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Section 45b - Innovation Commercialization Seed Fund - [ Subsection (a) effective until December 13, 2021. For text...
Section 45c - Innovation Voucher Program Fund - Section 45C. (a) There shall be established and set up...
Section 46 - Office of Dispute Resolution - Section 46. There shall be at the University of Massachusetts...
Section 47 - Statewide Community Mediation Center Grant Program; Funds; Compliance for Eligibility - Section 47. (a) As used in this section the following...
Chapter 75a - University of Lowell - [Repealed, 1991, 142, Sec. 23.]
Chapter 75b - Southeastern Massachusetts University - [Repealed, 1991, 142, Sec. 24.]
Chapter 75c - Private Correspondence Schools - [Repealed, 2012, 106, Sec. 2.]
Chapter 75d - Private Business Schools - [Repealed, 2012, 106, Sec. 3.]
Chapter 76 - School Attendance
Section 1 - Requirements and Exceptions - Section 1. Every child between the minimum and maximum ages...
Section 1a - Pupil Absence Notification Programs - Section 1A. Upon the acceptance of this section by the...
Section 1b - Pupil Absence Notification Program - Section 1B. The school committee of each city, town or...
Section 2 - Duties of Parents; Penalty - Section 2. Every person in control of a child described...
Section 2a - Attendance of Deaf Children; Penalty - Section 2A. Every person in control of a deaf child...
Section 3 - Attendance of Illiterate Minors; Penalties - Section 3. Every minor between sixteen and eighteen who does...
Section 4 - Inducing Absences; Penalty - Section 4. Whoever induces or attempts to induce a minor...
Section 5 - Place of Attendance; Violations; Discrimination - Section 5. Every person shall have a right to attend...
Section 6 - Payment of Tuition for Non-Resident Children - Section 6. If a child resides temporarily in a town...
Section 7 - Tuition; Children Under Control of Department of Children and Families; Foster Care; Reimbursement - Section 7. For the tuition in the public schools of...
Section 9 - High School Tuition of Children Under Control of Department of Public Welfare, Etc. - Section 9. If a city or town where a school...
Section 10 - Settlements of Accounts Between Towns and Department of Public Welfare, Etc. - Section 10. Settlements of the accounts of the several towns...
Section 11 - Tuition of Children in Institutions - Section 11. Any city, town or regional school district which...
Section 12 - Attendance Outside Place of Residence - Section 12. Any child, with the consent of the school...
Section 12a - Plan for Attendance in Public School to Eliminate Racial Imbalance; Adoption; Financial and Technical Assistance - Section 12A. The school committee of any city or town...
Section 12b - Definitions; Attendance of School Other Than in City or Town of Residence of Child; Reports; Tuition; Parent Information System; Transportation Reimbursement Program; Funding - Section 12B. (a) As used in this section, the following...
Section 12c - School Choice Tuition Trust Fund - Section 12C. There shall be established upon the books of...
Section 13 - Transfer Cards - Section 13. When any child described in section one leaves...
Section 14 - Island Children; Transportation - Section 14. The department of education may provide transportation to...
Section 15 - Vaccination and Immunization - Section 15. No child shall, except as hereinafter provided, be...
Section 15a - Sickle Cell Anemia; Blood Tests - Section 15A. Every child, which the commissioner of public health,...
Section 15b - Screening Programs, Testing, Treatment, Etc. for Sickle Cell Anemia and Related Genetically-Linked Diseases; Rules and Regulations; Records and Information, Disclosure Restricted - Section 15B. The department of public health shall furnish necessary...
Section 15c - Immunization of College Health Science Students - Section 15C. No full-time student under thirty years of age...
Section 15d - Meningococcal Disease; College Students Immunization - Section 15D. No newly enrolled full-time student attending a college,...
Section 16 - Children Excluded From School; Remedies - Section 16. Any pupil who has attained age eighteen, or...
Section 17 - Hearing Prerequisite to Exclusion - Section 17. A school committee shall not permanently exclude a...
Section 18 - Notice to Parent or Guardian and Meeting With School Committee Prerequisite to Student Permanently Leaving School; Annual Report; Application of Section - Section 18. No student who has not graduated from high...
Section 19 - Supervisors of Attendance; Employment - Section 19. Every school committee shall appoint, make regulations governing...
Section 20 - Powers and Duties of Supervisors of Attendance - Section 20. Supervisors of attendance shall inquire into all cases...
Section 21 - Opportunity for Academic Progress for Suspended Students; Education Service Plans; Alternative Educational Services - Section 21. Principals and headmasters shall ensure that students who...
Chapter 77 - School Offenders and County Training Schools - [Repealed, 1973, 1073, Sec. 2.]
