General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 112 Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations

• Massachusetts General Laws - Duties of director - Chapter 112, Section 1
  The director of professional licensure shall supervise the work of the several boards of registration and examination included in the division of professional licensure. He...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Issuance of license or certificate to engage in business or profession; statement of obligation to report certain injuries of children - Chapter 112, Section 1A
  Whenever any person required to report under the provisions of section fifty-one A of chapter one hundred and nineteen is issued or reissued a license...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Acceptance of education, training or service completed by applicant as member of armed forces toward qualification requirements to receive license or certification; validity of license or certificate during active service of holder; expedited licensing of spouse of member of armed services - Chapter 112, Section 1B
  (a) The director and each of the boards of registration and examination under the director's supervision, shall upon presentation of satisfactory evidence by an applicant...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Registration of physicians; alien applicants; examinations; renewal; required professional malpractice liability insurance; fees - Chapter 112, Section 2
  [First paragraph effective until January 1, 2015. For text effective January 1, 2015, see below.] Applications for registration as qualified physicians, signed and sworn to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Acceptance of certificate in lieu of examination; fee - Chapter 112, Section 2A
  In determining the qualifications necessary for registration as a qualified physician, the board may at its discretion accept the certificate of the National Board of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Schools for training medical laboratory technologists; inspection; approval; approving authority - Chapter 112, Section 2B
  No person shall operate or maintain a school for training medical laboratory technologists unless such school has been approved in writing by the approving authority...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Schools for training medical X-ray technicians; approval; inspection; approving authority - Chapter 112, Section 2C
  No person shall operate or maintain a school for training medical X-ray technicians unless such school has been approved by the approving authority established by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Professional relationships preventing physician from providing administrative or judicial testimony - Chapter 112, Section 2D
  No physician shall enter into a contract or agreement which creates or establishes a partnership, employment or any other form of professional relationship that prohibits...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Examinations - Chapter 112, Section 3
  Examinations shall be in whole or in part in writing, in English, shall be of a scientific and practical character, shall include the subjects of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Records; annual report - Chapter 112, Section 4
  The board shall keep a record of the names of all persons registered by it and of all money received and disbursed by it, and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Investigation of complaints; remediation program; individual profiles; hearing; disciplinary action; immunity; confidentiality; notice; subpoenas; adjudicatory hearing decisions - Chapter 112, Section 5
  The board shall investigate all complaints relating to the proper practice of medicine by any person holding a certificate of registration under sections two to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - License restrictions - Chapter 112, Section 5A
  The board shall have the authority, after a hearing pursuant to chapter thirty A, to impose restrictions on a physician’s license prohibiting the physician from...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reports of disciplinary action by professional medical organizations - Chapter 112, Section 5B
  Any professional medical association, society, body, professional standards review organization, or similarly constituted professional organization, whether or not such association, society, body, or organization is...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reports by insurers of malpractice claims or actions; liability - Chapter 112, Section 5C
  Every insurer or risk management organization which provides professional liability insurance to a registered physician shall report to the board any claim or action for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reports of violations by public officers or employees - Chapter 112, Section 5D
  Any officer or employee of any agency, executive office, department, board, commission, bureau, division or authority of the commonwealth, or of any political subdivision thereof...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reports by physicians of settlements or arbitration awards; filing; penalty - Chapter 112, Section 5E
  Any registered physician who does not possess professional liability insurance shall report to the board every settlement or arbitration award of a claim or action...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reports of violations by health care providers; discrimination; liability of employers; exemption - Chapter 112, Section 5F
  Any health care provider, as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and eleven, shall report to the board any person who there is...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Communication with professional organizations or board; liability; counsel fees and costs - Chapter 112, Section 5G
  (a) No person or health care provider who communicates with a peer review committee, administrative subcommittee, ethics committee or other similar committee of a health...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Physical or mental examination; court order; report - Chapter 112, Section 5H
  Whenever it appears that any physician licensed in the commonwealth may be incompetent or unable to practice medicine with reasonable skill and safety because such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Surgical and other procedures; report of data regarding results - Chapter 112, Section 5I
  The board shall have authority to require hospitals, physicians, health maintenance organizations and other medical service providers to provide data to it as to the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Annual report to special commission on medical malpractice - Chapter 112, Section 5J
  The board shall file annually, but not later than March first of each succeeding year after the effective date of this section, a report of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Prioritization of investigations; rules and regulations - Chapter 112, Section 5K
  The board is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations relative to the prioritization of investigation of complaints and reports received by the board, and the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Standards for physicians who read and interpret mammography - Chapter 112, Section 5L
  The board shall by regulation establish qualifications, standards and criteria no less stringent than the most current standards of the American College of Radiology, which...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Regulations; physician investments - Chapter 112, Section 5M
  The board shall promulgate regulations addressing the issue of physician investment and ownership in for-profit acute-care hospitals and health maintenance organizations.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties - Chapter 112, Section 6
  Except as provided in section sixty-five, whoever, not being lawfully authorized to practice medicine within the commonwealth and registered under section two, or corresponding provisions...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application of Secs. 2 to 6 and Sec. 8 - Chapter 112, Section 7
  Sections two to six, inclusive, and section eight shall not be held to discriminate against any particular school or system of medicine, to prohibit medical...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Recording of certificate of registration by city or town clerk; fee; records - Chapter 112, Section 8
  No person shall enter upon, or continue in, the practice of medicine within the commonwealth until he has presented to the clerk of the city...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Use of term “physician” in title, advertisement, etc.; penalties - Chapter 112, Section 8A
  No person may, directly or indirectly, use the title “physician” or display or use the term physician in any title, advertisement, listing of affiliations, communication...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Limited registration; fees; qualifications; revocation - Chapter 112, Section 9
  An applicant for limited registration under this section may, upon payment of a fee to be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Medical students; limited practice of medicine under supervision - Chapter 112, Section 9A
  A student of medicine who has creditably completed not less than two years of study in a legally chartered medical school wherever located may practice...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Temporary registration of qualified physician - Chapter 112, Section 9B
  Temporary registration as a qualified physician may be granted (1) to a visiting physician holding a license to practice in another state or territory or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 112, Section 9C
  As used in sections nine C to nine K, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meanings: “Approved program”, a program for the education...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application of Secs. 9C to 9K - Chapter 112, Section 9D
  The provisions of sections nine C to nine K, inclusive, shall not apply to services performed in any of the following areas: (a) The practice...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Physician assistants; medical services; supervision; legal responsibility - Chapter 112, Section 9E
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, a physician assistant may perform medical services when such services are rendered under the supervision of a registered physician....
• Massachusetts General Laws - Duties; board of registration of physician assistants - Chapter 112, Section 9F
  The board shall register and issue certificates of registration to physician assistants in the commonwealth, take appropriate disciplinary action against physician assistants, approve and issue...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Records of registered persons and programs; report - Chapter 112, Section 9G
  The board shall keep a record of the names and addresses of all persons registered by it and all programs approved by it and a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Investigative and disciplinary powers - Chapter 112, Section 9H
  The board shall investigate all complaints relating to the proper practice of any physician assistant holding a certificate of registration under sections nine C to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Registration; applications; requirements - Chapter 112, Section 9I
  All persons serving as physician assistants in the commonwealth shall register with the board by March first, nineteen hundred and ninety-one and every two years...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unauthorized use of title of physician assistant; fraud - Chapter 112, Section 9J
  Whoever, not being lawfully registered as a physician assistant in the commonwealth in accordance with sections nine C to nine K, inclusive, holds himself out...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Approval of education and training programs - Chapter 112, Section 9K
  The board shall issue certificates of approval of programs for the education and training of physician assistants which meet the standards established by the board....
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application of medicine and its practice to osteopathy and its practice - Chapter 112, Section 10
  The provisions of this chapter with reference to medicine and its practice shall apply to and include osteopathy and its practice, when such construction is...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Prohibition of certain acts by osteopaths - Chapter 112, Section 11
  No person now registered as an osteopath under section one or two of chapter five hundred and twenty-six of the acts of nineteen hundred and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Disclosure of information relative to venereal disease by registered physician - Chapter 112, Section 12
  Any registered physician or surgeon who knows or has reason to believe that any person is infected with a venereal disease as defined under section...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Report of treatment of wounds, burns, overdose and other injuries; penalty - Chapter 112, Section 12A
  Every physician attending or treating a case of bullet wound, gunshot wound, powder burn or any other injury arising from or caused by the discharge...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reporting treatment of victim of rape or sexual assault; penalty - Chapter 112, Section 12A1/2
  Every physician attending, treating, or examining a victim of rape or sexual assault, or, whenever any such case is treated in a hospital, sanatorium or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Emergency care of injured persons; exemption from civil liability - Chapter 112, Section 12B
  No physician duly registered under the provisions of section two, two A, nine, nine A or nine B, no physician assistant duly registered under the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Immunity of physician or nurse - Chapter 112, Section 12C
  No physician or nurse administering immunization or other protective programs under public health programs shall be liable in a civil suit for damages as a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Prescriptions of interchangeable drug products; notification of substitute for narrow therapeutic index immunosuppressant drug for treatment of organ or tissue transplant - Chapter 112, Section 12D
  As used in this section the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— “Department”, the department of public health....
• Massachusetts General Laws - Drug dependent minors; consent to medical care; liability for payment; records - Chapter 112, Section 12E
  A minor twelve years of age or older who is found to be drug dependent by two or more physicians may give his consent to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Drug or alcohol overdose of a minor; notification of minor’s parent, guardian or other having custody and control; distribution of pamphlet with addiction treatment and overdose prevention information; access to social worker - Chapter 112, Section 12E1/2
  The department of public health shall produce a pamphlet with contact information for its bureau of substance abuse services, including its telephone helpline number, and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Emergency treatment of minors - Chapter 112, Section 12F
  No physician, dentist or hospital shall be held liable for damages for failure to obtain consent of a parent, legal guardian, or other person having...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Disclosure of information by physicians and other medical providers - Chapter 112, Section 12G
  The disclosure by a physician, health care facility, nursing home or any other medical provider or by an agent of any of the foregoing information...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Prescriptions on hospital or clinic blanks; printing of physician’s name required - Chapter 112, Section 12H
  Any physician who writes a prescription upon a prescription blank of a hospital or clinic shall print or type his name directly below his signature
• Massachusetts General Laws - Abortion or sterilization procedures; refusal of hospital or health facility staff members or employees to participate - Chapter 112, Section 12I
  A physician or any other person who is a member of or associated with the medical staff of a hospital or other health facility or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Experimentation on human fetuses prohibited; medical procedures authorized; consent; approval; civil and criminal liability and proceedings; severability - Chapter 112, Section 12J
  (a) I. No person shall use any live human fetus whether before or after expulsion from its mother’s womb, for scientific, laboratory, research or other...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions applicable to Secs. 12L to 12U - Chapter 112, Section 12K
  As used in section twelve L to section twelve U, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meanings:— Abortion, the knowing destruction of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Abortion; pregnancy existing for less than 24 weeks - Chapter 112, Section 12L
  If a pregnancy has existed for less than twenty-four weeks no abortion may be performed except by a physician and only if, in the best...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Abortion; pregnancy existing for 24 weeks or more - Chapter 112, Section 12M
  If a pregnancy has existed for twenty-four weeks or more, no abortion may be performed except by a physician and only if it is necessary...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violation of Sec. 12L or 12N; punishment - Chapter 112, Section 12N
  Any person who violates the provisions of sections twelve L or twelve M shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one year nor...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Abortion performed pursuant to Sec. 12M; protection of unborn child - Chapter 112, Section 12O
  If an abortion is performed pursuant to section twelve M, no abortion procedure which is designed to destroy the life of the unborn child or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Abortion performed pursuant to Sec. 12M; preservation of life and health of child - Chapter 112, Section 12P
  If an abortion is performed pursuant to section twelve M, the physician performing the abortion shall take all reasonable steps, both during and subsequent to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Restrictions on abortions performed under Sec. 12L or 12M; emergency excepted - Chapter 112, Section 12Q
  Except in an emergency requiring immediate action, no abortion may be performed under sections twelve L or twelve M unless the written informed consent of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Written statement of reasons for abortion as required by Sec. 12M; tests on pregnant patients prior to abortions; report to commissioner, contents; filing; statistical tables, annual report to general court; additional reports - Chapter 112, Section 12R
  If the physician performing the abortion is not the physician who made the medical judgment required by section twelve M, before performing the abortion he...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Consent to abortion; form; persons less than eighteen years of age - Chapter 112, Section 12S
  No physician may perform an abortion upon a pregnant woman without first obtaining her written informed consent. The commissioner of public health shall prescribe a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violations of Secs. 12O to 12R; punishment - Chapter 112, Section 12T
  Any person who commits an act in violation of sections twelve O or twelve P shall be punished by a fine of not less than...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enjoining performance of abortion - Chapter 112, Section 12U
  The attorney general or any person whose consent is required either pursuant to section twelve S or under common law, may petition the superior court...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Exemption of certain individuals rendering emergency cardiopulmonary resuscitation from civil liability - Chapter 112, Section 12V
  [ Text of section effective until May 22, 2014. For text effective May 22, 2014, see below.]Any person, whose usual and regular duties do not...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 112, Section 12V1/2
