General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 30 General Provisions Relative to State Departments, Commissions, Officers and Employees

• Massachusetts General Laws - “Departments” defined - Chapter 30, Section 1
  The word “departments” as used in this chapter, shall, unless the context otherwise requires, mean all the departments of the commonwealth, except the department of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Executive and administrative offices, etc.; placement under control of some state department - Chapter 30, Section 2
  All executive and administrative offices, boards, commissions and other governmental organizations and agencies, except those serving directly under the governor or the governor and council,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment of divisions; approval of governor and council - Chapter 30, Section 3
  In all cases where the executive and administrative head of a department is vested with authority to establish therein divisions not specifically provided for by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Organization of departments; report to state secretary - Chapter 30, Section 4
  A state department, board or commission shall, upon organizing, report its organization to the state secretary.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Conflicting orders or regulations; appeal to governor and council - Chapter 30, Section 5
  In all cases where a question arises between executive or administrative departments, or officers or boards thereof, as to their respective jurisdictions or powers, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Absence or disability of department heads - Chapter 30, Section 6
  If, during the absence or disability of a commissioner or head of an executive or administrative department or of a director or head of a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Absence or disability of members, of permanent state boards, etc. - Chapter 30, Section 6A
  If any member of a permanent state board or commission or of a board or commission appointed under an interstate compact who serves as such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Confidential secretaries; appointment and removal - Chapter 30, Section 7
  Each officer, board and commission having supervision and control of an executive or administrative department, including the commissioner of administration, the first deputy commissioner of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1978, 349, Sec. 1 - Chapter 30, Section 7A
  Repealed, 1978, 349, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Change of name - Chapter 30, Section 7B
  Upon the change of name of any person holding an executive, administrative or legislative office in the state government, he shall register his new name...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Public officers appointed by governor; tenure - Chapter 30, Section 8
  A public officer appointed for any term by the governor, with or without the advice and consent of the council, shall hold his office during...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Public officers appointed by governor; removal - Chapter 30, Section 9
  Unless some other mode of removal is provided by law, a public officer, if appointed by the governor, may at any time be removed by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Veterans holding unclassified positions; separation from state service - Chapter 30, Section 9A
  A veteran, as defined in section one of chapter thirty-one, who holds an office or position in the service of the commonwealth not classified under...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certain permanent public employees; arbitrary removal; protection; disciplinary proceedings for abuse of disabled person - Chapter 30, Section 9B
  No person permanently employed in any institution under the department of mental health, developmental services, public health, public welfare, correction or youth services, or in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Mental health, developmental services and public health department employees; damages caused by patients - Chapter 30, Section 9C
  Any employee at the institutions under the control of the departments of mental health, developmental services and public health whose uniform or other clothing, eyeglasses,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Teachers of certain state institutions; removal; lowering in rank - Chapter 30, Section 9D
  No person permanently employed as a teacher in any institution under the department of mental health, developmental services, public health, public welfare, correction, or youth...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Chaplains; exemption - Chapter 30, Section 9E
  No person employed as a chaplain by the commonwealth shall be classified under chapter thirty-one or be subject to the provisions of sections nine A,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - State employees elected to public office; leave of absence - Chapter 30, Section 9F
  Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, any person permanently employed by the commonwealth, subject to the provisions of section nine B, who...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Public employees participating in world athletic competition; leaves of absence - Chapter 30, Section 9G
  Any employee of the commonwealth who qualifies as a member of a team representing the United States in any World athletic or Olympic competition shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Public employees who are veterans; participation in Veterans or Memorial Day exercise; time off granted; exceptions - Chapter 30, Section 9H
  Any employee of the commonwealth, who is a veteran as defined in clause Forty-third of section seven of chapter four or is a member of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Employees of commonwealth; leave of absence with pay for serving as Red Cross disaster service volunteers; annual report - Chapter 30, Section 9I
