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Search Warrants.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Complaint; warrant for designated property or articles; search incident to arrest; documentary evidence subject to privilege - Chapter 276, Section 1
A court or justice authorized to issue warrants in criminal cases may, upon complaint on oath that the complainant believes that any of the property...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Articles belonging to subversive organizations - Chapter 276, Section 1A
A justice of the superior court, upon application of the attorney general or a district attorney, and upon complaint on oath that the complainant believes...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Requisites of warrant - Chapter 276, Section 2
Search warrants shall designate and describe the building, house, place, vessel or vehicle to be searched and shall particularly describe the property or articles to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Form of warrant - Chapter 276, Section 2A
The warrant shall be in substantially the following form: THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. (COUNTY), ss. (NAME) COURT. To the Sheriffs of our several counties, or their...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Affidavit in support of application for warrant; contents and form - Chapter 276, Section 2B
A person seeking a search warrant shall appear personally before a court or justice authorized to issue search warrants in criminal cases and shall give...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Manner of issuing warrants; application of secs. 2, 2A—2B - Chapter 276, Section 2C
Search warrants issued pursuant to section two hundred and thirteen of chapter ninety-four, sections twenty and twenty-five of chapter one hundred and ten, section ten...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Seizure, custody and disposition of articles; exceptions - Chapter 276, Section 3
If an officer in the execution of a search warrant finds property or articles therein described, he shall seize and safely keep them, under the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Time for return of warrant - Chapter 276, Section 3A
Every officer to whom a warrant to search is issued shall return the same to the court by which it was issued as soon as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notice before forfeiture of property - Chapter 276, Section 4
Before a decree of forfeiture of property seized under a search warrant is issued, the court or justice shall, unless otherwise expressly provided, issue a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Service of notice - Chapter 276, Section 5
The notice shall, not less than fourteen days before the time appointed for trial, be served upon the person, if any, alleged to be the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Postponement of trial; further notice - Chapter 276, Section 6
If, at the time appointed for the trial, such notice has not been duly served, or if it appears necessary that any of the articles...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sale or destruction of property seized; disposition of proceeds - Chapter 276, Section 7
If upon trial the property is adjudged forfeited, it shall forthwith be disposed of as provided by law. So much thereof as is ordered to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Appeal; recognizance; jury trial; conformity to criminal cases; disposition of articles - Chapter 276, Section 8
A person aggrieved by a decree of forfeiture of a district court may appeal therefrom to the superior court; but before his appeal is allowed,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rewards offered by governor; determination of claims - Chapter 276, Section 9
The governor, if he deems the public good so requires, may offer a suitable reward of not more than ten thousand dollars in any one...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rewards offered for detecting or securing persons committing certain offenses; determination of claims - Chapter 276, Section 10
The aldermen or the selectmen, if in their opinion the public good so requires, may offer a suitable reward of not more than five hundred...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Authority of officer of another state to arrest felon - Chapter 276, Section 10A
Any member of a duly organized state, county or municipal peace unit of another state of the United States the laws of which contain provisions...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Proceedings after arrest - Chapter 276, Section 10B
If an arrest is made in this commonwealth by an officer of another state in accordance with the provisions of the preceding section he shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Partial invalidity - Chapter 276, Section 10C
If any part of sections ten A and ten B is for any reason declared void, it is declared to be the intent of said...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Citation of law; uniform construction - Chapter 276, Section 10D
Sections ten A to ten C, inclusive, may be cited as the uniform extra-territorial arrest on fresh pursuit law, and shall be so interpreted and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 276, Section 11
Wherever appearing in sections eleven to twenty R, inclusive, the term “governor” includes any person performing the functions of governor by authority of the law...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Arrest and delivery of accused to executives of another state; governor's authority - Chapter 276, Section 12
Subject to the provisions of sections eleven to twenty R, inclusive, the controlling provisions of the constitution of the United States, and any and all...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Surrendering accused not in demanding state at time of crime or leaving demanding state involuntarily - Chapter 276, Section 13
The governor may also surrender, on demand of the executive authority of any other state, any person in this commonwealth charged in such other state...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Written demand; allegations; accompanying papers; charge of crime; authentication of copies of papers - Chapter 276, Section 14
