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MA Gen L ch 25c § 5 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 25c - Department of Telecommunications and Cable|Section 5 - Protection of Confidential and Proprietary Information During Proceedings

Section 5. Notwithstanding clause Twenty-sixth of section 7 of chapter 4 and section 10 of chapter 66, the department may protect from public disclosure trade secrets, confidential, competitively sensitive or other proprietary information provided in the course of proceedings conducted pursuant to this chapter. There shall be a presumption that the information for which such protection is sought is public information and the burden shall be upon the proponent of such protection to prove the need for such protection. Where such a need has been found to exist, the department shall protect only so much of the information as is necessary to meet such need. The commissioner shall adopt procedural regulations consistent with this section to implement this section.
MA Gen L ch 25c § 6 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 25c - Department of Telecommunications and Cable|Section 6 - Division of Telecommunications

Section 6. There shall be in the department and under the supervision and control of the commissioner a division of telecommunications. The division, subject to such supervision and control, shall perform functions that the commissioner may determine in relation to the administration, implementation, and enforcement of the department's authority over the telecommunications industry, including, but not limited to, the authority granted by chapters 25, 30A, 159 and 166. The commissioner shall annually prepare and submit to the governor and the general court, on or before the first Wednesday of November, a report of the division's activity and of the condition of the telecommunications industry within the commonwealth during the preceding fiscal year, together with recommendations which the commissioner considers necessary or desirable.
MA Gen L ch 25c § 6a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 25c - Department of Telecommunications and Cable|Section 6a - Voiceover Internet Protocol Service and Internet Protocol Enabled Service; Regulation Prohibited

Section 6A. (a) For purposes of this section, the following words shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:—  ''Internet Protocol enabled service'' or ''IP enabled service'', service, capability, functionality, or application provided using Internet Protocol, or any successor protocol, that enables an end user to send or receive a communication in Internet Protocol format or any successor format, regardless of technology; provided, however, that no service included within the definition of ''Voice over Internet Protocol service'' shall be included within this definition.  ''Voiceover internet protocol service'' or ''VoIP Service'', service that: (1) enables real time, 2–way voice communications that originate from or terminate to the user's location in internet protocol or any successor protocol; (2) uses a broadband connection from the user's location; and (3) permits users generally to receive calls that originate on the public switched telephone network and to terminate calls to the public switched telephone network.  (b) Except as set forth in subsections (c) to (f), inclusive, and notwithstanding any other general or special law to the contrary, no department, agency, commission or political subdivision of the commonwealth, shall enact, adopt or enforce, either directly or indirectly, any law, rule, regulation, ordinance, standard, order or other provision having the force or effect of law that regulates or has the effect of regulating, the entry, rates, terms or conditions of VoIP Service or IP enabled service.  (c) Subsection (b) shall not be construed to affect the authority of the attorney general to apply and enforce chapter 93A or other consumer protection laws of general applicability.  (d) Subsection (b) shall not be construed to affect, mandate or prohibit the assessment of nondiscriminatory enhanced 911 fees or telecommunications relay service fees.  (e) Subsection (b) shall not be construed to modify or affect the rights or obligations of any carrier under sections 47 USC 251 or 47 USC 252.  (f) Subsection (b) shall not be construed to affect or modify any obligations for the provision of video service by any party under applicable law.
MA Gen L ch 25c § 7 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 25c - Department of Telecommunications and Cable|Section 7 - Assessments Against Cable Television, Telephone and Telegraph Companies; Rate; Collection

