Massachusetts Statutes

Section 42E. The trustees shall maintain high educational standards at the college and the institute and shall have complete authority to establish, support, consolidate or abolish classes, courses and curricula whenever and wherever required in meeting the needs of the college a…

Section 42F. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, except as herein provided, the trustees may adopt, amend or repeal such rules and regulations for the government of the college or institute, for the management, control and administration of its affairs, fo…

Section 42G. The trustees may, except as to duties imposed or powers granted under sections forty-two E and forty-two F, delegate their authority or any portion thereof to the president or any other officer of the college and of the institute whenever in their judgment such deleg…

Section 42H. All accounts of the college or institute, as the case may be, under the direction of the board of trustees, including the accounts of all property or funds received, held or disbursed by the trustees under any provision of section forty-two L, shall be audited by the…

Section 42I. The trustees shall prepare and submit a detailed budget in such form and manner as the governor and general court may direct.

Section 42J. 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 college and the institute, and such appropriations shall be made available by th…

Section 42K. A complete financial report covering all receipts and expenditures shall be made annually to the governor and the general court. Monthly statements of receipts and expenditures shall be made to the state comptroller. The trustees shall see that there is maintained an…

Section 42L. The trustees of the college and the trustees of the institute shall administer property held in accordance with special trusts, and shall also administer grants or devises of land and gifts or bequests of personal property made to the commonwealth for the use of said…

Section 42M. The trustees shall, on behalf of the commonwealth, manage and administer the college and the institute, and all property, real and personal, belonging to the commonwealth and occupied or used by said college or institute, and shall keep in repair houses, buildings an…

Section 42N. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the trustees of the college or an officer of the college designated by them and the trustees of the institute or an officer of the institute designated by them shall have the authority to make any purchase o…

Section 42O. As used in this section the following words shall have the following meanings, unless the context otherwise requires: ''Professional staff'', all officers of the college and of the institute and all persons, except those whose duties are clerical, custodial, security…

Section 42P. The trustees shall have complete authority in determining the travel policy of the college and the institute. They shall determine which of the college personnel and which of the institute personnel may travel within and without the commonwealth at state expense and …

Section 42Q. The trustees shall make rules and regulations for the control, movement and parking of vehicles on the campus of the college and the institute, and may provide reasonable penalties for the violation of said rules and regulations. The trustees may appoint as police of…

Section 43. The board of trustees of said college and of said institute shall be a corporation for the purpose of taking by gift, bequest or devise any real or personal property.

Section 44. The commissioner shall make an annual report as to said college, and said institute, containing a concise statement as to its buildings, equipment, and resources, its courses and methods of instruction, the number of teachers and students during the preceding school y…

Section 45. The board of trustees of said college and of said institute may insure the buildings of said institutes and their contents in such amount as it deems sufficient.

Section 46. The yearly tuition at said college and at said institute for day students who are non-residents of the commonwealth shall not be less than one hundred and fifty dollars.

Section 46A. Said college and said institute may make, under such regulations as their respective boards of trustees may from time to time prescribe, tests, comparative or otherwise, of new and useful improvements in textile machinery or of apparatus, dyes, compounds, processes, …

Section 46B. The Bradford Durfee College of Technology and the New Bedford Institute of Technology may establish and manage, under such regulations as the board of trustees of said college and of said institute, respectively may from time to time prescribe, the Research Foundatio…

Section 5. District trustees under the preceding section shall adopt, for one year or more, plans or organization, administration and support of such schools, which shall be binding on the towns made parties thereto, and shall not be altered or annulled except by two-thirds votes…

Section 52. A town may establish and maintain, upon shore or upon vessels at the election of the school committee, one or more schools for training young persons in nautical duties. School committees may excuse persons attending such schools from attendance at other schools.

