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MA Gen L ch 41 § 97a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 41 - Officers and Employees of Cities, Towns and Districts|Section 97a - Police Departments; Chief of Police; Powers and Duties

Section 97A. In any town which accepts this section there shall be a police department established by the selectmen, and such department shall be under the supervision of an officer to be known as the chief of police. The selectmen of any such town shall appoint a chief of police and such other officers as they deem necessary, and fix their compensation, not exceeding, in the aggregate, the annual appropriation therefor. In any such town in which such appointments are not subject to chapter thirty-one, they shall be made annually or for a term of years not exceeding three years, as the selectmen shall determine, and the selectmen may remove such chief or other officers for cause at any time after a hearing. The chief of police in any such town shall from time to time make suitable regulations governing the police department, and the officers thereof, subject to the approval of the selectmen; provided, that such regulations shall become effective without such approval upon the failure of the selectmen to take action thereon within thirty days after they have been submitted to them by the chief of police. The chief of police in any such town shall be in immediate control of all town property used by the department, and of the police officers, whom he shall assign to their respective duties and who shall obey his orders. Section ninety-seven shall not apply in any town which accepts the provisions of this section. Acceptance of the provisions of this section shall be by a vote at an annual town meeting.
MA Gen L ch 41 § 97b1/2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 41 - Officers and Employees of Cities, Towns and Districts|Section 97b1/2 - Notification to Local Law Enforcement by Medical Facilities When Evidence of Sexual Assault Obtained; Submission of Evidence Kit to Crime Laboratory; Entering of Evidence Into DNA Database and Statewide Sexual Assault Evidence Kit Tracking System

Section 97B1/2. (a) A hospital licensed pursuant to chapter 111 and all other medical facilities that conduct medical forensic examinations shall notify a local law enforcement agency at the time the evidence of a sexual assault is obtained and no later than 24 hours after using a new kit for the collection of sexual assault evidence.  (b) Local law enforcement agencies shall:  (1) Take possession of the sexual assault evidence kit from hospitals and other medical facilities that conduct medical forensic examinations within 3 business days of notification.  (2) Submit new sexual assault evidence kits to the crime laboratory within the department of the state police or the police department of a municipality that operates a crime laboratory and has a population of more than 150,000, in the case of a sexual assault alleged to have taken place in that municipality, within 7 business days of taking possession, except that non-investigatory sexual assault evidence kits associated with a victim who has not yet filed a report with law enforcement shall not be subject to the 7 day requirement. Non-investigatory kits shall be safely stored by law enforcement in a manner that preserves evidence for the duration of the statute of limitations for all sexual assault and rape cases.  (b) The crime laboratory within the department of the state police or the police department of a municipality that operates a crime laboraty and has a population of more than 150,000, in the case of a sexual assault alleged to have taken place in that municipality, shall test all sexual assault evidence kits within 30 days of receipt from local law enforcement.  (c) In cases where testing results in a DNA profile, the crime laboratory shall enter the full profile into CODIS and the state DNA database.  (d) Each sexual assault evidence kit shall be entered into the statewide sexual assault evidence kit tracking system pursuant to section 18X of chapter 6A.
MA Gen L ch 41 § 97c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 41 - Officers and Employees of Cities, Towns and Districts|Section 97c - Special Telephone Exchange for Reporting of Rape

Section 97C. Each rape reporting and prosecution unit shall, in addition to the services provided in section ninety-seven B, establish a special telephone exchange for the reporting of rape which may be utilized at any hour of day or night and shall widely publicize this number and information concerning the activities of the unit throughout the city or town.
MA Gen L ch 41 § 97d (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 41 - Officers and Employees of Cities, Towns and Districts|Section 97d - Confidentiality of Reports of Rape, Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence; Access by Victim and Certain Individuals in Performance of Their Duties; Violations; Penalties

