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 approval of specific vocational-technical programs by the commissioner of education…

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 may offer instruction in part time and evening classes only.…

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 years of age, and may be established and maintained as approved state aided practical art classe…

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 expend for any or all of the purposes of section fourteen any funds received for any of such purposes from the federal go…

Section 14B. In any city or town that accepts this section in the manner provided in section 4 of chapter 4 or in a regional school district that accepts it as provided in this section, any income received from the purchase and sale of products produced in the culinary arts subje…

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, animal husbandry, and other branches of agriculture and horticulture. The location and o…

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, and request applications for such instruction.

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 appropriated to public use, or lease or purchase land either within or without the city limits, for the purpose …

Section 18. The department of elementary and secondary education shall establish basic competency-based vocational-technical teacher training standards which shall serve as the fundamental, pedagogical requirements for beginning vocational-technical instructors. The department sh…

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 aforesaid form of education and shall supervise and approve such schools as provided …

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 shall be expended with specific appropriation under the direction of the state board.

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 expenses already incurred, to approved schools.

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 teachers of vocational-technical subjects in schools complying therewith. It may also use such funds (1), for salaries of tea…

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 rehabilitation of disabled veterans; to establish and maintain classes or courses for training as it is de…

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 school year to serve with professional teacher status under the same conditions and subject to the same limitations as is provid…

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 sixteen, shall be maintained by the city of Lynn as a state aided approved vocational school under and …

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 of Northampton as a state-aided approved vocational-technical school under and subject to sections one …

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 education. Said boards shall establish policies and procedures for the standardizati…

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, inclusive, subject to sections twenty-six to thirty-seven, inclusive.

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 school and the Norfolk county agricultural school shall each consist of the county commissioners, ex officiis, and …

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 as maintenance.

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, prepare estimates of the amounts necessary to equip and maintain their respective schools for the ensuin…

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 the said amounts by taxation.

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 students attend school, or in the case of a regional or county agricultural school district, the ci…

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 persons of low income, by students in vocational-technical schools enrolled in construction programs. No such construction s…

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 and maintain independent or vocational-technical schools.

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 of products and work of pupils, shall be paid to the county treasurer; provided, however,…

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 trustees and the commissioner consistent with the purposes thereof.

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 the circumstances warrant, and it is not otherwise provided for, pay, in whole or in part, the …

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 control all athletic and other organizations composed of vocational agricultural school pupi…

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 is located may be admitted to such school on the conditions prescribed in section 7.

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 of age, except that free attendance shall be limited by the capacity of the courses provided for s…

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 special course in horticulture, fruit growing or dairy farming. Said trustees may from time to time pro…

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 household arts or homemaking.

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 elsewhere in the respective counties.

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 and market conditions for the purpose of advising individuals and organizations as to busi…

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 exists in such school for a course or courses beyond secondary school level and designed to prepare …

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 commissioner shall take into consideration the availability of similar training opportunities…

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 of the commissioner under the direction of the state board be admitted to such program in another city, town or regi…

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 district or independent vocational school admitting students under sections thirty-seven B and thirty-seven C, and shall be …

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 vocational-technical education, consisting either of the chairman and two other members of the sch…

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, bureau or agency thereof, any state hospital, school or workshop, and its premises and equipment, or any other suitable resources belo…

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 of master of science.

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 of higher education, may grant such honorary doctorates as they may determine.

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 classified under chapter thirty-one, and who has served as such for three consecutive years, shall not be dismissed from …

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 under its control and shall be governed by the boards of trustees established therefor under section …

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, courses and curricula whenever and wherever required in meeting the needs of the college a…

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 the government of the college or institute, for the management, control and administration of its affairs, fo…

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 to the president or any other officer of the college and of the institute whenever in their judgment such deleg…

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 property or funds received, held or disbursed by the trustees under any provision of section forty-two L, shall be audited by the…