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MA Gen L ch 26 § 8a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 26 - Department of Banking and Insurance|Section 8a - Board of Appeal on Motor Vehicle Liability Policies and Bonds

Section 8A. There shall be a board of appeal on motor vehicle liability policies and bonds serving in the division of insurance and consisting of the commissioner of insurance or his representative, the registrar of motor vehicles or a representative, and two assistant attorneys general to be designated from time to time by the attorney general. The commissioner of insurance may by a writing, in such form as he may prescribe, filed in his office, designate from time to time a representative to act in his place and the registrar of motor vehicles may in like manner designate from time to time a representative to act in his place. Any such designation may be revoked at any time and may run for such period as the designating officer may prescribe. The compensation of such a representative, if not an employee of the commonwealth, shall be fixed by the board, subject to the approval of the governor and council. The commissioner of insurance or his representative shall be the chairman of the board. With the approval of the governor and council, the board may appoint and remove a secretary and such clerical and other assistants as its work may require. The secretary so appointed shall be eligible to serve also as the representative of the commissioner of insurance, if designated as aforesaid. All expenditures incurred under this section shall be paid from the highway fund. The secretary shall keep a record of all proceedings before the board, and he and such clerical and other assistants shall perform such duties as the board may direct. Any member of the board shall have power to summon and compel the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books, records and documents and may administer oaths. Sections nine and eleven of chapter two hundred and thirty-three shall apply to the board and witnesses summoned before it. The fees of witnesses before the board for attendance and travel shall be the same as for witnesses before a court in civil cases and need not be paid nor tendered to them prior to their attendance, and shall be paid by the commonwealth upon the certificate of the board or a member thereof filed with the comptroller. An office and a room for hearings shall be provided by the commonwealth, to be assigned by the governor and council. The board may hold hearings at any place within the commonwealth and the members and secretary thereof shall be allowed their necessary traveling and other expenses in holding hearings outside the city of Boston. The board, with the approval of the governor and council, may make and amend reasonable rules and regulations to expedite and regulate hearings and the procedure before it.
MA Gen L ch 26 § 8c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 26 - Department of Banking and Insurance|Section 8c - Assessments Against Licensed Insurers

Section 8C. The commissioner of insurance may make an assessment in each fiscal year against all licensed insurers in the commonwealth. Said assessments shall be made at a rate as shall be determined and certified annually by the commissioner as sufficient to produce revenue to reimburse the commonwealth for funds appropriated for the operation of the division of insurance, hereinafter called the division, less any revenues which were received by the commonwealth under the provisions of section eight B and section fourteen of chapter one hundred and seventy-five, but in no event shall said assessment exceed the sum of two million dollars. Three-fourths of the amount to be so assessed shall be made against all licensed domestic companies and foreign companies in proportion to their net premiums written and annuity considerations in the commonwealth as shown in the annual report of each of said insurers filed with the division; and, in addition, one-fourth of said amount shall be made against all licensed domestic companies in proportion to their net premiums written and annuity considerations as shown in the annual report of each of said insurers filed with the division.  Said assessment shall reimburse the commonwealth for funds appropriated for the prior fiscal year.  Assessments under this section shall be charged to the normal operating cost of each company.  For the purposes of this section, the term ''licensed insurer'' shall have the same meaning as the word ''company'' as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and seventy-five, and as the words ''fraternal-benefit society'' as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and seventy-six, and as the words ''non-profit hospital service corporation'' as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and seventy-six A, and as the words ''medical service corporation'' as defined by section one of chapter one hundred and seventy-six B.
MA Gen L ch 26 § 8d (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 26 - Department of Banking and Insurance|Section 8d - Certification and Collection of Assessment

Section 8D. On or before October first in any fiscal year, the commissioner of insurance shall certify to the commissioner of corporations and taxation the amount of assessment to be made and the name and address of each company against whom such assessment is to be made. Such assessment shall be collected by the commissioner of corporations and taxation in accordance with applicable provisions of chapter sixty-three; provided, however, that each company shall pay the amount assessed against it within thirty days from the receipt of notice of assessment from the commissioner of corporations and taxation. The amount so collected shall be credited to the funds to which the appropriations for the division of insurance are charged, and in the same proportion as such appropriations are charged.
MA Gen L ch 26 § 8i (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 26 - Department of Banking and Insurance|Section 8i - Medical Malpractice Analysis Bureau; Duties; Appointments; Assessments

