General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 33 Militia

• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 33, Section 1
  Words used in this chapter shall have the following meanings, unless a different meaning is clearly apparent from the language or context:— “Military forces of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Membership - Chapter 33, Section 2
  The militia of the commonwealth shall consist of all able-bodied male citizens and all other able-bodied males who have declared their intention to become citizens...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Organized and unorganized militia - Chapter 33, Section 3
  The militia shall consist of two classes, namely, the organized militia, composed and organized as provided in this chapter, and the remainder, to be known...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Organized militia, composition - Chapter 33, Section 4
  The active or organized militia shall be composed of volunteers, and shall comprise the aides-de-camp of the Commander-in-chief, the state staff, the armed forces of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - National Lancers; organization - Chapter 33, Section 4A
  The National Lancers shall be organized as the commander-in-chief directs, and may retain its name and the right to wear such distinctive uniform as may...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Powers of commander-in-chief; regulations - Chapter 33, Section 5
  The commander-in-chief may make and publish regulations for the government of the organized militia in accordance with law.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Powers of commander-in-chief; increase in forces - Chapter 33, Section 6
  The commander-in-chief may raise volunteer units when they are needed to maintain the military forces of the commonwealth at the strength and of the composition...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Powers of commander-in-chief; name and location of units; rank of personnel - Chapter 33, Section 7
  The commander-in-chief may from time to time prescribe in orders the organization of the military forces of the commonwealth, the designation and location of all...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Powers of commander-in-chief; provisional officers - Chapter 33, Section 8
  The commander-in-chief may, to recruit the organized militia, appoint provisional officers for such units as he may from time to time create by orders in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Powers of commander-in-chief; disposition of inefficient units - Chapter 33, Section 9
  The commander-in-chief may, subject to the laws of the United States, disband any unit of the organized militia falling below the prescribed strength or standard...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Armed forces of commonwealth; composition - Chapter 33, Section 10
  The armed forces of the commonwealth shall consist of the active national guard, army and air, and the inactive national guard, army and air. The...
• Massachusetts General Laws - National guard; composition - Chapter 33, Section 11
  The national guard, army or air, shall consist of such organizations and units as the commander-in-chief may from time to time authorize to be formed,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Discrimination or segregation because of race, color or national origin - Chapter 33, Section 12
  No person shall be denied the enjoyment of any military right, or be discriminated against in the exercise of any military right, or be segregated...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Discrimination because of employment; penalty - Chapter 33, Section 13
  Whoever wilfully deprives an officer or enlisted person of his employment, or denies him employment, or prevents his being employed by another, or obstructs or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Aides-de-camp; qualifications; uniform - Chapter 33, Section 14
  The aides-de-camp of the commander-in-chief shall consist of such appointed or detailed aides as the governor shall deem necessary. Officers detailed under this section shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - State staff; composition; qualifications; tenure - Chapter 33, Section 15
  (a) The state staff shall consist of one adjutant general, with the grade of major general, who shall be the chief of staff to the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - State staff; interest in purchases or sales; exception - Chapter 33, Section 16
  The adjutant general and officers of the state staff shall not be interested, directly or indirectly, in the purchase or sale of any articles intended...
