General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 41 Officers and Employees of Cities, Towns and Districts

• Massachusetts General Laws - Town officers to be elected; tenure - Chapter 41, Section 1
  Every town at its annual meeting shall in every year when the term of office of any incumbent expires, and except when other provision is...
• Massachusetts General Laws - District defined - Chapter 41, Section 1A
  Except as otherwise expressly provided, the word “district”, as used in this chapter, shall mean a fire, water, sewer, water pollution abatement, refuse disposal, light,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appointed town offices and boards; acceptance by voters - Chapter 41, Section 1B
  Section 1B. Any office or board, except the board of selectmen and the school committee, elected under the provisions of section 1 may become an...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment of new board or office; effect; increase or decrease in board membership or number of officers - Chapter 41, Section 2
  Where the town elects a new board or officer to perform the duties of an existing board or officer, the office of such existing board...
• Massachusetts General Laws - City officers; powers and duties - Chapter 41, Section 3
  Officers of cities shall have the powers and be subject to the liabilities of the corresponding town officers, if no other provisions are made relative...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalty for failure to choose selectmen or assessors - Chapter 41, Section 4
  A town which does not choose selectmen or assessors shall forfeit such amount, not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars, as...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Members of town and district boards eligible to hold other offices; salary - Chapter 41, Section 4A
  Except as otherwise expressly provided, a district board, if authorized by vote of the district at an annual district meeting, or a town board may,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Voting list; use - Chapter 41, Section 5
  The voting list shall be used and the name of every person voting shall be checked thereon, in the election of all town officers whose...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Use of official ballots; towns authorized to provide for - Chapter 41, Section 6
  A town may, at a town meeting, vote that official ballots as defined in section one of chapter fifty shall thereafter be used therein; and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Use of official ballot; determination of extent - Chapter 41, Section 7
  If a town votes that official ballots shall be used for the election of town officers, it shall at the same meeting determine what officers,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Handling of ballots - Chapter 41, Section 8
  At any meeting for the choice of town officers in a town not using official ballots, no ballots shall be received by the moderator unless...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Handling of ballots after tabulation; sealing - Chapter 41, Section 9
  If the town clerk, selectmen, assessors, treasurer, collector of taxes and school committee are voted for on one ballot, the moderator shall cause all such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Failure to elect; procedure to fill vacancy; notice - Chapter 41, Section 10
  If there is a failure at an election to choose a town officer, except a selectman, or if a person chosen shall not accept such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appointment to fill vacancy in town office - Chapter 41, Section 11
  As used in this section, the term “vacancy” includes a failure to elect. If a vacancy occurs in any town office, other than the office...
• Massachusetts General Laws - City clerks; tenure - Chapter 41, Section 12
  In cities which accepted chapter three hundred and thirty-two of the acts of nineteen hundred and one, the term of office of the city clerk...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Bond of town clerk - Chapter 41, Section 13
  Every town clerk shall, within ten days after his election and thereafter, at intervals of not more than one year, so long as he continues...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Bond of city clerk - Chapter 41, Section 13A
  Each city clerk, except in Boston, shall, within ten days after his qualification, give bond to his city with a surety company authorized to transact...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Renewal of licenses and permits; delegation of authority - Chapter 41, Section 13B
  In a city in which the board of aldermen or city council is the licensing authority such board or council may delegate from time to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Temporary clerk - Chapter 41, Section 14
  If the office of city clerk is vacant, or if a city clerk is unable to perform the duties required by chapters fifty to fifty-six,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Town clerks; powers and duties - Chapter 41, Section 15
  The town clerk shall record all votes passed at town meetings held during his term of office. He shall administer the oaths of office to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certification of appropriations - Chapter 41, Section 15A
  City and town clerks and clerks of districts shall, as soon as an order or vote appropriating money becomes effective, certify, in a city to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Oaths of town officers; return of certificate - Chapter 41, Section 16
  A justice of the peace administering the oath of office to any town officer shall, within seven days thereafter, return to the town clerk a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Filing of city contracts; penalty for noncompliance - Chapter 41, Section 17
  Every officer of a city who makes or executes a contract on behalf of the city shall furnish said contract or a copy thereof to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Assistant city clerk - Chapter 41, Section 18
  A city may by ordinance establish the office of assistant city clerk, and prescribe the manner of his appointment and his powers and duties. His...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Records of city clerk; attestation - Chapter 41, Section 18A
  The records of the city clerk of a city may be attested by the volume and it shall be deemed to be a sufficient attestation...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Facsimile signatures of city clerk or assistant city clerk - Chapter 41, Section 18B
  A facsimile of the signature of a city clerk or of a duly appointed assistant city clerk, imprinted by either of them upon any original...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Assistant town clerks; powers and duties; compensation - Chapter 41, Section 19
  The town clerk may in writing appoint an assistant clerk, who shall be sworn to the faithful performance of his duties; and a record shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of appointment or election of clerk; filing requirements - Chapter 41, Section 19A
  Upon the appointment or election of a clerk or an assistant or temporary clerk of a city, town or district, or upon the appointment of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - City and town clerks; tenure of office - Chapter 41, Section 19B
  Every city or town clerk under age seventy duly elected or appointed, except a temporary clerk, who has served therein continuously not less than five...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Acceptance of Sec. 19B; procedure; petition - Chapter 41, Section 19C
  In cities, and in any town using official ballots, acceptance of the provisions of section nineteen B shall be by vote in answer to a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Removal or suspension of clerk having permanent tenure - Chapter 41, Section 19D
  After the acceptance of the provisions of section nineteen B in any city or town, the incumbent city or town clerk shall not be removed...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Procedure for filling vacancy following death or removal of clerk having permanent tenure - Chapter 41, Section 19E
  In any city or town in which the clerk has been given permanent tenure by the acceptance of the provisions of section nineteen B, such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Additional compensation for serving as clerk of city council - Chapter 41, Section 19F
  In any city which accepts this section, the city clerk shall, if in said city, he is required by statute or ordinance to serve as...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Additional compensation for serving as member of registrars of voters - Chapter 41, Section 19G
  A clerk of a city or town who also serves as a member of its board of registrars of voters shall, in addition to any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Maximum amount of additional compensation for serving as member of registrars of voters - Chapter 41, Section 19H
  Notwithstanding the limitation contained in section nineteen G, in a city or town which accepts this section the total amount of additional compensation payable to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Additional compensation for serving in other city or town positions - Chapter 41, Section 19I
