General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 75 University of Massachusetts
- Massachusetts General Laws - Status; governing body - Chapter 75, Section 1
There shall be a University of Massachusetts, consisting of campuses to be maintained at Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, Lowell, and Worcester, which shall continue as a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Board of trustees; membership; qualifications; tenure; vacancies; powers and duties; indemnification - Chapter 75, Section 1A
There shall be a board of trustees for University of Massachusetts consisting of nineteen voting members. Two members shall be full-time students from said institution,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Purpose; courses of instruction; standards; powers of trustees - Chapter 75, Section 2
The major purpose of the university shall be to provide, without discrimination, public service, research, and education programs, including continuing education services, in the liberal...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Branch banks on university grounds authorized - Chapter 75, Section 2A
Notwithstanding any contrary provisions of law, the board of bank incorporation or the commissioner of banks is hereby authorized to allow a bank, as defined...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations - Chapter 75, Section 3
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 75, Section 3A
The trustees may, except as to duties imposed or powers granted under sections two, three, four and five, delegate their authority or any portion thereof...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Meetings of trustees; quorum; executive sessions - Chapter 75, Section 4
The trustees shall determine the time and place of their meeting. Nine members shall constitute a quorum. Meetings of the board of trustees shall be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Seal - Chapter 75, Section 5
The university may have a common seal, which may be altered by the trustees.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1962, 648, Sec. 1 - Chapter 75, Section 5A
Repealed, 1962, 648, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Audit of accounts - Chapter 75, Section 6
All accounts of the university under the direction of the trustees, including the accounts of all property or funds received, held or disbursed by the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Budget - Chapter 75, Section 7
The trustees shall prepare and submit a detailed budget in such form and manner as the governor, secretary and general court may direct.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Appropriations - Chapter 75, Section 8
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 - Insurance - Chapter 75, Section 9
The trustees may insure the memorial building and its contents in such amount as they deem sufficient.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Receipts and expenditures; annual report; monthly statements; accounting system - Chapter 75, Section 10
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 - Repealed, 1962, 648, Sec. 1 - Chapter 75, Section 10A
Repealed, 1962, 648, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Special trusts, etc.; management - Chapter 75, Section 11
The trustees shall administer property held in accordance with special trusts, and shall also administer grants or devises of land and gifts or bequests of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Funds for legislative agents or organizations attempting to influence legislation - Chapter 75, Section 11A
The board of trustees shall not allow any funds for legislative agents as defined in section thirty-nine of chapter three or organizations attempting to influence...
- Massachusetts General Laws - University property; management and administration - Chapter 75, Section 12
The trustees shall, on behalf of the commonwealth, manage and administer the university and all property, real and personal, belonging to the commonwealth and occupied...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Purchases - Chapter 75, Section 13
The board of trustees shall have the authority to make any purchase or purchases in the amount of one hundred thousand dollars or less, and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Election of officers; salary of president; employment, status and benefits of personnel - Chapter 75, Section 14
As used in this section the following words shall have the following meanings, unless the context otherwise requires: “Professional staff”, all officers of the university...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Prescription and enforcement of regulations; contracts - Chapter 75, Section 14A
Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the trustees shall prescribe and enforce such regulations as they may deem necessary, and may enter into...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Campus council - Chapter 75, Section 14B
The trustees shall establish for each campus a council, broadly representative of the community, alumnae and students, and shall, upon recommendation of the campus president,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - University of Massachusetts Research Foundation; powers; regulations - Chapter 75, Section 14C
The university may establish and manage, under such regulations as the board of trustees may from time to time prescribe, the University of Massachusetts Research...