• Massachusetts General Laws - State staff; interest in purchases or sales; penalties for violations - Chapter 33, Section 17
  Any officer violating any provision of section sixteen shall be punished by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Active duty for officers at division headquarters; appointment; eligibility; compensation - Chapter 33, Section 18
  (a) The adjutant general, upon recommendation of the commanding officer of a federally recognized infantry division may order to active duty three officers to serve...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Massachusetts military academy; establishment; curriculum; academic board; membership; compensation - Chapter 33, Section 19
  (a) There is hereby established the Massachusetts Military Academy, hereinafter called the academy, which shall offer to selected enlisted persons and officers of the armed...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Agencies within military division; duty of adjutant general regarding functions and operation - Chapter 33, Section 19A
  The armory commission established by section eighteen of chapter six, and the division of civil defense established by section two of chapter six hundred and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Officers; qualifications for appointment - Chapter 33, Section 20
  No person shall be eligible to appointment, or be appointed, as an officer in the armed forces of the commonwealth who is not a citizen...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Legal, medical, dental or veterinary officers; qualifications - Chapter 33, Section 21
  No person shall be eligible to appointment, or be appointed, as a legal, medical, dental or veterinary commissioned officer unless he is duly registered in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Military service commission; membership; powers and duties; compensation - Chapter 33, Section 22
  (a) There shall be a military service commission, hereinafter called the commission, consisting of the adjutant general and six officers of the Massachusetts national guard,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Officers; appointment - Chapter 33, Section 23
  (a)(1) A major general of the line, commanding a division, shall be appointed by the commander-in-chief from the brigadier generals of the line who have...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Oaths; form - Chapter 33, Section 24
  Every commissioned officer, before entering upon the performance of his official duties or exercising any command, shall take and subscribe the following oaths and declarations:...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Officers; performance of duties; prerequisites - Chapter 33, Section 25
  No person commissioned as an officer or appointed as a warrant officer in the national guard, army or air, shall enter upon the performance of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Terms of office - Chapter 33, Section 26
  The term of office of a major general of the line shall be five years. The term of office of a brigadier general of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Seniority of officers; determination - Chapter 33, Section 27
  Seniority of officers of the same grade shall be determined by their date of rank, which shall be their date of appointment. Between officers of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Uniforms - Chapter 33, Section 28
  Officers shall provide themselves with uniforms and equipment prescribed by the commander-in-chief.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Discharge of officers; grounds - Chapter 33, Section 29
  (a) At any time the moral character, capacity and general fitness for the service of any officer may be investigated and determined by an efficiency...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of discharge; form - Chapter 33, Section 30
  Officers discharged from the service of the commonwealth shall be entitled to a certificate of discharge, in such form as the commander-in-chief shall direct.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Discharge of officers for superannuation; retirement - Chapter 33, Section 31
  Any officer in the military forces of the commonwealth at the age of sixty-five shall be honorably discharged, or upon his own request, placed upon...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Discharge or retirement for disability - Chapter 33, Section 32
  The commander-in-chief may order any officer before a medical board consisting of at least three medical officers, and if the board reports such officer to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Retired officers; duties; compensation - Chapter 33, Section 33
  Retired officers shall be commissioned on the retired list by the commander-in-chief, by regulations promulgated by him, and on occasions of ceremony may, and when...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enlisted personnel; regulations - Chapter 33, Section 34
  The commander-in-chief may, by regulations, prescribe the requirements for the enlistment, service and discharge of enlisted personnel, as he deems necessary.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enlisted personnel; appointments and promotions - Chapter 33, Section 35
  The commander-in-chief shall provide, by regulations, how and by whom noncommissioned officers and other enlisted personnel shall be appointed, promoted and reduced.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dishonorable discharge - Chapter 33, Section 36
  A dishonorable discharge shall be given only to carry out the sentence of a court-martial.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enlisted personnel; certificates of discharge - Chapter 33, Section 37
  Discharged enlisted personnel shall be furnished with a certificate of discharge which shall clearly state their grade and the reason for their discharge.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Use of militia; escort duties; emergencies - Chapter 33, Section 38
  The commander in chief may order out any part of the organized militia for escort and other duties including special duty and emergency assistance to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Use of militia outside the commonwealth - Chapter 33, Section 39
  Except by order of the commander-in-chief, or with his consent, no unit of the armed forces of the commonwealth shall be ordered without the limits...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Use of militia; invasion or insurrection - Chapter 33, Section 40
  The commander-in-chief shall order out the armed forces to repel an invasion or to suppress an insurrection made or threatened.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Use of militia; riots - Chapter 33, Section 41
  In case of a tumult, riot, mob or body of persons acting together by force to violate or resist the laws of the commonwealth, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1979, 134, Sec. 2 - Chapter 33, Section 42
  Repealed, 1979, 134, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Written orders; conditions; contents - Chapter 33, Section 43
  Whenever practicable all orders issued under section forty-one or section forty-two shall be in writing and signed by the civil officers or persons issuing the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unit called into service; duties of commander - Chapter 33, Section 44
  The officer to whom the order of the commander-in-chief, or a precept under section forty-two, is directed shall forthwith order the troops therein called for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Disobedience of orders; penalty - Chapter 33, Section 45
