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MA Gen L ch 8 § 19 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 8 - State Superintendent of Buildings, and State House|Section 19 - Portraits of Designated Former Governors

Section 19. The governor, with the advice and consent of the council, may expend, for the purpose of procuring portraits of the governors of the commonwealth who shall have held office subsequent to May fourth, nineteen hundred, such amounts as are appropriated for the purpose, and such portraits shall be hung in the state house under the direction of the art commission.
MA Gen L ch 8 § 19a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 8 - State Superintendent of Buildings, and State House|Section 19a - Portraits or Other Memorials of Former Governors

Section 19A. The governor, with the advice and consent of the council, may, on behalf of the commonwealth, accept or otherwise procure suitable portraits or other memorials of the governors of the commonwealth and also of the governors of the province and colony of Massachusetts Bay and the colony of New Plymouth. Portraits or other memorials procured under this section shall be submitted to the art commission for approval prior to their installation in the state house which shall be under the direction of said commission.
MA Gen L ch 8 § 20 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 8 - State Superintendent of Buildings, and State House|Section 20 - Old Provincial State House; Maintenance and Preservation

Section 20. In recognition of the place of the old provincial state house in Boston in the history and governance of the commonwealth and of the nation, it is hereby declared to be the intention of the general court to assist in maintaining and preserving it as an historic and patriotic memorial and in providing appropriate educational programs interpreting its importance and relevance to the current system of government in the commonwealth and nation for the citizens thereof, through the Bostonian Society, a charitable, non-profit corporation which was organized under the laws of the commonwealth in the year, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, for the purposes of promoting the study of the history of Boston and preserving its antiquities and which, for over one hundred years, has been responsible for maintaining the old state house as a museum and place of study.  For the purpose of maintaining the old provincial state house in Boston as an historic and patriotic memorial and of providing such appropriate educational programs interpreting its importance and relevance, there shall be allowed and paid out of the treasury of the commonwealth to the Bostonian Society, a charitable corporation organized under the laws of the commonwealth, the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars annually. The said society shall expend such funds in the furtherance of the above purposes and shall report annually to the governor and the general court as to the specific purposes for which they were expended. The governor, the lieutenant-governor and members of the senate and house of representatives, for the time being, shall, upon presentation of the proper credentials, have free access to the old state house museum at all times, under the same regulations as may be provided by the by-laws of the society for the members thereof.
MA Gen L ch 8 § 21 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 8 - State Superintendent of Buildings, and State House|Section 21 - Permanent Memorials in State House Regulated

Section 21. No tablet, statue or other memorial of a permanent character shall be placed in the state house without the approval of the general court.
MA Gen L ch 9 § 1 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 9 - Department of the State Secretary|Section 1 - State Secretary; Duties; Bond; Salary; Other Sources of Income

Section 1. (a) There shall be a department of the state secretary under the supervision and control of the state secretary, which shall be organized as provided in this chapter. The state secretary shall make a quarterly return on oath to the governor of all fees of office received by the state secretary and give to the state treasurer a bond, in a penal sum and with sureties approved by the governor, conditioned satisfactorily to account for all money received by the state secretary in the state secretary's official capacity. The state secretary shall receive a salary of $165,000, and an additional amount to be adjusted biennially to reflect the aggregate quarterly change in salaries and wages in the commonwealth for the most recent 8 quarters as determined by the Bureau of Economic Analysis in the United States Department of Commerce.  (b) The state secretary shall not receive earned income from any other source but may receive unearned or passive income.
MA Gen L ch 9 § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 9 - Department of the State Secretary|Section 2 - Deputies; Assistants; Civil Service

