General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 74 Vocational Education
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 74, Section 1
The following words, as used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings unless the context otherwise requires: “Commissioner”, the commissioner of education. “Approved”, the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Commissioner of education; powers and duties regarding vocational-technical education - Chapter 74, Section 2
The commissioner, under the direction of the state board, shall investigate and promote vocational-technical schools, and initiate and superintend the establishment of schools for the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Outside work projects of students; rules and regulations - Chapter 74, Section 2A
The commissioner shall establish rules and regulations to promote the employment of vocational-technical students during their studies by the city or town in which said...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Construction program students; low income housing - Chapter 74, Section 2B
Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, a city or town may provide for the construction of one and two family dwellings for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment in towns; management - Chapter 74, Section 3
Towns may, through school committees or boards of trustees elected for not more than five years, and known as local trustees for vocational-technical education, establish...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment by districts - Chapter 74, Section 4
Independent vocational-technical schools may be established and maintained by districts composed of two or more towns, through boards to be known as district trustees for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - District trustees; powers and duties - Chapter 74, Section 5
District trustees under the preceding section shall adopt, for one year or more, plans or organization, administration and support of such schools, which shall be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment of vocational-technical schools by regional school districts - Chapter 74, Section 5A
Independent vocational-technical schools may be established under sections fourteen and fifteen of chapter seventy-one, if the agreement for the establishment of the regional school district,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Vocational-technical education collaboratives - Chapter 74, Section 5B
Regional school districts or cities and towns which are not members of vocational-technical regional school districts, may through educational collaboratives formed under the provisions of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Advisory committees - Chapter 74, Section 6
Each school district, county agricultural school, collaborative or municipality operating an approved vocational-technical program shall, under a plan approved by the commissioner under the direction...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Admission of non-resident pupils - Chapter 74, Section 7
Residents of towns in the commonwealth not maintaining approved independent distributive occupations, industrial, agricultural, vocational home economics and allied health occupations training schools offering the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Pupils placed in schools by department of children and families; tuition - Chapter 74, Section 7A
For the tuition in an approved vocational-technical program of any regional or county agricultural school district, city, town, independent school or collaborative of any pupil...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Apprenticeship program - Chapter 74, Section 7B
An apprentice, as defined in section eleven H of chapter twenty-three shall, upon the concurrence of the commissioner of labor and industries, be approved by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Persons admitted to school in town other than resident town; payment of tuition - Chapter 74, Section 7C
Notwithstanding the provisions of section twenty-seven C of chapter twenty-nine, or of any other general or special law to the contrary, a town where a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1993, 71, Sec. 58 - Chapter 74, Section 8
Repealed, 1993, 71, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Transportation of students - Chapter 74, Section 8A
A municipality, wherein a person resides who is admitted to a day school in another municipality under section 7, shall, through its school committee, when...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1978, 367, Sec. 70L - Chapter 74, Section 9 to 12
Repealed, 1978, 367, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Time for holding classes; required age of students - Chapter 74, Section 13
Independent industrial, agricultural, vocational home economics and allied health occupations schools may offer instruction in day, part time and evening classes. Independent distributive occupations schools...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Practical arts classes; required age of students - Chapter 74, Section 14
Towns may, through school committees or trustees for vocational education, establish and maintain practical art classes. Such classes shall be open to persons over sixteen...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Practical art classes; receipt and use of federal funds - Chapter 74, Section 14A
The commissioner under the direction of the state board, in the name and on behalf of the commonwealth, may apply for and receive, and thereafter...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Culinary arts; revolving fund - Chapter 74, Section 14B
In any city or town which accepts the provisions of this section, any income received in a fiscal year not exceeding, in the aggregate, fifteen...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Instructions in agriculture and horticulture; establishment - Chapter 74, Section 15
Cities may establish and maintain schools for instructing families and individuals in day, part time or evening classes in gardening, fruit growing, floriculture, poultry raising,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment of agricultural or horticultural classes; advertising requirement - Chapter 74, Section 16
Before action taken under the preceding section, school committees shall circulate a description of the purposes and scope of the instruction to be given thereunder,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Acquisition of land for use of agricultural classes - Chapter 74, Section 17
