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MA Gen L ch 75 § 11a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts|Section 11a - Funds for Legislative Agents or Organizations Attempting to Influence Legislation

Section 11A. The board of trustees shall not allow any funds for legislative agents as defined in section thirty-nine of chapter three or organizations attempting to influence legislation as defined in section forty-four of said chapter three to be assessed on student tuition bills; provided, however, that optional fees for nonpartisan student organizations which employ said legislative agents or attempt to influence legislation shall be collected by the boards of trustees whenever students have authorized an optional fee by a majority vote of those students voting in an official student referendum. Said optional fees shall be collected as provided in paragraph (b) of section eighteen of chapter fifteen A.  No funds collected as a mandatory student activities fee shall be paid to legislative agents as defined in section thirty-nine of said chapter three or organizations attempting to influence legislation as defined in section forty-four of said chapter three. As used in this section, the term ''legislative agent'' or ''organization attempting to influence legislation'' shall not include any official representative of the student body.
MA Gen L ch 75 § 12 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts|Section 12 - University Property; Management and Administration

Section 12. The trustees shall, on behalf of the commonwealth, manage and administer the university and all property, real and personal, belonging to the commonwealth and occupied or used by the university, and shall keep in repair houses, buildings and equipment so used or occupied.
MA Gen L ch 75 § 13 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts|Section 13 - Purchases

Section 13. The board of trustees shall have the authority to make any purchase or purchases in the amount of one hundred thousand dollars or less, and to purchase without limitation of amount library books and periodicals, educational and scientific supplies and equipment, printing and binding, emergency repairs and replacement parts, and perishable items, without recourse to any other state board. Such purchases shall be subject to competitive bids wherever practicable. The board of trustees shall promulgate regulations further defining the process for the purchase of said supplies.
MA Gen L ch 75 § 14a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts|Section 14a - Prescription and Enforcement of Regulations; Contracts

Section 14A. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the trustees shall prescribe and enforce such regulations as they may deem necessary, and may enter into contracts with corporations, foundations, other entities, and individuals concerning inventions, discoveries, research, or other work product, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and any other intellectual property, developed under the terms of a sponsored agreement entered into by the university or involving the use of university funds, facilities, excluding libraries, equipment, material or time by students, research fellows, staff members, faculty or other university personnel, including the transfer of rights involving such work product, the amount of the respective shares in the proceeds therefrom, and provision for the resolution of any and all disagreements involving the same. The trustees shall also have the authority to prescribe in such regulations the circumstances under which the university, students, research fellows, staff members, faculty, and other university personnel may own equity or hold other financial interests in connection with such work product.
MA Gen L ch 75 § 14b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts|Section 14b - Campus Council

Section 14B. The trustees shall establish for each campus a council, broadly representative of the community, alumnae and students, and shall, upon recommendation of the campus president, appoint members thereto. The campus council shall advise the campus president and the trustees and make recommendations regarding said campus, and shall undertake such other activities as shall be determined by the campus president.
MA Gen L ch 75 § 15 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts|Section 15 - Reports and Bulletins

Section 15. The trustees shall annually as of the end of the fiscal year cause the president to make and publish a report for the university that shall be available to the public, copies of which shall be filed with the governor, state secretary and the general court. Special reports and bulletins may be issued from time to time as determined by the trustees.
MA Gen L ch 75 § 15a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts|Section 15a - Center for Adoption Research and Policy

Section 15A. There is hereby established the center for adoption research and policy, which shall be operated under the direction of the board of trustees of the University of Massachusetts and based at the Worcester campus. The center shall be responsible for conducting research and formulating policy recommendations for the commonwealth, its agencies and any private adoption agency on matters relating to the care and custody of children in foster and substitute care under the care and protection of the commonwealth and all adopted children.  The center shall respond to requests from the general court, the judiciary, the department of children and families, the department of early education and care and any other state or private agency involved with the placement of children into foster or substitute care homes as well as pre-adoptive or adoptive homes for consultation, research assistance, research analysis, policy development, and the promotion of educational and training programs on foster and substitute care and adoption.  The center shall maintain the confidentiality of any individual whose personal information is made available to the center pursuant to section 7 of chapter 15D, and section 5E of chapter 210, but compliance with individual confidentiality shall not prevent the publication of aggregated research information or case studies wherein personal identifiers have been removed.  State or private agencies shall forward to birth parents, foster or adoptive parents, legal guardians and others requests from the center seeking participation in center research studies, but the center shall include in such requests a clear and understandable statement explaining that individuals receiving a request are under no legal obligation to comply with any request. State or private agencies are hereby directed to consult directly with the center for the purpose of applying for public and private grants in conjunction with the center.
MA Gen L ch 75 § 16 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts|Section 16 - Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station

Section 16. The trustees shall maintain at the university an agricultural experiment station, to be known as the Massachusetts agricultural experiment station, and shall use therefor the land, buildings and equipment heretofore acquired therefor and owned by the commonwealth. Such station shall be a part of the university.
MA Gen L ch 75 § 16a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts|Section 16a - Diagnostic Laboratory

