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MA Gen L ch 41 § 99f (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 41 - Officers and Employees of Cities, Towns and Districts|Section 99f - Regional Police District Commission; Membership; Officers

Section 99F. The powers, duties and liabilities of a regional police district shall be vested in and exercised by a regional police district commission organized by the boards of selectmen of the member towns. Each said board shall appoint two members of the commission within three months of the adoption of the regional police district law, for terms of such length and so arranged that the term of one appointee will expire each year, and their successors shall be appointed in a like manner for terms of two years. Vacancies shall be filled in a like manner for the unexpired term. All members shall serve without compensation but may be reimbursed for expenses actually incurred in the transaction of the business of the commission. The commission shall choose annually a chairman and a vice chairman by ballot from its membership. The vice chairman shall, in the absence of the chairman, exercise the powers and perform the duties of said chairman. It shall appoint a secretary and a treasurer who may be the same person, but who need not be members of said commission. The treasurer shall receive and take charge of all money belonging to the district, and shall pay any bill of the district which shall have been approved by the commission. The commission may appoint an assistant treasurer who need not be a member of the commission, and who shall, in the absence of the treasurer, perform his duties and shall have the powers and be subject to the requirements and penalties applicable to him. The treasurer and assistant treasurer may, by vote of said commission, be compensated for their services. The treasurer and assistant treasurer of said district shall be subject to the provisions of sections thirty-five, fifty-two and one hundred and nine A of chapter forty-one, to the extent applicable. If the office of secretary is vacant or if the secretary is absent or is unable to perform his duties because of disability, the commission may appoint a temporary secretary to hold such office and exercise the powers and perform the duties thereof until a secretary is duly appointed or the secretary who was disabled or absent resumes his duties.
MA Gen L ch 41 § 99g (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 41 - Officers and Employees of Cities, Towns and Districts|Section 99g - Budget; Apportionment; Appropriations

Section 99G. The regional police district commission shall annually determine the amounts necessary to be raised to maintain and operate the district police during the ensuing calendar year, and the amounts required for payment of debt and interest incurred by the district which will be due in said year, and shall apportion the amount so determined among the member towns in accordance with the provisions of section ninety-nine I. The amounts so apportioned for each town shall, prior to December thirty-first in each year, be certified by the regional police district treasurer to the treasurers of the member towns. Each town shall, at the next annual town meeting, appropriate the amounts so certified and the town treasurer shall pay the amount so appropriated to said district forthwith.  The treasurer of any member town of a regional police district with the approval of the board of selectmen may, during the interval between January first and the date when such town makes the annual appropriation of the amount apportioned to it as provided in the first paragraph, make payments to the regional police district from the treasury of such town from any funds available therein. Such payments shall not exceed in the aggregate one third of the amount so apportioned and shall be charged against such appropriation.  For the purpose of organizing a department as provided in section ninety-nine J, the treasurer of any member town of a regional police district with the approval of the board of selectmen may, during the interval between the establishment of the commission as provided in section ninety-nine F and the following December thirty-first, make payments to the regional police district from the treasury of such town from any funds available therein. Such payments shall not exceed three thousand dollars per member town and shall be charged against the first annual appropriation.
MA Gen L ch 41 § 99h (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 41 - Officers and Employees of Cities, Towns and Districts|Section 99h - Annual Audits

Section 99H. The director of accounts in the department of revenue shall annually cause an audit to be made of the accounts of the regional police district commission, and for this purpose he, and his duly accredited agents, shall have access to all necessary papers, books and records. Upon the completion of each audit, a report thereon shall be made to the chairman of the selectmen of each town which is a member of the district. The director shall apportion the cost among the member towns on the basis provided by section ninety-nine I, and submit the amounts of each apportionment to the state treasurer who shall issue his warrant requiring the assessors of the towns which are members of the district to assess a tax to the amount of the expense, and such amounts shall be collected and paid to the state treasurer as provided by section twenty of chapter fifty-nine.
MA Gen L ch 41 § 99i (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 41 - Officers and Employees of Cities, Towns and Districts|Section 99i - Costs and Expenses; Annual Estimates; Apportionment; Assessment of Towns

