General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 211B Trial Court of the Commonwealth

• Massachusetts General Laws - Organization - Chapter 211B, Section 1
  There shall be a trial court of the commonwealth which shall consist of the following departments: the superior court department, the housing court department, the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Number of trial court justices; appointments - Chapter 211B, Section 2
  There shall be 82 justices appointed to the superior court department, 10 justices appointed to the housing court department, 7 justices appointed to the land...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Justices assigned to other departments; powers and duties - Chapter 211B, Section 3
  Any justice appointed to a department, or a division thereof, and assigned to another department, or division thereof, shall have and exercise all the powers...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Salaries; practice of law; expenses; vacation and sick leave; special justices - Chapter 211B, Section 4
  [ First paragraph effective until January 1, 2014. For text effective January 1, 2014, see below.]The salaries of the justices of the trial court shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Chief justices; appointment; term; removal - Chapter 211B, Section 5
  The office of the chief justice of a department of the trial court, as provided in section 1, shall not be deemed a judicial office...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Deputy court administrators; appointment; term; removal; submission of disputes to chief justice of the trial court and court administrator - Chapter 211B, Section 5A
  The office of the deputy court administrator of a department of the trial court, as provided in section 1, shall be filled by appointment by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Chief justice of the trial court; appointment; term; removal - Chapter 211B, Section 6
  The office of the chief justice of the trial court, as provided in section 1, shall not be deemed a judicial office as comprehended under...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Advisory board - Chapter 211B, Section 6A
  There shall be an advisory board to assist the justices of the supreme judicial court, the chief justice of the trial court, and the court...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Office of court management; court administrator - Chapter 211B, Section 6B
  There shall be an office of court management within the trial court, under the executive control of a court administrator, to support the judicial functions,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Vacancies in office - Chapter 211B, Section 7
  In the case of a vacancy in the office of chief justice of a department of the trial court due to the absence of said...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Advisory committee on personnel standards - Chapter 211B, Section 8
  There shall be an advisory committee on personnel standards. The membership of the committee shall consist of the following persons: the chief justice of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Chief justice of the trial court; powers and duties - Chapter 211B, Section 9
  The chief justice of the trial court, in addition to his judicial duties and subject to the superintendence power of the supreme judicial court as...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Employees of chief justice for administration and management; powers and duties - Chapter 211B, Section 9A
  The court administrator, subject to the superintendence power of the supreme judicial court as provided in section 3 of chapter 211 and in consultation with...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Chief justice and deputy court administrators; powers and duties - Chapter 211B, Section 10
  Subject to the superintendence authority of the supreme judicial court as provided in section 3 of chapter 211, the chief justice and the deputy court...
• Massachusetts General Laws - First justices; powers and duties - Chapter 211B, Section 10A
  A first justice, in addition to his judicial powers and duties as a justice of the trial court and in addition to his general powers...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appointment of assistant clerks - Chapter 211B, Section 10B
  (a) The exclusive authority to select and appoint assistant clerks in the district court, juvenile court, housing court and Boston municipal court shall be vested...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Limitation of powers, duties or responsibilities of clerks or registers of probate - Chapter 211B, Section 10C
  The general superintendence and administrative authority of the chief justice of the trial court, court administrator, and the chief justices of the respective departments of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Court officers; applicants for appointment as court officer; written examination; investigation and interview; promotion - Chapter 211B, Section 10D
  (a) Each applicant for initial appointment as a court officer within the trial court shall pass a written examination established and administered by the court...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1992, 379, Sec. 81 - Chapter 211B, Section 11
  Repealed, 1992, 379, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Office of court management; court administrator - Chapter 211B, Section 12
  There shall be an office of court management within the trial court, under the executive control of a court administrator, to support judicial functions, performance...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Estimates of expenses, costs and revenue - Chapter 211B, Section 13
  The first justice of each division or court within the superior, probate and family, land, housing, juvenile, Boston municipal and district court departments of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Services of retired justices - Chapter 211B, Section 14
  (a) A retired justice of the trial court whose name has been placed on the list of retired justices pursuant to section sixty-five G of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1992, 379, Sec. 85 - Chapter 211B, Section 15
  Repealed, 1992, 379, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Judicial institute; training judicial and nonjudicial personnel - Chapter 211B, Section 16
  The chief justice for administration and management shall establish a judicial institute, to provide for the training of the judicial and nonjudicial personnel of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Operation and maintenance of court facilities; long-range planning and capital budget requests; occupancy fees - Chapter 211B, Section 17
  The court administrator, in consultation with the chief justice of the trial court shall have charge of the daily care, operation and routine maintenance of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1992, 379, Sec. 88 - Chapter 211B, Section 18
  Repealed, 1992, 379, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Mandatory alternative dispute resolution program - Chapter 211B, Section 19
  The chief justice of the trial court may establish and promulgate rules for a mandatory alternative dispute resolution program for civil actions within the trial...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Leave of absence; restrictions - Chapter 211B, Section 20
  A chief justice of the trial court may, subject to the approval of the chief justice of the trial court, grant a leave of absence...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Publication of notice in newspaper; notice requirements deemed met - Chapter 211B, Section 21
  Whenever a department established under this chapter is required to publish a notice in a newspaper by any general or special law, order, rule or...

Last modified: September 11, 2015