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2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 8a - Transportation of Students

Section 8A. A municipality, wherein a person resides who is admitted to a day school in another municipality under section 7, shall, through its school committee, when necessary, provide for the transportation of such person, and shall, subject to appropriation, be entitled to state reimbursement to the full extent of the amount so expended; provided, that such a municipality wherein a person is placed by the department of children and families or the trustees of the Massachusetts training schools who is admitted as aforesaid to a day school in another municipality shall similarly provide for the transportation of such pupil to such school and shall, subject to appropriation, be entitled to state reimbursement to the full extent of the amounts so expended; provided further, that no transportation shall be provided for, or reimbursement made on account of, any pupil who resides less than 1 1/2 miles from the school which he attends. A municipality shall not be required under the provisions of this section to provide for the transportation of a person who has completed the twelfth grade of school or the equivalent thereto.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 13 - Time for Holding Classes; Required Age of Students

Section 13. Independent industrial, agricultural, vocational home economics and allied health occupations schools may offer instruction in day, part time and evening classes. Independent distributive occupations schools may offer instruction in part time and evening classes only. Attendance upon such day or part time classes shall be restricted to those over fourteen years of age; and upon such evening classes, to those over sixteen years of age.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 14 - Practical Arts Classes; Required Age of Students

Section 14. Towns may, through school committees or trustees for vocational education, establish and maintain practical art classes. Such classes shall be open to persons over sixteen years of age, and may be established and maintained as approved state aided practical art classes under sections one to twenty-two, inclusive, so far as not inconsistent therewith.
Regional school districts established under sections fourteen and fifteen of chapter seventy-one, if the agreement for the establishment of the district, either as originally adopted or as subsequently amended, so provides, may through the regional district school committee establish and maintain such practical art classes.
School committees or trustees for vocational education may in addition to the courses approved by the department of education establish and maintain such evening practical art courses as in their opinion they deem expedient and necessary, and may, upon request to the state board and with its approval, hire provisionally in the absence of certified evening practical arts teachers such teachers who may not be certified but are qualified through experience to teach such practical arts courses until such time as such teachers are certified or certified evening practical arts teachers are available.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 14a - Practical Art Classes; Receipt and Use of Federal Funds

Section 14A. The commissioner under the direction of the state board, in the name and on behalf of the commonwealth, may apply for and receive, and thereafter expend for any or all of the purposes of section fourteen any funds received for any of such purposes from the federal government or any of its agencies.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 14b - Culinary Arts; Revolving Fund

Section 14B. In any city or town that accepts this section in the manner provided in section 4 of chapter 4 or in a regional school district that accepts it as provided in this section, any income received from the purchase and sale of products produced in the culinary arts subject area of the home economics program, or any other vocational-technical program conducted in any public vocational-technical high school shall be deposited in a special fund by the school committee in any banking institution in the commonwealth. Expenditures may be made from said fund by the school committee for purposes needed for the culinary arts subject area or in the case of a fund established for any other program, such funds may be expended for the purposes of such program area without further appropriation, notwithstanding section 53 of chapter 44; provided, however, that said special funds shall not be used to pay the salary of any employee. Three years from the year a city or town accepts the provisions of this section, and every third year thereafter, said city or town may act to rescind its original acceptance. The superintendent of a school district with such a fund shall submit annually a report of said fund to the mayor, city council, city manager, board of selectmen or town manager of each city and town in said district and a copy of said report shall be submitted to the director of the bureau of accounts. The provisions of this section shall be effective in any regional school district upon its acceptance by the school committee of said district and a majority of the towns and cities and said district by vote of the board of selectmen or city council of said cities and towns.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 15 - Instructions in Agriculture and Horticulture; Establishment

Section 15. Cities may establish and maintain schools for instructing families and individuals in day, part time or evening classes in gardening, fruit growing, floriculture, poultry raising, animal husbandry, and other branches of agriculture and horticulture. The location and organization thereof and the instruction given therein shall be subject to the approval of the commissioner.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 17 - Acquisition of Land for Use of Agricultural Classes

Section 17. Boards or officers having power to take land for school purposes in cities may take, by eminent domain under chapter seventy-nine, land therein not already appropriated to public use, or lease or purchase land either within or without the city limits, for the purpose of section fifteen. A school committee may erect suitable building on land so acquired, and provide, on terms not involving loss to the city, for the use of plots of ground and for the temporary housing of pupils complying with its regulations and not having access to other land suitable for proper instruction.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 18 - Competency-Based Vocational-Technical Teacher Training Standards

