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2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts › Section 6 - Audit of Accounts

Section 6. All accounts of the university under the direction of the trustees, including the accounts of all property or funds received, held or disbursed by the trustees under any provision of section eleven, 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 75 - University of Massachusetts › Section 8 - Appropriations

Section 8. 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 the university; and such appropriations shall be made available 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 university designated by the trustees.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts › Section 10 - Receipts and Expenditures; Annual Report; Monthly Statements; Accounting System

Section 10. 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 university.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts › Section 11a - Funds for Legislative Agents or Organizations Attempting to Influence Legislation

Section 11A. The board of trustees shall not allow any funds for legislative agents as defined in section thirty-nine of chapter three or organizations attempting to influence legislation as defined in section forty-four of said chapter three to be assessed on student tuition bills; provided, however, that optional fees for nonpartisan student organizations which employ said legislative agents or attempt to influence legislation shall be collected by the boards of trustees whenever students have authorized an optional fee by a majority vote of those students voting in an official student referendum. Said optional fees shall be collected as provided in paragraph (b) of section eighteen of chapter fifteen A.
No funds collected as a mandatory student activities fee shall be paid to legislative agents as defined in section thirty-nine of said chapter three or organizations attempting to influence legislation as defined in section forty-four of said chapter three. As used in this section, the term ''legislative agent'' or ''organization attempting to influence legislation'' shall not include any official representative of the student body.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts › Section 13 - Purchases

Section 13. The board of trustees shall have the authority to make any purchase or purchases in the amount of one hundred thousand dollars or less, and to purchase without limitation of amount library books and periodicals, educational and scientific supplies and equipment, printing and binding, emergency repairs and replacement parts, and perishable items, without recourse to any other state board. Such purchases shall be subject to competitive bids wherever practicable. The board of trustees shall promulgate regulations further defining the process for the purchase of said supplies.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts › Section 14a - Prescription and Enforcement of Regulations; Contracts

Section 14A. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the trustees shall prescribe and enforce such regulations as they may deem necessary, and may enter into contracts with corporations, foundations, other entities, and individuals concerning inventions, discoveries, research, or other work product, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and any other intellectual property, developed under the terms of a sponsored agreement entered into by the university or involving the use of university funds, facilities, excluding libraries, equipment, material or time by students, research fellows, staff members, faculty or other university personnel, including the transfer of rights involving such work product, the amount of the respective shares in the proceeds therefrom, and provision for the resolution of any and all disagreements involving the same. The trustees shall also have the authority to prescribe in such regulations the circumstances under which the university, students, research fellows, staff members, faculty, and other university personnel may own equity or hold other financial interests in connection with such work product.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts › Section 14b - Campus Council

Section 14B. The trustees shall establish for each campus a council, broadly representative of the community, alumnae and students, and shall, upon recommendation of the campus president, appoint members thereto. The campus council shall advise the campus president and the trustees and make recommendations regarding said campus, and shall undertake such other activities as shall be determined by the campus president.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts › Section 15 - Reports and Bulletins

Section 15. The trustees shall annually as of the end of the fiscal year cause the president to make and publish a report for the university that shall be available to the public, copies of which shall be filed with the governor, state secretary and the general court. Special reports and bulletins may be issued from time to time as determined by the trustees.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts › Section 15a - Center for Adoption Research and Policy

Section 15A. There is hereby established the center for adoption research and policy, which shall be operated under the direction of the board of trustees of the University of Massachusetts and based at the Worcester campus. The center shall be responsible for conducting research and formulating policy recommendations for the commonwealth, its agencies and any private adoption agency on matters relating to the care and custody of children in foster and substitute care under the care and protection of the commonwealth and all adopted children.
The center shall respond to requests from the general court, the judiciary, the department of children and families, the department of early education and care and any other state or private agency involved with the placement of children into foster or substitute care homes as well as pre-adoptive or adoptive homes for consultation, research assistance, research analysis, policy development, and the promotion of educational and training programs on foster and substitute care and adoption.
The center shall maintain the confidentiality of any individual whose personal information is made available to the center pursuant to section 7 of chapter 15D, and section 5E of chapter 210, but compliance with individual confidentiality shall not prevent the publication of aggregated research information or case studies wherein personal identifiers have been removed.
State or private agencies shall forward to birth parents, foster or adoptive parents, legal guardians and others requests from the center seeking participation in center research studies, but the center shall include in such requests a clear and understandable statement explaining that individuals receiving a request are under no legal obligation to comply with any request. State or private agencies are hereby directed to consult directly with the center for the purpose of applying for public and private grants in conjunction with the center.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts › Section 16a - Diagnostic Laboratory

