Chapter 73

Section 1. The state universities, as established by section 5 of chapter 15A shall provide educational programs, research, extension, and continuing education services in the liberal, fine and applied arts and sciences and other related disciplines through the master's degree le…

Section 10. All accounts of the state universities and community colleges under the direction of the trustees including the accounts of all property or funds received, held or disbursed under any provision of section fourteen and all accounts of any person doing business as a boo…

Section 11. The trustees shall prepare and submit a detailed budget in such form and manner as the governor and general court may direct.

Section 12. 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 and support of each state university; and such appropriations shall be made available to each state …

Section 13. 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 expenditures shall be made to the state comptroller. The trustees shall see that there is maintained an …

Section 14. 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 personal property made to the commonwealth for the use of a state university, and execute said trusts, investing…

Section 15. Notwithstanding any other provision of law of the contrary, the trustees or officers of a state university designated by them shall have the authority to make any purchase or purchases in the amount of five hundred dollars or less, and to purchase without limitation o…

Section 16. As used in this section the following words shall have the following meanings, unless the context otherwise requires: ''Professional staff'', all officers of the division of state universities, and all persons, except those whose duties are clerical, custodial, securi…

Section 17. The trustees shall have complete authority in determining the travel policy of a state university; provided, however, that said policy shall require coordination with the state purchasing agent to insure cost-effective utilization of the group purchasing power of the …

Section 18. The trustees shall make rules and regulations for the control, movement and parking of vehicles on the campus or other land of a state university and may provide reasonable penalties for the violation of said rules and regulations. The trustees may appoint as police o…

Section 19. The institutions of higher learning under the jurisdiction of the board of trustees of state universities shall be those institutions in the state university segment established by section 5 of chapter 15A.

Section 1A. The board of trustees shall fix the amount of tuition fee to be paid by each student at any of the state universities; provided, however, that said board shall in no case fix the tuition fee for full tuition during the school year at less than one hundred dollars; pro…

Section 1B. The board of trustees may fix the amount of student activity fee to be paid by each student at any of the state universities. All receipts from student activities shall be retained by the president of the state university in a revolving fund or revolving funds, and sh…

Section 1C. The trustees shall determine the time and place of their meetings and the manner of giving notice thereof.

Section 1E. 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 in section one of chapter one hundred and sixty-seven, to establish and maintain a branch on the grounds of an…

Section 1F. 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 legislation as defined in section forty-four of said chapter three to be assessed on student tuition bill…

Section 2. The department may provide for agricultural education in the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.

Section 20. A state university shall admit as a candidate for a four year degree any person who is a regular member of the police department or fire department of a city or town of the commonwealth within commuting distance of the university, who is recommended by his superior of…

Section 2A. In all state universities the constitutions of the United States and of the commonwealth shall be taught as required subjects for the purpose of fitting the students, morally and intellectually, for the duties of citizenship and of school teaching.

Section 3. The city of Boston may, and the cities of North Adams, Fitchburg and Lowell and the town of Barnstable shall, acting by their respective school committees, each make written agreements with the board of trustees to provide suitable and sufficient school buildings and m…

Section 4. Presidents of state universities shall give bonds in such penal sums as the comptroller may prescribe, conditioned on the faithful performance of their duties.

Section 4A. A faculty member in a state university who has served as such for at least 6 years or, if a leave of absence has previously been granted to such faculty member, 6 years after the termination of the last such leave or after the date such leave would have been completed…

Section 4B. The board of trustees, in electing a teacher in a state university who has served as such for the three previous consecutive school years, shall employ him to serve at its discretion, and notwithstanding any contrary provision of general or special laws, he shall not …

Section 6. Upon payment of tuition fees the trustees may receive students not residents of the commonwealth in state universities.

Section 8. The trustees may provide for residents of the commonwealth an educational program at each of the state universities, such program to include, in addition to the subjects mentioned in sections two and two A, instruction in such subjects as it deems expedient in the trai…