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2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 71b - Children With Special Needs › Section 8 - Transportation to and From School; Reimbursement to Parents

Section 8. If a school age child with a disability attends a school approved by the department within or without the city or town of residence of the parent or guardian, the school committee of the town where the child resides may be required by the department to provide transportation once each day including weekends where applicable to and from such school while the child is in attendance. The city or town providing transportation under this section shall be reimbursed according to the provisions of section fourteen.
A school committee may adopt a program to reimburse parents who voluntarily choose to transport their disabled child to a school approved by the department that is located outside of the city or town of residence of the parent or guardian. The reimbursement program may utilize rates in excess of the standard state mileage reimbursement amounts and may be based on a mileage, daily or weekly rate. Committees choosing to utilize this option shall be able to demonstrate that parental reimbursements represent a cost savings compared to other modes of available transportation. An eligible parent shall not be required to participate in the program.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 71b - Children With Special Needs › Section 9 - Department to Define Circumstances Requiring Special Education Programs and to Provide Standards

Section 9. The department, after consultation with the departments of mental health, developmental services and public health, shall define the circumstances in which school committees may be required to provide special classes, instruction periods or other special education programs for school age children with a disability and shall provide standards for class size, curriculum, personnel and other aspects of special education for such children.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 71b - Children With Special Needs › Section 9a - Workshop Curriculum; Parent Advisory Committee

Section 9A. The department of education shall provide a workshop curriculum on the rights of students, their parents and guardians under the special education laws of the commonwealth and the federal government to each school district in the commonwealth to be used by such school districts in conducting the workshops required by section 1C of chapter 71. The department of education shall establish a Parent Advisory Committee to assist and advise in developing said workshop curriculum. The Parent Advisory Committee shall consist of representatives from the Federation for Children with Special Needs, the Massachusetts Association of Parent Advisory Councils, the Parent Professional Advocacy League, the Disability Law Center, and the Massachusetts Advocacy Center.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 71b - Children With Special Needs › Section 12a - Definitions Applicable to Secs. 12a to 12c

Section 12A. For the purposes of sections twelve A to twelve C, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meanings:
''Disabled person'', a person who is unable to engage in substantial gainful activity by reason of medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or be of at least twelve months' duration; provided, however, that such impairment is of such severity that such individual is unable to do his previous work, if any, and, considering his age, education, and work experience, cannot engage in substantial gainful activity.
''Education authority'', the school committee or other education provider responsible for the provision of special education pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
''Habilitative services'', services directed toward the alleviation of limitations on major life activities of a disabled person, including diagnosis, evaluation, treatment, personal care, daycare, respite care, home care, residential care, group care in a community residence, special living arrangements, training, education, sheltered employment, supported work, recreation, counseling, protective and social services, legal services, information and referral services, and transportation services.
''Major life activity'', self-care, including personal hygiene, dressing and eating; communication and language skills, including reception and expression; learning; mobility; capacity for independent living; and economic self-sufficiency.
''Substantial gainful activity'', the performance of a task for at least twenty hours per week for which a disabled person receives compensation either in currency or in-kind; provided, however, that such activity shall not include sheltered workshops, supported work, occupational therapy or any other work activity supported by the federal, state, or local governments for the purpose of assisting such disabled person to participate in such activity.
''Transitional plan'', a plan for a program of habilitative services for disabled person whose entitlement to services under special education programs has terminated or will terminate as a result of such person's graduation from high school or attainment of age twenty-two.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 71b - Children With Special Needs › Section 12b - Bureau of Transitional Planning; Transitional Advisory Committee; Establishment

Section 12B. There shall be within the executive office of human services a bureau of transitional planning. There is also hereby established within the executive office of human services a committee, to be known as the transitional advisory committee, which shall meet on a regular and periodic basis for the purpose of reviewing and approving transitional plans for disabled persons whose entitlement to services under special education programs has terminated or will terminate within two years. The committee shall consist of the secretary of the executive office of human services who shall be chairman, or his designee, and one representative from each of the following agencies: the executive office of labor and workforce development, the department of mental health, the department of developmental services, the department of children and families, the department of transitional assistance, the department of public health, the Massachusetts rehabilitation commission, the Massachusetts office of deafness, the Massachusetts commission for the blind and the department of education. Said representatives shall be designated by the executive secretary, commissioner or department head whose agency they shall represent. The committee shall adopt rules and procedures governing its proceedings. Members of the committee shall not be compensated for service on said committee.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 71b - Children With Special Needs › Section 16 - Students With Disabilities; Participation in High School Graduation Ceremonies and Activities Without Award of High School Diploma

