General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 43 City Charters

• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 43, Section 1
  The following words as used in this chapter shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the following meanings: “Officer”, “officers” and “administrative officers”, when used...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Authorization to adopt a plan of government - Chapter 43, Section 2
  Any city, except Boston, which shall adopt, in the manner hereinafter prescribed, one of the plans of government provided in this chapter shall thereafter be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Effect of chapter on legislative powers of cities - Chapter 43, Section 3
  None of the legislative powers of a city shall be abridged or impaired by this chapter; but all such legislative powers shall be possessed and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Effect of adoption of governmental plan on ordinances, etc. - Chapter 43, Section 4
  Ordinances, resolutions, orders or other regulations of a city or of any authorized body or official thereof, existing at the time when such city adopts...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Existing organization to continue until superseded - Chapter 43, Section 5
  Until superseded under this chapter, the organization of the executive and administrative departments, and the powers and duties of the officers and employees of any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Wards, number and boundaries to continue until changed under law - Chapter 43, Section 6
  The territory of a city adopting any of the plans of government provided for in this chapter shall continue to be divided into the same...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Adoption of plan; filing of petition calling for vote - Chapter 43, Section 7
  A petition addressed to the city council, signed by qualified voters of the city to a number equal at least to ten per cent of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Adoption of plan; form of petition - Chapter 43, Section 8
  The petition shall be substantially in the following form: To the city council of the city of We the undersigned, qualified voters of the city,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Plan A, B, C, D or E; proceeding after filing of petition; submission to electorate - Chapter 43, Section 9
  In the case of a petition for the adoption of Plan A, B, C, D or E, within seventy days after the petition has been...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1961, 146, Sec. 2 - Chapter 43, Section 9A
  Repealed, 1961, 146, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Plan F; proceeding after filing of petition; submission to electorate - Chapter 43, Section 9B
  In the case of a petition for the adoption of Plan F, within seventy days after such petition has been filed with him by the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Number of plans considered at election; procedure on subsequent petitions - Chapter 43, Section 10
  The question of the adoption of not more than one plan may be submitted at an election. If, pending the determination of the question proposed...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Majority vote required for adoption of plan; effect of adoption; election of officers - Chapter 43, Section 11
  If a majority of the total number of votes cast at a regular city election for and against the adoption of one of the plans...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Petition for other plans after unfavorable election - Chapter 43, Section 12
  Should a majority of the votes cast be against the adoption of the plan proposed, no petition proposing the same plan shall be filed within...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Duration of plan adopted - Chapter 43, Section 13
  Should any plan provided for in this chapter be adopted, it shall continue in force for at least four years from the beginning of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Officials to expedite transition to adopted plan - Chapter 43, Section 14
  The mayor, the aldermen and the common council, the city council or other legislative body, and the city clerk in office when any plan set...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dates of elections under adopted plan; municipal year defined - Chapter 43, Section 15
  After the adoption by any city of any plan provided for by this chapter (a) If the plan adopted provides for annual elections, regular municipal...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Primaries and caucuses prohibited - Chapter 43, Section 16
  No primary or caucus for municipal officers shall be held, except in a city under Plan F. Candidates for mayor, city council and school committee,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Plan F; primaries and caucuses - Chapter 43, Section 16A
  The city primary and election under Plan F shall, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, be conducted under the provisions of the statutes of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Oath of office; time of taking - Chapter 43, Section 17
  On the first Monday in January following a regular municipal election, at ten o’clock in the forenoon, the mayor-elect if elected by the people, the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Salaries of mayor, city manager and council - Chapter 43, Section 17A
  The mayor or city manager and the members of the city council shall receive for their services such salary as the city council shall by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Compensation of mayor and city council - Chapter 43, Section 17B
  In a city under Plan F the mayor and the members of the city council shall receive for their services such salary as the city...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Four-year term for mayors in certain cities; acceptance by election; application of section - Chapter 43, Section 17C
  Upon the filing with the city clerk of a petition, which petition shall be subject to the provisions of section seven or section seven A...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Two-year term for mayors in cities under Sec. 17C; acceptance by election - Chapter 43, Section 17D
  In any city in which the term of office of mayor is four years under the provisions of section seventeen C, upon the filing with...
