 13. Bills, vouchers and other evidences of county indebtedness...

Section 14 - Statement of Law Authorizing Payment of Accounts; Liability for Payments; Exceptions - Section 14. The treasurer may, before payment of an account...

Section 15 - Accounts; Form and Contents - Section 15. The treasurer shall keep a full and accurate...

Section 16 - Fiscal Year - Section 16. The fiscal year of each county shall be...

Section 18 - Suffolk and Nantucket Counties; Applicability of Laws - Section 18. Sections ten, fourteen, twenty-five to twenty-nine, inclusive, and...

Section 19 - County Salaries; Payment; Payroll Deductions; Deposits to Employee Bank Accounts Authorized - Section 19. County salaries shall, except as otherwise provided, be...

Section 19a - Accumulated Vacation Allowance; Payment Upon Death or Separation From Service - Section 19A. In any county which accepts this section by...

Section 19b - Deceased Officers and Employees; Payment of Salary to Next of Kin; Effect - Section 19B. Whenever any officer or employee or former officer...

Section 19c - Deposits in Credit Union; Pension or Retirement Allowances - Section 19C. Any county treasurer may deduct from the pension...

Section 20 - Prosecution of Suits Upon Bonds, Notes, etc.; Joinder of Treasurer as Party - Section 20. A county treasurer may prosecute suits upon bonds,...

Section 21 - Delinquency of Officers as to Money Payments; Notification of District Attorney - Section 21. If a public officer, or other person, required...

Section 22 - Disposition of Surplus Money; Deposits; Investments; Interest - Section 22. Except as otherwise provided, county treasurers, clerks of...

Section 22a - Deposit of Funds Restricted - Section 22A. County treasurers, court clerks, sheriffs and superintendents of...

Section 23 - Money Paid Into Courts; Disposition; Interest - Section 23. Money paid into the courts in any county...

Section 23a - Unclaimed Funds; Disposition - Section 23A. County officers holding funds unclaimed after two years...

Section 24 - Overdue Accounts; Interest Charge - Section 24. If a time is fixed for payment of...

Section 25 - Annual Report; Contents - Section 25. Immediately after July tenth, the county treasurer shall...

Section 26 - Annual Report of County Commissioners; Contents - Section 26. Immediately after July tenth, the county commissioners shall...

Section 26a - Capital Facilities and Capital Facility Projects; Jurisdiction of Capital Planning and Operations Division - Section 26A. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections ten, fourteen, seventeen,...

Section 27 - Annual Reports; Publication and Distribution - Section 27. The county commissioners shall at the expense of...

Section 27a - Treasurer and Custodian of Certain Funds - Section 27A. The county treasurer of each county shall act...

Section 28 - Estimates of County Receipts and Expenditures; Preparation; Recordation - Section 28. (a) The head of each department or institution,...

Section 28b - Advisory Board for County Expenditures; Action on Proposed Budget; Public Hearing; Capital Improvement Fund - Section 28B. (a) In every county other than Suffolk and...

Section 30 - Taxes; Approval; Computation - Section 30. The amount which the county commissioners of each...

Section 31 - Taxes; Apportionment, Assessment and Collection - Section 31. The county commissioners shall apportion and assess all...

Section 32 - Provisions of Appropriation Acts for Counties and County Hospitals; Approved Schedules; Certification; Transfers; Purposes; Expenditures in Excess of Appropriations; Reserve Fund - Section 32. Sums appropriated in appropriation acts for counties and...

Section 32a - Contributory Retirement Systems; Anticipated Costs; Recovery of Pension Costs - Section 32A. In order to offset the anticipated costs for...

Section 34 - Expenses and Liabilities Incurred Prior to Appropriations; Limitations; Exceptions - Section 34. On and after July first in each year...

Section 34a - Expenses Incurred Prior to Appropriation; Highway Agreements Excepted - Section 34A. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections thirty-two and thirty-four,...