Section 16A. The trustees shall establish and maintain at said station a diagnostic laboratory for the purpose of the provisions of clause First of section seventeen relative to domestic animals. Experiments may be conducted at said station in co-operation with Massachusetts dairy farmers to control and eliminate the disease of mastitis. For the purpose of the collection and laboratory examination of milk samples to eliminate mastitis, in the conduct of such work, a fee as determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven for each sample tested may be charged. The director shall accept samples of milk for test collected by the department of agriculture and may accept samples from such other qualified persons as he may approve for the collection of such samples.
MA Gen L ch 75 § 17 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts|Section 17 - Experiments and Investigations; Nature and Scope

Section 17. The trustees shall cause experiments and investigations to be made at said station in the following subjects:  First, The causes, prevention and remedies of diseases of domestic animals, plants and trees;  Second, The history and habits of insects destructive to vegetation, and the means of abating them;  Third, The manufacture and composition of both foreign and domestic fertilizers, their values and adaptability to different crops and soils;  Fourth, The values, under all conditions, of forage, grain and root crops, as food for farm animals, for various purposes;  Fifth, The comparative value of green and dry forage, and the cost of producing and preserving them in the best condition;  Sixth, The adulteration of any article of food intended for the use of men or animals;  Seventh, Testing poultry to eliminate disease;  Eighth, Other subjects deemed advantageous to agriculture and horticulture in the commonwealth.
MA Gen L ch 75 § 18 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts|Section 18 - Officers; Equipment

Section 18. The trustees shall appoint a director of said station, a chemist and necessary assistants, and shall provide and maintain suitable and necessary appliances for the purposes specified in the preceding section.
MA Gen L ch 75 § 19 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts|Section 19 - Reports on Results of Experiments; Distribution

Section 19. The trustees shall publish bulletins containing the results of experiments and investigations by the station, except under the following section, and shall distribute such bulletins to residents and newspapers of the commonwealth applying therefor.
MA Gen L ch 75 § 21 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts|Section 21 - Fee for Testing Poultry

Section 21. A fee as determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven may be charged for each test of poultry made under section seventeen.
MA Gen L ch 75 § 22 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts|Section 22 - University Farm

Section 22. The trustees shall maintain and manage an experimental farm, to be known as the university farm, and shall use therefor the land heretofore acquired therefor. Their rules and by-laws shall make just and reasonable provision for manual labor on said farm by students of the university.
MA Gen L ch 75 § 23 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts|Section 23 - Purposes

Section 23. The trustees shall maintain the experiment stations heretofore authorized by law for practical demonstrations in market gardening and of experimental work in planting and growing cranberries and tobacco, and shall use therefor the land, buildings and equipment heretofore acquired therefor.
MA Gen L ch 75 § 24 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts|Section 24 - Status

Section 24. Employees of the university shall be exempt from civil service laws.
MA Gen L ch 75 § 25 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts|Section 25 - Sale of Commonwealth Land to University Employees

Section 25. Subject to section twenty-seven the trustees may sell and convey, in the name of and for the commonwealth, to any professor, instructor, teacher or employee of said university, or to any society, association or fraternity established thereat, land owned by the commonwealth in Amherst or Hadley. Not more than one acre shall be so sold and conveyed to any one such person or organization. Such conveyances shall contain necessary restrictions and conditions.
MA Gen L ch 75 § 26 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts|Section 26 - Leasing of Commonwealth Land to University Employees

Section 26. Subject to section twenty-seven the trustees may, in the name of and for the commonwealth, lease to any professor, instructor, teacher or employee of said university, or to any society, association or fraternity established thereat, land in Amherst or Hadley owned by the commonwealth, for the erection and maintenance of suitable dwellings thereon, at the sole expense of the lessee and for the lessee's use and occupancy. Not more than one half an acre shall be so leased to any one such person or organization. Such leases shall contain such written terms, conditions, restrictions and reservations as the parties agree upon.
MA Gen L ch 75 § 27 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts|Section 27 - Approvals of Sales and Leases

Section 27. No sale or conveyance under section twenty-five shall become operative until it is approved by the governor and council, and no lease under section twenty-six shall become operative until the form thereof is approved by the governor and council.
MA Gen L ch 75 § 28 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts|Section 28 - Taxation of Leased Property

Section 28. The lessee and his assignees shall be liable to taxation upon any building erected on land leased under section twenty-six to the extent of its value as determined by the assessors of the town wherein the land lies.
MA Gen L ch 75 § 29 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts|Section 29 - Protection and Maintenance of Mount Toby State Demonstration Forest

Section 29. The trustees shall protect and maintain the land owned by the commonwealth situated on or about Mount Toby, so called, in Sunderland and Leverett, known as the Mount Toby state demonstration forest.
MA Gen L ch 75 § 30 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts|Section 30 - Use; Purposes

Section 30. The trustees shall use so much of such land as they shall determine for instruction in forestry and as a laboratory for research and illustration in economic questions, and for practical work in the conservation and use of forest tracts and farm woodlots.
MA Gen L ch 75 § 32 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts|Section 32 - Travel Policy