Section 16. A school age child with a disability, in this section called a student, who is completing the twelfth grade but who has not yet earned the competency determination as required under section 1D of chapter 69 for high school graduation, shall be allowed to participate fully in high school graduation ceremonies and activities conducted or sponsored by the school or school committee even though the student will not receive a diploma during the ceremony if:—
(a) The student has maintained at least a 95 per cent attendance level, meaning no more than 9 days of absence from school in a 180 day school year, during the school year before the twelfth grade, but, a student's absence from school due to disability, illness, religious observance or other reason that constitutes an excused absence under the school's or school committee's rules shall not be counted for purposes of this section;
(b) The student has taken the grade 10 MCAS examination in each subject area in which the student did not achieve a passing score at least 3 times, or has participated in the MCAS alternate assessment by submitting at least 2 portfolios; and
(c) The student is in good standing, having met all of the school's or school committee's nonacademic standards for students to be eligible to participate in graduation ceremonies and related school activities.
Nothing in this section shall compel a student to participate in the high school graduation ceremony and activities. The superintendent shall consider the recommendation, if any, of the student's individualized education program team as well as the student's own expressed preference. A student's participation in the high school graduation ceremony and activities without award of the high school diploma shall not affect or limit the student's eligibility for special education services.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 72 - School Registers and Returns › Section 1 - Distribution of Forms

Section 1. The commissioner of education shall prepare and send forms for the registration of minors required by section two, the school registers, blank forms for school returns required by section three, and the annual report of the department of education, as soon as ready for distribution, to the superintendent of schools of each town, who shall, on receipt thereof, deliver them to the several persons charged with duties in connection therewith, and send to the commissioner a list of the private schools in such town and the names of their principals. If said superintendent does not receive said forms on or before July fifth, he shall forthwith notify the commissioner who shall thereupon transmit them to him. The commissioner shall also send the report of the department to the chairman of each school committee.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 72 - School Registers and Returns › Section 2 - Registration of Children; Reports

Section 2. The school committee of each town shall ascertain and record the names, ages and such other information as may be required by the department of education, of all minors residing therein between five and sixteen, and of all minors over sixteen who do not meet the requirements for the completion of the sixth grade of the public schools of the town where he resides. The school committee of each town shall also ascertain the number of pupils, regardless of age, whose parents or guardians are residents of the town and who are enrolled for full-time attendance, in kindergarten and grades up to and including grade twelve, in public and vocational schools and classes in the commonwealth and nonpublic schools anywhere. Whoever, in control of any such minor, withholds information sought by a school committee or its agents under this section or makes a false statement relative thereto, shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars. Supervisors of attendance, under the direction of the committee and superintendent of schools, shall have charge of the records required by this section, shall be responsible for their completeness and accuracy, and shall receive the co-operation of principals, teachers and supervisory officers in the discharge of their duties hereunder. A card, as prescribed by the department, shall be kept for every child whose name is recorded hereunder. Supervisors of attendance shall compare the names of children enrolled in the public and private schools with the names of those recorded as required herein, and examine carefully into all cases where children of school age are not enrolled in, and attending school, as required by section one of chapter seventy-six.
The annual school committee report shall set forth the number of children recorded as herein required, classified by ages, together with the number attending public or private schools, and the number not attending school, in any given year.
The supervisory officers of all private schools shall, within thirty days after the enrollment or registration of any child of compulsory school age, report his name, age and residence to the superintendent of schools of the town where the child resides; and whenever a child withdraws from a private school, such officers shall, within ten days, notify said superintendent.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 72 - School Registers and Returns › Section 2a - Annual Reports of Superintendents of Schools; Contents