• Massachusetts General Laws - City council; powers and duties - Chapter 43, Section 18
  Except as otherwise provided in this section, the legislative powers of the city council may be exercised as provided by ordinance or rule adopted by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Duties of mayor or city manager; attendance at council meetings; disclosure of information - Chapter 43, Section 19
  The city council at any time may request from the mayor, or, under Plan D or E, from the city manager, specific information on any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Passage of ordinances - Chapter 43, Section 20
  No ordinance shall be passed finally on the date on which it is introduced, except in cases of special emergency involving the health or safety...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Amendments and repeals of ordinances - Chapter 43, Section 21
  No ordinance shall be amended or repealed except by an ordinance adopted in accordance with this chapter.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Ordinances, etc.; passage at one session - Chapter 43, Section 22
  Any ordinance, order or resolution may be passed through all its stages of legislation at one session, provided that no member of the council objects...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Ordinances; publication - Chapter 43, Section 23
  Every proposed ordinance or loan order, except emergency measures as hereinbefore defined and revenue loan orders, shall be published once in full in at least...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Adoption of plan; effect on obligations, taxes and legal acts - Chapter 43, Section 24
  All official bonds, recognizances, obligations, contracts and other instruments entered into or executed by or to the city before its adoption of a plan provided...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Employees in mayor’s office not subject to civil service - Chapter 43, Section 25
  The civil service laws shall not apply to the appointment of the mayor’s secretaries or of the stenographers, clerks, telephone operators and messengers connected with...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Vacancies in office of mayor or city council; acting mayor - Chapter 43, Section 26
  Except as otherwise provided in sections fifty A, fifty-nine A, eighty-six, one hundred and two and one hundred and twenty-one, if a vacancy occurs in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Interest in public contracts by public employees prohibited; penalty - Chapter 43, Section 27
  No mayor or member of the city council or school committee and no officer or employee of the city shall directly or indirectly make a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1984, 484, Sec. 42 - Chapter 43, Section 28 28A
  Repealed, 1984, 484, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Public contracts; form; required approvals; bond, etc. - Chapter 43, Section 29
  All contracts made by any department, board or commission where the amount involved is five thousand dollars or more shall be in writing, and no...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Purchase or taking of land - Chapter 43, Section 30
  At the request of any department, and with the approval of the mayor and city council under Plan A, B, C or F, or with...
• Massachusetts General Laws - School committee; membership; tenure - Chapter 43, Section 31
  The school committee shall consist of the mayor, who shall be the chairman, and six members elected at large. At the first regular municipal election...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Superintendent of schools; election; appointment of other school employees. - Chapter 43, Section 32
  The school committee shall elect a superintendent of schools annually, except as provided in section forty-one of chapter seventy-one, and may, under chapter thirty-one, appoint,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - School committee; powers and duties - Chapter 43, Section 33
  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter and subject to any laws which limit the amount of money that may be appropriated in any city...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Location and erection of schools; approvals required - Chapter 43, Section 34
  No site for a school building shall be acquired by the city unless the approval of the site by the school committee is first obtained....
• Massachusetts General Laws - Open and public meetings; yea and nay vote - Chapter 43, Section 35
  All meetings of the school committee shall be open to the press and to the public, except as otherwise authorized by section twenty-three A of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - School committee; filling vacancies - Chapter 43, Section 36
  Except as provided in this section, if a vacancy occurs in the school committee by failure to elect, or otherwise, the city council and the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Initiative petition; measure defined - Chapter 43, Section 37
  A petition conforming to the requirements hereinafter provided and requesting the city council to pass a measure, except an order granted under section seventy or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Initiative petitions; validity of signatures; objections - Chapter 43, Section 38
  Signatures to initiative petitions need not be all on one paper. The papers constituting a petition shall be filed in the office of the city...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Initiative petition; passage and submission to electorate - Chapter 43, Section 39
  If any initiative petition is signed by registered voters equal in number to at least fifteen per cent of the whole number of registered voters:...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Proceedings if initiative petition not properly signed - Chapter 43, Section 40
  If an initiative petition is signed by registered voters equal in number to at least eight per cent but less than fifteen per cent of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Contents of ballot for proposed measure - Chapter 43, Section 41
  The ballots used when voting upon a proposed measure under section thirty-nine or forty, or a measure or part thereof protested against under the following...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Referendum petition; effect on final passage - Chapter 43, Section 42
