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General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 147 State and Other Police, and Certain Powers and Duties of the Department of Public Safety.
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- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions and duties of commissioner and department of public safety - Chapter 147, Section 1
The commissioner of public safety, in this chapter called the commissioner, shall have charge of the administration and enforcement of all laws, rules and regulations...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1991, 412, Sec. 82A - Chapter 147, Section 1A
Chapter 147: Section 1A. Repealed, 1991, 412, Sec. 82A
- Massachusetts General Laws - Inspectors; powers and duties; appointment as special state police - Chapter 147, Section 2
All inspectors of the department shall have and exercise throughout the commonwealth the powers of constables, police officers and watchmen, except as to the service...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rewards or gifts for services; failure to perform duties - Chapter 147, Section 3
Any inspector of the department who directly or indirectly receives a reward, gift or gratuity on account of his official services shall be punished by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1991, 412, Sec. 85 - Chapter 147, Section 4-7
Chapter 147: Section 4 to 7. Repealed, 1991, 412, Sec. 85
- Massachusetts General Laws - County police; appointment; badge; powers - Chapter 147, Section 8
County commissioners may appoint as police officers persons who are in the employment of the county, who shall, when on duty, wear in plain sight...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Carrying police weapons and equipment - Chapter 147, Section 8A
A sheriff, any of his deputies, and any officer of any institution under the supervision of a sheriff if so authorized by him, the commissioner...
Special Police Officers.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1991, 412, Sec. 85A - Chapter 147, Section 9-10E
Chapter 147: Section 9 to 10E. Repealed, 1991, 412, Sec. 85A
- Massachusetts General Laws - Parking control officers - Chapter 147, Section 10F
Any board or officer authorized to appoint police officers in any city or town which accepts this section, and any college, university or other educational...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1991, 412, Sec. 85B - Chapter 147, Section 10G-10M
Chapter 147: Section 10G to 10M. Repealed, 1991, 412, Sec. 85B
Reserve Police Force in Cities.
Reserve Police Force in Towns.
Reserve Police Forces in Cities and Towns.
Days Off for Police.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Days off for police; one day out of thirty - Chapter 147, Section 14
Members of the police department of every city, except Boston and such cities as have accepted chapter two hundred and ten of the acts of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - One day out of fifteen - Chapter 147, Section 15
Except in Boston, members of the police department of every town which accepted chapter two hundred and ten of the acts of nineteen hundred and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - One day out of eight - Chapter 147, Section 16
Except in Boston, members of the police department of every town which accepts or has accepted the provisions of this section by vote of its...
- Massachusetts General Laws - One day out of seven - Chapter 147, Section 16A
Members of the police department of every town which has heretofore accepted this section shall, so long as its provisions are operative therein, be excused...
- Massachusetts General Laws - One day out of six - Chapter 147, Section 16B
Except in Boston, members of the police department of every town which accepts this section by vote of its city council in case of a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Five day weeks; vote of voters; petition question on ballot - Chapter 147, Section 16C
Members of the police department of every city or town which accepts this section by vote of the city council, subject to the provisions of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Time for days off; effect; emergencies; minimum days annually; effect on annual vacations - Chapter 147, Section 17
The time and manner of excusing members of police departments from duty in any town subject to any of the six preceding sections shall be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Additional days off or pay - Chapter 147, Section 17A
If any police officer of a city or town is required to work on January the first, July the fourth or Christmas day, or the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Five day and forty hour week; compensation for additional service; reduction in compensation - Chapter 147, Section 17B
Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the services of all regular or permanent police officers of every city and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Time off or pay for overtime duty - Chapter 147, Section 17C
If a regular police officer in the service of a city or town which has not accepted section seventeen B shall be required to be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Annual convention of Massachusetts police association - Chapter 147, Section 17D
Members of police departments shall be excused from duty and from attendance at a police station or other place for two days without loss of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Overtime compensation upon discharge, resignation, retirement or death - Chapter 147, Section 17E
Whenever the employment of any police officer subject to section one hundred and eleven H of chapter forty-one or sections seventeen A, seventeen B, and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Police chiefs, et al.; working on holidays; additional pay - Chapter 147, Section 17F
If the superintendent of police in the city of Lowell, the city marshal in the cities of Newburyport and Salem, or the chief of police...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Five day forty-hour week; overtime pay - Chapter 147, Section 17G
Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the services of all regular or permanent police officers of every city and...
Police Matrons.
Police Cadets.