Section 2. He may appoint a first deputy, a second deputy, and a third deputy and a fourth deputy each of whom shall perform the duties of a division head, a director of the corporation division who shall be an attorney at law, a cashier for whose conduct he shall be responsible and from whom he may require a bond, and a chief of the archives division who shall be a qualified archivist and shall be known as the archivist of the commonwealth. The secretary shall operate and supervise the archives museum and he shall utilize those records of historic value which are in the custody of the archivist for exhibition and education purposes. The archivist of the commonwealth shall, under the direction of the secretary, have charge of the non-current records of the commonwealth, particularly with regard to their custody, preservation, management and, when authorized, their destruction, and shall supervise the operation of the archives museum. The secretary shall provide for guided tours of the state house and for such purpose may employ such personnel as he may deem necessary. He may, under the direction of the secretary, prepare material for publication. The secretary may also appoint clerks, messengers and other assistants necessary for the prompt despatch of public business. He may also employ such clerical assistance as he may deem necessary to carry out the laws relative to primaries and elections. The secretary shall establish the salaries, duties and personnel regulations of all officers and employees within the department of the state secretary; provided, however, that the salaries of said officers and employees shall not exceed the sum annually appropriated therefor by the general court. The provisions of sections nine A and forty-five of chapter thirty, chapter thirty-one and chapter one hundred and fifty E shall not apply to officers and employees within the department of the state secretary.
MA Gen L ch 9 § 2a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 9 - Department of the State Secretary|Section 2a - Archives Advisory Commission; Establishment; Members and Alternates, Appointment; Powers and Duties; Receipt and Disposition of Funds; Expenses

Section 2A. There shall be in the department of the state secretary an archives advisory commission, hereinafter called the commission. Said commission shall consist of seven members, broadly representative of the public, and of public and private institutions concerned with the custody and use of archival and manuscript materials, two of whom shall be appointed by the governor, and five of whom shall be appointed by the state secretary. For each member, the governor and state secretary shall appoint an alternate. The state secretary shall be chairman of the commission. The commission shall advise the state secretary on archival matters, and shall review and approve, disapprove or modify a comprehensive statewide documentary preservation plan that shall be prepared by the archivist of the commonwealth, and shall assist in its administration. The commission may, acting under the chairmanship of the state secretary, or, in the secretary's absence, the archivist, acting for him and under his direction, receive grants, gifts and contributions and bequests from individuals, foundations and from federal, state or other governmental bodies for furthering and putting into effect the comprehensive statewide documentary preservation plan. The state treasurer shall be the custodian of funds so received, and such funds shall be expended by the state secretary, or the archivist acting for him, without special appropriation, subject, however, to the prior approval of the house and senate committees on ways and means, on state, local and private projects approved by the commission, which carry out the comprehensive statewide documentary preservation plan.  The members of the commission shall serve without compensation but shall receive from the commonwealth the necessary travel and other expenses actually incurred in the performance of their duties.
MA Gen L ch 9 § 2b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 9 - Department of the State Secretary|Section 2b - Annual Personnel Report

Section 2B. The secretary shall file an annual report not later than the first Wednesday in February with the senate and house committees on ways and means containing the job classification, duties and salary of each officer and employee within the department and all personnel regulations established pursuant to section two. The secretary shall file amendments to such report with the senate and house committees on ways and means whenever any changes become effective.
MA Gen L ch 9 § 2c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 9 - Department of the State Secretary|Section 2c - Funding for Archives Museum

Section 2C. The state secretary may receive and expend grants, gifts, contributions, bequests, and in-kind contributions from individuals, corporations or other business entities, foundations and from state or other governmental bodies for the purpose of furthering, expanding and promoting the archives museum.  The state secretary may also sell, transfer, or license merchandise including images, copies and facsimilies of historic records and other items. All monies received from such activities may be retained and expended by the state secretary for said purposes.  The state secretary is also authorized to form a non-profit corporation for the sole purpose of raising funds that will further, expand and promote the archives museum. Upon its formation, said corporation shall be governed by chapter 180. The board of directors shall consist of 5 members, 3 of whom shall be appointed by the state secretary. The remaining 2 members shall be elected by the appointed board members. Said directors shall not be compensated for the performance of their duties. The directors and officers shall not as a result of their positions with the corporation be considered state employees or special state employees for the purposes of sections 4, 6, 7 and 23 of chapter 268A.
MA Gen L ch 9 § 3 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 9 - Department of the State Secretary|Section 3 - Deputies; Power to Act in Absence of Secretary

