General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 22C The Department of State Police

• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 22C, Section 1
  As used in this chapter, the following words shall, unless the context requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— “Colonel”, the colonel of state police, the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Department; supervision and control - Chapter 22C, Section 2
  There shall be within the executive office of public safety a department of state police under the supervision and control of the colonel of state
• Massachusetts General Laws - Colonel of state police; powers and duties - Chapter 22C, Section 3
  The colonel shall be the executive and administrative head of the department and shall have charge of the administration and organization thereof. The colonel may,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Divisions; heads of divisions - Chapter 22C, Section 4
  There shall be within the department of state police four divisions which shall be known as: (a) the division of field services; (b) the division...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Division of field services - Chapter 22C, Section 5
  There shall be within the division of field services two bureaus, which shall be designated as the bureau of eastern field operations and the bureau...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Division of investigation and intelligence - Chapter 22C, Section 6
  There shall be within the division of investigation and intelligence two bureaus, which shall be designated as the bureau of investigative services/eastern region and the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Division of special police services - Chapter 22C, Section 7
  There shall be within the division of special police services three bureaus, which shall be designated as the bureau of facility security, the bureau of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Division of support services - Chapter 22C, Section 8
  There shall be within the division of support services two bureaus, which shall be designated as the bureau of administrative services and the bureau of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Experts, clerks and assistants; appointment and removal - Chapter 22C, Section 9
  The colonel may appoint, transfer and remove experts, clerks and other assistants as he may deem necessary for the operation of the department; provided, however,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appointments to department of state police; governor’s authorization; restrictions - Chapter 22C, Section 10
  Whenever the governor shall deem it necessary to provide more effectively for the protection of persons and property and for the maintenance of law and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appointment for initial enlistment; competitive examination; eligible list - Chapter 22C, Section 11
  Each appointment for initial enlistment as a uniformed member of the state police shall be made from a list established as the result of a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Misdemeanors committed in presence of on-duty uniformed member; enforcement powers - Chapter 22C, Section 12
  Any uniformed member of the state police may, upon view of any misdemeanor committed in his presence while on duty, arrest the person committing such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Charges against uniformed member; trial; review - Chapter 22C, Section 13
  Any uniformed member of the state police who has served for 1 year or more and against whom charges have been preferred shall be tried...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Felony or controlled substance convictions; receipt of gratuities for official services - Chapter 22C, Section 14
  No person who has been convicted of a felony or any offense punishable under chapter 94C or has been convicted of a misdemeanor and has...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Oath of office - Chapter 22C, Section 15
  Each officer shall, before entering upon the performance of his duties, be sworn to the faithful performance thereof, and unless his oath of office is...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Expenses for injuries sustained during employment - Chapter 22C, Section 16
  The colonel may authorize the payment, out of any appropriation made for traveling or other expenses of the department, of the reasonable hospital, medical and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Estimate of expenses and patrolling time; recommendation of appropriations - Chapter 22C, Section 17
  The colonel shall forward to the secretary of public safety and the commissioner of administration his estimate of expenses for the department as required under...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Additional work time; compensation - Chapter 22C, Section 18
  The colonel may, in the event of any public emergency, or of any unusual demand for the services of members of the state police serving...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Uniforms and identification cards; rules and regulations; violations - Chapter 22C, Section 19
  The colonel shall promulgate rules and regulations to provide a standard form or forms of uniform to be worn by members of the state police...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Training programs for newly enlisted and uniformed department members - Chapter 22C, Section 20
  The colonel shall prescribe a training program for persons who shall be enlisted for the first time in the department such that no person shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Training programs for city or town police officers and certain state employees - Chapter 22C, Section 21
  The colonel may conduct programs for training police officers of the cities and towns of the commonwealth and for those employees who are authorized to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Evaluation reports; annual filing - Chapter 22C, Section 22
  Except as otherwise provided by a collective bargaining agreement in accordance with the provisions of chapter one hundred and fifty E, evaluation reports of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Affirmative action office; responsibilities; annual report - Chapter 22C, Section 23
  There shall be within the department of state police an office of affirmative action which shall report to the secretary of public safety; provided, that...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Separation from employment due to lack of work or money or abolition of positions; reinstatement - Chapter 22C, Section 24
  If uniformed members of the state police in positions in the same rank are to be separated from such positions because of lack of work,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Persons retired for disability; certification for reinstatement - Chapter 22C, Section 24A
  (a) Any person who has been retired for disability pursuant to section 6, 7, or 26 of chapter 32 who, upon return to active service...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notice for promotional examinations; right to appeal questions or results; regulations - Chapter 22C, Section 25
  The colonel shall prepare a notice for all promotional examinations, which shall be written examinations, and shall cause notice thereof to be published in the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Promotion of uniformed members; factors for consideration; list of eligible members - Chapter 22C, Section 26
  The colonel may promote uniformed members of the state police who are eligible for promotion to the title of noncommissioned officer, lieutenant or captain. All...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Vacancies in titles of lieutenant colonel and major - Chapter 22C, Section 27
  Any vacancy that occurs in the title of lieutenant colonel shall be filled by the colonel from uniformed members who hold the title of major...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Period of service requirements for certain appointments - Chapter 22C, Section 28
  No person shall be eligible for appointment to the following titles until he shall have completed the following period of service as a uniformed member...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Base salaries; review of salary schedule; adjustments - Chapter 22C, Section 28A
  Notwithstanding the provisions of sections forty-five and forty-six of chapter thirty, each officer in grade of lieutenant in the department of state police shall receive...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Agreement with Massachusetts department of transportation for police services; contents - Chapter 22C, Section 29
  The colonel shall enter into an agreement with the Massachusetts Department of Transportation for police service to be provided by the department to said authority...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Port Authority; agreement for police services; contents - Chapter 22C, Section 30
  The colonel shall enter into an agreement with the Massachusetts Port Authority for police service to be provided by the department at the General Edward...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Water resources authority; agreement for police service; contents - Chapter 22C, Section 31
  The colonel shall enter into an agreement with the Massachusetts water resources authority for police service to be provided by the department to the authority....