Section 7. The commissioner may make an assessment against each cable television, telephone and telegraph company under the jurisdictional control of the department, based upon the intrastate operating revenues subject to the jurisdiction of the department of each such company derived from sales within the commonwealth of cable television, telephone and telegraph service, respectively, as shown in the annual report of each company to the department. These assessments shall be made at a rate not exceeding 0.2 per cent of such intrastate operating revenues, as shall be determined and certified annually by the commissioner as sufficient to reimburse the commonwealth for funds appropriated by the general court for the operation and general administration of the department, exclusive of the cost of fringe benefits as established by the secretary of administration and finance pursuant to section 5D of chapter 29, including group life and health insurance, retirement benefits, paid vacations, holidays and sick leave. The funds may be used to compensate consultants in hearings on petitions filed by companies subject to assessment under this section. Assessments made under this section may be credited to the normal operating cost of each company. Each company shall pay the amount assessed against it within 30 days after the date of the notice of assessment from the department. Such assessments shall be collected by the department and credited to the General Fund. Any funds unexpended in any fiscal year for the purposes for which such assessments were made shall be credited against the assessment to be made in the following fiscal year and the assessment in the following fiscal year shall be reduced by any such unexpended amount.
MA Gen L ch 25c § 8 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 25c - Department of Telecommunications and Cable|Section 8 - Lack of Jurisdiction Over Wireless Service; Affect on Related Regulatory and Enforcement Authority

Section 8. (a) Notwithstanding chapter 159 or any other general or special law to the contrary, the department shall have no jurisdiction, general supervision, regulation or control over wireless service, including mobile radio telephone service or radio utilities.  (b) Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect or modify:  (i) the authority of the attorney general to apply and enforce chapter 93A and other consumer protection laws of general applicability;  (ii) the authority of the department under sections 18B and 18H of chapter 6A concerning enhanced 911 service, under section 3 of chapter 40A, under section 15E of chapter 166 concerning telephone relay service and under 25A of chapter 166, concering pole attachments;  (iii) the rights and obligations of any carrier under 47 U.S.C. § 251 or 47 U.S.C. § 252;  (iv) the authority of the department to administer federal programs supported by the federal Universal Service Fund, including Lifeline and Link-up programs, the E-rate program or Connect America Fund;  (v) the obligations under state or federal law of a carrier classified as an incumbent local exchange carrier, as defined in 47 U.S.C. § 251(h), as of January 1, 2014; or  (vi) the authority of the department to receive and refer consumer complaints or to perform consumer education activities.
MA Gen L ch 25c § 9 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 25c - Department of Telecommunications and Cable|Section 9 - Facilitation of Access to Advanced Telecommunications Capability in the Commonwealth

[ Text of section added by 2021, 24, Sec. 15 effective July 1, 2021.]  Section 9. Notwithstanding sections 6A and 8 or any other general or special law to the contrary, the department shall have the powers and duties necessary to accomplish the purposes of this section. The department shall facilitate access to advanced telecommunications capability in the commonwealth, with a special interest in increasing the presence of advanced telecommunications capability across the commonwealth to: (i) promote economic development; (ii) meet the commonwealth's homeland security and emergency preparedness needs; and (iii) improve government efficiency and improve the quality of life of the residents of the commonwealth. The powers and duties of the department shall include, but not be limited to: (i) identifying areas that lack adequate advanced telecommunications capability, including where, due to geographic remoteness, sparsity of population or other considerations, private sector capital investment in advanced telecommunications facilities deployment is not sufficient to meet the present and future needs of the area; (ii) identifying the locations of advanced telecommunications capability facilities in the commonwealth; and (iii) taking other actions to fulfill the purposes of this section. The department shall work in consultation with the Massachusetts Broadband Institute, established in section 6B of chapter 40J.
MA Gen L ch 26 § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 26 - Department of Banking and Insurance|Section 2 - Commissioner of Banks

Section 2. The commissioner shall be appointed by the governor to serve for a term coterminous with that of the governor. The position of commissioner shall be classified in accordance with section forty-five of chapter thirty and the salaries shall be determined in accordance with section forty-six C of said chapter thirty and he shall devote his full time during business hours to the duties of his office. He shall not be an officer of or directly or indirectly interested in any national bank or in any bank, trust company, corporation, business or occupation that requires his official supervision, and he shall not engage in any other business. He shall give bond with sureties in the sum of twenty thousand dollars, to be approved by the state treasurer, for the faithful performance of his duties.
MA Gen L ch 26 § 3 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 26 - Department of Banking and Insurance|Section 3 - Deputy Commissioner of Banks; Deputy Commissioner and General Counsel; Assistants; Expenses; Bonds