No demand for the interstate rendition of a person charged with crime in another state shall be recognized by the governor unless it be in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Investigation of demand and report to governor - Chapter 276, Section 15
When a demand shall be made upon the governor by the executive authority of another state for the surrender of a person so charged with...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Governor's warrant of arrest; recital of facts - Chapter 276, Section 16
If the governor decides that the demand should be complied with, he shall sign a warrant of arrest, sealed with the state seal and directed...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Arrest and delivery of accused; commanding aid - Chapter 276, Section 17
Such warrant shall authorize the person to whom it is directed to arrest the accused at any time and any place where he may be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Authority to command assistance; penalties for refusal - Chapter 276, Section 18
Every such person empowered to make an arrest shall have the same authority, in arresting the accused, to command assistance therein, as officers have by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rights of arrested person; habeas corpus; notice; penalty - Chapter 276, Section 19
No person arrested upon such a warrant shall be delivered over to the agent whom the executive authority of the demanding state shall have appointed...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Confinement of accused; expense; evidence of transportation to demanding state; new requisition - Chapter 276, Section 20
The officer or other person executing the governor’s warrant of arrest, or the agent of the demanding state to whom the prisoner shall have been...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Warrant to apprehend on oath or affidavit; copies of papers attached - Chapter 276, Section 20A
Whenever any person within this commonwealth shall be charged, on the oath of any credible person before any court or justice in this commonwealth authorized...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Arrest without warrant; taking accused before court or justice; complaint - Chapter 276, Section 20B
The arrest of a person may be lawfully made also by any officer authorized to serve warrants in criminal cases, without a warrant, upon reasonable...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Commitment to permit arrest under warrant of governor on requisition - Chapter 276, Section 20C
If from the examination before such court or justice it appears that the person held is the person charged with having committed the crime alleged,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bail - Chapter 276, Section 20D
Unless the offence with which the person arrested is charged is shown to be an offence punishable by death or life imprisonment under the laws...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Discharge; recommitment; bail - Chapter 276, Section 20E
If the accused has not been arrested under warrant of the governor at the expiration of the time specified in such warrant, bond or undertaking,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Forfeiture of bail - Chapter 276, Section 20F
If the accused is admitted to bail, and fails to appear and surrender himself according to the conditions of his bond or undertaking, such court...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Prosecution pending in commonwealth - Chapter 276, Section 20G
If a criminal prosecution has been instituted against such person under the laws of this commonwealth and is still pending, the governor, in his discretion,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Inquiry into guilt or innocence - Chapter 276, Section 20H
The guilt or innocence of the accused as to the crime of which he is charged may not be inquired into by the governor, or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Recall of warrant or issuance of another - Chapter 276, Section 20I
The governor, whenever he deems proper, may recall his warrant of arrest or may issue another warrant.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Waiver of warrant and procedure, etc - Chapter 276, Section 20J
Any person arrested in this commonwealth charged with having committed any crime in another state or with having been convicted in another state and having...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Warrant to receive accused and convey him to proper county; proceedings pending in another state - Chapter 276, Section 20K
Whenever the governor shall demand a person charged with crime in this commonwealth, or one charged with having been convicted in this commonwealth and having...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Application for requisition - Chapter 276, Section 20L
(a) Whenever the return to this commonwealth of a person charged with crime herein is required, the attorney general, or the district attorney for the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Payment of agent's expenses - Chapter 276, Section 20M
If the application for a requisition for the return to this commonwealth of a person charged with crime herein, or for the return of a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Service of process in civil action on accused; immunity - Chapter 276, Section 20N
A person brought into this commonwealth on, or after waiver of, interstate rendition based on a criminal charge shall not be subject to service of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Trying for other crimes; immunity - Chapter 276, Section 20O
After a person has been brought into this commonwealth by interstate rendition proceedings or upon waiver thereof he may be tried herein for other crimes...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Waiver by commonwealth - Chapter 276, Section 20P
Nothing in sections eleven to twenty O, inclusive, shall be deemed to constitute a waiver by this commonwealth of its right, power or privilege to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Partial validity - Chapter 276, Section 20Q
If any part of sections eleven to twenty P, inclusive, is for any reason declared void, such invalidity shall not affect the validity of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Citation of law; uniform construction - Chapter 276, Section 20R
Sections eleven to twenty R, inclusive, may be cited as the uniform criminal interstate rendition law, and shall be so interpreted and construed as to...