  If, within twenty days after the final passage of any measure, except a revenue loan order, by the city council or by the school committee,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Submission of proposed measure to voters - Chapter 43, Section 43
  The city council may, of its own motion, and shall, upon request of the school committee if a measure originates with that committee and pertains...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Measures with conflicting provisions - Chapter 43, Section 44
  If two or more proposed measures passed at the same election contain conflicting provisions, only the one receiving the greater number of affirmative votes shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Preliminary elections; contents of notices - Chapter 43, Section 44A
  In every city, governed on September first, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, by any plan provided by this chapter, which accepts sections forty-four A to forty-four...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inclusion of name on ballot; prerequisites - Chapter 43, Section 44B
  Except as otherwise provided in section forty-four G, there shall not be printed on the official ballot to be used at any regular or special...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Candidates for nomination; qualifications; statement and petition - Chapter 43, Section 44C
  Any person who is qualified to vote for a candidate for any elective municipal office and who is a candidate for nomination thereto, shall be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Official ballot; posting lists of candidates; drawing for position on ballot - Chapter 43, Section 44D
  On the first day, other than Sunday or a legal holiday, following the expiration of the time for filing the above described statement and petition,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Counting ballots; canvass of returns - Chapter 43, Section 44E
  The election officers shall, immediately upon the closing of the polls at preliminary elections, count the ballots and ascertain the number of votes cast in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Determination of candidates for election - Chapter 43, Section 44F
  The two persons receiving at a preliminary election the highest number of votes for nomination for an office shall, except as provided by section forty-four...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nomination of candidates; conditions making preliminary election unnecessary - Chapter 43, Section 44G
  If at the expiration of the time for filing statements of candidates to be voted for at any preliminary election not more than twice as...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Acceptance of sections dealing with preliminary elections; submission to electorate - Chapter 43, Section 44H
  If, in a city governed on September first, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, by one of the plans provided by this chapter, there is filed with...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Provisions applicable to adoption of any governmental plan - Chapter 43, Section 45
  Sections one to forty-four G, inclusive, shall, upon the adoption by any city of any of the plans hereinafter set forth, apply to the plan...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Plan A - Chapter 43, Section 46
  The method of city government provided for in the ten following sections shall be known as Plan A.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Effective date of plan - Chapter 43, Section 47
  Upon the adoption of Plan A, it shall become operative as provided in sections one to forty-five, inclusive.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Mayor as chief executive officer; term of office - Chapter 43, Section 48
  There shall be a mayor, elected by and from the qualified voters of the city, who shall be the chief executive officer of the city....
• Massachusetts General Laws - Party designations on ballots prohibited - Chapter 43, Section 49
  No ballot used at any annual, biennial or special city election shall have printed thereon any party or political designation or mark, and there shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - City council; number; election; tenure - Chapter 43, Section 50
  The legislative powers of the city shall be vested in a city council, consisting of nine persons, elected at large by and from the qualified...
• Massachusetts General Laws - City council; filling vacancies in - Chapter 43, Section 50A
  Vacancies in the city council shall be filled by the remaining members thereof for the remainder of the unexpired term.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1952, 259, Sec. 3 - Chapter 43, Section 51
  Repealed, 1952, 259, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appointments of employees by mayor without confirmation - Chapter 43, Section 52
  Upon the adoption of Plan A, all heads of departments and members of municipal boards, except the school committee, officials appointed by the governor, and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of appointment - Chapter 43, Section 53
  In making his appointments the mayor shall sign and file with the city clerk a certificate in the following form: Certificate of Appointment I appoint...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Removal of officials; exceptions - Chapter 43, Section 54
  The mayor may remove the head of a department or member of a board by filing a written statement with the city clerk setting forth...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Approval or veto by mayor of orders, ordinances, etc.; overriding veto - Chapter 43, Section 55
  Every order, ordinance, resolution and vote relative to the affairs of the city, adopted or passed by the city council, shall be presented to the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Plan B - Chapter 43, Section 56
  The method of city government provided for in the eight following sections shall be known as Plan B.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Operative date of plan - Chapter 43, Section 57
  Upon the adoption by a city of Plan B, it shall become operative as provided in sections one to forty-five, inclusive.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Mayor as chief executive officer; election; tenure - Chapter 43, Section 58
  There shall be a mayor, elected by and from the qualified voters of the city, who shall be the chief executive officer of the city....