Boards or officers having power to take land for school purposes in cities may take, by eminent domain under chapter seventy-nine, land therein not already...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Competency-based vocational-technical teacher training standards - Chapter 74, Section 18
The state board shall establish basic competency-based vocational-technical teacher training standards which shall serve as the fundamental, pedagogical requirements for beginning vocational-technical instructors. The board...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1947, 652, Sec. 13 - Chapter 74, Section 19
Repealed, 1947, 652, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Custodian of federal funds - Chapter 74, Section 20
The state treasurer shall be the custodian of federal funds allocated to the commonwealth for vocational-technical education. The funds so allocated from the federal government...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Expenditure of federal funds - Chapter 74, Section 21
Subject to section twenty, the funds received under the act of Congress may be paid out, on requisition of the state board, as reimbursement for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1993, 71, Sec. 59 - Chapter 74, Section 21A
Repealed, 1993, 71, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Use of federal funds - Chapter 74, Section 22
The state board may use the funds received under the act of Congress mentioned in section twenty as supplementary to state aid for salaries of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1956, 602, Sec. 10 - Chapter 74, Section 22A 22B
Repealed, 1956, 602, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1966, 535, Sec. 6 - Chapter 74, Section 22C
Repealed, 1966, 535, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Cooperation with federal authorities for rehabilitation of veterans - Chapter 74, Section 22D
Said state board is hereby directed to cooperate with the veterans administration in carrying out the provisions of federal laws and regulations relating to the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Employment of teachers; conditions - Chapter 74, Section 22E
Any school committee or board of trustees for vocational education may elect a teacher who has served in its schools for not less than one...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Independent industrial shoemaking school of the city of Lynn - Chapter 74, Section 23
The independent industrial shoemaking school of the city of Lynn, established under chapter one hundred and seventy-four of the Special Acts of nineteen hundred and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Smith Agricultural School; maintenance; superintendents - Chapter 74, Section 24
Smith Agricultural School, established under chapter one hundred and fifty-one of the Special Acts of nineteen hundred and eighteen, shall be maintained by the city...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1967, 50 - Chapter 74, Section 24A
Repealed, 1967,
- Massachusetts General Laws - Public secondary vocational-technical school districts and public institutions of higher education; coordination of programs - Chapter 74, Section 24B
The state board and the board of regents shall encourage the coordination of programs between public secondary vocational-technical school districts and public institutions of higher...
- Massachusetts General Laws - County agricultural schools; state aid for maintenance; conditions - Chapter 74, Section 25
The Bristol county agricultural school and the Norfolk county agricultural school shall be maintained as state-aided, approved, independent vocational schools under sections one to twenty-two,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Management; appointment of trustees - Chapter 74, Section 26
There shall be a board of trustees for each of the schools enumerated in section twenty-five. The boards of trustees for the Bristol county agricultural...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Compensation of trustees - Chapter 74, Section 27
The trustees provided for in the preceding section shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed for their necessary expenses, to be charged and paid...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Duties of trustees; preparation of budget - Chapter 74, Section 28
On or before December fifteenth the trustees of the schools mentioned in section twenty-five shall, in consultation with and with the approval of the commissioner,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Funds raised by taxation - Chapter 74, Section 29
If any part of the amount estimated under the preceding section shall be authorized as part of the county taxes, the respective counties shall raise...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Disposition of income - Chapter 74, Section 30
Miscellaneous income of the Bristol county agricultural school and the Norfolk county agricultural school, including the tuition of non-resident pupils and receipts from the sale...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Receipt and use of gift - Chapter 74, Section 31
The Bristol county agricultural school, the Essex agricultural and technical institute and the Norfolk county agricultural school may receive and use gifts deemed by the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Transportation of pupils - Chapter 74, Section 31A
The trustees of the Essex agricultural and technical institute, the Bristol county agricultural school and the Norfolk county agricultural school may, if in their judgment...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Supervision of athletic and other organizations - Chapter 74, Section 31B
The boards of trustees of the Bristol county agricultural school, the Essex agricultural and technical institute, and the Norfolk county agricultural school may supervise and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2000, 159, Sec. 187 - Chapter 74, Section 31C
Repealed, 2000, 159, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Admission of non-residents - Chapter 74, Section 32
Any resident of the commonwealth over 14 years of age who resides in any town outside of a county in which a county agricultural school...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Tuition - Chapter 74, Section 33
The Bristol county agricultural school and the Norfolk county agricultural school shall be free to residents of Bristol and Norfolk counties, respectively, over 14 years...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bristol school; special courses of instruction - Chapter 74, Section 34
