Chapter 7C

Section 58. (a) For the purposes of this section the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly requires otherwise:— ''Agency'', the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, the Massachusetts Port Authority and the Massachusetts Bay Transporta…

Section 59. As used in this section ''schematic design'' shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, mean a basic and preliminary revision, development and implementation of the study or program parameters, or both the study and program parameters, and a further, but pr…

Section 6. (a) The general court finds that: (1) the Massachusetts commission against discrimination conducted hearings and investigations which documented a history of discrimination against minorities and women in the commonwealth; (2) and in 1994, the executive office of trans…

Section 60. No allotment, encumbrance, or expenditure of funds appropriated or authorized for the design of a capital facility project shall be approved by the comptroller unless the executive head of the agency administering the project, or other person provided for by statute, …

Section 61. No allotment, encumbrance, or expenditure of funds appropriated or authorized for the construction of a capital facility project shall be approved by the comptroller unless the executive head of the agency administering the project, or other person provided for by sta…

Section 62. The governor and the commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance in their long range capital facilities development plans and capital budget requests and the secretaries of the various executive offices in their review and recommendations with regard to s…

Section 63. There is established and set up on the books of the commonwealth a separate fund, consisting of monies appropriated to the fund by the general court and income derived from the investment of monies appropriated to the fund, known as the capital facility planning fund.…

Section 64. Each public agency other than a city or town shall prepare a long range capital facilities development plan. Such plan shall include projections at least 5 years from the date of submission of the plan. Each such public agency shall revise the plan annually or at such…

Section 65. In formulating requirements for the information to be provided in long-range capital facilities development plans, the commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance shall require at least the following: the history, legislative authority and major responsib…

Section 66. Each public agency other than cities and towns shall prepare and submit to the commissioner, in addition to its long-range capital facilities development plan or revision thereof, an annual capital facility budget at such time as the said commissioner shall require. I…

Section 67. Copies of the proposed plans and requests shall be submitted simultaneously to the commissioner, the secretaries of all executive offices, the director of the fiscal affairs division within the executive office for administration and finance, the state treasurer, the …

Section 68. The commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance shall study and review all long range capital facility development plans and capital facility budget requests and reports pertaining thereto filed with him as provided by sections 64, 65, 66 and 67, and shal…

Section 69. The governor's and the commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance capital facility budget shall include provision for establishment of a design and construction contingency reserve account, the purpose of which shall be to provide monies for the design a…

Section 7. Except as otherwise provided in section 3 of chapter 211, the commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance shall: (1) be responsible for the acquisition, control and disposition of court facilities on behalf of the commonwealth, in the manner and to the ext…

Section 70. The governor's and the commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance capital facility budget shall include provisions for establishment of an emergency repair reserve account, the purpose of which shall be to provide monies for the performance of repair pro…

Section 71. All requests and recommendations for appropriations or authorizations for expenditures by the commonwealth that pertain to capital facility projects shall be studied by the commissioner with reference to any current long range capital facility development plans propos…

Section 72. The commissioner shall, each year, not later than 30 days after the governor submits the budget under section 71, submit to the governor and to the general court a report which shall include, but not be limited to, the following: an evaluation of the effect of the cap…

Section 73. (a) As used in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly requires otherwise:— ''Division'', the division of capital asset management and maintenance. ''Environmental product declaration'' or ''EPD'', an independentl…

Section 8. The commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance shall: (1) develop and operate automated management and information systems and provide data processing services; (2) develop and maintain all necessary financial management systems, as prescribed by the comp…

Section 9. The commissioner shall, no less often than once every 3 months, prepare a comprehensive report on the progress of all capital facility projects subject to the jurisdiction of the division of capital asset management and maintenance as defined by section 5 but not inclu…