  (a) As used in this section, the following words, shall, unless the context requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— “AED”, a semi-automatic or automatic external...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sterilization; physician to have written consent before performing surgical or medical procedure - Chapter 112, Section 12W
  No physician shall perform, other than in an emergency, an operation which is intended to result in the sterilization of an individual unless he has...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Restrictive covenants upon physicians rendered unenforceable - Chapter 112, Section 12X
  Any contract or agreement which creates or establishes the terms of a partnership, employment, or any other form of professional relationship with a physician registered...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Medicare assignment policy; posting - Chapter 112, Section 12Y
  Each physician licensed pursuant to sections two and two A, each podiatrist licensed pursuant to section sixteen and each chiropractor licensed pursuant to section ninety-one...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reports of dog bites - Chapter 112, Section 12Z
  Every physician attending or treating a case of dog bite or whenever any such case is treated in a hospital, sanatorium or other institution, the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Referral for physical therapy; ownership interest; disclosure - Chapter 112, Section 12AA
  Any person registered or licensed pursuant to this chapter who refers a patient for physical therapy services to any partnership, corporation, firm or other legal...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Lead poisoning screening - Chapter 112, Section 12BB
  Each physician duly registered under the provisions of section two, two A, nine, nine A, or nine B shall screen patients for lead poisoning at...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Health care providers; inspection of records - Chapter 112, Section 12CC
  A health care provider who maintains records for a patient treated or examined by such provider shall permit inspection of such records by such patient...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Administration of long-term antibiotic therapy upon diagnosis of Lyme disease - Chapter 112, Section 12DD
  (a) As used in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly requires otherwise: “Long-term antibiotic therapy”, the administration...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Substitution of interchangeable biological product by pharmacist - Chapter 112, Section 12EE
  [ Text of section added by 2014, 143 effective September 21, 2014.] (a) As used in this section, the following words shall have the following...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Podiatry; definition; application of Secs. 13 to 23 - Chapter 112, Section 13
  Podiatry as used in this chapter shall mean the diagnosis and the treatment of the structures of the human foot by medical, mechanical, surgical, manipulative...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Practice of podiatry; holding out as a registered podiatrist - Chapter 112, Section 14
  No person shall practice or attempt to practice podiatry in the commonwealth, or hold himself out as a podiatrist, or designate himself, or describe his...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Preparation and distribution of forms for applications for registration; examinations - Chapter 112, Section 15
  The board of registration in podiatry, in sections sixteen to twenty-two, inclusive, called the board, shall prepare and distribute forms of applications for registration, certificates...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Registration of podiatrists; application; fees; examinations and reexaminations; certificate; registration without examination; participation in medical assistance program; revocation; approval of schools - Chapter 112, Section 16
  Applications for registration, signed and sworn to by the applicant, shall be made upon blanks furnished by the board. If an applicant furnishes the board...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Limited registration of podiatrists - Chapter 112, Section 16A
  An applicant for limited registration under this section may, upon payment of a fee to be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Students of podiatric medicine; limited practice - Chapter 112, Section 16B
  A student of podiatric medicine who has creditably completed not less than two years of study in a legally chartered medical or podiatric medical school,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Temporary registration of podiatrists - Chapter 112, Section 16C
  Temporary registration as a qualified podiatric physician may be granted to a visiting podiatric physician holding a license to practice in another state or territory...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Examinations - Chapter 112, Section 17
  Examinations shall be in English and shall be wholly or partly written, oral or clinical, as the board may determine, and shall include, and be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Records of board; rules and regulations; reports; investigation of complaints - Chapter 112, Section 17A
  The board shall keep a full record of its proceedings and a registry of all persons registered by it, which shall be public records and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Liability of persons filing complaint, reporting or providing information or assisting the board - Chapter 112, Section 17B
  No person filing a complaint or reporting or providing information or assisting the board at its request in discharging its duties and functions shall be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Refusal to issue certificate; revocation - Chapter 112, Section 18
  The board shall refuse to issue a certificate to a person, or may, after a hearing if requested by a person to whom a certificate...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unprofessional conduct; definition; regulation by board - Chapter 112, Section 19
  “Unprofessional conduct”, as used in section eighteen, shall include: (a) the wilful betrayal of a professional secret; (b) lending the use of one’s name to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Suspension of certificate - Chapter 112, Section 20
  The board, after a hearing if requested by the person registered, may suspend any certificate for not more than six months because of any misconduct...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Recording of certificate of registration by city or town clerk; fee; records - Chapter 112, Section 21
  Every person registered under section sixteen shall, before entering upon the practice of podiatry, submit his certificate of registration to the clerk of the city...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Prescriptions on hospital or clinic blanks; printing of podiatrist’s name required - Chapter 112, Section 21A
  Every registered podiatrist who writes a prescription upon a prescription blank of a hospital or clinic shall print or type his name directly below his...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties - Chapter 112, Section 22
  Whoever obtains or attempts to obtain registration under section sixteen by any fraudulent means, or violates any provision of section fourteen, shall, except as provided...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1937, 425, Sec. 13 - Chapter 112, Section 23
  Repealed, 1937, 425, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 112, Section 23A
  The following words as used in sections twenty-three A to twenty-three P, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, shall have the following meanings:— “Athletic trainer”,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Examinations; applications for licensure; fees; renewal of license - Chapter 112, Section 23B
  The board shall examine applicants for licensure in each of the fields it supervises at such times and places as it may determine and shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Practice upon filing of license application - Chapter 112, Section 23C
  A person who meets the qualifications to be admitted to the examination for licensure as an athletic trainer or an occupational therapist or occupational therapy...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licensing of persons registered or licensed in other states, territories, etc.; fees - Chapter 112, Section 23D
  The board may without examination, license as an athletic trainer, or an occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant, or physical therapist or physical therapist assistant,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Construction - Chapter 112, Section 23E
  Nothing in this section shall be construed as preventing or restricting the practice, services, or activities of: (a) any person licensed in this commonwealth by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Athletic trainers; qualifications - Chapter 112, Section 23F
  An applicant for licensure as an athletic trainer shall: (a) be a graduate of a college or university approved by the board and completed such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Occupational therapists; qualifications - Chapter 112, Section 23G
  An applicant for licensure as an occupational therapist shall: (a) successfully completed an accredited occupational therapist educational program approved by the board, (b) successfully completed...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Occupational therapy assistant; qualifications - Chapter 112, Section 23H
  An applicant for licensure as an occupational therapy assistant shall: (a) successfully completed an accredited occupational therapy assistant educational program approved by the board, (b)...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Physical therapist; qualifications - Chapter 112, Section 23I
  An applicant for licensure as a physical therapist shall: (a) be a graduate of a three or four year secondary school or has passed a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Physical therapist assistants; qualifications - Chapter 112, Section 23J
  An applicant for licensure as a physical therapist assistant shall: (a) be a graduate of a three or four year secondary school or has passed...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Revocation, suspension, etc. of licensee - Chapter 112, Section 23K
  The board may, after a hearing pursuant to chapter thirty, revoke, suspend, cancel the license of or place on probation, reprimand, censure or otherwise discipline...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Practice of medicine or other form of healing - Chapter 112, Section 23L
  Nothing in this section shall be construed as authorizing an athletic trainer, occupational therapist, occupational therapy assistant, physical therapist, or physical therapist assistant to practice...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations; record of proceedings; roster of licensees - Chapter 112, Section 23M
  The board shall adopt reasonable rules and regulations to carry into effect sections twenty-three A to twenty-three P inclusive and may amend and revoke such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Practice settings of licensees; regulations - Chapter 112, Section 23M1/2
  (a) The board shall promulgate regulations necessary to regulate and inspect the practice settings of its licensees and may require the practice settings to be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Athletic trainers; necessity for licensure - Chapter 112, Section 23N
  No person shall hold himself out as an athletic trainer or as being able to practice athletic training or to render athletic training services in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Occupational therapists or assistants; necessity for licensure; use of letters, abbreviations, etc. - Chapter 112, Section 23O
  No person shall hold himself out as an occupational therapist or as an occupational therapy assistant or as being able to practice occupational therapy or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Physical therapists or assistants; necessity for licensure; use of letters, abbreviations, etc. - Chapter 112, Section 23P
  No person shall hold himself out as a physical therapist, or as a physical therapist assistant or as being able to practice physical therapy or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Physical therapist; disclosure of referring physician’s ownership interest - Chapter 112, Section 23P1/2
  Any physical therapist who is involved in the private practice of physical therapy, to whom a patient is referred by a person licensed or registered...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Citation - Chapter 112, Section 23Q
  Sections twenty-three A to twenty-three P, inclusive, shall be known and may be cited as the Registered Physical Therapists Law.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 112, Section 23R
  The following words as used in sections twenty-three R to twenty-three BB, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, shall have the following meanings:— “Respiratory care”,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Examination of candidates; application for license; renewal of license - Chapter 112, Section 23S
  The board shall examine candidates and renew licenses as follows:— (1) The board shall examine applicants for licensure at such times and places as it...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Supervised practice pending examination results - Chapter 112, Section 23T
  A person who meets the requirements and possesses the qualifications set forth hereunder to be admitted to the examination for licensure as a respiratory therapist...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licensing without examination - Chapter 112, Section 23U
  The board may without examination, license as a respiratory therapist, any applicant who is duly licensed or registered under the laws of another state or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Exclusion of other professions or occupations from application of licensing or registration requirements - Chapter 112, Section 23V
  Nothing in sections twenty-three R to twenty-three BB, inclusive, shall be construed as preventing or restricting the practice, services, or activities of: (a) any person...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Qualifications; examination - Chapter 112, Section 23W
  An applicant for licensure as a respiratory therapist shall have:— (a) completed a respiratory therapy program that is accredited by an agency recognized by the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Revocation or suspension of licenses - Chapter 112, Section 23X
  The board may, after a hearing pursuant to chapter thirty A, revoke, suspend, cancel the license or place on probation, reprimand, censure, or otherwise discipline...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unauthorized practice of medicine - Chapter 112, Section 23Y
  Nothing in sections twenty-three R to twenty-three BB, inclusive, shall be construed as authorizing a respiratory therapist to practice medicine or any other form or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations; roster of licensees - Chapter 112, Section 23Z
  The board shall adopt reasonable rules and regulations to carry into effect sections twenty-three R to twenty-three BB, inclusive, and may amend and revoke such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unauthorized practice of respiratory care - Chapter 112, Section 23AA
  No person shall hold himself out as a respiratory therapist or as being able to practice respiratory care or to render respiratory care services in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Voluntary emergency care or treatment; liability - Chapter 112, Section 23BB
  No respiratory therapist duly licensed under the provisions of sections twenty-three S to twenty-three U, inclusive, who, in good faith as a volunteer and without...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Registration of pharmacists; examination; fees - Chapter 112, Section 24
  A person who desires to do business as a pharmacist shall, upon payment of a fee, as determined annually by the commissioner of administration under...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Records; expiration of registrations; renewals; reinstatement; fees - Chapter 112, Section 24A
  The board shall keep an official record of the names of all registered pharmacists and registered assistant pharmacists. All registrations of registered pharmacists and registered...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Standards for schools of pharmacy; certificates of approval; courses - Chapter 112, Section 24B
  The board and the commissioner of education shall forthwith establish standards to be met by schools or colleges of pharmacy and when, in the opinion...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Pharmacist collaborative practice agreements; collaborative drug therapy management - Chapter 112, Section 24B1/2
  (a) As used in this section and section 24B3/4 the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— “Collaborative drug...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Implementation of collaborative drug therapy management; rules and regulations - Chapter 112, Section 24B3/4
  The board of registration in medicine and the board of registration in pharmacy shall issue rules and regulations to implement collaborative drug therapy management pursuant...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Pharmacy technicians; registration - Chapter 112, Section 24C
  (a) A person who desires to become registered as a pharmacy technician shall, upon payment of a fee as determined annually by the commissioner of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Complaints relating to pharmacy technicians; investigation; discipline - Chapter 112, Section 24D
  The board shall investigate all complaints relating to the practice of pharmacy technicians. The authority granted to the board in sections 24 to 42A, inclusive,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Person acting as pharmacy technician without being registered; misdemeanor; punishment - Chapter 112, Section 24E
  No person shall hold himself out as a pharmacy technician registered by the board of pharmacy unless that person is registered in accordance with the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Change of address; written notification - Chapter 112, Section 24F
  Each registered pharmacy technician shall immediately give written notification to the board of the change of address and apply for an amended license. Each licensee...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Records; annual reports - Chapter 112, Section 25
  The board shall keep a record of the names of all persons examined and registered by it, of all persons to whom permits are issued...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Display of certificate - Chapter 112, Section 26
  Every person receiving a certificate of registration from the board shall conspicuously display the same in his place of business.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Complaint; notice; hearing - Chapter 112, Section 27
  The board shall hear all complaints made to it against any person registered as a pharmacist charging him in his business as a pharmacist with...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Decision of board of registration in pharmacy; effect - Chapter 112, Section 28
  If the full board sitting at such hearing finds the person guilty, the board may suspend the effect of his certificate of registration as a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Suspension of certificate of registration - Chapter 112, Section 29
  It may, by a majority vote of all its members, after hearing, suspend the certificate of registration of a registered pharmacist, who, in its judgment,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unlawful dispensing of controlled substances; penalties; clerical and ministerial supportive services excepted - Chapter 112, Section 30
  No person shall dispense any controlled substance or any substance intended for hypodermic use except a person registered as a pharmacist or assistant pharmacist under...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1983, 282, Sec. 2 - Chapter 112, Section 31
  Repealed, 1983, 282, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Investigation of complaints - Chapter 112, Section 32