• Massachusetts General Laws - City council; number; election; tenure - Chapter 43, Section 59
  The legislative powers of the city shall be vested in a city council. One of its members shall be elected by the council annually as...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Vacancies in office of mayor and council; procedure for filling - Chapter 43, Section 59A
  If a vacancy occurs in the office of mayor by death, removal or resignation at any time during the first year of the term ending...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appointments by mayor subject to confirmation; exceptions - Chapter 43, Section 60
  Upon the adoption of Plan B, all heads of departments and members of municipal boards, except the school committee, officials appointed by the governor, and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Removals - Chapter 43, Section 61
  The mayor may, with the approval of a majority of the members of the city council, remove the head of a department or member of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1952, 259, Sec. 3 - Chapter 43, Section 62
  Repealed, 1952, 259, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Approval and veto offer of mayor - Chapter 43, Section 63
  Section fifty-five shall apply to cities which adopt Plan B.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Plan C - Chapter 43, Section 64
  The method of city government provided for in the fourteen following sections shall be known as Plan C.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Effective date of plan adopted - Chapter 43, Section 65
  Upon the adoption by a city of Plan C, it shall become operative as provided in sections one to forty-five, inclusive.
• Massachusetts General Laws - City council; powers and duties - Chapter 43, Section 66
  The government of the city and the general management and control of all of its affairs shall be vested in a city council, which shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Membership; duties of individual commissioners; tenure - Chapter 43, Section 67
  The city council shall consist of the following five members: a mayor, who shall be the commissioner of administration; a commissioner of finance; a commissioner...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Terms of office - Chapter 43, Section 68
  The terms of office of the members of the council shall commence at ten o’clock in the forenoon of the first Monday in January following...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Organization; oath of office - Chapter 43, Section 69
  The city council elected as aforesaid shall meet at ten o’clock in the forenoon on the first Monday of January in each year, and the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Meetings - Chapter 43, Section 70
  The city council shall fix suitable times for regular meetings. The mayor, the president of the city council or any two members thereof may at...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Quorum; open and public meetings; duties of city clerk; method of voting - Chapter 43, Section 71
  A majority of the members of the city council shall constitute a quorum. Except as otherwise authorized by section twenty-three A of chapter thirty-nine, all...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and duties - Chapter 43, Section 72
  The city council shall have and exercise all the legislative powers of the city, except as such powers are reserved to the school committee and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Methods of action; itemization of appropriations - Chapter 43, Section 73
  In legislative session, the city council shall act by ordinance, resolution, order or vote. The yeas and nays shall be taken upon the passage of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Mayor; status; powers and duties; acting mayor - Chapter 43, Section 74
  The mayor shall be the chief executive officer of the city, commissioner of administration and, ex officio, chairman of the school committee. When present, he...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Distribution of executive powers; determination of policies - Chapter 43, Section 75
  All executive and administrative powers, authorities and duties, not otherwise provided for in this chapter, shall be assigned to a suitable department by the city...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appointment and removal of department heads - Chapter 43, Section 76
  Each commissioner may, except as is otherwise provided herein, appoint a qualified person to serve as the head of each of the departments under his...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Department records; publication of reports - Chapter 43, Section 77
  Each of said commissioners shall keep a record book in which shall be recorded a brief but clear and comprehensive record of all affairs of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1952, 259, Sec. 3 - Chapter 43, Section 78
  Repealed, 1952, 259, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Plan D; effective date - Chapter 43, Section 79
  The method of city government provided for in the following fourteen sections shall be known as Plan D. Upon the adoption by a city of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 43, Section 80
  The terms “city clerk” and “registrars of voters” when used in sections seventy-nine to ninety-two A, inclusive, shall have the respective meanings given them by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Management and control of city government by mayor and council - Chapter 43, Section 81
  The government of the city and the general management and control of all its affairs shall, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, be vested...
• Massachusetts General Laws - City council, membership; election; terms - Chapter 43, Section 82
  The city council shall consist of seven or nine members, as provided in this section, all of whom shall, at each regular municipal election, be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - City council; powers and duties; organization; oaths of office - Chapter 43, Section 83
  The city council shall have and exercise all the legislative powers of the city, except as such powers are reserved by this chapter to the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Meetings of city council - Chapter 43, Section 84
  The city council shall fix suitable times for its regular meetings. The mayor, or any four members of the city council, or any three members...