  (a) Any employee of the commonwealth may be granted a leave of absence with pay for the purpose of serving as an American Red Cross...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Transfer of employee functions to another department or agency; employees transferred; wages, seniority and other rights - Chapter 30, Section 9J
  In the event that the functions performed by employees in one department or agency are transferred to another department or agency, the employees performing such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Officers requiring gubernatorial appointments; filling vacancies - Chapter 30, Section 10
  Any vacancy in any office, the original appointment to which is required by law to be made by the governor, with or without the advice...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Oaths of office - Chapter 30, Section 11
  A person chosen or appointed to an office may, unless otherwise provided by law, take and subscribe the oaths required to qualify him before the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Oaths of office; failure to take and subscribe - Chapter 30, Section 12
  A person appointed to an office by the governor with or without the advice and consent of the council shall be notified of his appointment...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fees for certain commissions, etc. - Chapter 30, Section 13
  Before the delivery of a commission to a person appointed commissioner under section three or four of chapter two hundred and twenty-two, master in chancery...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Approval of bond; withholding commission - Chapter 30, Section 14
  If a bond is required of any person appointed to office by the governor with or without the advice and consent of the council, the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Bonds; determining amount - Chapter 30, Section 15
  When state officials or employees are required to give bond in which the amount is not fixed by law, the comptroller shall fix the amount...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Schedule bonds - Chapter 30, Section 16
  State officers and heads of state departments may arrange for such schedule bonds as they deem advisable, which shall take the place of bonds required...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Bond premiums; reimbursement - Chapter 30, Section 17
  If an official having custody of property of the commonwealth, or charged with the duty of receiving or disbursing money, is required to give bond...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Examination of bonds - Chapter 30, Section 18
  Every public official having custody of any bond for the faithful performance of the duties of any office, occupation, agency or trust, requiring the approval...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Failure to file sufficient bonds; removal of principal - Chapter 30, Section 19
  If a new bond is not filed, as required by the preceding section, the governor with the advice and consent of the council, shall remove...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Bonds deposited with county treasurers; examination - Chapter 30, Section 20
  Bonds of public officers, except officers in Suffolk county, required to be deposited with county treasurers shall, at least once a year, be examined by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Multiple salaries from treasury - Chapter 30, Section 21
  A person shall not at the same time receive more than one salary from the treasury of the commonwealth.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Plurality of offices; penalties - Chapter 30, Section 22
  Whoever wilfully violates the preceding section or wilfully accepts or holds office in violation of article two of chapter six of the second part of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1978, 210, Sec. 2 - Chapter 30, Section 22A
  Repealed, 1978, 210, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Full time devotion to duties; certain state officers - Chapter 30, Section 23
  Any person in any executive or administrative department who is appointed to office by the governor, with the advice and consent of the council, and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certain trustees of state institutions; plurality of positions - Chapter 30, Section 23A
  Any trustee of a state institution who is appointed to such office by the governor, with the advice and consent of the council, shall, during...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Office hours - Chapter 30, Section 24
  All offices under the jurisdiction of any department of the state government shall be open to the public for the transaction of business daily on...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Working on legal holidays; compensation; exceptions - Chapter 30, Section 24A
  If any person employed by the commonwealth is required to work on any legal holiday, as listed in the first sentence of clause Eighteenth of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Assignments of employee from lower to higher grade - Chapter 30, Section 24B
  Whenever an employee in a lower grade is assigned the duties of a position in a higher grade for a period of thirty days or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Overtime pay; prior written approval - Chapter 30, Section 24C
  No compensation shall be paid to any employee of the commonwealth for overtime services except upon the prior written approval of such overtime by the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Expenses of state officers, etc. - Chapter 30, Section 25
  State officers, and members of departments receiving a salary or its equivalent, who are provided with offices by the commonwealth and whose duties require regular...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Death away from home; return of body; expenses - Chapter 30, Section 25A
  If any state officer or member of a department who is allowed actual and reasonable expenses incurred while traveling in the performance of duty, under...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Out-of-state travel expenses; restrictions - Chapter 30, Section 25B