Section 16A. The trustees shall establish and maintain at said station a diagnostic laboratory for the purpose of the provisions of clause First of section seventeen relative to domestic animals. Experiments may be conducted at said station in co-operation with Massachusetts dairy farmers to control and eliminate the disease of mastitis. For the purpose of the collection and laboratory examination of milk samples to eliminate mastitis, in the conduct of such work, a fee as determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven for each sample tested may be charged. The director shall accept samples of milk for test collected by the department of agriculture and may accept samples from such other qualified persons as he may approve for the collection of such samples.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts › Section 17 - Experiments and Investigations; Nature and Scope

Section 17. The trustees shall cause experiments and investigations to be made at said station in the following subjects:
First, The causes, prevention and remedies of diseases of domestic animals, plants and trees;
Second, The history and habits of insects destructive to vegetation, and the means of abating them;
Third, The manufacture and composition of both foreign and domestic fertilizers, their values and adaptability to different crops and soils;
Fourth, The values, under all conditions, of forage, grain and root crops, as food for farm animals, for various purposes;
Fifth, The comparative value of green and dry forage, and the cost of producing and preserving them in the best condition;
Sixth, The adulteration of any article of food intended for the use of men or animals;
Seventh, Testing poultry to eliminate disease;
Eighth, Other subjects deemed advantageous to agriculture and horticulture in the commonwealth.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts › Section 25 - Sale of Commonwealth Land to University Employees

Section 25. Subject to section twenty-seven the trustees may sell and convey, in the name of and for the commonwealth, to any professor, instructor, teacher or employee of said university, or to any society, association or fraternity established thereat, land owned by the commonwealth in Amherst or Hadley. Not more than one acre shall be so sold and conveyed to any one such person or organization. Such conveyances shall contain necessary restrictions and conditions.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts › Section 26 - Leasing of Commonwealth Land to University Employees

Section 26. Subject to section twenty-seven the trustees may, in the name of and for the commonwealth, lease to any professor, instructor, teacher or employee of said university, or to any society, association or fraternity established thereat, land in Amherst or Hadley owned by the commonwealth, for the erection and maintenance of suitable dwellings thereon, at the sole expense of the lessee and for the lessee's use and occupancy. Not more than one half an acre shall be so leased to any one such person or organization. Such leases shall contain such written terms, conditions, restrictions and reservations as the parties agree upon.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts › Section 32 - Travel Policy

Section 32. The trustees shall have complete authority in determining the university's travel policy provided, however, that said policy shall require coordination with the state purchasing agent to insure cost-effective utilization of the group purchasing power of the commonwealth. Such power shall include the right to determine who among university personnel should travel within and without the commonwealth at state expense and where such personnel shall travel.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts › Section 32a - Control, Movement and Parking of Motor Vehicles; Appointment of Police Officers

Section 32A. The trustees shall make rules and regulations for the control, movement and parking of vehicles on the campus of the university and on other land of the university, and may provide reasonable penalties for the violation of those rules and regulations. The trustees may appoint as police officers persons employed by the university who, in the enforcement of these rules and regulations and throughout university property shall have the powers of police officers, except as to service of civil process. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all fines and penalties recovered for violation of rules and regulations made under the authority of this section shall be accounted for by the clerk of the court and forwarded to the trustees of the university to be deposited in the scholarship trust fund of the university for scholarship purposes.
Police officers appointed by the trustees of the University of Massachusetts, in connection with the operation of any part of the university within the limits of the campuses, may perform police duties under the direction of the commanding officer or the person in charge of such campus. While performing such duties within those limits, the police officers shall have the same authority, immunities and privileges as duly appointed and qualified police officers acting elsewhere in the commonwealth. Every officer who receives an appointment to a position on a full-time basis in which that person may exercise police powers for any of the campuses of the University of Massachusetts, shall, prior to exercising those police powers, be certified pursuant to chapter 6E.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts › Section 32b - David I. Walsh&ndash;leverett Saltonstall Visiting Lectureship Program

