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MA Gen L ch 30 § 39o (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 30 - General Provisions Relative to State Departments, Commissions, Officers and Employees|Section 39o - Contracts for Construction and Materials; Suspension, Delay or Interruption Due to Order of Awarding Authority; Adjustment in Contract Price; Written Claim

Section 39O. Every contract subject to the provisions of section thirty-nine M of this chapter or subject to section forty-four A of chapter one hundred forty-nine shall contain the following provisions (a) and (b) in their entirety and, in the event a suspension, delay, interruption or failure to act of the awarding authority increases the cost of performance to any subcontractor, that subcontractor shall have the same rights against the general contractor for payment for an increase in the cost of his performance as provisions (a) and (b) give the general contractor against the awarding authority, but nothing in provisions (a) and (b) shall in any way change, modify or alter any other rights which the general contractor or the subcontractor may have against each other.  (a) The awarding authority may order the general contractor in writing to suspend, delay, or interrupt all or any part of the work for such period of time as it may determine to be appropriate for the convenience of the awarding authority; provided however, that if there is a suspension, delay or interruption for fifteen days or more or due to a failure of the awarding authority to act within the time specified in this contract, the awarding authority shall make an adjustment in the contract price for any increase in the cost of performance of this contract but shall not include any profit to the general contractor on such increase; and provided further, that the awarding authority shall not make any adjustment in the contract price under this provision for any suspension, delay, interruption or failure to act to the extent that such is due to any cause for which this contract provides for an equitable adjustment of the contract price under any other contract provisions.  (b) The general contractor must submit the amount of a claim under provision (a) to the awarding authority in writing as soon as practicable after the end of the suspension, delay, interruption or failure to act and, in any event, not later than the date of final payment under this contract and, except for costs due to a suspension order, the awarding authority shall not approve any costs in the claim incurred more than twenty days before the general contractor notified the awarding authority in writing of the act or failure to act involved in the claim.
MA Gen L ch 30 § 39p (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 30 - General Provisions Relative to State Departments, Commissions, Officers and Employees|Section 39p - Contracts for Construction and Materials; Awarding Authority's Decisions on Interpretation of Specifications, etc.; Time Limit; Notice

Section 39P. Every contract subject to section thirty-nine M of this chapter or section forty-four A of chapter one hundred forty-nine which requires the awarding authority, any official, its architect or engineer to make a decision on interpretation of the specifications, approval of equipment, material or any other approval, or progress of the work, shall require that the decision be made promptly and, in any event, no later than thirty days after the written submission for decision; but if such decision requires extended investigation and study, the awarding authority, the official, architect or engineer shall, within thirty days after the receipt of the submission, give the party making the submission written notice of the reasons why the decision cannot be made within the thirty day period and the date by which the decision will be made.
MA Gen L ch 30 § 39s (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 30 - General Provisions Relative to State Departments, Commissions, Officers and Employees|Section 39s - Contracts for Construction; Requirements

Section 39S. (a) As used in this section the word ''person'' shall mean any natural person, joint venture, partnership corporation or other business or legal entity. Any person submitting a bid for, or signing a contract to work on, the construction, reconstruction, alteration, remodeling or repair of any public work by the commonwealth, or political subdivision thereof, or by any county, city, town, district, or housing authority, and estimated by the awarding authority to cost more than $10,000, and any person submitting a bid for, or signing a contract to work on, the construction, reconstruction, installation, demolition, maintenance or repair of any building by a public agency, estimated to cost more than $10,000, shall certify on the bid, or contract, under penalties of perjury, as follows:  (1) that he is able to furnish labor that can work in harmony with all other elements of labor employed or to be employed in the work; (2) that all employees to be employed at the worksite will have successfully completed a course in construction safety and health approved by the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration that is at least 10 hours in duration at the time the employee begins work and who shall furnish documentation of successful completion of said course with the first certified payroll report for each employee; and (3) that all employees to be employed in the work subject to this bid have successfully completed a course in construction safety and health approved by the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration that is at least 10 hours in duration.  (b) Any employee found on a worksite subject to this section without documentation of successful completion of a course in construction safety and health approved by the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration that is at least 10 hours in duration shall be subject to immediate removal.  (c) The attorney general, or his designee, shall have the power to enforce this section including the power to institute and prosecute proceedings in the superior court to restrain the award of contracts and the performance of contracts in all cases where, after investigation of the facts, he has made a finding that the award or performance has resulted in violation, directly or indirectly, of subsection (b), and he shall not be required to pay to the clerk of the court an entry fee in connection with the institution of the proceeding.
MA Gen L ch 30 § 39t (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 30 - General Provisions Relative to State Departments, Commissions, Officers and Employees|Section 39t - Controlled Insurance Program