Section 8I. There shall be established within the division a medical malpractice analysis bureau which shall analyze and collect data and advise the commissioner on requests filed by a medical malpractice insurer licensed, admitted, authorized or approved by the commissioner for changes in risk classifications, premiums, rates and such other matters as may be reviewed or approved by the commissioner. Said bureau may employ at least the following persons: an actuary, an attorney, a person with expertise in the area of health care systems and policies, two senior actuarial assistants and such secretarial and clerical assistance as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this section. The commissioner shall appoint all employees of said bureau who shall be exempt from the provisions of section nine A of chapter thirty and chapter thirty-one and shall serve at the pleasure of the commissioner.  The commissioner is hereby authorized to make and collect an assessment against medical malpractice insurers licensed, admitted, authorized or approved by the commissioner to pay for the expenses of said bureau. Said assessment shall be made at a rate sufficient to produce five hundred thousand dollars annually. In addition to said amount, the assessment shall also include an amount, to be credited to the General Fund, equal to the total amount of funds estimated by the secretary for administration and finance to be expended from the General Fund for indirect and fringe benefit costs attributable to the personnel costs of said bureau; provided, however, that if the commissioner shall fail to expend for the costs and expenses of said bureau in any fiscal year the total amount of five hundred thousand dollars for the purposes set forth in this section, any amount unexpended in such fiscal year shall be credited against the assessment to be made in the following year, and the assessment in the following year shall be reduced by such unexpended amount. The assessment shall be allocated on a fair and reasonable basis among all medical malpractice insurers licensed, admitted, authorized or approved by the commissioner. The funds produced by said assessments shall be expended by the division, in addition to any other funds which may be appropriated, to assist in defraying the general operating expenses of said bureau, and may be used to compensate consultants retained by said bureau. A medical malpractice insurer licensed, admitted, authorized or approved by the commissioner shall pay the amount so assessed against it within thirty days after the date of the notice of assessment from the commissioner. For the purposes of this section, the term medical malpractice insurer shall mean a medical malpractice insurer as defined in section one hundred and ninety-three U of chapter one hundred and seventy-five.
MA Gen L ch 26 § 8j (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 26 - Department of Banking and Insurance|Section 8j - Maintenance Assessment Against Life Insurers

Section 8J. The commissioner of insurance shall make a special division of insurance maintenance assessment in each fiscal year against each life insurer licensed to do business in the commonwealth. This maintenance assessment shall be made proportionately against each such life insurer based on the percentage of so much of the premium as is reported on line twenty-two, columns three, four and five of schedule T of a life insurer's most recent annual statement required to be filed with the commissioner pursuant to section twenty-five of chapter one hundred and seventy-five, as compared to the total premium reported in line twenty-two, columns three, four and five of schedule T of said most recent annual statements required to be filed by all such life insurers. Each individual life insurer's assessment shall be in an amount estimated to be sufficient to produce a total aggregate assessment of one million and fourteen thousand dollars. Estimated assessments shall be paid within thirty days of notice from the commissioner and may be charged to the normal operating costs of the insurer.
MA Gen L ch 26 § 8k (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 26 - Department of Banking and Insurance|Section 8k - Enforcement of Federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, Section 511 of Public Law 110&ndash;343, and Applicable State Mental Health Parity Laws

Section 8K. The commissioner of insurance may implement and enforce applicable provisions of the federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, section 511 of Public Law 110–343, and applicable state mental health parity laws, including section 22 of chapter 32A, section 47B of chapter 175, section 8A of chapter 176A, section 4A of chapter 176B and sections 4, 4B and 4M of chapter 176G of the General Laws, in regard to any carrier licensed under chapters 175, 176A, 176B and 176G.
MA Gen L ch 26 § 8l (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 26 - Department of Banking and Insurance|Section 8l - Implementation and Enforcement of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and Women's Health and Cancer Rights Act of 1998 Regarding Licensed Carriers Pursuant to Chapters 175, 176a, 176b, 176e, 176f and 176g

