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 to the president or other officers of the university whenever in their judgment such delegation may be necessary o…

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 subject to the provisions of said sections eleven A and eleven A1/2 of said chapter thirty A; provided, that in addition…

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, environmental, and engineering programs shall be to: (1) promote the devel…

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 the center for materials reuse, shall be established to promote the development of ma…

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 the Toxics Use Reduction Fund established in section two K of chapter twenty-nine. Said entities…

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 vaccines and biologic products designed to reduce or prevent morbidity and mortality …

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 trustees of a corporation receiving assets from the clinical operations of the Worcester campus and maintaining an…

Section 45. There shall be within the McCormack graduate school of policy and global studies at the University of Massachusetts, the Edward J. Collins, Jr. center for public management. The center shall seek to improve efficiency, effectiveness, governance, responsiveness and acc…

Section 45B. (a) There shall be established and set up on the books of the commonwealth an Innovation Commercialization Seed Fund into which shall be credited any appropriations designated by the general court to be credited to the fund and any monies generated for the fund throu…

Section 45C. (a) There shall be established and set up on the books of the commonwealth an Innovation Voucher Program Fund into which shall be credited any appropriations designated by the general court to be credited to the fund and any monies generated for the fund through corp…

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 be appointed by the provost with the approval of the chancellor and concurrence of the board of trustees. The director…

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 program of a private nonprofit or public agency organized for the resolution of dispute…

Section 5. The university may have a common seal, which may be altered by the trustees.

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 trustees under any provision of section eleven, shall be audited by the state auditor, in accordance with generally ac…

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.

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 and support of the university; and such appropriations shall be made available by the appropriate sta…

Section 9. The trustees may insure the memorial building and its contents in such amount as they deem sufficient.