General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 147 State and Other Police, and Certain Powers and Duties of the Department of Public Safety
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions and duties of commissioner and department - Chapter 147, Section 1
The commissioner of public safety, in this chapter called the commissioner, shall have charge of the administration and enforcement of all laws, rules and regulations...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1991, 412, Sec. 82A - Chapter 147, Section 1A
Repealed, 1991, 412, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Inspectors; powers and duties; appointment as special state police - Chapter 147, Section 2
All inspectors of the department shall have and exercise throughout the commonwealth the powers of constables, police officers and watchmen, except as to the service...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rewards or gifts for services; failure to perform duties - Chapter 147, Section 3
Any inspector of the department who directly or indirectly receives a reward, gift or gratuity on account of his official services shall be punished by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1991, 412, Sec. 85 - Chapter 147, Section 4 to 7
Repealed, 1991, 412, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - County police; appointment; badge; powers - Chapter 147, Section 8
County commissioners may appoint as police officers persons who are in the employment of the county, who shall, when on duty, wear in plain sight...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Carrying police weapons and equipment - Chapter 147, Section 8A
A sheriff, any of his deputies, and any officer of any institution under the supervision of a sheriff if so authorized by him, the commissioner...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1991, 412, Sec. 85A - Chapter 147, Section 9 to 10E
Repealed, 1991, 412, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Parking control officers - Chapter 147, Section 10F
Any board or officer authorized to appoint police officers in any city or town which accepts this section, and any college, university or other educational...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1991, 412, Sec. 85B - Chapter 147, Section 10G to 10M
Repealed, 1991, 412, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Cities authorized to establish force; appointments to force - Chapter 147, Section 11
Any city in which the city council, with the approval of the mayor, accepts this and the two following sections or has accepted corresponding provisions...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Number of members - Chapter 147, Section 12
The number of members of such reserve force shall not exceed five in cities in which the number of members of the regular force does...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Assignment to duty; powers and duties; compensation - Chapter 147, Section 13
The mayor, chief of police or city marshal of a city in which such reserve force is established may assign the members thereof to duty...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Towns authorized to establish force; number; appointments; removal; regulations; powers and duties; compensation - Chapter 147, Section 13A
A town having an organized police force or department, other than a town in which a reserve police force is established under special law, which...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Cities; appointments from civil service eligible list - Chapter 147, Section 13B
In any city which has accepted sections eleven to thirteen, inclusive, or the corresponding provisions of earlier laws, or has a reserve police force under...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Towns; appointments from civil service eligible list - Chapter 147, Section 13C
In any town which has accepted section thirteen A, or has a reserve police force under authority of special law, and accepts this section, no...
- Massachusetts General Laws - One day out of thirty - Chapter 147, Section 14
Members of the police department of every city, except Boston and such cities as have accepted chapter two hundred and ten of the acts of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - One day out of fifteen - Chapter 147, Section 15
Except in Boston, members of the police department of every town which accepted chapter two hundred and ten of the acts of nineteen hundred and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - One day out of eight - Chapter 147, Section 16
Except in Boston, members of the police department of every town which accepts or has accepted the provisions of this section by vote of its...
- Massachusetts General Laws - One day out of seven - Chapter 147, Section 16A
Members of the police department of every town which has heretofore accepted this section shall, so long as its provisions are operative therein, be excused...
- Massachusetts General Laws - One day out of six - Chapter 147, Section 16B
Except in Boston, members of the police department of every town which accepts this section by vote of its city council in case of a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Five day weeks; vote of voters; petition question on ballot - Chapter 147, Section 16C
Members of the police department of every city or town which accepts this section by vote of the city council, subject to the provisions of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Time for days off; effect; emergencies; minimum days annually; effect on annual vacations - Chapter 147, Section 17
The time and manner of excusing members of police departments from duty in any town subject to any of the six preceding sections shall be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Additional days off or pay - Chapter 147, Section 17A
If any police officer of a city or town is required to work on January the first, July the fourth or Christmas day, or the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Five day and forty hour week; compensation for additional service; reduction in compensation - Chapter 147, Section 17B
Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the services of all regular or permanent police officers of every city and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Time off or pay for overtime duty - Chapter 147, Section 17C
If a regular police officer in the service of a city or town which has not accepted section seventeen B shall be required to be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Annual convention of Massachusetts Police Association - Chapter 147, Section 17D
Members of police departments shall be excused from duty and from attendance at a police station or other place for two days without loss of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Overtime compensation upon discharge, resignation, retirement or death - Chapter 147, Section 17E
Whenever the employment of any police officer subject to section one hundred and eleven H of chapter forty-one or sections seventeen A, seventeen B, and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Police chiefs; working on holidays; additional pay - Chapter 147, Section 17F
If the superintendent of police in the city of Lowell, the city marshal in the cities of Newburyport and Salem, or the chief of police...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Five day forty-hour week; overtime pay - Chapter 147, Section 17G
Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the services of all regular or permanent police officers of every city and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Police stations for detention of women; appointment of matrons - Chapter 147, Section 18
In every city having a population of over thirty thousand inhabitants as shown by the latest federal census, except Boston, the mayor shall, and in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Qualifications for appointment; removal; compensation; residence; on call status; powers and duties; accommodations for women held at stations - Chapter 147, Section 19
A woman shall not be appointed a police matron unless she is suitable therefor and has been recommended in writing by at least ten women...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Removal of women to nearest station with matron; jurisdiction - Chapter 147, Section 20
If a female is arrested and taken to a police station to which a matron is attached or, if not under arrest, is detained or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - “Police station” and “station” defined - Chapter 147, Section 21
The words “police station” or “station” in the three preceding sections shall mean any place in which persons are temporarily confined under arrest.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Appointment; qualifications; compensation; duties; status; retirement and pensions - Chapter 147, Section 21A
The board or officer in a city or town authorized to appoint police officers for such city or town may, when so authorized, in a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 147, Section 22
In this section and in sections twenty-three to thirty, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meanings unless a different meaning is clearly required...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Necessity of license; exceptions - Chapter 147, Section 23
No person shall engage in, advertise or hold himself out as being engaged in, nor solicit private detective business or the business of watch, guard...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Applications; qualifications of applicants - Chapter 147, Section 24
An application for a license to engage in the private detective business or a license to engage in the business of watch, guard or patrol...