  Notwithstanding the provisions of chapter two hundred and sixty-eight A, any clerk of a city or town who also serves in any other position for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Additional compensation for serving as member of board of registrars of voters - Chapter 41, Section 19J
  Notwithstanding the provisions of sections nineteen G and nineteen H, a city or town which accepts this section may compensate a clerk of a city...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Additional compensation for town clerk - Chapter 41, Section 19K
  In any town, that accepts this section, a town clerk who has completed the necessary courses of study and training, and has been awarded a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Selectmen; duties and oath; penalty - Chapter 41, Section 20
  Selectmen shall, upon the receipt and approval of the bond of a collector of taxes or treasurer, give written notice thereof to the assessors. The...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Authorization for selectmen to act as or appoint other town officers - Chapter 41, Section 21
  By vote of a town meeting called for the purpose in any town at least sixty days before an annual meeting, or upon request by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Removal of persons appointed to positions of chief of police or head of municipal police department - Chapter 41, Section 21A
  In any city or town which accepts the provisions of this section, any person who is appointed to the position of chief of police or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Officers appointed by selectmen; tenure; compensation; vacancies - Chapter 41, Section 22
  Officers appointed by authority of a vote under the preceding section shall hold office until removed by the selectmen, and shall receive such salary as...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rescission of vote by selectmen; election of other officers; tenure - Chapter 41, Section 23
  A town may, after a vote under section twenty-one has been in effect therein for a period of not less than three years, by a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Executive secretary or town administrator; appointment; tenure - Chapter 41, Section 23A
  A town may by vote or by-law authorize and empower the selectmen to appoint an executive secretary or town administrator who may be appointed by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Town departments; investigations and reports - Chapter 41, Section 23B
  The selectmen of any town may make an investigation into the conduct and operation of any town department. Upon completion of such investigation a report...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Persons acting on behalf of selectmen; appointment and removal - Chapter 41, Section 23C
  No person shall be authorized by vote of a town to act on behalf of the board of selectmen unless the vote provides that such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Municipal data processing centers - Chapter 41, Section 23D
  A city by ordinance and a town by by-law may provide for the establishment of a municipal data processing center for the use of any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Assessors; number; method of selection; tenure - Chapter 41, Section 24
  There shall be one, three, five, seven or nine assessors in every city and one, three or five assessors in every town. The assessors in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1937, 129, Sec. 1 - Chapter 41, Section 24A
  Repealed, 1937, 129, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appointment by selectmen; tenure of office - Chapter 41, Section 25
  In towns which accept this section or have accepted corresponding provisions of earlier laws, the selectmen shall appoint suitable citizens of the town assessors for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Assistant assessors; appointment by assessors; duties; compensation; tenure - Chapter 41, Section 25A
  The assessors may appoint as assistant assessors such number of suitable citizens as they deem necessary, and may remove them. Such assistant assessors shall perform...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appointment by selectmen where town so votes - Chapter 41, Section 26
  If a town votes under section twenty-one to have its selectmen appoint a board of assessors, the selectmen shall thereupon appoint three or five suitable...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Employment of counsel in certain proceedings - Chapter 41, Section 26A
  The assessors, or selectmen acting as assessors, may employ counsel at the expense of the city or town in all proceedings under chapter fifty-eight A;...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appointment upon failure of incumbents to perform duties - Chapter 41, Section 27
  If assessors, or selectmen acting as such, shall fail to perform their duties, the commissioner of revenue may appoint three or more persons to be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and duties of assistant assessors - Chapter 41, Section 28
  Assistant assessors shall, in their respective districts, assist the assessors in estimating the value of the real and personal estate in such districts, and in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Oath of office; penalty for failure to take oath - Chapter 41, Section 29
  Any person chosen to assess taxes or to determine or to assist in determining the value of property for the purpose of taxation shall, before...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalty for false valuation - Chapter 41, Section 30
  Any person chosen to determine the valuation of property for the purpose of taxation who, in order that the taxpayers may escape payment of their...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Vacancies; effect on powers of remaining assessors - Chapter 41, Section 30A
  A vacancy in the office of assessor shall not divest or suspend the authority and powers of the remaining assessors, notwithstanding any provision of special...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Agreements for joint and cooperative assessment, classification and valuation of property - Chapter 41, Section 30B
  (a) Notwithstanding any general or special law or municipal charter, vote, by-law or ordinance, 2 or more cities and towns, by vote of their legislative...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1967, 658, Sec. 5 - Chapter 41, Section 31 to 34
  Repealed, 1967, 658, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1931, 426, Sec. 156 - Chapter 41, Section 34A
  Repealed, 1931, 426, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Identification of husbands and wives in documents and communications - Chapter 41, Section 34B
  Whenever the assessor, in any communication, document or writing intended for use outside his department, identifies a husband and wife, he shall use the name...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Bond of treasurer; duties - Chapter 41, Section 35
  Every town treasurer shall give bond annually for the faithful performance of his duties in a form approved by the commissioner of revenue and in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Powers of treasurer; prosecution of actions - Chapter 41, Section 36
  He may in his own name and official capacity prosecute actions upon bonds, notes or other securities given to him or to his predecessors in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Treasurer acting as tax collector; appointment of deputies - Chapter 41, Section 37
  A town treasurer, acting as collector of taxes, may, subject to the approval of the commissioner of corporations and taxation, appoint deputies, who shall give...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Powers of tax collector - Chapter 41, Section 38
  A town may authorize its collector of taxes to use all means of collecting taxes which a town treasurer may use when appointed a collector...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Collection of accounts due city or town; powers and duties of tax collector - Chapter 41, Section 38A
  A city or town may by ordinance, by-law or vote, notwithstanding any other provision of law, general or special, provide that the collector of taxes...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Collection of taxes by constable - Chapter 41, Section 39
  If a person appointed to collect taxes in a town refuses to serve, or if no person is elected or appointed a collector of taxes,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Assistant treasurer - Chapter 41, Section 39A
  The treasurer of a city or town may in writing appoint, with the approval of the mayor or the selectmen thereof, an assistant treasurer who...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Removal of treasurers or city or town collectors - Chapter 41, Section 39B
  If, in the opinion of the commissioner of revenue, hereinafter referred to as the commissioner, the safety of any city, town, district, or regional school...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Assistant collector - Chapter 41, Section 39C