[Text of section added by 1972, 160, Sec. 1. See also, Section 32B added by 2014, 172, Sec. 2, below.]
Section 32B. There is hereby established the David I. Walsh–Leverett Saltonstall visiting lectureship program in practical politics and public affairs at the university. For such program the university may annually expend such sums, not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars, as may be appropriated therefor.
The president of the university and the board of trustees shall select as such visiting lecturers individuals who are both learned and experienced in practical politics and public affairs, and who possess the ability to communicate such knowledge to university students.
The duties of the visiting lecturers shall be decided upon by the president of the university and the chairmen of the departments of political science and politics.
The visiting lecturers shall be appointed for a period not to exceed one year, and they may be assigned to the university branch at Boston or Amherst for a full year, or may be assigned to either branch for one semester or less.
Chapter 75: Section 32B. Mutual aid programs for police departments; agreements between University of Massachusetts campuses and governments and municipalities
[Text of section added by 2014, 172, Sec. 2. See also, Section 32B added by 1972, 160, Sec. 1, above.]
Section 32B. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, any campus of the University of Massachusetts may enter into an agreement with any subdivision of the federal or state government, town, city or other towns and cities, including towns and cities in states contiguous to the commonwealth, to provide mutual aid programs for police departments to increase the capability of such departments to protect the lives, safety and property of the people in the area designated in the agreement. The agreement may include the furnishing of personal services, supplies, materials, contractual services and equipment when the resources normally available to the University or any municipality in the agreement are not sufficient to cope with a situation which requires police action. When providing such mutual aide, police officers shall have all the immunities and powers granted to them by the University or the municipalities that employ them including, but not limited to, the same duties, authority, immunities and privileges as duly appointed and qualified police officers acting as such in the municipality.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts › Section 33 - University Scholarships

Section 33. In addition to the commonwealth scholarships authorized under section thirty-one, the University of Massachusetts may also grant quarter, half and full scholarships to be known as university scholarships to worthy and qualified students who have been residents of the commonwealth for the four years prior to enrollment at the university and are in need of financial assistance. In the awarding of said scholarships first preference shall be given to students who have enrolled in agricultural or food technological courses. Said scholarships shall be recommended by the committee on scholarships established under said section thirty-one, and shall be approved and awarded by the board of trustees of the university. Said trustees may use for the purposes of this section, such sums, not to exceed fifty thousand dollars, as may be appropriated from the Agricultural Purposes Fund, and may use the same for matching federal grants made under the National Defense Education Act of 1958, and when so used awards made shall be subject to the provisions of said act. A scholarship shall continue for such times as the recipient thereof remains a student in good standing at the university, but in no event for more than four years.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts › Section 33a - General Court Fellowship Program

Section 33A. The University of Massachusetts shall administer a program to be known as the General Court Fellowship Program. Said program shall annually solicit and accept applications for fellowships from the staff of the general court. No more than five such fellowships shall be awarded in any one year. Each fellowship shall continue for as long as the recipient remains under the supervision of the University of Massachusetts and remains an employee of the general court; but in no event for more than one year. Such recipient shall spend the majority of his or her work week in the employ of the general court.
Fellowships shall be awarded to such members of the staff of the general court who are adjudged worthy and qualified candidates by a selection committee on the basis of a submitted proposal that demonstrates a potential for significant contribution to the legislative, research or administrative concerns of the general court. The selection committee shall consist of seven members, of whom three shall be representatives of said University, one the speaker of the house of representatives, or his designee, one the floor leader of the minority party in the house of representatives, or his designee, one the president of the senate, or his designee, and one the floor leader of the minority party of the senate, or his designee.
As used in this section, the term ''staff of the general court'' shall mean any legislative, research or administrative personnel, and personnel having substantially similar duties, who are employed by the general court.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts › Section 34 - University of Massachusetts Medical School; Grants