- Massachusetts General Laws - License; disqualification of convicts; duration; posting; name of licensee and approval; renewal and revocation - Chapter 147, Section 25
The colonel of the state police may grant to an applicant complying with the provisions of section twenty-four a license to engage in the private...
- Massachusetts General Laws - License fees; bond - Chapter 147, Section 26
The fee for an original license and for a renewal of any license shall be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Employment to determine labor conditions or disseminate propaganda; penalty - Chapter 147, Section 27
No licensee shall enter, or cause any person to enter, any place of employment for any purpose having to do with the organizing or organization...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Assistants; employment; divulgence of information or false report; penalty - Chapter 147, Section 28
A licensee may employ to assist him in his business as many persons as he may deem necessary but shall not knowingly employ in connection...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Badges, identification cards, weapons, equipment and vehicles - Chapter 147, Section 29
No licensee or employee or agent of a licensee shall use a badge of any kind for identification purposes except a guard or watchman in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Daily records concerning guards carrying guns required - Chapter 147, Section 29A
Any watch, guard or patrol agency shall maintain daily records which shall include the names of guards and other employees carrying guns in the performance...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Prohibited acts; penalty - Chapter 147, Section 30
No licensee nor any of his employees shall knowingly:— 1. Incite, encourage or aid any person who has become a party to any strike to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Names of police officers sent to municipal police training committee; failure to send names - Chapter 147, Section 31
The clerk of each town in which a chief of police or city marshal is appointed shall, within one week after such appointment, notify the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Necessity of license to hold boxing, kickboxing, mixed martial arts or other unarmed combative sporting event or sparring match or exhibition; definitions applicable to Secs. 32 to 51 - Chapter 147, Section 32
(a) In this section and in sections 33 to 51, inclusive, the following words shall, unless a different meaning is clearly required by the context,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Issuance and term of license; revocation of license; issuance of license for toughman competition prohibited - Chapter 147, Section 33
The commission may, subject to sections 32 to 47, inclusive, issue licenses to conduct boxing, kickboxing, mixed martial arts or other unarmed combative sporting events,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bond - Chapter 147, Section 34
No license as aforesaid shall be granted unless the licensee has executed and filed with the commission a bond in a penal sum of $50,000,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Licenses for physician, promoter, referee, judge, timekeeper, professional boxer, kickboxer, mixed martial arts contestant or other unarmed combative sport contestant, or a manager, trainer or second of such a contestant; fees - Chapter 147, Section 35
No person shall act, directly or indirectly, as a physician, promoter, referee, judge, timekeeper, professional boxer, kickboxer, mixed martial arts contestant or other unarmed combative...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Amateur boxing, mixed martial arts or other unarmed combative sporting events, sparring matches and exhibitions; acknowledgment of rules and regulations of amateur governing body; licensing of amateur referees, judges and officials; limitation on number and timing of competitions; gloves - Chapter 147, Section 35A
Notwithstanding section 36, the commission shall, in the conduct of all amateur boxing, mixed martial arts or other unarmed combative sporting events, sparring matches and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Necessity of referee and judges; powers and duties; vote; decision; forfeitures; fees of officials; payment - Chapter 147, Section 36
At every boxing, kickboxing, mixed martial arts or other unarmed combative sporting event, sparring match or exhibition there shall be in attendance a referee, duly...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Necessity of physician; duties; qualifications; fees; certificate of contestant’s fitness - Chapter 147, Section 37
At any boxing, kickboxing, mixed martial arts or other unarmed combative sporting event, sparring match or exhibition there shall be in attendance at least 1...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Number and time of rounds; frequency of tournaments or contests; gloves; protective devices - Chapter 147, Section 38
No boxing, kickboxing or other unarmed combative sporting match or exhibition shall exceed 10 rounds; provided, however, if a match is to determine a championship,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Ages of contestants and persons admitted to matches - Chapter 147, Section 39
Except as hereinafter provided, no contestant under 18 years of age or who has reached his thirty-fifth birthday shall be permitted to engage in a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Boxer, kickboxer, mixed martial arts contestant or other unarmed combative sport contestant previously knocked out six or more times - Chapter 147, Section 39A
No professional boxer, kickboxer, mixed martial arts contestant or other unarmed combative sport contestant licensed under section 35 who has been knocked out, technically or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Insurance on contestants - Chapter 147, Section 39B
A person licensed under section 33 to conduct boxing, kickboxing, mixed martial arts or other unarmed combative sport events, sparring matches or exhibitions, except those...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Percentage of receipts paid to commonwealth; reports to commission; filing of contracts entered into for sale, lease or exploitation of broadcasting rights; enforcement - Chapter 147, Section 40
