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MA Gen L ch 6 § 78 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library|Section 78 - Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission; Vocational Rehabilitation Services; Independent Living Rehabilitation Services

Section 78. (1) The commission shall, subject to appropriation, directly provide or purchase vocational rehabilitation services or independent living rehabilitation services for any handicapped individual who meets the eligibility criteria prescribed by the commission and who is present in the state at the time of filing his application therefor; provided, however, that those vocational rehabilitation services set forth in clauses (4) to (15), inclusive, of section seventy-seven shall be provided at public cost only to those handicapped individuals who are found by the commission to require financial assistance with respect thereto; and provided, further that the commission for the blind shall provide vocational rehabilitation services to the blind. The commission shall, prior to providing any of the vocational rehabilitation services set forth in clauses (4) to (15), inclusive, of section seventy-seven consider similar benefits available to the handicapped individuals. If vocational rehabilitation services cannot be provided to all eligible handicapped individuals who apply therefor, the commission shall provide by regulations the order to be followed in selecting those to whom such services will be provided.  (2) The commission shall, subject to appropriation, develop and provide, either directly or through purchase of service, such other rehabilitation services as it determines are necessary and appropriate to enable a handicapped individual to live independently and function within his family and community. The commission shall prescribe eligibility requirements for each such service.
MA Gen L ch 6 § 78a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library|Section 78a - Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission; Extended Sheltered Employment

Section 78A. The commission shall, subject to appropriation, administer a program of extended sheltered employment for those handicapped persons over sixteen years of age, who, after individual evaluation, are determined unemployable in the competitive labor market, but who are able to maintain acceptable levels of attendance and productive capacity in extended sheltered employment in a program administered by a private nonprofit organization. The levels of attendance and productive capacity which shall be deemed acceptable shall be established by regulations promulgated by the commission. The commission shall inspect the facilities for extended sheltered employment of such private nonprofit organizations and shall maintain a register of such organizations which it approves as qualified to meet the needs of such handicapped persons and eligible to receive funds. The commission may contract with such organizations for the furnishing of such extended sheltered employment; provided, however, that the rate payable by the commission for such services shall be subject to the approval of the operational services division within the executive office of administration and finance.
MA Gen L ch 6 § 79 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library|Section 79 - Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission; Powers and Duties

Section 79. The commission shall have the following powers and duties:—  (a) it shall continuously study the problems of vocational rehabilitation and may make investigations, demonstrations and reports thereon, and shall establish and maintain contact with such physicians, persons, programs, instrumentalities, organizations or facilities rendering any one or more of the services authorized under the provisions of sections seventy-four to eighty-three, inclusive, and the commissioner shall be satisfied with regard to qualifications to deliver such services; said qualifications for physicians shall include evidence of certification by an appropriate American medical specialty board and with respect to persons, programs, instrumentalities, organizations or facilities, said qualifications shall include, but need not necessarily be limited to, a demonstrated ability to deliver one or more of such services;  (b) it may enter into reciprocal agreements with other states to provide for the vocational rehabilitation of residents of said other states;  (c) it may enter into contracts for the purpose of providing or planning for the provision of services to handicapped individuals;  (d) it may establish and operate rehabilitation facilities and workshops and may make grants to public and contracts with private nonprofit organizations for such purposes;  (e) it may supervise the operation of small business enterprises established to be conducted by handicapped persons;  (f) it may conduct other programs for the provision of rehabilitation and other services to handicapped individuals as it determines are necessary to enhance the ability of a handicapped individual to live independently and function within his family and community and, if appropriate, secure and maintain employment;  (g) it shall maintain records of all persons who are determined by the commission to be fit and eligible for vocational rehabilitation and the actions and procedures taken by the commission in regard to the persons so determined;  (h) it shall make an annual report to the general court, a copy of which shall be filed with the clerk of the house of representatives on or before the first Wednesday in December;  (i) in conjunction with the executive office of health and human services, it shall maintain a central registry of apartment housing which is accessible or adaptable, as defined in section thirteen A of chapter twenty-two, and a list of persons seeking accessible or adaptable apartment housing and shall notify them as said apartment housing becomes available and shall maintain a toll free telephone line, subject to appropriation, for persons to obtain information about accessible and adaptable apartment housing.
MA Gen L ch 6 § 80 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library|Section 80 - Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission; Additional Powers and Duties

Section 80. In carrying out the provisions of sections seventy-four to eighty-four, inclusive, the commission shall cooperate with relevant federal agencies and shall develop a state plan including such methods of administration as are found by said agencies and the commission to be necessary for the proper and efficient operation of the commission, to assure that full financial benefits of all federal laws may be available to the commonwealth and the citizens thereof.  The commission is authorized to enter into an agreement on behalf of the commonwealth with relevant federal agencies to carry out the provisions of the federal social security act relating to the making of determinations of disability 42 USC 1381 to 1383(c), inclusive, of said act, and to appoint such agents or assistants as may be necessary to administer the provisions of such agreements.
MA Gen L ch 6 § 81 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library|Section 81 - Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission; Cooperation With State Agencies; Agreements