Section 99I. Said commission shall, annually not later than December first, estimate the amount of money required to pay the costs and expenses of the district for the following year and shall fix and determine the proportion of such costs and expenses to be paid by the member towns using the following formula:  Fifty per cent thereof shall be assessed upon all towns in the district in the proportion which the total equalized valuation in each said town bears to the total equalized valuation in the district. When used in this section ''equalized valuation'' shall mean the equalized valuation of the aggregate property in a town subject to local taxation, as most recently reported by the commissioner of revenue to the general court under the provisions of section ten C of chapter fifty-eight.  Twenty-five per cent thereof shall be assessed upon all towns in the district in the proportion which the number of inhabitants in each said town bears to the total number of inhabitants in the district. The number of inhabitants shall be determined in accordance with the last preceding federal census.  Twenty-five per cent thereof shall be assessed upon all towns in the district in the proportion which the total mileage of state highways and town ways in each said town, as most recently determined by the state department of highways, bears to the total mileage of state highways and town ways in the district.
MA Gen L ch 41 § 99j (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 41 - Officers and Employees of Cities, Towns and Districts|Section 99j - Regional District Police Department; Pending Prosecutions; Personnel Transfers.

Section 99J. Each regional police district commission shall organize a regional district police department, and such department shall begin operations and otherwise take effect on January first following acceptance of the provisions of the regional police district law. Each regional district police department so established shall succeed any existing town police departments, whether fully organized or not, within its district, and each such town police department shall cease to exist on December thirty-first following the acceptance of the provisions of the regional police district law. Any pending criminal prosecutions of the police of the member towns shall be assumed by the regional district police department, and all town police employees who immediately prior to the effective date of the district held positions classified under chapter thirty-one or had tenure in their positions by special act shall be transferred to the service of the district police department upon the establishment of said department; every such transfer to be without impairment of civil service status, seniority, retirement and other rights of the employee, without interruption of his service within the meaning of said chapter thirty-one or special act, and without reduction in his compensation and salary grade, notwithstanding any change in his title or duties made as a result of such transfer. Said district police department shall be considered a single town police department as that phrase is used or implied in the general laws, and all general laws applicable to town police departments shall apply to such district police departments. If a majority of towns in said district shall vote to accept the provisions of chapter thirty-one, at annual elections held therein, with respect to such district, by the method provided in section fifty-four of said chapter, the provisions of said chapter shall apply to said district. Any such district department shall be under the supervision of an officer known as the chief of police.  The chief and other police officers of all regional police districts shall have, throughout their respective districts, unless a different meaning is clearly apparent from the language or context, all the powers, duties, immunities and privileges conferred by the General Laws on chiefs and police officers of the towns.
MA Gen L ch 41 § 99k (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 41 - Officers and Employees of Cities, Towns and Districts|Section 99k - Revocation of Acceptance of Regional Police District Law; Town Elections; Ballot; Continuity of District

Section 99K. In towns using official ballots at town elections, revocation of the provisions of the regional police district law shall be by vote in answer to a question placed on the official ballot at an annual town election as hereinafter provided, and in towns not using official ballots at town elections such revocation shall be by vote at an annual town meeting. Upon the filing, with the clerk of any town using official ballots at town elections, of a petition signed either by the board of selectmen or by not less than five per cent of the total number of registered voters thereof, requesting that the question of revoking acceptance of the provisions of this law be placed upon the official ballot, the clerk shall place such question on the official ballot for the next town election occurring more than thirty days after the filing of such petition. The question to be voted on shall be:—''Shall the acceptance by the town of the provisions of sections ninety-nine B to ninety-nine K, inclusive, of chapter forty-one of the General Laws which provided for the establishment of a regional police district, together with the town (towns) of , be revoked?''  If such revocation is favored by a majority of the voters voting thereon, the acceptance of this law by such town shall be revoked and this law shall become null and void in said town beginning one year after such vote; provided, however, if any such town while a member of the district voted to accept the provisions of chapter thirty-one with respect to said district, the provisions of said chapter thirty-one shall remain in effect in said town and any person transferred to said town from the district as a result of such revocation shall be transferred without impairment of civil service status, seniority, retirement and other rights, without interruption of his service within the meaning of said chapter thirty-one and without reduction in his compensation and salary grade, notwithstanding any change in his title or duties made as a result of such transfer.  Whenever a town revokes acceptance of this law and withdraws from a regional police district said town shall remain liable for its share of any obligation of the district incurred while said town was a member of said district.  Whenever a town revokes acceptance of this law and withdraws from a regional police district and thereby breaks the contiguity required by section ninety-nine C, the remaining towns shall continue to form a district notwithstanding the absence of contiguity.
MA Gen L ch 41 § 100b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 41 - Officers and Employees of Cities, Towns and Districts|Section 100b - Indemnification of Retired Police Officers and Fire Fighters