Section 8L. In regard to any carrier licensed pursuant to chapters 175, 176A, 176B, 176E, 176F and 176G, the commissioner of insurance may implement and enforce: (i) the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Public Law 111–148, as well as any rules, regulations or guidance applicable thereto, as amended from time to time; and (ii) the Women's Health and Cancer Rights Act of 1998, Public Law 105–277, as well as any rules, regulations or guidance applicable thereto, as amended from time to time, including, but not limited to, the amendments made by: Title X of said Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, Public Law 111–152; and the Indian Health Care Improvement Reauthorization and Extension Act of 2009, as enacted in amended form by section 10221 said federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
MA Gen L ch 27 § 1 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 27 - Department of Correction|Section 1 - Department of Correction; Commissioner; Salary; Qualifications

Section 1. There shall be a department of correction, under the supervision and control of a commissioner of correction. The commissioner shall be the executive and administrative head of the department and all officers and employees of the department and all of the correctional institutions of the commonwealth shall be under his supervision and control. The position of commissioner shall be classified in accordance with section forty-five of chapter thirty and the salary shall be determined in accordance with section forty-six C of said chapter thirty and he shall devote his full time during business hours to the duties of his office. The secretary of public safety shall appoint, with the approval of the governor, the commissioner who shall serve at the pleasure of the secretary and may be removed by the secretary at any time, subject to the approval of the governor. Any person appointed to said office shall, at the time of his appointment, have had at least five years of adult correctional administrative experience and have an established record of high character and qualities of leadership.
MA Gen L ch 27 § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 27 - Department of Correction|Section 2 - Deputy Commissioners; Salary; Qualifications; Employees

Section 2. The commissioner shall, with the approval of the secretary of public safety, appoint and may, with like approval, remove a deputy commissioner for institutional services, a deputy commissioner for personnel and training, and a deputy commissioner for community services. The position of deputy commissioner shall be classified in accordance with section forty-five of chapter thirty and the salary shall be determined in accordance with section forty-six C of said chapter thirty and he shall devote his full time during business hours to the duties of his office. All such deputy commissioners shall possess qualifications of character and ability similar to that required of the commissioner, and shall have had training and experience in work generally similar to those required of the commissioner or otherwise suitably preparing them for the work of their respective offices. They shall not be subject to the provisions of section nine A and nine B of chapter thirty, or chapter thirty-one. The commissioner may designate any deputy commissioner to discharge the duties of the commissioner during his absence or disability.  Subject to appropriation and to all applicable requirements of chapter thirty or thirty-one, the commissioner shall appoint and may remove such other officers and such employees as the work of the department shall require, provided, that said commissioner may require that a physician who is to be so appointed be certified as to his qualifications by one of the physicians' specialty boards approved by the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals of the American Medical Association; and from time to time he may, subject to appropriations, employ such consultants as he deems necessary. Subsequent to January first, nineteen hundred and eighty-eight, no person who smokes any tobacco product shall be eligible for appointment as an employee of the department in a position or office the regular or incidental duties of which require the care, supervision, or custody of prisoners, criminally insane persons or defective delinquents and no person so appointed after said date shall continue in such office or position if such person thereafter smokes any tobacco product; the personnel administrator shall promulgate regulations for the implementation of the provisions of this sentence.
MA Gen L ch 27 § 2a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 27 - Department of Correction|Section 2a - Positions in Department of Correction; Educational Requirements

Section 2A. Notwithstanding the provisions of section twenty-one of chapter thirty-one, the personnel administrator shall establish the following educational requirements for taking an examination for the following positions in the department of correction:—  An applicant for director of psychological research shall have a doctoral degree in psychology from an accredited college or university.  An applicant for principal psychologist shall have a minimum of a master's degree in psychology from an accredited college or university.  An applicant for chief supervisor of psychiatric social work shall have a minimum of a master's degree in social work from an accredited graduate school of social work.  An applicant for head psychiatric social worker shall have a minimum of a master's degree in social work from an accredited graduate school of social work.
MA Gen L ch 27 § 5 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 27 - Department of Correction|Section 5 - Parole Board; Powers and Duties

