Massachusetts Statutes

Section 7. (a) The secretary, in consultation with the executive office of administration and finance, may consider the use of market-based compliance mechanisms to address climate change concerns; provided, however, that prior to the use of any market-based compliance mechanism,…

Section 8. The secretary shall convene an advisory committee to advise the executive office in overseeing the greenhouse emissions reduction measures. The advisory committee shall consist of representatives from the following sectors: commercial, industrial and manufacturing; tra…

Section 9. Nothing in this chapter shall affect the authority of the public utility commission or the obligation of an electric utility to provide customers with safe and reliable electric service. Nothing in this chapter shall preclude, prohibit or restrict the construction of a…

Section 1. No underground tank which has been used for the keeping or storage of flammable or combustible fluids shall be removed or relocated unless a permit for such removal or relocation has first been obtained from the state fire marshal or the official designated by it to gr…

Section 2. As used in sections 3 through 9, the following terms shall have the following meanings: ''CERCLA'', the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act of nineteen hundred and eighty, 12 U.S.C. section 9601 et seq., as may be amended from time to ti…

Section 3. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to limit the authority that the department, the head of a fire department, any other department or agency of the Commonwealth, or a city, town, district, or other body politic has pursuant to any law. (1) Each owner of an unde…

Section 4. The department shall enforce the provisions of this chapter and may, subject to the provisions contained herein, take all action necessary and appropriate to secure to the commonwealth the benefits of subtitle I of RCRA, including without limitation, obtaining federal …

Section 5. The department may, from time to time, adopt, amend, or repeal regulations, as it deems necessary to establish the following requirements and standards for underground storage tanks: (1) requirements for maintaining a leak detection system, an inventory control system …

Section 6. For any of the purposes set forth in this chapter, and for the purposes of developing or assisting in the development of any regulation pursuant to this chapter, or conducting any study mandated by Congress or by the General Court, any owner or operator of an undergrou…

Section 7. Whenever it appears that there is a violation of any provision of this chapter or any regulation, rule, order, permit or approval adopted or issued pursuant to this chapter, the department or head of the fire department may issue to a person causing or contributing, or…

Section 8. No person shall violate, or allow or suffer any employee, agent, or contractor to violate, any provision of this chapter, or of any regulation, rule, order, permit or approval adopted or issued pursuant to this chapter. Any violation of any provision of this chapter, o…

Section 9. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, any information, record, or particular part thereof, obtained by the department or by the head of the fire department or by their respective personnel or contractors pursuant to the provision…

Section 1. There shall be an office of public safety and inspections within the division of occupational licensure under the supervision and control of the commissioner of the division of occupational licensure public safety.

Section 10. The state fire marshal shall appoint a board of boiler rules, consisting of the chief of inspections of the department of fire services, or a boiler inspector of the division of inspection of the department of fire services designated by the state fire marshal, as cha…

Section 10A. There shall be in the division of occupational licensure office of public safety and inspections a bureau to be known as the bureau of pipefitters, refrigeration technicians and sprinkler fitters. The bureau shall consist of 11 members, 1 of whom shall be the commiss…

Section 11. There shall be in the division of occupational licensure office of public safety and inspections a board to be known as the board of elevator regulations, which shall consist of 8 members, to be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the council, fo…

Section 11A. There shall be in the division of occupational licensure office of public safety and inspections, but not under the control of the commissioner, a board to be known as the board of elevator appeals, which shall consist of the commissioner or a member of the division …

Section 11B. The office of public safety and inspections shall promulgate rules and regulations relative to bungee jumping.

Section 12. (a) For the purposes of this section, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings: ''Mixed martial arts'', as defined in section 32 of chapter 147. ''Unarmed combative sport'', as defined in said section 32 of …

Section 13A. There shall be in the office of public safety and inspections within the division of occupational licensure a board to be known as the architectural access board, which shall consist of the director of the Massachusetts office on disability or his designee, the secre…

Section 20. The office of public safety and inspections within the division of occupational licensure is hereby authorized and directed to promulgate rules and regulations governing the operation of carriage horses.

Section 22. (a) The commissioner of the division of occupational licensure may issue a written notice of violation, which shall be a written warning or a citation to assess civil monetary fines of not more than $5,000 for a violation of the following laws or of regulations adopte…

Section 4A. There shall be within the department a division to be known as the division of inspection. The commissioner shall appoint a chief or chiefs of inspections, who shall not be subject to the provisions of chapter thirty-one, who may be removed for cause, and the position…

Section 6. The commissioner may appoint, transfer and remove inspectors, experts, clerks and other assistants. Except as provided in section two of chapter one hundred and forty-seven, the number of inspectors heretofore authorized by law may be increased only with the approval o…

Section 6A. No person who has been convicted of a felony shall be appointed as an inspector of the division.