Section 18. The state board shall establish basic competency-based vocational-technical teacher training standards which shall serve as the fundamental, pedagogical requirements for beginning vocational-technical instructors. The board shall further require that all persons seeking to meet the board's requirements shall have successfully passed performance and written tests in areas as determined by the board and shall have successfully completed an approved seminar on teaching skills and methods.
The commissioner under the direction of the state board shall encourage the establishment of a two year certificate program and a four year preservice program for the preparation of vocational-technical teachers. Said board shall promulgate regulations governing the administration of the vocational-technical education program and the establishment of criteria for the inclusion of the basic and two year programs.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 22 - Use of Federal Funds

Section 22. The state board may use the funds received under the act of Congress mentioned in section twenty as supplementary to state aid for salaries of teachers of vocational-technical subjects in schools complying therewith. It may also use such funds (1), for salaries of teachers giving types of training selected by it as especially needing stimulus; or (2), for competency-base programs for the pedagogical preparation of teachers of vocations selected by it; or (3), to arrange with schools and colleges to give the training to teachers of vocations under its supervision; or (4), to enable local school authorities to conduct, under its supervision, inservice training of vocational technical teachers; or (5), for travel as provided for under said act of Congress. Such payments shall be subject to conditions prescribed by said board.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 22d - Cooperation With Federal Authorities for Rehabilitation of Veterans

Section 22D. Said state board is hereby directed to cooperate with the veterans administration in carrying out the provisions of federal laws and regulations relating to the rehabilitation of disabled veterans; to establish and maintain classes or courses for training as it is deemed advisable and necessary for the education, training and rehabilitation of disabled veterans and other veterans; to establish and maintain, or to assist in establishing or maintaining, with the consent of the commissioner of administration and finance, and with the approval of the governor, training facilities within the various institutions and departments of the federal government and of the commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof, located within the commonwealth; to cooperate with the veterans administration in the selection of the number of trainees to be placed in training, or otherwise to carry out the provisions of said federal laws and regulations.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 22e - Employment of Teachers; Conditions

Section 22E. Any school committee or board of trustees for vocational education may elect a teacher who has served in its schools for not less than one school year to serve with professional teacher status under the same conditions and subject to the same limitations as is provided in sections forty-one, forty-two, forty-two A, forty-two D, forty-three, forty-three A and forty-three B of chapter seventy-one, which sections shall also apply to teachers for educational programs under this chapter. The provisions of this section shall apply to school librarians, school psychologists, school adjustment counselors, and school social workers entitled to tenure pursuant to the provisions of chapter seventy-one. The provisions of chapter thirty-two B, section one hundred C of chapter forty-one, sections thirty-seven B, thirty-eight
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, forty, forty-one A and forty-eight of chapter seventy-one, and of sections seventeen B, seventeen C and seventeen D of chapter one hundred and eighty shall also apply to school personnel granted certificates in accordance with section thirty-eight G of chapter seventy-one and employed for vocational educational programs.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 23 - Independent Industrial Shoemaking School of the City of Lynn

Section 23. The independent industrial shoemaking school of the city of Lynn, established under chapter one hundred and seventy-four of the Special Acts of nineteen hundred and sixteen, shall be maintained by the city of Lynn as a state aided approved vocational school under and subject to sections one to twenty-two, inclusive; provided, that the trustees of said school shall consist of the mayor of Lynn, ex officio, and eight appointive members who shall be residents of Lynn and of whom two shall represent the laboring class. Two appointive members shall annually be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the council, for terms of four years and until their successors are qualified. The trustees shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed for their necessary expenses, to be charged and paid as maintenance.
The trustees may determine the situation of said school, subject to the approval of the commissioner, and may expend annually for rent of suitable floor space for the school a sum not exceeding six thousand dollars until such time as it is deemed expedient to purchase, construct or alter a building for the use of the school. After the said school is established and equipped the city of Lynn shall annually raise by taxation such sums as may be needed for its maintenance and operation.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 24 - Smith Agricultural School; Maintenance; Superintendents