- Massachusetts General Laws - University of Massachusetts; extension board of public overseers - Chapter 75, Section 14D
There shall be within the University of Massachusetts a University of Massachusetts Extension Board of Public Overseers for the purpose of advising and assisting the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Reports and bulletins - Chapter 75, Section 15
The trustees shall annually as of the end of the fiscal year cause the president to make and publish a report for the university that...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Center for adoption research and policy - Chapter 75, Section 15A
There is hereby established the center for adoption research and policy, which shall be operated under the direction of the board of trustees of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Massachusetts agricultural experiment station - Chapter 75, Section 16
The trustees shall maintain at the university an agricultural experiment station, to be known as the Massachusetts agricultural experiment station, and shall use therefor the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Diagnostic laboratory - Chapter 75, Section 16A
The trustees shall establish and maintain at said station a diagnostic laboratory for the purpose of the provisions of clause First of section seventeen relative...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Experiments and investigations; nature and scope - Chapter 75, Section 17
The trustees shall cause experiments and investigations to be made at said station in the following subjects: First, The causes, prevention and remedies of diseases...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Officers; equipment - Chapter 75, Section 18
The trustees shall appoint a director of said station, a chemist and necessary assistants, and shall provide and maintain suitable and necessary appliances for the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Reports on results of experiments; distribution - Chapter 75, Section 19
The trustees shall publish bulletins containing the results of experiments and investigations by the station, except under the following section, and shall distribute such bulletins...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1973, 607, Sec. 1 - Chapter 75, Section 20
Repealed, 1973, 607, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Fee for testing poultry - Chapter 75, Section 21
A fee as determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven may be charged for each...
- Massachusetts General Laws - University farm - Chapter 75, Section 22
The trustees shall maintain and manage an experimental farm, to be known as the university farm, and shall use therefor the land heretofore acquired therefor....
- Massachusetts General Laws - Purposes - Chapter 75, Section 23
The trustees shall maintain the experiment stations heretofore authorized by law for practical demonstrations in market gardening and of experimental work in planting and growing...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Status - Chapter 75, Section 24
Employees of the university shall be exempt from civil service laws.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of commonwealth land to university employees - Chapter 75, Section 25
Subject to section twenty-seven the trustees may sell and convey, in the name of and for the commonwealth, to any professor, instructor, teacher or employee...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Leasing of commonwealth land to university employees - Chapter 75, Section 26
Subject to section twenty-seven the trustees may, in the name of and for the commonwealth, lease to any professor, instructor, teacher or employee of said...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Approvals of sales and leases - Chapter 75, Section 27
No sale or conveyance under section twenty-five shall become operative until it is approved by the governor and council, and no lease under section twenty-six...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Taxation of leased property - Chapter 75, Section 28
The lessee and his assignees shall be liable to taxation upon any building erected on land leased under section twenty-six to the extent of its...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Protection and maintenance of Mount Toby state demonstration forest - Chapter 75, Section 29
The trustees shall protect and maintain the land owned by the commonwealth situated on or about Mount Toby, so called, in Sunderland and Leverett, known...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Use; purposes - Chapter 75, Section 30
The trustees shall use so much of such land as they shall determine for instruction in forestry and as a laboratory for research and illustration...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1990, 150, Sec. 276 - Chapter 75, Section 31
Repealed, 1990, 150, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Travel policy - Chapter 75, Section 32
The trustees shall have complete authority in determining the university’s travel policy provided, however, that said policy shall require coordination with the state purchasing agent...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Control, movement and parking of motor vehicles - Chapter 75, Section 32A
The trustees shall make rules and regulations for the control, movement and parking of vehicles on the campus of the university and on other land...
- Massachusetts General Laws - David I. Walsh-Leverett Saltonstall visiting lectureship program - Chapter 75, Section 32B
There is hereby established the David I. Walsh-Leverett Saltonstall visiting lectureship program in practical politics and public affairs at the university. For such program the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - University scholarships - Chapter 75, Section 33
In addition to the commonwealth scholarships authorized under section thirty-one, the University of Massachusetts may also grant quarter, half and full scholarships to be known...
- Massachusetts General Laws - General Court Fellowship Program - Chapter 75, Section 33A
The University of Massachusetts shall administer a program to be known as the General Court Fellowship Program. Said program shall annually solicit and accept applications...