Section 81. The commission shall cooperate with the department of industrial accidents in the executive office of labor and workforce development, the department of career services in the executive office of labor and workforce development, the departments of transitional assistance, children and families, public health, developmental services and mental health, and such other departments, divisions or subdivisions of the commonwealth as are charged or concerned with the rehabilitation of handicapped persons. Where practicable, the commission shall enter into agreements, confirmed in writing, setting forth procedures whereby said handicapped persons are located and listed to have their fitness and eligibility for rehabilitation services determined by the commission. The commission shall also enter into agreement with the department of career services, under which handicapped persons receiving vocational rehabilitation may be referred for preplacement interview or for job placement to the appropriate one-stop career centers; provided, that nothing in said agreement shall prevent reference of said handicapped persons to employment through the commission.
MA Gen L ch 6 § 82 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library|Section 82 - Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission; Federal Funds; Custodian; Expenditure

Section 82. The state treasurer shall be supervisor of funds allotted to the commonwealth from appropriations made pursuant to the federal laws set forth in sections seventy-four and eighty. The funds so allotted shall be expended, without specific appropriation, under the order or the approval of the Massachusetts rehabilitation commission.
MA Gen L ch 6 § 83 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library|Section 83 - Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission; Gifts to Commission; Acceptance; Investment

Section 83. The commission is hereby authorized and directed to accept and use gifts made unconditionally by will or otherwise for carrying out the provisions of sections seventy-four to eighty-four, inclusive. Gifts made under such conditions as in the judgment of the commission are proper and consistent with said provisions may be so accepted and shall be held, invested, reinvested and the principal and interest thereof may be used in accordance with the conditions of the gift and may be expended under the order or the approval of the commission without specific appropriation.
MA Gen L ch 6 § 84 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library|Section 84 - Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission; Information or Records Confidential

Section 84. All records relating to clients and applicants of the commission and all personal and medical information or records given or made available to the commission, including but not limited to, names and addresses of clients and applicants, shall be confidential and for the exclusive use of the commission in the discharge of its duties. Such records or information shall not be open to the public notwithstanding the provisions of section ten of chapter sixty-six or any other general or special law. The provisions of chapter sixty-six A shall be applicable to all such records or information except that notwithstanding said chapter sixty-six A, upon request, relevant information or records concerning a client or applicant shall be made available to that client or applicant or with his written authority, to his attorney, and in the case of medical or psychological records or information, the knowledge of which may be harmful to the client or applicant, the commission shall prescribe by regulation that such records or information shall be released to the client or applicant or the parent, guardian or other authorized representative of the client or applicant or that such records or information shall be released to the client or applicant by a duly licensed physician or psychologist. Notwithstanding any other general or special law to the contrary, the commission may publish information in statistical form without disclosing the identity of the clients or applicants involved.  For the purpose of this section, the term ''client'' shall mean a handicapped person who is receiving or who is eligible to receive or who is a person who has received any one or more of the services authorized under the provisions of sections seventy-four to eighty-three, inclusive, and the term ''applicant'' shall mean a person who has applied for or has attempted to apply for any services from the commission.
MA Gen L ch 6 § 85 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library|Section 85 - Definitions Applicable to Secs. 86 to 92

Section 85. As used in sections eighty-six to ninety-two, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meaning unless the context indicates otherwise:—  ''Atomic energy'', all forms of energy released in the course of nuclear fission or nuclear transformation.  ''By-product material'', any radio-active material, except special nuclear materials, yielded in or made radio-active by exposure to the radiation incident to the process of producing or utilizing special nuclear materials.  ''Operator'', any individual who manipulates the controls of a utilization or production facility.  ''Production facility'', (a) any equipment or device capable of the production of special nuclear material in such quantity as to be of significance to the common defense and security, or in such manner as to affect the health and safety of the public; or (b) any important component part especially designed for such equipment or device.  ''Special nuclear material'', (a) plutonium and uranium enriched in the isotope 233 or in the isotope 235, and any other material which the governor declares by order to be special nuclear material after the United States Atomic Energy Commission has determined the material to be such; or (b) any material artificially enriched by any of the foregoing.  ''Utilization facility'', (a) any equipment or device, except an atomic weapon, capable of making use of special nuclear materials in such quantity as to be of significance to the common defense and security, or in such manner as to affect the health and safety of the public, or peculiarly adapted for making use of atomic energy in such quantity as to be of significance to the common defense and security, or in such manner as to affect the health and safety of the public; or (b) any important component part especially designed for such equipment or device.
MA Gen L ch 6 § 88 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library|Section 88 - Atomic Energy Commission; Duties

