General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 23A Department of Economic Development
- Massachusetts General Laws - Massachusetts office of business development; director; grants; financial reports - Chapter 23A, Section 1
(a) Within the executive department, but not within the governor’s cabinet, there shall be a Massachusetts office of business development, in this chapter referred to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Purposes - Chapter 23A, Section 2
MOBD shall serve as the principal agency of the government of the commonwealth for the following purposes: (a) Promoting, developing and expanding all sectors of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Divisions; directors - Chapter 23A, Section 3
(a) MOBD shall contain the following 4 divisions: business services, entrepreneurial and small business development, wireless and broadband development and manufacturing development. Each division shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions applicable to Secs. 3A to 3H - Chapter 23A, Section 3A
As used in sections three A to three H, inclusive, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings: “Affiliate”,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Economic assistance coordinating council - Chapter 23A, Section 3B
There shall be an economic assistance coordinating council, established within the Massachusetts office of business development. Said council shall consist of: the director of business...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Economic assistance coordinating council; powers and duties - Chapter 23A, Section 3C
(1) The EACC shall administer the economic development incentive program and, in so doing, shall be empowered to exercise the following powers and duties: (a)...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Economic target areas - Chapter 23A, Section 3D
The EACC may from time to time designate one or more areas of the commonwealth as ETAs, and take any and all actions necessary or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Economic opportunity areas - Chapter 23A, Section 3E
The EACC may from time to time designate one or more areas of an ETA as an EOA, and take any and all actions necessary...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certified projects; proposals - Chapter 23A, Section 3F
(1) The EACC may from time to time designate one or more projects as certified expansion, enhanced expansion or manufacturing retention and job growth projects,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Foreign trade zone - Chapter 23A, Section 3G
Any municipality which contains an economic opportunity area is hereby authorized to make application to the foreign trade zone board established by an act of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Director of Massachusetts permit regulatory office; one-stop licensing for businesses and development - Chapter 23A, Section 3H
The governor shall appoint the director of the Massachusetts permit regulatory office within the executive office of economic development. The director shall have experience with...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rail-trail construction; matching grants to municipalities; environmental insurance - Chapter 23A, Section 3I
(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, the Massachusetts office of business development shall upon receipt of qualifying applications, expend not less than $500,000...
- Massachusetts General Laws - MOBD partnerships with regional economic development organizations - Chapter 23A, Section 3J
(a) The Massachusetts office of business development shall partner with regional economic development organizations to establish a plan for business development which supports regionally-based efforts...
- Massachusetts General Laws - MOBD awarding of contracts for regional business development services; eligible organizations; requirements - Chapter 23A, Section 3K
(a)(1) The Massachusetts office of business development shall award up to 12 contracts for regional business development services. Each contract shall specify the municipalities which...