  The board shall investigate all complaints of the violation of any provision of sections twenty-four to forty-two, inclusive, or of section sixty-five, so far as...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Access to documents - Chapter 112, Section 33
  A registered pharmacist against whom a complaint or charge is pending before the board, or his counsel, shall have the same right of access to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of conviction of pharmacist; notification of board - Chapter 112, Section 34
  The court or magistrate before whom a person is convicted of a violation of section thirty of this chapter, or of any provision of sections...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1974, 326, Sec. 2 - Chapter 112, Section 35
  Repealed, 1974, 326, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Continuance of business of deceased or incapacitated registered pharmacists - Chapter 112, Section 36
  The surviving spouse, executor or administrator of a registered pharmacist who has died or the spouse of one who has become incapacitated may continue his...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licensing of sale, distribution and delivery of drugs or medicines - Chapter 112, Section 36A
  Except as otherwise provided in section thirty-five, no person shall engage in the sale, distribution or delivery, at wholesale, of drugs or medicines within the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licenses; fees; renewals - Chapter 112, Section 36B
  The board shall upon application and the payment of an annual license fee to be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Use of words “wholesale druggist”; inspection and investigation of wholesale dealers; reports of violations; complaints - Chapter 112, Section 36C
  No person shall use the words “wholesale druggist” or any other words of similar import, holding himself or itself out to be engaged in the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties - Chapter 112, Section 36D
  Whoever, not being licensed as provided in sections thirty-six A and thirty-six B, engages in the sale, distribution or delivery, at wholesale, of drugs or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Drug business; definition - Chapter 112, Section 37
  “Drug business”, as used in the two following sections, shall mean the sale, or the keeping or exposing for sale of drugs, medicines, chemicals or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Transaction of retail drug business; registration; permit; display of permit - Chapter 112, Section 38
  No store or retail food store pharmacy department or retail store pharmacy department shall be kept open for the transaction of the retail drug business,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Registration; permits; fees; rendering of final decision - Chapter 112, Section 39
  The board may, upon application made in such manner and form as it shall determine, register a store or retail food store pharmacy department or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Restricted pharmacies; registration - Chapter 112, Section 39A
  The board may, upon application of the plan administrator or trustee of any trust, fund, pension plan, combination plan or profit sharing plan, which is...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nuclear pharmacies - Chapter 112, Section 39B
  The board may, upon application, made in such manner and form as it shall determine, register an establishment for transacting business as a nuclear pharmacy...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Long-term care pharmacy and home fusionist pharmacy - Chapter 112, Section 39C
  The board may, upon application, made in such manner and form as it shall determine, register an establishment for transacting business as a long-term care...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reporting of improper dispensing of prescription drugs - Chapter 112, Section 39D
  Stores or pharmacies engaged in the drug business, as defined in section 37, shall inform the department of public health of any improper dispensing of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2008, 451, Sec. 71 - Chapter 112, Section 39E
  Repealed, 2008, 451, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Suspension or revocation of registration and permit; notice; hearing - Chapter 112, Section 40
  The board may suspend or revoke any registration made under section thirty-nine, thirty-nine A or thirty-nine B and any permit issued thereunder for any violation...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalty - Chapter 112, Section 41
  Whoever violates any provision of section thirty-eight shall be punished by a fine of not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Patent and proprietary medicines; non-controlled substances; exemption from regulation - Chapter 112, Section 41A
  Sections thirty-six A to forty-one, inclusive, of this chapter, and sections twenty-nine to thirty G, inclusive, of chapter one hundred and thirty-eight shall not apply...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Authorization of expenditures - Chapter 112, Section 42
  For the purpose of carrying out the five preceding sections, the board may expend annually a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations; suspension or revocation of license or permit; hearing - Chapter 112, Section 42A
  The board may make such rules and regulations as it deems necessary to enable it to properly enforce the provisions of law relating to the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and duties of board of registration of dentistry; records; annual reports - Chapter 112, Section 43
  The board of registration of dentistry, herein and in sections forty-three A to fifty-three, inclusive, called the board, shall examine applicants for registration in dentistry,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 112, Section 43A
  The following words shall have the following meanings wherever used in this chapter or in any rules and regulations promulgated by the board in accordance...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notification of board of office address; fees, default; lists; display of name - Chapter 112, Section 44
  Every registered dentist when he begins practice, either by himself or associated with or in the employ of another, shall forthwith notify the board of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Registration of dentists; applications; examinations and re-examinations; fees; participation in medical assistance program; certificate; alien applicants - Chapter 112, Section 45
  Applications for registration hereunder shall be in writing upon blanks furnished by the board, which shall be signed and sworn to by the applicant, presenting...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Limited registration; renewal; revocation - Chapter 112, Section 45A
  An applicant for limited registration under this section who is eighteen years of age or over and of good moral character who shall furnish the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Temporary registration of dentists; prerequisites; fee; restrictions on practice; revocation - Chapter 112, Section 45B
  An applicant for temporary registration under this section who is 18 years of age or over and of good moral character who shall furnish the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Registration of dentists; fee waived for certain volunteer practitioners; scope of practice restricted; contents of application - Chapter 112, Section 45C
  (a) The board may grant to or renew a certificate of registration of a dentist qualified for registration or renewal of the same under this...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reputable dental college; definition - Chapter 112, Section 46
  A dental college shall be considered reputable which possesses the following qualifications: First, It shall be incorporated and authorized by its charter to confer degrees...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reexamination for competency - Chapter 112, Section 46A
  If any applicant for registration, either by examination or under the provisions of section forty-eight, is registered and issued a certificate of registration by the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Examination - Chapter 112, Section 47
  The examination may be written or oral or both, at the option of the board, and may include the principal subjects taught in reputable dental...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reciprocity certificate; fee - Chapter 112, Section 48
  The board may, without examination upon payment of a fee determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Operation of dental office under name of owner; exception - Chapter 112, Section 49
  No corporation hereinafter formed or organized shall conduct a dental office and no person shall conduct a dental office under any name other than that...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Practicing dentistry; definition; identification of removable dental prosthesis - Chapter 112, Section 50
  A person shall be deemed to be practicing dentistry if he holds himself out as being able to diagnose, treat, operate or prescribe for any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Prescriptions on hospital or clinic blanks; printing of dentist’s name required - Chapter 112, Section 50A
  Every registered dentist who writes a prescription upon a prescription blank of a hospital or clinic shall print or type his name directly below his...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dental hygienists - Chapter 112, Section 51
  Any person of good moral character, nineteen years old or over, who is a graduate of a school for dental hygienists accredited or recognized as...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Registration of dental assistants - Chapter 112, Section 511/2
  No person shall practice as a dental assistant unless registered with the board. A person who is at least 18 years of age, of good...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Continuing education; rules and regulations - Chapter 112, Section 51A
  The board shall adopt rules and regulations for a system of continuing education, compliance with which shall be a requirement and condition precedent to the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties for violations regarding licensing of dental professionals - Chapter 112, Section 52
  Any person who falsely asserts that he has a certificate granted by the board, or who, having such certificate or a duplicate thereof, fails to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Illegal advertising; dental referral service disclosure - Chapter 112, Section 52A
  No registered dentist, person practicing dentistry, or dental hygienist shall include, or permit, or cause to be included, in any newspaper, radio, or television advertisement,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Conviction for illegal advertising; revocation or suspension of registration - Chapter 112, Section 52B
  The clerk of a court in which a registered dentist or dental hygienist is convicted under the preceding section shall forthwith certify such conviction to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Illegal advertisement by persons engaged in dental business relating to dentures and bridges - Chapter 112, Section 52C
  No person engaged in the business of supplying, constructing, reproducing, relining, repairing, adding or directing the application of any substance of a permanent nature to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Suspension, revocation or cancellation of certificate, registration, license or authority - Chapter 112, Section 52D
  The board, after due notice and hearing, may suspend, revoke or cancel any certificate, registration, license or authority issued by it, of any dentist convicted...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repeated irregularities in billing third party payers; disciplinary proceedings - Chapter 112, Section 52E
  The board, after due notice and hearing, may suspend, revoke, cancel or reprimand the holder of any certificate, registration, license or authority issued by it,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Suspension of or refusal to renew registrant’s license; hearing - Chapter 112, Section 52F
  The board may, without a hearing, suspend or refuse to renew a registrant’s license if the board finds that the health, safety or welfare of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Persons filing complaint or providing information to board; liability - Chapter 112, Section 52G
  No person filing a complaint, making a report, providing information or otherwise assisting the board for purposes of said board’s discharge of its duties and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application of Secs. 43 to 52; treatment by registered physician or registered dentist from another state - Chapter 112, Section 53
  Nothing in sections forty-three to fifty-two, inclusive, shall apply to treatment by a registered physician not practicing dentistry, in case where he deems treatment necessary...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Board; power to make by-laws and rules; quorum - Chapter 112, Section 54
  The board of registration in veterinary medicine, in sections fifty-five to sixty, inclusive, called the board, may make by-laws and rules consistent with law necessary...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions applicable to Secs. 54 to 60 - Chapter 112, Section 54A
  In sections fifty-four to sixty, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meanings: “Animal”, any animal other than man including wild or domestic fowl,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Registration of veterinarians; examinations; certificate; fees; renewal of licenses; revocation - Chapter 112, Section 55
  Applications for registration as veterinarians, signed and sworn to by the applicant, shall be made upon blanks furnished by the board. Each applicant who shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Graduates of non-approved schools; waiver of requirements; rules and regulations - Chapter 112, Section 55A
  The board shall determine the qualifications and educational experience of those applicants for registration who are graduates of a non-approved veterinary school. If the board...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Examinations - Chapter 112, Section 56
  Examinations shall be in part in writing, shall be in English, and of a scientific and practical character. They shall include the subjects of anatomy,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Temporary permits; revocation - Chapter 112, Section 56A
  The board may issue without examination a temporary permit to practice veterinary medicine in the commonwealth to any person who is a graduate of an...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Prescriptions on hospital or clinic blanks; printing of veterinarian’s name required - Chapter 112, Section 56B
  Every registered veterinarian who writes a prescription upon a prescription blank of a hospital or clinic shall print or type his name directly below his...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Out-of-state veterinarians; examination; registration; reciprocity - Chapter 112, Section 56C
  Any person who is a licensed or registered veterinarian in another state and who has been engaged in the practice of veterinary medicine for at...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Schools of veterinary medicine; institutional license - Chapter 112, Section 56D
  The board shall have the authority to grant to any school of veterinary medicine located in the commonwealth an institutional license, upon the payment of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Veterinary students; clinical training; licensing exemption - Chapter 112, Section 56E
  Any veterinary student, enrolled in an accredited school or college of veterinary medicine, who is engaged in clinical training under the direct supervision and control...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Register; annual reports; investigation of complaints - Chapter 112, Section 57
  The board shall keep a register of all veterinarians registered by it, which shall be open to public inspection, and shall make an annual report....
• Massachusetts General Laws - Practicing veterinary medicine; definition - Chapter 112, Section 58
  Any person shall be regarded as practicing veterinary medicine within the meaning of this section who either directly or indirectly, diagnoses, makes a prognosis, treats,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Emergency care to animals; exemption from civil liability - Chapter 112, Section 58A
  Any veterinarian duly registered under the provisions of section fifty-five, or who is a resident of another state or in the District of Columbia and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reports of suspected acts of cruelty to animals; veterinarians; immunity from liability - Chapter 112, Section 58B
  A veterinarian duly registered under section 55 who reports, in good faith and in the normal course of business, a suspected act of cruelty to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Illegal practice of veterinary medicine; penalty; powers of board; causes for revocation of license - Chapter 112, Section 59
  Any person who, not then being lawfully authorized to practice veterinary medicine and being so registered or exempt from registration, all as defined in the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Disposal of abandoned animals; notice - Chapter 112, Section 59A
  Any veterinarian may dispose of any animal abandoned in his establishment, provided he shall give notice of his intention to do so to the owner...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application of Secs. 54 to 59; emergency advice or service - Chapter 112, Section 60
  Sections fifty-four to fifty-nine, inclusive shall not prohibit advice or service, in a case of emergency, by a person other than a registered veterinarian, nor...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 112, Section 60A
  The following words as used in sections sixty A to sixty L, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, shall have the following meanings:— “Architect”, any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application for registration as architect; fees; examinations - Chapter 112, Section 60B
  Any person who is at least twenty-one years of age and of good moral character may apply to the board for registration. Every applicant for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Submission of evidence of education and experience; examinations; exemption from written examination; rules and regulations - Chapter 112, Section 60C
  Every person applying to the board for registration shall submit with his application to the board evidence of graduation from a recognized high school or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Renewals of certificates of registration; fee - Chapter 112, Section 60D
  On or about May first of each year, the board shall mail to every architect or architect emeritus registered in the commonwealth a blank application...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Display of certificate of registration; issuance of duplicate certificates; fee - Chapter 112, Section 60E
  Every holder of a certificate of registration shall display it in a conspicuous place in his principal office, or place of business or employment within...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Seal of registered architect - Chapter 112, Section 60F
  Every registered architect shall have a seal of a design authorized by the board. All plans and specifications and reports prepared by a registered architect,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Revocation, suspension or annulment of certificate; disciplining of registrant; grounds - Chapter 112, Section 60G
  The board may revoke, suspend or annul the certificate of registration, or reprimand, censure or otherwise discipline a registrant, upon proof satisfactory to the board:...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Charges against architect; hearing; notice; revocation, suspension or annulment of certificate; notice to secretary of state; re-issue of certificate - Chapter 112, Section 60H
  Charges against an architect involving any matter coming within the jurisdiction of the board shall be in writing and shall be filed with the board....