Section 35 - Enforcement of Provisions; Conditions - Section 35. The supreme judicial court, upon the suit of...

Section 36 - County Receipts, Cash on Hand and Expenditures; Monthly Account - Section 36. On or before the fifteenth day of each...

Section 36a - Emergency Borrowing for Extraordinary Expenditures - Section 36A. For the purpose of providing funds for any...

Section 37 - Borrowing Funds in Anticipation of Tax Income - Section 37. County commissioners may borrow money in anticipation of,...

Section 37a - Bonds and Notes; Method of Payment; Use of Proceeds; Limitations - Section 37A. Counties shall not issue any bonds or notes...

Section 37b - Temporary Notes; Refunding; Payment - Section 37B. The county treasurer of any county, except Suffolk...

Section 38 - Sale of Notes or Securities; Bids Required; Exceptions - Section 38. Before issuing notes or securities increasing county indebtedness,...

Section 38a - Bonds Issued Subject to Call and Redemption - Section 38A. Unless otherwise specifically provided, a provision in any...

Section 38b - Refunding Bonds and Notes; Issuance; Limitations - Section 38B. Unless otherwise specifically provided, a provision in any...

Section 39 - Interest Rates - Section 39. All bonds, notes and other securities issued by...

Section 39a - Forms for Note Issues; Contents, Etc. - Section 39A. The director shall furnish to the treasurer of...

Section 39b - Notes; Procedure for Issuance - Section 39B. Whenever a county determines to borrow money otherwise...

Section 39c - Bearer Notes; Procedure for Issuance - Section 39C. County notes, when issued for a serial loan,...

Section 39d - Payment of Notes; Notice - Section 39D. Whenever a note issued by a county is...

Section 39e - Certification Fee; Refunds - Section 39E. The director shall establish a reasonable fee for...

Section 39f - Effect of Certification - Section 39F. The certification of county notes by the director...

Section 39g - Facsimile of County Seal on Bonds, etc.; Validity - Section 39G. The engraved or printed facsimile of a county...

Section 39h - Facsimile of County Seal on Bonds, etc.; Authorization of Making and Use - Section 39H. In any county a majority of the commissioners...

Section 39i - Facsimile of County Seal on Bonds or Notes; Validity of Signatures of Officers Leaving Office Before Delivery of Bonds or Notes - Section 39I. If any officer whose signature or a facsimile...

Section 40 - Fines; Accounting; Returns - Section 40. The treasurer of each county shall annually, in...

Section 41 - Payments to Treasurers; Sworn Statements - Section 41. Public officers or agents shall accompany payments of...

Section 42 - Auditor of Boston; Additional Duty - Section 42. The auditor of Boston shall be the auditor...

Section 43 - Exchange of Order Instruments for Bearer Instruments; Penalty for Noncompliance - Section 43. A county, city, town or district, or any...

Section 43a - Surety Bonds of Officers and Employees; Payment of Premiums - Section 43A. Every officer or employee of a county required...

Section 43b - Recovery on Surety Bonds of Officers and Employees; Effect of Acceptance by County of Additional Annual Bond - Section 43B. Whenever an officer or employee of a county...

Section 47 - Penalty for Noncompliance With Orders - Section 47. An officer or person named in section forty-four...

Section 48 - Establishment of Board; Membership; Election; Tenure, Etc. - Section 48. There is hereby established a county personnel board,...

Section 49 - Classification of Positions; ''salary'' Defined - Section 49. Every office and position the salary of which...

Section 51 - Personnel Board; Powers and Duties; Discharge of Employees, Etc. - Section 51. The board shall (a) pass upon and finally...

Section 51a - Definitions - Section 51A. The following words as used in this and...

Section 51b - Salary Schedules - Section 51B. (1) Said classification and compensation plans shall be...

Section 52 - Classification and Allocation of Offices and Positions; Review - Section 52. The classification and allocation of offices and positions...

