Section 53B. Any uniformed member of the department of state police, appointed under section ten of chapter twenty-two C, on duty at night, or on vacation or furlough, or on a day off, who attends as a witness in a civil or criminal suit pending in a district court or in a juvenile court or in the superior court shall be allowed a witness fee in the amount of three dollars for each day's attendance including his first day's attendance as arresting officer. Any such officer who attends court held at a place other than his residence in a criminal case pending in any court of the commonwealth shall be reimbursed in accordance with the mileage rate then in effect for state employees as set by the commissioner of administration for travel out and home for each day's attendance, except that travel allowance shall not be allowed when such travel is made in state-owned vehicles. Each officer shall certify in writing under the penalties of perjury the amount of his travel and attendance. Such payments shall be in addition to his other expenses necessarily and actually incurred as provided for in section fifty and shall be paid in the same manner.
Structure Massachusetts General Laws
Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases
Chapter 262 - Fees of Certain Officers
Section 2 - Fees of Clerks of District and Boston Municipal Court Departments in Civil Actions
Section 3a - Child Support Collection Services; Fee
Section 4 - Fees of Clerks of Supreme Judicial, County and Appeals Courts
Section 4a - Clerks of Superior Court Department
Section 4b - Uniform Schedule of Fees
Section 4c - Surcharge on Filing Fees
Section 5 - Copies Provided by Clerks
Section 6 - Record of Judgment; Additional Fees
Section 7 - Manner of Collection
Section 8 - Sheriffs, Deputy Sheriffs and Constables; Enumeration of Fees
Section 8a - Annual Accounts of Deputy Sheriffs and Constables
Section 9 - Process; Service; Return by Mail
Section 10 - Conveyance; Necessity of Certificate
Section 11 - Leaving Copy of Writ
Section 12 - Deputy Sheriff; Attendance Upon Meetings of County Commissioners
Section 13 - Precepts for Elections; Subpoenas of General Court; Service
Section 14 - Arrest on Mesne Process and Supplementary Proceedings
Section 15 - Copies of Process
Section 16 - Service of Process Issued by Land Court
Section 17 - Execution of Ejectment; Service
Section 18 - Officers; Duty to Specify Items of Fees
Section 19 - Endorsement of Fees; Certificate of Use of Conveyance; Penalty
Section 20 - Search for Person Named in Process
Section 21 - Criminal Cases; Allowance of Expenses
Section 22 - Attendance Upon Certain Courts
Section 23 - Examination of Sureties; Approval of Bonds
Section 24 - Bail Fees; Persons Authorized to Take Bail; Restrictions
Section 25 - Compensation of Jurors
Section 26 - Inquests; Service of Process
Section 27 - Juvenile Offenders; Officer as a Witness
Section 30 - Witness Held in Jail
Section 31 - Appraisers; Compensation
Section 32 - Interpreters and Nonresident Witnesses
Section 33 - Witnesses in Delinquency Cases
Section 34 - Town Clerks; Enumeration of Fees
Section 37 - Records or Papers; Examination
Section 38 - Registers of Deeds' Enumeration of Fees
Section 39 - Land Court; Numeration of Fees
Section 40 - Registers of Probate and Family Court; Enumeration of Fees
Section 40a - Child Support Collection Services; Fee
Section 41 - Notaries Public; Enumeration of Fees
Section 42 - Commissioners in Other States; Enumeration of Fees
Section 44a - Certified Copies of Vital Records; Exemption
Section 46 - List of Fees; Manner of Posting
Section 46a - Copies of Records Concerning Veterans; Furnishings Without Charge
Section 47 - Criminal Cases; Return of Expense Under Oath
Section 48 - Criminal Cases; Service of Several Processes on Single Defendant; Allowance of Fees
Section 49 - Mittimus; Fees for Issuance or Service; Limitations
Section 50 - Salaried Officers; Limitation on Acceptance of Fees; Penalty
Section 51 - Criminal Cases; Additional Fees and Expenses
Section 53b - Witness Fees of Uniformed Members of Department of State Police
Section 53c - Compensatory Time Off to Police Officers
Section 56 - Witness Fees of Public Officers; Disallowance
Section 57 - Public Officers as Witnesses; Allowance of Expenses
Section 59 - Witness in Multiple Criminal Cases; Apportionment of Fees
Section 60 - Witnesses' Fees; Refusal in Certain Cases
Section 61 - Witness Certificates; Purchase of Orders, etc., by Officers Prohibited
Section 62 - False Certificates of Witnesses; Penalty