Section 39T. Notwithstanding section 8 of chapter 268A, section 44F of chapter 149 or section 8 of chapter 149A, any agency of the commonwealth may, in the agency's discretion, implement a controlled insurance program on any single project or by pooling more than 1 project into a combined or rolling program, including, but not limited to: (i) the division of capital asset management and maintenance; (ii) the Massachusetts Department of Transportation or any division or authority thereof; (iii) the Massachusetts Port Authority; (iv) the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority; (v) the Massachusetts State College Building Authority; (vi) the University of Massachusetts Building Authority; and (vii) the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority. For the purposes of this section, a ''controlled insurance program'' means that the awarding authority bears the costs and benefits of 1 or more of the usual categories of insurance required for such a project or projects, including, but not limited to, general liability, completed operations, excess umbrella and workers' compensation insurance covering the awarding authority, the general contractor or construction manager at risk, the owner's project manager and all subcontractors performing work on site.
MA Gen L ch 30 § 40 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 30 - General Provisions Relative to State Departments, Commissions, Officers and Employees|Section 40 - Discharge or Release of Bonds

Section 40. Bonds given to the commonwealth, any county, city, town or political subdivision to secure the performance of contracts for the construction or repair of public buildings or other public works may be discharged or released by the awarding authority, upon such terms as it deems expedient, after the expiration of one year from the time of completion, subject to section thirty-nine K, of the work contracted to be done; provided that no claim filed under said bond is pending, and provided further, that no such bonds shall be discharged or released prior to the expiration of all special guarantees provided for in the contract unless new bonds in substitution therefor specifically relating to the unexpired guarantees shall be taken.
MA Gen L ch 30 § 41 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 30 - General Provisions Relative to State Departments, Commissions, Officers and Employees|Section 41 - State Institutions; Sales of Property; Itemized Accounts

Section 41. If sales of property of the commonwealth are made by any officer of a state institution, the superintendent thereof shall submit to the trustees or other supervising board or officer an itemized account, on oath, of such sales, for their approval in the same manner as accounts for materials and supplies for such institutions are approved, and such account shall be filed with the state treasurer when the proceeds are paid over to him.
MA Gen L ch 30 § 43 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 30 - General Provisions Relative to State Departments, Commissions, Officers and Employees|Section 43 - Fees for Copying Records; Keeping by Employees; Penalties

Section 43. No person employed in any state department shall receive for his own use any fee for copying public records or documents, or for other services during office hours, but all fees therefor shall be paid to the commonwealth. Whoever violates this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars and shall be disqualified for employment in any state department.
MA Gen L ch 30 § 44 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 30 - General Provisions Relative to State Departments, Commissions, Officers and Employees|Section 44 - Employees as Agents for Others; Sale of Lands

Section 44. No officer or employee of the commonwealth shall act as agent or attorney of any person in a sale or conveyance of land to the commonwealth. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars and shall be disqualified for employment in any state department.
MA Gen L ch 30 § 44a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 30 - General Provisions Relative to State Departments, Commissions, Officers and Employees|Section 44a - Land Owned by Commonwealth; Sale to Counties, etc.; Highway Purposes