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of registration; prima facie evidence - Chapter 112, Section 60I
  Every certificate of registration issued and remaining in force, under any provision of sections sixty A to sixty J, inclusive, shall be prima facie evidence...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Roster of registered architects - Chapter 112, Section 60J
  A roster, showing the names and last known places of business of all registered architects, shall be prepared by the board during the month of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Practice of architecture; use of titles; display of signs and other advertising matter - Chapter 112, Section 60K
  No person shall, directly or indirectly, engage in the practice of architecture in this commonwealth, except as hereinafter set forth in section sixty L, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Services in practice of architecture; plans and specifications; registered professional engineer; employees; landscape architects; partnership or corporation; non-resident architects - Chapter 112, Section 60L
  Nothing in sections sixty A to sixty M, inclusive, shall be construed to prevent 1. The preparation of plans and specifications for and the supervision...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Determination of services as practice of architecture; finality; fraud - Chapter 112, Section 60M
  The determination of any person, or of any officer, board or commission of the commonwealth or of any political subdivision thereof, who makes a contract...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of registration as architect emeritus - Chapter 112, Section 60N
  (a) Upon receipt of a written application, the board may grant a certificate of registration as an architect emeritus to an architect who has retired...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement by board; attorney general; duties - Chapter 112, Section 60O
  The board shall be charged with the enforcement of sections 60A to 60N, inclusive. If any person refuses to obey any decision of the board,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Punishment for violations - Chapter 112, Section 60P
  Whoever violates sections 60A to 60N, inclusive, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $500 or by imprisonment in a jail or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Suspension, revocation or cancellation of certificate, registration, license or authority by boards; disciplinary measures; sanctions; student loan defaulters; review - Chapter 112, Section 61
  Except as otherwise provided by law the board of registration in medicine each board of registration or examination in the department of public health in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Hearings - Chapter 112, Section 62
  Any person against whom charges are filed shall be notified of the hearing thereof, and may appear with witnesses and be heard by counsel. If...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Pendency of action before criminal court; delay; pendency of charge before board; continuance - Chapter 112, Section 63
  Said boards shall not defer action upon any charge before them until the conviction of the person accused, nor shall the pendency of any charge...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Review by supreme judicial court of suspension, revocation or cancellation order; decree; standards of review by other courts - Chapter 112, Section 64
  The supreme judicial court, upon petition of a person whose certificate, registration, license or authority has been suspended, revoked or cancelled, may enter a decree...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Practice during suspension, revocation or cancellation; civil administrative penalties; notice; expiration and renewal of license; court orders - Chapter 112, Section 65
  (a) Whoever continues to practice a trade or profession after his certificate, registration, license or authority to do so has been suspended, revoked or cancelled...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unlicensed practice of trade; penalties - Chapter 112, Section 65A
  Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, each board of registration under the supervision of the division of professional licensure and each board...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Board authority to suspend or refuse to renew license; hearing; judicial review - Chapter 112, Section 65B
  A board of registration under the supervision of the division of professional licensure having jurisdiction over a licensee whose continued practice poses an immediate and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Investigative conference meetings; access to meeting records - Chapter 112, Section 65C
  Meetings of the boards held for the purpose of conducting investigative conferences prior to the issuance of an order to show cause or for purposes...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Assessed penalties; allocation of funds - Chapter 112, Section 65D
  Twenty per cent of all civil administrative penalties assessed by boards under the supervision of the division of professional licensure pursuant to sections 61 and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reporting requirement - Chapter 112, Section 65E
  Each board of registration under the supervision of the division of professional licensure and each board of registration under the supervision of the department of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Practice of optometry; definition - Chapter 112, Section 66
  The practice of optometry, as referred to in sections 67 to 73, inclusive, shall mean the employment of any method or means for the diagnosis,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Diagnostic pharmaceutical agents; utilization - Chapter 112, Section 66A
  Any registered optometrist, qualified by examination for practice under the provisions of section sixty-eight subsequent to January first, nineteen hundred and eighty-four or duly certified...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Therapeutic pharmaceutical agents and therapeutic contact lenses; utilization; prescriptions - Chapter 112, Section 66B
  Any registered optometrist, qualified by examination for practice under the provisions of section 68 subsequent to January 1, 1994, duly certified in accordance with the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Board of registration; records; inspection; rules and regulations; reports - Chapter 112, Section 67
  The board of registration in optometry, herein and in sections sixty-eight to seventy-three, inclusive, called the board, shall keep a record of the names of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Registration of optometrists; examinations; fees; certificate; exemption from written examination; participation in medical assistance program - Chapter 112, Section 68
  No person, except as otherwise provided in this section, shall practice optometry until he shall have passed an examination conducted by the board in theoretic,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Examination for use of diagnostic pharmaceutical agents - Chapter 112, Section 68A
  The board of registration in optometry shall annually administer an examination designed to measure the qualifications necessary in order to safely utilize the optical application...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Examination for use of therapeutic pharmaceutical agents - Chapter 112, Section 68B
  The board of registration in optometry shall administer an examination designed to measure the qualifications necessary to safely utilize the ophthalmic application of therapeutic pharmaceutical...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Annual license fees; revocation of certificate; renewal of registration, educational requirement - Chapter 112, Section 69
  Every registered optometrist shall, annually, before February first, pay to the board a license fee to be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Recording of certificate of registration by city or town clerk; fees; display of certificate - Chapter 112, Section 70
  Every person to whom a certificate of registration has been granted shall cause the same to be recorded in the office of the clerk of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Refusal to grant certificate; revocation or suspension; hearing; notice; renewal - Chapter 112, Section 71
  The board may refuse to grant a certificate of registration to any applicant found guilty of fraud in making application or taking an examination for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Name of optometric practice - Chapter 112, Section 72
  Optometrists may practice and advertise under a trade or service name; provided however, that the names of the optometrist or optometrists are prominently displayed at...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unlawful practice of optometry; violation of rules and regulations; penalties - Chapter 112, Section 72A
  Whoever, not being lawfully authorized to practice optometry, practices optometry, or holds himself out as a practitioner of, or as being able to practice, optometry,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application of Secs. 66 to 72A - Chapter 112, Section 73
  Sections sixty-six to seventy-two A, inclusive, shall not apply to physicians and surgeons lawfully entitled to practice medicine in the commonwealth, or to persons who...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Advertising restrictions; violations; penalties - Chapter 112, Section 73A
  Persons may advertise the sale price of eyeglasses, contact lenses or eyeglass frames provided they shall not include in any newspaper, radio, display sign or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Practice of optometry on premises selling eyeglasses, lenses or frames; unauthorized receipt of fees from practice of optometry - Chapter 112, Section 73B
  No person shall practice optometry on premises not separate from premises whereon eyeglasses, lenses or eyeglass frames are sold by any other person; nor shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dispensing optician; definition - Chapter 112, Section 73C
  A dispensing optician as referred to in sections seventy-three D to seventy-three L, inclusive, is a person who prepares and dispenses lenses, spectacles, eyeglasses and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licensing of dispensing opticians - Chapter 112, Section 73D
  No person or corporation shall directly or indirectly engage in practice as a dispensing optician, unless he or the person employed by such corporation has...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Applications for registration; examinations; licenses; fees; exemption from written examination - Chapter 112, Section 73E
  Application for registration as a dispensing optician may be made by any citizen who pays a fee to be determined annually by the commissioner of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Records of board; annual reports; rules and regulations - Chapter 112, Section 73F
  The board shall keep a record of the names of all persons examined and licensed by it and all moneys received and disbursed by it,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - License fees - Chapter 112, Section 73G
  Every licensed dispensing optician shall, biennially, on or before his birthday, pay to the board a license fee to be determined annually by the commissioner...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Refusal to grant license; suspension; revocation; hearing; notice - Chapter 112, Section 73H
  The board may refuse to grant or may suspend for a definite time or may revoke any license of any person found guilty of fraud,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Illegal practice - Chapter 112, Section 73I
  Whoever, not being duly licensed as a dispensing optician, compounds and dispenses, at retail, prescriptions of physicians or optometrists for eyeglasses and lenses or makes...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application of Secs. 73C to 73L to registered physicians or optometrists - Chapter 112, Section 73J
  The provisions of sections seventy-three C to seventy-three L, inclusive, shall not apply to registered physicians or optometrists.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certification as apprentice; application; fee; certificate; powers of apprentice - Chapter 112, Section 73K
  Any person entering the employ of a physician, optometrist, licensed dispensing optician as an apprentice for the purpose of obtaining the experience and training referred...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Revocation of order of suspension; granting of new licenses; hearing - Chapter 112, Section 73L
  The board may, upon application and after hearing, revoke an order of suspension or grant a new license to any person whose license has been...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sellers of ready-to-wear magnifying spectacles or eyeglasses; applicability of law - Chapter 112, Section 73M
  The provisions of sections sixty-six to seventy-three L, inclusive, and any rules or regulations promulgated pursuant thereto shall not apply to the retail sale of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Registration of nurses; examinations; fees; certificate; rules and regulations - Chapter 112, Section 74
  The board of registration in nursing in this section and in sections seventy-four A to eighty-one C, inclusive, called the board, shall hold examinations for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Registration of practical nurses; examinations and re-examinations; certificate; fees; cancellation of certificate; rules and regulations - Chapter 112, Section 74A
  The board shall hold examinations for the licensing of practical nurses at such times and places as it shall determine. Applications for licenses as practical...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1967, 195, Sec. 1 - Chapter 112, Section 74B
  Repealed, 1967, 195, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Advisory council on continuing education; membership; appointment - Chapter 112, Section 74C
  The governor shall appoint an advisory council on continuing education, consisting of seventeen members, three representatives of the public, five licensed practical nurses, three registered...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Contracts or agreements; restrictive covenants - Chapter 112, Section 74D
  Any contract or agreement which creates or establishes the terms of a partnership, employment, or any other form of professional relationship with a nurse registered...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Examinations - Chapter 112, Section 75
  Examinations shall be wholly or in part in writing, in the English language, shall include the principles and practice of nursing but shall be limited...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reciprocity registration; fee - Chapter 112, Section 76
  The board may register or license in like manner, without examination, any person who has been registered as a nurse or licensed as a practical...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nurses registered in other jurisdictions; temporary registration - Chapter 112, Section 76A
  The board may, at its discretion, certify as authorized to practice professional nursing any person who furnishes proof, satisfactory to the board, that he was...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Canadian nurse licensure; reciprocity - Chapter 112, Section 76B
  Any person who has taken and passed the State Board Testing Pool Exam by standards acceptable to the board, and has been registered by a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Investigation of complaints; national data reporting systems - Chapter 112, Section 77
  The board shall investigate all complaints of violation of sections seventy-four to eighty-one C, inclusive, and report same to the proper prosecuting officers. The board...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Records; inspection; annual report - Chapter 112, Section 78
  The board shall keep records of the names of all persons registered and licensed by it and of all money received and disbursed by it...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations - Chapter 112, Section 79
  The board may make such rules and regulations consistent with law relative to its procedure under sections seventy-four to seventy-eight, inclusive, as it deems expedient.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violations of provisions relating to professional nursing - Chapter 112, Section 80
  Whoever, not being lawfully authorized to practice as a registered nurse within the commonwealth, practices or attempts to practice professional nursing or uses the abbreviation...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violations of provisions relating to practical nursing - Chapter 112, Section 80A
  Whoever, not being lawfully authorized to practice as a licensed practical nurse within the commonwealth, practices or attempts to practice practical nursing or uses the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nursing practice; advanced practice; licensed practical nurses - Chapter 112, Section 80B
  The practice of nursing shall mean the performance for compensation of those services which assist individuals or groups to maintain or attain optimal health. Nursing...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nurse-midwife; designation - Chapter 112, Section 80C
  A nurse-midwife who is designated by the board of registration in nursing pursuant to the provisions of section eighty B may engage in the practice...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nurse-midwifery advisory committee - Chapter 112, Section 80D
  An advisory committee composed of five practicing nurse-midwives appointed by the board of registration in nursing for a two-year term shall be consulted on matters...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nurse practitioners or psychiatric nurse mental health clinical specialists; power to order therapeutics and tests; issuance of written prescriptions - Chapter 112, Section 80E
  A nurse practitioner or psychiatric nurse mental health clinical specialist may issue written prescriptions and order tests and therapeutics pursuant to guidelines mutually developed and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rehabilitation program; establishment; functions; rehabilitation evaluation committees; program participants - Chapter 112, Section 80F
  (a) The board shall establish a rehabilitation program designed to assist nurses, whose competency has been impaired because of substance abuse disorders, to return to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nurse-midwives; authority to order and interpret tests and prescribe medications; clinical relationship with obstetrician-gynecologist; standards of care - Chapter 112, Section 80G
  A nurse authorized to practice as a certified nurse-midwife, under section 80C, may order and interpret tests, therapeutics and prescribe medications in accordance with regulations...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nurse anesthetist; power to issue prescriptions and order tests and therapeutics - Chapter 112, Section 80H
  A nurse anesthetist may issue written prescriptions and order tests and therapeutics for the immediate perioperative care of a patient pursuant to guidelines mutually developed...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Required signature, certification, etc. by physician relating to physical or mental health; fulfillment by nurse practitioner - Chapter 112, Section 80I
  When a law or rule requires a signature, certification, stamp, verification, affidavit or endorsement by a physician, when relating to physical or mental health, that...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application of Secs. 80 to 80A; government employees - Chapter 112, Section 81
  Neither section eighty nor eighty A, as the case may be, shall apply to any person duly licensed to practice nursing within any other jurisdiction,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inspection and approval of schools for nurses - Chapter 112, Section 81A
  The board shall upon the request of any school for nurses or for practical nurses in the commonwealth inspect said school and notify its trustees...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Approval of schools in other states - Chapter 112, Section 81B
  The board may approve, for the purposes of sections seventy-four, seventy-four A or seventy-six A, any school for nurses or for practical nurses, as the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations relative to nursing schools - Chapter 112, Section 81C
  The board may make such rules and regulations consistent with law relative to procedure under sections eighty-one A and eighty-one B as it deems expedient,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 112, Section 81D
  The following words and phrases as used in sections eighty-one D to eighty-one T, inclusive, hereinafter referred to as said sections, shall, unless the context...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Examination of applicants; rules and regulations of board; seal - Chapter 112, Section 81E
  The board shall examine applicants for registration as professional engineers and as professional land surveyors and applicants desiring to take written or oral examinations to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Moneys received by secretary of board; bond - Chapter 112, Section 81F
  The secretary of the board shall receive and account for all moneys received under said sections and shall pay the same to the state treasurer....