Section 100B. Any city operating under a Plan D or Plan E charter which accepts this section by the affirmative vote of two thirds of all the members of its city council, and any other city which accepts this section by a majority vote of its city council with the approval of its mayor, and any town which accepts this section by a majority vote of its inhabitants at an annual town meeting or a special town meeting, may, upon written application by any of its police officers or fire fighters retired either before or after the acceptance of this section under a general or special law specifically relating to retirement for accidental disability, except a special law applicable to one person, or in the event of the death of any such police officer or fire fighter, upon written application by his widow or, if he leaves no widow, by his next of kin, indemnify, out of any funds appropriated for the purposes of this section, such police officer or fire fighter or, in the event of his death, his widow, or if he leaves no widow, his next of kin, for all reasonable hospital, medical and surgical, chiropractic, nursing, pharmaceutical, prosthetic and related expenses and reasonable charges for podiatry incurred by such police officer or fire fighter after his retirement; provided, however, that no person shall be indemnified under this section unless a majority of the members of a panel consisting of (a) the chairman of the retirement board of the city or town, (b) the city solicitor, town counsel or other officer having similar duties or a person designated in writing by such solicitor, counsel or officer to act for him, and (c) such physician as the city or town manager or, if there is none, the mayor or selectmen in writing appoint shall, upon receipt from the applicant of due proof, certify:—(1) that the expenses for which indemnification is sought were the natural and proximate result of the disability for which the police officer or fire fighter was retired; (2) that such expenses were incurred after the acceptance of this section; (3) that the hospital, medical and surgical, chiropractic, nursing, pharmaceutical, prosthetic and related expenses and reasonable charges for podiatry to which such expenses relate were rendered within six months before the filing of the application; (4) that such expenses were in no ways attributable to the use by the police officer or fire fighter of any intoxicating liquor or drug or to his being gainfully employed after retirement or to any other willful act or conduct on his part; and (5) that such expenses are reasonable under all the circumstances.
MA Gen L ch 41 § 100g (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 41 - Officers and Employees of Cities, Towns and Districts|Section 100g - Payment of Funeral and Burial Expenses of Fire Fighters and Police Officers Killed in Performance of Duties; Acceptance of Section

Section 100G. Any city operating under a Plan D or Plan E charter, by the affirmative vote of a majority of its city council or any other city, by a majority vote of its city council with the approval of its mayor, and any town, by a majority vote at an annual or special town meeting, shall pay the reasonable expense, not exceeding two thousand dollars, of the funeral and burial of any firefighter who while in the performance of his duty and as a result of an accident while responding to or returning from an alarm or fire or any emergency or as the result of an accident involving a fire department vehicle, which the firefighter is operating or in which he is riding or while at the scene of a fire or any emergency is killed or sustains injuries which result in his death, or of any police officer who while in the performance of his duty and as the result of an assault on his person, or a result of an accident while responding to an emergency while in the performance of his official duty or as result of an accident involving a police department vehicle which he is operating or in which he is riding is killed or sustains injuries which result in his death. The provisions of this section shall become effective in a city or town when accepted by such city or town.
MA Gen L ch 41 § 100g1/4 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 41 - Officers and Employees of Cities, Towns and Districts|Section 100g1/4 - Payment of Funeral and Burial Expenses of Firefighters and Police Officers Killed in Performance of Duties; Acceptance of Section