Private Detective Business.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 147, Section 22
In this section and in sections twenty-three to thirty, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meanings unless a different meaning is clearly required...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Necessity of license for private detective business; exceptions - Chapter 147, Section 23
No person shall engage in, advertise or hold himself out as being engaged in, nor solicit private detective business or the business of watch, guard...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Applications; qualifications of applicants - Chapter 147, Section 24
An application for a license to engage in the private detective business or a license to engage in the business of watch, guard or patrol...
- Massachusetts General Laws - License; disqualification of convicts; duration; posting; name of licensee and approval; renewal and revocation - Chapter 147, Section 25
The colonel of the state police may grant to an applicant complying with the provisions of section twenty-four a license to engage in the private...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1960, 802, Sec. 1 - Chapter 147, Section 25A
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1954, 544, Sec. 1 - Chapter 147, Section 25B
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1960, 802, Sec. 1 - Chapter 147, Section 25C
- Massachusetts General Laws - License fees; bond - Chapter 147, Section 26
The fee for an original license and for a renewal of any license shall be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Employment to determine labor conditions or disseminate propaganda; penalty - Chapter 147, Section 27
No licensee shall enter, or cause any person to enter, any place of employment for any purpose having to do with the organizing or organization...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Assistants; employment; divulgence of information or false report; penalty - Chapter 147, Section 28
A licensee may employ to assist him in his business as many persons as he may deem necessary but shall not knowingly employ in connection...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Badges, identification cards, weapons, equipment and vehicles - Chapter 147, Section 29
No licensee or employee or agent of a licensee shall use a badge of any kind for identification purposes except a guard or watchman in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Daily records concerning guards carrying guns required - Chapter 147, Section 29A
Any watch, guard or patrol agency shall maintain daily records which shall include the names of guards and other employees carrying guns in the performance...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Prohibited acts; penalty - Chapter 147, Section 30
No licensee nor any of his employees shall knowingly:— 1. Incite, encourage or aid any person who has become a party to any strike to...
List of Police.
Licensed Boxing Matches.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Necessity of license for boxing matches; fees; match or exhibition without license; amateur organizations. - Chapter 147, Section 32
No boxing or sparring match or exhibition for a prize or a purse, or at which an admission fee is charged, either directly or indirectly,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Issuance and term of license - Chapter 147, Section 33
The commission may, subject to the provisions of sections thirty-two to forty-seven, inclusive, issue licenses to conduct boxing or sparring matches and exhibitions, which shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bond - Chapter 147, Section 34
No license as aforesaid shall be granted unless the licensee has executed and filed with the commission a bond in a penal sum of five...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Licenses for officials, boxers, managers, trainers, seconds and matchmakers; fees; managers without license; professional boxer defined; physicians at amateur matches; age of licensee - Chapter 147, Section 35
No person shall act, except in the case of a purely amateur match or exhibition, directly or indirectly, as physician, referee, judge, timekeeper, professional boxer...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Amateur boxing; conduct of matches and exhibitions; licenses - Chapter 147, Section 35A
Notwithstanding the provisions of section thirty-six, the commission shall, in the conduct of all amateur boxing or sparring matches and exhibitions sanctioned by the national...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Necessity of referee and judges; powers and duties; vote; decision; forfeitures; fees of officials; payment - Chapter 147, Section 36
At every boxing or sparring match or exhibition there shall be in attendance a referee, duly licensed under the provisions of sections thirty-two to forty-seven,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Necessity of physician; duties; qualifications; fees; certificate of boxer's fitness - Chapter 147, Section 37
At any boxing or sparring match or exhibition there shall be in attendance a duly licensed physician, whose duty it shall be to observe the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Number and time of rounds; frequency of tournaments or contests; time of termination of amateur exhibitions; gloves; protective devices - Chapter 147, Section 38
Boxing or sparring matches or exhibitions shall not exceed ten rounds in length, but if such matches or exhibitions are to determine championships, they may,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Ages of contestants and persons admitted to matches - Chapter 147, Section 39
Except as hereinafter provided no contestant who is under eighteen or who has reached his thirty-fifth birthday shall be permitted to engage in any boxing...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Boxer previously knocked out six or more times - Chapter 147, Section 39A
No professional boxer, licensed under section thirty-five, who has been knocked out, technically or otherwise, six or more times in the preceding twelve months, shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Insurance on contestants - Chapter 147, Section 39B
