General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 8 State Superintendent of Buildings, and State House
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bureau of the state house; superintendent of the state house - Chapter 8, Section 1
There shall be within the executive office for administration and finance a bureau of the state house, headed by a superintendent of the state house....
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1962, 757, Sec. 35 - Chapter 8, Section 2
Repealed, 1962, 757, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1923, 362, Sec. 9 - Chapter 8, Section 3
Repealed, 1923, 362, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Appointment of employees - Chapter 8, Section 4
The superintendent of the state house may appoint such clerks, engineers, electricians, firemen, oilers, mechanics, elevator operators, janitors, cleaners and other persons as may be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1984, 413, Sec. 3 - Chapter 8, Section 4A 4B
Repealed, 1984, 413, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Cleaners; salary; work week - Chapter 8, Section 5
Cleaners employed by the commonwealth shall each receive such salary as may be fixed under and in accordance with sections forty-five to fifty, inclusive, of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repairs and improvements; requisitions - Chapter 8, Section 6
The superintendent of the state house shall direct the making of all repairs and improvements in the state house, on the grounds of the state...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Purchases not exceeding $1,000 - Chapter 8, Section 6A
[ Text of section effective until July 1, 2013. For text effective July 1, 2013, see below.]Notwithstanding any general or special law or rule or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repair of damage to state house - Chapter 8, Section 7
If the state house is damaged by fire or other casualty, during the recess of the general court, the superintendent may make all repairs necessary...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1923, 362, Sec. 9 - Chapter 8, Section 8
Repealed, 1923, 362, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Operation and maintenance of state house - Chapter 8, Section 9
[ Text of section effective until July 1, 2013. For text effective July 1, 2013, see below.]The superintendent shall have charge of the operation and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Fee for use of state house during non-business hours by non-governmental individuals, entities and groups; indemnification; disposition of monies received - Chapter 8, Section 9A
The superintendent of the state house shall establish and charge a fee or service charge to nongovernmental individuals, entities and groups using the state house...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Assignment of rooms in state house and elsewhere; exceptions - Chapter 8, Section 10
Rooms shall only be assigned to or used by either branch of the general court or any committees or officers thereof, except with the written...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1980, 579, Secs. 24, 25 - Chapter 8, Section 10A 11
Repealed, 1980, 579, Secs. 24,
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1984, 413, Sec. 4 - Chapter 8, Section 12
Repealed, 1984, 413, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1996, 365, Sec. 3 - Chapter 8, Section 13
Repealed, 1996, 365, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Military history museum - Chapter 8, Section 14
The superintendent may expend not more than $10,000 from the State House Special Event Fund established in section 35P of chapter 10 annually for the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1924, 361 - Chapter 8, Section 15
Repealed, 1924,
- Massachusetts General Laws - Land around state house; open space - Chapter 8, Section 16
The land now taken by the commonwealth about the state house shall remain an open space, and no railroad or railway shall be constructed or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Civil War Nurses’ Hall; museum and shrine to Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Massachusetts - Chapter 8, Section 16A
The hall bounded by the Hall of Flags, the governor’s staircase, the Doric Hall and the senate staircase on the second floor of the state...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rooms in state house for departments of war veterans - Chapter 8, Section 17
Whenever, in the opinion of the commissioner of administration, there is space available, there shall be set apart and suitably furnished rooms in the state...
- Massachusetts General Laws - War flags carried in war time by Massachusetts veterans; custody, care and preservation - Chapter 8, Section 17A
The superintendent is hereby designated as the custodian of the flags carried in time of war by organizations of Massachusetts men or women in the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Selected writings of John Adams; exhibition in state house - Chapter 8, Section 17B
The superintendent shall set apart and maintain a suitable area located in Doric Hall in the state house for the use of the Massachusetts Historical...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Histories, relics and mementos of the several departments of war veterans; accessibility - Chapter 8, Section 18
The histories, relics and mementos of the Grand Army of the Republic of the department of Massachusetts and the records of the Massachusetts department of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Veteran memorabilia; state house exhibits; records - Chapter 8, Section 18A
The superintendent is hereby authorized to display flags, artifacts, documents, photographs, uniforms, medals and other relics and mementos of veterans on the fourth floor of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Memorial to the contribution of women to the government of the commonwealth; works of art - Chapter 8, Section 18B
The superintendent is hereby authorized to accept works of art executed as a memorial to the contribution of women to the government of the commonwealth...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Portraits of designated former governors - Chapter 8, Section 19
The governor, with the advice and consent of the council, may expend, for the purpose of procuring portraits of the governors of the commonwealth who...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Portraits or other memorials of former governors - Chapter 8, Section 19A
The governor, with the advice and consent of the council, may, on behalf of the commonwealth, accept or otherwise procure suitable portraits or other memorials...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Old provincial state house; maintenance and preservation - Chapter 8, Section 20
In recognition of the place of the old provincial state house in Boston in the history and governance of the commonwealth and of the nation,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Permanent memorials in state house regulated - Chapter 8, Section 21
No tablet, statue or other memorial of a permanent character shall be placed in the state house without the approval of the general court.
Last modified: September 11, 2015