Section 34. The trustees shall maintain a medical school to be known as the University of Massachusetts medical school. Said school shall be so maintained and operated as to comply with the standards approved by nationally recognized medical associations for accredited schools of medicine.
The trustees are authorized and directed to make plans and to work with all state and federal agencies and to accept grants or matching funds that are available or may become available from the federal government or any other source, public or private, for constructing, financing, equipping, improving or expanding said medical school.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts › Section 34a - Tuition; Residents

Section 34A. If tuition for the medical school is set at a lower amount for residents of the commonwealth, a resident shall be deemed to be a person who has resided in the commonwealth for 7 consecutive years or more prior to enrollment or a person whose immediate family has resided in the commonwealth for 7 consecutive years or more prior to his enrollment.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts › Section 35 - Dean and Other Officers and Members of Professional Staff

Section 35. The trustees shall elect the dean and such other officers and members of the professional staff of the medical school as they deem necessary and shall fix their classification, title and salary within the general salary schedule, except that any such salary shall be fixed at any amount not less than the minimum salary nor more than the maximum salary shown in the said schedule; provided, however, that the trustees may establish the salary for the dean and for the heads of department without reference to the general salary schedule and salary range. The trustees shall define the duties and tenure of office of all officers and members of the professional staff. The dean, under the president of the university, shall have the administrative responsibility of carrying out the policies established by the trustees for the conduct of said school and shall administer and coordinate its affairs.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts › Section 36 - Annual Budget

Section 36. In order to provide for the maximum allowable degree of fiscal independence, the budget to be submitted with the estimates required under sections three and four of chapter twenty-nine, and the annual forecasts under section five A of said chapter twenty-nine in so far as they pertain to the medical school shall be submitted by the trustees separate from the estimates and forecasts submitted by the trustees for other parts of the university.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts › Section 36a - Cremation and Disposal of Donated Bodies

Section 36A. The University of Massachusetts medical school in Worcester may cremate the bodies of deceased persons which have been donated to said medical school and which have been used for the promotion of anatomical science, including the teaching thereof, or for any other purpose not inconsistent with chapter one hundred and thirteen, and may dispose of the ashes of such bodies by burial or other appropriate means; provided, that the remains of any bodies received pursuant to section eight of chapter one hundred and thirteen shall be subject to the terms of the donor's gift, if any.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts › Section 36b - Analysis of Drugs, Medicine, Chemicals, etc.; Law Enforcement; Report

Section 36B. The University of Massachusetts medical school shall make an analysis of any narcotic drugs, or any synthetic substitute for the same, or any preparation containing the same or any salt compound thereof, and of any poison, drug, medicine or chemical, when submitted to it by police authorities or by such incorporated charitable organizations in the commonwealth as the university shall approve; provided, however, that no such analysis shall be made if the medical school finds that such analysis is not to be used in connection with the enforcement of law; and provided further, however, that the reports of such analysis shall be forwarded to the district attorney of the appropriate district or his designee, and to other appropriate persons in accordance with the requirements of law. All operational and capital costs of this analysis shall be paid by the commonwealth, subject to appropriation.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts › Section 36c - Acquisition of or Affiliation With Certain Health Care Programs or Facilities by Trustees; Approval of Proposed Transactions; Procedures

