Section 58. No person shall use a tobacco product, as defined in section 6 of chapter 270, within the school buildings or facilities or on the grounds or school buses of a public or private vocational school or at a vocational school-sponsored event.
Each school committee or board of trustees shall establish a policy regarding violations of this section. The policy may include, but shall not be limited to, mandatory education classes on the hazards of using tobacco products.
Structure Massachusetts General Laws
Part I - Administration of the Government
Chapter 74 - Vocational Education
Section 2 - Commissioner of Education; Powers and Duties Regarding Vocational-Technical Education
Section 2a - Outside Work Projects of Students; Rules and Regulations
Section 2b - Construction Program Students; Low Income Housing
Section 3 - Establishment in Towns; Management
Section 4 - Establishment by Districts
Section 5 - District Trustees; Powers and Duties
Section 5a - Establishment of Vocational-Technical Schools by Regional School Districts
Section 5b - Vocational-Technical Education Collaboratives
Section 6 - Advisory Committees
Section 7 - Admission of Non-Resident Pupils
Section 7a - Pupils Placed in Schools by Department of Children and Families; Tuition
Section 7b - Apprenticeship Program
Section 7c - Persons Admitted to School in Town Other Than Resident Town; Payment of Tuition
Section 8a - Transportation of Students
Section 13 - Time for Holding Classes; Required Age of Students
Section 14 - Practical Arts Classes; Required Age of Students
Section 14a - Practical Art Classes; Receipt and Use of Federal Funds
Section 14b - Culinary Arts; Revolving Fund
Section 15 - Instructions in Agriculture and Horticulture; Establishment
Section 16 - Establishment of Agricultural or Horticultural Classes; Advertising Requirement
Section 17 - Acquisition of Land for Use of Agricultural Classes
Section 18 - Competency-Based Vocational-Technical Teacher Training Standards
Section 20 - Custodian of Federal Funds
Section 21 - Expenditure of Federal Funds
Section 22 - Use of Federal Funds
Section 22d - Cooperation With Federal Authorities for Rehabilitation of Veterans
Section 22e - Employment of Teachers; Conditions
Section 23 - Independent Industrial Shoemaking School of the City of Lynn
Section 24 - Smith Agricultural School; Maintenance; Superintendents
Section 25 - County Agricultural Schools; State Aid for Maintenance; Conditions
Section 26 - Management; Appointment of Trustees
Section 27 - Compensation of Trustees
Section 28 - Duties of Trustees; Preparation of Budget
Section 29 - Funds Raised by Taxation
Section 30 - Disposition of Income
Section 31 - Receipt and Use of Gift
Section 31a - Transportation of Pupils
Section 31b - Supervision of Athletic and Other Organizations
Section 32 - Admission of Non-Residents
Section 34 - Bristol School; Special Courses of Instruction
Section 35 - Courses of Instruction
Section 36 - Short Unit Courses
Section 37 - Duties of School Staffs
Section 37a - Technical Institutes
Section 37b - Nondegree Granting Post-Secondary Vocational Education Programs
Section 42c - Professors and Teachers; Removal; Hearing
Section 42d - Board of Trustees, Powers and Duties
Section 42e - Standards; Courses of Instructions; Powers of Trustees
Section 42f - Rules and Regulations; Meetings of Trustees; Quorum
Section 42g - Delegation of Powers by Trustees
Section 42h - Audit of Accounts
Section 42k - Receipts and Expenditures; Annual Report; Monthly Statements; Accounting System
Section 42l - Special Trusts, etc.; Management
Section 42m - College and Institute Property; Management and Administration
Section 42q - Control, Movement and Parking of Motor Vehicles
Section 43 - Acceptance of Gifts
Section 46a - Functions; Testing of New and Useful Improvements in Textile Machinery and Apparatus
Section 46b - Research Foundations; Patents
Section 56 - Program for Expansion of Not-for-Credit Vocationally-Oriented Instruction
Section 58 - Use of Tobacco Products Within School Buildings or Facilities or on School Grounds