  The collector of a city or town may in writing appoint, with approval of the mayor or the selectmen thereof, an assistant collector who may...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Temporary town officers - Chapter 41, Section 40
  If the office of town treasurer, town collector of taxes, town accountant or auditor in a town having but one is vacant or if any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Payment of compensation; oath - Chapter 41, Section 41
  No treasurer or other fiscal officer of any town or city shall pay any salary or compensation to any person in the service or employment...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Delivery of payroll checks to department heads - Chapter 41, Section 41A
  Notwithstanding the provisions of section thirty-five, the treasurer of a city or town may deliver or cause to be delivered to the head of a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Payment of public employees by direct bank credits - Chapter 41, Section 41B
  The treasurer of any city, town or district which accepts this section may pay salaries, wages, or other compensation to any person in the service...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Deposits in credit union; pension or retirement allowances - Chapter 41, Section 41C
  The treasurer of any city or town may deduct from the pension or retirement allowance of a retired employee of that city or town such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Contents of pay roll - Chapter 41, Section 42
  Every such pay roll, bill or account shall contain the following information: First, full name of each employee; second, title of office or position authorized...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalty - Chapter 41, Section 43
  Each appointing, employing or other officer, who wilfully refuses or neglects to comply with any provision of the two preceding sections shall be punished by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Defense of actions against treasurers and collectors; indemnification - Chapter 41, Section 43A
  If it appears to the mayor and city council of a city or the selectmen of a town, upon petition of the collector of taxes...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sinking fund commissioners; election; tenure; appointment of secretary and treasurer - Chapter 41, Section 44
  A city or town having a sinking fund as provided in section forty-seven of chapter forty-four shall elect each year for terms of three years...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Board of commissioners of trust funds; membership; powers and duties - Chapter 41, Section 45
  Any city or town, except Boston, may create a board of commissioners of trust funds, consisting of three persons who shall have the management of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Commissioners in towns under five thousand population - Chapter 41, Section 45A
  If a town having less than five thousand inhabitants votes to accept this section, the board of selectmen of such town shall thereafter have all...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Town treasurer; duties; bond - Chapter 41, Section 46
  The town treasurer shall be the custodian of all funds and securities of such trust funds, shall invest and reinvest them and expend therefrom moneys...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and duties - Chapter 41, Section 47
  The said board of commissioners shall, so far as consistent with the terms of the trusts, manage and control the same, and distribute the income...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Tenure of city auditor - Chapter 41, Section 48
  In cities which accepted chapter three hundred and seventy-three of the acts of nineteen hundred and five, the auditor shall hold office for three years...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Vacancy in office of auditor - Chapter 41, Section 49
  If the office of an auditor in a town is vacant, the remaining auditors, if any, may perform the duties thereof and may appoint a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Assistant auditors; powers and duties; compensation - Chapter 41, Section 49A
  The auditor, accountant, or officer having similar duties, of a city or town, may in writing appoint, with the approval of the mayor or the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and duties of auditors - Chapter 41, Section 50
  The auditors of a town shall examine the books and accounts of all its officers and committees intrusted with the receipt, custody or expenditure of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Accounts payable; notice to creditors; part payments - Chapter 41, Section 51
  An auditor may notify a person to whom money is due from the town that a certain designated amount, which may be either the whole...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Approval of bills - Chapter 41, Section 52
  All accounts rendered to or kept in the departments of any city shall be subject to the inspection of the city auditor or officer having...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Auditing of public trusts - Chapter 41, Section 53
  Town auditors shall at least once every year, and so much oftener as they deem necessary, audit the accounts of the trustees of any property...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notice to auditor of payment of public funds to treasurer - Chapter 41, Section 54
  Whenever any officer of the commonwealth, or of a county, city or town, makes a payment of public money to the treasurer of a city...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notification to assessors of receipts - Chapter 41, Section 54A
  The auditor or similar officer in cities and the town accountant, if any, otherwise the town treasurer in towns, shall notify the assessors, not later...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Town accountant; tenure; powers and duties - Chapter 41, Section 55
  Any town may authorize the selectmen to appoint a town accountant, who shall perform the duties and possess the powers of town auditors as defined...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Warrants for payment of bills - Chapter 41, Section 56
  The selectmen and all boards, committees, heads of departments and officers authorized to expend money shall approve and transmit to the town accountant as often...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Books of account and financial records - Chapter 41, Section 57
  The town accountant shall keep a complete set of books wherein shall be entered the amount of each specific appropriation, the amounts and purposes of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Duties; notice of condition of appropriations; record of appropriations - Chapter 41, Section 58
  Whenever any appropriation shall have been expended or whenever, in the judgment of the town accountant, it appears that the liabilities incurred against any appropriation...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Annual estimates; furnishing to town accountant - Chapter 41, Section 59
  The selectmen and all boards, committees, heads of departments, or other officers of a town authorized by law to expend money shall furnish to the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Table of estimated appropriations - Chapter 41, Section 60
  The town accountant shall immediately upon the close of each calendar year compile statements in tabulated form showing the amounts appropriated and the amounts expended...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Annual report - Chapter 41, Section 61
  The town accountant shall make an annual report, to be published as a town document, giving a statement of all receipts and expenditures of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appointment of temporary officers upon vacancy of certain offices; tenure; bond; removal; powers and duties - Chapter 41, Section 61A
  If the office of city auditor, city treasurer, city collector of taxes or other officer having charge of a city department is vacant, or if...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Highway surveyor; duties - Chapter 41, Section 62
  If a highway surveyor be chosen, he shall have the exclusive control of the ordinary repair of public ways in his town without being subject...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Road and sewer commissioners - Chapter 41, Section 63
  A town may at an annual meeting if official ballots are not used, otherwise at a meeting held at least thirty days before the annual...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Road commissioners; powers and duties - Chapter 41, Section 64
  If road commissioners be chosen, they shall exclusively have the powers, perform the duties and be subject to the liabilities and penalties of selectmen and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sewer commissioners; powers and duties - Chapter 41, Section 65
  If sewer commissioners be chosen, they shall, as to sewers and drains, exclusively have the powers, perform the duties and be subject to the liabilities...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Superintendent of streets; appointment; tenure - Chapter 41, Section 66
  In a town which has not authorized the election of a road commissioner or commissioners or a surveyor or surveyors of highways, or which, having...