Section 100G1/4. A city operating under a Plan D or Plan E charter, by the affirmative vote of a majority of its city council or any other city, by a majority vote of its city council with the approval of its mayor and a town or a fire or water district, by a majority vote at an annual or special town meeting or a fire or water district meeting, shall pay the reasonable expenses, not exceeding $15,000, of the funeral and burial of: (i) a firefighter who, while in the performance of the firefighter's duty and as a result of an accident while responding to or returning from an alarm or fire or any emergency or as the result of an accident involving a fire department vehicle, which the firefighter is operating or in which the firefighter is riding or while at the scene of a fire or any emergency, is killed or sustains injuries which result in the firefighter's death; or (ii) a police officer who while in the performance of the police officer's duty and as the result of an assault on the police officer's person or a result of an accident while responding to an emergency while in the performance of the police officer's official duty or as result of an accident involving a police department vehicle which the police officer is operating or in which the police officer is riding, is killed or sustains injuries which result in the police officer's death. No payment shall be made under this section in the absence of adequate documentation that the expense has actually been incurred. This section shall become effective in a city, town or a fire or water district when accepted by the city, town or the fire or water district.  In those cities or towns which accept this section, section 100G shall not be applicable.
MA Gen L ch 41 § 100g1/2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 41 - Officers and Employees of Cities, Towns and Districts|Section 100g1/2 - Attendance by Police Officers at Police Association Executive Board Meetings; Acceptance of Section

Section 100G1/2. Members of the police department in a city, town or district may be excused from duty without loss of compensation while in attendance of meetings of the executive board of the Massachusetts police association, when such regular meetings are held during the regular tour of duty of such member. The provisions of this section shall become effective in a city or town when accepted by such city or town and in a district when accepted by a majority of the towns comprising such district.
MA Gen L ch 41 § 100h (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 41 - Officers and Employees of Cities, Towns and Districts|Section 100h - Indemnification of Law Enforcement Officers for Dogs Used in Connection With Official Duties

Section 100H. If an action is brought against a law enforcement officer because of damage caused by a dog which said officer was caring for or maintaining in connection with his official duties, the political subdivision employing said officer shall indemnify him for expenses or damages incurred in the settlement or defense of such action; provided that in the case of an officer employed by a city or town such settlement or defense shall have been made by the city solicitor or town counsel or by an attorney legally employed for the purpose by a city or town.
MA Gen L ch 41 § 101 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 41 - Officers and Employees of Cities, Towns and Districts|Section 101 - Commissioner of Public Safety; Powers and Duties

Section 101. If a town so votes under section twenty-one the selectmen shall appoint a suitable person as chief of the police and fire departments who may be designated as commissioner of public safety. He shall have authority, subject to the approval of the selectmen, to appoint a deputy as chief of the police and one or more deputy chiefs of the fire department. He shall have all the authority of constables and police officers in towns and also the powers and duties of fire engineers, and, subject to the approval of the selectmen, shall fix the compensation of police officers and permanent and call members of the fire department. Such compensation shall not exceed, however, in the aggregate the amount appropriated therefor by the town. The deputy chiefs of the fire department shall under him have the powers of fire engineers relative to the extinguishing of fires in the town and the protection of life and property in case of fire.
MA Gen L ch 41 § 101a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 41 - Officers and Employees of Cities, Towns and Districts|Section 101a - Police Officers or Firefighters; Tobacco Smoking

Section 101A. Subsequent to January first, nineteen hundred and eighty-eight, no person who smokes any tobacco product shall be eligible for appointment as a police officer or firefighter in a city or town and no person so appointed after said date shall continue in such office or position if such person thereafter smokes any tobacco products; provided, however, that prior to the termination of a police officer or firefighter for a violation of this section, the police officer or firefighter shall be provided with an opportunity to enter a smoking cessation program; provided further, that a subsequent violation may be cause for dismissal. The personnel administrator shall promulgate regulations for the implementation of this section.
MA Gen L ch 41 § 102 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 41 - Officers and Employees of Cities, Towns and Districts|Section 102 - Inspector of Health

Section 102. If a town votes under section twenty-one to have its selectmen act as a board of health, the selectmen may appoint an inspector of health, who shall assist the selectmen in the performance of their duties as such board.