• Massachusetts General Laws - Clerical and other assistance - Chapter 112, Section 81G
  The board may employ such clerical and other assistance as may be necessary for the proper performance of its work.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Record of board proceedings; register of applications for registration; prima facie evidence; annual report to governor - Chapter 112, Section 81H
  The board shall keep a full record of its proceedings and a register of applications for registration, which register shall show (a) the name, age...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Roster of registered professional engineers and land surveyors - Chapter 112, Section 81I
  A roster showing the names and places of business of all registered professional engineers and all registered land surveyors shall be prepared by the secretary...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Roster of registered professional engineers and professional land surveyors - Chapter 112, Section 81J
  The following shall be considered as minimum evidence satisfactory to the board that an applicant is qualified for registration as a professional engineer or professional...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Form and content of application for registration; fees - Chapter 112, Section 81K
  Applications for registration shall be on forms prescribed and furnished by the board, shall contain statements made under oath, showing the applicant’s education and detailed...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Time and place of examination; scope; methods of procedure; re-examinations - Chapter 112, Section 81L
  When oral or written examinations are required they shall be held at such time and place as the board shall determine. If examinations are required...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of registration; prima facie evidence; seal of registrant - Chapter 112, Section 81M
  The board shall issue a certificate of registration upon payment of the registration fee to any applicant who, in the opinion of the board, has...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Expiration of certificates; notice; renewal; fee; reinstatement - Chapter 112, Section 81N
  Certificates of registration shall expire June thirtieth in every even-numbered year, and may be renewed as hereinafter provided. The secretary of the board shall, at...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1970, 707, Sec. 11 - Chapter 112, Section 81O
  Repealed, 1970, 707, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reprimand and suspension of registration; revocation; charges; hearing - Chapter 112, Section 81P
  The board shall have the authority to reprimand a registrant and to suspend the registration of a registrant for a limited period to be specified...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reissuance of certificate after revocation; duplicate certificates; fee - Chapter 112, Section 81Q
  The board, for any reason which it may deem sufficient, may reissue a certificate of registration to any person whose certificate has been revoked, if...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Construction - Chapter 112, Section 81R
  Nothing in said sections shall be construed to prevent or to affect:— (a) the practice of any other legally recognized profession including the practice of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appeal from action of board - Chapter 112, Section 81S
  Any person aggrieved by any action of the board refusing to grant, or suspending or revoking, a certificate of registration or a permit for any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties; duties of attorney general - Chapter 112, Section 81T
  Whoever practices or offers to practice engineering or land surveying in the commonwealth without being registered in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 112, Section 82
  The following words, as used in this section and in sections eighty-three to eighty-seven, inclusive, shall have the following meanings, unless the context otherwise requires:—...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Registration of embalmers, funeral directors and apprentice embalmers; applications; examinations and re-examinations; certificates; fees; renewals; apprenticeship; advertising; funeral directing - Chapter 112, Section 83
  Applications for registration as embalmers, funeral directors or apprentice embalmers, and for establishment certificates, shall be made on blanks furnished by the board. No person...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Issuance and renewal of certificates; fees; expiration of registration; refusal to issue or renew; suspension or revocation - Chapter 112, Section 84
  No certificate, except an establishment certificate, shall be issued or renewed for a period exceeding one year, and all renewals thereof, except embalmer apprentice certificates...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violations; investigation by board; hearing; notice; review of decision - Chapter 112, Section 84A
  Whenever the board shall have reason to believe that any person or establishment to whom a certificate has been issued to practice or operate under...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Itemized list of funeral costs - Chapter 112, Section 84B
  Every licensed funeral director, his agent or servant, shall give, or cause to be given to the person making funeral arrangements, or arranging for shipment,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Requirement that funeral directors make organ donation information available - Chapter 112, Section 84C
  Every licensed funeral director, his agent or servant, when discussing preplanning conferences with potential clients, shall make available to those clients information and education regarding...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations; enforcement; records; inspection; annual reports; investigations; lists - Chapter 112, Section 85
  The board is authorized to adopt and promulgate such rules and regulations for the transaction of its business and the betterment and promotion of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reciprocal agreements with other states - Chapter 112, Section 85A
  The board may, upon the affirmative vote of a majority of its members, enter into and rescind at any time an agreement with the corresponding...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Display of certificates - Chapter 112, Section 86
  Every holder of a certificate of registration in embalming, every holder of a certificate of registration in funeral directing, and every holder of an establishment...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unlawful embalming; engaging in business of funeral directing without registration; penalty - Chapter 112, Section 87
  Whoever, not being registered as an embalmer under section eighty-three or corresponding provisions of earlier laws, shall engage in the profession of embalming dead human...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 112, Section 87A
  As used in sections eighty-seven A1/2 to eighty-seven E, inclusive, the following words shall, unless the context requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— “Board”, the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Board of public accountancy; powers; rules; certificate of certified public accountant - Chapter 112, Section 87A1/2
  (a) The board shall have the power to sue and be sued in its official name as an agency of the commonwealth; to issue subpoenas...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Individuals or firms practicing public accountancy; liability for damages in civil actions involving claim or defense of fraud - Chapter 112, Section 87A3/4
  When an individual or firm licensed to practice public accountancy under section 87B or 87B1/2 is held liable for damages in a civil action arising...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licenses; individuals - Chapter 112, Section 87B
  The board shall grant or renew licenses to practice public accountancy to persons who make application and demonstrate their qualifications therefor in accordance with the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licenses; firms - Chapter 112, Section 87B1/2
  The board shall grant or renew licenses to practice public accountancy to firms that make application and demonstrate their qualifications therefor in accordance with the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2010, 22, Sec. 15 - Chapter 112, Section 87C
  Repealed, 2010, 22, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Revocation or suspension of certificate or license; discipline; investigations; complaint; hearing; order; judicial review; modification of order - Chapter 112, Section 87C1/2
  (a) After notice and hearing, the board may revoke any certificate or license issued under sections eighty-seven A1/2, eighty-seven B and eighty-seven B1/2 suspend any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nonlicensed persons or firms; restrictions; titles; use; misleading names or designations; certificates or licenses granted in foreign countries - Chapter 112, Section 87D
  (a) No person or firm not holding a valid license issued under section eighty-seven B or eighty-seven B1/2 shall issue a report on financial statements...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Injunctions or restraining orders to prohibit unauthorized practices; criminal proceedings - Chapter 112, Section 87D1/2
  Whenever, as a result of an investigation or otherwise, the board believes that any person or firm has engaged, or is about to engage, in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Records incidental to rendering services; confidential information - Chapter 112, Section 87E
  All statements, records, schedules, working papers, and memoranda made by a licensee or a partner, member, shareholder, officer, director, or employee of a licensee, incident...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reviewer disclosure of materials relating to quality reviews; liability - Chapter 112, Section 87E1/2
  A reviewer shall not be permitted or required to testify or otherwise provide evidence or discovery in any civil action, arbitration, judicial or administrative proceeding...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 112, Section 87F
  The following words, as used in the following thirteen sections, unless the context otherwise requires, shall have the following meanings:— “Barber”, any person who, personally...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Examinations; records; register of applicants; inspection; annual report - Chapter 112, Section 87G
  The board shall hold practical examinations, to be held in cities in different parts of the commonwealth, distributed as evenly as possible for the convenience...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Registration of barbers; qualifications; examinations and reexaminations; certificates; fees; renewals; barber shops; inspection; suspension; revocation - Chapter 112, Section 87H
  Any person desiring to obtain a certificate of registration shall make application to the board therefor, pay to the secretary thereof a fee, as determined...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Apprentices and students; report of instructor; examinations and reexaminations; registration; fees; renewal; permit - Chapter 112, Section 87I
  Nothing in sections eighty-seven F to eighty-seven R, inclusive, shall prohibit any person sixteen years of age or over from serving in this commonwealth in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Card or insignia; display; renewal; failure to renew - Chapter 112, Section 87J
  The board shall furnish without charge to each person to whom a certificate of registration is issued a card or insignia bearing the seal of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations; inspections; quarantine - Chapter 112, Section 87K
  The board shall make such reasonable rules and regulations as are necessary for the proper conduct of its business, and especially to provide for the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Suspension of certificate; charges; notice; hearing; issuance of new certificate - Chapter 112, Section 87L
  The board may suspend, for not exceeding six months, the certificate of registration of any barber for habitual drunkenness or, for failure to comply with...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Hearings - Chapter 112, Section 87M
  The board may require the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of such books, records and papers as it desires at any hearing...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appeal to superior court - Chapter 112, Section 87N
  Any person aggrieved by any action of the board refusing to grant, or suspending or revoking, a certificate of registration or a permit for any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fees; payment and disposition - Chapter 112, Section 87O
  Fees referred to in sections eighty-seven F to eighty-seven R, inclusive, shall be paid in advance to the secretary of the board, who shall pay...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Barber schools or colleges; permit to operate; bond; course of study; instructors; examination; certificate - Chapter 112, Section 87P
  Any school or college where tuition or fees are charged for teaching the occupation of barbering shall be considered a barber school or barber college...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1963, 510, Sec. 2 - Chapter 112, Section 87Q
  Repealed, 1963, 510, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties - Chapter 112, Section 87R
  Whoever engages in or follows, or attempts to engage in or follow, the occupation of barbering, or conducts or attempts to conduct a barber school...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application of Secs. 87F to 87R - Chapter 112, Section 87S
  Nothing in sections eighty-seven F to eighty-seven R, inclusive, shall be construed to refer to a beauty shop, so called, or a hairdressing parlor, so...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 112, Section 87T
  The following words, as used in sections eighty-seven T to eighty-seven KK, inclusive, shall have the following meanings:— “Aesthetician”, any person, who with hands or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Registration of students; practice upon paying customers - Chapter 112, Section 87U
  All students enrolled in registered schools shall, within fifteen days after entering upon their courses of study, be registered with the board by such schools....
• Massachusetts General Laws - Registration of student as operator; examination; practice under supervision; holders of certificate or diploma from skin care school - Chapter 112, Section 87V
  Any registered student who has completed a course of at least six months, including at least one thousand hours of professional training in the case...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Registration of operator as hairdresser or aesthetician; examination; registration of demonstrators; fees; place of demonstrations - Chapter 112, Section 87W
  Any registered operator who has had not less than two years of practical experience as such, and who makes application therefor, accompanied by a fee...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Registration of manicurists; examinations; fees; renewal of registration - Chapter 112, Section 87X
  Any registered student who has completed a course of at least one month, including at least one hundred hours of professional training in manicuring, in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Examinations; time for holding - Chapter 112, Section 87Y
  The board shall hold examinations during the months of February, June and October, on a date designated by the board and in such cities throughout...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reciprocity registration; fees; temporary license - Chapter 112, Section 87Z
  The board may register, without examination, any hairdresser, operator, manicurist or aesthetician who has been registered as such under the laws of another state, which,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Operation of registered shops; fee; employment of unregistered persons; change of location; shops in state institutions; supervisors - Chapter 112, Section 87AA
  The board may authorize one or more registered hairdressers, manicurists or aestheticians or any person employing one or more registered hairdressers, manicurists, or aestheticians, upon...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Registration of schools; licensing, examination and registration of instructors, assistant instructors and junior assistant instructors; rules and regulations - Chapter 112, Section 87BB
  The board may register any school which it approves, upon payment of a school registration fee as provided in section eighty-seven CC, and such school...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations; certificate of physician; fees; expiration of certificates - Chapter 112, Section 87CC
  The board shall make such uniform and reasonable rules and regulations as are necessary for the proper conduct of its business, the establishment of proper...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Entry into shops or schools; inspection; complaints; investigation - Chapter 112, Section 87DD
  Any member or agent of the board may enter and inspect any beauty shop, aesthetic shop, manicure shop or school in a proper manner at...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Suspension or cancellation of registration; hearing; notice - Chapter 112, Section 87EE
  The board, under such reasonable rules and regulations as it may make, may for cause, including unprofessional conduct, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation in practice or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Re-registration; revocation of suspension - Chapter 112, Section 87FF
  The board may, after a public hearing, and after investigation, again register a person or school whose registration has been cancelled, or revoke the suspension...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Expiration of registration; renewal fees; practical examination; temporary license - Chapter 112, Section 87GG
  Each registration granted under sections eighty-seven T to eighty-seven JJ, inclusive, shall expire upon the date prescribed by or pursuant to section eighty-seven CC, and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appeal - Chapter 112, Section 87HH
  Any person aggrieved by the refusal of the board to grant, or by its suspension or cancellation of, a registration, or by its refusal to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalty - Chapter 112, Section 87II
  Whoever engages in or follows, or attempts to engage in or follow, the occupation of an instructor or of hairdressing, aesthetician, demonstrating or manicuring, unless...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application of Secs. 87T to 87II - Chapter 112, Section 87JJ
  Nothing in sections eighty-seven T to eighty-seven II, inclusive, shall be deemed to authorize a hairdresser, aesthetician, demonstrator, instructor or operator to engage in massage...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Time and place of examination; notice; fee; re-registration - Chapter 112, Section 87KK
  Every applicant for registration as a hairdresser, aesthetician, manicurist, instructor, or operator shall receive notice from the board prior to an examination of the time...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 112, Section 87LL
  The following words as used in sections eighty-seven MM to eighty-seven OO, inclusive, shall, unless the context requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— “Board”, the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Registration of sanitarians; application; certificate; expiration; fee - Chapter 112, Section 87MM
  A person who desires to be registered as a sanitarian shall file with said board an application upon a form to be prescribed and furnished...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Qualifications of applicants; temporary certificates of registration; examinations - Chapter 112, Section 87NN
  The board may by rule establish the minimum educational and experience qualifications which applicants must possess before being allowed to take the examinations for registration...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Titles; Registered Sanitarian; letters R.S.; use - Chapter 112, Section 87OO
  Any person to whom a certificate of registration as a sanitarian has been issued shall have the right to use after his name the title...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 112, Section 87PP
  For the purposes of sections eighty-seven PP to eighty-seven DDD, inclusive, the following words and phrases, unless the context otherwise requires, shall have the following...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Applicability of sections; exemption - Chapter 112, Section 87QQ
  The provisions of sections eighty-seven RR to eighty-seven DDD, inclusive, shall not apply to the following:—any person who, acting for himself as owner, lessor, lessee,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - License; completion of transactions; fee or commission; action for compensation - Chapter 112, Section 87RR
  Except as otherwise provided, no person shall engage in the business of or act as a broker or salesman directly or indirectly, either temporarily or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Applicants for license; requisites; attorney at law; examinations; rules and regulations - Chapter 112, Section 87SS
  No license to engage as a broker or salesman shall be issued to any applicant unless he has complied with all the pertinent provisions of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application for licenses; forms; fees; evidence of applicant; bonds; action on bond; temporary license - Chapter 112, Section 87TT
  Applications for licenses, signed and sworn to by the applicant, shall be made on forms furnished by the board and shall be accompanied by an...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Corporations, societies, associations or partnerships; application for broker’s license - Chapter 112, Section 87UU
  An application for a broker’s license by a corporation, society, association or partnership shall designate at least one of its officers or partners as its...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licensed salesmen; restrictions; notices - Chapter 112, Section 87VV
  No salesman who is not licensed shall be affiliated with a broker. A licensed salesman affiliated with a licensed broker shall not act as salesman...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Non-residents; licensed broker or salesman; power of attorney; service of process - Chapter 112, Section 87WW
  A non-resident may be licensed as a broker and a non-resident individual may be licensed as a salesman upon conforming to all pertinent provisions of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Issuance of license; term; renewal licenses; records by board - Chapter 112, Section 87XX
  The board shall issue a license to an applicant who has complied with all pertinent requirements which shall entitle him to act as a broker...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Continuing education; certification of course completion - Chapter 112, Section 87XX1/2
  Any person holding a license as a real estate broker or salesman, which is subject to renewal on or after January first, nineteen hundred and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Place of business; display of license; notice; change of business location - Chapter 112, Section 87YY
  A licensed resident broker shall maintain a usual place of business in the commonwealth and shall display conspicuously therein or in any branch thereof his...