Arrest, Examination, Commitment and Bail.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Justices may issue process - Chapter 276, Section 21
Justices of the supreme judicial, superior or district courts, may issue process for the apprehension of persons charged with crime and to carry into effect...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Warrants, procedure for issuance - Chapter 276, Section 22
Upon complaint made to any justice that a crime has been committed, he shall examine on oath the complainant and any witnesses produced by him,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Service of warrants and other processes - Chapter 276, Section 23
Warrants and other processes issued for the apprehension of persons charged with crime and child support warrants issued pursuant to section 34A of chapter 215...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Warrant management system - Chapter 276, Section 23A
Whenever a court is requested to issue a warrant, the requesting authority shall provide to the court the person’s name, last known address, date of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Annual list of persons registered with licensing authorities; criminal history systems board; outstanding warrants; notification of license suspension; hearing - Chapter 276, Section 23B
(a) Any agency, department, commission, division or authority of the commonwealth that issues a professional license, certificate, permit or authorization to engage in a profession,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Summons instead of warrant - Chapter 276, Section 24
Upon a complaint or indictment for any offense, a summons shall issue instead of a warrant, unless, in the judgment of the court or justice,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Summons fixing time for trial; service - Chapter 276, Section 25
A summons shall require the defendant to appear before the court at a stated time and place on the return day and shall be served...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Failure to appear and abide orders as contempt - Chapter 276, Section 26
If a defendant so summoned fails, without reasonable cause, to appear and abide the orders of the court or justice, he shall be considered in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Recognizance - Chapter 276, Section 27
If a defendant so summoned duly appears, he may be ordered to recognize for his further appearance but shall not be required to give surety...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Arrest without warrant - Chapter 276, Section 28
Any officer authorized to serve criminal process may arrest, without a warrant, and detain a person found in the act of stealing property in the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Release on bail or recognizance; outstanding warrants - Chapter 276, Section 29
Before a court releases, discharges or admits to bail any person brought before said court, in any criminal matter, the court shall first check the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Penalty for default warrant recall, forfeiture or default of bail, or surrender of recognizance by probation officer - Chapter 276, Section 30
Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, whenever a default warrant, issued in any jurisdiction in the commonwealth against any person, is recalled...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Fines, court costs, restitution, support payments, etc. to be noted on warrant management system - Chapter 276, Section 31
Whenever a court issues a default warrant solely due to the person’s failure to pay a fine, assessment, court cost, restitution, support payment or other...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Release from custody upon payment; recall of warrant - Chapter 276, Section 32
Whenever a person, brought before a court, against whom an outstanding warrant was issued, solely due to the failure of the person brought before the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Examination of arrested persons for injuries; reports; penalty - Chapter 276, Section 33
Whenever a person is arrested for a crime and is taken to or confined in a jail, police station or lockup, the officer in charge...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Use of telephone in places of detention - Chapter 276, Section 33A
The police official in charge of the station or other place of detention having a telephone wherein a person is held in custody, shall permit...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 23 - Chapter 276, Section 34
Chapter 276: Section 34. Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 23
- Massachusetts General Laws - Adjournments of examinations and trials - Chapter 276, Section 35
The court or justice may adjourn an examination or trial from time to time, and to the same or a different place in the county....