Section 7. Each inspector in the division shall receive his actual traveling and necessary expenses when on duty, which shall be verified by oath and approved by the commissioner. No salary shall be paid to any such inspector until he has made oath that he has paid to the commonw…

Section 7A. The commissioner may authorize the payment, out of any appropriation made for traveling or other expenses of the office of public safety and inspections, of the reasonable hospital, medical and surgical expenses incurred by any inspector of the division when temporari…

Section 7B. In determining the right of any inspector of the division or the department of fire services' division of inspection performing police service, or his legal representatives, to receive compensation under any provision of law on account of injuries or death suffered by…

Section 8. Each inspector shall, before entering upon the performance of his duties, be sworn to the faithful performance thereof, and unless his oath of office is taken within ten days after the date of his appointment, the appointment shall be void.

Section 1. As used in sections two to eight, inclusive, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings: ''Central register'', identifying data file of missing children. ''Department'', the department of criminal justice infor…

Section 2. The director, in consultation with the colonel of state police, through electronic data processing and related procedures, shall establish a statewide central register containing all necessary and available identifying information of a missing child in the commonwealth…

Section 3. The director with the advice and consent of the colonel of state police shall promulgate rules and regulations which shall (1) insure the accuracy of the data contained in the central register; (2) prescribe the manner in which reports to the central register shall be …

Section 4. Whenever a parent, guardian, or governmental unit responsible for a child, reports to any police officer or law enforcement official that a child is missing, such police officer or official shall immediately cause to be entered into the central register relevant inform…

Section 5. The medical examiner shall promptly furnish the department of the state police with copies of fingerprints, personal descriptions and other identifying data, including the date and place of death, of all deceased persons whose deaths are in a classification requiring i…

Section 6. When any person makes a report of a missing person to a law enforcement authority, the authority shall request a member of the family or next of kin of the missing person to authorize the release to the department of the medical and dental records of the person reporte…

Section 7. Notwithstanding the provisions of any special or general law to the contrary, the department of children and families, the department of youth services, the department of public health, and the department of mental health shall report a missing child under its custody …

Section 9. Upon receipt of a report of a missing child to a law enforcement authority, such authority shall notify the last known elementary or secondary school, either public or private, in which such child had been enrolled as to such child's disappearance. If said law enforcem…

Section 1. As used in this chapter, the following words shall, unless the context requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— ''AMBER alert plan'', the America's Missing Broadcast Emergency Response Alert Plan authorizing the broadcast media, upon notice from the department…

Section 10. Whenever the governor shall deem it necessary to provide more effectively for the protection of persons and property and for the maintenance of law and order in the commonwealth, such officer may authorize, in writing, the colonel to make appointments to the departmen…

Section 10A. The colonel may establish a cadet program within the department and may admit as a state police cadet, for a period of full-time on the job training, a citizen resident in the commonwealth who: (i) is not less than 19 years of age and not more than 25 years of age; (…

Section 11. Each appointment for initial enlistment as a uniformed member of the state police shall be made from a list established as the result of a competitive examination conducted under the direction of the colonel, after consultation with the personnel administrator, who sh…

Section 12. Any uniformed member of the state police may, upon view of any misdemeanor committed in his presence while on duty, arrest the person committing such misdemeanor, where such misdemeanor was committed in any building or grounds owned or occupied, wholly or in part by t…

Section 13. (a) A uniformed member of the state police who has served for at least 1 year and against whom charges have been preferred shall be tried by a board to be appointed by the colonel or, at the request of the officer, a board consisting of the colonel. A person aggrieved…

Section 14. No person who has been convicted of a felony or any offense punishable under chapter 94C or has been convicted of a misdemeanor and has been confined to any jail or house of correction as punishment for said crime shall be appointed as an employee of the department, i…

Section 15. Each officer shall, before entering upon the performance of his duties, be sworn to the faithful performance thereof, and unless his oath of office is taken within three months after the date of his appointment, the appointment shall be void.

Section 16. The colonel may authorize the payment, out of any appropriation made for traveling or other expenses of the department, of the reasonable hospital, medical and surgical expenses incurred by any trainee or officer of the department when temporarily or permanently disab…