Section 44A. A commissioner or head of a state department having control of any land of the commonwealth may, in the name of the commonwealth and subject to the approval of the governor and council, sell and convey to any county, city or town, or transfer to the control of another state department, so much of such land as may be necessary for the laying out or relocation of any highway.
MA Gen L ch 30 § 44b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 30 - General Provisions Relative to State Departments, Commissions, Officers and Employees|Section 44b - Petroleum Pipe Line; Laying on State Lands

Section 44B. A commissioner or head of a state department having control of any land, water, park, reservation, boulevard, parkway or highway of the commonwealth or of any metropolitan district may, in the name of the commonwealth, subject to such terms and conditions as he may deem advisable and subject also to such rules and regulations as may be promulgated by the department of fire services, grant to any person the right to lay, construct, maintain and operate pipe lines for conveying petroleum or the products or by-products thereof through, over, across or under such land, water, park, reservation, boulevard, parkway or highway, and in connection therewith may grant permission to any such person to dig up, open or tunnel under such land, water, park, reservation, boulevard, parkway or highway.
MA Gen L ch 30 § 46d (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 30 - General Provisions Relative to State Departments, Commissions, Officers and Employees|Section 46d - Appointments to Positions; Promotions From Positions Classified Under Civil Service Provisions

Section 46D. Whenever it is deemed practicable in the judgment of the appointing authority and with concurrence with the secretary, where applicable, appointments to positions allocated to job groups M–I through M–IV, inclusive, of the management salary schedule shall be made by promoting employees of the commonwealth serving in positions assigned to the general salary schedule; and appointments to positions allocated to job groups M–V through M–XII, inclusive, in the management salary schedule shall be made by promoting managers of the commonwealth serving in positions allocated to job groups M–I through M–IV, inclusive, in the management salary schedule.  In every instance of a manager or employee so promoted from a position classified under chapter thirty-one of the General Laws or from a position in which at the time of promotion he shall have tenure by reason of section nine A of this chapter, upon termination of his service in the position to which he was so promoted, the manager or employee shall, if he so requests, be restored to the position from which he shall have been promoted, or to a position in the same state agency, without impairment of his civil service status or his tenure by reason of said section nine A or loss of the seniority, retirement and other rights to which uninterrupted service in such position would have entitled him; provided, however, that if his service in the position to which he was promoted shall have been terminated for cause, his right to be restored shall be determined by the civil service commission, in accordance with the standards applied by said commissioner in administering chapter thirty-one.
MA Gen L ch 30 § 46e (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 30 - General Provisions Relative to State Departments, Commissions, Officers and Employees|Section 46e - Civil Service Classifications; Positions Reimbursed by Federal Government

Section 46E. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, after June twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eighty-one, no position allocated to job group M–V through job group M–XII, inclusive, of the management salary schedule provided in section forty-six C shall be classified under chapter thirty-one; provided, however, that this section shall not apply to positions for which full or partial reimbursement is made by the federal government and which are required by federal law or regulation to be covered by a merit system, so-called; and provided further, that no exemption from the provisions of this section shall be allowed unless certification of the federal requirement is received from the appropriate federal official and unless such certification is renewed at regular intervals.
MA Gen L ch 30 § 46f (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 30 - General Provisions Relative to State Departments, Commissions, Officers and Employees|Section 46f - Tenure

Section 46F. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections nine A, nine B, and nine D of this chapter or any other provision of law, after June twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eighty-one, no person appointed to a position allocated to job group M–V through M–XII, inclusive, of the management salary schedule provided in section forty-six C shall acquire tenure in any such position.
MA Gen L ch 30 § 46g (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 30 - General Provisions Relative to State Departments, Commissions, Officers and Employees|Section 46g - Overtime Compensation

