Massachusetts Statutes

Section 12. Notwithstanding any general or special law or county charter to the contrary, each county government shall submit to the division of local services the annual or supplementary budget of the county and quarterly updates on the county's budget.

Section 13. (a) For the purposes of this section, the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly requires otherwise: ''Low-income taxpayer'', an individual with a household income which does not exceed 400 per cent of the federal poverty level, a…

Section 14. (a) There shall be a tax expenditure commission that shall examine, evaluate and report on the administration, effectiveness and fiscal impact of tax expenditures, as defined in section 1 of chapter 29, and as presented with the governor's proposed budget under paragr…

Section 1A. There shall be within the department of revenue a division of child support enforcement headed by a deputy commissioner, and such other administrative units as may be established in or assigned to said division from time to time by the commissioner. Said deputy commis…

Section 2. The commissioner of revenue, in this chapter called the commissioner, shall be appointed by the secretary of administration and finance, with the approval of the governor, and may be removed in like manner; the commissioner shall be a person of ability and experience, …

Section 3. The commissioner shall be responsible for administering and enforcing all laws which the department is or shall be required to administer and enforce. He shall be the executive and administrative head of the department, and each division, bureau, section and district o…

Section 3A. For the purposes of collecting certain taxes, the commissioner is authorized to enter into agreements with one or more private persons, companies, associations or corporations doing business in the commonwealth to provide collection services within and outside the com…

Section 4. Any person appointed to any supervisory position in the department, whether or not the same shall be classified under chapter thirty-one, shall be a person with experience and skill in the field of taxation or in the field of the duties of such position. So far as feas…

Section 5. Within each of the divisions established in section one the commissioner shall, with the approval of the secretary, from time to time establish such branches, bureaus, sections, offices and other units as shall be necessary for efficient and economical administration o…

Section 6. In addition to exercising the powers and performing the duties which are or shall be assigned to the commissioner by chapters fifty-eight to sixty-five C, inclusive, and by any other provision of law, the commissioner: 1. Shall make, with the approval of the secretary,…

Section 7. The commissioner shall not rely solely upon records of tax enforcement results to evaluate employees, nor their direct superiors, involved in tax collection activities, and shall not use such records to enforce or suggest individual production quotas or goals with resp…

Section 8. To promote the fair and equitable enforcement of the tax laws of the commonwealth, the commissioner shall establish annual training programs for all employees of the department of revenue, including those in managerial or supervisory positions, who work directly in tax…

Section 1. There shall be within the executive office of education a department of elementary and secondary education, in this chapter called the department, which shall be under the supervision and management of the commissioner of elementary and secondary education, in this cha…

Section 15B. There shall be established in the division of special education a library center for the acquisition, maintenance and distribution of books and other material deemed essential to the proper instruction and training of visually-handicapped children.

Section 16. There shall be a teachers' retirement board for the purpose of administering the teachers' retirement system established under the provisions of chapter 32. Such board shall consist of seven members as follows: the commissioner of education, or his designee, who shall…

Section 17. The members of the teachers' retirement board shall serve without compensation, but they shall be reimbursed from the expense fund of the teachers' retirement system for any expense or loss of salary or wages which they may incur through service on the board. All clai…

Section 18. The teachers' retirement board shall appoint and may remove an executive director and shall establish his salary. Subject to the approval of said board, the executive director shall employ other employees, prescribe their duties and fix their compensation; provided, h…

Section 18A. As used in this section, the words ''includible compensation'' and ''custodial account'' shall have the same meaning as in section 403(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended; and the word ''premiums'' shall include contributions to a custodial account. T…

Section 1E. There shall be in the department a board of elementary and secondary education, in this chapter called the board, which shall consist of the chairman of the student advisory council established under this section, the secretary of education, in this chapter called the…

Section 1F. COMMISSIONER OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION; APPOINTMENT; DUTIES; SALARY Whenever a vacancy occurs in the position of commissioner, the board shall by a two-thirds vote of all its members submit to the secretary, for the secretary's approval, a recommended cand…

Section 1G. There shall be established advisory councils to the board in the following areas: school and district accountability and assistance; life management skills; home economics; educational personnel; fine arts education; gifted and talented education; math and science edu…

Section 1I. The board of education, in this section called the board, shall provide technical and other assistance in the formulation of plans to reduce or eliminate racial imbalance to be filed as provided by section thirty-seven D of chapter seventy-one, may approve such plans …