  If an officer neglects or refuses to obey such order of the commander-in-chief or such precept, or if any officer or enlisted person fails to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Equipment of called troops - Chapter 33, Section 46
  The troops shall appear at the time and place appointed by the order or precept issued under section forty-one or forty-two, armed and equipped, and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Failure to appear for duty; excuses; penalty for being absent without leave - Chapter 33, Section 47
  No officer or enlisted person of the armed forces of the commonwealth, not on leave of absence, shall be excused from duty when ordered out...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Expenses of militia; source of funds - Chapter 33, Section 48
  The governor may expend for carrying out the provisions of sections thirty-eight, forty, forty-one, forty-two, fifty-four, sixty and sixty-one, such sums as may be appropriated
• Massachusetts General Laws - Payment - Chapter 33, Section 49
  Upon the termination of any service of the armed forces of the commonwealth under a precept in accordance with section forty-two, or under an order...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Use of streets and highways; right of way; exceptions - Chapter 33, Section 50
  The armed forces of the United States and any part of the armed forces of the commonwealth parading or performing any duty according to law...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Occupation of land and buildings; exceptions; liability for damages - Chapter 33, Section 51
  When on duty under orders of the commander-in-chief, the armed forces of the commonwealth may enter upon and occupy any public or private lands within...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Damages to lands; compensation - Chapter 33, Section 52
  In the case of land entered upon under section fifty-one for an encampment or other substantial occupancy, the owner thereof shall receive damages in the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Damages to lands; liability of personnel; conditions - Chapter 33, Section 53
  No officer or enlisted person shall be liable, either civilly or criminally, for any damage to property or injury to any person, including death resulting...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Additional forces; source - Chapter 33, Section 54
  When the entire armed forces of the commonwealth have been ordered out under section forty, forty-one or forty-two, and a further force is required, it...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unorganized militia; method of impressing into service - Chapter 33, Section 55
  When necessary to call out any part of the unorganized militia for duty, the commander-in-chief shall issue a proclamation directed to the mayors or city...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Term of enlistment; training; penalty for desertion - Chapter 33, Section 56
  The part of the unorganized militia so drafted or accepted shall immediately be mustered under the orders of the commander-in-chief into the service of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Military duty on election day; exceptions; penalty - Chapter 33, Section 57
  Except while on duty under section forty, forty-one, forty-two or sixty, or in obedience to the commander-in-chief, no officer or enlisted person shall be required...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1977, 415, Sec. 7 - Chapter 33, Section 58
  Repealed, 1977, 415, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Effect of military service on salary or vacation allowance of public employees - Chapter 33, Section 59
  Any person in the service of the commonwealth, or of a county, city or town which, by vote of its county commissioners or city council...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Military service of public employees; work release for drills - Chapter 33, Section 59A
  Any person in the service of the commonwealth, or of a county, city or town which has accepted the provisions of section fifty-nine, shall be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Annual training period - Chapter 33, Section 60
  The armed forces of the commonwealth shall perform during each year not less than fifteen days’ training under service conditions at times and places designated...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unit training periods; meetings of instruction for noncommissioned officers; frequency; arrests for absence without leave - Chapter 33, Section 61
  (a) In addition to the duty required by section thirty-eight, forty, forty-one, forty-two or sixty, every unit of the armed forces of the commonwealth shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Meetings of instruction for officers; frequency - Chapter 33, Section 62
  Organization commanders may hold meetings of instruction for the officers of their commands four times each year. Mileage may be paid when approved in advance...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Visits by organization commanders; frequency - Chapter 33, Section 63
  Organization commanders or their representatives shall visit the units of their commands not less than four times each year.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Exclusion of traffic from highways during target practice - Chapter 33, Section 64
  The governor, with the advice and consent of the council, and under such regulations as he may prescribe, may exclude traffic from highways during target...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Boundaries of encampments; establishment; limitations; penalty for trespass - Chapter 33, Section 65
  Every commanding officer, when on duty, may fix necessary bounds and limits to his parade or encampment, but not including a public road within such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Obstructing or interfering with armed forces; penalty - Chapter 33, Section 66
  Whoever interrupts, molests or insults, by abusive words or behavior, or obstructs, any officer or enlisted person while on duty or at any parade, drill...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Decorations and awards; qualifications - Chapter 33, Section 67
  (a) To each member who completes nine years of honorable service in the armed forces of the commonwealth, there shall be awarded a medal, and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Medal of liberty - Chapter 33, Section 67A
  [ Text of section effective until July 2, 2014. For text effective July 2, 2014, see below.] There shall be a medal of liberty which...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Prizes for competitions - Chapter 33, Section 68
  Money or other suitable prizes may be awarded for shooting, athletic or other competitions in the armed forces of the commonwealth, under such regulations as...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Military courts; organization; powers; procedure - Chapter 33, Section 69
  The military courts of the armed forces of the commonwealth shall be courts of inquiry, general courts-martial, special courts-martial and summary courts-martial. They shall be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Courts of inquiry; membership; duties - Chapter 33, Section 70
  Courts of inquiry, to consist of from one to three officers of at least equal grade with the officer, or with the senior officer if...