Section 2A. The superintendent of schools of each town shall file annually on or before May first with the commissioner of education, on forms provided by the department of education, a sworn statement reporting the number of pupils whose parents or guardians were residents of the town and who were enrolled on the preceding January first for full-time attendance in the following schools and classes, respectively, including kindergarten and grades one through twelve:—
First.
Pupils in schools and classes in the town under the control of the school committee, excluding pupils in schools and classes of regional school districts.
Second.
Pupils in schools and classes of a regional school district which includes the town.
Third.
Pupils in schools and classes elsewhere in the commonwealth under the control of school committees.
Fourth.
Pupils in vocational schools and classes in the town under the control of the local trustees of vocational education, excluding pupils in vocational schools and classes under the control of district trustees for vocational education.
Fifth.
Pupils in vocational schools and classes under the control of district trustees for vocational education in a district which includes the town.
Sixth.
Pupils in vocational or other schools and classes elsewhere in the commonwealth which are supported by public funds.
Seventh.
Pupils in nonpublic schools anywhere. Such information shall be collected during the months of January and February.
Before filing said statement, the superintendent shall submit it to the chairman of the school committee, who shall countersign it on oath, if after examination, he finds it correct.
In any city or town wherein a twelve-month school year has been adopted, the enrollment on the preceding January first, as aforesaid, shall include all of said pupils attending public schools, notwithstanding that their actual date of enrollment is subsequent to said January first.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 72 - School Registers and Returns › Section 3 - School Returns; Contents

Section 3. The superintendent of schools shall annually on or before September fifteenth transmit the school returns to the commissioner, signed and sworn to by him, containing the following information together with any other information required by the commissioner in accordance with section one of chapter sixty-nine:—
First.
The average daily membership of the public and vocational schools of the town for the school year last preceding the date of said certificate as determined under section eight.
Second.
The amount of money raised by taxation by the town and expended during the fiscal year last preceding said date for the support of public schools, including the wages of teachers, and transportation of children, or board in place thereof, fuel, the care of fires, schoolrooms and school premises, repairs, supervision, textbooks and supplies, and school sundries or incidentals, but excluding alterations of school buildings, other than repairs, and construction of schoolhouses and contributions for, and reimbursements on account of, the support of public schools from the commonwealth or from other sources than local taxation; and the total expenditures, classified, for the public schools during the school year last preceding said date.
Third.
That the town has maintained during the school year last preceding the said date each of its schools, as required by section one of chapter seventy-one, for a period of not less than one hundred and eighty days, or for what shorter period one or more schools have been maintained, if specifically exempted by the department.
Fourth.
That the town has, during said school year, complied with said chapter seventy-one in the matter of school instruction, and the number of days schools were in session.
Before filing said school returns, the superintendent shall submit them to the chairman of the school committee, who shall countersign them on oath, if, after examination, he finds them correct.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 72 - School Registers and Returns › Section 4 - Report of Condition of Schools

Section 4. The committee shall annually make a detailed report of the condition of the public schools, containing such statements or suggestions relative thereto as it considers necessary or proper. It shall cause said report to be printed, for the use of the inhabitants, in octavo, pamphlet form, of the size of the annual reports of the department. The superintendent of schools shall transmit two copies thereof to the commissioner on or before April thirtieth, and shall deposit one copy in the office of the town clerk.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 72 - School Registers and Returns › Section 5 - Procedure on Failure to File Reports or Returns; Irregular Returns

Section 5. If a superintendent of schools fails, within the prescribed time, to make both the returns and the report required by law, the commissioner shall forthwith notify the chairman of the school committee thereof, and he shall immediately transmit the same to him. If a return is found to be irregular or incorrect, the commissioner shall forthwith return it for correction, with a statement of all deficiencies therein, to the committee or its agent, who shall promptly correct and return it.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 72 - School Registers and Returns › Section 6 - Extension of Time to File Reports and Returns; Penalties for Failure to File

Section 6. A town may request and receive an extension of time for submission of its report and returns from the commissioner for cause.
Any town which has not received an extension of time and whose report and returns are not received by the commissioner on or before September thirtieth shall be subject to such penalties as may be established by the board of education under regulations adopted by it under chapter thirty A of the General Laws. Such penalties may include, but not be limited to, forfeiture by such town of part or all of the amount to be distributed to it by the state treasurer under chapter seventy.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 72 - School Registers and Returns › Section 8 - School Registers; Maintenance and Use