The trustees of the Bristol county agricultural school may, with the approval of the commissioner, permit pupils with limited educational preparation to enter for a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Courses of instruction - Chapter 74, Section 35
The Bristol county agricultural school and the Norfolk county agricultural school shall provide instruction in agriculture and, at a time approved by the commissioner, in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2000, 159, Sec. 190 - Chapter 74, Section 35A
Repealed, 2000, 159, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Short unit courses - Chapter 74, Section 36
Short unit courses may be given at the Bristol county agricultural school, the Essex agricultural and technical institute and the Norfolk county agricultural school, and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Duties of school staffs - Chapter 74, Section 37
Members of the staffs of the Bristol county agricultural school, the Essex agricultural and technical institute and the Norfolk county agricultural school shall investigate farm...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Technical institutes - Chapter 74, Section 37A
If a school committee or the board of trustees of any industrial, technical, agricultural or vocational school subject to this chapter determines that sufficient need...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Nondegree granting post-secondary vocational education programs - Chapter 74, Section 37B
The commissioner under the direction of the state board may approve nondegree granting vocational education programs at the post-secondary level. In making his decision, the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Admission of nonresidents to nondegree granting post-secondary vocational education programs - Chapter 74, Section 37C
A student who resides in a city or town which does not offer approved vocational education programs at the post-secondary level may, upon the approval...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1991, 138, Sec. 149 - Chapter 74, Section 37D
Repealed, 1991, 138, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1991, 138, Sec. 150 - Chapter 74, Section 37E
Repealed, 1991, 138, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Receipts from tuition and fees from nondegree granting post-secondary vocational education programs held in separate account - Chapter 74, Section 37F
All receipts from tuition and other related fees shall be paid to the school committee or board of trustees of the city, town, regional school...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1931, 426, Sec. 197 - Chapter 74, Section 38
Repealed, 1931, 426, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1931, 426, Sec. 7 - Chapter 74, Section 39 40
Repealed, 1931, 426, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Lease of state facilities for re-education and rehabilitation in industry of soldiers and sailors - Chapter 74, Section 41
The governor, with the advice and consent of the council, may lease to, or permit to be used by, the United States or any department,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1977, 864, Sec. 12 - Chapter 74, Section 42
Repealed, 1977, 864, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bradford Durfee College of Technology and New Bedford Institute of Technology; honorary master of science degree - Chapter 74, Section 42A
The board of trustees of the Bradford Durfee College of Technology and of the New Bedford Institute of Technology may also grant the honorary degree...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bradford Durfee College of Technology and New Bedford Institute of Technology; honorary doctorates - Chapter 74, Section 42B
The board of trustees of the Bradford Durfee College of Technology and of the New Bedford Institute of Technology, with the approval of the board...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Professors and teachers; removal; hearing - Chapter 74, Section 42C
A professor or teacher in the Bradford Durfee College of Technology or the New Bedford Institute of Technology, who is not employed in a position...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Board of trustees, powers and duties - Chapter 74, Section 42D
The Bradford Durfee College of Technology and the New Bedford Institute of Technology shall continue as state institutions within the department of education but not...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Standards; courses of instructions; powers of trustees - Chapter 74, Section 42E
The trustees shall maintain high educational standards at the college and the institute and shall have complete authority to establish, support, consolidate or abolish classes,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations; meetings of trustees; quorum - Chapter 74, Section 42F
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, except as herein provided, the trustees may adopt, amend or repeal such rules and regulations for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Delegation of powers by trustees - Chapter 74, Section 42G
The trustees may, except as to duties imposed or powers granted under sections forty-two E and forty-two F, delegate their authority or any portion thereof...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Audit of accounts - Chapter 74, Section 42H
All accounts of the college or institute, as the case may be, under the direction of the board of trustees, including the accounts of all...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Budget - Chapter 74, Section 42I
The trustees shall prepare and submit a detailed budget in such form and manner as the governor and general court may direct.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Appropriations - Chapter 74, Section 42J
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the general court shall annually appropriate such sums as it deems necessary for the maintenance, operation...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Receipts and expenditures; annual report; monthly statements; accounting system - Chapter 74, Section 42K
A complete financial report covering all receipts and expenditures shall be made annually to the governor and the general court. Monthly statements of receipts and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Special trusts, etc.; management - Chapter 74, Section 42L
The trustees of the college and the trustees of the institute shall administer property held in accordance with special trusts, and shall also administer grants...
