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MA Gen L ch 72 § 5 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 72 - School Registers and Returns|Section 5 - Procedure on Failure to File Reports or Returns; Irregular Returns

Section 5. If a superintendent of schools fails, within the prescribed time, to make both the returns and the report required by law, the commissioner shall forthwith notify the chairman of the school committee thereof, and he shall immediately transmit the same to him. If a return is found to be irregular or incorrect, the commissioner shall forthwith return it for correction, with a statement of all deficiencies therein, to the committee or its agent, who shall promptly correct and return it.
MA Gen L ch 72 § 6 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 72 - School Registers and Returns|Section 6 - Extension of Time to File Reports and Returns; Penalties for Failure to File

Section 6. A town may request and receive an extension of time for submission of its report and returns from the commissioner for cause.  Any town which has not received an extension of time and whose report and returns are not received by the commissioner on or before September thirtieth shall be subject to such penalties as may be established by the board of education under regulations adopted by it under chapter thirty A of the General Laws. Such penalties may include, but not be limited to, forfeiture by such town of part or all of the amount to be distributed to it by the state treasurer under chapter seventy.
MA Gen L ch 72 § 7 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 72 - School Registers and Returns|Section 7 - Liability of School Committee for Failure to File Returns or Reports

Section 7. A town suffering such a forfeiture through the default of its school committee may withhold the compensation of the committee.
MA Gen L ch 72 § 8 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 72 - School Registers and Returns|Section 8 - School Registers; Maintenance and Use

Section 8. The school committee shall cause the registers of daily attendance to be faithfully kept under the direction of the superintendent who shall make due return thereof to the school committee or to such person as it may designate. All registers shall be kept at the schools, and at all times during school hours shall be open to the inspection of the committee, the superintendent, supervisors of attendance, and the commissioner and agents of the department. In computing the average daily membership a pupil's name shall be omitted only when it is known that he has withdrawn from the school without intention of returning. A pupil who is not present during at least half of a session shall be marked and counted as absent for that session.  The use of automation equipment in keeping such registers may be used, with the approval of the department of education.
MA Gen L ch 72 § 9 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 72 - School Registers and Returns|Section 9 - Copies of Report to Be Filed With Chief Executive Officers of Cities or Towns

Section 9. A copy of each report filed with the commissioner of education under this chapter shall also be filed at the same time with the chief executive officer of the city or town, but in the case of a regional school district with the chief executive officers of all the member cities and towns.
MA Gen L ch 73 § 1a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 73 - State Colleges and Community Colleges|Section 1a - Fees for Tuition, Room and Board

Section 1A. The board of trustees shall fix the amount of tuition fee to be paid by each student at any of the state universities; provided, however, that said board shall in no case fix the tuition fee for full tuition during the school year at less than one hundred dollars; provided, further, that tuition fees charged to veterans, and fixed by the veterans administration pursuant to law, shall not be included within such authority and limitation. Said board shall, furthermore, charge any pupil at any of the aforesaid state universities maintaining a dormitory and boarding hall a reasonable charge for room and board at a rate not less than four hundred and twenty dollars per year.
MA Gen L ch 73 § 1b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 73 - State Colleges and Community Colleges|Section 1b - Student Activity Fee

Section 1B. The board of trustees may fix the amount of student activity fee to be paid by each student at any of the state universities. All receipts from student activities shall be retained by the president of the state university in a revolving fund or revolving funds, and shall be expended as the president of the state university may direct in furthering the activities from which the fees and receipts were derived; provided that the foregoing shall not authorize any action in contravention of the requirements of section one of Article LXIII of the amendments to the Constitution. Such a fund shall be subject to an audit by the state auditor, in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards, as often as the state auditor determines is necessary.
MA Gen L ch 73 § 1c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 73 - State Colleges and Community Colleges|Section 1c - Meetings

Section 1C. The trustees shall determine the time and place of their meetings and the manner of giving notice thereof.
MA Gen L ch 73 § 1e (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 73 - State Colleges and Community Colleges|Section 1e - Branch Banks on Grounds of Universities Authorized

Section 1E. 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 any state university in the commonwealth, provided that the board of trustees of said state universities shall determine the method and terms of the lease if applicable or rental thereof.
MA Gen L ch 73 § 1f (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 73 - State Colleges and Community Colleges|Section 1f - Funds for Legislative Agents or Organizations Attempting to Influence Legislation

Section 1F. 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 bills; provided, however that optional fees for nonpartisan organizations which employ said legislative agents or attempt to influence legislation shall be collected by the board of trustees whenever students have authorized an optional fee by a majority vote of those students voting in an official student referendum. Said optional fee shall be collected as provided in paragraph (b) of section eighteen or chapter fifteen A.  No funds collected as a mandatory student activities fee shall be paid to legislative agents as defined in section thirty-nine of said chapter three or organizations attempting to influence legislation as defined in section forty-four of said chapter three. As used in this section, the term ''legislative agent'' or ''organization attempting to influence legislation'' shall not include any official representative of the student body.
MA Gen L ch 73 § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 73 - State Colleges and Community Colleges|Section 2 - Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts; Provision for Agricultural Education

