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General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 34 Counties and County Commissioners.
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Counties.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Boundaries in tide water; powers - Chapter 34, Section 1
The seaward boundary of counties bordering on the open sea shall coincide with the marine boundary of the commonwealth. The boundary lines in tide water...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Alteration of maps - Chapter 34, Section 2
County commissioners shall cause changes in the boundaries of towns, in the courses of highways, railroads and canals, and other topographical alterations to be correctly...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Public buildings - Chapter 34, Section 3
Each county shall provide suitable jails, houses of correction, fireproof offices and other public buildings, including both the structures and the land upon which such...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1978, 349, Sec. 3 - Chapter 34, Section 3A
Chapter 34: Section 3A. Repealed, 1978, 349, Sec. 3
County Commissioners.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Election; tenure - Chapter 34, Section 4
Except in Nantucket and Suffolk counties, there shall be elected in each county, as provided in section one hundred and fifty-eight of chapter fifty-four, for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Salaries - Chapter 34, Section 5
The salaries of county commissioners, payable by their respective counties in full for all services performed by said commissioners except as otherwise provided, shall be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Salaries; acceptance of provision of this section - Chapter 34, Section 5A
Subject to the acceptance of this section as hereinafter provided, the salaries of county commissioners, payable by their respective counties in full for all services...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1930, 400, Sec. 2 - Chapter 34, Section 6
Chapter 34: Section 6. Repealed, 1930, 400, Sec. 2
- Massachusetts General Laws - Commissioners acting by appointment; compensation; travel expenses - Chapter 34, Section 7
A person acting as commissioner by appointment under section twelve shall be paid by the county not less than five dollars for each day of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Statement of expenses; certification; payment; audit - Chapter 34, Section 8
An itemized statement of the actual and proper cost to each commissioner for transportation and other necessary expenses incurred in the performance of his official...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Meetings; frequency; location; special meetings - Chapter 34, Section 9
The commissioners shall hold meetings at the following times and places for their respective counties: At Barnstable, the second Tuesday of April and October. At...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Records - Chapter 34, Section 9A
The records of the commissioners shall consist of a docket, the files, a record of payments ordered, the extended record, and a complete record of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Docket defined - Chapter 34, Section 9B
The docket is hereby defined as a record wherein their clerk shall register, by its title or by an abstract, and numbered consecutively, every action,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Files defined - Chapter 34, Section 9C
The files are hereby defined as all papers and processes filed with or by the clerk in any action, suit, proceeding or contract, before, by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Record of payments; form and contents - Chapter 34, Section 9D
The record of payments ordered shall be in such form as the commissioners, with the approval of the director of accounts, may determine. It shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Extended record; form and contents - Chapter 34, Section 9E
The extended record shall be in abridged form. It shall comprise an abbreviated chronicle of all matters entered upon the docket, under the same or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 34, Section 9F
The following terms as used in section nine G shall have the following meanings:— “Deliberation”, a verbal exchange between a quorum of members of a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Open meetings of governmental bodies - Chapter 34, Section 9G
All meetings of a governmental body shall be open to the public and any person shall be permitted to attend any meeting except as otherwise...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Record of proceedings; copy to director of accounts - Chapter 34, Section 10
They shall keep a full and complete record of the proceedings at all their meetings and, if their vote or decision is not unanimous, the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Clerical employees; temporary clerk; duties - Chapter 34, Section 11
They may employ such clerical employees as may be necessary for the proper performance of the work of their offices, who shall perform such duties...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Absence or disqualification of commissioners; appointment of substitute; tenure - Chapter 34, Section 12
In case of inability to attend, or interest in a question before the commissioners, or if any part of a highway relative to which they...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Powers; administration of oaths; punishment for contempt - Chapter 34, Section 13
When in session, the commissioners may administer oaths to witnesses and punish disorderly conduct which interrupts their meeting or is an open and direct contempt...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Additional powers - Chapter 34, Section 14
In addition to such powers and duties as may otherwise be conferred or imposed by law, the commissioners may provide for erecting and repairing jails...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Associate commissioner for affairs concerning the elderly - Chapter 34, Section 14A
In any county which accepts this section by vote of the county commissioners, the chairman of the county commissioners shall appoint a senior citizen to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Associate commissioner for affairs concerning handicapped persons - Chapter 34, Section 14B
In any county which accepts this section by vote of the county commissioners, the chairman of the county commissioners shall appoint a handicapped person to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Qualification of officers; return to state secretary - Chapter 34, Section 15
They shall, upon administering the oaths of office to officers required by law to qualify before them, forthwith make return thereof to the state secretary.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Office hours; holidays; certain acts performable on next business day - Chapter 34, Section 16
Except as otherwise provided by law, all offices under the jurisdiction of the commissioners shall be open to the public for the transaction of business...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1989, 687, Sec. 4 - Chapter 34, Section 17
Chapter 34: Section 17. Repealed, 1989, 687, Sec. 4
- Massachusetts General Laws - Recognizances and damages - Chapter 34, Section 18
The commissioners shall require all applicants for the award of damages or the performance of any other official act in which the county has no...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Proceedings at other times than regular meetings and returns thereof - Chapter 34, Section 19
The commissioners severally may, at other times than at regular meetings, receive petitions relative to railroads or to matters where the county has no interest...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Applicability of laws relating to county commissioners and clerks to certain other officers - Chapter 34, Section 20
The laws relative to the powers, duties and liabilities of county commissioners and their clerks shall apply, except as otherwise provided, to all other public...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Official letters - Chapter 34, Section 21
The provisions of section thirty of chapter thirty relative to the dimensions of official letters shall apply to letters from county officials.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Breach or neglect of duty; penalty - Chapter 34, Section 22
For wilful breach or neglect of a duty imposed by law, a county commissioner or clerk of the county commissioners shall forfeit not less than...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Gifts; use and disposition - Chapter 34, Section 23
Any county may receive, hold and manage any gift by devise, bequest or otherwise, to the use or benefit of the county or any activity,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Federal grants; acceptance, custody and disposition - Chapter 34, Section 24
Any county officer or department may, with the approval of the county commissioners, accept any grant from the federal government for the use or benefit...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Acquisition of real property - Chapter 34, Section 25
The commissioners may, subject to appropriation, acquire by eminent domain, or by purchase or otherwise, the fee or other lesser interest in such real property...
Last modified: March 17, 2010
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