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MA Gen L ch 34 § 9 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 34 - Counties and County Commissioners|Section 9 - Meetings; Frequency; Location; Special Meetings

Section 9. The commissioners shall hold meetings at the following times and places for their respective counties:  At Barnstable, the second Tuesday of April and October.  At Pittsfield, the first Tuesday of January, April, July and October.  At Taunton, the fourth Tuesday of March and September.  At Edgartown, the Wednesday next after the third Monday of May and the Wednesday next after the second Monday of November.  At Ipswich, the second Tuesday of April; at Salem, the second Tuesday of July; at Newburyport, the second Tuesday of October; at Lawrence, the last Tuesday of August; and the fourth Tuesday of December, at Ipswich, Salem or Newburyport, as they shall order at the preceding meeting.  At Greenfield, the first Tuesday of March and September and the second Tuesday of June and December.  At Springfield, the second Tuesday of April, the first Tuesday of October and the fourth Tuesday of June and December.  At Northampton, the first Tuesday of March, September and December and the Tuesday next after the second Monday of June.  At Cambridge, twice yearly; at Lowell, twice yearly; at Framingham, twice yearly.  At Dedham, the third Tuesday of April, the fourth Tuesday of June and September and the last Wednesday of December.  At Plymouth, the first Tuesday of January, the third Tuesday of March and the first Tuesday of August.  At Worcester, the fourth Tuesday of March, the third Tuesday of June, the second Tuesday of September and the fourth Tuesday of December.  They may by vote, specify the time and place, establish other regular meetings within their county, and may also hold special meetings therein at such times and places as may be necessary. They may adjourn any regular or special meeting to any place within the county, and persons required to appear at, or processes returnable to, any such meeting, shall appear at or be returnable to the adjourned meeting.
MA Gen L ch 34 § 9a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 34 - Counties and County Commissioners|Section 9a - Records

Section 9A. The records of the commissioners shall consist of a docket, the files, a record of payments ordered, the extended record, and a complete record of proceedings at all meetings as provided in section ten.
MA Gen L ch 34 § 9b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 34 - Counties and County Commissioners|Section 9b - Docket Defined

Section 9B. The docket is hereby defined as a record wherein their clerk shall register, by its title or by an abstract, and numbered consecutively, every action, suit and proceeding commenced before or transferred or appealed to the commissioners, and also contracts filed as required by section seventeen. He shall note therein, according to the date thereof, the filing or return of any paper or process, the making of any decree, adjudication, order, rule or other direction, or any amendment thereof, in or concerning such matter.
MA Gen L ch 34 § 9c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 34 - Counties and County Commissioners|Section 9c - Files Defined

Section 9C. The files are hereby defined as all papers and processes filed with or by the clerk in any action, suit, proceeding or contract, before, by or with the commissioners. All such papers, processes and contracts shall be numbered consecutively in each case, as entered.
MA Gen L ch 34 § 9d (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 34 - Counties and County Commissioners|Section 9d - Record of Payments; Form and Contents

Section 9D. The record of payments ordered shall be in such form as the commissioners, with the approval of the director of accounts, may determine. It shall contain the name of each person to whom payment is ordered made, together with its amount, both of which shall be classified under a heading specifying the appropriation from which such payment is to be made.
MA Gen L ch 34 § 9e (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 34 - Counties and County Commissioners|Section 9e - Extended Record; Form and Contents

Section 9E. The extended record shall be in abridged form. It shall comprise an abbreviated chronicle of all matters entered upon the docket, under the same or a similar title or an abstract thereof, and under the same number, and shall contain a brief and concise narrative of the essential features of the matter. Any final judgment, decree or order affecting the title to land shall be copied therein at length. But contracts and amendments thereof shall not be copied unless so ordered by the commissioners.
MA Gen L ch 34 § 10 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 34 - Counties and County Commissioners|Section 10 - Record of Proceedings; Copy to Director of Accounts

Section 10. They shall keep a full and complete record of the proceedings at all their meetings and, if their vote or decision is not unanimous, the record shall show how each commissioner voted. A copy thereof, attested by their clerk, shall be transmitted annually, on or before the fifteenth day of January, to the director of accounts, who shall submit it to the general court.
MA Gen L ch 34 § 11 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 34 - Counties and County Commissioners|Section 11 - Clerical Employees; Temporary Clerk; Duties

Section 11. They may employ such clerical employees as may be necessary for the proper performance of the work of their offices, who shall perform such duties as the commissioners may determine. They may, in the absence from any meeting of the clerk or any deputy assistant clerk designated under section seven of chapter two hundred and twenty-one, appoint a temporary clerk, who may be a commissioner or other suitable person. He shall be sworn by the chairman or presiding commissioner, keep a record of the proceedings, and deliver the same forthwith to the clerk or deputy assistant clerk, who shall enter it upon the records of the commissioners.
MA Gen L ch 34 § 12 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 34 - Counties and County Commissioners|Section 12 - Absence or Disqualification of Commissioners; Appointment of Substitute; Tenure

