General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 30A State Administrative Procedure
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 30A, Section 1
For the purposes of this chapter— (1) “Adjudicatory proceeding” means a proceeding before an agency in which the legal rights, duties or privileges of specifically...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Department of correction; application of chapter - Chapter 30A, Section 1A
The department of correction shall be subject to sections one through eight, inclusive, and shall not otherwise be subject to this chapter, notwithstanding the exclusion...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Department of youth services; application of chapter - Chapter 30A, Section 1B
The department of youth services shall be subject to sections one to eight, inclusive, and shall not otherwise be subject to this chapter, notwithstanding the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Parole board; application of chapter - Chapter 30A, Section 1C
The parole board shall be subject to sections one to eight, inclusive, and shall not otherwise be subject to this chapter, notwithstanding the exclusion of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Criminal record review board; application of chapter - Chapter 30A, Section 1D
The criminal record review board shall be subject to sections 1 to 8, inclusive, and shall not otherwise be subject to this chapter.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Regulations requiring hearings; adoptions, amendments or repeals; small business impact statement; emergency regulations - Chapter 30A, Section 2
A public hearing is required prior to the adoption, amendment, or repeal of any regulation if: (a) violation of the regulation is punishable by fine...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Regulations not requiring hearings; small business impact statement; adoptions, amendments or repeals - Chapter 30A, Section 3
Prior to the adoption, amendment, or repeal of any regulation for which a public hearing is not required under section two, the agency shall give...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Publication of required notices - Chapter 30A, Section 3A
Notices filed in accordance with sections two and three shall be published by the state secretary as required by section six no later than one...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Petitions for adoption, amendment or repeal of regulations - Chapter 30A, Section 4
Any interested person may petition an agency requesting the adoption, amendment or repeal of any regulation, and may accompany his petition with such data, views...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Regulations; filing; small business impact statement - Chapter 30A, Section 5
Two attested copies of the regulations of each agency shall be filed with the state secretary together with a citation of the law by authority...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Review of rules and regulations regarding economic impact on small businesses - Chapter 30A, Section 5A
Rules and regulations shall be reviewed at least once every 12 years after their publication as the final rules or regulations to ensure that those...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Massachusetts Register; publication of filed documents and regulations; legal effect; distribution of issues - Chapter 30A, Section 6
Documents required or authorized to be published by this section shall be printed and distributed by the state secretary in a serial publication entitled the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Code of Massachusetts Regulations; publication - Chapter 30A, Section 6A
Prior to publication of the first issue of the Massachusetts Register, the state secretary shall first cause to be published all currently effective agency regulations...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Agencies to purchase register issues; public access - Chapter 30A, Section 6B
Each agency shall purchase a copy or copies of the issues of the register which contain regulations or notices of that agency and make at...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Failure to comply with Sec. 6B; report - Chapter 30A, Section 6C
If the state secretary finds that any agency fails to comply with any provision of section six B, he shall report the matter to the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Expected regulations; publication of list - Chapter 30A, Section 6D
The state secretary shall publish, annually, in the first issue of the Massachusetts Register a plan submitted by each executive office containing a list of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Failure to comply with Sec. 6D; report - Chapter 30A, Section 6E
If the state secretary finds that any agency fails to comply with any provision of section six D, he shall report such noncompliance to the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Judicial review of regulations - Chapter 30A, Section 7
Unless an exclusive mode of review is provided by law, judicial review of any regulation or of the sufficiency of the reasons for its adoption...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1970, 712, Sec. 7 - Chapter 30A, Section 7A
Repealed, 1970, 712, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Advisory rulings by agencies - Chapter 30A, Section 8
On request of any interested person, an agency may make an advisory ruling with respect to the applicability to any person, property or state of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Standard rules; substitute rules; amendments to rules - Chapter 30A, Section 9
The commissioner of administration shall file with the state secretary prior to July first, nineteen hundred and seventy-eight, rules and regulations for the conduct of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Adjudicatory proceedings; appeals - Chapter 30A, Section 10