Section 46G. Notwithstanding the provisions of section thirty B of chapter one hundred and forty-nine, no person who is the incumbent of a position allocated to job group M-IX through M-XII, inclusive, shall receive overtime compensation, and no person who is the incumbent of a position allocated to job group M-V through M-VIII, inclusive, shall receive such overtime compensation unless the title and position number of the position of which he is the incumbent appears on a list of positions eligible for overtime compensation maintained by the personnel administrator, with the approval of the commissioner of administration.
MA Gen L ch 30 § 46h (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 30 - General Provisions Relative to State Departments, Commissions, Officers and Employees|Section 46h - Vacation, Sick-Leave, Personal Leave and Benefits

Section 46H. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, incumbents of positions allocated to the management salary schedule, shall be eligible for vacation, sick-leave, personal leave and other benefits, in accordance with rules and regulations established by the personnel administrator, with the approval of the commissioner of administration; provided, that no person who is the incumbent of a position allocated to the management salary schedule shall at any time receive such vacation or sick-leave in excess of the maximum then available to other managers; provided however, that nothing contained in this section shall limit the rights granted employees under the provisions of the second paragraph of section twenty-eight of chapter seven.
MA Gen L ch 30 § 46i (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 30 - General Provisions Relative to State Departments, Commissions, Officers and Employees|Section 46i - Additional Duties of Personnel Administrator

Section 46I. In addition to his other responsibilities and duties, the personnel administrator shall have the following duties and responsibilities: developing and maintaining information concerning occupational injuries sustained by employees entitled to compensation under the provisions of section 69 of chapter 152, and concerning persons who have applied for or who have been granted disability benefits under the provisions of chapter 32 and requiring reports from the workers' compensation agents and from the retirement boards; and certifying agreements for compensation for the payment of medical or other expenses or fees to or on behalf of injured employees of the commonwealth. No such compensation shall be paid without such certification.
MA Gen L ch 30 § 48 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 30 - General Provisions Relative to State Departments, Commissions, Officers and Employees|Section 48 - Incumbents of Positions Classified; Duties

Section 48. Incumbents of offices or positions classified under sections forty-five to fifty, inclusive, shall perform, so far as practicable, the duties prescribed for the respective classes, but said sections shall not limit or restrict administrative authorities in exercising supervision of, or control over, their employees, or in assigning related, incidental or emergency duties to them.
MA Gen L ch 30 § 49 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title III - Laws Relating to State Officers|Chapter 30 - General Provisions Relative to State Departments, Commissions, Officers and Employees|Section 49 - Appeal From Classification

Section 49. A manager or an employee of the commonwealth objecting to any provision of the classification affecting the manager or employee's office or position may appeal in writing to the personnel administrator. If the administrator finds that the office or position of the person appealing warrants a different position reallocation or that the class in which said position is classified should be reallocated to a higher job group, he shall report such recommendation to the budget director and the house and senate committees on ways and means in accordance with paragraph (4) of section forty-five. Any manager or employee or group of employees further aggrieved after appeal to the personnel administrator may appeal to the civil service commission. Said commission shall hear all appeals as if said appeals were originally entered before it. If said commission finds that the office or position of the person appealing warrants a different position reallocation or that the class in which said position is classified should be reallocated to a higher job group, it shall report such recommendation to the budget director and the house and senate committees on ways and means in accordance with paragraph (4) of section forty-five.  If the personnel administrator or the civil service commission finds that the office or position of the person appealing shall warrant a different position allocation or that the class in which said position is classified shall be reallocated to a higher job group and so recommends to the budget director and the house and senate committees on ways and means in accordance with the provisions of this section, and if such permanent allocation or reallocation shall have been included in a schedule of permanent offices and positions approved by the house and senate committees on ways and means, such permanent allocation or reallocation shall be effective as of the date of appeal to the personnel administrator.  The provisions of this section, as they relate to appeals on the reallocation of a class or group of classes to a higher job group or job groups, shall not apply to any employee whose position is included in a collective bargaining unit represented by an employee organization certified in accordance with the provisions of section four of chapter one hundred and fifty E.