  No officer or employee of the commonwealth may travel out of state at public expense except in accordance with rules and regulations established by the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1948, 255 - Chapter 30, Section 26
  Repealed, 1948,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Money received for commonwealth; daily remittance; exceptions - Chapter 30, Section 27
  Except as otherwise expressly provided, all fees or other money received on account of the commonwealth shall be paid daily into the treasury thereof, but...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Books and accounts; fiscal year - Chapter 30, Section 28
  All books and accounts of all offices, departments, boards, commissions and institutions of the commonwealth shall be kept by the fiscal year established for them,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - State institutions; keeping books and accounts - Chapter 30, Section 29
  Every treasurer and disbursing officer of a state institution shall maintain an office at his institution where all books, accounts and vouchers of such institution...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Official letters; size of paper - Chapter 30, Section 30
  Official letters of departments, institutions or officials of the commonwealth shall be written or printed, so far as practicable, on paper eight and one half...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Official letterheads; uniform style - Chapter 30, Section 30A
  The state secretary, the commissioner of administration and the state purchasing agent shall, after consultation with state officers, heads of departments and superintendents of institutions,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Printing, binding and procuring stationery for commonwealth offices and departments - Chapter 30, Section 31
  The printing, binding and procuring of stationery for the use of the several offices and departments of the commonwealth shall be under the direction of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Annual reports - Chapter 30, Section 32
  On or before the first Wednesday in December following the termination of each fiscal year, every state officer, department, board and commission or head thereof...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1945, 292, Sec. 5 - Chapter 30, Section 32A
  Repealed, 1945, 292, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Annual reports; recommendations for legislation - Chapter 30, Section 33
  Any state officer or department or head thereof making an annual report may include therein, in even-numbered years, recommendations for legislative action which recommendations shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Annual reports; recommendations to avoid special legislation - Chapter 30, Section 33A
  If, in the opinion of a state officer or department required to submit annual reports, the necessity of enacting special bills in relation to any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reports of special commissions; drafts of legislation - Chapter 30, Section 34
  All reports of special commissions recommending legislation shall be accompanied by drafts of bills embodying the legislation recommended.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Special reports to state purchasing agent; appeals - Chapter 30, Section 35
  State officers, departments or heads thereof may make such special reports as the state purchasing agent deems to be of practical utility. Appeal may be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reports; projects requiring assessments upon municipalities; notice - Chapter 30, Section 35A
  Reports of state officers, departments or heads thereof, and special commissions, recommending the expenditure of money to an amount in the aggregate exceeding five hundred...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Motor vehicles owned by commonwealth; use and marking; regulations and restrictions, enforcement; transfer - Chapter 30, Section 36
  The commissioner of administration shall establish and enforce regulations governing the use and marking of motor vehicles owned by the commonwealth. Every office, department, board,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Purchase, replacement or repair of motor vehicles; authorization; funds - Chapter 30, Section 36A
  Motor vehicles to be purchased from sums appropriated by the general court shall be authorized by the purchasing agent in accordance with schedules filed by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations; compliance with statutory filing requirements - Chapter 30, Section 37
  Every department, board, commission, division, authority or official of state government, or subdivision thereof, authorized by law to make regulations, shall comply with the filing...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1954, 681, Sec. 2 - Chapter 30, Section 37A
  Repealed, 1954, 681, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reports on public employees; central personnel register - Chapter 30, Section 38
  Every state officer, department or head thereof shall, whenever required by the personnel administrator, furnish him with such information as he prescribes concerning all officials...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Price adjustment clause in contracts for road, bridge, water and sewer projects awarded under Sec. 39M - Chapter 30, Section 38A
  [ Text of section added by 2013, 150, Sec. 1 effective November 25, 2013 applicable as provided by 2013, 150, Sec. 2.]Contracts for road and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1957, 682, Sec. 2 - Chapter 30, Section 39
  Repealed, 1957, 682, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Construction contracts for public ways, airports or public works; truck rentals; security for payment - Chapter 30, Section 39A
  Officers or agents executing a contract in behalf of the commonwealth or any agency thereof, or in behalf of any political subdivision thereof, for the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Construction contracts for public ways, airports or public works; dump trucks; schedule of rates; disputes - Chapter 30, Section 39B
