Massachusetts Statutes

Section 19. The trustees shall publish bulletins containing the results of experiments and investigations by the station, except under the following section, and shall distribute such bulletins to residents and newspapers of the commonwealth applying therefor.

Section 1A. There shall be a board of trustees for University of Massachusetts consisting of nineteen voting members. Two members shall be full-time students from said institution, 1 member shall be the secretary of education, ex officio, in this chapter called the secretary, or …

Section 1B. (a) For the purposes of this section, the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly requires otherwise: ''Student charges'', in-state and out-of-state tuition and fees that are charged to students for general attendance at the univer…

Section 2. (a) The major purpose of the university shall be to provide, without discrimination, public service, research, and education programs, including continuing education services, in the liberal arts and sciences and in the professions, and in those professional areas norm…

Section 21. A fee as determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven may be charged for each test of poultry made under section seventeen.

Section 22. The trustees shall maintain and manage an experimental farm, to be known as the university farm, and shall use therefor the land heretofore acquired therefor. Their rules and by-laws shall make just and reasonable provision for manual labor on said farm by students of…

Section 23. The trustees shall maintain the experiment stations heretofore authorized by law for practical demonstrations in market gardening and of experimental work in planting and growing cranberries and tobacco, and shall use therefor the land, buildings and equipment heretof…

Section 24. Employees of the university shall be exempt from civil service laws.

Section 25. Subject to section twenty-seven the trustees may sell and convey, in the name of and for the commonwealth, to any professor, instructor, teacher or employee of said university, or to any society, association or fraternity established thereat, land owned by the commonw…

Section 26. Subject to section twenty-seven the trustees may, in the name of and for the commonwealth, lease to any professor, instructor, teacher or employee of said university, or to any society, association or fraternity established thereat, land in Amherst or Hadley owned by …

Section 27. No sale or conveyance under section twenty-five shall become operative until it is approved by the governor and council, and no lease under section twenty-six shall become operative until the form thereof is approved by the governor and council.

Section 28. The lessee and his assignees shall be liable to taxation upon any building erected on land leased under section twenty-six to the extent of its value as determined by the assessors of the town wherein the land lies.

Section 29. The trustees shall protect and maintain the land owned by the commonwealth situated on or about Mount Toby, so called, in Sunderland and Leverett, known as the Mount Toby state demonstration forest.

Section 2A. Notwithstanding any contrary provisions of law, the board of bank incorporation or the commissioner of banks is hereby authorized to allow a bank, as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and sixty-seven, to establish and maintain a branch on the grounds of th…

Section 3. 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 university, for the management, control and administration of its affairs, for its facult…

Section 30. The trustees shall use so much of such land as they shall determine for instruction in forestry and as a laboratory for research and illustration in economic questions, and for practical work in the conservation and use of forest tracts and farm woodlots.

Section 32. The trustees shall have complete authority in determining the university's travel policy provided, however, that said policy shall require coordination with the state purchasing agent to insure cost-effective utilization of the group purchasing power of the commonweal…

Section 32A. The trustees shall make rules and regulations for the control, movement and parking of vehicles on the campus of the university and on other land of the university, and may provide reasonable penalties for the violation of those rules and regulations. The trustees ma…

Section 32B. There is hereby established the David I. Walsh–Leverett Saltonstall visiting lectureship program in practical politics and public affairs at the university. For such program the university may annually expend such sums, not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars, as …

Section 33. In addition to the commonwealth scholarships authorized under section thirty-one, the University of Massachusetts may also grant quarter, half and full scholarships to be known as university scholarships to worthy and qualified students who have been residents of the …

Section 33A. The University of Massachusetts shall administer a program to be known as the General Court Fellowship Program. Said program shall annually solicit and accept applications for fellowships from the staff of the general court. No more than five such fellowships shall b…

Section 34. The trustees shall maintain a medical school to be known as the University of Massachusetts medical school. Said school shall be so maintained and operated as to comply with the standards approved by nationally recognized medical associations for accredited schools of…

Section 34A. If tuition for the medical school is set at a lower amount for residents of the commonwealth, a resident shall be deemed to be a person who has resided in the commonwealth for 7 consecutive years or more prior to enrollment or a person whose immediate family has resi…

Section 35. The trustees shall elect the dean and such other officers and members of the professional staff of the medical school as they deem necessary and shall fix their classification, title and salary within the general salary schedule, except that any such salary shall be f…