Section 53 - County Commissioners; Powers and Duties - Section 53. The county commissioners of the several counties shall...

Section 53a - Director of Affirmative Action; Affirmative Action Plan; Reports - Section 53A. The county commissioners of each county shall designate...

Section 54 - Newly Elected Officers, etc., to Receive Minimum Rate; Exceptions; Recommendations for Promotions, Etc. - Section 54. Except as otherwise specifically provided, newly elected or...

Section 55 - Salaries to Be Full Compensation; Overtime Pay, Etc. - Section 55. Except as otherwise expressly provided, all salaries established...

Section 56 - Suffolk County; Applicability of Act; Classification Agencies in Other Counties - Section 56. For Suffolk county, the duties prescribed for the...

Section 57 - Deferred Compensation Program for Employees; Authorized Investments; Requisites; Limitations - Section 57. The treasurer of any county, on behalf of...

Section 57a - Employee Individual Retirement Accounts - Section 57A. The treasurer of any county, on behalf of...

Chapter 36 - Registers of Deeds

Section 1 - Registry Districts - Section 1. The counties of Berkshire, Bristol, Essex, Middlesex and...

Section 2 - Election; Qualification; Tenure - Section 2. In each such district and in each county...

Section 3 - Oath of Office; Bond - Section 3. Each register of deeds shall be sworn before...

Section 4 - Assistant Registers; Appointment - Section 4. Each register, with the approval of the superior...

Section 5 - Assistant Registers in Suffolk County and Southern District of Middlesex - Section 5. The registers of deeds for Suffolk county and...

Section 5a - Second Assistant Register and Administrative Assistant for Norfolk County - Section 5A. The register of deeds for Norfolk county may,...

Section 6 - Assistant Registers for Districts of Southern Essex and Worcester and Hampden County - Section 6. The registers for the southern district of Essex,...

Section 7 - Chief Clerk in Worcester District - Section 7. The register for the Worcester district may, by...

Section 8 - Assistant and Temporary Registers and Clerks; Powers and Duties - Section 8. During the disability of a register, or if...

Section 9 - Removal - Section 9. If a register, upon presentment of the grand...

Section 10 - Duties of New Register as to Unrecorded Instruments - Section 10. If, upon the death, removal or expiration of...

Section 11 - Office Hours - Section 11. Every register shall keep in his registry all...

Section 12 - Place of Record - Section 12. Every deed and other instrument required to be...

Section 12a - Refusal to Accept Certain Instruments for Recording Authorized - Section 12A. A register of deeds may refuse to accept...

Section 13 - Recording of Certified Copies of Instruments in More Than County or District - Section 13. If a deed or other writing affecting land...

Section 13a - Plans, Rules for Filing in Registries - Section 13A. The registers of deeds, or a majority of...

Section 13b - Plans; Filing in Registry of Deeds; Fees - Section 13B. A plan, the original of which was prepared...

Section 14 - Registry Book; Contents of Entries; Instrument Number; Changes and Corrections - Section 14. (a) Each register shall keep a record, in...

Section 14a - Certification of Historic or Archeological Site; Recording of Notice - Section 14A. A notice of certification of an historic or...

Section 15 - Method of Recording Documents; Microphotographs - Section 15. He shall record all instruments upon the pages...

Section 16 - Recordation; Receipts of Federal Succession Taxes - Section 16. He shall record receipts of federal revenue collectors...

Section 17 - Duplicate Records; Attestation; Effect of Copies; Fees - Section 17. The register shall, at the expense of the...

Section 18 - Attestation of Records by Volume - Section 18. He may attest the records by the volume,...

Section 18a - Illegible Signatures - Section 18A. The register or an assistant register may print...

Section 19 - Facsimile Signatures - Section 19. A facsimile of the signature of any register,...

Section 20 - Instruments Affecting Mortgages Registered in Different Counties - Section 20. If an assignment, extension, partial release, release or...

