Massachusetts Statutes

Section 10. Any vacancy in any office, the original appointment to which is required by law to be made by the governor, with or without the advice and consent of the council, and for which no other method of filling vacancies is expressly provided by law, shall be filled for the …

Section 11. A person chosen or appointed to an office may, unless otherwise provided by law, take and subscribe the oaths required to qualify him before the governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of the commonwealth, two councillors or two commissioners appointed under section …

Section 12. A person appointed to an office by the governor with or without the advice and consent of the council shall be notified of his appointment by the state secretary and his commission delivered to him upon qualification, and if he does not, within three months after the …

Section 13. Before the delivery of a commission to a person appointed commissioner under section three or four of chapter two hundred and twenty-two, master in chancery or justice of the peace, he shall pay to the state secretary a fee to be determined annually by the commissione…

Section 14. If a bond is required of any person appointed to office by the governor with or without the advice and consent of the council, the commission shall not issue until the bond has been approved.

Section 15. When state officials or employees are required to give bond in which the amount is not fixed by law, the comptroller shall fix the amount and shall require that such bonds be made uniform so far as possible.

Section 16. State officers and heads of state departments may arrange for such schedule bonds as they deem advisable, which shall take the place of bonds required by law of them or any of their officers and employees. Every such schedule bond shall be a surety company bond with a…

Section 17. If an official having custody of property of the commonwealth, or charged with the duty of receiving or disbursing money, is required to give bond to the commonwealth for the faithful discharge of his duty, the commonwealth shall reimburse him for the amount paid by h…

Section 18. Every public official having custody of any bond for the faithful performance of the duties of any office, occupation, agency or trust, requiring the approval of any court, public officer, department or board other than the governor and council, shall, except in those…

Section 19. If a new bond is not filed, as required by the preceding section, the governor with the advice and consent of the council, shall remove the principal from such office or trust or terminate his authority to exercise such occupation or agency.

Section 2. All executive and administrative offices, boards, commissions and other governmental organizations and agencies, except those serving directly under the governor or the governor and council, not by law placed under the direction and control of some state department, sh…

Section 20. Bonds of public officers, except officers in Suffolk county, required to be deposited with county treasurers shall, at least once a year, be examined by the director of accounts or his representative. If such bond is insufficient, he shall report to the superior court…

Section 21. A person shall not at the same time receive more than one salary from the treasury of the commonwealth.

Section 22. Whoever wilfully violates the preceding section or wilfully accepts or holds office in violation of article two of chapter six of the second part of the constitution, as amended by article twenty-seven of the amendments thereof, shall forfeit to the commonwealth the c…

Section 23. Any person in any executive or administrative department who is appointed to office by the governor, with the advice and consent of the council, and who is paid a salary, may be required by the governor, with like advice and consent, to give his whole time to the duti…

Section 23A. Any trustee of a state institution who is appointed to such office by the governor, with the advice and consent of the council, shall, during the term for which he was appointed, be ineligible to hold any other office or position in said institution.

Section 24. All offices under the jurisdiction of any department of the state government shall be open to the public for the transaction of business daily on days other than Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays for such hours, beginning not later than nine o'clock in the forenoo…

Section 24A. If any person employed by the commonwealth is required to work on any legal holiday, as listed in the first sentence of clause Eighteenth of section seven of chapter four, he shall be given an additional day off or, if such additional day off cannot be given by reaso…

Section 24B. Whenever an employee in a lower grade is assigned the duties of a position in a higher grade for a period of thirty days or longer, the appointing officer shall, if a vacancy exists or is to exist for the position in the higher grade, forthwith submit to the personne…

Section 24C. No compensation shall be paid to any employee of the commonwealth for overtime services except upon the prior written approval of such overtime by the appointing authority, and, in the case of a department, office, commission, board or institution within any of the e…

Section 25. State officers, and members of departments receiving a salary or its equivalent, who are provided with offices by the commonwealth and whose duties require regular attendance at such offices, shall not be allowed or paid by the commonwealth any expenses in the nature …

Section 25A. If any state officer or member of a department who is allowed actual and reasonable expenses incurred while traveling in the performance of duty, under the provisions of section twenty-five, dies while in the performance of such duty away from home, his body shall be…

Section 25B. No officer or employee of the commonwealth may travel out of state at public expense except in accordance with rules and regulations established by the commissioner of administration for the expenditure of funds for travel out of state by employees of the commonwealt…

Section 27. Except as otherwise expressly provided, all fees or other money received on account of the commonwealth shall be paid daily into the treasury thereof, but if in the opinion of the commissioner of administration and the state treasurer the interests of the commonwealth…

Section 28. All books and accounts of all offices, departments, boards, commissions and institutions of the commonwealth shall be kept by the fiscal year established for them, respectively, by clause ninth of section seven of chapter four.

