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MA Gen L ch 23a § 9 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 23a - Department of Economic Development|Section 9 - Employees; Appointments and Removals; Consultants

Section 9. The director of economic development may, subject to appropriation, appoint and remove all employees of the MOBD including directors, as may be necessary to carry out the work of MOBD. Unless otherwise provided by law, all such appointments and removals shall be made in accordance with chapter 31. From time to time, the director of economic development may, subject to appropriation and the laws and regulations pertaining to the employment of consultants, employ such consultants as he may deem necessary.
MA Gen L ch 23a § 10a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 23a - Department of Economic Development|Section 10a - Buy Massachusetts Program

Section 10A. The MOBD shall establish a Buy Massachusetts Program. In implementing said program the MOBD shall analyze and compile a list of products or goods that companies and businesses in the commonwealth need or that are produced for them. The raw materials listed shall include agricultural items produced in the commonwealth and parts of special services provided by said companies. Special attention shall be given to those items or products that such companies currently purchase outside the commonwealth or from foreign countries and especially an item or product needed or required for the first time. MOBD shall make inquiries as to the needs of locally-based companies and businesses and determine if other commonwealth based companies and business entities need the item or product, or are capable of making or producing the item or product with additional capital or retooling. MOBD shall utilize said lists for the purpose of bringing together the needs, as so determined, with the business entities utilizing said products or items and more than one entity may be serviced by one or more local suppliers or buyers, the purpose of said program being to connect local companies' needs with products made or services provided by other local companies.  The Massachusetts office of business development may expend such funds as may be appropriated therefor, and may accept federal funds, or private gifts and grants to assist it in carrying out the purposes as set forth in this section.
MA Gen L ch 23a § 13 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 23a - Department of Economic Development|Section 13 - Employees; Assistance From Other State Agencies

Section 13. MOBD may employ such personnel as may be necessary to carry out its duties under the provisions of chapter forty D.  All departments, divisions, boards, bureaus, commissions or other agencies of the state government shall provide such assistance and information as MOBD may request in order to carry out said duties.
MA Gen L ch 23a § 13b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 23a - Department of Economic Development|Section 13b - Marketing Partnership; Offices Within the Partnership

Section 13B. There shall be within the partnership the following offices: the office of travel and tourism, the Massachusetts international trade office and the commonwealth marketing office.
MA Gen L ch 23a § 13d (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 23a - Department of Economic Development|Section 13d - Marketing Partnership; Operation as State Agency; Representation by Attorney General in Suits and Other Civil Proceedings; Staff Support

Section 13D. (a) The partnership and the agencies within the partnership shall, for the purposes of compliance with state finance law, operate as a state agency, as defined in section 1 of chapter 29, and shall be subject to the laws applicable to agencies under the control of the governor including, but not limited to, chapters 7, 7A, 10 and 29; provided, however, that the comptroller may identify additional instructions or actions necessary for the partnership to manage fiscal operations in the state accounting system and meet statewide and other governmental accounting and audit standards. Unless otherwise exempted by law or the applicable central service agency, the partnership shall participate in other available commonwealth central services including, but not limited, to the state payroll system under section 31 of chapter 29 and may purchase other goods and services provided by state agencies under the direction of the comptroller. The comptroller may chargeback the partnership for the transition and ongoing costs for participation in the state accounting and payroll systems and may retain and expend such costs without further appropriation for the purposes of this section. The partnership shall be subject to section 5D of chapter 29 and subsection (f) of section 6B of said chapter 29. This section shall not apply to authorities who are serving as partners of the partnership.  (b) The office of the attorney general shall appear for the partnership in all suits and other civil proceedings in which the partnership is a party or interested or in which the official acts and doings of the partnership are called into question, to the same extent and in the same manner as provided to the commonwealth and state departments, officers and commissions under section 3 of chapter 12. The partnership shall be considered to be an agency of the commonwealth for purposes of chapter 12.  (c) The Massachusetts office of business development may provide staff support for the Massachusetts marketing partnership; provided, however, that the partnership shall contract with said office or with another public authority for the performance by that authority of core administrative functions, as determined by the secretary of housing and economic development which may include, but shall not be limited to, human resources, financial management, information technology, legal, procurement and asset management, to minimize the administrative costs and expenses of the partnership.
MA Gen L ch 23a § 13e (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 23a - Department of Economic Development|Section 13e - Office of Travel and Tourism; Executive Director; Appointment; Powers and Duties