Section 21 - Marginal References on Record of Instruments Affecting Certain Mortgages - Section 21. When an instrument described in the preceding section...

Section 22 - Instruments Affecting Interests Created by Delinquent Taxes or Assessments; Recordation - Section 22. If an assignment, release, partial release, discharge or...

Section 23 - Recordation; Certification of Book and Page Number on Instruments - Section 23. He shall certify upon every instrument recorded by...

Section 24 - Recordation; Federal Liens; Filing Fee - Section 24. Notice of a federal tax lien which may...

Section 24a - Recordation; Petitions, Decrees or Orders in Bankruptcy - Section 24A. At any time after a petition in bankruptcy...

Section 24b - Records Affecting Title to Real Estate; Copies to Tax Assessors; Required Information - Section 24B. The register, or said register as the assistant...

Section 25 - Indexes; Number; Form - Section 25. He shall keep two indexes, each divided into...

Section 26 - Entries in Indexes; Time and Manner of Making - Section 26. He shall, within twenty-four hours after a deed...

Section 27 - Recordation; Instruments Executed by Agents; Decrees in Partition - Section 27. When an instrument by which a person transfers...

Section 28 - Classified Copies of Indexes - Section 28. Each register shall annually, at the expense of...

Section 29 - New or Copies of Indexes; Printing; Selling Price - Section 29. A register may, with the consent of the...

Section 30 - Estimates of Cost of Indexing - Section 30. Each register, except in Suffolk county, shall annually,...

Section 31a - Notice to Commissioner of Revenue; Recording - Section 31A. Within sixty days after the recording of any...

Section 32 - Instruments Creating Interest in Property; Notice to Department of Public Welfare - Section 32. Whenever there is filed for record in a...

Section 32a - Identification of Husbands and Wives in Documents and Communications - Section 32A. Whenever the register, in any communication, document or...

Section 33 - Salaries - Section 33. The salaries of registers of deeds and all...

Section 37 - Compensation for Title Work - Section 37. No register or assistant register shall demand or...

Section 38 - Clerical Assistants; Compensation - Section 38. Registers shall annually be allowed for clerical assistance...

Section 39 - Fees; Recordation; Disposition - Section 39. Each register shall enter in a cash book,...

Section 40 - Technology Purchase's by Register of Deeds; Compatibility With Other Registers - Section 40. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special...

Section 41 - Surcharge on Fees of Registers of Deeds and Assistant Recorders; Registries Under Control of County Government; Surcharge to Fund Improvements at Registries; Disposition of Surcharge - Section 41. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the...

Chapter 37 - Sheriffs

Section 1 - Election - Section 1. A sheriff shall be elected in each county,...

Section 2 - Oath and Bond - Section 2. A sheriff, before performing any official act, shall...

Section 3 - Deputies; Appointment; Oath - Section 3. A sheriff may appoint deputies, who shall be...

Section 4 - Special Sheriff; Appointment; Oath; Bond; Powers - Section 4. He shall appoint a special sheriff, who shall...

Section 5 - Special Sheriffs; Powers and Duties - Section 5. If, by reason of illness, absence, interest or...

Section 7 - Failure to Post Bond; Penalty - Section 7. A sheriff neglecting or refusing to give bond...

Section 8 - Suits on Bonds of Sheriffs - Section 8. The holder of a judgment against a sheriff...

Section 9 - Copies of Sheriff's Bonds; Source; Use as Evidence - Section 9. The state treasurer shall deliver an attested copy...

Section 10 - Suits Against Sheriff; Procedure for Satisfying Judgment - Section 10. A sheriff shall not be arrested upon mesne...

Section 11 - Duties of Sheriffs and Deputies; Service of Precepts - Section 11. Sheriffs and their deputies shall serve and execute,...