• Massachusetts General Laws - First signing of purchase agreement; distribution of home inspection brochure; prohibition of specific recommendations; exception - Chapter 112, Section 87YY1/2
  At the time of the signing of the first written contract to purchase, real estate brokers and salesmen, or the seller if no broker or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fee; purposes; advance payments - Chapter 112, Section 87ZZ
  Fees, as determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven, shall be paid by individuals in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Complaints; investigation by board; revocation or suspension of license; grounds; penalties - Chapter 112, Section 87AAA
  The board may, and upon the verified complaint in writing of an aggrieved person shall, investigate the action of any broker or salesman or any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2002, 498, Sec. 3 - Chapter 112, Section 87AAA1/2
  Repealed, 2002, 498, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Real Estate Brokers and Salesmen - Chapter 112, Section 87AAA3/4
  (a) This section shall only apply to real estate brokers and salesmen for the intended purchase or sale of land with a building intended for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Investigations and hearings by board; powers; decisions; appeals; costs - Chapter 112, Section 87BBB
  A. The board is hereby empowered to conduct such investigations and hearings and to take such action as may be appropriate and necessary to administer...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violations; punishment - Chapter 112, Section 87CCC
  Whoever, without being licensed as required by section eighty-seven RR, acts as a broker or salesman or advertises that he is a broker or salesman...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2011, 9, Sec. 9 - Chapter 112, Section 87DDD
  Repealed, 2011, 9, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Persons finding dwelling accommodations for fee - Chapter 112, Section 87DDD1/2
  No person shall engage in the business of finding dwelling accommodations for prospective tenants for a fee unless such person is a licensed broker or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 112, Section 87EEE
  For the purposes of sections eighty-seven FFF to eighty-seven OOO, inclusive, the following words shall, unless the context requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— “Board”,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Practice of electrolysis; license; penalties - Chapter 112, Section 87FFF
  No person shall engage in the practice of electrolysis or hold himself out as a practitioner of, or being able to practice, electrolysis unless he...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application for registration; qualifications; examinations; fees; renewal of license - Chapter 112, Section 87GGG
  Any person desiring to engage in the practice of electrolysis shall make application upon a form furnished by the board, which application shall be signed...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licenses; recording; display; place of business - Chapter 112, Section 87HHH
  Every person to whom a license has been issued under section eighty-seven GGG shall cause the same to be recorded in the office of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Revocation of licenses - Chapter 112, Section 87III
  The board may suspend or revoke any license issued by it after due public hearing upon finding the holder of such license to be guilty...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appeal from revocation of license - Chapter 112, Section 87JJJ
  Any electrologist aggrieved by any decision or ruling of said board may, within thirty days after receiving in writing notice of such decision or ruling,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Regulation of advertisement - Chapter 112, Section 87KKK
  No licensed electrologist shall include in any advertising, or publish, issue or make any misrepresentation, false, fraudulent or misleading statements through the press, circulation of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Electrolysis schools; inspection; licensing; standards; revocation of licenses; appeal; licensing of instructors - Chapter 112, Section 87LLL
  The board shall, upon the application of any school desiring to teach electrolysis in the commonwealth, inspect such school and notify the governing body thereof...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations; publication - Chapter 112, Section 87MMM
  The board may make and shall publish necessary rules and regulations for the proper discharge of its duties and the enforcement of sections eighty-seven FFF...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties - Chapter 112, Section 87NNN
  Whoever violates any provision of sections eighty-seven FFF to eighty-seven OOO, inclusive, for which a penalty is not otherwise prescribed, or any rule or regulation...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licensing without examination - Chapter 112, Section 87OOO
  The board may, upon the payment of a fee to be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 112, Section 87PPP
  For the purposes of sections eighty-seven PPP to eighty-seven VVV, inclusive, the following words and phrases, unless the context otherwise requires, shall have the following...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Applicability of sections; exemption - Chapter 112, Section 87QQQ
  The provisions of sections eighty-seven PPP to eighty-seven VVV, inclusive, shall not apply to the following:— Any person repairing or maintaining his own radio or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Radio and television technician; license; learner’s permit; rules and regulations - Chapter 112, Section 87RRR
  Except as otherwise provided, no person shall engage in the business of or act as a radio and television technician directly or indirectly, unless he...
• Massachusetts General Laws - License; pre-requisites; examination; competence; veterans’ credit; duration - Chapter 112, Section 87SSS
  No license to engage in business as a radio and television technician shall be issued to any applicant unless he has complied with all the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application for license; qualifications of applicant - Chapter 112, Section 87TTT
  Applications for licenses, signed and sworn to by the applicant, shall be made on forms furnished by the board and shall be accompanied by the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fees - Chapter 112, Section 87UUU
  Fees, as determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven, shall be payable in advance to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalty - Chapter 112, Section 87VVV
  Whoever, without being licensed as required by section eighty-seven RRR, engages in the business of maintaining or repairing of radio or television receivers, shall be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 112, Section 87WWW
  For the purposes of this section and sections eighty-seven XXX to eighty-seven ZZZ, inclusive, the following words shall, unless the context requires otherwise, have the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application; certification - Chapter 112, Section 87XXX
  A person who desires to be certified as a health officer shall file with said board an application upon a form to be prescribed and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Qualifications; temporary certification - Chapter 112, Section 87YYY
  The board may by rule establish the minimum educational and experience qualifications which the applicants must possess before being allowed to take the examination for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Title: Certified Health Officer or C.H.O. - Chapter 112, Section 87ZZZ
  Any person to whom a certificate or certification as a health officer has been issued shall have the right to use after his name the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1983, 606, Secs. 5, 6 - Chapter 112, Section 87AAAA 87BBBB
  Repealed, 1983, 606, Secs. 5,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application; qualifications; examination; certificate; renewal; fees; temporary emergency certification - Chapter 112, Section 87CCCC
  A person who desires to be certified as an operator of a drinking water supply facility shall file with the board of certification of operators...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Operation of drinking water supply facilities; necessity of certification; penalty; jurisdiction - Chapter 112, Section 87DDDD
  No person, corporation, city, town or district shall furnish to the public any drinking water for which any charge is made unless the treatment and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Issuance of certified statements and duplicate certificates of registration - Chapter 112, Section 88
  Except as otherwise provided in section thirty-three of chapter ninety, every board of registration or examination established by the commonwealth shall establish rules and regulations...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 112, Section 89
  For the purposes of this section and sections ninety to ninety-seven, inclusive, the following words shall, unless the context requires otherwise, have the following meanings:—...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations; records; reports - Chapter 112, Section 90
  The board may make and publish necessary rules and regulations for the proper conduct of its duties, and shall keep a full record of its...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application for certificate; filing; fees; qualifications of applicant - Chapter 112, Section 91
  Every person, before engaging in the practice of chiropractic in this commonwealth, shall make application to the board, on a form prescribed and furnished by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licensees of other states; registration - Chapter 112, Section 92
  Any person licensed by a chiropractic board of any other state having at the time when said person obtained his license a standard equal to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Refusal to grant certificate; revocation - Chapter 112, Section 93
  The board may refuse to grant a certificate to any person who has been convicted of a felony involving moral turpitude, who has been guilty...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Examinations; registration; certificate; display - Chapter 112, Section 94
  The board shall examine each applicant as to his qualifications for the practice of chiropractic. Such examination shall be in writing, and except as otherwise...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Chiropractic facilities; licensing; exception - Chapter 112, Section 94A
  (a) A person shall not engage in the practice of chiropractic except in a licensed chiropractic facility and provided the person is licensed by the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unauthorized practice or impersonation; penalty - Chapter 112, Section 95
  Whoever, not being lawfully authorized to practice chiropractic in this commonwealth, practices or attempts to practice chiropractic, or holds himself out as a practitioner of,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Address; notification to board; license fee; license renewal certificate; change of address; suspension of authority; list of chiropractors - Chapter 112, Section 96
  Every registered chiropractor, upon commencing to practice, shall forthwith notify the board of his office address or addresses. Every registered chiropractor practicing as aforesaid shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rendition of services; advertisement - Chapter 112, Section 97
  Registered chiropractors may render services under the terms and provisions of the workers’ compensation and rehabilitation laws. No registered chiropractor or person practicing chiropractic shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 112, Section 98
  The following words as used in this section and sections ninety-nine to one hundred and seven, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, shall have the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of registration; necessity; display - Chapter 112, Section 99
  No person shall represent himself to be a landscape architect or use the title landscape architect in the commonwealth on any sign, title, card or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Seal - Chapter 112, Section 100
  Every registered landscape architect shall have a seal of a design authorized by the board. All plans and specifications and reports prepared by a registered...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Qualifications of applicants; practice by associations - Chapter 112, Section 101
  Before being examined for registration as a landscape architect, each applicant shall submit evidence to the board that: (a) he is at least twenty-three years...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Examinations; rules and regulations - Chapter 112, Section 102
  Examinations for registration as a landscape architect shall be held by the board at least one each year, provided that applications shall have been receiving...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fees - Chapter 112, Section 103
  Fees for landscape architects shall be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven and shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Foreign architects; certification; reciprocity - Chapter 112, Section 104
  The board may certify for registration without examination an applicant who is legally registered as a landscape architect in any other state or country whose...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1972, 283 - Chapter 112, Section 105
  Repealed, 1972,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Suspension or revocation of certificate; reissuance - Chapter 112, Section 106
  The board, after due notice and hearing, may suspend or revoke the certificate of registration of a landscape architect upon proof satisfactory to the board:...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unlawful conduct; penalties - Chapter 112, Section 107
  It shall be unlawful for any person to: (a) hold himself as a landscape architect unless he is registered under the provisions of sections ninety-eight...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 112, Section 108
  The following words as used in this section and in sections one hundred and nine to one hundred and seventeen, inclusive, shall, unless the context...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Supervision of nursing homes; necessity of licensed administrator; evidence of eligibility for examination - Chapter 112, Section 109
  (a) No nursing home which is licensed by the department of public health to provide nursing care may operate except under the supervision of a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Internship; evidence of training - Chapter 112, Section 110
  Each applicant for an original license as a nursing home administrator shall also serve for a period of not less than three months as a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application; qualifications and examination; certificate of licensure; renewal; fees - Chapter 112, Section 111
  A person who desires to be registered as a qualified nursing home administrator shall file with the board an application upon a form to be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Transferability and validity of license; review of denial of issuance or renewal; supervision or revocation of license - Chapter 112, Section 112
  A nursing home administrator’s license shall not be transferable and shall be valid until surrendered for cancellation or suspended or revoked for violation of any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - License without examination to licensees of other jurisdictions - Chapter 112, Section 113
  The board may issue a nursing home administrator’s license without examination, to any person who holds a valid license as a nursing home administrator from...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Record of proceedings; register of applicants; status as evidence - Chapter 112, Section 114
  The board shall keep a record of its proceedings and an official register of all applicants for examination for a license to practice nursing home...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Duties and responsibilities of board - Chapter 112, Section 115
  The board shall have the duty and responsibility to: (a) Develop and administer standards which shall be met by individuals in order to receive a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Acting as administrator without license; penalties - Chapter 112, Section 116
  Whoever acts as a nursing home administrator or represents himself to be a licensed nursing home administrator without having been duly licensed and registered by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Effect of Sec. 116 on employees and subordinates - Chapter 112, Section 117
  Section one hundred and sixteen shall not be construed so as to prevent or to affect the work of an employee or subordinate of a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 112, Section 118
  As used in sections one hundred and eighteen to one hundred and twenty-nine A, inclusive, the following words, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application; contents and requirements - Chapter 112, Section 119
  Each person desiring to obtain a license as a psychologist shall make application to the board upon such form and in such manner as the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Examination of applicants; health service provider certification - Chapter 112, Section 120
  Upon satisfaction of requirements specified in section one hundred and nineteen, the applicant shall pass an examination administered by the board. Examinations shall be conducted...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Issuance of license without examination - Chapter 112, Section 121
  Notwithstanding the provisions of section one hundred and twenty, the board may issue a license without examination to an applicant who presents evidence that he...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unauthorized practice or use of title; punishment - Chapter 112, Section 122
  Any person not licensed to practice psychology who holds himself out to be a psychologist or who uses the title “psychologist” or engages in the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties; exemptions - Chapter 112, Section 123
  The penalties in section one hundred and twenty-two shall not apply to: (a) persons eligible for licensure under section 119 who provide consultative services for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Temporary licenses - Chapter 112, Section 124
  The board may grant a temporary license for a period not to exceed one year to a psychologist with legal residence outside the commonwealth to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Exclusion of other professions or occupations from applications of licensing or registration requirements - Chapter 112, Section 125
  Nothing in sections one hundred and eighteen to one hundred and twenty-nine A, inclusive, shall be construed to prevent qualified members of other professions or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fees - Chapter 112, Section 126
  The following fees shall be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven and shall be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Term of license; renewal - Chapter 112, Section 127
  Licenses shall be valid for two years and shall be renewed biennially. On or before April fifteenth every two years the secretary of the board...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Investigations; revocation, suspension, or cancellation of license; notice, hearing, order, review - Chapter 112, Section 128
  The board shall investigate all complaints relating to the proper practice of psychology by any person licensed under sections one hundred and eighteen to one...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reinstatement of license - Chapter 112, Section 129
  After three years from the date of revocation, an application for reinstatement may be made to the board, which may, upon the affirmative vote of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Confidential communications - Chapter 112, Section 129A
  All communications between a licensed psychologist and the individuals with whom the psychologist engages in the practice of psychology are confidential. At the initiation of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Contractual restrictions on right to practice - Chapter 112, Section 129B
  Section 129B. A contract or agreement which creates or establishes the terms of a partnership, employment, or any other form of professional relationship with a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 112, Section 130
  As used in this section and sections one hundred and thirty-one to one hundred and thirty-seven, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meanings,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application; requirements; exemption from examination and experience - Chapter 112, Section 131
  Any individual desiring to obtain a license as a certified social worker shall make application therefor to the board upon such form and in such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Examination of applicants; re-examination; issuance of license without examination - Chapter 112, Section 132
  Examinations for licensed certified social workers, including those in independent clinical practice, licensed social workers and licensed social work associates shall be conducted at least...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unauthorized practice; punishment - Chapter 112, Section 133
  No person shall engage in the practice of social work unless he is licensed under the provisions of section one hundred and thirty-one. No person...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Practice of social work by certain parties - Chapter 112, Section 134