• Massachusetts General Laws - One superintendent of streets for two or more towns - Chapter 41, Section 67
  The selectmen of two or more towns may unitedly, subject to the approval of the department of highways, appoint and fix the compensation of a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Superintendent of streets; powers and duties - Chapter 41, Section 68
  The superintendent of streets shall, under the direction of the selectmen, have full charge of all repairs and labor upon public ways and sidewalks, and,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Superintendent of water or sewer department - Chapter 41, Section 69
  If a town votes under section twenty-one to have its selectmen act as water and sewer boards, water commissioners or sewer commissioners, the selectmen may...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Water commissioners; election; tenure; quorum; vacancies - Chapter 41, Section 69A
  Any town establishing a water supply or water distributing system under authority of section thirty-nine A of chapter forty may establish a board of three...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Water commissioners; powers and duties - Chapter 41, Section 69B
  The water commissioners, or the selectmen authorized to act as such, in a town establishing a water supply or water distributing system under authority of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Submission of adoption of board of public works to electorate; ballot - Chapter 41, Section 69C
  By vote of a town meeting called for the purpose in any town at least ninety days before an annual town meeting, or, in the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Board of public works; membership; election; tenure; powers and duties - Chapter 41, Section 69D
  Any town which has accepted the provisions of sections sixty-nine C to sixty-nine F, inclusive, shall elect in the following manner a board of public...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Superintendent of public works; appointment; powers and duties - Chapter 41, Section 69E
  The board shall appoint and fix the compensation of a superintendent of public works, who shall exercise and perform, under the supervision and direction of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Submission to voters of revocation of acceptance; conditions; effect - Chapter 41, Section 69F
  Any town which has accepted the provisions of sections sixty-nine C to sixty-nine F, inclusive, may, after the expiration of three years from the date...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Office of lands and natural resources; establishment; powers and duties; director and assistants - Chapter 41, Section 69G
  Every city or town may establish an office of lands and natural resources. Said office shall have charge of such lands as may be committed...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Planning board; duties - Chapter 41, Section 70
  Every city and every town having a population of more than ten thousand at the last preceding national census shall, and towns having a population...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Annual report - Chapter 41, Section 71
  Every planning board shall make a report annually to the city council or to the annual town meeting, giving information regarding the condition of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Ordinances and by-laws - Chapter 41, Section 72
  Cities and towns may make ordinances and by-laws for carrying out the purposes of section seventy and of sections eighty-one A to eighty-one GG, inclusive,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Board of survey; membership; length of existence; suspension of powers and duties - Chapter 41, Section 73
  In cities which accept this section by vote of the city council or have accepted corresponding provisions of earlier laws, the mayor, with the approval...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Approval of plans filed by citizens - Chapter 41, Section 74
  After the establishment of a board of survey no person shall open a private way for public use without first submitting to said board suitable...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Preparation of plans by board - Chapter 41, Section 75
  The board of survey may, and in cities, upon the vote of the planning board and the city council, shall, from time to time cause...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Substitution of new plans - Chapter 41, Section 76
  The board of survey may from time to time make new plans in place of plans filed in accordance with the two preceding sections, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Construction or alteration of public ways; restrictions - Chapter 41, Section 77
  The powers of the city council or of the selectmen in regard to highways shall not be abridged by sections seventy-three to eighty-one, inclusive, in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Recordation of plan; necessity of approval by board - Chapter 41, Section 78
  No register of deeds shall record any plan showing thereon proposed ways in any town having a board of survey, unless there is endorsed thereon...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Entry upon lands by board of survey for examinations and surveys - Chapter 41, Section 79
  Boards of survey, their officers and agents may, so far as they deem it necessary in carrying out sections seventy-three to eighty-one, inclusive, enter upon...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment and discontinuance of exterior way lines - Chapter 41, Section 80
  A town which accepts section seventy-three or has accepted corresponding provisions of earlier laws or has accepted any special act authorizing the creation of a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Damages - Chapter 41, Section 81
  Sections seventy-three to seventy-nine, inclusive, shall not authorize the taking of land nor authorize a town to lay out or construct any way which may...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Planning board; establishment; membership; tenure; vacancies - Chapter 41, Section 81A
  Any city except Boston, and, except as hereinafter provided, any town may at any time establish a planning board hereunder. Every town not having any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Planning board; powers and duties - Chapter 41, Section 81B
  In any city or town in which a planning board is established under section eighty-one A, if any of the powers and duties of planning...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Studies and reports of board; acting as park commissioners - Chapter 41, Section 81C
  The planning board established under section eighty-one A shall from time to time make careful studies and when necessary prepare plans of the resources, possibilities...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Master plan; economic development supplement - Chapter 41, Section 81D
  A planning board established in any city or town under section eighty-one A shall make a master plan of such city or town or such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Official map; purpose; recordation - Chapter 41, Section 81E
  Each city or town having a planning board established under section eighty-one A may, by action of its city council or town meeting adopt an...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Alteration of official map; damages for injuries - Chapter 41, Section 81F
  A city or town so adopting an official map, by action of its city council or town meeting, may whenever and as often as it...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Applicability of municipal planning laws to municipal powers over public ways and parks - Chapter 41, Section 81G
  Sections eighty-one A to eighty-one J, inclusive, shall not abridge the powers of the city council or the selectmen or any other municipal officer in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Part of official map; laying out, altering or relocating public ways - Chapter 41, Section 81H
  Upon final action by the proper authorities in laying out, altering or relocating a public way, or in discontinuing the whole or any part thereof,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Duties of municipalities having no official map in respect to construction of ways; reference to planning board - Chapter 41, Section 81I
  In a city or town having a planning board established under section eighty-one A but which has not adopted an official map no public way...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment and discontinuance of exterior lines of ways in municipalities with planning boards; damages for injuries - Chapter 41, Section 81J
  A city or town which has a planning board under section eighty-one A may establish, in the manner provided for the laying out of city...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Designation of subdivision control law - Chapter 41, Section 81K
  Sections eighty-one K to eighty-one GG, inclusive, shall be designated and may be known as “the subdivision control law”. This designation shall, when apt, include...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 41, Section 81L
  In construing the subdivision control law, the following words shall have the following meaning, unless a contrary intention clearly appears:— “Applicant” shall include an owner...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Purpose of law - Chapter 41, Section 81M
  The subdivision control law has been enacted for the purpose of protecting the safety, convenience and welfare of the inhabitants of the cities and towns...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Territorial extent of law; acceptance by municipalities - Chapter 41, Section 81N
  Except as provided in section eighty-one EE, the subdivision control law shall be in effect in every city, except Boston, and every town, which prior...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Regulation of new subdivisions - Chapter 41, Section 81O
  No person shall make a subdivision of any land in any city or town in which the subdivision control law is in effect unless he...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Approval of plans not subject to control law; procedure - Chapter 41, Section 81P
  Any person wishing to cause to be recorded a plan of land situated in a city or town in which the subdivision control law is...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Planning board; adoption of rules and regulations - Chapter 41, Section 81Q
  After a public hearing, notice of the time and place of which, and of the subject matter, sufficient for identification, shall be published in a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Waiver of strict compliance with rules and regulations - Chapter 41, Section 81R
  A planning board may in any particular case, where such action is in the public interest and not inconsistent with the intent and purpose of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Submission of preliminary plan; approval or disapproval; recording - Chapter 41, Section 81S
  In the case of a subdivision showing lots in a residential zone, any person, before submitting his definitive plan for approval, may submit to the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of submission of plan; hearing - Chapter 41, Section 81T