Section 3. Subject to the approval of the governor and council, the commissioner may appoint and remove a deputy commissioner, and a deputy commissioner and general counsel. In case of a vacancy in the office of the commissioner, and during his absence or disability, the deputy commissioner shall exercise and perform the powers and duties of the office of commissioner. In case of the absence or disability of the commissioner and the deputy commissioner, the deputy commissioner and general counsel shall exercise and perform the powers and duties of the office of commissioner. The commissioner may appoint and remove such assistants as the work of the division may require. He shall be allowed necessary expenses, including those for the investigation of, and prosecution for, violation of any provision of sections ninety-six to one hundred and fourteen, inclusive, of chapter one hundred and forty, and the actual expenses incurred by him and his subordinates in traveling in the performance of official duties. The assistants shall give bonds, with sureties to be approved by the commissioner, for the faithful performance of their duties.
MA Gen L ch 26 § 3a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 26 - Department of Banking and Insurance|Section 3a - Consumer Assistance Unit

[Text of section added by 2020, 358, Sec. 12 effective July 1, 2021. See 2020, 358, Sec. 109.]  Section 3A. (a) The division of banks shall maintain a consumer assistance unit. The unit may provide assistance in response to complaints involving any person or entity that the division has authority to regulate or in other areas as the commissioner deems appropriate, which may include, but shall not be limited to, complaints and requests for assistance involving state-chartered banks and credit unions, check cashers, foreign transmittal companies, sales finance companies, mortgage lenders, brokers, originators and student loan servicers.  (b) The unit shall share information with the student loan ombudsman to assist the student loan ombudsman in fulfilling the student loan ombudsman's duties under section 35 of chapter 12.
MA Gen L ch 26 § 4 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 26 - Department of Banking and Insurance|Section 4 - Supervisor of Loan Agencies

Section 4. The commissioner of banks, with the approval of the governor and council, may appoint and remove a deputy as supervisor of loan agencies, who shall give bond in the sum of five thousand dollars, with sufficient sureties, payable to and approved by the state treasurer.
MA Gen L ch 26 § 5 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 26 - Department of Banking and Insurance|Section 5 - Board of Bank Incorporation

Section 5. There shall be a board of bank incorporation serving in the division, consisting of the state treasurer, the commissioner of banks and the commissioner of revenue.
MA Gen L ch 26 § 5a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 26 - Department of Banking and Insurance|Section 5a - Small Loans Regulatory Board

Section 5A. There shall be in the division but not subject to its control a board to be known as the small loans regulatory board, hereinafter called the board, to consist of the board of bank incorporation and two persons to be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the council, one of whom shall be a representative of organized labor. The terms of said two appointees of the governor shall run concurrently with the term of the governor. Members of the board, except elective or appointive officials of the state, shall be paid thirty-one dollars and seventy-five cents and expenses for each day spent in the performance of their duties, which, in the first instance, shall be paid by the commonwealth, but which shall be assessed against and collected from licensees under sections ninety-six to one hundred and thirteen, inclusive, of chapter one hundred and forty in proportion to the amount of loans coming within the purview of said sections which are shown as accounts receivable in the latest annual report filed with the commissioner by such licensees.
MA Gen L ch 26 § 6 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 26 - Department of Banking and Insurance|Section 6 - Commissioner of Insurance

Section 6. Upon the expiration of the term of office of a commissioner, his successor shall be appointed by the governor for a term coterminous with that of the governor, and shall serve at the pleasure of the governor. The position of commissioner shall be classified in accordance with section forty-five of chapter thirty and the salary shall be determined in accordance with section forty-six C of said chapter thirty and shall devote full time during business hours to the duties of his office. He shall give bond with sureties in the sum of ten thousand dollars, to be approved by the state treasurer, for the faithful performance of his duties.
MA Gen L ch 26 § 7 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 26 - Department of Banking and Insurance|Section 7 - Deputies and Assistants in Division of Insurance; Appointments; Duties; Hearings; Appeals to Commissioner