  Every contract entered into by the commonwealth or any agency thereof, or in behalf of any political subdivision thereof, for the construction, repair, alteration or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Actions under Sec. 39A; forbidden defenses - Chapter 30, Section 39C
  In any action or claim instituted under section thirty-nine A, it shall be no defense that any common carrier or contract carrier, who has furnished...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Additional security - Chapter 30, Section 39D
  Nothing contained in section thirty-nine A shall be construed as limiting the authority of an officer or agent of the commonwealth, or in behalf of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inducing rebates or refunds of transportation charges; penalties - Chapter 30, Section 39E
  Whoever, by force or the use of threats, intimidation or coercion of any kind, induces any common carrier or contract carrier or the person who...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Construction contracts; assignment and subrogation; subcontractor defined; enforcement of claim for direct payment; deposit, reduction of disputed amounts - Chapter 30, Section 39F
  [Text of section applicable as provided by 2009, 30, Secs. 15 and 46.] (1) Every contract awarded pursuant to sections forty-four A to L, inclusive,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Completion of public works; semi-final and final estimates; payments; extra work; disputed items - Chapter 30, Section 39G
  [ Text of section applicable as provided by 2009, 30, Secs. 15, and 46.] Upon substantial completion of the work required by a contract with...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Indemnification of contractors - Chapter 30, Section 39H
  [Text of section applicable as provided by 2009, 30, Secs. 15 and 46.] Every contract entered into by or on behalf of the commonwealth for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Deviations from plans and specifications - Chapter 30, Section 39I
  Every contractor having a contract for the construction, alteration, maintenance, repair or demolition of, or addition to, any public building or public works for the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Public construction contracts; effect of decisions of contracting body or administrative board - Chapter 30, Section 39J
  [Text of section applicable as provided by 2009, 30, Secs. 15 and 46.] Notwithstanding any contrary provision of any contract for the construction, reconstruction, alteration,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Public building construction contracts; payments - Chapter 30, Section 39K
  [Text of section applicable as provided by 2009, 30, Secs. 15 and 46.] Every contract for the construction, reconstruction, alteration, remodeling, repair or demolition of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Public construction work by foreign corporations; restrictions and reports - Chapter 30, Section 39L
  The commonwealth and every county, city, town, district, board, commission or other public body which, as the awarding authority, requests proposals, bids or sub-bids for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Contracts for construction and materials; manner of awarding - Chapter 30, Section 39M
  [Text of section applicable as provided by 2009, 30, Secs. 14, 15 and 46.] (a) Every contract for the construction, reconstruction, alteration, remodeling or repair...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Project oversight; owner’s representative; qualifications; procurement; powers and duties - Chapter 30, Section 39M1/2
  (a) The following words shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly requires otherwise: “Certified estimate of cost”, a good-faith estimate based on the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Construction contracts; equitable adjustment in contract price for differing subsurface or latent physical conditions - Chapter 30, Section 39N
  [Text of section applicable as provided by 2009, 30, Secs. 15 and 46.] Every contract subject to section forty-four A of chapter one hundred and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Contracts for construction and materials; suspension, delay or interruption due to order of awarding authority; adjustment in contract price; written claim - Chapter 30, Section 39O
  [Text of section applicable as provided by 2009, 30, Secs. 15 and 46.] Every contract subject to the provisions of section thirty-nine M of this...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Contracts for construction and materials; awarding authority’s decisions on interpretation of specifications, etc.; time limit; notice - Chapter 30, Section 39P
  [Text of section applicable as provided by 2009, 30, Secs. 15 and 46.] Every contract subject to section thirty-nine M of this chapter or section...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Contracts for capital facility construction; contents; annual claims report - Chapter 30, Section 39Q
  (1) Every contract awarded by any state agency as defined by section thirty-nine A of chapter seven for the construction, reconstruction, alteration, remodeling, repair or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions; contract provisions; management and financial statements; enforcement - Chapter 30, Section 39R
  [Text of section applicable as provided by 2009, 30, Secs. 15 and 46.] (a) The words defined herein shall have the meaning stated below whenever...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Contracts for construction; requirements - Chapter 30, Section 39S
  (a) As used in this section the word “person” shall mean any natural person, joint venture, partnership corporation or other business or legal entity. Any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Discharge or release of bonds - Chapter 30, Section 40
  Bonds given to the commonwealth, any county, city, town or political subdivision to secure the performance of contracts for the construction or repair of public...