- Massachusetts General Laws - Failure to appear; subsequent proceedings - Chapter 276, Section 36
If the recognizor does not appear according to his recognizance, the court or justice may issue process to bring him into court for trial. After...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Failure to recognize; subsequent proceedings - Chapter 276, Section 37
If the defendant fails to recognize, he may be committed to jail by an order stating concisely that he is committed for further examination on...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Assignment of counsel - Chapter 276, Section 37A
If a person is charged with a capital crime and brought before a district court for the initial appearance, the superior court may assign counsel...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Examination; assistance of counsel; waiver of indictment - Chapter 276, Section 38
The court or justice before whom a person is taken upon a charge of crime shall, as soon as may be, examine on oath the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 25 - Chapter 276, Section 39
Chapter 276: Section 39. Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 25
- Massachusetts General Laws - Testimony reduced to writing; signing by witnesses - Chapter 276, Section 40
The testimony of the witnesses examined shall be reduced to writing by, or under the direction of, the court or justice, if he considers it...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Discharge of prisoner - Chapter 276, Section 41
If it appears, upon the whole examination, that no crime has been committed or that there is not probable cause for charging the prisoner therewith,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bail or commitment - Chapter 276, Section 42
If it appears that a crime has been committed and that there is probable cause to believe the prisoner guilty, the court or justice shall,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Personal recognizance; terms and conditions to protect persons suffering physical abuse - Chapter 276, Section 42A
Whenever a court issues a criminal complaint and the crime involves assault and battery, trespass, threat to commit a crime, nonsupport, or any other complaint...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Conveying prisoner through another county - Chapter 276, Section 43
If the journey from the town where the prisoner is held to the town where he is to be committed on the service of a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Fees and expenses in district court in record sent to superior court - Chapter 276, Section 44
If the defendant is held to appear before the superior court, the copies and record of proceedings sent to the superior court shall contain the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Witnesses bound by recognizance - Chapter 276, Section 45
If the prisoner is admitted to bail or is committed, the court or justice shall bind by recognizance the material witnesses against the prisoner to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Witnesses bound by recognizance on adjournment - Chapter 276, Section 46
If the examination or trial of a defendant charged with a felony is adjourned under section thirty-five, the court or justice may bind by recognizance...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sureties with recognizance - Chapter 276, Section 47
The court, if satisfied that there is good cause to believe that a witness will not perform the condition of his recognizance unless other security...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Recognizances by minor witnesses - Chapter 276, Section 48
If a minor is a material witness, any other person may be allowed to recognize for his appearance; or, in the discretion of the court...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Commitment of witnesses; discharge upon recognizance - Chapter 276, Section 49
A witness who, when required, refuses to recognize, either with or without sureties, shall, except as provided in the following section, be committed to jail...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 25 - Chapter 276, Section 50
Chapter 276: Section 50. Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec. 25
- Massachusetts General Laws - Release of committed witnesses; proceedings - Chapter 276, Section 51
If a witness has been committed because of his inability to furnish sureties for his appearance before the superior court, the jailer shall forthwith give...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rules regulating treatment of committed witnesses; removal to another county - Chapter 276, Section 52
The commissioner of correction shall from time to time make such rules relative to the diet, size of cells, amount of liberty and exercise, correspondence,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Removal of accused person to another county or to a correctional institution; return; proceedings; cost of support - Chapter 276, Section 52A
Persons held in jail for trial may, with the approval of the district attorney, and shall, by order of a justice of the superior court,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Transporting male and female prisoners - Chapter 276, Section 53
An officer who, having the custody or control of prisoners, causes or permits male and female prisoners to be transported together to or from a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Handcuffing committed witnesses to accused persons; transporting together - Chapter 276, Section 54
An officer who, having the custody of a witness committed because of his failure to furnish sureties, causes or permits him to be handcuffed to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Discharge upon acknowledgment of satisfaction for injury - Chapter 276, Section 55
If a person committed to jail is under indictment or complaint for, or is under recognizance to answer to, a charge of assault and battery...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Filing of order; delivery to jail keeper; discharge as bar to civil action - Chapter 276, Section 56