- Massachusetts General Laws - MOBD assistance to businesses interested in establishing relationships with regional economic development organizations - Chapter 23A, Section 3L
(a) The Massachusetts office of business development shall provide initial assistance to a business which contacts the office requesting service. The Massachusetts office of business...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Office; employees - Chapter 23A, Section 4
The Massachusetts office of business development shall have an office in western Massachusetts under the direct supervision of the director. Subject to appropriation, the director...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1987, 525, Sec. 7 - Chapter 23A, Section 4A
Repealed, 1987, 525, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Planning and research capability of MOBD; description of organization - Chapter 23A, Section 5
The director of economic development shall establish in MOBD a planning and research capability. Said director shall prepare and keep current a general statement of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1968, 761, Sec. 5 - Chapter 23A, Section 5A
Repealed, 1968, 761, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Advisory committees and council - Chapter 23A, Section 6
To assist MOBD in the discharge of its duties, the director may appoint, without regard to chapter 31, advisory committees on regional planning and commercial...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Annual reports - Chapter 23A, Section 7
The director of economic development shall prepare and submit to the governor and the general court an annual report which shall contain the description of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Acceptance of gifts and grants - Chapter 23A, Section 8
MOBD may accept gifts or grants of money or property from any source, which shall be held in trust for the use of MOBD by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Employees; appointments and removals; consultants - Chapter 23A, Section 9
The director of economic development may, subject to appropriation, appoint and remove all employees of the MOBD including directors, as may be necessary to carry...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1968, 761, Sec. 7 - Chapter 23A, Section 10
Repealed, 1968, 761, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Buy Massachusetts Program - Chapter 23A, Section 10A
The MOBD shall establish a Buy Massachusetts Program. In implementing said program the MOBD shall analyze and compile a list of products or goods that...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Massachusetts advanced manufacturing collaborative - Chapter 23A, Section 10B
The secretary of housing and economic development shall establish a Massachusetts advanced manufacturing collaborative, hereinafter referred to as the collaborative, within the executive office of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1978, 496, Sec. 1 - Chapter 23A, Section 11 12
Repealed, 1978, 496, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Employees; assistance from other state agencies - Chapter 23A, Section 13
MOBD may employ such personnel as may be necessary to carry out its duties under the provisions of chapter forty D. All departments, divisions, boards,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Massachusetts marketing partnership; definitions applicable to Secs. 13A to 13Q; members - Chapter 23A, Section 13A
For the purposes of sections 13A to 13Q, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly requires otherwise,: “Foreign offices”,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Marketing partnership; offices within the partnership - Chapter 23A, Section 13B
There shall be within the partnership the following offices: the office of travel and tourism, the Massachusetts international trade office and the commonwealth marketing office.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Marketing partnership; powers and duties - Chapter 23A, Section 13C
The partnership shall have the power to: (1) adopt and amend by-laws, regulations and procedures for the governance of its affairs and the conduct of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Marketing partnership; operation as state agency; representation by attorney general in suits and other civil proceedings; staff support - Chapter 23A, Section 13D
(a) The partnership and the agencies within the partnership shall, for the purposes of compliance with state finance law, operate as a state agency, as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Office of travel and tourism; executive director; appointment; powers and duties - Chapter 23A, Section 13E
There shall be within the partnership an office of travel and tourism which shall be under the supervision and control of an executive director. The...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Office of travel and tourism; function - Chapter 23A, Section 13F
The office of travel and tourism shall serve as the principal agency for promoting the recreational, cultural, historic and scenic resources of the commonwealth to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Office of travel and tourism; employees; appointment and removal - Chapter 23A, Section 13G
The executive director of travel and tourism may, subject to appropriation and with the approval of the partnership, appoint and may, with like approval, remove...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Office of travel and tourism; advisory commission - Chapter 23A, Section 13H
There shall be an advisory commission on travel and tourism to the partnership to develop budget recommendations and marketing strategies for the promotion of travel...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Office of travel and tourism; gifts and grants; acceptance - Chapter 23A, Section 13I
The office of travel and tourism may accept gifts or grants of money or property from any source, which shall be held in trust for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Offices within office of travel and tourism: Massachusetts film office; Massachusetts sports partnership - Chapter 23A, Section 13J
The following offices shall be within the office of travel and tourism: the Massachusetts film office, which shall be the official and lead agency to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Massachusetts international trade office; executive director - Chapter 23A, Section 13K
(a) There shall be within the partnership a Massachusetts international trade office, which shall be under the supervision and control of an executive director. The...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Foreign offices for international trade; establishment; location; functions; list of import or export businesses; publicity; technical assistance; foreign trade information, publication - Chapter 23A, Section 13L
(a) There shall be within the international trade office 1 or more foreign offices for international trade. The foreign offices may be located in any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Foreign offices for international trade; directors; appointment; qualifications - Chapter 23A, Section 13M
There shall be a director of each foreign office appointed by the executive director of the international trade office, who shall be a person with...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Foreign offices for international trade; leasing of office space and equipment - Chapter 23A, Section 13N
The executive director of the international trade office may, subject to appropriation, enter into leases for office space as may be necessary and to purchase...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Foreign offices for international trade; acceptance of funds - Chapter 23A, Section 13O
The executive director of the international trade office may accept funds in the name of the international trade office and the foreign offices from private...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Foreign offices for international trade; financial report - Chapter 23A, Section 13P
The executive director of the international trade office and the director of any foreign office shall annually file a financial report with the clerks of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - International trade office; provision of technical assistance - Chapter 23A, Section 13Q
The international trade office shall contract with the Massachusetts export center to provide technical assistance to companies operating in the commonwealth that export products to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - International trade office; advisory council - Chapter 23A, Section 13R
The executive director of the international trade office may establish an advisory council to assist and advise the director on matters related to the administration...