Section 36. In order to provide for the maximum allowable degree of fiscal independence, the budget to be submitted with the estimates required under sections three and four of chapter twenty-nine, and the annual forecasts under section five A of said chapter twenty-nine in so fa…

Section 36A. The University of Massachusetts medical school in Worcester may cremate the bodies of deceased persons which have been donated to said medical school and which have been used for the promotion of anatomical science, including the teaching thereof, or for any other pu…

Section 36B. The University of Massachusetts medical school shall make an analysis of any narcotic drugs, or any synthetic substitute for the same, or any preparation containing the same or any salt compound thereof, and of any poison, drug, medicine or chemical, when submitted t…

Section 36C. (a) The trustees are hereby authorized to acquire by purchase or otherwise affiliate with, or operate physicians practices, satellite clinics, ambulatory care centers, mental health programs or facilities, health care facilities, outpatient diagnostic or treatment ce…

Section 36D. The board of trustees of the university of Massachusetts, in conjunction with the state health education center at the university of Massachusetts medical center, shall develop and implement provisions for payback in learning contracts entered into by students admitt…

Section 36E. (a) The University of Massachusetts medical school in Worcester shall develop a continuing education program for licensed mental health professionals on military service-related behavioral health conditions. (b) The training and curriculum for the program shall inclu…

Section 37. The trustees are hereby authorized and directed to establish and maintain a television center on the university campus in the town of Amherst. Said center shall be for the purpose of coordinating and implementing the production and relay of educational television prog…

Section 38. (a) There shall be a National Environmental Technology Institute, hereinafter referred to as the institute, at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, which shall have accredited programs in engineering and public health. (b) The purposes and responsibilities of t…

Section 39. (a) There shall be an environmental technology testing facility, hereinafter referred to as the facility, and an environmental business center, hereinafter referred to as the center, at the University of Massachusetts Boston. (b) The purposes and responsibilities of t…

Section 3A. The trustees may, except as to duties imposed or powers granted under sections two, three, four and five, delegate their authority or any portion thereof to the president or other officers of the university whenever in their judgment such delegation may be necessary o…

Section 4. The trustees shall determine the time and place of their meeting. Nine members shall constitute a quorum. Meetings of the board of trustees shall be subject to the provisions of said sections eleven A and eleven A1/2 of said chapter thirty A; provided, that in addition…

Section 40. (a) Marine technology, environmental, and engineering programs shall be established at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. (b) The purposes and responsibilities of the marine technology, environmental, and engineering programs shall be to: (1) promote the devel…

Section 41. (a) The Chelsea center for materials reuse, administered by the center for environmentally appropriate materials at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, hereinafter referred to as the center for materials reuse, shall be established to promote the development of ma…

Section 42. No start-up or maintenance and operation funds for the entities established in sections thirty-eight to forty-one, inclusive, shall be appropriated in any fiscal year from the Toxics Use Reduction Fund established in section two K of chapter twenty-nine. Said entities…

Section 43. (a) There is hereby established the University of Massachusetts biologic laboratories. The purpose of said laboratories shall be the research, development and production of childhood vaccines and biologic products designed to reduce or prevent morbidity and mortality …

Section 44. If the chancellor of the Worcester campus becomes responsible either by agreement or legislative action for appointing two or more trustees to a board of trustees of a corporation receiving assets from the clinical operations of the Worcester campus and maintaining an…

Section 45. There shall be within the McCormack graduate school of policy and global studies at the University of Massachusetts, the Edward J. Collins, Jr. center for public management. The center shall seek to improve efficiency, effectiveness, governance, responsiveness and acc…

Section 45B. (a) There shall be established and set up on the books of the commonwealth an Innovation Commercialization Seed Fund into which shall be credited any appropriations designated by the general court to be credited to the fund and any monies generated for the fund throu…

Section 45C. (a) There shall be established and set up on the books of the commonwealth an Innovation Voucher Program Fund into which shall be credited any appropriations designated by the general court to be credited to the fund and any monies generated for the fund through corp…

Section 46. There shall be at the University of Massachusetts at Boston an office of dispute resolution under the supervision and control of a director who shall be appointed by the provost with the approval of the chancellor and concurrence of the board of trustees. The director…

Section 47. (a) As used in this section the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings: ''Community mediation center'', a community-based program of a private nonprofit or public agency organized for the resolution of dispute…

Section 5. The university may have a common seal, which may be altered by the trustees.