  Every person submitting a definitive plan of land to the planning board of a city or town for its approval or for a determination that...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Approval, modification or disapproval of plan by board; prerequisites for decision - Chapter 41, Section 81U
  When a definitive plan of a subdivision is submitted to the planning board, as provided in section eighty-one O, a copy thereof shall also be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Final approval of plan; endorsements; certificate - Chapter 41, Section 81V
  In case of approval of a plan by action of the planning board, after the expiration of twenty days without notice of appeal to the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Modification, amendment or rescission of approval of plan; conditions - Chapter 41, Section 81W
  A planning board, on its own motion or on the petition of any person interested, shall have power to modify, amend or rescind its approval...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Requirements for registration of plan - Chapter 41, Section 81X
  No register of deeds shall record any plan showing a division of a tract of land into two or more lots, and ways, whether existing...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Restrictions on construction of public ways, improvements and buildings; liability of grantors, etc.; court jurisdiction - Chapter 41, Section 81Y
  In any city or town in which the subdivision control law is in effect, no public way shall be laid out, accepted or constructed, and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Board of appeals; membership; tenure; removal; vacancies; jurisdiction - Chapter 41, Section 81Z
  A city or town in which the subdivision control law is in effect shall, by ordinance or by-law, provide for a board of appeals, which...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Board of appeals; rules; meetings; powers and duties; hearings - Chapter 41, Section 81AA
  The board of appeals appointed under section eighty-one Z shall adopt rules not inconsistent with this section and sections eighty-one Y and eighty-one Z, for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appeal to superior court; counsel; costs; surety or bond; speedy trial - Chapter 41, Section 81BB
  Any person, whether or not previously a party to the proceedings, or any municipal officer or board, aggrieved by a decision of a board of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Powers of planning boards; entry on lands - Chapter 41, Section 81CC
  Planning boards and their officers and agents may, as far as they deem it necessary in carrying out the subdivision control law, enter upon any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application of law; damages - Chapter 41, Section 81DD
  The subdivision control law shall not abridge the powers of the city council, of the selectmen, or any other municipal officer, in regard to public...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Recordation; evidence that subdivision control law is in effect; suspension - Chapter 41, Section 81EE
  Every board having on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and fifty-four, powers of subdivision control shall, within sixty days thereafter transmit to the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application of subdivision control law on registered and unregistered land; jurisdiction of land court - Chapter 41, Section 81FF
  So far as land which has not been registered in the land court is affected by the subdivision control law, recording of the plan of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Powers of planning boards established under prior law; severability provision - Chapter 41, Section 81GG
  Any planning board having powers of subdivision control under corresponding provisions of earlier laws shall have all of the powers and be subject to all...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Authority to establish art commissions - Chapter 41, Section 82
  Cities and towns which accept this section or have accepted corresponding provisions of earlier laws may, except where their charters make special provisions therefor, establish...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appointment; membership; compensation; tenure; removal - Chapter 41, Section 83
  Within sixty days after the acceptance of the preceding section, the school committee, the board of trustees of the public library and the board of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and duties; penalty - Chapter 41, Section 84
  In any town which has accepted section eighty-two or corresponding provisions of earlier laws, no municipal structure shall be erected, and no work of art...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Weighers, measurers and surveyors of goods or commodities; appointment; qualifications; tenure; removal - Chapter 41, Section 85
  The mayor or the selectmen, on the written request of any person engaged in buying, selling or transporting goods or commodities which require weighing, surveying...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and duties; penalty for misrepresentation - Chapter 41, Section 86
  All persons appointed under section eighty-five shall keep accurate records, in the form prescribed by the director of standards, of all weighings, measurements or surveys...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Applicability of Secs. 85 and 86 to weighers, etc., of particular commodities - Chapter 41, Section 87
  The two preceding sections shall not affect the provisions of law for the appointment of weighers, measurers or surveyors of particular commodities.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Weighers and measurers of motor vehicles and trailers; appointment - Chapter 41, Section 87A
  The director of standards, upon the written request of the colonel of state police, shall appoint any of those persons appointed under section ten of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1974, 851, Sec. 2 - Chapter 41, Section 87B
  Repealed, 1974, 851, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Weighers of fish - Chapter 41, Section 88
  The mayor of each city, and the selectmen of each town, where salt water fish are landed from vessels, shall annually appoint a public weigher...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Deputy weighers of fish - Chapter 41, Section 89
  A public weigher of fish may appoint, subject to the approval of the mayor or the chairman of the selectmen, deputy weighers, for whose official...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Weighers of fish; penalty for violation of oath of office - Chapter 41, Section 90
  A weigher or any of his deputies who violates his oath of office shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five nor...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Interfering with fish weigher or deputies; penalty - Chapter 41, Section 90A
  Whoever hinders, or obstructs, or in any way interferes with a public weigher of fish or any of his deputies, in the performance of their...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Constables; appointment and removal in cities - Chapter 41, Section 91
  In a city in which the city council accepts this section, or has accepted corresponding provisions of earlier laws, constables shall be appointed by the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Constables; appointment in towns - Chapter 41, Section 91A
  The selectmen in any town may from time to time appoint, for terms not exceeding three years, as many constables as they deem necessary.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appointments; qualifications; application; investigation - Chapter 41, Section 91B
  Constables shall not be appointed by mayors or selectmen under section ninety-one or ninety-one A except as hereinafter provided. A person desiring to be appointed...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Service of civil process - Chapter 41, Section 92
  A constable who has given bond to the town in a sum of not less than one thousand dollars, with sureties approved by the selectmen,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Remedies on bond - Chapter 41, Section 93
  The town clerk shall note upon every bond given by a constable the time of filing. Any person injured by a breach of the condition...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and duties - Chapter 41, Section 94
  Constables may serve the writs and processes described in section ninety-two and warrants and processes in criminal cases, although their town, parish, religious society or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Territorial jurisdiction - Chapter 41, Section 95
  A constable, in the execution of a warrant or writ directed to him, may convey prisoners and property in his custody under such process beyond...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Service of civil process fees - Chapter 41, Section 95A
  Constables appointed under sections 91, 91A, and 91B or otherwise elected to serve as constables in a city or town shall periodically pay the city...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Records of service of civil process fees - Chapter 41, Section 95B
  Each constable shall annually on or before April 15 file with the city or town treasurer an account signed under the penalties of perjury of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Police officers; appointment; tenure; discharge - Chapter 41, Section 96
  In any town in which such appointments are not subject to chapter thirty-one, they shall be made annually or for a term of years not...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Felons disqualified - Chapter 41, Section 96A
  No person who has been convicted of any felony shall be appointed as a police officer of a city, town or district.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Police training schools; supervisory training; attendance by persons exercising police powers; wages and expenses; exceptions; removal for failure to attend - Chapter 41, Section 96B
  Every person who receives an appointment to a position on a full-time basis in which he will exercise police powers in the police department of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Police departments; establishment - Chapter 41, Section 97
  In towns which accept this section or have accepted corresponding provisions of earlier laws there shall be a police department established under the direction of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Police departments; chief of police; powers and duties - Chapter 41, Section 97A
  In any town which accepts this section there shall be a police department established by the selectmen, and such department shall be under the supervision...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rape reporting and prosecution units within police departments; training and funding; personnel; preservation of evidence - Chapter 41, Section 97B
  There shall be within the police department of every city and town, or grouping of cities and towns with the approval of the secretary of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Special telephone exchange for reporting of rape - Chapter 41, Section 97C