- Massachusetts General Laws - International trade office; commission for evaluation of impact of state laws and regulations - Chapter 23A, Section 13S
There shall be a commission, within the international trade office, which shall evaluate the continuing impacts on state laws and regulations of international trade policy...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Financial assistance program for tourist promotion agencies - Chapter 23A, Section 14
The office of travel and tourism is hereby directed, subject to appropriation, to establish a program for financial assistance to those public or nonprofit agencies...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2010, 240, Sec. 38 - Chapter 23A, Section 15 to 28
Repealed, 2010, 240, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Corporations; foreign trade zones - Chapter 23A, Section 28A
Any public, private or nonprofit corporation, existing under the laws of the commonwealth, may, subject to the approval of the city council in a city,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1998, 289, Sec. 25 - Chapter 23A, Section 29 to 38C
Repealed, 1998, 289, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2010, 56, Sec. 4 - Chapter 23A, Section 39 to 44
Repealed, 2010, 56, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 565 - Chapter 23A, Section 45
Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2010, 240, Sec. 39 - Chapter 23A, Section 46 to 55
Repealed, 2010, 240, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Economic coordination of quasi-public entities and public purpose agencies by secretary of housing and economic development - Chapter 23A, Section 56
(a) The secretary of housing and economic development shall coordinate the quasi-public entities and public purpose agencies of the commonwealth as to their economic development...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions applicable to Secs. 57 and 58; small business capital access program - Chapter 23A, Section 57
(a) For the purposes of this section and section fifty-eight the following terms shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meaning: “Agency”,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Massachusetts business development corporation; administration of small business capital access program - Chapter 23A, Section 58
The agency is hereby authorized to do the following: (a) to enter into a contract with the Massachusetts business development corporation, hereinafter referred to as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Code of corporate standards relative to the People’s Republic of China; definitions - Chapter 23A, Section 59
(a) As used in this section, the following words shall, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, have the following meanings:— “Person”, any individual and any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Massachusetts office of business development; loans for environmental response actions necessary for redevelopment of properties for business purposes; redevelopment access to capital fund - Chapter 23A, Section 60
(a) For the purposes of this section and section 61 the following terms shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meaning: “Agency”,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Massachusetts business development corporation; purpose; powers - Chapter 23A, Section 61
The Massachusetts Office of Business Development or its successor, hereinafter referred to as MOBD, is hereby authorized to do the following: (a) Enter into a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Interagency permitting board; members; duties - Chapter 23A, Section 62
There shall be a 10 person interagency permitting board within the Massachusetts office of business development. The members of the board shall be comprised of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - MassWorks infrastructure program; public infrastructure grants issued to municipalities - Chapter 23A, Section 63
[ Subsection (a) effective until July 1, 2013. For text effective July 1, 2013, see below.](a) There shall be established within the executive office of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Massachusetts creative economy network - Chapter 23A, Section 64
(a) There shall be established within the executive office of housing and economic development a Massachusetts creative economy network, hereinafter referred to as the network,...
Last modified: September 11, 2015