Section 97D. All reports of rape and sexual assault or attempts to commit such offenses, all reports of abuse perpetrated by family or household members, as defined in section 1 of chapter 209A, and all communications between police officers and victims of such offenses or abuse shall not be public reports and shall be maintained by the police departments in a manner that shall assure their confidentiality; provided, however, that all such reports shall be accessible at all reasonable times, upon written request, to: (i) the victim, the victim's attorney, others specifically authorized by the victim to obtain such information, prosecutors and (ii) victim-witness advocates as defined in section 1 of chapter 258B, domestic violence victims' counselors as defined in section 20K of chapter 233, sexual assault counselors as defined in section 20J of chapter 233, if such access is necessary in the performance of their duties; and provided further, that all such reports shall be accessible at all reasonable times, upon written, telephonic, facsimile or electronic mail request to law enforcement officers, district attorneys or assistant district attorneys and all persons authorized to admit persons to bail pursuant to section 57 of chapter 276. Communications between police officers and victims of said offenses and abuse may also be shared with the forgoing named persons if such access is necessary in the performance of their duties. A violation of this section shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than 1 year or by a fine of not more than $1,000, or both such fine and imprisonment.
MA Gen L ch 41 § 97e (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 41 - Officers and Employees of Cities, Towns and Districts|Section 97e - Chief of Police; Attendance at Conventions

Section 97E. In any city or town which accepts the provisions of this section, the chief of police may, without loss of pay or vacation time, attend the annual convention of the New England Association of Chiefs of Police and the annual convention of the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
MA Gen L ch 41 § 97f (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 41 - Officers and Employees of Cities, Towns and Districts|Section 97f - Firefighter Duties; Performance by Police

Section 97F. No city or town shall require a member of its police department, or other employee with police powers, to perform the duties of a firefighter during his tour of duty; provided, however, that nothing in this section shall prohibit any such member from serving as a call or volunteer firefighter, or from responding to an emergency in the normal course of his duties. No police officer, or other employee with police powers, shall, in connection with any industrial or labor dispute, perform the duties of a firefighter or any duties other than those regularly assigned to him.
MA Gen L ch 41 § 98 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 41 - Officers and Employees of Cities, Towns and Districts|Section 98 - Powers and Duties

Section 98. The chief and other police officers of all cities and towns shall have all the powers and duties of constables except serving and executing civil process. They shall suppress and prevent all disturbances and disorder. They may carry within the commonwealth such weapons as the chief of police or the board or officer having control of the police in a city or town shall determine; provided, that any law enforcement officer of another state or territory of the United States may, while on official business within the commonwealth, carry such weapons as are authorized by his appointing authority. They may examine all persons abroad whom they have reason to suspect of unlawful design, and may demand of them their business abroad and whither they are going; may disperse any assembly of three or more persons, and may enter any building to suppress a riot or breach of peace therein. Persons so suspected who do not give a satisfactory account of themselves, persons so assembled and who do not disperse when ordered, and persons making, aiding and abetting in a riot or disturbance may be arrested by the police, and may thereafter be safely kept by imprisonment or otherwise unless released in the manner provided by law, and taken before a district court to be examined and prosecuted.  Whoever is arrested and charged with any offense committed during a riot, disturbance or mass demonstration may be fingerprinted, in accordance with the protocol of the identification system of the department of the state police and may be photographed.  If a police officer stops a person for questioning pursuant to this section and reasonably suspects that he is in danger of life or limb, he may search such person for a dangerous weapon. If he finds such weapon or any other thing the possession of which may constitute a crime, he may take and keep it until the completion of the questioning, at which time he shall return it, if lawfully possessed, or he shall arrest such person.
MA Gen L ch 41 § 98a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 41 - Officers and Employees of Cities, Towns and Districts|Section 98a - Arrest on Fresh and Continued Pursuit

Section 98A. A police officer of a city or town who is empowered to make arrests within a city or town may, on fresh and continued pursuit, exercise such authority in any other city or town for any offence committed in his presence within his jurisdiction for which he would have the right to arrest within his jurisdiction without a warrant. Said officer may return any person so arrested to the jurisdiction wherein said offence was committed. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed as limiting the powers of a police officer to make arrests and in so far as possible this section shall be deemed to be declaratory of the common law of the commonwealth.
MA Gen L ch 41 § 98b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 41 - Officers and Employees of Cities, Towns and Districts|Section 98b - Foot Patrol

