General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 276 Search Warrants, Rewards, Fugitives From Justice, Arrest, Examination, Commitment and Bail. Probation Officers and Board of Probation
- 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 - Search warrants for records possessed by foreign corporations providing electronic communication or remote computing services - Chapter 276, Section 1B
(a) As used in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings:— “Adverse result”, occurs when notification of the existence of a search...
- 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 and 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...
- 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; department of criminal justice information services; 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 - Outstanding warrant check prior to release on bail or recognizance - 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 - Recall of default warrant; arrest - 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 - Default warrants issued due to failure to pay fines, assessments, court costs, restitution, support payments, etc. to be noted in 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 - Payment; release from custody - 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
Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec.
- 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
Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec.
- 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 for 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
Repealed, 1979, 344, Sec.
- 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; costs - 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; amount of bail; security - 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 for release of persons accused of certain offenses involving physical force or abuse; 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
Repealed, 1994, 247, Sec.
- 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 - 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 - Magistrates authorized to admit prisoners 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 - Probation officers; applicants for appointment as a probation officer; examination; investigation and interview; promotion; publication of standards - Chapter 276, Section 83
(a) Each applicant for initial appointment as a probation officer within the office of the commissioner of probation shall pass a written examination established and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1992, 379, Sec. 189 - Chapter 276, Section 83A
Repealed, 1992, 379, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1949, 783, Sec. 2 - Chapter 276, Section 83B to 83F
Repealed, 1949, 783, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1977, 97 - Chapter 276, Section 84
Repealed, 1977,
- 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 proceedings - 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 - Repealed, 2011, 93, Sec. 121 - Chapter 276, Section 86
Repealed, 2011, 93, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Placing certain persons in care of probation officer - Chapter 276, Section 87
[ Text of section effective until September 18, 2013. For text effective September 18, 2013, see below.]The superior court, any district court and any juvenile...
- 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
[ First paragraph effective until September 18, 2013. For text effective September 18, 2013, see below.]The superior court or the justice of a district court...
- 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 - Office of probation; commissioner of probation - Chapter 276, Section 98
There shall be an office of probation which shall be under the supervision, direction and control of a commissioner of probation. The commissioner shall be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Advisory board to commissioner of probation and court administrator - Chapter 276, Section 98A
There shall be a board to advise the commissioner of probation and the court administrator. The board shall make recommendations on the management of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and duties of commissioner of probation - Chapter 276, Section 99
The commissioner shall have executive control and supervision of the probation service and shall have the power to: (1) supervise the probation work in all...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1992, 379, Sec. 192 - Chapter 276, Section 99A
Repealed, 1992, 379, Sec.
- 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
Repealed, 1978, 478, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1986, 520, Sec. 3 - Chapter 276, Section 99D
Repealed, 1986, 520, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Indigency; interagency service agreements; income data verification - Chapter 276, Section 99E
(a) The commissioner of probation shall enter into an interagency service agreement with the department of revenue to verify income data and other information relevant...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Performance measurement system for the office of probation and private organizations under contract with the commonwealth - Chapter 276, Section 99F
(a) The commissioner of probation shall establish a performance measurement system for the office of probation and any private organizations under contract with the commonwealth...
- 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 - Availability of sealed criminal record information - Chapter 276, Section 100D
Notwithstanding any provision of section 100A, 100B, or 100C of this chapter, criminal justice agencies as defined in section 167 of chapter 6 shall have...
- 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 - Effect of Secs. 98 to 101A on authority of courts - 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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