Section 8. The school committee shall cause the registers of daily attendance to be faithfully kept under the direction of the superintendent who shall make due return thereof to the school committee or to such person as it may designate. All registers shall be kept at the schools, and at all times during school hours shall be open to the inspection of the committee, the superintendent, supervisors of attendance, and the commissioner and agents of the department. In computing the average daily membership a pupil's name shall be omitted only when it is known that he has withdrawn from the school without intention of returning. A pupil who is not present during at least half of a session shall be marked and counted as absent for that session.
The use of automation equipment in keeping such registers may be used, with the approval of the department of education.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 72 - School Registers and Returns › Section 9 - Copies of Report to Be Filed With Chief Executive Officers of Cities or Towns

Section 9. A copy of each report filed with the commissioner of education under this chapter shall also be filed at the same time with the chief executive officer of the city or town, but in the case of a regional school district with the chief executive officers of all the member cities and towns.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 73 - State Colleges and Community Colleges › Section 1a - Fees for Tuition, Room and Board

Section 1A. The board of trustees shall fix the amount of tuition fee to be paid by each student at any of the state universities; provided, however, that said board shall in no case fix the tuition fee for full tuition during the school year at less than one hundred dollars; provided, further, that tuition fees charged to veterans, and fixed by the veterans administration pursuant to law, shall not be included within such authority and limitation. Said board shall, furthermore, charge any pupil at any of the aforesaid state universities maintaining a dormitory and boarding hall a reasonable charge for room and board at a rate not less than four hundred and twenty dollars per year.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 73 - State Colleges and Community Colleges › Section 1b - Student Activity Fee

Section 1B. The board of trustees may fix the amount of student activity fee to be paid by each student at any of the state universities. All receipts from student activities shall be retained by the president of the state university in a revolving fund or revolving funds, and shall be expended as the president of the state university may direct in furthering the activities from which the fees and receipts were derived; provided that the foregoing shall not authorize any action in contravention of the requirements of section one of Article LXIII of the amendments to the Constitution. Such a fund shall be subject to an audit by the state auditor, in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards, as often as the state auditor determines is necessary.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 73 - State Colleges and Community Colleges › Section 1e - Branch Banks on Grounds of Universities Authorized

Section 1E. Notwithstanding any contrary provisions of law, the board of bank incorporation or the commissioner of banks is hereby authorized to allow a bank, as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and sixty-seven, to establish and maintain a branch on the grounds of any state university in the commonwealth, provided that the board of trustees of said state universities shall determine the method and terms of the lease if applicable or rental thereof.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 73 - State Colleges and Community Colleges › Section 1f - Funds for Legislative Agents or Organizations Attempting to Influence Legislation

Section 1F. 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 organizations which employ said legislative agents or attempt to influence legislation shall be collected by the board of trustees whenever students have authorized an optional fee by a majority vote of those students voting in an official student referendum. Said optional fee shall be collected as provided in paragraph (b) of section eighteen or 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.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 73 - State Colleges and Community Colleges › Section 3 - Agreement for Practice Teaching

Section 3. The city of Boston may, and the cities of North Adams, Fitchburg and Lowell and the town of Barnstable shall, acting by their respective school committees, each make written agreements with the board of trustees to provide suitable and sufficient school buildings and model and practice schools in connection with the training departments of state universities therein. The board of trustees may, if requested by towns near state universities, make written agreements with such towns for the maintenance of practice schools therein in connection with such state universities, and may provide for the payment of part of the compensation of supervising teachers employed in such practice schools. This section shall not prevent the establishment and maintenance of model, practice, or training schools in connection with state universities, with or without the co-operation of local school authorities. All moneys payable by towns under such agreements shall be held upon a trust or trusts and disbursed at the direction of the board of trustees of the institution that is party to such agreement.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 73 - State Colleges and Community Colleges › Section 4a - Leaves of Absence