Such order discharging the recognizance, indictment or complaint of the person or the recognizance of witnesses shall be filed in the office of the clerk...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Officials authorized to admit to bail; rules governing persons taking bail, etc - Chapter 276, Section 57
A justice of the supreme judicial or superior court, a clerk of courts or the clerk of the superior court for criminal business in the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Release on personal recognizance or unsecured appearance bond; determination; fees; refusal; petition for review - Chapter 276, Section 58
A justice or a clerk or assistant clerk of the district court, a bail commissioner or master in chancery, in accordance with the applicable provisions...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Conditions of pretrial release of persons accused of felonies involving use of physical force, violation of an order, or abuse; detention hearing, order; review - Chapter 276, Section 58A
(1) The commonwealth may move, based on dangerousness, for an order of pretrial detention or release on conditions for a felony offense that has as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Revocation of release and detention order following violation of release conditions - Chapter 276, Section 58B
A person who has been released after a hearing pursuant to section 58 or section 58A and who has violated a condition of his release,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Admission to bail by master in chancery - Chapter 276, Section 59
After a person is committed to jail to await the action of the grand jury, he shall not be admitted to bail by a master...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bail in Suffolk county; proceedings - Chapter 276, Section 60
After a conviction or a plea of guilty or of nolo contendere in the superior court in Suffolk county, the prisoner shall not be admitted...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bail taken out of court; certificate or recognizance and deposit by surety; presence of persons; monthly statements by person taking bail - Chapter 276, Section 61
If bail is taken out of court, the person authorized to admit to bail in criminal cases shall cause a certificate to be signed and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Disposition or encumbrance of real estate of bail or surety; violation of section - Chapter 276, Section 61A
Whenever a person becomes bail or surety in a criminal case and has offered real estate as his qualification for his acceptance as such bail...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bond of professional bondsman; arrest bond certificates; conditions of acceptance; regulation - Chapter 276, Section 61B
No person proposing to become bail or surety in a criminal case for hire or reward, either received or to be received, shall be accepted...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notice to district attorney of application to accept bail in Suffolk county - Chapter 276, Section 62
If application is made to a person authorized to take bail in criminal cases in Suffolk county to accept bail out of court in a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Compensation for taking bail - Chapter 276, Section 63
No justice of any court, except a special justice of a district court, shall receive any fee or compensation for taking and approving bail in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Admission to bail on Sunday - Chapter 276, Section 64
Persons held in custody or committed upon a criminal charge, if entitled to be released upon bail, may, in the discretion of the magistrate, be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Condition of recognizance - Chapter 276, Section 65
The condition of a recognizance of a person, either with or without surety, binding him to appear before a court or justice to answer to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Return of recognizance and examination taken by magistrate; order compelling; contempt - Chapter 276, Section 66
A recognizance and examination taken by a magistrate under this chapter shall be certified and returned by him to the district attorney or to the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1994, 247, Sec. 5 - Chapter 276, Section 67
Chapter 276: Section 67. Repealed, 1994, 247, Sec. 5
- Massachusetts General Laws - Surrender of principal; notice; exoneration of bail; return of deposits; subsequent bail - Chapter 276, Section 68
Bail in criminal cases may be exonerated at any time before default upon their recognizance by surrendering their principal into court or to the jailer...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Surrender of principal after default; remission of penalty - Chapter 276, Section 69
Bail may surrender their principal at any time after default made upon the recognizance, or the principal may surrender himself, in the manner provided in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Inability to surrender principal; exoneration of bail - Chapter 276, Section 70
If, by the act of God, of the government of the United States, of any state or by sentence of law, bail are unable without...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Default on recognizance - Chapter 276, Section 71
If a person under recognizance to appear and answer or to prosecute an appeal in a criminal case fails to appear according to his recognizance,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Surety paying amount for which bound; costs - Chapter 276, Section 72
A surety in such recognizance may, by leave of the court, after default, and either before or after process has been issued against him, pay...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Award of portion of penalty to person entitled to forfeiture - Chapter 276, Section 73
If, in a suit on a recognizance to prosecute an appeal, the penalty is adjudged forfeited, or if by leave of court such penalty has...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Judgment for whole or part of penalty - Chapter 276, Section 74