Section 36C. (a) The trustees are hereby authorized to acquire by purchase or otherwise affiliate with, or operate physicians practices, satellite clinics, ambulatory care centers, mental health programs or facilities, health care facilities, outpatient diagnostic or treatment centers, home health care programs, long-term care facilities, rehabilitation facilities, laboratories, fitness centers, and similar health care or related programs or facilities, provided such transactions are determined by said trustees to be in the best interests of the teaching hospital or to further the educational and research mission of the medical school. If such transactions require, as incidental to them, the acquisition of an interest in real property by purchase, lease, lease-purchase or otherwise, said real property shall be considered unique for the purposes of section forty H of chapter seven, and such acquisition shall be within the exemption provided in paragraph (b).
(b) No such transaction shall be undertaken unless it is first approved by the secretary of administration and finance, subject to such conditions as the secretary may deem appropriate. At least thirty days prior to entering into any binding agreement for such transaction, the trustees shall file a statement with the secretary of administration and finance and the secretary of health and human services containing such information regarding the proposed transaction as the secretary of administration shall require. Any such proposed transaction that is approved pursuant to this paragraph, or deemed to have been approved pursuant to paragraph (c) shall be exempt from any other general or special law or regulation applicable to state agencies alone.
(c) If the secretary of administration and finance fails to send the trustees a written notice disapproving the proposed transaction stating the reasons for such disapproval within thirty days after the receipt of the trustees' statement, the proposed transaction shall be deemed to have been approved. The trustees may take such actions as they deem appropriate to cure any problems identified by said secretary and resubmit such proposals.
(d) The trustees shall cause to be filed with the secretary of administration and finance and the secretary of health and human services a copy of the operating budget of the university teaching hospital and all monthly financial statements summarizing activity within the hospital trust fund. The secretary of health and human services, or his designee, shall serve as a member of the hospital management board. Notice and minutes of all meetings of said board shall be sent to the secretary of administration and finance and the secretary of health and human services on a timely basis.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts › Section 36d - Payback Provisions in Learning Contracts; Interest Accrual; Annual Report

Section 36D. The board of trustees of the university of Massachusetts, in conjunction with the state health education center at the university of Massachusetts medical center, shall develop and implement provisions for payback in learning contracts entered into by students admitted for the academic year commencing in nineteen hundred and ninety-five and for every year thereafter, which shall require payback service, so-called, of at least four years within the commonwealth in areas of primary care, public or community service, or underserved areas as determined by the commissioner of the department of public health and the learning contract committee in coordination with the area health education center and state and regional health planning agencies. In the case of any student who has entered into a learning contract and who does not perform payback service, the difference between the tuition paid and the amount of the tuition charged shall be required to be repaid together with eight percent interest per annum; provided, however, that no payback service or tuition loan repayment shall be required prior to the termination of any internship and residency requirements; provided, further, that interest shall begin to accrue upon completion of any internship requirement. The dean shall provide, on an annual basis, a report of the number of students participating in said learning contracts, the area of medicine within which payback will be performed, and the number of students utilizing the repayment option. The report shall also outline the effects of payback in the underserved areas of the commonwealth. The first of such annual reports shall be submitted to the house and senate committees on ways and means by September first, nineteen hundred and ninety-five.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts › Section 36e - Military Service-Related Behavioral Health Conditions; Development of Continuing Education Program by University of Massachusetts Medical School

Section 36E. (a) The University of Massachusetts medical school in Worcester shall develop a continuing education program for licensed mental health professionals on military service-related behavioral health conditions.
(b) The training and curriculum for the program shall include, but not be limited to: (i) military culture and its influence on the behavioral health of service members and veterans; (ii) symptoms of deployment-related and non-deployment-related behavioral health conditions, including, but not limited to, depression, suicide, insomnia, substance use and post-traumatic stress disorder; (iii) deployment cycle stressors for students who are service members and veterans; (iv) deployment cycle stressors that impact the behavioral health of service members and veterans; (v) outreach strategies for available administrative, non-clinical and clinical services; and (vi) available resources and methods of referral for the treatment of deployment-related behavioral health conditions, including peer support.
(c) In developing the curriculum for the program, the University of Massachusetts medical school shall consult with relevant stakeholders, including, but not limited to: (i) medical professional associations; (ii) peers and other service members and veterans who have lived experience of seeking or receiving behavioral health services or treatment; and (iii) behavioral health professionals with expertise in providing culturally-competent care.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts › Section 37 - Establishment; Purpose; Contracts

Section 37. The trustees are hereby authorized and directed to establish and maintain a television center on the university campus in the town of Amherst. Said center shall be for the purpose of coordinating and implementing the production and relay of educational television programs, both closed circuit and open circuit, for the dissemination to the campus and to the people of the commonwealth, of extension and continuing educational courses, cultural programs, in-school elementary and secondary school telecasts and other educational programs, whether originating at said university or relayed by the Eastern Educational Network, Inc., or its affiliates or by any other similar educational network. Said center shall not enter into any contract for such programs with any television network which has an employee or a stockholder who is a trustee of the University of Massachusetts.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts › Section 38 - National Environmental Technology Institute