Section 2. The department may provide for agricultural education in the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.
MA Gen L ch 73 § 2a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 73 - State Colleges and Community Colleges|Section 2a - Required Subjects for Instruction

Section 2A. In all state universities the constitutions of the United States and of the commonwealth shall be taught as required subjects for the purpose of fitting the students, morally and intellectually, for the duties of citizenship and of school teaching.
MA Gen L ch 73 § 3 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 73 - State Colleges and Community Colleges|Section 3 - Agreement for Practice Teaching

Section 3. The city of Boston may, and the cities of North Adams, Fitchburg and Lowell and the town of Barnstable shall, acting by their respective school committees, each make written agreements with the board of trustees to provide suitable and sufficient school buildings and model and practice schools in connection with the training departments of state universities therein. The board of trustees may, if requested by towns near state universities, make written agreements with such towns for the maintenance of practice schools therein in connection with such state universities, and may provide for the payment of part of the compensation of supervising teachers employed in such practice schools. This section shall not prevent the establishment and maintenance of model, practice, or training schools in connection with state universities, with or without the co-operation of local school authorities. All moneys payable by towns under such agreements shall be held upon a trust or trusts and disbursed at the direction of the board of trustees of the institution that is party to such agreement.
MA Gen L ch 73 § 4 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 73 - State Colleges and Community Colleges|Section 4 - Bonds of University Presidents

Section 4. Presidents of state universities shall give bonds in such penal sums as the comptroller may prescribe, conditioned on the faithful performance of their duties.
MA Gen L ch 73 § 4a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 73 - State Colleges and Community Colleges|Section 4a - Leaves of Absence

Section 4A. A faculty member in a state university who has served as such for at least 6 years or, if a leave of absence has previously been granted to such faculty member, 6 years after the termination of the last such leave or after the date such leave would have been completed but for a deferral of the leave, may, upon written recommendation of the president of the university where the faculty member is employed, be granted by the board of trustees of the state university a leave of absence for study and research for a period of 1 year at .5 pay or for a period of a .5 year at full pay. Prior to granting such leave, the faculty member shall enter into a written agreement with the board of trustees stating that upon the termination of such leave the faculty member shall return to serve as a faculty member in the same or another state university for a period equal to twice the length of such leave; provided, that if the faculty member fails to complete that service, the faculty member shall refund to the commonwealth, unless excused by the board of trustees for reasons satisfactory to the board, an amount equal to the proportion of the salary received by the faculty member while on leave minus the amount for service not actually rendered as agreed. For the purposes of this section, service in a state college, including The Teachers College of the City of Boston, shall be deemed to have been service in a state university.
MA Gen L ch 73 § 4b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 73 - State Colleges and Community Colleges|Section 4b - Teachers; Employment and Dismissal

Section 4B. The board of trustees, in electing a teacher in a state university who has served as such for the three previous consecutive school years, shall employ him to serve at its discretion, and notwithstanding any contrary provision of general or special laws, he shall not be dismissed from such employment except for just cause and for reasons specifically given him in writing by the said board. Before any such removal is effected, the said teacher, upon his request, shall be given a full hearing before said board, of which hearing he shall have at least thirty days written notice from said board, and he shall be allowed to answer charges preferred against him, either personally or by counsel.
MA Gen L ch 73 § 6 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 73 - State Colleges and Community Colleges|Section 6 - Admission of Non-Resident Students

Section 6. Upon payment of tuition fees the trustees may receive students not residents of the commonwealth in state universities.
MA Gen L ch 73 § 8 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 73 - State Colleges and Community Colleges|Section 8 - Educational Program

Section 8. The trustees may provide for residents of the commonwealth an educational program at each of the state universities, such program to include, in addition to the subjects mentioned in sections two and two A, instruction in such subjects as it deems expedient in the training of such residents.
MA Gen L ch 73 § 10 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 73 - State Colleges and Community Colleges|Section 10 - Audit

Section 10. All accounts of the state universities and community colleges under the direction of the trustees including the accounts of all property or funds received, held or disbursed under any provision of section fourteen and all accounts of any person doing business as a bookstore on property of a state university or community college shall be audited by the state auditor, in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards, as often as the state auditor determines is necessary.
MA Gen L ch 73 § 11 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 73 - State Colleges and Community Colleges|Section 11 - Budget

Section 11. The trustees shall prepare and submit a detailed budget in such form and manner as the governor and general court may direct.
MA Gen L ch 73 § 12 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 73 - State Colleges and Community Colleges|Section 12 - Annual Appropriation

