Massachusetts General Laws
Chapter 34 - Counties and County Commissioners
Section 11 - Clerical Employees; Temporary Clerk; Duties

Section 11. They may employ such clerical employees as may be necessary for the proper performance of the work of their offices, who shall perform such duties as the commissioners may determine. They may, in the absence from any meeting of the clerk or any deputy assistant clerk designated under section seven of chapter two hundred and twenty-one, appoint a temporary clerk, who may be a commissioner or other suitable person. He shall be sworn by the chairman or presiding commissioner, keep a record of the proceedings, and deliver the same forthwith to the clerk or deputy assistant clerk, who shall enter it upon the records of the commissioners.

Structure Massachusetts General Laws

Massachusetts General Laws

Part I - Administration of the Government

Title VI - Counties and County Officers

Chapter 34 - Counties and County Commissioners

Section 1 - Boundaries in Tide Water; Powers

Section 2 - Alteration of Maps

Section 3 - Public Buildings

Section 4 - Election; Tenure

Section 5 - Salaries

Section 5a - Salaries; Acceptance of Provision of This Section

Section 7 - Commissioners Acting by Appointment; Compensation; Travel Expenses

Section 8 - Statement of Expenses; Certification; Payment; Audit

Section 9 - Meetings; Frequency; Location; Special Meetings

Section 9a - Records

Section 9b - Docket Defined

Section 9c - Files Defined

Section 9d - Record of Payments; Form and Contents

Section 9e - Extended Record; Form and Contents

Section 10 - Record of Proceedings; Copy to Director of Accounts

Section 11 - Clerical Employees; Temporary Clerk; Duties

Section 12 - Absence or Disqualification of Commissioners; Appointment of Substitute; Tenure

Section 13 - Powers; Administration of Oaths; Punishment for Contempt

Section 14 - Additional Powers

Section 14a - Associate Commissioner for Affairs Concerning the Elderly

Section 14b - Associate Commissioner for Affairs Concerning Handicapped Persons

Section 15 - Qualification of Officers; Return to State Secretary

Section 16 - Office Hours; Holidays; Certain Acts Performable on Next Business Day

Section 18 - Recognizances and Damages

Section 19 - Proceedings at Other Times Than Regular Meetings and Returns Thereof

Section 20 - Applicability of Laws Relating to County Commissioners and Clerks to Certain Other Officers

Section 21 - Official Letters

Section 22 - Breach or Neglect of Duty; Penalty

Section 23 - Gifts; Use and Disposition

Section 24 - Federal Grants; Acceptance, Custody and Disposition

Section 25 - Acquisition of Real Property