  Each rape reporting and prosecution unit shall, in addition to the services provided in section ninety-seven B, establish a special telephone exchange for the reporting...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Confidentiality of reports of rape and related offenses; violations; penalties - Chapter 41, Section 97D
  All reports of rape and sexual assault or attempts to commit such offenses and all conversations between police officers and victims of said offenses shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Chief of police; attendance at conventions - Chapter 41, Section 97E
  In any city or town which accepts the provisions of this section, the chief of police may, without loss of pay or vacation time, attend...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Firefighter duties; performance by police - Chapter 41, Section 97F
  No city or town shall require a member of its police department, or other employee with police powers, to perform the duties of a firefighter...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and duties - Chapter 41, Section 98
  The chief and other police officers of all cities and towns shall have all the powers and duties of constables except serving and executing civil...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Arrest on fresh and continued pursuit - Chapter 41, Section 98A
  A police officer of a city or town who is empowered to make arrests within a city or town may, on fresh and continued pursuit,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Foot patrol - Chapter 41, Section 98B
  In every city or town which has a population of forty thousand or more and which accepts the provisions of this section there shall be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Badges; identification by name or number - Chapter 41, Section 98C
  In any city or town which accepts the provisions of this section no uniformed police officer, and no other uniformed person empowered to make arrests,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Identification cards - Chapter 41, Section 98D
  Each city or town shall issue to every full-time police officer employed by it an identification card bearing the officer’s photograph and identifying information. The...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Public solicitations using words “police” or “firefighters” - Chapter 41, Section 98E
  No person or persons shall solicit the public in any manner or form using the word “police” or “firefighter” or any derivative thereof without using...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Daily logs; public records - Chapter 41, Section 98F
  Each police department and each college or university to which officers have been appointed pursuant to the provisions of section sixty-three of chapter twenty-two C...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Domestic abuse; police reports - Chapter 41, Section 98G
  Any city, town or district police department which requires an investigating police officer to make a report concerning an incident, offense or alleged offense investigated,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Requisition of police officers by other towns - Chapter 41, Section 99
  The mayor, selectmen, chief of police, or person however designated having the duties of a chief of police, or, in the absence of the chief...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Members of regular police or fire department and fire alarm division; residence outside city or town - Chapter 41, Section 99A
  Any member of the regular police or fire department and fire alarm division of a city or town appointed subsequent to August first, nineteen hundred...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Regional police district law; purpose of Secs. 99B to 99K - Chapter 41, Section 99B
  The purpose of this and the nine following sections, which shall be designated and may be known as “The regional police district law”, is to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment - Chapter 41, Section 99C
  Any group of contiguous towns may, by vote of their respective registered voters, vote to establish a regional police district, the area of jurisdiction of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Town elections for acceptance; ballots - Chapter 41, Section 99D
  In towns using official ballots at town elections, acceptance of the provisions of the regional police district law shall be by vote in answer to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and duties - Chapter 41, Section 99E
  A regional police district established under section ninety-nine D shall be a body politic and corporate with all the powers and duties conferred by law...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Regional police district commission; membership; officers - Chapter 41, Section 99F
  The powers, duties and liabilities of a regional police district shall be vested in and exercised by a regional police district commission organized by the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Budget; apportionment; appropriations - Chapter 41, Section 99G
  The regional police district commission shall annually determine the amounts necessary to be raised to maintain and operate the district police during the ensuing calendar...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Annual audits - Chapter 41, Section 99H
  The director of accounts in the department of revenue shall annually cause an audit to be made of the accounts of the regional police district...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Costs and expenses; annual estimates; apportionment; assessment of towns - Chapter 41, Section 99I
  Said commission shall, annually not later than December first, estimate the amount of money required to pay the costs and expenses of the district for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Regional district police department; pending prosecutions; personnel transfers. - Chapter 41, Section 99J
  Each regional police district commission shall organize a regional district police department, and such department shall begin operations and otherwise take effect on January first...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Revocation of acceptance of regional police district law; town elections; ballot; continuity of district - Chapter 41, Section 99K
  In towns using official ballots at town elections, revocation of the provisions of the regional police district law shall be by vote in answer to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Indemnification of police officers, firemen and persons aiding them; actions for intentional or negligent injuries inflicted upon same - Chapter 41, Section 100
  Upon application by a fire fighter or police officer of a city, town or fire or water district, or in the event of the physical...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1978, 512, Sec. 10 - Chapter 41, Section 100A
  Repealed, 1978, 512, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Indemnification of retired police officers and fire fighters - Chapter 41, Section 100B
  Any city operating under a Plan D or Plan E charter which accepts this section by the affirmative vote of two thirds of all the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1978, 512, Sec. 10 - Chapter 41, Section 100C to 100F
  Repealed, 1978, 512, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Payment of funeral and burial expenses of fire fighters and police officers killed in performance of duties; acceptance of section - Chapter 41, Section 100G
  Any city operating under a Plan D or Plan E charter, by the affirmative vote of a majority of its city council or any other...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Payment of funeral and burial expenses of firefighters and police officers killed in performance of duties; acceptance of section - Chapter 41, Section 100G1/4
  Any city operating under a Plan D or Plan E charter, by the affirmative vote of a majority of its city council or any other...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Attendance by police officers at police association executive board meetings; acceptance of section - Chapter 41, Section 100G1/2
  Members of the police department in a city, town or district may be excused from duty without loss of compensation while in attendance of meetings...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Indemnification of law enforcement officers for dogs used in connection with official duties - Chapter 41, Section 100H
  If an action is brought against a law enforcement officer because of damage caused by a dog which said officer was caring for or maintaining...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1978, 512, Sec. 10 - Chapter 41, Section 100I 100J
  Repealed, 1978, 512, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Commissioner of public safety; powers and duties - Chapter 41, Section 101
  If a town so votes under section twenty-one the selectmen shall appoint a suitable person as chief of the police and fire departments who may...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Police officers or firefighters; tobacco smoking - Chapter 41, Section 101A
  Subsequent to January first, nineteen hundred and eighty-eight, no person who smokes any tobacco product shall be eligible for appointment as a police officer or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inspector of health - Chapter 41, Section 102
  If a town votes under section twenty-one to have its selectmen act as a board of health, the selectmen may appoint an inspector of health,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appointment in towns under three thousand population - Chapter 41, Section 102A
  In any town of not exceeding three thousand inhabitants which votes under section twenty-one to have its selectmen act as a board of health and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appointment in towns of 5,000 or more inhabitants - Chapter 41, Section 102B
  In any town of five thousand inhabitants or more which accepts this section, the board of health shall appoint a full-time inspector of health who...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Purchasing department; purchasing agent; duties and salaries - Chapter 41, Section 103
  A city which accepts this section in the manner provided in the following section or has accepted corresponding provisions of earlier laws, or a town...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment of purchasing department; submission to electorate - Chapter 41, Section 104
  A city council, with the approval of the mayor, may vote to submit the preceding section to the qualified voters of the city at any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Board of trustees for soldiers’ memorials; powers and duties; membership; tenure; vacancies; rules and regulations - Chapter 41, Section 105
  Towns which accept gifts or bequests or appropriate money for the purpose of properly commemorating the services and sacrifices of the soldiers, sailors, marines and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Tree warden; appointment; term - Chapter 41, Section 106
  If the town provides by vote or by-law that the tree warden shall be appointed, such appointment shall be made by the board of selectmen....