• Massachusetts General Laws - State institutions; sales of property; itemized accounts - Chapter 30, Section 41
  If sales of property of the commonwealth are made by any officer of a state institution, the superintendent thereof shall submit to the trustees or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Records conservation board; composition; powers and duties; sale or destruction of records; records defined; inquiries from departments or agencies - Chapter 30, Section 42
  The state librarian, the attorney general, the state comptroller, the commissioner of administration, the supervisor of public records and the chief of the archives division...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fees for copying records; keeping by employees; penalties - Chapter 30, Section 43
  No person employed in any state department shall receive for his own use any fee for copying public records or documents, or for other services...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Employees as agents for others; sale of lands - Chapter 30, Section 44
  No officer or employee of the commonwealth shall act as agent or attorney of any person in a sale or conveyance of land to the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Land owned by commonwealth; sale to counties, etc.; highway purposes - Chapter 30, Section 44A
  A commissioner or head of a state department having control of any land of the commonwealth may, in the name of the commonwealth and subject...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Petroleum pipe line; laying on state lands - Chapter 30, Section 44B
  A commissioner or head of a state department having control of any land, water, park, reservation, boulevard, parkway or highway of the commonwealth or of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Office and position classification plan; pay plan - Chapter 30, Section 45
  The personnel administrator shall establish, administer and keep current and complete an office and position classification plan and a pay plan of the commonwealth. (1)...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Administration of classification and pay plans - Chapter 30, Section 46
  (1) The following shall be the salary schedule for the pay plan of the commonwealth:— The above schedule shall not apply to salaries payable to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1956, 729, Sec. 14 - Chapter 30, Section 46A
  Repealed, 1956, 729, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1966, 210, Sec. 3 - Chapter 30, Section 46B
  Repealed, 1966, 210, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Management pay plan - Chapter 30, Section 46C
  (1) The following shall be the salary schedule for the management pay plan of the commonwealth: Except as otherwise provided by law all management positions...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appointments to positions; promotions from positions classified under civil service provisions - Chapter 30, Section 46D
  Whenever it is deemed practicable in the judgment of the appointing authority and with concurrence with the secretary, where applicable, appointments to positions allocated to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Civil service classifications; positions reimbursed by federal government - Chapter 30, Section 46E
  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, after June twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eighty-one, no position allocated to job group M-V through job group...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Tenure - Chapter 30, Section 46F
  Notwithstanding the provisions of sections nine A, nine B, and nine D of this chapter or any other provision of law, after June twenty-seventh, nineteen...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Overtime compensation - Chapter 30, Section 46G
  Notwithstanding the provisions of section thirty B of chapter one hundred and forty-nine, no person who is the incumbent of a position allocated to job...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Vacation, sick-leave, personal leave and benefits - Chapter 30, Section 46H
  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, incumbents of positions allocated to the management salary schedule, shall be eligible for vacation, sick-leave, personal leave...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Additional duties of personnel administrator - Chapter 30, Section 46I
  In addition to his other responsibilities and duties, the personnel administrator shall have the following duties and responsibilities: developing and maintaining information concerning occupational injuries...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1974, 835, Sec. 44 - Chapter 30, Section 47
  Repealed, 1974, 835, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Incumbents of positions classified; duties - Chapter 30, Section 48
  Incumbents of offices or positions classified under sections forty-five to fifty, inclusive, shall perform, so far as practicable, the duties prescribed for the respective classes,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appeal from classification - Chapter 30, Section 49
  Any manager or employee of the commonwealth objecting to any provision of the classification affecting his office or position may appeal in writing to the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Limit of application of Secs. 45 to 49 - Chapter 30, Section 50
  For the purposes of the classification authorized by section forty-five the words laborers, workmen and mechanics shall have the same meaning as in sections thirty...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Purchasing of goods, supplies, equipment and services for state departments - Chapter 30, Section 51
  All goods, supplies, equipment and services, except for legislative or military purposes, needed by the various executive and administrative departments and for other activities of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Approval of purchases - Chapter 30, Section 52