Section 98B. In every city or town which has a population of forty thousand or more and which accepts the provisions of this section there shall be at all times a minimum of one police officer on foot patrol for every ten thousand inhabitants or major portion thereof.  ''On foot patrol'', as used in this section, shall mean an assignment to patrol a certain area on foot.
MA Gen L ch 41 § 98c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 41 - Officers and Employees of Cities, Towns and Districts|Section 98c - Badges; Identification by Name or Number

Section 98C. In any city or town which accepts the provisions of this section no uniformed police officer, and no other uniformed person empowered to make arrests, employed by such city or town shall be required to wear a badge, tag or label of any kind which identifies him by name, but any such officer or other person employed by such city or town who does not wear any such badge, tag or label shall wear a badge, tag or label which identifies him by number.
MA Gen L ch 41 § 98d (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 41 - Officers and Employees of Cities, Towns and Districts|Section 98d - Identification Cards

Section 98D. Each city or town shall issue to every full-time police officer employed by it an identification card bearing the officer's photograph and identifying information. The secretary of public safety and security may adopt regulations relative to the form, content and issuance of such identification cards and to the carrying thereof by municipal police officers. Such identification card shall be carried on the officer's person and shall be exhibited upon lawful request for purposes of identification.
MA Gen L ch 41 § 98e (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 41 - Officers and Employees of Cities, Towns and Districts|Section 98e - Public Solicitations Using Words ''police'' or ''firefighters''

Section 98E. No person or persons shall solicit the public in any manner or form using the word ''police'' or ''firefighter'' or any derivative thereof without using the name or names of the city or town police or firefighters organization sponsoring such solicitation.
MA Gen L ch 41 § 98f (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 41 - Officers and Employees of Cities, Towns and Districts|Section 98f - Daily Logs; Public Records; Confidentiality of Certain Entries

Section 98F. Each police department and each college or university to which officers have been appointed pursuant to section 63 of chapter 22C shall make, keep and maintain a daily log, written in a form that can be easily understood, recording, in chronological order, all responses to valid complaints received, crimes reported, the names, addresses of persons arrested and the charges against such persons arrested. All entries in said daily logs shall, unless otherwise provided in law, be public records available without charge to the public during regular business hours and at all other reasonable times; provided, however, that the following entries shall be kept in a separate log and shall not be a public record nor shall such entry be disclosed to the public, or any individual not specified in section 97D: (i) any entry in a log which pertains to a handicapped individual who is physically or mentally incapacitated to the degree that said person is confined to a wheelchair or is bedridden or requires the use of a device designed to provide said person with mobility, (ii) any information concerning responses to reports of domestic violence, rape or sexual assault, (iii) any entry concerning the arrest of a person for assault, assault and battery or violation of a protective order where the victim is a family or household member, as defined in section 1 of chapter 209A, or (iv) any entry concerning the arrest of a person who has not yet reached 18 years of age.
MA Gen L ch 41 § 98g (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 41 - Officers and Employees of Cities, Towns and Districts|Section 98g - Domestic Abuse; Police Reports

Section 98G. Any city, town or district police department which requires an investigating police officer to make a report concerning an incident, offense or alleged offense investigated, or any arrest made, on a form provided by the department, shall include on said form a space to indicate whether said incident, offense, alleged offense or arrest involved abuse as defined in section one of chapter two hundred and nine A.
MA Gen L ch 41 § 98h (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 41 - Officers and Employees of Cities, Towns and Districts|Section 98h - Settlement Agreements for Professional Misconduct by Law Enforcement Officer; Nondisclosure, Non-Disparagement or Similar Clauses

Section 98H. An agreement by a law enforcement agency, as defined in section 1 of chapter 6E, to settle a complaint of professional misconduct by a law enforcement officer, as defined in said section 1 of said chapter 6E, shall not include a nondisclosure, non-disparagement or other similar clause in a settlement agreement between the law enforcement agency and a complainant unless the complainant requests such provision in writing.
MA Gen L ch 41 § 99 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 41 - Officers and Employees of Cities, Towns and Districts|Section 99 - Requisition of Police Officers by Other Towns