Section 13E. There shall be within the partnership an office of travel and tourism which shall be under the supervision and control of an executive director. The powers and duties given to the executive director of the office of travel and tourism in this chapter and in any other general or special law shall be exercised and discharged subject to the direction, control and supervision of the partnership.  The executive director of the office of travel and tourism shall be appointed by the governor, and serve at the pleasure of the governor. The position of executive director of the office of travel and tourism shall be classified under section 45 of chapter 30 and the executive director of travel and tourism shall devote full time during business hours to the duties of the office of travel and tourism and shall give to the state treasurer a bond for the faithful performance of those duties.  The executive director of travel and tourism shall be the executive and administrative head of travel and tourism and shall be responsible for administering and enforcing the laws relative to travel and tourism and to any administrative unit of that office. Powers and duties given to an administrative unit of travel and tourism by a general or special law shall be exercised subject to the direction, control and supervision of the executive director of travel and tourism.
MA Gen L ch 23a § 13f (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 23a - Department of Economic Development|Section 13f - Office of Travel and Tourism; Function

Section 13F. The office of travel and tourism shall serve as the principal agency for promoting the recreational, cultural, historic and scenic resources of the commonwealth to increase its desirability as a location for tourism, convention, travel and recreation-related activities by providing informational, marketing and technical assistance to public and private nonprofit entities organized for similar purposes.
MA Gen L ch 23a § 13g (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 23a - Department of Economic Development|Section 13g - Office of Travel and Tourism; Employees; Appointment and Removal

Section 13G. The executive director of travel and tourism may, subject to appropriation and with the approval of the partnership, appoint and may, with like approval, remove all such employees as may be necessary to carry out the work of tourism. Unless otherwise provided by law, all such appointments and removals shall be made under chapter 31. The executive director may, subject to appropriation and the laws and regulations pertaining to the employment of consultants, employ such consultants as the executive director may deem necessary.
MA Gen L ch 23a § 13h (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 23a - Department of Economic Development|Section 13h - Office of Travel and Tourism; Advisory Commission

Section 13H. There shall be an advisory commission on travel and tourism to the partnership to develop budget recommendations and marketing strategies for the promotion of travel and tourism to the commonwealth. The executive director of travel and tourism shall convene the advisory commission quarterly. The advisory commission shall annually report its recommendations to the partnership not later than November 1. The advisory commission shall annually file its recommendations with the clerks of the senate and house of representatives not later than November 1. The membership of the commission shall annually elect a chairperson.  The advisory commission shall have 30 members: 1 representative from each of the following organizations: the Massachusetts Restaurant Association, the Massachusetts Lodging Association, the Massachusetts Camping Ground Association, the New England Bus Association, the Massachusetts cultural council and the Massachusetts historical commission; 1 representative of a professional sports franchise located in the commonwealth; 2 representatives of the Massachusetts Visitor Industry Council; the executive director or the executive director's designee of each of the following regional tourism councils: 1 Berkshire Strategic Alliance Inc., Southeastern Massachusetts Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce, the Franklin County Chamber of Commerce, the Greater Boston Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Worcester Regional Tourism and Visitors Corporation, the Martha's Vineyard Chamber of Commerce, the Greater Merrimack Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Mohawk Trail Association, the North of Boston Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Greater Springfield Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Plymouth County Development Council, Inc., the Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce, the MetroWest Tourism and Visitor's Bureau, the Johnny Appleseed Trail Association, Inc., the Hampshire County Tourism and Visitor's Bureau; and the following individuals, who shall not serve as chair: the commissioner of conservation and recreation or the commissioner's designee, the administrator for highways within the Massachusetts Department of Transportation or the administrator's designee, the Massachusetts state coordinator of the United States National Park Service and the house and senate chairs of the joint committee on tourism, arts and cultural development.  Members of this commission shall receive no compensation for their services, but each member shall be reimbursed the member's necessary expenses incurred while engaged in the performance of the member's duties. This commission shall annually, not later than November 1, make a report to the executive director and the secretary of housing and economic development, and may make such special reports as the commission or the executive director of tourism may deem desirable.
MA Gen L ch 23a § 13i (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 23a - Department of Economic Development|Section 13i - Office of Travel and Tourism; Gifts and Grants; Acceptance

Section 13I. The office of travel and tourism may accept gifts or grants of money or property from any source, which shall be held in trust for the use of tourism by the treasurer of the partnership as custodian.
MA Gen L ch 23a § 13j (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 23a - Department of Economic Development|Section 13j - Offices Within Office of Travel and Tourism: Massachusetts Film Office; Massachusetts Sports Partnership; Meetings; Reports