- Massachusetts General Laws - College and institute property; management and administration - Chapter 74, Section 42M
The trustees shall, on behalf of the commonwealth, manage and administer the college and the institute, and all property, real and personal, belonging to the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Purchases - Chapter 74, Section 42N
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the trustees of the college or an officer of the college designated by them and the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Election of officers; salaries of officers and professional staff; employment, status and benefits of personnel - Chapter 74, Section 42O
As used in this section the following words shall have the following meanings, unless the context otherwise requires: “Professional staff”, all officers of the college...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Travel policy - Chapter 74, Section 42P
The trustees shall have complete authority in determining the travel policy of the college and the institute. They shall determine which of the college personnel...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Control, movement and parking of motor vehicles - Chapter 74, Section 42Q
The trustees shall make rules and regulations for the control, movement and parking of vehicles on the campus of the college and the institute, and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Acceptance of gifts - Chapter 74, Section 43
The board of trustees of said college and of said institute shall be a corporation for the purpose of taking by gift, bequest or devise...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Reports - Chapter 74, Section 44
The commissioner shall make an annual report as to said college, and said institute, containing a concise statement as to its buildings, equipment, and resources,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Insurance - Chapter 74, Section 45
The board of trustees of said college and of said institute may insure the buildings of said institutes and their contents in such amount as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Tuition - Chapter 74, Section 46
The yearly tuition at said college and at said institute for day students who are non-residents of the commonwealth shall not be less than one...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Functions; testing of new and useful improvements in textile machinery and apparatus - Chapter 74, Section 46A
Said college and said institute may make, under such regulations as their respective boards of trustees may from time to time prescribe, tests, comparative or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Research foundations; patents - Chapter 74, Section 46B
The Bradford Durfee College of Technology and the New Bedford Institute of Technology may establish and manage, under such regulations as the board of trustees...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1977, 913, Sec. 1 - Chapter 74, Section 46C
Repealed, 1977, 913, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1953, 407, Sec. 2 - Chapter 74, Section 47 to 48
Repealed, 1953, 407, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1964, 561, Sec. 13 - Chapter 74, Section 49 to 51
Repealed, 1964, 561, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Nautical schools - Chapter 74, Section 52
A town may establish and maintain, upon shore or upon vessels at the election of the school committee, one or more schools for training young...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1964, 561, Sec. 13 - Chapter 74, Section 53
Repealed, 1964, 561, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment and maintenance of schools for institutional on-farm training for World War II and Korean emergency veterans - Chapter 74, Section 54
The board of higher education may establish and maintain, in cooperation with local public or vocational school authorities, one or more schools for institutional on-farm...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1981, 808, Sec. 26 - Chapter 74, Section 55
Repealed, 1981, 808, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Program for expansion of not-for-credit vocationally-oriented instruction - Chapter 74, Section 56
The district trustees shall establish a program, in collaboration with the advisory committee, the director of the department of career services and a representative of...
Last modified: September 11, 2015