• Massachusetts General Laws - General courts martial; powers - Chapter 33, Section 71
  General courts-martial of the armed forces of the commonwealth may be convened by the commander-in-chief, and may impose one or more of the following punishments...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Special courts martial; limitations; powers - Chapter 33, Section 72
  The commanding officer of a division, brigade, air wing or other separate commands may convene special courts-martial for his command, but such special courts-martial may...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Summary courts martial; powers; limitations - Chapter 33, Section 73
  Commanding officers authorized to convene special courts-martial, and commanding officers of regiments, battalions, companies, and equivalent air units, may convene for their commands summary courts-martial...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Minor offenses; penalties; appeals - Chapter 33, Section 74
  (a) Under such regulations as the commander-in-chief may prescribe, any commanding officer may, in addition to or in lieu of admonition or reprimand, impose one...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Confinement in lieu of fines; limitations - Chapter 33, Section 75
  Courts-martial may sentence to confinement in lieu of the fines authorized by this chapter, but not exceeding one day of confinement for each dollar of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dismissal or dishonorable discharge; approval of sentence - Chapter 33, Section 76
  Sentence of dismissal from the service or dishonorable discharge imposed by a court-martial shall be executed only when approved by the commander-in-chief.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Arrest of accused; warrants; attendance of witnesses; issuance of subpoenas - Chapter 33, Section 77
  The senior member of a court-martial and summary court officers may issue warrants to arrest accused persons and to bring an accused person before the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Execution of processes and sentences; duties of jailor; payment of costs; disposition of fines - Chapter 33, Section 78
  (a) All processes and sentences of courts-martial shall be executed by an officer qualified to serve criminal process, and commitment under said sentences may be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Actions against members of military courts - Chapter 33, Section 79
  No action or proceeding may be maintained against a member of a military court or officer or person acting under its authority or reviewing its...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Jurisdiction; presumption - Chapter 33, Section 80
  The jurisdiction of courts convened under the provisions of this chapter shall be presumed and the burden of proof shall rest on any person seeking...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Oaths; administration - Chapter 33, Section 81
  All commissioned officers and warrant officers of the armed forces of the commonwealth and of the United States shall have power to administer oaths for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fees of civilian witnesses - Chapter 33, Section 82
  The fee of a witness not a member of the military forces of the commonwealth appearing before a military court upon summons thereof, shall be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Pay and allowances for certain duties - Chapter 33, Section 83
  (a) For duty performed under the provisions of sections sixty and sixty-one, there shall be allowed and paid from funds appropriated therefor to members of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Travel expenses - Chapter 33, Section 84
  To each officer and enlisted person of the armed forces of the commonwealth required and authorized to travel under any section of this chapter, there...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Subsistence - Chapter 33, Section 85
  Subsistence for members of the armed forces of the commonwealth ordered to duty under the provisions of sections thirty-eight, forty, forty-one, forty-two and sixty, shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Method of making payments - Chapter 33, Section 86
  Officers authorized to make payments in cash shall secure proper vouchers for all payments so made and shall submit to the adjutant general as he...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Uniform allowances - Chapter 33, Section 87
  Upon approval of the adjutant general, there shall be allowed and paid from funds appropriated therefor, as of April first of each year, to each...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Death or disability compensation - Chapter 33, Section 88
  An officer or enlisted person of the armed forces of the commonwealth, while performing any military duty lawfully ordered under any provision of this chapter,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1990, 150, Sec. 261 - Chapter 33, Section 88A
  Repealed, 1990, 150, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Group life insurance; partial payment of premium by commonwealth - Chapter 33, Section 88B
  Fifty per cent of the monthly premiums for any coverage held in the serviceman’s group life insurance program administered by the Veterans Administration, or an...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Use of private automobiles; conditions - Chapter 33, Section 89
  Under an order issued by the commander-in-chief, the adjutant general, in the name and on behalf of the commonwealth, may, for military use, accept the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Board of compensation; powers and duties; payment of claims - Chapter 33, Section 90