Section 38. (a) There shall be a National Environmental Technology Institute, hereinafter referred to as the institute, at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, which shall have accredited programs in engineering and public health.
(b) The purposes and responsibilities of the institute shall be to:
(1) develop and assist in the transfer of existing and new process designs.
(2) conduct research, development, and demonstration projects concerning new or modified industrial process design equipment or technologies for waste prevention that can be utilized by business, industry, and government;
(3) provide a clearinghouse for the dissemination of information and data on existing and new industrial process design technology for the commonwealth and other companies and governmental entities; and
(4) Provide expertise and assistance concerning industrial process design environmental technology to public officials responsible for establishing government policy and regulations.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts › Section 39 - Environmental Technology Testing Facility and Environmental Business Center

Section 39. (a) There shall be an environmental technology testing facility, hereinafter referred to as the facility, and an environmental business center, hereinafter referred to as the center, at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
(b) The purposes and responsibilities of the facility shall be to:
(1) cooperate closely with state and federal agencies and industry in the testing, assessing, and evaluating of innovative environmental technologies; and
(2) provide assistance and expertise to public officials responsible for the permitting of innovative environmental technologies and for establishing policy and regulations governing the permitting of such technologies.
(c) The purposes and responsibilities of the center shall be to:
(1) provide assistance and training to Massachusetts environmental business and industry in environmental business management, including technology development and commercialization, financing, and other relevant areas; and
(2) assist Massachusetts business and industry in the development of exports of environmental technologies, products, and services.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts › Section 40 - Marine Technology, Environmental, and Engineering Programs

Section 40. (a) Marine technology, environmental, and engineering programs shall be established at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
(b) The purposes and responsibilities of the marine technology, environmental, and engineering programs shall be to:
(1) promote the development of and conduct research in innovative envirotechnologies related to the marine environment; and
(2) assist and cooperate with Massachusetts business, industry, and agencies in the demonstration, transfer, and deployment of innovative marine envirotechnologies.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts › Section 41 - Center for Materials Reuse

Section 41. (a) The Chelsea center for materials reuse, administered by the center for environmentally appropriate materials at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, hereinafter referred to as the center for materials reuse, shall be established to promote the development of materials reuse technology, management, and policy.
(b) The purposes and responsibilities of the center for material reuse shall be to:
(1) serve as a focal point for the promotion of materials recycling and reuse;
(2) provide a common ground to bring together leaders and stakeholders who will benefit from and promote recycling and reuse;
(3) promote coordination among existing state, local and private materials recycling and reuse services and assist in the development of new services and enterprises that will emerge from enhanced materials recycling and reuse;
(4) provide training in recycling and reuse of materials; and
(5) assist in the development and deployment of innovative materials recycling and reuse technologies.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts › Section 42 - Funding for Environmental Programs; Administration

Section 42. No start-up or maintenance and operation funds for the entities established in sections thirty-eight to forty-one, inclusive, shall be appropriated in any fiscal year from the Toxics Use Reduction Fund established in section two K of chapter twenty-nine. Said entities may receive grants from public and private sources, may impose fees, and may collect and retain revenue from fees and grants to defray the costs of their services and programs. All monies appropriated to the entities or received through grants, contracts, fees, gifts, bequests, and other sources shall be administered by the University of Massachusetts.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts › Section 44 - Appointment of Trustees to Corporation Receiving Assets From Clinical Operations of Worcester Campus; Student Representative

Section 44. If the chancellor of the Worcester campus becomes responsible either by agreement or legislative action for appointing two or more trustees to a board of trustees of a corporation receiving assets from the clinical operations of the Worcester campus and maintaining an affiliation with said campus, the chancellor may appoint the elected student representative of the Worcester campus pursuant to section 1A as one of said trustees.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts › Section 45 - Edward J. Collins, Jr. Center for Public Management