Section 88. Said commission shall keep itself fully and currently informed on the development of atomic energy as it may affect the welfare of the commonwealth, shall consult and advise with the co-ordinator of atomic development, and the governor and council, and shall render an annual report on the progress of atomic energy development in the commonwealth for the information and guidance of the general court and the public. The commission shall, at the call of the chairman, meet within the commonwealth not less often than four times annually but may meet at such other times and at such places, within or without the commonwealth as the chairman deems necessary.
MA Gen L ch 6 § 91 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library|Section 91 - Nuclear Material or Facility; Changes in Laws; Certain Departments to Initiate Studies

Section 91. The following departments, divisions and agencies are directed to initiate and to pursue continuing studies as to the need, if any, for changes in the laws and regulations administered by them that would arise from the presence within the commonwealth of special nuclear materials and by-product materials, and from the operation herein of production or utilization facilities, and, on the basis of such studies, to make such recommendations for the enactment of laws or amendments to law administered by it, and such proposals for amendments to the regulations issued by it, as may appear necessary and appropriate:  1. The department of public health, particularly as to hazards, if any, to the public health and safety.  2. The department of labor standards, particularly as to hazardous working conditions, if any.  3. The department of industrial accidents, particularly as to the time and character of proof of claims of injuries and the extent of the compensation allowable therefor.  4. The department of highways, particularly as to the transportation of special nuclear materials and by-product materials on highways of the commonwealth.  5. The department of telecommunications and energy, particularly as to the transportation of special nuclear materials and by-product materials by common carriers not in interstate commerce and as to the participation by public utilities subject to its jurisdiction in projects looking to the development of production or utilization facilities for industrial or commercial use.  6. The division of insurance, particularly as to the insurance of persons and property from hazards to life and property resulting from atomic development.  7. The department of environmental management, particularly as to the hazards, if any, to the natural resources of the commonwealth, including wild life.  8. Such other departments, divisions and agencies including departments and agencies of political subdivisions of the commonwealth as the governor may direct and for the purposes specified by him.
MA Gen L ch 6 § 92 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library|Section 92 - Nuclear Material or Facility; License or Permit

Section 92. No person shall manufacture, construct, produce, transfer, acquire or possess any special nuclear material, by-product material, production facility, or utilization facility, or act as an operator of a production or utilization facility within this commonwealth unless he shall have first obtained a license or permit for the activity in which he proposes to engage from the United States Atomic Energy Commission if, pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, the Commission requires a license or permit to be obtained by persons proposing to engage in activities of the same type over which it has jurisdiction.  Special nuclear materials, as defined in Section 2014 of Title 42 of the United States Code, produced in industrial, commercial or medical facilities may not be transferred, reprocessed, used or otherwise made available by any person for nuclear explosive purposes.
MA Gen L ch 6 § 93 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library|Section 93 - Nuclear Material or Facility; Injunction Against Violations

Section 93. Whenever, in the opinion of the attorney general, any person is violating or is about to violate section ninety-two, the attorney general may apply to the appropriate court for an order enjoining such person from engaging or continuing to engage in the activity violative of said section, and upon a showing that such person has engaged, or is about to engage, in any such activity, a permanent or temporary injunction, restraining order or other order may be granted.
MA Gen L ch 6 § 97 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library|Section 97 - State Finance and Governance Board; Membership

Section 97. (a) As used in this section and section 98, the following words shall have the following meanings:  ''Board'', the state finance and governance board established by subsection (b).  ''Derivative financial products'', financial instruments with values derived from or based upon the value of other assets or on the level of an interest rate index including, but not limited to, detached call options, interest rate swaps or swaptions, caps, floors and collars, but not including bond insurance or other credit or liquidity enhancement of bonds or notes or agreements related to the lending or investment of the proceeds of bonds or notes.  ''State entity'', the commonwealth, a state authority or another state entity with responsibility for managing and overseeing public funds.  ''Secretary'', the secretary of administration and finance.  (b) There shall be a state finance and governance board consisting of 5 members: 3 of whom shall be appointed by the governor and 2 of whom shall be appointed by the state treasurer. Upon the expiration of the term of a member, a successor shall be appointed for a term of 4 years. At least 2 members appointed by the governor shall be persons with expert knowledge of the field of public finance. The governor shall designate 1 of the members to serve as chair. The members shall serve without compensation but shall receive their necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of their official duties. The secretary shall provide the board with appropriate staff and other assistance and may engage professionals to advise the board.