Section 29. Every treasurer and disbursing officer of a state institution shall maintain an office at his institution where all books, accounts and vouchers of such institution shall be kept. The books shall show all receipts and disbursements on account of the institution.

Section 3. In all cases where the executive and administrative head of a department is vested with authority to establish therein divisions not specifically provided for by law, the establishment of such divisions shall be subject to the approval of the governor and council.

Section 30. Official letters of departments, institutions or officials of the commonwealth shall be written or printed, so far as practicable, on paper eight and one half inches wide and eleven inches long.

Section 30A. The state secretary, the commissioner of administration and the state purchasing agent shall, after consultation with state officers, heads of departments and superintendents of institutions, determine a uniform style of headings for letterheads to be used by all exe…

Section 31. The printing, binding and procuring of stationery for the use of the several offices and departments of the commonwealth shall be under the direction of the heads of said offices or departments and shall be approved by them.

Section 32. On or before the first Wednesday in December following the termination of each fiscal year, every state officer, department, board and commission or head thereof that is required by law to make an annual report shall deposit such report with the state secretary, excep…

Section 33. Any state officer or department or head thereof making an annual report may include therein, in even-numbered years, recommendations for legislative action which recommendations shall contain a detailed explanation of reasons therefor, other than requests for appropri…

Section 33A. If, in the opinion of a state officer or department required to submit annual reports, the necessity of enacting special bills in relation to any particular subject of legislation may, without detriment to the public interest, be avoided in whole or in part by the en…

Section 34. All reports of special commissions recommending legislation shall be accompanied by drafts of bills embodying the legislation recommended.

Section 35. State officers, departments or heads thereof may make such special reports as the state purchasing agent deems to be of practical utility. Appeal may be taken from any decision of the state purchasing agent hereunder to the committee of the executive council appointed…

Section 35A. Reports of state officers, departments or heads thereof, and special commissions, recommending the expenditure of money to an amount in the aggregate exceeding five hundred thousand dollars for a new project or undertaking, any part of the cost of which is recommende…

Section 36. The commissioner of administration shall establish and enforce regulations governing the use and marking of motor vehicles owned by the commonwealth. Every office, department, board, commission or institution of the commonwealth shall keep such a record of the use of …

Section 36A. Motor vehicles to be purchased from sums appropriated by the general court shall be authorized by the purchasing agent in accordance with schedules filed by the budget director with the house and senate committees on ways and means of the general court prior to the p…

Section 37. Every department, board, commission, division, authority or official of state government, or subdivision thereof, authorized by law to make regulations, shall comply with the filing provisions of section five of chapter thirty A and such regulations shall not take eff…

Section 38. Every state officer, department or head thereof shall, whenever required by the personnel administrator, furnish him with such information as he prescribes concerning all officials and employees of the commonwealth employed in or by such office or department for whose…

Section 38A. Contracts for road and bridge projects awarded as a result of a proposal or invitation for bids under section 39M shall include a price adjustment clause for each of the following materials: fuel, both diesel and gasoline; asphalt; concrete; and steel. Contracts for …

Section 39A. Officers or agents executing a contract in behalf of the commonwealth or any agency thereof, or in behalf of any political subdivision thereof, for the construction, repair, alteration or improvement of public ways, airports or similar public works, wherein it is con…

Section 39B. Every contract entered into by the commonwealth or any agency thereof, or in behalf of any political subdivision thereof, for the construction, repair, alteration or improvement of public ways, airports or other public works of a similar nature wherein it is contempl…

Section 39C. In any action or claim instituted under section thirty-nine A, it shall be no defense that any common carrier or contract carrier, who has furnished or provided transportation on any such contract, agreed to accept less than the minimum rates and charges prescribed b…

Section 39D. Nothing contained in section thirty-nine A shall be construed as limiting the authority of an officer or agent of the commonwealth, or in behalf of any political subdivision thereof, to require other performance or payment bonds whenever required or permitted by law.

Section 39E. Whoever, by force or the use of threats, intimidation or coercion of any kind, induces any common carrier or contract carrier or the person who has furnished or provided transportation on any contract for which a payment bond is required under section thirty-nine A t…