Section 3. If the secretary is disabled from performing his official duties, his deputies shall perform the same during such disability. In the event of a vacancy in the office of secretary, the first deputy shall be continued in office, and shall perform all statutory duties of the secretary until a secretary is duly qualified.
MA Gen L ch 9 § 4 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 9 - Department of the State Secretary|Section 4 - Supervisor of Public Records

Section 4. The secretary shall appoint, and may remove, a competent person to be known as supervisor of public records. Said supervisor, under the supervision of the secretary, shall perform the duties required of the supervisor by law, and such other duties as the secretary determines.
MA Gen L ch 9 § 4a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 9 - Department of the State Secretary|Section 4a - Acts, Resolves and Constitutional Amendments; Publication

Section 4A. The state secretary shall, at the close of each regular session of the general court, collate and cause to be printed in a single volume the following:  (1) All acts and resolves passed at such session.  (2) All amendments to the constitution referred at such session to the next general court and all such amendments acted upon at such session and to be submitted to the people at the next state election.  (3) All acts and resolves passed at any special session of the general court, except a general revision of the statutes, and not theretofore published in any preceding annual volume.  (4) In the volume of the year immediately following a state election, all constitutional amendments and proposed laws approved by the people at said election.  (5) A statement in bold type at the conclusion of each law as printed, or in a postscript at the end of the volume with a suitable reference to each law, as to which a petition asking for a referendum has been filed prior to the publication of the volume, with a sufficient number of signatures to procure its submission to the people, together with a recital of the pertinent provisions of Article XLVIII of the Amendments to the Constitution.  (6) In the volume of the year immediately following a state election, a statement showing what constitutional amendments, proposed laws and laws were submitted to the people at said election, with the aggregate vote on each such measure, both affirmative and negative, arranged in such detail as the state secretary may determine.  (7) A table of changes in the general statutes and an index, to be prepared as provided in section 51 of chapter 3; provided, however, the state secretary may, in the secretary's discretion, cause the table of changes to be printed in a separate volume and not in the single volume.  The state secretary shall cause up to 10,000 copies of said volume to be printed each year and shall, immediately after their publication, distribute such copies as the secretary determines.
MA Gen L ch 9 § 4b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 9 - Department of the State Secretary|Section 4b - Pamphlet Edition of Laws; Distribution of Copies of Individual Laws

Section 4B. The state secretary shall, at the close of each regular session of the general court, publish in pamphlet form up to 20,000 copies, of the acts and resolves passed and of any proposed amendments to the constitution passed during such session. The secretary may also apportion the copies among the clerks of the several cities and towns, to be delivered by the clerks to inhabitants who apply for a copy.  The secretary shall also, as soon as any act or resolve is passed, send a copy of the act or resolve to the following: each state department, officer, board or commission whose duties are affected by the act or resolve, the clerks of the several cities and towns, for the use of the inhabitants of those cities and towns, the justices, clerks and registers of courts, district attorneys, sheriffs, justices of the peace authorized to issue warrants and take bail, county law libraries and all incorporated law libraries and branch libraries maintained by them; provided, however, upon written request approved by the secretary, additional copies may be distributed to the above list and to any other public officials whose duties in the secretary's opinion require the use of such copies. The secretary may also send copies to such persons as apply for an act or resolve, charging not less than the cost of producing and distributing the copy.
MA Gen L ch 9 § 4c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 9 - Department of the State Secretary|Section 4c - Cumulative Table of Changes in General Statutes

Section 4C. The state secretary shall print from time to time during the session of the general court a cumulative table of changes in the general statutes, up to the date of publication, to be prepared by the counsel to the senate and the counsel to the house of representatives.
MA Gen L ch 9 § 4d (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 9 - Department of the State Secretary|Section 4d - Distribution of Printed Copies of Official Reports