Section 12. In case of inability to attend, or interest in a question before the commissioners, or if any part of a highway relative to which they are to act lies within the town where a commissioner resides, the commissioners qualified to act and the clerk of the courts for the county shall appoint one or more persons, not residing in the same town as any commissioner, nor in the same town with each other, if more than one, to act as commissioners in place of those absent or disqualified, until such absence or disqualification ceases. The commissioners may, however, receive a petition, issue an order of notice thereon, take a recognizance, approve bills or payrolls, or perform ministerial acts, whenever two members are competent to act. If they cannot otherwise organize, residence shall not disqualify.
MA Gen L ch 34 § 13 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 34 - Counties and County Commissioners|Section 13 - Powers; Administration of Oaths; Punishment for Contempt

Section 13. When in session, the commissioners may administer oaths to witnesses and punish disorderly conduct which interrupts their meeting or is an open and direct contempt of their authority or persons by a fine of not more than five dollars or by confinement in the custody of the sheriff, a deputy sheriff or constable for not more than twelve hours.
MA Gen L ch 34 § 14a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 34 - Counties and County Commissioners|Section 14a - Associate Commissioner for Affairs Concerning the Elderly

Section 14A. In any county which accepts this section by vote of the county commissioners, the chairman of the county commissioners shall appoint a senior citizen to serve as an associate commissioner for affairs concerning the elderly. Said associate commissioner shall serve for a one year term, coterminous with the chairman's term of office. This associate commissioner shall have no powers or authority in the county government, but shall advise the county commissioners on affairs of the elderly and act as an ombudsman for senior citizens and elder agencies located within the county.
MA Gen L ch 34 § 14b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 34 - Counties and County Commissioners|Section 14b - Associate Commissioner for Affairs Concerning Handicapped Persons

Section 14B. In any county which accepts this section by vote of the county commissioners, the chairman of the county commissioners shall appoint a handicapped person to serve as an associate commissioner for affairs concerning handicapped persons. Said associate commissioner shall serve for a one year term, coterminous with the chairman's term of office and shall serve without compensation. Said associate commissioner shall have no powers or authority in the county government, but shall advise the county commissioners on affairs of the handicapped.
MA Gen L ch 34 § 15 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 34 - Counties and County Commissioners|Section 15 - Qualification of Officers; Return to State Secretary

Section 15. They shall, upon administering the oaths of office to officers required by law to qualify before them, forthwith make return thereof to the state secretary.
MA Gen L ch 34 § 16 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 34 - Counties and County Commissioners|Section 16 - Office Hours; Holidays; Certain Acts Performable on Next Business Day

Section 16. Except as otherwise provided by law, all offices under the jurisdiction of the commissioners shall be open to the public for the transaction of business daily on days other than Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays for such hours as may be set by the commissioners, except that, if the convenience of the public so requires, the commissioners may keep any office under their jurisdiction open on any Saturday, not a legal holiday, and give any employee required to work on such Saturday equivalent time off without loss of compensation. When the day or the last day for the performance of any act, including the making of any payment or tender of payment, authorized or required to be performed at such an office falls on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, the act may be performed on the next succeeding business day.
MA Gen L ch 34 § 18 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 34 - Counties and County Commissioners|Section 18 - Recognizances and Damages

Section 18. The commissioners shall require all applicants for the award of damages or the performance of any other official act in which the county has no interest to recognize to the county, with sureties to their satisfaction, for the payment of all costs and expenses accruing to the county by reason of their application and the proceedings thereon, which shall be added to the damages, if any, assessed in consequence thereof. If an application is dismissed and costs are chargeable to the petitioner, they shall be taxed for each commissioner at the rate of three dollars a day, and five cents a mile for travel to and from the place of meeting, and paid to the county. If the persons recognizing refuse or neglect, when required by the commissioners, to pay such costs and expenses, the commissioners may, after notice to the persons who so recognized, issue a warrant against them or some of them, unless sufficient cause is shown to the contrary, for the amount ordered to be paid by them, with the further costs of the notice and warrant, and the money shall be collected and paid into the county treasury.
MA Gen L ch 34 § 19 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 34 - Counties and County Commissioners|Section 19 - Proceedings at Other Times Than Regular Meetings and Returns Thereof

Section 19. The commissioners severally may, at other times than at regular meetings, receive petitions relative to railroads or to matters where the county has no interest and may take recognizances thereon, and, upon such petitions and similar petitions entered at a regular meeting the commissioners or the chairman may, at other times than at regular meetings, appoint hearings and direct notices to be given to persons interested. They shall severally make return of such petitions and recognizances, with their proceedings, at any regular or special meeting held therefor; and the clerk shall record the same. The costs of any such special meeting shall be paid by such parties as the commissioners determine.
MA Gen L ch 34 § 20 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 34 - Counties and County Commissioners|Section 20 - Applicability of Laws Relating to County Commissioners and Clerks to Certain Other Officers

Section 20. The laws relative to the powers, duties and liabilities of county commissioners and their clerks shall apply, except as otherwise provided, to all other public officers exercising their powers.
MA Gen L ch 34 § 21 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 34 - Counties and County Commissioners|Section 21 - Official Letters