Section 12 - Duties of Sheriffs and Deputies; Service of Demands, Notices and Citations - Section 12. They may serve by copy, by them attested,...

Section 13 - Powers and Duties; Requisition of Aid - Section 13. They may require suitable aid in the execution...

Section 14 - Service of Writs and Precepts After Removal - Section 14. They may execute precepts in their hands at...

Section 15 - Service of Writs Against the Sheriff or Deputies - Section 15. If a sheriff is a party to a...

Section 16 - Attendance at Sessions of Courts - Section 16. Sheriffs, by themselves or by their deputies may...

Section 17 - Salaries - Section 17. The salaries of sheriffs shall be paid by...

Section 21 - Traveling Expenses - Section 21. The sheriff of Nantucket county shall be entitled...

Section 21a - Travel Vouchers or Other Verification of Travel Expenses - Section 21A. For the purposes of paying the salary and...

Section 22 - Accounting of Fees; Disposition of Funds - Section 22. Each sheriff shall keep an account of all...

Section 24 - Transportation of Prisoners or Persons in Custody; Sheriffs' Duties - Section 24. The sheriffs of the several counties, and their...

Section 25 - Transportation of Prisoners or Persons in Custody; Costs; Appropriations; Report - Section 25. The cost of transportation required by section twenty-four...

Section 26 - Identification Cards for Full-Time Deputies - Section 26. The sheriff shall issue to every full-time deputy...

Chapter 38 - Medical Examiners and Inquests

Section 1 - Definitions - Section 1. As used in this chapter, the following words...

Section 2 - Chief Medical Examiner; Qualifications; Appointment; Powers and Duties; District Medical Examiners - Section 2. There shall be an office of chief medical...

Section 2a - State and Local Multidisciplinary Child Fatality Review Teams - Section 2A. (a) As used in this section, the following...

Section 3 - Duty to Report Deaths; Failure to Report - Section 3. It shall be the duty of any person...

Section 4 - Investigation; Transportation of Bodies - Section 4. Upon notification of a death in the circumstances...

Section 4a - Death Resulting From Single-Vehicle Accident; Blood Sample Analysis; Liability of Medical Examiner - Section 4A. If, after making inquiry pursuant to section four,...

Section 5 - Cooperation With Office of Chief Medical Examiner - Section 5. All law enforcement officers, district medical examiners, hospitals...

Section 6 - Unmarked Human Remains; Notice to Office of Chief Medical Examiner; Reasonable Attempt to Identify; Notification of Commission on Indian Affairs When Remains Suspected to Be 100 Years Old or More - Section 6. (a) It shall be the duty of a...

Section 7 - Attorney General; Notice of Circumstances of Death - Section 7. If, during the course of investigation, the medical...

Section 8 - Inquests - Section 8. The chief medical examiner or his designee may...

Section 9 - Accidental Deaths; Public Conveyances; Transcript of Inquest - Section 9. If the court determines that the inquest relates...

Section 10 - Report of Findings by Court - Section 10. The court shall report in writing when, where,...

Section 11 - Persons Charged With Crime; Arrest - Section 11. If a person charged by an inquest report...

Section 12 - Embalming Fluid; Restriction on Use - Section 12. No embalming fluid, or any substitute therefor, shall...

Section 13 - Release of Body; Pronouncement of Death - Section 13. After investigation or examination by the office, the...

Section 14 - Bodies Intended for Cremation or Burial at Sea; Authorization; Fees - [See Order of the Commissioner of Public Health, dated March...

Section 15 - Personal Property of Deceased; Disposition - Section 15. A medical examiner responding to the scene of...

Section 16 - Required Reports Relating to Certain Controlled Substances; Sole Cause of Death; Exposure of Children - Section 16. (a) The chief medical examiner shall file a...

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Massachusetts General Laws Part I - Administration of the Government Title VI - Counties and County Officers

Massachusetts General Laws
Part I - Administration of the Government
Title VI - Counties and County Officers