Section 32. The trustees shall have complete authority in determining the university's travel policy provided, however, that said policy shall require coordination with the state purchasing agent to insure cost-effective utilization of the group purchasing power of the commonwealth. Such power shall include the right to determine who among university personnel should travel within and without the commonwealth at state expense and where such personnel shall travel.
MA Gen L ch 75 § 32a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts|Section 32a - Control, Movement and Parking of Motor Vehicles; Appointment of Police Officers

Section 32A. The trustees shall make rules and regulations for the control, movement and parking of vehicles on the campus of the university and on other land of the university, and may provide reasonable penalties for the violation of those rules and regulations. The trustees may appoint as police officers persons employed by the university who, in the enforcement of these rules and regulations and throughout university property shall have the powers of police officers, except as to service of civil process. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all fines and penalties recovered for violation of rules and regulations made under the authority of this section shall be accounted for by the clerk of the court and forwarded to the trustees of the university to be deposited in the scholarship trust fund of the university for scholarship purposes.  [Second paragraph effective until July 1, 2021. For text effective July 1, 2021, see below.]  Police officers appointed by the trustees of the University of Massachusetts, in connection with the operation of any part of the university within the limits of the campuses, may perform police duties under the direction of the commanding officer or the person in charge of such campus. While performing such duties within those limits, the police officers shall have the same authority, immunities and privileges as duly appointed and qualified police officers acting elsewhere in the commonwealth. Every officer who receives an appointment to a position on a full-time basis in which that person may exercise police powers for any of the campuses of the University of Massachusetts, shall, prior to exercising those police powers, be assigned to and satisfactorily complete a prescribed course of study approved by the municipal police training committee or the department of the state police.  [Second paragraph as amended by 2020, 253, Sec. 80 effective July 1, 2021. See 2020, 253, Sec. 122. For text effective until July 1, 2021, see above.]  Police officers appointed by the trustees of the University of Massachusetts, in connection with the operation of any part of the university within the limits of the campuses, may perform police duties under the direction of the commanding officer or the person in charge of such campus. While performing such duties within those limits, the police officers shall have the same authority, immunities and privileges as duly appointed and qualified police officers acting elsewhere in the commonwealth. Every officer who receives an appointment to a position on a full-time basis in which that person may exercise police powers for any of the campuses of the University of Massachusetts, shall, prior to exercising those police powers, be certified pursuant to chapter 6E.
MA Gen L ch 75 § 32b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts|Section 32b - David I. Walsh&ndash;leverett Saltonstall Visiting Lectureship Program

[Text of section added by 1972, 160, Sec. 1. See also, Section 32B added by 2014, 172, Sec. 2, below.]  Section 32B. There is hereby established the David I. Walsh–Leverett Saltonstall visiting lectureship program in practical politics and public affairs at the university. For such program the university may annually expend such sums, not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars, as may be appropriated therefor.  The president of the university and the board of trustees shall select as such visiting lecturers individuals who are both learned and experienced in practical politics and public affairs, and who possess the ability to communicate such knowledge to university students.  The duties of the visiting lecturers shall be decided upon by the president of the university and the chairmen of the departments of political science and politics.  The visiting lecturers shall be appointed for a period not to exceed one year, and they may be assigned to the university branch at Boston or Amherst for a full year, or may be assigned to either branch for one semester or less.  Chapter 75: Section 32B. Mutual aid programs for police departments; agreements between University of Massachusetts campuses and governments and municipalities [Text of section added by 2014, 172, Sec. 2. See also, Section 32B added by 1972, 160, Sec. 1, above.]  Section 32B. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, any campus of the University of Massachusetts may enter into an agreement with any subdivision of the federal or state government, town, city or other towns and cities, including towns and cities in states contiguous to the commonwealth, to provide mutual aid programs for police departments to increase the capability of such departments to protect the lives, safety and property of the people in the area designated in the agreement. The agreement may include the furnishing of personal services, supplies, materials, contractual services and equipment when the resources normally available to the University or any municipality in the agreement are not sufficient to cope with a situation which requires police action. When providing such mutual aide, police officers shall have all the immunities and powers granted to them by the University or the municipalities that employ them including, but not limited to, the same duties, authority, immunities and privileges as duly appointed and qualified police officers acting as such in the municipality.
MA Gen L ch 75 § 33 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XII - Education|Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts|Section 33 - University Scholarships

Section 33. In addition to the commonwealth scholarships authorized under section thirty-one, the University of Massachusetts may also grant quarter, half and full scholarships to be known as university scholarships to worthy and qualified students who have been residents of the commonwealth for the four years prior to enrollment at the university and are in need of financial assistance. In the awarding of said scholarships first preference shall be given to students who have enrolled in agricultural or food technological courses. Said scholarships shall be recommended by the committee on scholarships established under said section thirty-one, and shall be approved and awarded by the board of trustees of the university. Said trustees may use for the purposes of this section, such sums, not to exceed fifty thousand dollars, as may be appropriated from the Agricultural Purposes Fund, and may use the same for matching federal grants made under the National Defense Education Act of 1958, and when so used awards made shall be subject to the provisions of said act. A scholarship shall continue for such times as the recipient thereof remains a student in good standing at the university, but in no event for more than four years.