- Massachusetts General Laws - University of Massachusetts medical school; grants - Chapter 75, Section 34
The trustees shall maintain a medical school to be known as the University of Massachusetts medical school. Said school shall be so maintained and operated...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Tuition; residents - Chapter 75, Section 34A
If tuition for the medical school is set at a lower amount for residents of the commonwealth, a resident shall be deemed to be a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Dean and other officers and members of professional staff - Chapter 75, Section 35
The trustees shall elect the dean and such other officers and members of the professional staff of the medical school as they deem necessary and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Annual budget - Chapter 75, Section 36
In order to provide for the maximum allowable degree of fiscal independence, the budget to be submitted with the estimates required under sections three and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Cremation and disposal of donated bodies - Chapter 75, Section 36A
The University of Massachusetts medical school in Worcester may cremate the bodies of deceased persons which have been donated to said medical school and which...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Analysis of drugs, medicine, chemicals, etc.; law enforcement; report - Chapter 75, Section 36B
The University of Massachusetts medical school shall make an analysis of any narcotic drugs, or any synthetic substitute for the same, or any preparation containing...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Acquisition of or affiliation with certain health care programs or facilities by trustees; approval of proposed transactions; procedures - Chapter 75, Section 36C
(a) The trustees are hereby authorized to acquire by purchase or otherwise affiliate with, or operate physicians practices, satellite clinics, ambulatory care centers, mental health...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Payback provisions in learning contracts; interest accrual; annual report - Chapter 75, Section 36D
The board of trustees of the university of Massachusetts, in conjunction with the state health education center at the university of Massachusetts medical center, shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment; purpose; contracts - Chapter 75, Section 37
The trustees are hereby authorized and directed to establish and maintain a television center on the university campus in the town of Amherst. Said center...
- Massachusetts General Laws - National Environmental Technology Institute - Chapter 75, Section 38
(a) There shall be a National Environmental Technology Institute, hereinafter referred to as the institute, at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, which shall have...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Environmental technology testing facility and environmental business center - Chapter 75, Section 39
(a) There shall be an environmental technology testing facility, hereinafter referred to as the facility, and an environmental business center, hereinafter referred to as the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Marine technology, environmental, and engineering programs - Chapter 75, Section 40
(a) Marine technology, environmental, and engineering programs shall be established at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. (b) The purposes and responsibilities of the marine technology,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Center for materials reuse - Chapter 75, Section 41
(a) The Chelsea center for materials reuse, administered by the center for environmentally appropriate materials at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, hereinafter referred to as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Funding for environmental programs; administration - Chapter 75, Section 42
No start-up or maintenance and operation funds for the entities established in sections thirty-eight to forty-one, inclusive, shall be appropriated in any fiscal year from...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Biologic laboratories; advisory board; insurance; agreements with private parties; yearly reports; accounts - Chapter 75, Section 43
(a) There is hereby established the University of Massachusetts biologic laboratories. The purpose of said laboratories shall be the research, development and production of childhood...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Appointment of trustees to corporation receiving assets from clinical operations of Worcester campus; student representative - Chapter 75, Section 44
If the chancellor of the Worcester campus becomes responsible either by agreement or legislative action for appointing two or more trustees to a board of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center - Chapter 75, Section 45
(a) There shall be a Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center, hereinafter referred to as the center, at the University of Massachusetts, that shall facilitate the transfer...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Application of other laws to the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center - Chapter 75, Section 45A
The center shall be subject to section 16G of chapter 6A and section 56 of chapter 23A.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Office of dispute resolution - Chapter 75, Section 46
There shall be at the University of Massachusetts at Boston an office of dispute resolution under the supervision and control of a director who shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Statewide community mediation center grant program; funds; compliance for eligibility - Chapter 75, Section 47
(a) As used in this section the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings: “Community mediation center”, a community-based...
Last modified: September 11, 2015