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 public institution of higher learning within the system of public higher education and shall be governe…

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

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 personal property made to the commonwealth for the use of the university, and execute said trusts, investing the…

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 legislation as defined in section forty-four of said chapter three to be assessed on student tuition bil…

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 or used by the university, and shall keep in repair houses, buildings and equipment so used or occup…

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 to purchase without limitation of amount library books and periodicals, educational and scientific supplies and equipment, print…

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 and all persons, except those whose duties are clerical, custodial, security, labor, maintenanc…

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 contracts with corporations, foundations, other entities, and individuals concerning inventions, discoveries…

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, appoint members thereto. The campus council shall advise the campus president and the truste…

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 Foundation, for the purpose of promoting research at the university by obtaining, administering or dispo…

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 chancellor of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in the mission, budget, operation and manage…

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 shall be available to the public, copies of which shall be filed with the governor, state secretary and the general court. Special rep…

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 University of Massachusetts and based at the Worcester campus. The center shall be responsible for conducting research…

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 land, buildings and equipment heretofore acquired therefor and owned by the commonwealth. Suc…

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 to domestic animals. Experiments may be conducted at said station in co-operation with Massachusetts dair…

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 of domestic animals, plants and trees; Second, The history and habits of insects destructive to vegetat…

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 purposes specified in the preceding section.

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 to residents and newspapers of the commonwealth applying therefor.

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, 1 member shall be the secretary of education, ex officio, in this chapter called the secretary, or …

Section 1B. (a) For the purposes of this section, the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly requires otherwise: ''Student charges'', in-state and out-of-state tuition and fees that are charged to students for general attendance at the univer…

Section 2. (a) 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 arts and sciences and in the professions, and in those professional areas norm…

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 test of poultry made under section seventeen.

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. Their rules and by-laws shall make just and reasonable provision for manual labor on said farm by students of…

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 cranberries and tobacco, and shall use therefor the land, buildings and equipment heretof…

Section 24. Employees of the university shall be exempt from civil service laws.

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 of said university, or to any society, association or fraternity established thereat, land owned by the commonw…

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 university, or to any society, association or fraternity established thereat, land in Amherst or Hadley owned by …

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 shall become operative until the form thereof is approved by the governor and council.

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 value as determined by the assessors of the town wherein the land lies.

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 as the Mount Toby state demonstration forest.

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 in section one of chapter one hundred and sixty-seven, to establish and maintain a branch on the grounds of th…

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 the government of the university, for the management, control and administration of its affairs, for its facult…

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 in economic questions, and for practical work in the conservation and use of forest tracts and farm woodlots.

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 to insure cost-effective utilization of the group purchasing power of the commonweal…

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 of the university, and may provide reasonable penalties for the violation of those rules and regulations. The trustees ma…

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 university may annually expend such sums, not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars, as …

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 as university scholarships to worthy and qualified students who have been residents of the …

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 for fellowships from the staff of the general court. No more than five such fellowships shall b…

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 as to comply with the standards approved by nationally recognized medical associations for accredited schools of…

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 person who has resided in the commonwealth for 7 consecutive years or more prior to enrollment or a person whose immediate family has resi…

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 shall fix their classification, title and salary within the general salary schedule, except that any such salary shall be f…

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 four of chapter twenty-nine, and the annual forecasts under section five A of said chapter twenty-nine in so fa…

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 have been used for the promotion of anatomical science, including the teaching thereof, or for any other pu…

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 the same or any salt compound thereof, and of any poison, drug, medicine or chemical, when submitted t…

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 programs or facilities, health care facilities, outpatient diagnostic or treatment ce…

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 develop and implement provisions for payback in learning contracts entered into by students admitt…

Section 36E. (a) The University of Massachusetts medical school in Worcester shall develop a continuing education program for licensed mental health professionals on military service-related behavioral health conditions. (b) The training and curriculum for the program shall inclu…

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 shall be for the purpose of coordinating and implementing the production and relay of educational television prog…

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 accredited programs in engineering and public health. (b) The purposes and responsibilities of t…

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 center, at the University of Massachusetts Boston. (b) The purposes and responsibilities of t…