Section 45. There shall be within the McCormack graduate school of policy and global studies at the University of Massachusetts, the Edward J. Collins, Jr. center for public management. The center shall seek to improve efficiency, effectiveness, governance, responsiveness and accountability at all levels of government, with a particular focus on local and state government. The center shall:
(1) provide high-quality, pragmatic, agile and affordable fee-for-service technical assistance and consulting on public management issues to public entities;
(2) offer practical, low-cost and customized public management training, education and professional development to public officials and aspiring public officials;
(3) collaborate with faculty and practitioners on research and initiatives that drive change in public management practices and help remove barriers for improving public management;
(4) create publicly-available resources to support public officials; and
(5) integrate public management practitioners with students and faculty at the University of Massachusetts at Boston and throughout the University of Massachusetts system in formal and informal ways that strengthen public entities, the center, the University and the world at large.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts › Section 45b - Innovation Commercialization Seed Fund

Section 45B. (a) There shall be established and set up on the books of the commonwealth an Innovation Commercialization Seed Fund into which shall be credited any appropriations designated by the general court to be credited to the fund and any monies generated for the fund through corporations or nonprofit entities. The fund shall be administered by the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center established in section 12 of chapter 40G which shall make expenditures from the fund without further appropriation to provide for an initial investment through a competitive grant program to researchers and students at the University of Massachusetts and other public and private designated research universities located in the commonwealth who have invented or developed concepts, goods or services that have commercial potential but have not reached the point of commercialization as determined by the center. The center shall determine guidelines for soliciting proposals. Not less than 50 per cent of the funds under this section shall be reserved for award over the term of each authorization or appropriation, subject to qualification, to the University of Massachusetts. Initial investment grants shall be not be over $50,000 and may be renewed not more than 2 times if necessary as determined by the center. Priority shall be given to concepts, goods or services that create jobs and concepts, goods or services in the commonwealth submitted from researchers that employ and work with students in the research and development of the concept, goods or services. Investments shall be focused on developing technologies that benefit industry sectors of strategic importance to the commonwealth, such as advanced manufacturing, advanced materials, clean energy, communications, cyber security, defense, information technology, life sciences and marine science. The fund shall be used to advance the goals of job growth creation, innovation and economic development which may include, but shall not be limited to, the construction of prototypes, testing, market research and other steps necessary to bring the invention or concept to market in the commonwealth. The fund shall be available to student-driven invention or concepts as long as the students are advised by a member of the faculty at the University of Massachusetts or other research university located in the commonwealth.
(b) The center shall annually file a report with the joint committee on higher education and the senate and house committees on ways and means detailing the grants awarded under this section not later than March 1.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts › Section 45c - Innovation Voucher Program Fund

Section 45C. (a) There shall be established and set up on the books of the commonwealth an Innovation Voucher Program Fund into which shall be credited any appropriations designated by the general court to be credited to the fund and any monies generated for the fund through corporations or nonprofit entities. The fund shall be administered by the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency established in chapter 23G, which shall make expenditures from the fund without further appropriation to provide for an investment through a voucher program to small corporations and startup companies for cost sharing use of core facilities at the University of Massachusetts to be administered by the agency. The agency shall issue regulations to establish guidelines and eligibility criteria for participating companies. Vouchers shall provide the cost of hourly or daily use or per unit rate of the core facilities. The vouchers shall be used to advance the goals of job growth creation, innovation and economic development which may include, but shall not be limited to: the construction of prototypes, testing, and market research. The Agency's regulations shall include eligibility requirements for participating companies; provided, however, that: (i) eligible companies with the full time equivalent of not more than 10 employees may receive a voucher that covers up to 75 per cent of the cost of the rate; (ii) eligible companies with the full time equivalent of 11 to 50 employees may receive a voucher for not more than 50 per cent of the cost of the rate; and (iii) companies with 51 or more employees shall not be eligible for the voucher program. Vouchers shall not exceed more than 75 per cent of the total cost of the hourly or daily use, or per unit rate, of core facilities and shall not exceed $75,000 per year for each individual company. The regulations shall lay out a process by which the University of Massachusetts campuses shall seek quarterly reimbursements from the agency for the vouchers. For the purposes of this section ''core facilities'' shall be research based hardware and software that are available at a daily or hourly rate or per unit rate for use by partners of the University of Massachusetts.
(b) The Massachusetts Development Finance Agency shall annually file a report with the house and senate chairs of the joint committee on higher education and with the clerks of the house of representatives and senate detailing the vouchers awarded under this section not later than March 1.