Section 54. The board of higher education may establish and maintain, in cooperation with local public or vocational school authorities, one or more schools for institutional on-farm training for veterans of World War II and for veterans of the Korean emergency. Said board may co…

Section 56. The district trustees shall establish a program, in collaboration with the advisory committee, the director of the department of career services and a representative of the local workforce investment board, to expand not-for-credit vocationally-oriented instruction pr…

Section 57. Subject to appropriation, the board of higher education shall establish and maintain, in cooperation with local public and vocational school authorities, postsecondary technical schools and the boards of trustees of community colleges, a program to support training an…

Section 58. No person shall use a tobacco product, as defined in section 6 of chapter 270, within the school buildings or facilities or on the grounds or school buses of a public or private vocational school or at a vocational school-sponsored event. Each school committee or boar…

Section 5A. Independent vocational-technical schools may be established under sections fourteen and fifteen of chapter seventy-one, if the agreement for the establishment of the regional school district, either as originally adopted or as subsequently amended, so provides, and fo…

Section 5B. Regional school districts or cities and towns which are not members of vocational-technical regional school districts, may through educational collaboratives formed under the provisions of section four E of chapter forty, conduct vocational-technical education program…

Section 6. Each school district, county agricultural school, collaborative or municipality operating an approved vocational-technical program shall, under a plan approved by the commissioner under the direction of the state board, appoint advisory committees composed of represent…

Section 7. Residents of towns in the commonwealth not maintaining approved independent distributive occupations, industrial, agricultural, vocational home economics and allied health occupations training schools offering the type of education desired, or children placed in such a…

Section 7A. For the tuition in an approved vocational-technical program of any regional or county agricultural school district, city, town, independent school or collaborative of any pupil placed in such school by the department of children and families, the commonwealth or the c…

Section 7B. An apprentice, as defined in section eleven H of chapter twenty-three shall, upon the concurrence of the commissioner of labor and industries, be approved by the commissioner under the direction of the state board for related vocational-technical training in any city,…

Section 7C. Notwithstanding the provisions of section twenty-seven C of chapter twenty-nine, or of any other general or special law to the contrary, a town where a person resides who is admitted to the school of another town under section seven shall pay a tuition fee to be fixed…

Section 8A. A municipality, wherein a person resides who is admitted to a day school in another municipality under section 7, shall, through its school committee, when necessary, provide for the transportation of such person, and shall, subject to appropriation, be entitled to st…

Section 1. There shall be a University of Massachusetts, consisting of campuses to be maintained at Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, Lowell, and Worcester, which shall continue as a public institution of higher learning within the system of public higher education and shall be governe…

Section 10. A complete financial report covering all receipts and expenditures shall be made annually to the governor and the general court. Monthly statements of receipts and expenditures shall be made to the state comptroller. The trustees shall see that there is maintained an …

Section 11. The trustees shall administer property held in accordance with special trusts, and shall also administer grants or devises of land and gifts or bequests of personal property made to the commonwealth for the use of the university, and execute said trusts, investing the…

Section 11A. The board of trustees shall not allow any funds for legislative agents as defined in section thirty-nine of chapter three or organizations attempting to influence legislation as defined in section forty-four of said chapter three to be assessed on student tuition bil…

Section 12. The trustees shall, on behalf of the commonwealth, manage and administer the university and all property, real and personal, belonging to the commonwealth and occupied or used by the university, and shall keep in repair houses, buildings and equipment so used or occup…

Section 13. The board of trustees shall have the authority to make any purchase or purchases in the amount of one hundred thousand dollars or less, and to purchase without limitation of amount library books and periodicals, educational and scientific supplies and equipment, print…

Section 14. As used in this section the following words shall have the following meanings, unless the context otherwise requires: ''Professional staff'', all officers of the university and all persons, except those whose duties are clerical, custodial, security, labor, maintenanc…

Section 14A. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the trustees shall prescribe and enforce such regulations as they may deem necessary, and may enter into contracts with corporations, foundations, other entities, and individuals concerning inventions, discoveries…

Section 14B. The trustees shall establish for each campus a council, broadly representative of the community, alumnae and students, and shall, upon recommendation of the campus president, appoint members thereto. The campus council shall advise the campus president and the truste…

Section 14C. The university may establish and manage, under such regulations as the board of trustees may from time to time prescribe, the University of Massachusetts Research Foundation, for the purpose of promoting research at the university by obtaining, administering or dispo…

Section 14D. There shall be within the University of Massachusetts a University of Massachusetts Extension Board of Public Overseers for the purpose of advising and assisting the chancellor of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in the mission, budget, operation and manage…

Section 15. The trustees shall annually as of the end of the fiscal year cause the president to make and publish a report for the university that shall be available to the public, copies of which shall be filed with the governor, state secretary and the general court. Special rep…

Section 15A. There is hereby established the center for adoption research and policy, which shall be operated under the direction of the board of trustees of the University of Massachusetts and based at the Worcester campus. The center shall be responsible for conducting research…