General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 21A Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
- Massachusetts General Laws - Creation; secretary; acting secretary; undersecretary - Chapter 21A, Section 1
There shall be an executive office of energy and environmental affairs, hereinafter called the office, which shall be under the supervision of a secretary of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Duties and functions; inter-agency information, services and plans; filing applications - Chapter 21A, Section 2
The office and its appropriate departments and divisions shall carry out the state environmental policy and in so doing they shall: (1) develop policies, plans,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Compromise or settlement of claims for damages for injury and for destruction or loss of natural resources; authority of secretary - Chapter 21A, Section 2A
The secretary shall be the state natural resource trustee and may compromise or settle any claim for damages for injury and for destruction or loss...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Functions of secretary; report - Chapter 21A, Section 3
The secretary shall conduct comprehensive planning with respect to the functions of the office and shall coordinate the activities and programs of the departments and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and duties of secretary - Chapter 21A, Section 4
In order to enable him to coordinate and improve the operations of all departments, divisions and other administrative units within the office, the secretary shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Coastal zone management office - Chapter 21A, Section 4A
There is hereby established within the executive office of environmental affairs a coastal zone management office which shall be administered by a director who shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2010, 56, Sec. 11 - Chapter 21A, Section 4B
Repealed, 2010, 56, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Ocean management plan; ocean advisory commission; ocean science advisory council; duties of secretary - Chapter 21A, Section 4C
(a) The ocean waters and ocean-based development of the commonwealth, within the ocean management planning area described in this section, shall be under the oversight,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Program review boards; appointment; reports; expenses - Chapter 21A, Section 5
The secretary shall have the power to appoint one or more program review boards consisting of individuals who have demonstrated interest and competence in matters...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Experts and assistants; appointment; qualifications; classified employees; tenure - Chapter 21A, Section 6
Subject to appropriation, the secretary, with the approval of the governor, may appoint such experts and other assistants as he shall deem necessary to perform...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Departments; commissioners, appointment, removal, qualifications, functions, salary - Chapter 21A, Section 7
In the executive office shall be an office of the secretary, a department of environmental protection, a department of conservation and recreation, a department of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 99 - Chapter 21A, Section 7A
Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - State geologist - Chapter 21A, Section 7B
The chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in consultation with the secretary of the executive office of environmental affairs and department of geosciences shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Organization of departments; powers, duties and functions - Chapter 21A, Section 8
The department of environmental protection shall include the bureau of environmental sanitation and all the powers and duties assigned to said bureau which relate to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Water resources commission; members; terms - Chapter 21A, Section 8A
There shall be established within the executive office of environmental affairs the water resources commission hereinafter in this section and in sections eight B to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Chairman; duties of commission - Chapter 21A, Section 8B
The secretary shall be chairman of said commission. The responsibilities and duties of said commission shall include:— (a) development of a water resources management policy...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Water supply policy statement; update and report - Chapter 21A, Section 8C
The commission shall further be responsible for updating the Massachusetts water supply policy statement at intervals which shall not exceed five years. The commission shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations - Chapter 21A, Section 8D
The commission may establish rules and regulations as may be necessary for the proper administration of sections eight A to eight F, inclusive, and shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Director; staff - Chapter 21A, Section 8E
The commission shall be staffed by a director appointed by the secretary, who shall not be subject to the provisions of chapter thirty-one nor the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Meetings; expenses; per diem - Chapter 21A, Section 8F
The commission shall meet at least once a month, on the second Monday, and may meet more often as the members may determine. The members...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Grants and gifts; expenditure; records - Chapter 21A, Section 9
The office may accept any gifts or grants of money or property, whether real or personal, from any source, public or private, including, but not...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 112 - Chapter 21A, Section 10
Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Office of law enforcement; director; deputies; environmental police officers; rules and regulations - Chapter 21A, Section 10A
The office of law enforcement shall be in the executive office of environmental affairs and shall be under the administrative supervision of a director who...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement of penal laws - Chapter 21A, Section 10B
It shall be the duty of the office of law enforcement to enforce all penal laws which it is the duty of any agency within...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Authority of officers - Chapter 21A, Section 10C
The secretary, undersecretary, director, deputy directors of enforcement, chiefs of enforcement and all deputy chiefs of enforcement, law enforcement coordinators, and the wardens, as defined...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Uniforms; badges; fine for unlawful use - Chapter 21A, Section 10D
Each deputy director of enforcement, chief of enforcement, deputy chief of enforcement, warden, environmental police officer or deputy environmental police officer, when on duty and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Entry on private land; disposition of animals - Chapter 21A, Section 10E
The secretary, director, deputy directors of enforcement, chiefs of enforcement, deputy chiefs of enforcement, environmental police officers and deputy environmental police officers, may in the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations; hours and pay for boat based and land based personnel; assignments - Chapter 21A, Section 10F
Notwithstanding chapter 149 or of any other general or special law to the contrary, the director, with the approval of the secretary, shall make rules...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Requests for name and address; penalties for refusal to provide information; notices of violations; appearances and payment of fines; seizure and forfeitures - Chapter 21A, Section 10G
If the director, his assistant or any environmental police officer, deputy environmental police officer, members of the state police, local police, local town law enforcement...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Fines for categories of violations - Chapter 21A, Section 10H
A person notified to appear before the clerk of a district court as provided in section 10G for a violation of section 4A of chapter...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Boating safety advisory board - Chapter 21A, Section 11
There shall be within the office of law enforcement a boating safety advisory board. The board shall consist of 5 members to be appointed by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bicycle and pedestrian advisory board - Chapter 21A, Section 11A
There is hereby established within the office of planning and programming a bicycle and pedestrian advisory board. The board shall oversee the state’s bicycle and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Public access board; composition; meetings; designation of public access points; regulations; purchase of equipment - Chapter 21A, Section 11B
There shall be in the department of fisheries, wildlife and environmental law enforcement a board to be known as the public access board composed of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Prohibition on alteration or pollution of rivers and streams; scenic and recreational classifications; restraint of violations; unreasonable use restriction petitions; uncompensated taking hearings; damages - Chapter 21A, Section 11C
The commissioner, with the approval of the stewardship council, may from time to time, for the purpose of promoting the public safety, health and welfare,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations; adoption; review - Chapter 21A, Section 12
At least sixty days prior to the proposed promulgation by the secretary, the commissioner of the department of environmental protection or the commissioner of food...