• Massachusetts General Laws - Town physician; appointment in certain towns - Chapter 41, Section 106A
  In any town of not exceeding three thousand inhabitants which accepts this section by vote in town meeting, the selectmen may appoint the school physician...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Capital planning committee; establishment; duties - Chapter 41, Section 106B
  A town at its annual town meeting may by by-law establish a capital planning committee. Said by-law shall prescribe the composition, mode of appointment or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Oath of office; beginning of term - Chapter 41, Section 107
  A person who is elected town clerk shall be sworn either by the moderator or by a justice of the peace, and shall enter upon...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Compensation - Chapter 41, Section 108
  The salary and compensation of all elected officers of a town shall be fixed annually by vote of the town at an annual town meeting,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Classification of positions; compensation plans; rules and regulations - Chapter 41, Section 108A
  A city by ordinance and a town by by-law may establish, and from time to time amend, a plan classifying any or all positions, other...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Assessors and tax collectors in districts; compensation and expenses - Chapter 41, Section 108B
  In a town in which a district has been created and is operating under a law which requires the assessors of the town to assess...
• Massachusetts General Laws - By-laws pertaining to administration of personnel; consolidation - Chapter 41, Section 108C
  A town may consolidate, in a single chapter or article, all provisions of its by-laws pertaining to the administration of its personnel, including, among other...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fire fighters; minimum annual compensation - Chapter 41, Section 108D
  Notwithstanding the provisions of section thirty-three A of chapter forty-four and any other general or special law to the contrary, the minimum annual compensation of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Policemen; schedule of minimum annual compensation - Chapter 41, Section 108E
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the minimum annual compensation of each regular police officer of the police department...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fire fighters; schedule of minimum annual compensation - Chapter 41, Section 108F
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the minimum annual compensation of each fire fighter, permanently employed, in the fire...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Policemen; alternate schedule of minimum annual compensation - Chapter 41, Section 108G
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the minimum annual compensation of each regular police officer of the police department...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fire fighters assigned to photographic work; additional compensation - Chapter 41, Section 108H
  In any city or town which accepts the provisions of this section, a member of the fire department assigned to photographic work in said department...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Policemen assigned to photographic or fingerprint identification work; additional compensation - Chapter 41, Section 108I
  In any city or town which accepts the provisions of this section, a member of the police department assigned to photographic or fingerprint identification work...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Equal pay of male and female employees - Chapter 41, Section 108J
  In any city or town which accepts this section, male and female employees in classified civil service employed in the same grades who, in the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Female police officers; equality of compensation - Chapter 41, Section 108K
  A female regular police officer in a city or town shall receive compensation equal, in all respects, to the compensation received by a male regular...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Police career incentive pay program; salary increases; reimbursement of cities or towns - Chapter 41, Section 108L
  There is hereby established a career incentive pay program offering base salary increases to regular full-time members of the various city and town police departments...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Police officers attending law enforcement courses at accredited college or university for degree; payment of salary; duty hours; agreement - Chapter 41, Section 108M
  A city or town which employs a permanent police officer who is enrolled as a student in good standing in a police, law enforcement, criminal...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Town manager, administrator, executive secretary, or administrative assistant; employment contract - Chapter 41, Section 108N
  Notwithstanding the provision of any general or special law to the contrary, any city or town acting through its board of selectmen or city council...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Employment contracts for police chiefs and fire chiefs - Chapter 41, Section 108O
  Any city or town acting through its appointing authority, may establish an employment contract for the salary, fringe benefits, and other conditions of employment, including...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Additional compensation for collectors or treasurers - Chapter 41, Section 108P
  In any city, town or district that accepts this section, a collector or a treasurer who has completed the necessary courses of study and training...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Resignation; notice; residence requirements - Chapter 41, Section 109
  No resignation of a town or district officer shall be deemed effective unless and until such resignation is filed with the town or district clerk...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fidelity bonds; payment of premiums - Chapter 41, Section 109A
  Every officer or employee of a city, town or district required to furnish a fidelity bond with a surety or sureties shall furnish a bond...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Authorization for holidays - Chapter 41, Section 110
  The city council of a city may provide that the employees, including laborers, mechanics and all other classes of workmen employed by the city, shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Office hours on Saturday - Chapter 41, Section 110A
  Any public office in any city or town may remain closed on any or all Saturdays as may be determined from time to time, in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Vacations of certain employees - Chapter 41, Section 111
  In any city or town which has accepted chapter two hundred and seventeen of the acts of nineteen hundred and fourteen or has accepted this...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Vacations for police and firemen - Chapter 41, Section 111A
  In any city or town which accepts this section or has accepted corresponding provisions of earlier law, on January first in each year every member...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sick leaves; accumulation - Chapter 41, Section 111B
  Any foreman, laborer, workman or mechanic regularly employed by any city or town which accepts this section shall, when entitled thereto, be granted sick leaves...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Attendance by employee veterans at funerals or memorial services for veterans - Chapter 41, Section 111C
  Any employee of a city or town who is a veteran, as defined in section one of chapter thirty-one, may, when authorized by the mayor...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Vacations for police and firemen - Chapter 41, Section 111D
  In any city or town which accepts this section, all members of its regular police or fire force may be granted a vacation without loss...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Vacation pay for terminated employees; conditions - Chapter 41, Section 111E
  Whenever the employment of any person subject to section one hundred and eleven or sections one hundred and eleven A, one hundred and eleven D...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Leave with pay for incapacitated employees - Chapter 41, Section 111F
  [ First paragraph effective until March 14, 2014. For text effective March 14, 2014, see below.] Whenever a police officer or fire fighter of a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Additional vacation time for longevity - Chapter 41, Section 111G
  In any city or town in which the provisions of section one hundred and eleven apply and which accepts this section, in the manner hereinafter...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Vacations; duration - Chapter 41, Section 111G1/2