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions applicable to Secs. 33 to 35 - Chapter 22C, Section 32
  For the purposes of sections thirty-three to thirty-five, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meanings:— “Crime reporting unit”, a joint project of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Collection of hate crime data; regulations - Chapter 22C, Section 33
  The colonel shall promulgate regulations relative to the collection of hate crime data. Said regulations shall include, but not be limited to, the following: (1)...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Hate crime data reports; public record - Chapter 22C, Section 34
  The crime reporting unit shall summarize and analyze reports of hate crime data which shall be received by said unit. Said unit shall transmit copies...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Availability of hate crime data to law enforcement and other agencies - Chapter 22C, Section 35
  The crime reporting unit shall cause any hate crime data collected to be made available for use by any law enforcement agency and shall also...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Identification of criminals; furnishing of information to other departments and states - Chapter 22C, Section 36
  The colonel shall provide within the department for receiving, arranging and keeping proper means for the identification of criminals and for the furnishing of means...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Identifying and locating information from records; individuals wanted on default or arrest warrants - Chapter 22C, Section 36A
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the department of state police, including the state police violent...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Release or discharge of persons confined for certain sexual assaults and other crimes; notification to department and local authorities - Chapter 22C, Section 37
  Not less than seven days before the time set for the release or discharge on parole, or otherwise, of any person confined in a penal...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Criminal information section; duties and functions - Chapter 22C, Section 38
  The criminal information section of the department shall be charged with the following duties and functions: (a) Said section shall collect, by investigation of its...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Chemical analysis of narcotic drug or drug substitute, etc.; certificate of results; prima facie evidence - Chapter 22C, Section 39
  (a) The department shall, free of charge, or the University of Massachusetts Medical School shall, under section 36B of chapter 75, make a chemical analysis...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Analysis of samples of alcoholic beverages - Chapter 22C, Section 39A
  The department shall analyze, in accordance with sections 36 to 39, inclusive, of chapter 138, all samples of alcoholic beverages, as defined in section 1...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Procedural rules and policies for testing and analysis of drug samples; quality assurance program - Chapter 22C, Section 39B
  The director of the crime laboratory within the department shall establish procedural rules and policies governing the department’s testing and analysis of drug samples and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Narcotics unit; duties and functions - Chapter 22C, Section 40
  The narcotics unit within the criminal information section shall be charged with the following duties and functions: to investigate all violations of the narcotic and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Chemist’s analysis for presence of sperm cells; certificate of results; prima facie evidence - Chapter 22C, Section 41
  A certificate by a chemist of the department of the result of analysis made by him for the presence of a sperm cell or cells...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Motor vehicle ownership records; certified copies; prima facie evidence - Chapter 22C, Section 42
  In proceedings under sections twenty-seven A, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, one hundred and eleven A and one hundred and thirty-nine of chapter two hundred and sixty-six, certified...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Persons affected by orders of department; appeals - Chapter 22C, Section 43
  Any person affected by an order of the department or of a division or officer thereof, may, within such times as the colonel may fix,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Destruction or disposal of certain entertainment permit applications or reports - Chapter 22C, Section 44
  The colonel may after two years destroy or otherwise dispose of applications for approval of entertainments on Sunday, inspection reports of theaters and halls under...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Property lost, stolen or taken from arrested persons; unclaimed property; public auction - Chapter 22C, Section 45
  If money, goods or other property which has been stolen, lost, abandoned or taken from a person under arrest comes in the possession of an...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Perishable property; property deteriorating in value; public auction - Chapter 22C, Section 46
  Such property, if perishable or liable to deteriorate greatly in value by keeping, or the value of which will probably be less than the expense...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Proceeds from public auctions - Chapter 22C, Section 47
  The proceeds of such sales, together with such unclaimed money, after deducting all reasonable charges and expenses incurred on account of such property, shall be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Claim by owner after public auction; payment to owner - Chapter 22C, Section 48
  If, within two years and six months after such money has come into the possession of an officer or other employee of said department or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Police reports; indication of domestic abuse - Chapter 22C, Section 49