If the penalty of a recognizance of a party or witness in a criminal prosecution is adjudged forfeited, the court may render judgment, upon such...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Neglect, omissions or defects as defeating action - Chapter 276, Section 75
Such action shall not be barred or defeated, nor shall judgment be arrested, by reason of neglect or omission to note or record the default...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Review and rehearing of case after judgment on recognizance - Chapter 276, Section 76
A court which has rendered judgment on a recognizance may, upon petition of any person interested, stating the ground relied upon and filed in said...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Service of notice and copy of petition; return day - Chapter 276, Section 77
Notice of the petition and a copy thereof shall be given to or served upon the district attorney for the county where the petition is...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Proceedings if former judgment diminished, etc.; costs - Chapter 276, Section 78
If the court finds that a part of the judgment has been actually paid to or for the commonwealth upon the recognizance or judgment and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Personal recognizance and deposit instead of sureties for release from custody - Chapter 276, Section 79
A person held in custody or committed upon a criminal charge, if entitled to be released on bail, or a person held in custody or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Forfeiture of deposit on default; sale of bonds; collection on bank books; payments to state treasurer - Chapter 276, Section 80
At any time after default of the defendant, the court may order forfeited the money, bonds or bank books deposited at the time of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Defendant surrendering self; return of deposit, etc - Chapter 276, Section 81
The defendant may surrender himself at any time before a default, in the same manner as sureties in criminal cases may surrender their principal, and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bail commissioner or special magistrate authorized to admit to bail - Chapter 276, Section 82
The term “magistrate”, in any section of the statutes which provides for admitting persons to bail in criminal cases, shall be construed to include a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Failure to appear in court after release on bail or recognizance; penalty - Chapter 276, Section 82A
A person who is released by court order or other lawful authority on bail or recognizance on condition that he will appear personally at a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Appointment and removal of probation officers; number; compensation, etc - Chapter 276, Section 83
Subject to appropriation, the commissioner of probation may appoint, dismiss and assign such probation officers to the several sessions of the trial court as he...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1992, 379, Sec. 189 - Chapter 276, Section 83A
Chapter 276: Section 83A. Repealed, 1992, 379, Sec. 189
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1949, 783, Sec. 2 - Chapter 276, Section 83B-83F
Chapter 276: Section 83B to 83F. Repealed, 1949, 783, Sec. 2
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1977, 97 - Chapter 276, Section 84
Chapter 276: Section 84. Repealed, 1977, 97
- Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and duties - Chapter 276, Section 85
Each person who receives an appointment as a probation officer shall, within six months of the date of his appointment, attend a basic orientation training...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Support and maintenance enforcement - Chapter 276, Section 85A
In addition to other duties, a probation officer of the probate court may, when ordered to do so by the court, examine all records and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Delinquent payments, collection, contempt - Chapter 276, Section 85B
Said probation officer shall have full power, by citation or other order duly issued by the probate court, to compel the attendance of witnesses to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Appointment of deputy probation officers by Boston juvenile court; creditable service - Chapter 276, Section 86
The justice of the Boston juvenile court subject to the approval of the commissioner of probation may appoint as many deputy probation officers, without salary,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Placing certain persons in care of probation officer - Chapter 276, Section 87
The superior court, any district court and any juvenile court may place on probation in the care of its probation officer any person before it...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Conditions of probation; probation fees - Chapter 276, Section 87A
The conditions of probation imposed by a court upon a person pursuant to section eighty-seven of this chapter, section fifty-eight of chapter one hundred and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Clerical assistance - Chapter 276, Section 88
Every court appointing probation officers may employ such clerical assistance as it deems necessary to keep, index and consolidate the records required to be kept...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Temporary probation officers - Chapter 276, Section 89
The superior court or the justice of a district court, including in such term the Worcester juvenile court, the Boston juvenile court, the Bristol county...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Counsellors to juvenile offenders - Chapter 276, Section 89A
The superior court or the justice of a district court may appoint deputy probation officers who shall serve without compensation as counsellors to children under...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Powers of probation officers; reports; records; inspection - Chapter 276, Section 90