  Claims against the commonwealth for compensation under the provisions of section eighty-eight shall be referred to a board of three officers, including the state surgeon...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1978, 512, Sec. 6 - Chapter 33, Section 91 92
  Repealed, 1978, 512, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Subrogation - Chapter 33, Section 93
  Where the damage or injury for which compensation is claimed under section ninety was caused under circumstances creating a legal liability in some person other...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Persons temporarily employed by armed forces; status; right to compensation - Chapter 33, Section 94
  No person performing any services under section eighty-eight shall, by reason of such services, be deemed to be an employee of the commonwealth or, if...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1978, 512, Sec. 6B - Chapter 33, Section 95
  Repealed, 1978, 512, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Authorization; administration; bond of custodian; distribution on disbandment of unit - Chapter 33, Section 96
  Organization and unit funds shall be maintained and conducted as the commander-in-chief may prescribe in regulations. The administration of such a fund by the officer...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Allowances for administrative purposes - Chapter 33, Section 97
  There shall annually be allowed and paid quarterly from money appropriated for the purpose in substantially equal installments under such regulations as may be promulgated...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Uniforms; method of acquisition - Chapter 33, Section 98
  The uniform of the military forces of the commonwealth shall be prescribed by the commander-in-chief. No uniforms, except required yearly supplies, shall be provided by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unauthorized use of uniform; penalties - Chapter 33, Section 99
  Whoever, not being in the service of the armed forces of the United States or of the commonwealth, appears in public wearing the distinctive uniform...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dress uniforms - Chapter 33, Section 100
  Any unit of the military forces of the commonwealth may, with the approval of a majority of its officers and of the commander-in-chief, adopt a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unit clothing and equipment; issuance - Chapter 33, Section 101
  Except as otherwise provided, units of the military forces of the commonwealth and the cadets of the Massachusetts military academy shall be provided, at the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unit clothing and equipment; regulation of use - Chapter 33, Section 102
  Individual and unit clothing and equipment so provided shall be used only for military purposes, under regulations promulgated by the commander-in-chief, who shall provide how...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Military property; accounting - Chapter 33, Section 103
  An officer or enlisted person shall be responsible for the proper care, safekeeping and return, when so directed, of all items of military property of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Wearing military uniforms; restriction - Chapter 33, Section 104
  An enlisted person shall not wear or use, except when on ordered military duty, or by special permission of his unit commander or other competent...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Loss or damage to military property; liability; restitution - Chapter 33, Section 105
  (a) Any officer or enlisted person of the military forces of the commonwealth who damages, loses through carelessness or neglect, carries away, or unlawfully disposes...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Conversion of military property; penalty - Chapter 33, Section 106
  Any officer or enlisted person who willfully or maliciously damages, defaces or destroys any military property of the United States or of the commonwealth, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unlawful purchase of military property; penalty - Chapter 33, Section 107
  Whoever knowingly purchases, retains or has in his possession any item of military property of the United States or of the commonwealth, unless the same...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Custodians of military property; bond; duties; accountability - Chapter 33, Section 108
  Any officer or noncommissioned officer of the armed forces of the commonwealth to whom monies or public property are at any time issued may be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Use of schedule bonds - Chapter 33, Section 109
  The adjutant general may arrange for such schedule bond as he deems advisable to take the place of individual bonds required by law from any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Premiums on bonds; payment - Chapter 33, Section 110
  The premium due to any surety company for acting as surety on any bond given under the provisions of sections fifteen, ninety-six, one hundred and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Custodians of military property; powers and duties - Chapter 33, Section 111
  (a) An officer shall be responsible for military property of the United States and of the commonwealth received by him, and shall not sell, loan...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Accounting for military property upon change of command or disbandment - Chapter 33, Section 112
  (a) An officer of the military forces of the commonwealth, upon vacating an office, shall turn over to his immediate successor, or other officer designated...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inspection and condemnation of military property; reports - Chapter 33, Section 113
  A state surveying officer or a board of officers designated by the commander-in-chief shall inspect and condemn military property of the commonwealth unfit for use....