  The form used by an investigating police officer to make a report concerning any incident, offense or alleged offense investigated or any arrest made shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Police officers’ and university guards’ duties on reservations - Chapter 22C, Section 50
  Upon requisition of the commanding officer or other person in charge of a reservation of the United States of America, the colonel, or the mayor...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Special state police officer appointments upon petition by railroad corporation - Chapter 22C, Section 51
  The colonel, upon the petition of a railroad corporation, or of a railway company, or of The Boston Terminal Corporation, or of Railway Express Agency,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Records of appointments under Sec. 51 - Chapter 22C, Section 52
  A record of all such appointments, made pursuant to section fifty-one, shall be kept by the department, and shall be open to public inspection, and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Swearing in of special state police officers; licenses; duration of appointment - Chapter 22C, Section 53
  Such special state police officers shall be sworn before a justice of the peace or notary public who shall make a return thereof to the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Aid to governor in performance of duties - Chapter 22C, Section 54
  Constables, city marshals, chiefs of police and all other police officers shall, within the respective cities and towns, aid the governor in the performance of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - [There is no 22C:55.] - Chapter 22C, Section 55
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• Massachusetts General Laws - Agents of Massachusetts Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children; appointment as special officers - Chapter 22C, Section 56
  The colonel may appoint two or more agents of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children as special state police officers for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Agents of humane societies and associations; appointment as special officers - Chapter 22C, Section 57
  The colonel may appoint, at the request of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the Berkshire Animal Protective Society, Inc., the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Port of Boston Authority employees; appointment as special officers - Chapter 22C, Section 58
  The colonel may, at the request of the Port of Boston Authority, appoint as special state police officers employees of said authority. Such special state...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Employees of mental health or developmental services departments; appointment as special officers - Chapter 22C, Section 59
  The colonel may, upon petition of the commissioner of mental health or the commissioner of developmental services, appoint as special state police officers employees of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Public health department employees; appointment as special officers - Chapter 22C, Section 60
  The colonel may, upon petition of the commissioner of public health, appoint as special state police officers employees of the department of public health or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2009, 25, Sec. 26 - Chapter 22C, Section 61
  Repealed, 2009, 25, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Employees of soldiers’ homes; appointment as special officers - Chapter 22C, Section 62
  The colonel may, upon petition of the board of trustees of the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke, or the Soldiers’ Home in Massachusetts located in the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Employees of colleges, universities, other educational institutions and hospitals; appointment as special officers - Chapter 22C, Section 63
  The colonel may, upon such reasonable terms and conditions as may be prescribed by him, at the request of an officer of a college, university,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Civil defense agency employees; appointment as special officers - Chapter 22C, Section 64
  The colonel may, at the request of the director of civil defense, appoint employees of the civil defense agency as special state police officers. Such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Middlesex County Sanatorium employees; appointment as special officers - Chapter 22C, Section 65
  The colonel may, upon petition of the board of trustees of the Middlesex County Sanatorium, appoint as special state police officers employees of said institution,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Employment and training division employees; appointment as special officers - Chapter 22C, Section 66
  The colonel may, at the request of the deputy director of the division of employment and training, appoint as special state police officers employees of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - State lottery commission employees; appointment as special officers - Chapter 22C, Section 67
  The colonel may, at the request of the state lottery commission, appoint as special state police officers employees of said lottery commission holding the title...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Special investigations bureau employees; appointment as special officers - Chapter 22C, Section 68
  The colonel may, at the request of the director of the bureau of special investigations, with the approval of the fraudulent claims commission, appoint as...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Standards of skill for special officers licensed under Secs. 56 to 68; rules and regulations - Chapter 22C, Section 69
  The colonel of state police may promulgate rules and regulations as may be necessary to insure proper standards of skill for special state police officers...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Gaming enforcement unit - Chapter 22C, Section 70
  The colonel of state police shall establish a gaming enforcement unit the responsibilities of which shall include, but not be limited to, the investigation of...

Last modified: September 11, 2015