Section 4D. The state secretary shall furnish to each city and town of the commonwealth, to be preserved in a public place in the city or town, 1 copy of each of such report included in the public document series as the city or town clerk may apply for. The state secretary shall furnish 1 copy of each report to such public and other libraries as may apply for the reports. If the supervisor of public records shall report to the state secretary that a city or town is unable to properly care for and use the documents, the state secretary may discontinue sending the reports to that city or town.  Each member of the general court and of the executive department, the clerk of each branch of the general court and each reporter assigned to either branch may, upon a written, signed request delivered to the state secretary, receive a copy of any such document. Ten copies shall be placed in the state library for the use of the library and for exchange.
MA Gen L ch 9 § 4e (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 9 - Department of the State Secretary|Section 4e - Reports of War Veterans' Organizations

 Section 4E. The state secretary shall annually procure copies of the proceedings of the annual encampments of the departments of Massachusetts, Grand Army of the Republic, United Spanish War Veterans, The American Legion, Disabled American Veterans of the World War, Marine Corps League, American Veterans of World War II, AMVETS, Italian American War Veterans of the United States, Incorporated, Jewish War Veterans of the United States, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, Polish-American Veterans of Massachusetts, Inc., and Veterans of World War I of the U.S.A., held in that year, with the general and special orders, circulars and other papers forming parts thereof, and shall cause the same to be kept as parts of the records of the commonwealth. The state secretary shall annually cause copies thereof, including in the case of those relating to the Grand Army of the Republic the portraits of the department officers and staff and of the executive committee of the national encampment, to be printed and bound; and shall cause 1 printed and bound copy of each to be sent to each city or town library in the commonwealth. The state secretary shall also send 1 copy of each volume relating to the Grand Army of the Republic to each Grand Army post, 1 copy of the volume relating to the United Spanish War Veterans to each camp of Spanish War Veterans, 1 copy of the volume relating to The American Legion to each post of The American Legion, 1 copy of the volume relating to the Disabled American Veterans of the World War to each chapter of the Disabled American Veterans of the World War, 1 copy of the volume relating to the Marine Corps League to each detachment of the Marine Corps League, 1 copy of the volume relating to the American Veterans of World War II, AMVETS to each post of the American Veterans of World War II, AMVETS, 1 copy of the volume relating to the Italian American War Veterans of the United States, Incorporated to each post of the Italian American War Veterans of the United States, Incorporated, 1 copy of the volume relating to the Jewish War Veterans of the United States to each post of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States, 1 copy of the volume relating to the Veterans of Foreign Wars to each post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, 1 copy of the volume relating to the Polish-American Veterans of Massachusetts, Inc. to each post of the Polish-American Veterans of Massachusetts, Inc. and 1 copy of the volume relating to the Veterans of World War I of the U.S.A. to each barracks of the Veterans of World War I of the U.S.A., in the commonwealth. The state secretary shall cause the other copies of each to be distributed in the same manner as the annual report of the state secretary.
MA Gen L ch 9 § 4f (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 9 - Department of the State Secretary|Section 4f - Distribution of Judicial Decisions and General Laws to Cities and Towns

 Section 4F. The state secretary shall furnish to every city and town the reports of the decisions of the supreme judicial court from time to time, as published, and shall furnish to every town hereafter incorporated a full set of said decisions, the index-digest of those decisions, a copy of the General Laws, and copies of all such books and documents in the secretary's office as shall have been previously furnished to towns by the commonwealth; but the clerk of such town shall first file with the secretary a certificate that the town has made suitable provision for the preservation and convenient use of such books and documents.
MA Gen L ch 9 § 4g (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 9 - Department of the State Secretary|Section 4g - Subsequent Distribution to City or Town; Insurance

 Section 4G. A city or town which has once been furnished with such books and documents shall not again be supplied with the same at the expense of the commonwealth. Towns may effect insurance on the books and documents for their own benefit.
MA Gen L ch 9 § 4h (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 9 - Department of the State Secretary|Section 4h - Distribution of Laws and Documents to Members of General Court

 Section 4H. The state secretary shall, in the distribution of laws and documents to members of the general court, effect such exchanges among members as they shall direct; and the secretary may employ such additional clerical or other assistance as may be necessary for the purpose. Copies of the laws and documents apportioned to members of the general court which remain undisposed of for 3 months after the end of the year in which they were issued shall revert to the commonwealth and be subject to general distribution.