Section 4A. A faculty member in a state university who has served as such for at least 6 years or, if a leave of absence has previously been granted to such faculty member, 6 years after the termination of the last such leave or after the date such leave would have been completed but for a deferral of the leave, may, upon written recommendation of the president of the university where the faculty member is employed, be granted by the board of trustees of the state university a leave of absence for study and research for a period of 1 year at 1/2 pay or for a period of a 1/2 year at full pay. Prior to granting such leave, the faculty member shall enter into a written agreement with the board of trustees stating that upon the termination of such leave the faculty member shall return to serve as a faculty member in the same or another state university for a period equal to twice the length of such leave; provided, that if the faculty member fails to complete that service, the faculty member shall refund to the commonwealth, unless excused by the board of trustees for reasons satisfactory to the board, an amount equal to the proportion of the salary received by the faculty member while on leave minus the amount for service not actually rendered as agreed. For the purposes of this section, service in a state college, including The Teachers College of the City of Boston, shall be deemed to have been service in a state university.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 73 - State Colleges and Community Colleges › Section 4b - Teachers; Employment and Dismissal

Section 4B. The board of trustees, in electing a teacher in a state university who has served as such for the three previous consecutive school years, shall employ him to serve at its discretion, and notwithstanding any contrary provision of general or special laws, he shall not be dismissed from such employment except for just cause and for reasons specifically given him in writing by the said board. Before any such removal is effected, the said teacher, upon his request, shall be given a full hearing before said board, of which hearing he shall have at least thirty days written notice from said board, and he shall be allowed to answer charges preferred against him, either personally or by counsel.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 73 - State Colleges and Community Colleges › Section 10 - Audit

Section 10. All accounts of the state universities and community colleges under the direction of the trustees including the accounts of all property or funds received, held or disbursed under any provision of section fourteen and all accounts of any person doing business as a bookstore on property of a state university or community college shall be audited by the state auditor, in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards, as often as the state auditor determines is necessary.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 73 - State Colleges and Community Colleges › Section 12 - Annual Appropriation

Section 12. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the general court shall annually appropriate such sums as it deems necessary for the maintenance, operation and support of each state university; and such appropriations shall be made available to each state university by the appropriate state officials for expenditure through allotment, transfer within and among subsidiary accounts, advances from the state treasury in accordance with the provisions of sections twenty-four, twenty-five and twenty-six of chapter twenty-nine, or for disbursement on certification to the state comptroller in accordance with the provisions of section eighteen of said chapter twenty-nine as may from time to time be directed by the trustees or an officer of the division designated by the trustees.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 73 - State Colleges and Community Colleges › Section 13 - Financial Report; Accounting System

Section 13. A complete financial report covering all receipts and expenditures shall be made annually to the governor and the general court. Monthly statements of receipts and expenditures shall be made to the state comptroller. The trustees shall see that there is maintained an accounting system as required by the state comptroller and the trustees may maintain such additional accounts as they deem necessary for the management of the state universities.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 73 - State Colleges and Community Colleges › Section 14 - Special Trusts, etc.; Management

Section 14. The trustees shall administer property held in accordance with special trusts, and shall also administer grants or devises of land and gifts or bequests of personal property made to the commonwealth for the use of a state university, and execute said trusts, investing the proceeds thereof in notes or bonds secured by sufficient mortgages or other securities. The trustees shall have the authority to assent to federal laws designed to benefit the state universities and to enter into agreements or contracts with the federal government or agencies thereof, as well as into agreements or contracts with agencies of other governments, other colleges and universities, foundations, corporations, interstate compact agencies and individuals where such agreements or contracts, in the judgment of the trustees, will promote the objectives of the state universities. The trustees may, from time to time, establish and manage trust funds for self-amortizing projects and self-supporting activities including, but not limited to, the operation of the boarding halls, student health service, research institutes and foundations, dormitories and student and faculty apartments. All income received from such projects or activities shall be held in trust by the trustees and expended for the purpose for which the trust fund was established. The trustees may, for the purposes of this section, group together several or more projects and activities into one or more funds as is, in their judgment, required to best effectuate the purposes of the projects and activities and the purposes of the state universities. Any unrestricted balances remaining in a trust fund upon its termination shall be used as directed by the trustees for the general purposes of the state universities.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 73 - State Colleges and Community Colleges › Section 15 - Purchases

Section 15. Notwithstanding any other provision of law of the contrary, the trustees or officers of a state university designated by them shall have the authority to make any purchase or purchases in the amount of five hundred 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, bureau, department or commission; provided, that in so doing the university shall follow modern methods of purchasing and shall, wherever practicable, invite competitive bids. Except as herein provided, the state purchasing agent shall on the certification of availability of funds purchase all items specified on requisitions submitted to him by such university; provided, that the university shall have the right to review all bids received on university requisitions and to make binding recommendation on the award of the contract based on the judgment of the university as to which of the bids best meet the university's specifications on which the bids were received.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 73 - State Colleges and Community Colleges › Section 17 - Travel Policy