  Nothing in sections one hundred and thirty to one hundred and thirty-seven, inclusive, shall be construed to prevent qualified members of other professions or occupations...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 112, Section 135
  As used in this section and sections one hundred and thirty-five A and one hundred and thirty-five B the following words shall have the following...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Confidential communications; exceptions - Chapter 112, Section 135A
  All communications between a social worker licensed pursuant to the provisions of section one hundred and thirty-two or a social worker employed in a state,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Confidential communications; testimonial privilege - Chapter 112, Section 135B
  Except as hereinafter provided, in any court proceeding and in any proceeding preliminary thereto and in legislative and administrative proceedings, a client shall have the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Restriction of right to practice after termination of partnership, employment or professional relationship void - Chapter 112, Section 135C
  A contract or agreement creating or establishing the terms of a partnership, employment, or any other form of professional relationship with a social worker licensed...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licenses; effective date; expiration; renewal; continuing education requirements, waiver - Chapter 112, Section 136
  All licenses shall be effective when issued by the board. The license of licensed certified social workers, including those engaged in independent clinical practice, licensed...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licenses; board’s refusal to renew; revocation; suspension; notice; hearing; enforcement by injunction; reinstatement - Chapter 112, Section 137
  The board may refuse to renew, revoke, suspend for an indefinite period or cancel the certificate of registration or order further training or reprimand, censure...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 112, Section 138
  As used in this section and sections one hundred and thirty-nine to one hundred and forty-seven, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meanings,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Examination and qualification of applicants; complaints; list of licensees - Chapter 112, Section 139
  The board: (1) shall evaluate the qualifications of applicants, supervise examinations and grant licenses to those persons who pass the examination and who are determined...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application; fee - Chapter 112, Section 140
  A person who desires to be licensed as a speech-language pathologist or audiologist or certified as a speech-language pathology assistant or audiology assistant shall apply...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nonresidents; licenses; fees - Chapter 112, Section 141
  The board may at its discretion and without examination license as a speech-language pathologist or audiologist or certify as a speech-language pathology assistant or audiology...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of licensure; issuance - Chapter 112, Section 142
  The board shall license as a speech-language pathologist or audiologist or certify as a speech-language pathology assistant or audiology assistant each applicant who meets the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - License renewal; fee - Chapter 112, Section 143
  A licensed speech-language pathologist or audiologist or certified speech-language pathology assistant or audiology assistant shall apply to the board every 2 years on dates determined...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Qualifications for license - Chapter 112, Section 144
  To be eligible for license by the board as a speech-language pathologist or audiologist, an applicant shall: (1) be of good moral character, (2) possess...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certification requirements - Chapter 112, Section 144A
  To be eligible for certification by the board as a speech-language pathology assistant or audiology assistant, an applicant shall:— (1) be of good moral character;...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Activities and services of certain parties - Chapter 112, Section 145
  The provisions of sections one hundred and thirty-eight to one hundred and forty-seven, inclusive, shall not prohibit the activities and services of: (1) a qualified...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unauthorized practice - Chapter 112, Section 146
  No person shall hold himself out as a speech-language pathologist or practice speech-language pathology unless he is licensed in accordance with the requirements of section...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fines and penalties; false oath or affirmation; fraudulent representation - Chapter 112, Section 147
  Any person who violates any provision of sections one hundred and thirty-nine to one hundred and forty-six, inclusive, or who willfully makes a false oath...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 112, Section 148
  As used in sections one hundred and forty-nine to one hundred and sixty-two, inclusive of this chapter, section one of chapter one hundred and fifty-six...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Committee on acupuncture - Chapter 112, Section 149
  The board of registration in medicine shall form a committee on acupuncture. Committee members will be appointed by the board with the following qualifications: one...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Adoption of rules; register of licensed acupuncturists; meetings; compensation - Chapter 112, Section 150
  The committee may adopt reasonable rules to carry into effect sections one hundred and forty-nine to one hundred and sixty-two, inclusive, and may amend and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application for license - Chapter 112, Section 151
  A person who desires to be licensed and registered as an acupuncturist shall apply to the committee in writing on an application form prescribed and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Eligibility for registration and licensure - Chapter 112, Section 152
  To be eligible for registration and licensure by the committee as an acupuncturist an applicant shall: (a) Be at least eighteen years of age, (b)...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reciprocal licensing - Chapter 112, Section 153
  The committee may enter into agreements with medical or acupuncture examination boards of other states and territories of the United States, the District of Columbia,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Examinations - Chapter 112, Section 154
  The committee shall examine applicants for licensure as acupuncturists at least annually in such places as it may determine commencing in calendar year nineteen hundred...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Registration and licensure; certificate of registration - Chapter 112, Section 155
  The committee shall register and license as an acupuncturist each applicant who proves to the satisfaction of the committee his fitness for licensure under the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Renewal of licenses - Chapter 112, Section 156
  The committee shall require that all acupuncturists registered in the commonwealth renew their licenses at two year intervals. The renewal date shall be the licensee’s...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Internship programs - Chapter 112, Section 157
  A student of acupuncture who has creditably completed not less than one year of study in a committee approved acupuncture school, may practice acupuncture, but...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Revocation, suspension, or cancellation of licenses; liability of complainants - Chapter 112, Section 158
  The committee may, after a hearing pursuant to chapter thirty A, revoke, suspend, or cancel the license of an acupuncturist, or reprimand or censure an...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement; penalties; injunctions - Chapter 112, Section 159
  Any person who practices acupuncture in the commonwealth without a license granted pursuant to sections one hundred and fifty to one hundred and fifty-seven, inclusive,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unauthorized practice or impersonation; penalty - Chapter 112, Section 160
  A person who does not possess a valid license and existing and current certificate of registration as an acupuncturist pursuant to the provisions of sections...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1998, 114, Sec. 2 - Chapter 112, Section 161
  Repealed, 1998, 114, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Federally employed acupuncturists; treatment by physical therapists - Chapter 112, Section 162
  Nothing contained in sections one hundred and forty-nine to one hundred and sixty-two, inclusive, shall prohibit any person employed as an acupuncturist by an agency...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions applicable to Secs. 163 to 172 - Chapter 112, Section 163
  As used in sections one hundred and sixty-three to one hundred and seventy-two, inclusive, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Advertisement or engagement in practice of licensed profession; license requirement; exemptions - Chapter 112, Section 164
  Except as otherwise provided in sections one hundred and sixty-three to one hundred and seventy-two, inclusive, commencing March first, nineteen hundred and eighty-nine, no individual...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Applied behavior analysis; practice by qualified members of other professions or occupations - Chapter 112, Section 164A
  Nothing herein shall be construed to prevent qualified members of other professions or occupations including, but not limited to, physicians, psychologists, teachers, occupational therapists, members...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Marriage and family therapists, rehabilitation counselors, mental health counselors, educational psychologists, applied behavior analysts; licenses; qualifications - Chapter 112, Section 165
  The board may issue a license to an applicant as a marriage and family therapist, a rehabilitation counselor and a mental health counselor; provided, however,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Examinations; issuance of licenses without examinations - Chapter 112, Section 166
  The board shall conduct examinations at least twice a year at a time and place designated by the board, in order to determine any applicant’s...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Temporary permits - Chapter 112, Section 167
  The board, at its discretion, may issue a temporary permit, effective for up to one year, to an individual whose application for licensure under this...
• Massachusetts General Laws - License fees; renewals - Chapter 112, Section 168
  A fee, as determined by the commissioner of administration pursuant to section three B of chapter seven shall be paid to the board for the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Denial, revocation or suspension of licenses - Chapter 112, Section 169
  The board, subject to a majority vote of its members, is authorized to deny, revoke or suspend a license granted pursuant to this chapter on...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Board hearings; subpoena powers - Chapter 112, Section 170
  The board shall conduct its proceedings in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and chapter thirty A. Any individual may be heard by the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties - Chapter 112, Section 171
  Any individual not licensed under sections one hundred and sixty-three to one hundred and seventy-two who on March first, nineteen hundred and eighty-nine holds himself...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Confidential communications; waiver - Chapter 112, Section 172
  Any communication between an allied mental health or human services professional and a client shall be deemed to be confidential. Said privilege shall be subject...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Privilege against disclosures in court, legislative or administrative proceedings; exercise or waiver of privilege by guardian; scope of privilege - Chapter 112, Section 172A
  (a) Except as hereinafter provided, in a court proceeding, in a proceeding preliminary thereto or in a legislative or administrative proceeding, a client of a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions applicable to Secs. 173 to 195 - Chapter 112, Section 173
  The following terms as used in sections one hundred and seventy-three to one hundred and ninety-five, inclusive, shall have the following meanings: “Appraisal assignment”, an...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Real estate appraiser titles; certification or licensing; opinions - Chapter 112, Section 174
  A. No person, other than a state-certified general real estate appraiser, state-certified residential real estate appraiser or state-licensed real estate appraiser, shall assume or use...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and duties of board of real estate appraisers - Chapter 112, Section 175
  A. The board shall have the following powers and duties: (1) to define by regulation and with respect to each category of certified or licensed...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Charging and collection of fees by board of real estate appraisers - Chapter 112, Section 176
  The board shall charge and collect fees as determined by the commissioner of administration and finance in accordance with the provisions of section three B...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application for original or renewal certification and licensing and examination; forms - Chapter 112, Section 177
  An application for original certification and licensing, renewal certification and licensing, and examination shall be made in writing to the board on forms approved by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Classification of real estate appraisers; applications - Chapter 112, Section 178
  There shall be four classes of real estate appraisers as follows: (1) The state-certified general real estate appraiser classification, which shall consist of persons meeting...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Examinations for original certification; requirements - Chapter 112, Section 179
  An original certification as a state-certified general real estate appraiser, state-certified residential real estate appraiser or state-licensed real estate appraiser shall not be issued to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Prerequisites for examination; transitional licenses; trainees; discrimination - Chapter 112, Section 180
  A. As a prerequisite to taking the examination for certification as a state-certified general or state-certified residential real estate appraiser, an applicant shall present evidence...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Two year term for certificate or license; date of license expiration; trainees - Chapter 112, Section 181
  The term of a certificate or a license issued by the board, except a transitional license under subdivision C of section 180, shall be 2...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nonresident applicants for certification or licensing - Chapter 112, Section 182
  A. Every applicant for certification or licensing who is not a resident of the commonwealth shall submit, with the application for certification or licensing, an...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Applicants certified or licensed out of state - Chapter 112, Section 183
  A. If, in the determination of the board, another state is deemed to have substantially equivalent certification or licensing requirements, an applicant who is certified...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Renewal certificate or license; continuing education requirements; late renewal fee - Chapter 112, Section 184
  A. To obtain a renewal certificate or license, the holder of a current, valid certificate or license shall make application and pay the prescribed fee...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Business addresses; written notification of change; residence addresses - Chapter 112, Section 185
  A. Each state-certified general real estate appraiser, state-certified residential real estate appraiser or state-licensed real estate appraiser shall advise the board of the address of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate or license number - Chapter 112, Section 186
  A. Each certificate or license issued hereunder shall bear a certificate or license number assigned by the board. B. Each state-certified general real estate appraiser,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appraiser titles; corporations, partnerships, firms or groups - Chapter 112, Section 187
  A. The terms “state-certified general real estate appraiser”, “state-certified residential real estate appraiser”, and “state-licensed real estate appraiser” may only be used to refer to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Continuing education; regulations; certificate or license revocation - Chapter 112, Section 188
  A. The board shall adopt regulations for implementation of the continuing education provisions of this act to assure that persons renewing their certifications and licenses...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Acts or omissions warranting suspension or revocation of rights of applicants or certified or licensed appraisers - Chapter 112, Section 189
  The rights of any applicant or holder under a certificate or license as a state-certified or state-licensed real estate appraiser may be revoked or suspended,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Hearings; powers of board; disciplinary decisions; review of questions of law - Chapter 112, Section 190
  A. The hearing on any charge or violation of this chapter shall be at a time and place prescribed by the board and shall be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appraisers employed as disinterested third parties or employed to provide specialized services - Chapter 112, Section 191
  A client or employer may retain or employ a state-certified general real estate appraiser, state-certified residential real estate appraiser or state-licensed real estate appraiser to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Contingent appraisal assignments; contingent specialized services fees - Chapter 112, Section 192
  A. A state-certified general real estate appraiser, state-certified residential real estate appraiser or state-licensed real estate appraiser shall not accept a fee for an appraisal...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Retention of appraisal contracts for five years; reports and supporting data; litigation; records inspection - Chapter 112, Section 193
  Each state-certified general real estate appraiser, state-certified residential real estate appraiser or state-licensed real estate appraiser shall retain, for at least five years, originals or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Acting as state certified appraiser without obtaining certificate; violations of provisions of this chapter; penalties - Chapter 112, Section 194
  A. Any person acting or purporting to act as a state-certified general real estate appraiser, state-certified residential real estate appraiser or state-licensed real estate appraiser...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Actions for fees brought by uncertified and unlicensed appraisers - Chapter 112, Section 195
  Uncertified and unlicensed persons may not maintain an action for a fee on non-exempted transactions. No action or suit shall be instituted, nor recovery had,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 112, Section 196
  As used in this section and sections 197 to 200, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Hearing instrument specialists; licensure - Chapter 112, Section 197
  (a) Beginning July 1, 2000, no person shall identify, present or otherwise portray himself as a hearing instrument specialist or practice hearing aid dispensing in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Hearing instrument specialists licensed out of state - Chapter 112, Section 197A
  An individual who holds a license as a hearing instrument specialist or the equivalent thereof as determined by the board from a state which is...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Apprentice hearing instrument specialists - Chapter 112, Section 198
  (a) The board shall establish the requirements for registration of apprentice hearing instrument specialists and shall promulgate the rules and regulations consistent with law as...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules of professional competence and conduct; revocation or suspension of licenses - Chapter 112, Section 199
  (a) In addition to its other rule making powers, the board may develop and adopt such rules of professional competence and conduct as may be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violations of Secs. 197 to 200; punishment - Chapter 112, Section 200
  (a) The board may, by a majority vote of the entire board and upon determination made after a hearing pursuant to chapter 30A, find that...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 112, Section 201
  The following words and phrases as used in this section and in sections 202 to 210, inclusive, shall, unless context otherwise requires, have the following...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Board of registration of dietitians/nutritionists; powers and duties - Chapter 112, Section 202
  The board shall have the following powers and duties: (1) to promulgate regulations and adopt such rules as are necessary to regulate the field of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application for original license, renewal or examination; educational and professional experience requirements - Chapter 112, Section 203
  An application for original license, renewal and to sit for the licensing examination shall be made on the forms approved by the board and accompanied...
