Section 7. (a) The board shall select a qualified individual to act as executive director and shall delegate to the executive director full authority to manage the affairs of the corporation and the Massachusetts Microelectronics Center. The executive director shall serve at the pleasure of the board. The executive director shall present to the board for its approval annual budgets, staffing plans, operating plans and production plans. The executive director shall supervise the employees of the corporation and the Massachusetts Microelectronics Center and shall have the power to hire and fire them. The executive director shall serve as chief liaison officer to the participating businesses and participating institutions in order to enhance their support of and participation in the affairs of the Massachusetts Microelectronics Center. The executive director shall provide that the resources of the Massachusetts Microelectronics Center are made available to participating institutions in a nondiscriminatory manner.
(b) If, pursuant to section six, the board establishes additional centers, it shall determine whether or not to appoint individual executive directors with similar authority for such centers, in view of the technology in question.
Structure Massachusetts General Laws
Part I - Administration of the Government
Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts
Chapter 40j - Massachusetts Technology Park Corporation
Section 1 - Findings and Purpose
Section 1a - Additional Findings and Revised Public Purpose
Section 3 - Massachusetts Technology Park Corporation; Creation; Board of Directors; Employees
Section 4 - Powers of Corporation
Section 4a - Supplemental Powers
Section 4b - Essential Governmental Functions
Section 4d - Microelectronics Center; Essential Tasks
Section 4f - Massachusetts Research Center Matching Fund
Section 4g - Scientific and Technology Research and Development Matching Grant Fund
Section 4h - Massachusetts Cybersecurity Innovation Fund
Section 5 - Center Fund; Massachusetts Microelectronics Center
Section 6 - Establishment of Center
Section 6a - John Adams Innovation Institute; Fund; Grants
Section 6c - Massachusetts Broadband Incentive Fund
Section 6e - E–health Institute Fund
Section 6e.5 - Massachusetts Health Information Technology Revolving Loan Fund
Section 6h - Big Data Innovation and Workforce Fund
Section 7 - Executive Director
Section 10 - Construction of Chapter
Section 11 - Application of Chapter 12a
Section 12 - Massachusetts Centers of Excellence Corporation
Section 13 - Application of Other Laws to the Technology Park Corporation