- Massachusetts General Laws - State environmental code; adoption; preparation of sewage disposal systems; enforcement of code - Chapter 21A, Section 13
The commissioner of the department of environmental protection shall adopt, and from time to time amend, regulations to be known as the state environmental code....
- Massachusetts General Laws - System inspectors of on-site sewage disposal systems; penalty - Chapter 21A, Section 13A
A system inspector of on-site sewage disposal systems, approved by the department of environmental protection, who performs an on-site inspection sewage disposal system under the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Disposal of dredged materials - Chapter 21A, Section 14
The department of environmental protection is hereby authorized and directed to issue permits for the disposal of dredged materials within the marine boundaries of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1984, 372, Sec. 34 - Chapter 21A, Section 15
Repealed, 1984, 372, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Civil administrative penalties - Chapter 21A, Section 16
As used in this section the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— “Department”, the department of environmental protection....
- Massachusetts General Laws - Soil containing dangerous levels of lead; cover and disposal; regulations - Chapter 21A, Section 17
The department of environmental protection shall in consultation with the director of the childhood lead poisoning prevention program and the director of labor standards, promulgate...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Permit application and compliance assurance fees; timely action schedules; regulations - Chapter 21A, Section 18
As used in this section, the following words shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the following meanings:— “Advisory committee”, the advisory committee on fees...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Federal safe drinking water assessment; advisory committee - Chapter 21A, Section 18A
(a) As used in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context otherwise requires: “Advisory committee”, the advisory committee on...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions applicable to Secs. 19 to 19J - Chapter 21A, Section 19
As used in this section, and in sections nineteen A through nineteen J, inclusive, the words “final remedial response plan”, “hazardous material”, “imminent hazard”, “interim...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Board of registration of hazardous waste site cleanup professionals - Chapter 21A, Section 19A
There is hereby established within the executive office of environmental affairs the board of registration of hazardous waste site cleanup professionals. The board shall consist...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Regulations - Chapter 21A, Section 19B
(a) The board shall adopt, and may from time to time amend and repeal, regulations as it deems necessary for the implementation, administration, and enforcement...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Licensing - Chapter 21A, Section 19C
The board may license individuals to be hazardous waste site cleanup professionals. Each application for an initial license or license renewal shall be accompanied by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - License requirement; regulations - Chapter 21A, Section 19D
Effective on and after one year after publication in the Massachusetts Register of the first regulations promulgated pursuant to section nineteen B, no person shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Inspection of known or suspected sites; warrants - Chapter 21A, Section 19E
Personnel or authorized agents of the board or of the department may at all reasonable times enter any known or suspected site, vessel, or other...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Violations; orders issued by board; notice to department - Chapter 21A, Section 19F
Whenever it appears that there is a violation of any provision of sections nineteen through nineteen J, inclusive, or of any regulation, license, or order...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Civil administrative penalties - Chapter 21A, Section 19G
(1) The board may assess a civil administrative penalty on a person who fails to comply with any provision of any regulation, order, or license...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Adjudicatory hearings; judicial review - Chapter 21A, Section 19H
Any person aggrieved by a determination by the board and who has legal standing to do so, may request an adjudicatory hearing before the board...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Jurisdiction of superior court - Chapter 21A, Section 19I
The superior court department of the trial court shall have jurisdiction to enjoin violations of, or to grant such additional relief as it deems necessary...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Violations; penalties - Chapter 21A, Section 19J
Any person who violates section nineteen D, or who knowingly makes any materially false or inaccurate statement in any application, record, report, plan, design, or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Joint powers agreements; definitions; approval; administration - Chapter 21A, Section 20
(a) As used in this section, the following words shall, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, have the following meanings:— “Public agencies”, any city, town,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Competitive procurement of electric generation - Chapter 21A, Section 21
The secretary, in conjunction with the secretary of administration and finance, shall design and implement a bidding process for the competitive procurement of electric generation...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Carbon dioxide cap and trade program - Chapter 21A, Section 22
(a) As used in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: “Allowance”, an authorization to emit...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Off-highway vehicle advisory committee - Chapter 21A, Section 23
There is hereby established within the executive office of energy and environmental affairs a state off-highway vehicle advisory committee. The committee shall advise the secretary...
Last modified: September 11, 2015