Section 21. The provisions of section thirty of chapter thirty relative to the dimensions of official letters shall apply to letters from county officials.
MA Gen L ch 34 § 22 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 34 - Counties and County Commissioners|Section 22 - Breach or Neglect of Duty; Penalty

Section 22. For wilful breach or neglect of a duty imposed by law, a county commissioner or clerk of the county commissioners shall forfeit not less than fifty nor more than one thousand dollars, recoverable to the use of the county, at the suit of the attorney general.
MA Gen L ch 34 § 23 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 34 - Counties and County Commissioners|Section 23 - Gifts; Use and Disposition

Section 23. Any county may receive, hold and manage any gift by devise, bequest or otherwise, to the use or benefit of the county or any activity, institution, organization, board, commission or other public body to the use of which funds of the county are advanced or contributed. Unless otherwise provided by the donor, any money so received or the proceeds of any such gift shall be placed at interest in savings banks or savings departments of trust companies incorporated under the laws of the commonwealth, or in savings departments of national banks, or shall be deposited on paid-up shares and accounts of and in cooperative banks, or shall be used to purchase share accounts of federal savings and loan associations located in the commonwealth, or invested in securities which are legal investments for savings banks. The county treasurer shall be the custodian of such fund and securities, and shall invest and reinvest the same, and expend therefrom moneys as directed by the county commissioners.
MA Gen L ch 34 § 24 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 34 - Counties and County Commissioners|Section 24 - Federal Grants; Acceptance, Custody and Disposition

Section 24. Any county officer or department may, with the approval of the county commissioners, accept any grant from the federal government for the use or benefit of the county or any activity, institution or board. The county treasurer shall be the custodian of such grant, which shall be held as a separate account and expended for the purposes of such grant.
MA Gen L ch 34 § 25 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 34 - Counties and County Commissioners|Section 25 - Acquisition of Real Property

Section 25. The commissioners may, subject to appropriation, acquire by eminent domain, or by purchase or otherwise, the fee or other lesser interest in such real property within their respective counties as may be necessary to maintain, improve, protect, limit the future use of or otherwise conserve and properly utilize open spaces, and may control and manage the same; provided that such acquisition has been approved by the department of environmental management and the conservation committee of the city or town within which such land lies, or if such city or town has no conservation committee by a two thirds vote of the city council in the case of a city and by a two thirds vote of the board of selectmen in the case of a town. Land used for farming or agriculture, as defined in section one A of chapter one hundred and twenty-eight, shall not be taken by eminent domain under the authority of this section.
MA Gen L ch 34a § 1 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 34a - County Charter Procedures|Section 1 - Short Title; Definitions

Section 1. This chapter may be cited as the ''County Charter Procedures Act''. As used in this chapter, the terms ''board of registrars of voters'', ''city council'', and ''board of selectmen'' shall include any local authority of different designation performing like duties.
MA Gen L ch 34a § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 34a - County Charter Procedures|Section 2 - Power to Adopt or Revise Charters

Section 2. Every county, except Barnstable county, shall have the power to adopt a charter or to revise an existing charter in accordance with procedures prescribed by this chapter. This chapter shall not limit any charter adoption or revision procedures allowed by prior law or the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MA Gen L ch 34a § 4 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 34a - County Charter Procedures|Section 4 - Election of Charter Study Commission Members

Section 4. (A.) At the same election as the public question is submitted, fifteen members of a charter study commission shall be elected by the county's registered voters. The voting instructions shall state that the voter may vote on the question and that, regardless of how and whether he voted on the charter question, he may vote for members of the charter study commission who shall serve if the question is determined in the affirmative.  (B.) The ballots to be used in such county at such election shall be prepared and furnished by the state secretary in accordance with the requirements of this chapter and of chapter fifty-four. The charter commission candidates shall appear on the ballot as the last candidates to be elected. The question in subsection (A) of section three shall be printed on the ballot after the statewide questions on the ballot.  (C.) Said election shall be a statewide general election.
MA Gen L ch 34a § 5 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VI - Counties and County Officers|Chapter 34a - County Charter Procedures|Section 5 - Candidates for Charter Commission; Nomination

Section 5. (A.) At-large candidates for the charter commission shall be registered voters of the county in which they are candidates. District candidates for the charter commission shall be registered voters of the district in which they are candidates.  (B.) The signatures of three hundred registered voters residing in such county shall be required to nominate at-large charter commission members, and signatures of one hundred and fifty registered voters residing in the district shall be required to nominate district charter commission members. Nominating papers containing required number of signatures shall be filed with the state secretary not later than the tenth Tuesday prior to the election in which charter commission members are to be chosen. Nominations for charter commission members shall be governed by the provisions of chapter fifty-three which are applicable to nominations for state office, except that no party or political designations shall be used and that the eight-word statements provided for in section forty-five of chapter fifty-three shall not be used. The clerk of each city and town in such county shall furnish to each candidate for charter commission upon request one copy of the list of registered voters of such city or town and one copy of the list of residents provided for in section six of chapter fifty-one.