Section 12. 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 each state university; and such appropriations shall be made available to each state university by the appropriate state officials for expenditure through allotment, transfer within and among subsidiary accounts, advances from the state treasury in accordance with the provisions of sections twenty-four, twenty-five and twenty-six of chapter twenty-nine, or for disbursement on certification to the state comptroller in accordance with the provisions of section eighteen of said chapter twenty-nine as may from time to time be directed by the trustees or an officer of the division designated by the trustees.
MA Gen L ch 73 § 13 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 73 - State Colleges and Community Colleges|Section 13 - Financial Report; Accounting System

Section 13. 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 accounting system as required by the state comptroller and the trustees may maintain such additional accounts as they deem necessary for the management of the state universities.
MA Gen L ch 73 § 14 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 73 - State Colleges and Community Colleges|Section 14 - Special Trusts, etc.; Management

Section 14. 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 a state university, and execute said trusts, investing the proceeds thereof in notes or bonds secured by sufficient mortgages or other securities. The trustees shall have the authority to assent to federal laws designed to benefit the state universities and to enter into agreements or contracts with the federal government or agencies thereof, as well as into agreements or contracts with agencies of other governments, other colleges and universities, foundations, corporations, interstate compact agencies and individuals where such agreements or contracts, in the judgment of the trustees, will promote the objectives of the state universities. The trustees may, from time to time, establish and manage trust funds for self-amortizing projects and self-supporting activities including, but not limited to, the operation of the boarding halls, student health service, research institutes and foundations, dormitories and student and faculty apartments. All income received from such projects or activities shall be held in trust by the trustees and expended for the purpose for which the trust fund was established. The trustees may, for the purposes of this section, group together several or more projects and activities into one or more funds as is, in their judgment, required to best effectuate the purposes of the projects and activities and the purposes of the state universities. Any unrestricted balances remaining in a trust fund upon its termination shall be used as directed by the trustees for the general purposes of the state universities.
MA Gen L ch 73 § 15 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 73 - State Colleges and Community Colleges|Section 15 - Purchases

Section 15. Notwithstanding any other provision of law of the contrary, the trustees or officers of a state university designated by them shall have the authority to make any purchase or purchases in the amount of five hundred dollars or less, and to purchase without limitation of amount library books and periodicals, educational and scientific supplies and equipment, printing and binding, emergency repairs and replacement parts, and perishable items, without recourse to any other state board, bureau, department or commission; provided, that in so doing the university shall follow modern methods of purchasing and shall, wherever practicable, invite competitive bids. Except as herein provided, the state purchasing agent shall on the certification of availability of funds purchase all items specified on requisitions submitted to him by such university; provided, that the university shall have the right to review all bids received on university requisitions and to make binding recommendation on the award of the contract based on the judgment of the university as to which of the bids best meet the university's specifications on which the bids were received.
MA Gen L ch 73 § 17 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 73 - State Colleges and Community Colleges|Section 17 - Travel Policy

Section 17. The trustees shall have complete authority in determining the travel policy of a state university; 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 commonwealth. They shall determine which of the personnel of such university may travel within and without the commonwealth at state expense and where such personnel may travel.
MA Gen L ch 73 § 18 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 73 - State Colleges and Community Colleges|Section 18 - Control, Movement and Parking of Motor Vehicles

Section 18. The trustees shall make rules and regulations for the control, movement and parking of vehicles on the campus or other land of a state university and may provide reasonable penalties for the violation of said rules and regulations. The trustees may appoint as police officers persons in the employ of such university who in the enforcement of said rules and regulations and throughout the property of such university shall have the powers of police officers, except as to service of civil process. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all fines and penalties recovered for violation of rules and regulations made under authority of this section shall be accounted for by the clerk of the court and forwarded to the trustees of the division of state universities who shall deposit the same in the scholarship trust fund of such university for scholarship purposes.
MA Gen L ch 73 § 19 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 73 - State Colleges and Community Colleges|Section 19 - Institutions of Higher Learning; Jurisdiction of Board

Section 19. The institutions of higher learning under the jurisdiction of the board of trustees of state universities shall be those institutions in the state university segment established by section 5 of chapter 15A.
MA Gen L ch 73 § 20 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 73 - State Colleges and Community Colleges|Section 20 - University Education for Police Officers and Firefighters

Section 20. A state university shall admit as a candidate for a four year degree any person who is a regular member of the police department or fire department of a city or town of the commonwealth within commuting distance of the university, who is recommended by his superior officers and demonstrates sufficient capacity in a competitive admissions examination. A police officer or firefighter who is so admitted shall, while enrolled as a student in good standing at such university, have his tuition paid by the commonwealth. While so enrolled, the city or town by whom he is employed shall pay him his full weekly salary during the thirty-two weeks of each university year; provided, he is enrolled for sixteen semester hours of instruction, works twenty-four hours a week on regular duty as a police officer or firefighter, as the case may be, in said city or town and during university vacation period works his regular weekly tour of duty in his department. Each police officer and firefighter who enrolls at a state university under the provisions of this section shall sign an agreement that he shall remain in full time employment as a police officer or firefighter, as the case may be, in such city or town after he completes such university work for as many years as he has been aided by such city or town under this section.