Every licensee holding or conducting a boxing, kickboxing, mixed martial arts or other unarmed combative sporting event, sparring match or exhibition shall, before the commencement...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Boxers’ fund - Chapter 147, Section 40A
Every licensee holding or conducting any boxing, kickboxing, mixed martial arts, or other unarmed combative sporting event or sparring match or exhibition shall, before the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Number of persons admitted; limitation - Chapter 147, Section 41
No licensee under section thirty-three shall sell or cause to be sold or issued more tickets or invitations purporting to admit to any such match...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Revocation or suspension of license; administrative penalty - Chapter 147, Section 42
Any license may be revoked or suspended by the commission for a violation of any provision of sections thirty-two to forty-seven, inclusive, or of any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Financial interest of licensee in boxer; prepayment of contestant - Chapter 147, Section 43
No licensee under section thirty-three shall have, directly or indirectly, any financial interest in a boxer competing on premises owned or leased by the licensee,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Authority of commission to summon witnesses - Chapter 147, Section 44
The commission shall have the same authority to summon and require the attendance and testimony of witnesses as to all matters within its jurisdiction as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Enjoining unlicensed or illegal matches - Chapter 147, Section 45
The superior court shall have jurisdiction in equity upon any information filed by the commission, the attorney general, the district attorney for the district, the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations; special permits; annual report - Chapter 147, Section 46
The commission may make such rules and regulations for the administration and enforcement of sections 32 to 50A, inclusive, and to promote and regulate the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Distribution to towns of money received by commonwealth - Chapter 147, Section 47
The remainder of the sums received under section forty, after paying the expense to the commonwealth of administering sections thirty-two to forty-seven, inclusive, shall, annually...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Prohibition of licensed event by municipality; notice of exercise of municipal option - Chapter 147, Section 47A
The commission shall notify a municipality in writing of the issuance of a license for an event scheduled to take place therein within 24 hours...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2009, 169, Sec. 11 - Chapter 147, Section 48 to 50
Repealed, 2009, 169, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Courses of instruction in boxing, kickboxing, mixed martial arts and other unarmed combative sports or matches or exhibitions sponsored by youth organizations, private clubs, law enforcement agencies, etc. - Chapter 147, Section 50A
Courses of instruction in boxing, kickboxing, mixed martial arts and other unarmed combative sports, or sparring matches or exhibitions sponsored and conducted by recognized boys...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Statutes not applicable to matches or exhibitions - Chapter 147, Section 51
Sections nine to twelve, inclusive, of chapter two hundred and sixty-five and section twenty-eight of chapter one hundred and eighty shall not apply to any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1973, 729, Sec. 2 - Chapter 147, Section 52 to 55
Repealed, 1973, 729, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sale; safety devices required; rules and regulations; penalty - Chapter 147, Section 56
Every motor-driven implement or machine used for the purpose of cutting grass sold, offered for sale, or held with intent to sell in the commonwealth...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Installation, repair or maintenance of security systems; licensure; exceptions - Chapter 147, Section 57
The words “security system”, as used in sections fifty-seven to sixty-one, inclusive, shall mean wires, conduits, apparatus, devices, fixtures, or other appliances installed and interconnected...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Application for license; filing; contents; proof of qualifications - Chapter 147, Section 58
An application for a license to engage in the security systems business shall be filed with the commissioner on forms furnished by him, and statements...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Issuance of license; effect of felony conviction; term; contents; renewal - Chapter 147, Section 59
The commissioner may issue to an applicant complying with the provisions of section fifty-eight a license to engage in the security systems business; provided, however,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Employee statements; filing; security check; false statements by licensee or employee; penalties - Chapter 147, Section 60
A person, firm or corporation licensed under the provisions of sections fifty-eight and fifty-nine may employ in his security systems business as many persons as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Fees - Chapter 147, Section 61
The fee for the filing of an original security systems license and for the filing of a renewal of such license shall be determined annually...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Acceptance of education, training or service completed by applicant as member of armed forces toward qualification requirements to receive license or certification; validity of license or certificate during active service of holder; expedited licensing of spouse of member of armed services - Chapter 147, Section 62
(a) The commissioner shall coordinate and adopt a uniform policy within the department to, upon presentation of satisfactory evidence by an applicant for certification or...
Last modified: September 11, 2015