Section 24. Smith Agricultural School, established under chapter one hundred and fifty-one of the Special Acts of nineteen hundred and eighteen, shall be maintained by the city of Northampton as a state-aided approved vocational-technical school under and subject to sections one to twenty-two, inclusive; provided, however, that the superintendents of said school shall consist of the mayor and superintendent of schools of said city, ex officiis, and three other superintendents to be elected at its city election by ballot, as provided in the will of Oliver Smith, and that said superintendents shall have the powers of local trustees elected under section three. Upon the death or resignation of an elected superintendent of said school his successor shall be chosen by the city council and the remaining superintendents in joint convention, who shall serve until the next city election.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 24b - Public Secondary Vocational-Technical School Districts and Public Institutions of Higher Education; Coordination of Programs

Section 24B. The state board and the board of regents shall encourage the coordination of programs between public secondary vocational-technical school districts and public institutions of higher education. Said boards shall establish policies and procedures for the standardization of articulation agreements between the aforementioned institutions and that said boards shall meet annually to review the implementation of such policies and procedures.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 26 - Management; Appointment of Trustees

Section 26. There shall be a board of trustees for each of the schools enumerated in section twenty-five. The boards of trustees for the Bristol county agricultural school and the Norfolk county agricultural school shall each consist of the county commissioners, ex officiis, and four residents of the county, appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the council, for four years. The term of one appointive trustee in each county shall expire each year.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 28 - Duties of Trustees; Preparation of Budget

Section 28. On or before December fifteenth the trustees of the schools mentioned in section twenty-five shall, in consultation with and with the approval of the commissioner, prepare estimates of the amounts necessary to equip and maintain their respective schools for the ensuing fiscal year as defined in section sixteen of chapter thirty-five. The amounts of such estimates shall be included by the respective county commissioners in the estimates required by section twenty-eight of chapter thirty-five.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 30 - Disposition of Income

Section 30. Miscellaneous income of the Bristol county agricultural school and the Norfolk county agricultural school, including the tuition of non-resident pupils and receipts from the sale of products and work of pupils, shall be paid to the county treasurer; provided, however, that all such income shall be appropriated and expended for the operation and purposes of the school or institute that paid the same to the county treasurer.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 31a - Transportation of Pupils

Section 31A. The trustees of the Essex agricultural and technical institute, the Bristol county agricultural school and the Norfolk county agricultural school may, if in their judgment the circumstances warrant, and it is not otherwise provided for, pay, in whole or in part, the costs of transporting any pupil who resides in a town in the county of Essex, the county of Bristol, or the county of Norfolk, as the case may be, between the town and the school, and such expenditure shall be deemed to be a proper maintenance item.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 31b - Supervision of Athletic and Other Organizations

Section 31B. The boards of trustees of the Bristol county agricultural school, the Essex agricultural and technical institute, and the Norfolk county agricultural school may supervise and control all athletic and other organizations composed of vocational agricultural school pupils and bearing the name of said school or organized in connection therewith. The trustees of each of said county agricultural schools may, directly or through authorized representatives, determine under what conditions the same may compete with similar organizations in other schools. Expenditures by said trustees for the organization and conduct of physical training and exercises, athletics, sports, practice sessions of athletic teams, games and play, for providing proper apparatus, equipment, supplies, athletic wearing apparel, including appropriate souvenir garments and trophies, and facilities for the same in the buildings, yards and playgrounds under the control of said trustees, or upon any other land which they may have the right or privilege to use for this purpose, and for exercises, athletics, sports, practice sessions of athletic teams, games and play, shall be deemed to be for school purposes and shall be considered to be a proper maintenance item for reimbursement purposes. Said trustees shall include in their annual budgets, with the approval of the commissioner, amounts sufficient for the employment of coaches, an athletic director, a faculty manager, and a physician to supervise in said county agricultural schools physical training and exercises, athletics, sports, games and play, and for the transportation of the school athletic teams, coaches, cheerleaders, bands and other groups composed of pupils of the said schools, within the commonwealth to places where athletic contests or physical exercises, sports, games, play, musical festivals, competitions or other events are held, and for the purchase of uniforms and musical instruments for the members of bands composed of pupils of said schools.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 33 - Tuition