Section 7. The commissioner of insurance may appoint and remove, with the approval of the governor and council, a first deputy, an actuary, a research analyst, and a chief examiner and such additional deputies, examiners, assistant actuaries and inspectors as the service may require. In case of a vacancy in the office of commissioner, and during his absence or disability, the first deputy shall perform the duties of the office, or in case of the absence or disability of such first deputy, the deputy who has been longest in the service of the division. The commissioner may appoint and remove such clerical and other assistants as the work of the division may require. Such deputies, research analyst, examiners, actuaries, inspectors, clerks and other assistants shall perform such duties as the commissioner may prescribe; provided, that any person aggrieved by any finding, ruling or decision rendered upon a hearing authorized by law held before a person other than the commissioner, may, within three days, or such further period in any particular case as the commissioner may allow, after the filing of such finding, ruling or decision in the office of the commissioner, appeal therefrom to the commissioner who shall review the case and may modify, affirm or reverse such ruling, finding or decision.
MA Gen L ch 26 § 7a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 26 - Department of Banking and Insurance|Section 7a - Health Care Access Bureau; Duties; Employees; Assessment Against Carriers

Section 7A. There shall be in the division of insurance a health care access bureau overseen by a deputy commissioner for health care access, whose duties shall include, subject to the direction of the commissioner of insurance, administration of the division's statutory and regulatory authority for oversight of the small group and individual health insurance market, oversight of affordable health plans, including coverage for young adults, as well as the dissemination of appropriate information to consumers about health insurance coverage and access to affordable products. The commissioner shall appoint at least the following employees of the health care access bureau: a deputy commissioner for health access, a health care finance expert, an actuary, and a research analyst. They shall devote their full time to the duties of their office, shall be exempt from chapters 30 and 31, and shall serve at the pleasure of the commissioner. The commissioner may appoint such other employees as the bureau may require.  The commissioner may make and collect an assessment against the carriers licensed under chapters 175, 176A, 176B and 176G to pay for the expenses of the bureau. The assessment shall be at a rate sufficient to produce $600,000 annually. In addition to that amount, the assessment shall include an amount to be credited to the General Fund which shall be equal to the total amount of funds estimated by the secretary for administration and finance to be expended from the General Fund for indirect and fringe benefit costs attributable to the personnel costs of the bureau. If the commissioner fails to expend for the costs and expenses of the bureau in a fiscal year the total amount of $600,000 for the purposes set forth in this section, any amount unexpended in that fiscal year shall be credited against the assessment to be made in the following fiscal year, and the assessment in the following fiscal year shall be reduced by that unexpended amount. The assessment shall be allocated on a fair and reasonable basis among all carriers licensed under said chapters 175, 176A, 176B and 176G. The funds produced by the assessments shall be expended by the division, in addition to any other funds which may be appropriated, to assist in defraying the general operating expenses of the bureau, and may be used to compensate consultants retained by the bureau. A carrier licensed under said chapters 175, 176A, 176B and 176G shall pay the amount assessed against it within 30 days after the date of the notice of assessment from the commissioner.
MA Gen L ch 26 § 7b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth|Chapter 26 - Department of Banking and Insurance|Section 7b - Interdepartmental Service Agreement With Department of Revenue; Limitations on Transfer of Personal Information; Impact of Violations Upon Licensing of Entities to Provide Health Coverage

Section 7B. (a) For the purposes of implementing chapter 111M and section 8B of chapter 62C, the commissioner may consult with the department of revenue and may enter into an interdepartmental service agreement with the department that may include the transfer of information from statements and reports provided under said section 8B.  (b) Upon request, carriers licensed under chapters 175, 176A, 176B and 176G and the office of Medicaid shall make information available to the bureau for the purposes of chapter 111M. Such information shall be limited to the minimum amount of personal information necessary, shall not include information about diagnoses or treatments and, except for the office of Medicaid, shall not include social security numbers. The information acquired under this section shall be confidential and shall not constitute a public record.  (c) The division may consider violations of this section and said section 8B when licensing or authorizing entities to provide health coverage.