Section 5. The parole board shall (a) within its jurisdiction, as defined in section one hundred and twenty-eight of chapter one hundred and twenty-seven, determine which prisoners in the correctional institutions of the commonwealth or in jails or houses of correction may be released on parole, and when and under what conditions, and the power within such jurisdiction to grant a parole permit to any prisoner, and to revoke, revise, alter or amend the same, and the terms and conditions on which it was granted shall remain in the parole board until the expiration of the maximum term of the sentence or sentences for the service of which such prisoner was committed, or until the date which has been determined by deductions from the maximum term of his sentence or sentences for good conduct, or unless otherwise terminated; (b) supervise all prisoners released on parole permits granted by it, make such investigations as may be necessary in connection therewith, determine whether violation of parole terms and conditions exist in specific cases, decide the action to be taken with reference thereto, and aid paroled prisoners to secure employment; (c) be the advisory board of pardons with the power and duties in relation thereto set forth in section one hundred and fifty-four of chapter one hundred and twenty-seven; (d) supervise all prisoners pardoned on parole conditions, and report to the governor violations by any such prisoner of the parole conditions applicable to his pardon; (e) make rules relative to the performance of its duties, the calling and conduct of meetings and for the conduct of its employees in the performance of their duties; (f) print its rules and the statutes relating to its powers and duties, in convenient form, from time to time, and annually during the month of January mail or deliver one copy thereof to each justice of the superior and district courts, each sheriff and to the master, keeper or principal officer of each penal institution in the commonwealth, and two hundred copies thereof to the board of probation; (g) make an annual report to the commissioner; (h) employ subject to appropriation and the requirements of chapter thirty and chapter thirty-one an executive secretary and such hearing officers, clerks, attorneys, and other employees and consultants as the work of the parole board may require.  Any three members of the board may be appointed by the chairman to act as the parole board for the purpose of granting or revocation of paroles; provided, however, that for the purpose of considering hearing officer recommendations to the board under paragraph (b) of section one hundred and thirty-four of chapter one hundred and twenty-seven, any single member of the board may be so appointed. The chairman may also designate any member to act in his absence as the executive and administrative head of the board.
MA Gen L ch 29 § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 29 - State Finance|Section 2 - General Fund; Deposit of Revenue

Section 2. There shall be a General Fund of the commonwealth, into which all revenue payable to the commonwealth shall be paid, except revenue required by law to be paid into a fund other than the General Fund and revenue for or on account of sinking funds, trust funds or trust deposits, which funds shall be maintained and the revenue applied in accordance with law or the purposes of the fund.  All such revenue shall be deposited in and credited to the General Fund or other state funds during the fiscal year in which it is received. In the event that a question arises as to the correct year to credit the receipt of revenues, the comptroller shall make a determination as to the correct fiscal year and the determination of the comptroller shall be conclusive. Every source of state revenue shall be classified according to a schedule of revenue accounts promulgated by the comptroller. The commonwealth's receipt of such revenue shall be documented under rules and regulations promulgated by the comptroller.
MA Gen L ch 29 § 2b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 29 - State Finance|Section 2b - Federal Capital Improvement Fund

Section 2B. There shall be established and set up on the books of the commonwealth a separate fund, to be known as the Federal Capital Improvement Fund. Money received from the federal government on account of projects financed in whole or in part by appropriations authorized to be charged to said fund shall be credited to said fund.
MA Gen L ch 29 § 2c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 29 - State Finance|Section 2c - General Federal Grants Fund

Section 2C. All income from federal grants which shall include grants in aid and subventions, received by any department, institution, board, commission, agency, officer or employee of the commonwealth from the federal government, whether directly or through an intermediary, other than grants for capital improvements as provided in section 2B, shall be paid into the treasury of the commonwealth and credited to a separate special revenue fund to be known as the General Federal Grants Fund. Each such grant shall be kept in a separate account and subject to the law regulating the disbursement of public funds and the approval thereof.