Section 1J. Within thirty days after (1) a school committee or regional district school committee declines to accept the recommendations made to it by the board of education, in this section called the board, (2) the board disapproves a revised plan filed with it by a school comm…

Section 1R. The board of education shall provide for the establishment of school library and nonprint media services, including: (1) the acquisition or rental of library and nonprint media materials, resources, and appropriate equipment. (2) supplementary library and nonprint med…

Section 52. The board shall establish an essential skills discretionary grant program. The board may make grant awards to school districts with high concentrations of low income students, high concentrations of students deficient in basic skills, or high concentrations of student…

Section 55. The board of education shall establish a program entitled Recognizing Educational Achievement, hereinafter referred to as REACH. The purpose of REACH shall be to recognize and reward public schools for noteworthy improvement and achievement in a variety of categories …

Section 55A. In order to support the commissioner, department and board in fulfilling their duties under the provisions of chapter 69, including sections 1J and 1K, there shall be within the department an office of school and district accountability, hereinafter referred to as th…

Section 57. The board shall establish an instructional materials grant program to provide financial assistance to school districts for the purchase of textbooks, workbooks, audio-visual materials, library books and materials, laboratory kits, and other instructional materials. Gr…

Section 58. The board shall establish a unit designated as the leadership academy which shall provide training to school principals and other supervisory personnel. Such training shall include, but not be limited to: training in personnel evaluation methods, techniques for develo…

Section 60. The commissioner of administration shall convene a working committee made up of his own designee, a designee of the commissioner of education and a designee of the local government advisory committee to establish guidelines for purposes of reimbursing cities and towns…

Section 63. There is hereby established a Carnegie school grant program for the purpose of encouraging the public schools of the commonwealth to plan and develop innovative organization and management systems at the school building level, aimed at empowering public school profess…

Section 64. As used in sections sixty-three to sixty-five, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meanings:— ''Carnegie school'', an individual public school, including a school operated by an educational collaborative established under section four E of chapter …

Section 65. The board may award planning and implementation grants to individual public schools which apply for approval as Carnegie schools. In order to be eligible for approval as a Carnegie school an individual public school, subject to the approval of the school committees ha…

Section 66. (a) It shall be the policy of the commonwealth to encourage students, teachers, administrators and educational policy makers to participate in international studies, international exchange programs and other activities that advance cultural awareness and promote mutua…

Section 1. It is hereby declared to be the policy of the commonwealth to provide, foster and support institutions of public higher education that are of the highest quality, responsive to the academic, technical and economic needs of the commonwealth and its citizens, and account…

Section 10. As used in this chapter, the following words shall, unless the context requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— ''Community college'' shall mean any of the following institutions of higher education: Berkshire Community College, Bristol Community College, Bun…

Section 11. The council may, in the name and on behalf of the commonwealth, upon such terms and with or without consideration, do any or all of the following in order to aid and contribute to the performance of the educational and other purposes of any community college: (a) Sell…

Section 12. To provide for the expenses of HEFA and for the payment of indebtedness incurred by it in connection with any project financed by HEFA on behalf of any community college or any community college affiliate, or in connection with any transfer for such purpose by HEFA, o…

Section 13. HEFA may sell the buildings or other structures upon any land acquired by it pursuant to section eleven and which are not included in a project, or may remove the same, and may sell or lease any lands or rights or interest in lands or other property acquired for the p…

Section 14. Upon application by the trustees of the University of Massachusetts, the council may exercise on behalf of such university and its university affiliates all the powers it has with respect to community colleges or community college affiliates under sections eleven and …

Section 15. In accordance with the funding formulas referenced in section 15B of this chapter, the secretary, in consultation with the council and with the board of trustees for the university of Massachusetts, shall periodically prepare and submit to the budget director an estim…

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Section 15B. There shall be established a two year budget cycle for the public system of higher education which shall be instituted beginning in fiscal year nineteen hundred and ninety-four and shall be repeated every even numbered fiscal year thereafter. In preparing for the eve…

Section 15C. The public institutions of higher education shall report monthly by subsidiary all expenditures and revenues from all appropriated and non-appropriated funds on the Massachusetts management and accounting reporting system, so-called, by July thirty-first, nineteen hu…

Section 15D. The public institutions of higher education shall report all personnel information for those employees compensated from any budgetary, federal, capital or trust fund through the personnel administrative reporting and information system, so-called, by July thirty-firs…