Section 17. The trustees shall have complete authority in determining the travel policy of a state university; 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. They shall determine which of the personnel of such university may travel within and without the commonwealth at state expense and where such personnel may travel.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 73 - State Colleges and Community Colleges › Section 18 - Control, Movement and Parking of Motor Vehicles

Section 18. The trustees shall make rules and regulations for the control, movement and parking of vehicles on the campus or other land of a state university and may provide reasonable penalties for the violation of said rules and regulations. The trustees may appoint as police officers persons in the employ of such university who in the enforcement of said rules and regulations and throughout the property of such university 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 authority of this section shall be accounted for by the clerk of the court and forwarded to the trustees of the division of state universities who shall deposit the same in the scholarship trust fund of such university for scholarship purposes.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 73 - State Colleges and Community Colleges › Section 20 - University Education for Police Officers and Firefighters

Section 20. A state university shall admit as a candidate for a four year degree any person who is a regular member of the police department or fire department of a city or town of the commonwealth within commuting distance of the university, who is recommended by his superior officers and demonstrates sufficient capacity in a competitive admissions examination. A police officer or firefighter who is so admitted shall, while enrolled as a student in good standing at such university, have his tuition paid by the commonwealth. While so enrolled, the city or town by whom he is employed shall pay him his full weekly salary during the thirty-two weeks of each university year; provided, he is enrolled for sixteen semester hours of instruction, works twenty-four hours a week on regular duty as a police officer or firefighter, as the case may be, in said city or town and during university vacation period works his regular weekly tour of duty in his department. Each police officer and firefighter who enrolls at a state university under the provisions of this section shall sign an agreement that he shall remain in full time employment as a police officer or firefighter, as the case may be, in such city or town after he completes such university work for as many years as he has been aided by such city or town under this section.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 2 - Commissioner of Education; Powers and Duties Regarding Vocational-Technical Education

Section 2. The commissioner, under the direction of the state board, shall investigate and promote vocational-technical schools, and initiate and superintend the establishment of schools for the aforesaid form of education and shall supervise and approve such schools as provided in sections one to thirty-seven, inclusive.
The commissioner, under the direction of the state board, shall approve or disapprove vocational-technical programs in accordance with regulations published by the board; provided, however, that said regulations shall more heavily favor an outcome-oriented approach for approval of such programs over a quantitative approach which solely measures time spent on lab instruction; provided, further, that said regulations shall consider a program's intention to integrate vocational and academic instruction and to train students in all aspects of a chosen industry.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 2a - Outside Work Projects of Students; Rules and Regulations

Section 2A. The commissioner shall establish rules and regulations to promote the employment of vocational-technical students during their studies by the city or town in which said students attend school, or in the case of a regional or county agricultural school district, the cities and towns comprising said district. Students shall not be permitted to perform work on projects which are outside such city or town unless said projects have exceptional value as determined by the commissioner.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 2b - Construction Program Students; Low Income Housing

Section 2B. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, a city or town may provide for the construction of one and two family dwellings for persons of low income, by students in vocational-technical schools enrolled in construction programs.
No such construction shall be undertaken without the prior approval of the division of occupational education and in a city with the prior approval of the mayor and council or in a town with the prior approval of the town council, or if there is no town council, with the approval of the town meeting and board of selectmen.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 4 - Establishment by Districts

Section 4. Independent vocational-technical schools may be established and maintained by districts composed of two or more towns, through boards to be known as district trustees for vocational-technical education, consisting either of the chairman and two other members of the school committees of each town, to be appointed by such committees, or of three residents of each, to be elected by the town. Pursuant to section 21 of chapter 15A, 1 member of said board shall be designated by the district trustees to serve as a non-voting member of the board of trustees for any community college that shares the same geographic region as the independent vocational-technical school. The designated member shall serve as a liaison between the 2 boards for the purposes of sharing information and developing policies that will promote greater interaction between the vocational-technical school and the community college while maximizing the educational resources available to individuals seeking to learn a trade or develop targeted employment skills.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 5 - District Trustees; Powers and Duties