• Massachusetts General Laws - City council; quorum; duties of city clerk; records; procedure - Chapter 43, Section 85
  A majority of all the members elected to the city council shall constitute a quorum. The mayor, if present, shall preside at the meetings and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Mayor; powers and duties - Chapter 43, Section 86
  The mayor shall be recognized as the official head of the city for all ceremonial purposes and shall be recognized by the courts for the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1952, 259, Sec. 3 - Chapter 43, Section 87
  Repealed, 1952, 259, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Vacancies - Chapter 43, Section 88
  Except as provided in this section, a vacancy in any elective body shall be filled for the unexpired term by a majority vote of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - City manager; qualifications; tenure; compensation; removal - Chapter 43, Section 89
  The city council shall appoint a city manager who shall be the chief administrative officer of the city and shall be responsible for the administration...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and duties of city manager - Chapter 43, Section 90
  Except as otherwise specifically provided in this chapter, it shall be the duty of the city manager to act as chief conservator of the peace...
• Massachusetts General Laws - City officers and employees - Chapter 43, Section 91
  Upon recommendation of the city manager, the city council may by ordinance establish and provide for such officers and employees as shall be determined necessary...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Interference with city manager by council forbidden; penalty - Chapter 43, Section 92
  Neither the city council nor any of its committees or members shall direct or request the appointment of any person to, or his removal from,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Solicitation of contributions for political parties, etc., by employees forbidden; penalty - Chapter 43, Section 92A
  No employee of any department, board or commission of the city shall, directly or indirectly, give, solicit or receive, or in any manner be concerned...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Plan E; effective upon adoption - Chapter 43, Section 93
  The method of city government provided for in the following twenty-three sections shall be known as Plan E. Upon the adoption by a city of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 43, Section 94
  The terms “city clerk” and “registrars of voters” when used in sections ninety-three to one hundred and sixteen, inclusive, shall have the respective meanings given...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Governing power of city council, etc. - Chapter 43, Section 95
  The government of the city and the general management and control of all its affairs shall, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, be vested...
• Massachusetts General Laws - City council; membership; tenure - Chapter 43, Section 96
  The city council shall consist of seven or nine members, as provided in this section, all of whom shall, at each regular municipal election, be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - City council; powers and duties; organization - Chapter 43, Section 97
  The city council shall have and exercise all the legislative powers of the city, except as such powers are reserved by this chapter to the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Meetings of city council - Chapter 43, Section 98
  The city council shall fix suitable times for its regular meetings. The mayor, or the vice-chairman of the city council, or any four members thereof,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Quorum; presiding officer; duties of city clerk; voting procedure - Chapter 43, Section 99
  A majority of all the members elected to the city council shall constitute a quorum. The mayor, if present, shall preside at the meetings and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Mayor; official head of city; powers and duties; vice-chairman - Chapter 43, Section 100
  The mayor shall be recognized as the official head of the city for all ceremonial purposes and shall be recognized by the courts for the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1952, 259, Sec. 3 - Chapter 43, Section 101
  Repealed, 1952, 259, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Vacancies in elective bodies - Chapter 43, Section 102
  Except as provided in this section, a vacancy in any elective body shall be filled in the manner provided in section thirteen of chapter fifty-four...
• Massachusetts General Laws - City manager; appointment; qualifications; compensation; removal - Chapter 43, Section 103
  The city council shall appoint a city manager who shall be sworn to the faithful performance of his duties and who shall be the chief...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Powers, rights and duties of city manager - Chapter 43, Section 104
  Except as otherwise specifically provided in this chapter, it shall be the duty of the city manager to act as chief conservator of the peace...