  No goods, supplies, equipment or services, other than for legislative or military purposes, shall be purchased or contracted for by any state department, office or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Grievances of employees; disposition; appeals - Chapter 30, Section 53
  The personnel administrator shall make and from time to time may amend, subject to the approval of the commissioner of administration, rules and regulations providing...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1974, 835, Sec. 47 - Chapter 30, Section 54 to 56
  Repealed, 1974, 835, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Finality of decision; grievances requiring payment of money; disposition - Chapter 30, Section 57
  The decision of the civil service commission shall be final and binding on all agents and agencies of the commonwealth; provided, however, that any such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Injuries sustained in service of state; compensation - Chapter 30, Section 58
  Any employee of the commonwealth eligible to receive workers’ compensation under chapter one hundred and fifty-two who sustains injuries while in the employ of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Persons under indictment for misconduct in office; suspension; temporary appointees - Chapter 30, Section 59
  An officer or employee of the commonwealth, or of any department, board, commission or agency thereof, or of any authority created by the general court,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Co-operative education programs; employment of students - Chapter 30, Section 60
  The personnel administrator shall cooperate with public and private colleges, universities and other institutions of higher education, which grant degrees and which provide facilities for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Determination of impact by agencies; damages to environment; prevention or minimization; foreseeable climate change impacts; definition applicable to this section and Sec. 62 - Chapter 30, Section 61
  All agencies, departments, boards, commissions and authorities of the commonwealth shall review, evaluate, and determine the impact on the natural environment of all works, projects...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 30, Section 62
  For the purposes of sections sixty-one to sixty-two H, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context otherwise requires:— “Agency”, an...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of intent to apply; forms; certification of need for environmental impact report; application of section - Chapter 30, Section 62A
  A person applying or intending to apply to an agency for a permit or for financial assistance for a project may, at any time prior...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Environmental impact reports; preparation and submission; funding - Chapter 30, Section 62B
  In the case of projects directly undertaken by an agency, the environmental impact report shall be prepared and submitted by the responsible agency. If two...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of availability of environmental impact statement; public and agency review - Chapter 30, Section 62C
  Any environmental impact report shall be submitted to the secretary of environmental affairs who shall issue public notice of the availability of such report. A...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Permit applications; time for agency determination - Chapter 30, Section 62D
  Agencies shall act on permit applications within ninety days following issue of notice of availability of the final environmental impact report, within ninety days following...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Categories of projects and permits not requiring environmental impact reports; establishment - Chapter 30, Section 62E
  With the approval of the secretary of the executive office having jurisdiction over an agency, or if an agency is not within an executive office,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Emergencies; commencement of projects; land acquisition - Chapter 30, Section 62F
  A project may commence prior to compliance with sections sixty-two to sixty-two H, inclusive, if emergency action by a person or agency is essential to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Federal environmental impact statements in lieu of reports - Chapter 30, Section 62G
  In the case of projects for which an environmental impact statement is required under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, draft and final federal...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Action or proceeding alleging improper determination of need for environmental impact report or noncompliance with law; notice; commencement; matters raised - Chapter 30, Section 62H
  An agency or person intending to commence an action or proceeding alleging an improper determination of whether a project requires the preparation of an environmental...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Environmental notification forms filed on or after November 15, 2007; requirements - Chapter 30, Section 62I
  A person who is proposing a new use or structure or modification of an existing use or structure within landlocked tidelands as defined in section...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notice to state secretary; specifications; report - Chapter 30, Section 63
  Every holder, as that term is defined in section one of chapter sixty-six A, shall, on or before September first, nineteen hundred and seventy-six, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Conversion of hospitals; approval of general court - Chapter 30, Section 64
  No mental health hospital or public health hospital shall be converted to use by the department of correction without the express approval of the general
• Massachusetts General Laws - Legal services for commonwealth provided under contract - Chapter 30, Section 65
  (a) A lawyer who is not a regular state employee or person who is compensated through the automated payroll system of the commonwealth shall not...

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