Chapter 78 - Libraries
Section 1 - Existing Corporations - Section 1. Library corporations and associations which have been legally...
Section 2 - Organization of County Law Libraries - Section 2. Attorneys at law who have been admitted to...
Section 3 - Use by Residents of County - Section 3. Inhabitants of the county shall, subject to the...
Section 4 - Source of Funds - Section 4. The treasurer of each county shall annually pay...
Section 5 - Right to Receive Legislative Documents - Section 5. Each law library association shall be entitled to...
Section 6 - Right to Receive Other Books and Documents - Section 6. All incorporated law libraries in the commonwealth shall...
Section 7 - Establishment by Cities and Towns; Records - Section 7. A town may establish and maintain public libraries...
Section 8 - Use of Facilities by Non-Residents - Section 8. Any free town public library may loan its...
Section 9 - Return of Unwanted State Publications - Section 9. If the trustees of any town library shall...
Section 10 - Town Libraries; Selection of Trustees and Officers - Section 10. A town which raises or appropriates money for...
Section 11 - Board of Trustees; Powers and Duties - Section 11. The board shall have the custody and management...
Section 12 - Annual Report of Trustees - Section 12. The board shall make an annual report to...
Section 13 - Applicability of Sections Relating to Trustees - Section 13. The three preceding sections shall not apply to...
Section 14 - Board of Library Commissioners; Members; Appointment; Term; By-Laws; Reimbursement; Officers; Staff - Section 14. There shall be a board of library commissioners...
Section 15 - Duties Relating to Management and Maintenance of Libraries - Section 15. The board of library commissioners shall advise the...
Section 19 - Powers, Duties and Status of Board - Section 19. The board of library commissioners may expend such...
Section 19a - State Aid; Determination - Section 19A. The state treasurer shall annually, on or before...
Section 19b - State Aid; Annual Reports by Libraries; Requisites for Aid - Section 19B. The board of library commissioners, in setting up...
Section 19c - Regional Public Library Service; Annual Appropriation - Section 19C. The board shall establish a comprehensive statewide program...
Section 19d - Regional Public Library Service; Council of Members - Section 19D. For each regional library system, the board shall...
Section 19e - Library Media Services; Comprehensive Statewide Program; Funds; Standards - Section 19E. The board of library commissioners, hereinafter called the...
Section 19f - Regional Public Library Service; Arrangement for Delivery and Retrieval of Materials or Services - Section 19F. Any library system providing service under an approved...
Section 19g - State Assistance for Public Library Projects - Section 19G. The board of library commissioners shall, subject to...
Section 19h - Definitions - Section 19H. As used in sections nineteen G to nineteen...
Section 19i - Application for and Distribution of Funds - Section 19I. The board of library commissioners shall establish rules...
Section 19j - Allocation of Funds; Priorities - Section 19J. In allocating said funds, the board shall give...
Section 19k - Gifts and Grants - Section 19K. Cities and towns may accept grants or gifts...
Section 19l - Massachusetts Library and Information Network - Section 19L. The board of library commissioners shall, subject to...
Section 19m - Statewide Advisory Council on Cooperative Library Programs - Section 19M. The board of library commissioners shall establish a...
Section 19n - Rules and Regulations - Section 19N. The board of library commissioners shall establish such...
Section 20 - Librarians; Appointment; Examination; Registration - Section 20. The board may determine by examination or by...
Section 21 - Inapplicability of Certain Sections to Cities - Section 21. Sections ten to twelve, inclusive, and sections sixteen...
Section 22 - Certification of Librarians - Section 22. The board of library commissioners shall certify, and...
Section 23 - Board Meetings; Quorum - Section 23. The board shall hold at least four regular...
Section 24 - Definitions Applicable to Secs. 22 to 31 - Section 24. The following words and phrases used in sections...
Section 25 - Rules and Regulations - Section 25. The board shall make such rules and regulations...
Section 27 - Clerical Assistance, etc.; Expenditures - Section 27. The board may expend, subject to appropriation, such...
Section 28 - Duties of Board - Section 28. The board shall:— (1) Keep an official record...
Section 29 - Librarians; Qualifications - Section 29. The board shall issue a certificate certifying as...
Section 30 - Fees - Section 30. The board may fix fees for the issuance...
Section 31 - Status of Existing Librarians; Certificates - Section 31. Any person who, upon the effective date of...
Section 32 - Library Staff Members; Leaves of Absence for Study or Research - Section 32. In a city or town which accepts this...
Section 33 - Policy for Selection and Use of Library Materials and Facilities - Section 33. The board of trustees of a free public...
Section 34 - Employment Contracts for Library Employees - Section 34. The board of trustees of a free public...