A probation officer shall not be an active member of the regular police force, but so far as necessary in the performance of his official...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Power of probation officers appointed by Boston juvenile court to serve process - Chapter 276, Section 91
Probation officers appointed by the Boston juvenile court may serve such process as may be directed to them by the court.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Restitution or reparation to injured person through probation officer - Chapter 276, Section 92
If a person is placed on probation upon condition that he make restitution or reparation to the person injured by him in the commission of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Restitution in cases involving motor vehicle theft or fraudulent claims - Chapter 276, Section 92A
A person found guilty of violating the provisions of sections twenty-seven, twenty-eight, one hundred and eleven B and one hundred and thirty-nine of chapter two...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Payment to treasurer of unclaimed money collected by probation officer - Chapter 276, Section 93
Except as provided by section one of chapter two hundred and seventy-nine, money collected by a probation officer under order of the court by which...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Expenses of probation officers - Chapter 276, Section 94
The reasonable expenses, including supplies and equipment, incurred by probation officers of the superior court and the probate court in the performance of their duties...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Temporary support or transportation of probationers - Chapter 276, Section 95
The superior courts or the Boston, Springfield, Bristol county and Worcester juvenile courts or a district court, except the municipal court of the city of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Refusal or neglect of duties by probation officer - Chapter 276, Section 96
Any probation officer who refuses or neglects to perform any of the duties required of him shall forfeit two hundred dollars to the use of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Interference with duties of department of youth services - Chapter 276, Section 97
Sections eighty-three to ninety-six, inclusive, shall not authorize a probation officer to interfere with any of the duties required of the department of youth services...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Commissioner of probation; appointment - Chapter 276, Section 98
There shall be a commissioner of probation appointed by the chief justice for administration and management, who shall have executive control and supervision of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and duties of commissioner of probation - Chapter 276, Section 99
The commissioner of probation shall supervise the probation work in all of the courts of the commonwealth and for such purposes he and his staff...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1992, 379, Sec. 192 - Chapter 276, Section 99A
Chapter 276: Section 99A. Repealed, 1992, 379, Sec. 192
- Massachusetts General Laws - Probation officers; compensation - Chapter 276, Section 99B
(1) In those courts or regions having fewer than fifteen probation officers, all persons serving as chief probation officer or acting chief probation officer shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1978, 478, Sec. 296 - Chapter 276, Section 99C
Chapter 276: Section 99C. Repealed, 1978, 478, Sec. 296
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1986, 520, Sec. 3 - Chapter 276, Section 99D
Chapter 276: Section 99D. Repealed, 1986, 520, Sec. 3
- Massachusetts General Laws - Detailed reports of probation work; records; accessibility of information - Chapter 276, Section 100
Every probation officer, or the chief or senior probation officer of a court having more than one probation officer, shall transmit to the commissioner of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Requests to seal files; conditions; application of section; effect of sealing of records - Chapter 276, Section 100A
Any person having a record of criminal court appearances and dispositions in the commonwealth on file with the office of the commissioner of probation may,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Requests to seal delinquency files or records; conditions; sealing by commissioner; notice for compliance; effect of sealing; limited disclosure - Chapter 276, Section 100B
Any person having a record of entries of a delinquency court appearance in the commonwealth on file in the office of the commissioner of probation...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sealing of records or files in certain criminal cases; effect upon employment reports; enforcement - Chapter 276, Section 100C
In any criminal case wherein the defendant has been found not guilty by the court or jury, or a no bill has been returned by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Annual report of commissioner to general court - Chapter 276, Section 101
The commissioner of probation shall make an annual report to the general court of the probation work of the courts for the year ending on...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment of uniform forms of blanks and records for use in district court probation offices - Chapter 276, Section 101A
The commissioner of probation shall establish uniform forms of blanks and records for use in the probation offices of the district courts, and, upon receipt...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Authority of courts to require keeping of probation records as affected by secs. 98—101A - Chapter 276, Section 102
Sections ninety-eight to one hundred and one A, inclusive, shall not affect the authority of the courts to require the keeping by their probation officers...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notice to commissioner of appointment, removal, etc., of probation officer - Chapter 276, Section 103
Upon the appointment, removal, retirement, resignation, death, or leave of absence of a probation officer, the clerk of the court by which said probation officer...
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