Section 5. District trustees under the preceding section shall adopt, for one year or more, plans or organization, administration and support of such schools, which shall be binding on the towns made parties thereto, and shall not be altered or annulled except by two-thirds votes of such trustees, with the consent of the commissioner under the direction of the state board.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 5a - Establishment of Vocational-Technical Schools by Regional School Districts

Section 5A. Independent vocational-technical schools may be established under sections fourteen and fifteen of chapter seventy-one, if the agreement for the establishment of the regional school district, either as originally adopted or as subsequently amended, so provides, and for that purpose the regional district school committee shall have the powers and perform the duties conferred or imposed by law upon local trustees for vocational-technical education, and may be known as a board of regional school district trustees for vocational-technical education.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 5b - Vocational-Technical Education Collaboratives

Section 5B. Regional school districts or cities and towns which are not members of vocational-technical regional school districts, may through educational collaboratives formed under the provisions of section four E of chapter forty, conduct vocational-technical education programs approved under the provision of this chapter.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 6 - Advisory Committees

Section 6. Each school district, county agricultural school, collaborative or municipality operating an approved vocational-technical program shall, under a plan approved by the commissioner under the direction of the state board, appoint advisory committees composed of representatives of local business and industry related to the program, organized labor, parents and students, which shall consult with and advise the trustees and other school officials managing and supervising such schools.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 7 - Admission of Non-Resident Pupils

Section 7. Residents of towns in the commonwealth not maintaining approved independent distributive occupations, industrial, agricultural, vocational home economics and allied health occupations training schools offering the type of education desired, or children placed in such a town by the commissioner of children and families or by the trustees of the Massachusetts training schools, may, upon the approval of the commissioner under the direction of the state board, be admitted to a school in another town. In making his decision, the commissioner under the direction of the state board shall take into consideration the opportunities for free vocational training where the applicant resides, the financial status of such place, the age, preparation, aptitude and previous record of the applicant, and other relevant circumstances.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 7a - Pupils Placed in Schools by Department of Children and Families; Tuition

Section 7A. For the tuition in an approved vocational-technical program of any regional or county agricultural school district, city, town, independent school or collaborative of any pupil placed in such school by the department of children and families, the commonwealth or the city of Boston, as the case may be, shall pay to said school the tuition fee established by the commissioner under the direction of the state board.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 7b - Apprenticeship Program

Section 7B. An apprentice, as defined in section eleven H of chapter twenty-three shall, upon the concurrence of the commissioner of labor and industries, be approved by the commissioner under the direction of the state board for related vocational-technical training in any city, town, regional district or independent school, regardless of residential qualification. Related classes for an approved apprenticeship program shall be conducted in a single school system, unless the commissioner, in agreement with the commissioner of labor and industries, determines that it would be in the best interest of said program to conduct such classes in more than one such school system.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 7c - Persons Admitted to School in Town Other Than Resident Town; Payment of Tuition

Section 7C. Notwithstanding the provisions of section twenty-seven C of chapter twenty-nine, or of any other general or special law to the contrary, a town where a person resides who is admitted to the school of another town under section seven shall pay a tuition fee to be fixed by the commissioner under the direction of the state board, and in default of payment shall be liable therefor in contract to such other town. If an approved vocational school established by a regional school district or a public independent vocational school accepts a student who resides in a town, other than a member town of said district, which does not maintain such a vocational school, the town in which such student resides shall pay a tuition fee to be fixed by the regional district school committee or by the board of trustees of a public independent vocational school and approved by the commissioner under the direction of the state board; provided, however, that a town shall not be required to pay any portion of the tuition of any student residing therein who is enrolled in a post-secondary vocational program.
Tuition shall be paid in two equal installments in each school year of attendance, one in January and one in June, or on a pro-rated monthly basis if a nonresident student fails to apply for his first year of admission on or before April first of the preceding school year. The commissioner may direct that the resident community's tuition payment for said first year be paid in full in July of the fiscal year after the student completes his first year of nonresident attendance including the penalties that the commissioner may determine.
No tuition shall be payable under this section with respect to a student who has satisfactorily complete the twelfth grade or courses equivalent thereto and whose personal income exceeds eighteen thousand dollars, said amount to be adjusted periodically as recommended by the commissioner of education.