General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 66 Public Records
- Massachusetts General Laws - Supervision of public records; powers and duties - Chapter 66, Section 1
The supervisor of public records, in this chapter called the supervisor of records, shall take necessary measures to put the records of the commonwealth, counties,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1977, 80, Sec. 1 - Chapter 66, Section 2
Repealed, 1977, 80, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - “Record”, defined; quality of paper and film; microfilm records - Chapter 66, Section 3
The word “record” in this chapter shall mean any written or printed book or paper, or any photograph, microphotograph, map or plan. All written or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Recommendations for employment submitted in support of candidates hired by the commonwealth; use of recommendation by hiring authority - Chapter 66, Section 3A
Recommendations for employment submitted in support of candidates who are hired by the commonwealth, or any political subdivision of the commonwealth, in the position to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Regulation of recording materials and devices; mandamus - Chapter 66, Section 4
No ink shall be used upon any permanent public record except ink of such a standard as established and approved by the supervisor of records,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Municipal records; copies - Chapter 66, Section 5
County commissioners, city councils and selectmen may cause copies of records of counties, cities or towns, of town proprietaries, of proprietors of plantations, townships or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Records of meetings of boards and commissions; contents - Chapter 66, Section 5A
The records, required to be kept by sections eleven A of chapter thirty A, nine F of chapter thirty-four and twenty-three B of chapter thirty-nine,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Records of public proceedings; preparation; custody - Chapter 66, Section 6
Every department, board, commission or office of the commonwealth or of a county, city or town, for which no clerk is otherwise provided by law,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Custody of old and other records - Chapter 66, Section 7
Every town clerk shall have the custody of all records of proprietors of towns, townships, plantations or common lands, if the towns, townships, plantations or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Preservation and destruction of records, books and papers - Chapter 66, Section 8
Every original paper belonging to the files of the commonwealth or of any county, city or town, bearing date earlier than the year eighteen hundred...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Destruction of certain records by city and town clerks if micro-photographed - Chapter 66, Section 8A
Any provision of general or special law to the contrary notwithstanding, the clerk of any city or town, with the written approval of the supervisor...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Destruction or disposal of records in accordance with chapter 93I - Chapter 66, Section 8B
Records or documents required to be destroyed or disposed of in this chapter shall be destroyed or disposed of in the manner set forth in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Preservation and copying of worn, etc., records - Chapter 66, Section 9
Every person having custody of any public record books of the commonwealth, or of a county, city or town shall, at its expense, cause them...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Public inspection and copies of records; presumption; exceptions - Chapter 66, Section 10
(a) Every person having custody of any public record, as defined in clause Twenty-sixth of section seven of chapter four, shall, at reasonable times and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Fireproof vaults and safes - Chapter 66, Section 11
Officers in charge of a state department, county commissioners, city councils and selectmen shall, at the expense of the commonwealth, county, city or town, respectively,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Arrangement of records - Chapter 66, Section 12
All such records shall be kept in the rooms where they are ordinarily used, and so arranged that they may be conveniently examined and referred...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Custodian to demand records; compelling compliance - Chapter 66, Section 13
Whoever is entitled to the custody of public records shall demand the same from any person having possession of them, who shall forthwith deliver the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Surrender of records by retiring officer - Chapter 66, Section 14
Whoever has custody of any public records shall, upon the expiration of his term of office, employment or authority, deliver over to his successor all...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties - Chapter 66, Section 15
Whoever unlawfully keeps in his possession any public record or removes it from the room where it is usually kept, or alters, defaces, mutilates or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Surrender of church records; jurisdiction of superior court - Chapter 66, Section 16
If a church, parish, religious society, monthly meeting of the people called Friends or Quakers, or any similar body of persons who have associated themselves...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Municipality in which records to be kept; penalty - Chapter 66, Section 17
Except as otherwise provided by law, all public records shall be kept in the custody of the person having the custody of similar records in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Public assistance records; public inspection; destruction - Chapter 66, Section 17A
The records of the department of transitional assistance, relative to all public assistance, and the records of the commission for the blind relative to aid...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1973, 1050, Sec. 4 - Chapter 66, Section 17B
Repealed, 1973, 1050, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Failure to maintain public records of meetings; orders to maintain - Chapter 66, Section 17C
Upon proof of failure of a governmental body as defined in section eleven A of chapter thirty A, section nine F of chapter thirty-four and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Massachusetts natural heritage and endangered species program data base; division records; site-specific rare species information - Chapter 66, Section 17D
Records of the division of fisheries and wildlife in the department of fish and game known as the Massachusetts natural heritage and endangered species program...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Local filing offices; former Article 9 Uniform Commercial Code records; revised Article 9 records - Chapter 66, Section 17E
(a) In this section the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) “Former Article 9”, Article 9 of chapter 106 as in effect on...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Application of chapter - Chapter 66, Section 18
This chapter shall not apply to the records of the general court, nor shall declarations, affidavits and other papers filed by claimants in the office...
Last modified: September 11, 2015