• Massachusetts General Laws - City officers and employees; appointments and removals - Chapter 43, Section 105
  Such officers and employees as the city council, with the advice of the city manager, shall determine are necessary for the proper administration of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Officers and employees; regulations; penalty for violations - Chapter 43, Section 106
  Officers and employees of the city appointed by, or under the authority of, the city manager shall perform the duties required of them by the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Interference with city manager by council forbidden; penalty - Chapter 43, Section 107
  Neither the city council nor any of its committees or members shall direct or request the appointment of any person to, or his removal from,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Solicitation of political contributions by employees; penalties - Chapter 43, Section 108
  No employee of any department, board or commission of the city shall, directly or indirectly, solicit or receive, or in any manner be concerned in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Regular municipal election; date - Chapter 43, Section 109
  The regular municipal election under this plan shall take place on the Tuesday next following the first Monday of November in every odd numbered year,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Candidates; statement and petition - Chapter 43, Section 110
  Any registered voter of the city who is eligible for election to any elective municipal body shall be entitled to have his name printed as...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nomination papers - Chapter 43, Section 111
  Any nomination papers filed under section one hundred and ten bearing more than the maximum number of signatures permitted thereby shall be invalid. No voter...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Ballots; form and contents - Chapter 43, Section 112
  There shall be a separate form of ballot for each body to be elected, and each such separate form of ballot shall be of a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Preparing ballots, etc.; procedure - Chapter 43, Section 113
  The provisions of sections five, six and seven of chapter fifty-four A and so much of section eight thereof as relates to the order of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Counting of ballots; procedure - Chapter 43, Section 114
  As soon as the polls have closed, the election officials at each polling place shall seal the ballot box without opening it, and in such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1972, 596, Sec. 1 - Chapter 43, Section 115
  Repealed, 1972, 596, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - General election laws; applicability - Chapter 43, Section 116
  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, all regular elections held under this plan shall be subject to all general laws relating to elections and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Plan F - Chapter 43, Section 117
  The method of city government provided for in the ten following sections shall be known as Plan F.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Operative date - Chapter 43, Section 118
  Upon the adoption by a city of Plan F, it shall become operative as provided in sections one to forty-five, inclusive.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Mayor; election; term - Chapter 43, Section 119
  There shall be a mayor, elected by and from the qualified voters of the city, who shall be the chief executive officer of the city....
• Massachusetts General Laws - Legislative powers; election and term of city council - Chapter 43, Section 120
  The legislative powers of the city shall be vested in a city council. One of its members shall be elected by the council annually as...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Vacancies - Chapter 43, Section 121
  If a vacancy occurs in the office of mayor by death, removal or resignation at any time during the first year of the term ending...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appointments - Chapter 43, Section 122
  Upon the adoption of Plan F, all heads of departments and members of municipal boards, except the school committee, officials appointed by the governor, and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of appointment - Chapter 43, Section 123
  In making his appointments the mayor shall sign and file with the city clerk a certificate in the following form: CERTIFICATE OF APPOINTMENT I appoint...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Removal of heads of departments - Chapter 43, Section 124
  The mayor may remove the head of a department or member of a board by filing a written statement with the city clerk setting forth...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Ordinances and resolutions; approval by mayor - Chapter 43, Section 125
  Every order, ordinance, resolution and vote relative to the affairs of the city, adopted or passed by the city council, shall be presented to the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Regular municipal election; date; nomination papers - Chapter 43, Section 126
  The regular election under Plan F shall take place on the Tuesday next following the first Monday of November in every odd-numbered year. The mayor,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - General election laws; applicability - Chapter 43, Section 127
  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, all elections held under Plan F shall be subject to all general laws relating to elections and corrupt...
• Massachusetts General Laws - City defined - Chapter 43, Section 128
  In sections one hundred and twenty-nine to one hundred and thirty-four, inclusive, the word “city” shall mean any city of one hundred and fifty thousand...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Referendum; questions submitted; petition - Chapter 43, Section 129
  At the regular municipal election to be held in the year nineteen hundred and seventy-seven in every city there shall be placed upon the ballot...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Election results; superseding of city charter provisions; election of organization members; commencement of term - Chapter 43, Section 130
  If a majority of the total number of votes cast at a regular city election for and against the adoption of a plan of city...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Division of city into districts; time; ordinance; district description; redistricting - Chapter 43, Section 131
  Within ninety days following receipt of an official notice which the city clerk shall send, within thirty days of the city election, to the city...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Failure of timely districting - Chapter 43, Section 132
  If, within the time prescribed by section one hundred and thirty-one, the city council shall fail to make a division of the city into districts...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Date of municipal elections; municipal year - Chapter 43, Section 133
  After the adoption by any city of a plan of city council or school committee organization authorized by sections one hundred and twenty-nine to one...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Residence of district members - Chapter 43, Section 134
  Every city councillor and school committee member who is elected to represent an individual district or ward shall have been an inhabitant of a place...

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