Any person licensed under section thirty-two to conduct boxing or sparring matches or exhibitions, except those persons to whom a special license may be granted...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Percentage of receipts paid to commonwealth; reports to commission; verification; enforcement - Chapter 147, Section 40
Every licensee holding or conducting any such boxing or sparring match or exhibition shall, within seventy-two hours after its conclusion, pay to the state treasurer...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Boxers' fund; percentage of receipts credited to; use; enforcement of section - Chapter 147, Section 40A
Every licensee holding or conducting any professional boxing or sparring match or exhibition shall, within seventy-two hours after its conclusion, pay to the state treasurer,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Number of persons admitted limited to authorized capacity of used part of building - Chapter 147, Section 41
No licensee under section thirty-three shall sell or cause to be sold or issued more tickets or invitations purporting to admit to any such match...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Revocation or suspension of license - Chapter 147, Section 42
Any license may be revoked or suspended by the commission for a violation of any provision of sections thirty-two to forty-seven, inclusive, or of any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Financial interest of licensee in boxer; prepayment of contestant - Chapter 147, Section 43
No licensee under section thirty-three shall have, directly or indirectly, any financial interest in a boxer competing on premises owned or leased by the licensee,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Authority of commission to summon witnesses - Chapter 147, Section 44
The commission shall have the same authority to summon and require the attendance and testimony of witnesses as to all matters within its jurisdiction as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Enjoining unlicensed or illegal matches - Chapter 147, Section 45
The superior court shall have jurisdiction in equity upon any information filed by the commission, the attorney general, the district attorney for the district, the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations; special permits; annual report - Chapter 147, Section 46
The chairman, in consultation with the other members of the commission, may make such rules and regulations for the administration and enforcement of sections thirty-two...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Distribution to towns of money received by commonwealth - Chapter 147, Section 47
The remainder of the sums received under section forty, after paying the expense to the commonwealth of administering sections thirty-two to forty-seven, inclusive, shall, annually...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Statutes in force in cities or towns accepting statutes - Chapter 147, Section 48
Sections thirty-two to forty-seven, inclusive, shall be in force in any city or town which accepts said sections in the manner provided in the following...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Acceptance by city council or town board of selectmen - Chapter 147, Section 49
Sections thirty-two to forty-seven, inclusive, shall take effect in a city if accepted by a majority vote of the city council, with the approval of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Resubmission; petition; reacceptance - Chapter 147, Section 50
In any city or town in which the provisions of sections thirty-two to forty-seven, inclusive, are in force, said sections shall again be submitted to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Instruction in boxing, matches or exhibitions - Chapter 147, Section 50A
Courses of instruction in boxing, boxing or sparring matches or exhibitions sponsored and conducted by recognized boys’ clubs, youth organizations, schools and colleges, or by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Statutes not applicable to matches or exhibitions - Chapter 147, Section 51
Sections nine to twelve, inclusive, of chapter two hundred and sixty-five and section twenty-eight of chapter one hundred and eighty shall not apply to any...
Licensing of a Game Commonly Called Beano.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1973, 729, Sec. 2 - Chapter 147, Section 52-55
Chapter 147: Section 52 to 55. Repealed, 1973, 729, Sec. 2
- Massachusetts General Laws - Grass cutting equipment; sale; safety devices required; rules and regulations; penalty - Chapter 147, Section 56
Every motor-driven implement or machine used for the purpose of cutting grass sold, offered for sale, or held with intent to sell in the commonwealth...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Installation, repair or maintenance of security systems; licensure; exceptions - Chapter 147, Section 57
The words "security system'', as used in sections fifty-seven to sixty-one, inclusive, shall mean wires, conduits, apparatus, devices, fixtures, or other appliances installed and interconnected...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Application for license; filing; contents; proof of qualifications - Chapter 147, Section 58
An application for a license to engage in the security systems business shall be filed with the commissioner on forms furnished by him, and statements...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Issuance of license; effect of felony conviction; term; contents; renewal - Chapter 147, Section 59
The commissioner may issue to an applicant complying with the provisions of section fifty-eight a license to engage in the security systems business; provided, however,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Employee statements; filing; security check; false statements by licensee or employee; penalties - Chapter 147, Section 60
A person, firm or corporation licensed under the provisions of sections fifty-eight and fifty-nine may employ in his security systems business as many persons as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Fees - Chapter 147, Section 61
The fee for the filing of an original security systems license and for the filing of a renewal of such license shall be determined annually...
Last modified: March 17, 2010
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