• Massachusetts General Laws - Lease of military property - Chapter 33, Section 114
  The governor, with the advice and consent of the council, may lease to, or permit to be used by, the armed forces of the United...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Personal property of units - Chapter 33, Section 115
  Any unit of the military forces of the commonwealth may own personal property, to be under the control of the active members thereof; and the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Acceptance of gifts - Chapter 33, Section 116
  The adjutant general, with the approval of the governor and council, may accept on behalf of the commonwealth any gift or bequest of personal property...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment; responsibility of cities and towns; penalty for noncompliance - Chapter 33, Section 117
  Cities and towns shall provide for units of the armed forces of the commonwealth not provided with a state armory or air installation, and permanently...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rentals - Chapter 33, Section 118
  For each armory, air installation or adequate facility maintained by a city or town, or privately owned, there shall annually be allowed and paid by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rental bills; contents; filing; payment - Chapter 33, Section 119
  The mayor or city manager of a city, or the selectmen of a town, providing an armory, air installation or adequate facilities for the use...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Armories furnished by state; effect on municipal responsibility - Chapter 33, Section 120
  When any armory or air installation is furnished by the commonwealth in any city or town, the adjutant general shall notify the city or town...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Firing ranges; responsibility of cities and towns; alternative arrangement; penalty for noncompliance - Chapter 33, Section 121
  Cities and towns shall provide and maintain for units of the armed forces of the commonwealth permanently stationed within the limits of their respective cities...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Use of armories; nature and scope - Chapter 33, Section 122
  (a) Armories and air installations provided for the armed forces of the commonwealth shall be used by them for the military purposes or purposes incidental...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Control of armories during period of occupation; exception - Chapter 33, Section 123
  Every officer whose unit occupies, or assembles or drills in any armory, or air installation, drill hall or building used according to law for that...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Operation of certain apparatus in armories; regulations - Chapter 33, Section 124
  An officer or enlisted person of the armed forces of the commonwealth licensed under chapter one hundred and forty-three, may, in any armory or air...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Armory commission; powers and duties in respect to erection, maintenance and control - Chapter 33, Section 125
  The armory commission provided for in section eighteen of chapter six shall have full supervision and control of the construction of all armories or air...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Armory commission; powers and duties in respect to location and rejuvenation of armories; method of acquiring land - Chapter 33, Section 126
  The armory commission shall rebuild, remodel or repair state armories or air installations injured or destroyed by fire, and may reconstruct, remodel, enlarge or otherwise...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Purchase of municipally owned military installation - Chapter 33, Section 127
  The armory commission may, by agreement with the mayor or city manager of any city or the selectmen of any town owning an armory, air...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Armory commission; use of appropriated funds; federal grants - Chapter 33, Section 128
  To meet the expenses incurred under sections one hundred and twenty-six and one hundred and twenty-seven, the armory commission may expend such amounts as are...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Maintenance of armories by private organizations - Chapter 33, Section 129
  Except as provided in section one hundred and thirty, no body of men shall maintain an armory or associate together as a company or organization...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Drills or parades by armed citizens or foreign troops; conditions - Chapter 33, Section 130
  The commander-in-chief may prescribe rules and regulations under which bodies of citizens of the United States, or foreign troops to whose admission to the United...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unauthorized parades by armed citizens; unlawful maintenance of armories; penalties - Chapter 33, Section 131
  Whoever violates any provision of section one hundred and twenty-nine or one hundred and thirty shall be punished by a fine of not more than...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Ancient and honorable artillery company; rights preserved - Chapter 33, Section 132
  This chapter shall not affect the right of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts to maintain its organization as a military company and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1964, 722, Sec. 4 - Chapter 33, Section 132A
  Repealed, 1964, 722, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Civil officers; penalties for violation of chapter - Chapter 33, Section 133
  Civil officers named in this chapter who neglect or refuse to obey any of its provisions shall, except as otherwise expressly provided, forfeit not less...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Corps of cadets; rights preserved - Chapter 33, Section 134
  The First Corps of Cadets and the Second Corps of Cadets shall be organized as the commander-in-chief directs, and may retain their respective names, the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - National guard; representation at conventions - Chapter 33, Section 135
  The commander-in-chief may appoint delegates from the National Guard Association of Massachusetts, Inc. to represent the national guard, army and air, of the commonwealth at...
• Massachusetts General Laws - [There is no 33:136.] - Chapter 33, Section 136
  [There is no
• Massachusetts General Laws - National guard education assistance program - Chapter 33, Section 137
  There is hereby established a Massachusetts national guard education assistance program. Said program shall be administered by the board of regents which shall have the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Massachusetts military reservation fire department - Chapter 33, Section 138
  (a) As used in this section the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— “Chief”, the chief of the...

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