Section 99. The mayor, selectmen, chief of police, or person however designated having the duties of a chief of police, or, in the absence of the chief of police, or person however designated having the duties of a chief of police, the commanding officer, may upon the request of the mayor, selectmen, chief of police, or person however designated having the duties of a chief of police, or in the absence of the chief of police or person however designated having the duties of a chief of police, the commanding officer of any other city or town, provide police officers, who shall have the authority of constables and police officers within the limits of such city or town, except as to the service of civil process, and, while exercising such authority within such limits, shall have the same immunities and privileges as when acting within their respective cities and towns; and the city or town providing said officers shall be entitled to receive from such city or town the amount paid to them for their service, including their necessary traveling expenses.
MA Gen L ch 41 § 99a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 41 - Officers and Employees of Cities, Towns and Districts|Section 99a - Members of Regular Police or Fire Department and Fire Alarm Division; Residence Outside City or Town

Section 99A. Any member of the regular police or fire department and fire alarm division of a city or town appointed subsequent to August first, nineteen hundred and seventy-eight shall reside within fifteen miles of the limits of said city or town. Said distance shall be measured from the closest border limits of said city or town in which said member is employed to the closest border limits of the city or town in which said member lives; provided however, if any said city or town by local ordinance or by-law to which the provisions of paragraph (d) of section seven of chapter one hundred and fifty E of the General Laws shall apply, or by collective bargaining agreement shall require the members of a regular police or fire department appointed on or after August first, nineteen hundred and seventy-eight to be residents of such city or town, the provision of such local ordinance, by-law or collective bargaining agreement shall supersede the provision of this section and provided further such local ordinance, by-law or collective bargaining agreement shall apply only to those members of a regular police or fire department appointed subsequent to the adoption of such local ordinance, by-law or collective bargaining agreement.
MA Gen L ch 41 § 99b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 41 - Officers and Employees of Cities, Towns and Districts|Section 99b - Regional Police District Law; Purpose of Secs. 99b to 99k

Section 99B. The purpose of this and the nine following sections, which shall be designated and may be known as ''The regional police district law'', is to permit two or more contiguous towns to establish a regional police district and organize a common police department to serve and protect the inhabitants of said towns.  Sections ninety-nine B to ninety-nine K, inclusive, shall not apply to any town in which the provisions of chapter thirty-one are in effect with respect to the members of the police force or the chief of police.
MA Gen L ch 41 § 99c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 41 - Officers and Employees of Cities, Towns and Districts|Section 99c - Establishment

Section 99C. Any group of contiguous towns may, by vote of their respective registered voters, vote to establish a regional police district, the area of jurisdiction of which shall be the combined corporate limits of the member towns.
MA Gen L ch 41 § 99d (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 41 - Officers and Employees of Cities, Towns and Districts|Section 99d - Town Elections for Acceptance; Ballots

Section 99D. In towns using official ballots at town elections, acceptance of the provisions of the regional police district law shall be by vote in answer to the following questions to be placed on the official ballot at an annual town election as hereinafter provided, and in towns not using official ballots at town elections such acceptance shall be by vote at an annual town meeting. Upon the filing, with the clerk of any town using official ballots at town elections, of a petition signed by the board of selectmen requesting that the question of accepting the provisions of the regional police district law be placed upon the official ballot, the clerk shall place such questions on the official ballot for the next town election occurring more than thirty days after the filing of such petition. The questions to be voted on shall be:—   A. Shall the town accept the provisions of sections ninetynine B to ninety-nine K, inclusive, of chapter forty-one of the General Laws, providing for the establishment of a regional police district, together with the town (towns) of?   B. Shall the police department provided for in question A be under the control and supervision of the regional police district commission and otherwise be governed by section ninety-seven of chapter forty-one of the General Laws governing local police department?   C. Shall the police department provided for in question A be under the sole control and supervision of the chief of police appointed by the regional police district commission and otherwise be governed by section ninety-seven A of chapter forty-one of the General Laws governing local police departments?  If a majority of the voters in each town voting on question A is in the affirmative, the proposed regional police district shall be deemed to be established.  If a majority of all the votes cast in the affirmative in the towns voting on question B is greater than the majority voting in the affirmative on question C, then the police department so established will be governed by section ninety-seven of said chapter forty-one; however, if a majority of all the votes cast in the affirmative in the towns voting on question C is greater than the majority voting in the affirmative on question B, the police department so established will be governed by the provisions of section ninety-seven A of said chapter forty-one.