• Massachusetts General Laws - License examination; time limitation for license application - Chapter 112, Section 204
  Applicants approved by the board as having met the age, character, education and experience requirements for licensure may sit for the licensing exam by filing...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Discipline powers of the board; enforcement of order - Chapter 112, Section 205
  The board shall be empowered to deny or refuse to renew a license, or suspend or revoke a license or issue an order to cease...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Authorized activities for nonlicensed dietitians/nutritionists - Chapter 112, Section 206
  No person shall hold himself out to be a licensed dietitian/nutritionist unless so licensed under the applicable provisions of this chapter. This section shall not...
• Massachusetts General Laws - License renewal biennially; continuing education; proof of compliance - Chapter 112, Section 207
  Every person licensed in accordance with this chapter shall apply to the board for renewal of license on or before the anniversary of the date...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Authority for recognition of licensees from other states - Chapter 112, Section 208
  The board may provide reciprocal recognition for registered, certified or licensed dietitians/nutritionists from other jurisdictions, provided that the standards of registration, certification and licensure in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unlicensed practice as dietitian/nutritionist; criminal liability; punishment; restriction of civil actions - Chapter 112, Section 209
  (1) Any person acting or purporting to act as a licensed dietitian/nutritionist without first obtaining a license to practice under this chapter shall be guilty...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notice to board of principal place of business address; other addresses at which engaged in business; residential address; change of address; application for amended license - Chapter 112, Section 210
  Each licensed dietitian/nutritionist shall advise the board of the address of his principal place of business and all other addresses at which he is currently...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions applicable to Secs. 211 to 219 - Chapter 112, Section 211
  As used in this section and sections 212 to 219, inclusive, the following words shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the following meanings:- “American...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Board of registration of perfusionists; powers and duties - Chapter 112, Section 212
  The board shall have the following powers and duties: (a) to promulgate regulations and adopt such rules as are necessary to regulate the field and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - License application; renewal; examination - Chapter 112, Section 213
  An application for original license, a license renewal or for the licensing examination shall be made on forms approved by the board and accompanied by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Examination application; reexamination; provisional license - Chapter 112, Section 214
  Applicants approved by the board as having met the age, character, education and experience requirements for licensing may take the licensing examination upon filing an...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Revocation, suspension, or cancellation of license; refusal to renew; discipline of licensee - Chapter 112, Section 215
  The board may deny or refuse to renew a license or, after a hearing pursuant to chapter 30A, revoke, suspend or cancel the license or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Complaints for review of orders of board - Chapter 112, Section 215A
  (a) Any person or firm adversely affected by any order of the board entered after a hearing may obtain review thereof by filing a complaint...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Authorized activities for nonlicensed perfusionists - Chapter 112, Section 216
  No person shall hold himself out as a perfusionist or as being able to practice perfusion services in the commonwealth unless he is licensed in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - License without examination; perfusionist applicants licensed in another jurisdiction - Chapter 112, Section 217
  The board may, without examination, license as a perfusionist any applicant who is duly licensed or certified under the laws of another state or territory...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Limitations on licensed perfusionists - Chapter 112, Section 218
  Nothing in sections 212 to 219, inclusive, shall be construed to authorize a perfusionist to practice medicine or any other form or method of healing...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Record of board proceedings; roster of licensees and provisional licensees - Chapter 112, Section 219
  The board shall adopt reasonable rules and regulations to carry into effect sections 212 to 219, inclusive, and may amend and revoke such rules and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Addresses of licensees - Chapter 112, Section 220
  Each licensed perfusionist shall advise the board of the address of his principal place of business and other addresses at which he is currently engaged...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions for Secs. 222 to 226 - Chapter 112, Section 221
  As used in sections 222 to 226, inclusive, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— “Associate home inspector”,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licensure as home inspector; qualifications; license period; renewal; exceptions for other professionals - Chapter 112, Section 222
  (a) No person shall present, call or represent himself as authorized to provide a home inspection for compensation unless licensed by the board in accordance...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment of home inspection licensure requirements; applicant qualifications - Chapter 112, Section 223
  The board shall establish the requirements for licensure as an associate home inspector and shall promulgate such rules and regulations to establish the associate training...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Home inspection license applicants licensed in another state - Chapter 112, Section 224
  Upon payment to the board of a fee and the submission of a written application provided by said board, the board shall issue a home...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Complaints against licensed home inspectors; proof of errors and omissions insurance policy; time limitation; liability - Chapter 112, Section 225
  The board shall establish procedures for the filing of complaints regarding home inspectors who are subject to requirements for licensure. A licensed home inspector and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violations of Secs. 222 to 225; fines and penalties; appeal - Chapter 112, Section 226
  The board may, by a majority vote and upon determination made after a hearing pursuant to chapter 30A, find that a home inspector or associate...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions applicable to Secs. 228 to 235 - Chapter 112, Section 227
  As used in this section and sections 228 to 236, inclusive, the following words shall, unless the context requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— “Board”,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licensing of massage therapists - Chapter 112, Section 228
  (a) No person shall hold himself out to others as a massage therapist or practice massage or massage therapy unless he holds a valid license...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application for massage therapist license; renewal - Chapter 112, Section 229
  (a) A person desiring to engage in the practice of massage therapy shall make application upon a form furnished by the board, which application shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reciprocal licenses for massage therapists from other jurisdictions - Chapter 112, Section 230
  The board may provide reciprocal licenses for registered, certified or licensed massage therapists from other jurisdictions if the standards of registration, certification or licensure in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Requirements for licensing of massage therapists - Chapter 112, Section 231
  The board may grant a license to an applicant who: (1) either: (a) provides documentation acceptable to the board demonstrating the applicant has provided at...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Complaints; unethical or unprofessional conduct; suspension; sanctions - Chapter 112, Section 232
  (a) The board shall conduct inspections and investigate all complaints filed relating to the proper practice of massage therapy, the operation of a massage school,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licensing of massage therapy schools - Chapter 112, Section 233
  The board shall, upon the application of any school desiring to teach massage therapy, inspect the school and notify the governing body thereof in writing...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Regulations by board; display of license in place of business - Chapter 112, Section 234
  The board shall adopt regulations necessary to ensure the safe and lawful practice of massage therapy. Every person receiving a license from the board shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Advertising by massage therapists - Chapter 112, Section 235
  (a) Only persons duly licensed under this chapter shall be designated as massage therapists and entitled to use the term “massage” when advertising or printing...
• Massachusetts General Laws - [There is no 112:236.] - Chapter 112, Section 236
  [There is no
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions applicable to Secs. 237 to 251 - Chapter 112, Section 237
  As used in this section and sections 237 to 251, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context requires otherwise: “Apprentice”...
• Massachusetts General Laws - License requirement for masters, journeypersons and apprentices; display of license or certificate; display of designation and number in advertisements - Chapter 112, Section 238
  (a) No person shall engage in work as a master, journeyperson or apprentice nor shall any person advertise or represent that he is a master,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application certification of sheet metal corporation, partnership, LLC, LLP or other such entity - Chapter 112, Section 239
  (a) A person licensed in the commonwealth as a master sheet metal worker may apply to the board for a certificate of a sheet metal...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules for performance of duties; qualifications of applicants for examination - Chapter 112, Section 240
  The board shall make such rules as they deem proper for the performance of their duties and governing the qualifications of applicants for examination. The...
• Massachusetts General Laws - License application for apprenticeship; vocational school on-the-job training - Chapter 112, Section 241
  An apprentice, before starting an apprenticeship, shall file an application with the board, accompanied by the appropriate fee, requesting that an apprentice license be issued....
• Massachusetts General Laws - Examination exemption for certain out-of-state or foreign country masters or journeypersons - Chapter 112, Section 242
  Upon payment of a fee and the submission of an application provided by the board, the board may issue a license without examination to an...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fees for licenses - Chapter 112, Section 243
  The fees for a license as a journeyperson, master and apprentice sheet metal worker, or for any biennial renewal thereof, shall be determined annually by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Continuing education rules and regulations - Chapter 112, Section 244
  The board may adopt rules and regulations for a system of continuing education, compliance with which shall be a condition precedent to the renewal of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Investigation of complaints; supervision by division of professional licensure; cease and desist; penalties - Chapter 112, Section 245
  (a) The board may investigate all complaints filed relating to the proper practice of sheet metal work, any violation of this chapter pertaining to the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalty for unlicensed practice - Chapter 112, Section 246
  Whoever, not being licensed to practice sheet metal work pursuant to this chapter, practices or attempts to practice sheet metal work or holds himself out...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations for cities and towns; enforcement; appeals - Chapter 112, Section 247
  The board shall adopt reasonable and uniform rules and regulations for cities and towns relative to the practice of sheet metal work. The rules and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notice for non-resolution of violation - Chapter 112, Section 248
  If in the opinion of an inspector of buildings or other official, the holder of a license or certificate violates any law or rule or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Permit from local inspector of buildings - Chapter 112, Section 249
  No person shall install sheet metal work without first obtaining a permit from the local inspector of buildings or other official. The permit shall be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - License renewal cycle and period - Chapter 112, Section 250
  The director of professional licensure shall determine the renewal cycle and renewal period for all licenses issued by the board. Persons licensed in accordance with...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules governing property owned by commonwealth - Chapter 112, Section 251
  The board shall adopt rules relative to the construction, alteration, repair and inspection of all sheet metal work on property and buildings owned, used or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions applicable to Secs. 252 to 258 - Chapter 112, Section 252
  As used in sections 252 to 258, inclusive, the following words, shall unless the context requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— “ABGC”, the American Board...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Genetic counselors; license applications; fee; proof of age, moral character, and educational and professional requirements - Chapter 112, Section 253
  An application for original license, license renewal or for the licensing examination shall be made on forms approved by the board and accompanied by the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Education and experience requirements for genetic counselor applicants - Chapter 112, Section 254
  An applicant for registration as a genetic counselor shall have: (a) successfully completed a genetic counseling education program approved by the board; provided, however, that...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Practice as provisional licensed genetic counselor; expiration; extension; supervision by professional licensed genetic counselor - Chapter 112, Section 255
  A person who meets the qualifications to be admitted to the examination for licensure as a genetic counselor may, between the date of filing an...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Examinations for certification as genetic counselors and as Ph.D. medical geneticists - Chapter 112, Section 256
  (a) The board shall examine applicants for certification as genetic counselors at such times and places as it may determine. The examination shall meet the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Practice of genetic counseling by unlicensed persons; exceptions - Chapter 112, Section 257
  No person shall hold himself out as a genetic counselor unless he is licensed in accordance with section 239 or under section 105 of chapter...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Grounds for denial, refusal to renew, revocation, suspension or cancellation of genetic counselor license - Chapter 112, Section 258
  The board may deny or refuse to renew a license or, after a hearing pursuant to section 105 of chapter 13, revoke, suspend or cancel...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions applicable to Secs. 259 to 262 - Chapter 112, Section 259
  The following words as used in sections 259 to 262, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, shall have the following meanings:— “Board”, the board of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application for certification as community health worker; fee; additional requirements; carrying of board-issued documentation of certification - Chapter 112, Section 260
  An application for certification as a community health worker shall be made on forms approved by the board, signed under the penalties of perjury by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unauthorized use of certified community health worker title; act or service for which license by professional licensing board is required - Chapter 112, Section 261
  The title “certified community health worker” shall only be used by individuals who have met the requirements and qualifications for certification as a community health...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Liability for complaint alleging violation of law or board regulation - Chapter 112, Section 262
  No person filing a complaint alleging a violation of law or of the regulations of the board, reporting information pursuant to such laws or regulations...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Private occupational schools; oversight by division of professional licensure - Chapter 112, Section 263
  (a) As used in this section, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— “Division”, the division of professional...

Last modified: September 11, 2015