  In any city or town in which the provisions of section one hundred and eleven apply and which accepts this section, any employee thereof who...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Overtime pay for police officers; conditions - Chapter 41, Section 111H
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, any police officer of a city or town who is required to perform...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Compensation due deceased employees; disposition - Chapter 41, Section 111I
  Whenever any officer or employee or former officer or employee of a city or town dies, and such city or town owes his estate any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Attendance at veterans’ conventions - Chapter 41, Section 111J
  Any employee of a city or town who is a delegate or alternate to a state or national convention of a veterans’ organization chartered by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Firemen; summer vacations - Chapter 41, Section 111K
  In any city or town which accepts this section, any vacation to which a member of its regular or permanent fire force is entitled shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Policemen and firemen; vacations; 20 years’ service - Chapter 41, Section 111L
  In any city or town in which the provisions of section one hundred and eleven D apply and which accepts this section all members of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Emergency medical technicians; leave without loss of pay while incapacitated - Chapter 41, Section 111M
  In any city or town which accepts this section, an employee of a city or town or fire or water district who is responsible for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Indemnification of emergency medical technicians for certain expenses - Chapter 41, Section 111N
  Any city operating under a Plan D or Plan E charter which accepts this section by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of all the members...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Preference in public employment - Chapter 41, Section 112
  In towns and regional school districts in which the provisions of chapter thirty-one and the rules governing the civil service have not been applied to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Veterans in unclassified positions; procedure for involuntary separation - Chapter 41, Section 112A
  A veteran, as defined in section one of chapter thirty-one, who holds in the service of a city which accepts this section by vote of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Use of official ballots - Chapter 41, Section 113
  A district situated in one or more towns where official ballots are used may, at the annual meeting or at a meeting called for the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application of election laws - Chapter 41, Section 114
  Where official ballots are used nominations for district officers elected by ballot shall be made, ballots and other apparatus therefor provided, and the elections of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nomination papers; filing; certificates of nomination - Chapter 41, Section 115
  Every nomination paper of a candidate for office in said districts shall, before being filed, be submitted, on or before five o’clock in the afternoon...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Duties of prudential committee and clerk in certain districts - Chapter 41, Section 116
  In carrying out the provisions of sections one hundred and thirteen to one hundred and nineteen, inclusive, the prudential committee, if any, otherwise the commissioners,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - District elections; provision for election equipment; liability for expenses - Chapter 41, Section 117
  The town where a district is situated shall provide for said district an official ballot box and other necessary election paraphernalia when they are required...
• Massachusetts General Laws - District elections; provision for forms, tally and vote sheets - Chapter 41, Section 118
  Upon request of the clerk of a town wherein any such district uses the official ballot, the state secretary shall supply for use of such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - District meetings; qualifications - Chapter 41, Section 119
  Said districts may hold the meeting for the election of officers and the business meeting on the same day, or they may hold the election...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fiscal year of districts - Chapter 41, Section 120
  The fiscal year of all districts shall begin with July first and end with the following June thirtieth, notwithstanding the provisions of special laws or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - District treasurers; qualifications - Chapter 41, Section 121
  The provisions of section thirty-five of chapter forty-one and of section fifty-five A of chapter forty-four, so far as apt, shall apply to the treasurer...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Temporary treasurer; appointment; bond - Chapter 41, Section 122
  Unless otherwise provided by law, if the office of treasurer of a district is vacant, or if the treasurer is absent, or unable to perform...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Temporary clerk; appointment; bond - Chapter 41, Section 123
  Unless otherwise provided by law, if the office of clerk of a district is vacant, or if the clerk is absent, or unable to perform...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Assistant treasurers and assistant clerks; appointment; bond - Chapter 41, Section 123A
  In a district, the prudential committee, if any, otherwise the commissioners, may in writing appoint an assistant treasurer who may be an employee of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fire and water districts; appropriation for cost of water favorability studies - Chapter 41, Section 124
  Fire and water districts, whether established by general law or special law, may appropriate money for the payment to the commonwealth of the district’s share...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Temporary housing assistance plans - Chapter 41, Section 125
  The city manager in cities having a plan D or E charter, the mayor in all other cities, and the board of selectmen in towns...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 41, Section 126
  The following words, as used in sections one hundred and twenty-six to one hundred and thirty-two, inclusive, shall have the following meanings, unless a different...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Eligibility to apply for tenure; offices excepted; restrictions; duration of tenure; removal for cause - Chapter 41, Section 127
  Any person who has held an appointive office in a city, town or district for at least five consecutive years shall be eligible to apply...
• Massachusetts General Laws - City offices; application statement; filing; approval procedure; denial, re-application time limit - Chapter 41, Section 128
  Any person applying for tenure in an appointive city office shall file an application statement with the city clerk and shall deliver copies thereof in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Town offices; application statement; filing; approval procedure; denial, re-application time limit - Chapter 41, Section 129
  Any person applying for tenure in an appointive town office shall file an application statement with the town clerk and shall deliver copies thereof in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Applicability of town tenure provisions to districts - Chapter 41, Section 130
  The provisions of section one hundred and twenty-seven and sections one hundred and twenty-nine to one hundred and thirty-two, inclusive, as they apply to towns,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - City or town offices; application statement by head of department for tenure of its members; filing; approval procedure; denial, re-application time limit - Chapter 41, Section 131
  Any department head of a city or town applying for tenure for members of his department who have served for five consecutive years or more...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Tenure limitations - Chapter 41, Section 132
  The tenure provisions of sections one hundred and twenty-six to one hundred and thirty-one, inclusive, shall be limited as follows: (a) Said provisions shall not...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appointment and reappointment of police officers - Chapter 41, Section 133
  Pursuant to this chapter, and notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the appointment and reappointment of full-time police officers...

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