In conducting adjudicatory proceedings, as defined in this chapter, agencies shall afford all parties an opportunity for full and fair hearing. Unless otherwise provided by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Damage to environment; intervention in adjudicatory proceeding; procedure - Chapter 30A, Section 10A
Notwithstanding the provisions of section ten, not less than ten persons may intervene in any adjudicatory proceeding as defined in section one, in which damage...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Adjudicatory proceedings; additional requirements - Chapter 30A, Section 11
In addition to other requirements imposed by law and subject to the provisions of section ten, agencies shall conduct adjudicatory proceedings in compliance with the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2009, 28, Sec. 17 - Chapter 30A, Section 11A 11A1/2
Repealed, 2009, 28, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Studies of state boards, commissions and authorities; notice to city or town affected - Chapter 30A, Section 11B
All state boards and commissions and the governing boards or bodies of all such authorities which conduct a study affecting or relating to the use...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Hearings in municipalities - Chapter 30A, Section 11C
Any agency which is required by law to conduct hearings, shall, if the subject matter of such hearing solely concerns a single municipality, hold such...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Adjudicatory proceedings; subpoenas - Chapter 30A, Section 12
In conducting adjudicatory proceedings, agencies shall issue, vacate, modify and enforce subpoenas in accordance with the following provisions:— (1) Agencies shall have the power to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Licenses; revocation, etc.; hearings; exceptions; student loan defaulters - Chapter 30A, Section 13
“License”, as used in this section, includes any license, permit, certificate, registration, charter, authority or similar form of permission required by law. Except as otherwise...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Issuance and renewal of licenses; social security number of applicant; information provided to IV-D agency - Chapter 30A, Section 13A
Agencies and political subdivisions of the commonwealth, that issue a license under section 13 shall require an applicant for issuance or renewal of such license...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Judicial review - Chapter 30A, Section 14
Except so far as any provision of law expressly precludes judicial review, any person or appointing authority aggrieved by a final decision of any agency...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Supreme judicial court and appeals court; concurrent jurisdiction - Chapter 30A, Section 15
The supreme judicial court and the appeals court shall have concurrent jurisdiction to review any proceedings had, determinations made, and orders or judgments entered in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Supreme judicial court; powers - Chapter 30A, Section 16
The supreme judicial court shall have the power to make rules of pleading, practice and procedure supplementary to and not inconsistent with the provisions of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Partial invalidity of chapter; effect - Chapter 30A, Section 17
If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions applicable to Secs. 18 to 25 - Chapter 30A, Section 18
As used in this section and sections 19 to 25, inclusive, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Division of open government; open meeting law training; open meeting law advisory commission; annual report - Chapter 30A, Section 19
(a) There shall be in the department of the attorney general a division of open government under the direction of a director of open government....
- Massachusetts General Laws - Meetings of a public body to be open to the public; notice of meeting; remote participation; recording and transmission of meeting; removal of persons for disruption of proceedings - Chapter 30A, Section 20
(a) Except as provided in section 21, all meetings of a public body shall be open to the public. (b) Except in an emergency, in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Meeting of public body in executive session - Chapter 30A, Section 21
(a) A public body may meet in executive session only for the following purposes: (1) To discuss the reputation, character, physical condition or mental health,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Minutes of meetings - Chapter 30A, Section 22
(a) A public body shall create and maintain accurate minutes of all meetings, including executive sessions, setting forth the date, time and place, the members...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement of open meeting law; complaints; hearing; civil action - Chapter 30A, Section 23
(a) Subject to appropriation, the attorney general shall interpret and enforce the open meeting law. (b) At least 30 days prior to the filing of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Investigation by attorney general of violations of open meeting law - Chapter 30A, Section 24
(a) Whenever the attorney general has reasonable cause to believe that a person, including any public body and any other state, regional, county, municipal or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Authority of attorney general to promulgate rules and regulations, letter rulings and advisory opinions - Chapter 30A, Section 25
(a) The attorney general shall have the authority to promulgate rules and regulations to carry out enforcement of the open meeting law. (b) The attorney...
Last modified: September 11, 2015