Section 13J. (a) The following offices shall be within the office of travel and tourism: the Massachusetts film office, which shall be the official and lead agency to facilitate motion picture production and development in the commonwealth, and the Massachusetts sports partnership, which shall be the official and lead agency to facilitate and attract major sports events and championships in the commonwealth. All reports shall be made available on the office of travel and tourism's website.  (b) The Massachusetts sports partnership shall meet on a quarterly basis and shall annually, not later than March 1, report the results of its findings and activities for the preceding year and its recommendations to the clerks of the senate and house of representatives and to the senate and house chairs of the joint committee on tourism, arts and cultural development.
MA Gen L ch 23a § 13l (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 23a - Department of Economic Development|Section 13l - Foreign Offices for International Trade; Establishment; Location; Functions; List of Import or Export Businesses; Publicity; Technical Assistance; Foreign Trade Information, Publication

Section 13L. (a) There shall be within the international trade office 1 or more foreign offices for international trade. The foreign offices may be located in any country that the executive director of the international trade office determines to be best suited as a location for the furthering of foreign trade opportunities for the businesses of the commonwealth. The foreign offices shall encourage and further trade between foreign businesses and businesses in the commonwealth. The foreign offices shall also promote investment opportunities in the commonwealth for foreign businesses in order to encourage the location and establishment of such businesses within the commonwealth. For the purposes of furthering foreign trade and investment, the foreign offices, subject to appropriation and approval by the executive director of the trade international office, may contract for such advertising and other communication services as may be necessary. The foreign offices shall maintain an updated list of businesses in the commonwealth and foreign businesses which are or might become active in the import or export of their products and services. The executive director shall consult with the Massachusetts office of business development and the regional economic development organizations designated under section 3K in order to ensure that the businesses and assets of all regions of the commonwealth are included in such lists. The foreign office may also provide additional information and assistance to businesses in the commonwealth that desire to export their goods and services.  The foreign offices shall maintain and give suitable publicity to an updated list of available sites for the location of foreign based businesses in the commonwealth. The foreign offices may make available technical assistance to foreign businesses interested in the establishment of plants or facilities in the commonwealth.  (b) The foreign offices shall, on a regular basis, make all foreign trade information available to the executive director of the international trade office, who shall publish and furnish such information to regional economic development organizations designated under section 3K and to businesses and corporations in the commonwealth which might be interested in, or benefit from the utilization of such information. The executive director of the international trade office may charge a fee not to exceed the actual printing costs for such information, except that no fee shall be charged to regional economic development organizations designated under section 3K.
MA Gen L ch 23a § 13m (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 23a - Department of Economic Development|Section 13m - Foreign Offices for International Trade; Directors; Appointment; Qualifications

Section 13M. There shall be a director of each foreign office appointed by the executive director of the international trade office, who shall be a person with at least 2 years of experience in international trade, having had administrative or business experience in the country where the office is located, who shall be fluent in at least 2 languages and who may be a foreign national. The director shall not be subject to chapter 31 or section 9A of chapter 30.
MA Gen L ch 23a § 13n (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 23a - Department of Economic Development|Section 13n - Foreign Offices for International Trade; Leasing of Office Space and Equipment

Section 13N. The executive director of the international trade office may, subject to appropriation, enter into leases for office space as may be necessary and to purchase or lease equipment as may be needed for the operation of foreign offices.
MA Gen L ch 23a § 13o (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 23a - Department of Economic Development|Section 13o - Foreign Offices for International Trade; Acceptance of Funds

Section 13O. The executive director of the international trade office may accept funds in the name of the international trade office and the foreign offices from private and public groups, agencies and persons, which shall be held in trust for use by the treasurer of the partnership as custodian.
MA Gen L ch 23a § 13p (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 23a - Department of Economic Development|Section 13p - Foreign Offices for International Trade; Financial Report

Section 13P. The executive director of the international trade office and the director of any foreign office shall annually file a financial report with the clerks of the house of representatives and the senate and the joint legislative committee on economic development and emerging technologies on the operation and activities of the office. The report shall include a complete evaluation of the results of the activities of the foreign offices and its effects on the business economy of the commonwealth, including the areas of the export of goods and services and in the location of foreign businesses in the commonwealth.
MA Gen L ch 23a § 13q (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 23a - Department of Economic Development|Section 13q - International Trade Office; Provision of Technical Assistance

Section 13Q. The international trade office shall contract with the Massachusetts export center to provide technical assistance to companies operating in the commonwealth that export products to other countries.
MA Gen L ch 23a § 13r (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 23a - Department of Economic Development|Section 13r - International Trade Office; Advisory Council

Section 13R. The executive director of the international trade office may establish an advisory council to assist and advise the director on matters related to the administration and evaluation of the international trade programs provided through the international trade office.