Section 33. The Bristol county agricultural school and the Norfolk county agricultural school shall be free to residents of Bristol and Norfolk counties, respectively, over 14 years of age, except that free attendance shall be limited by the capacity of the courses provided for such schools. The trustees of the Bristol county agricultural school and Norfolk county agricultural school may require the payment of tuition and related fees from each person enrolled in adult evening courses offered by said schools. The amount of tuition and related fees shall be determined by said trustees. All receipts of such tuition and related fees shall be deposited with the treasurer of the county.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 34 - Bristol School; Special Courses of Instruction

Section 34. The trustees of the Bristol county agricultural school may, with the approval of the commissioner, permit pupils with limited educational preparation to enter for a special course in horticulture, fruit growing or dairy farming. Said trustees may from time to time provide instruction in such of the types of vocational education described in sections one to twenty-two, inclusive, as they may deem advisable and as the commissioner may approve, in addition to the instruction authorized herein and in sections thirty-five, thirty-six and thirty-seven.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 37 - Duties of School Staffs

Section 37. Members of the staffs of the Bristol county agricultural school, the Essex agricultural and technical institute and the Norfolk county agricultural school shall investigate farm and market conditions for the purpose of advising individuals and organizations as to business methods among farmers, and satisfactory methods of marketing farm products, shall instruct in the formation of co-operative enterprises, and shall perform other work calculated to promote the agricultural or rural development of the respective counties. Members of such staffs shall keep in touch with, and avail themselves of, agencies in the commonwealth or elsewhere that will enable them to utilize the latest and best knowledge and practice in the furtherance of their work.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 37a - Technical Institutes

Section 37A. If a school committee or the board of trustees of any industrial, technical, agricultural or vocational school subject to this chapter determines that sufficient need exists in such school for a course or courses beyond secondary school level and designed to prepare students for greater opportunities for employment in industrial, agricultural and technical occupations, it may submit in writing its plans for such course or courses to the board of higher education. Upon the written approval of said plans by said board, such school committee or board of trustees may establish and maintain such extended courses of instruction on a technical institute level, and public funds may be appropriated for said purpose; provided, that such courses of instruction conform to such standards as said board may establish, and are maintained by said school committee or said trustees under the general regulations of the board. Any such school may use the designation ''technical institute'' with respect to the maintenance of such courses at such school, and the school committee or trustees of such school may, subject to the approval of the state board and the board of higher education, grant the degree of Associate in Applied Science to persons who complete such course or courses of instruction. Tuition fees in an amount approved by the commissioner of education may be charged to students enrolled in a program leading to the degree of Associate in Applied Science offered by any such school.
This section shall not be applicable to the board of regional community colleges, or any action of said board under section twenty-seven of chapter fifteen, or to any regional community college.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 37b - Nondegree Granting Post-Secondary Vocational Education Programs

Section 37B. The commissioner under the direction of the state board may approve nondegree granting vocational education programs at the post-secondary level. In making his decision, the commissioner shall take into consideration the availability of similar training opportunities at the secondary and public regional community college levels.
Upon the vote of the school committee or board of trustees of any industrial, technical, or vocational school, tuition and other related fees may be charged to students residing in its city, town or regional school district admitted to approved post-secondary vocational education programs for the full amount of the average per pupil cost of such program.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 37c - Admission of Nonresidents to Nondegree Granting Post-Secondary Vocational Education Programs

Section 37C. A student who resides in a city or town which does not offer approved vocational education programs at the post-secondary level may, upon the approval of the commissioner under the direction of the state board be admitted to such program in another city, town or regional district. In making his determination the commissioner shall take into consideration the opportunities for free vocational training where the applicant resides, the preparation, age, aptitude and previous record of the applicant, and other relevant circumstances, including the level of state assistance to such program. A student admitted under this provision shall be charged tuition and fees for the full amount of the average per pupil cost of such program, as approved by the commissioner under the direction of the state board. Such students shall be eligible to apply for state scholarship aid pursuant to section seven of chapter fifteen A.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 37f - Receipts From Tuition and Fees From Nondegree Granting Post-Secondary Vocational Education Programs Held in Separate Account

Section 37F. All receipts from tuition and other related fees shall be paid to the school committee or board of trustees of the city, town, regional school district or independent vocational school admitting students under sections thirty-seven B and thirty-seven C, and shall be deposited with the treasurer of the city, town, regional school district or independent vocational school and held as a separate account. The receipts held in such separate accounts may be expended by said school committee or board of trustees without further appropriation for general educational purposes.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 41 - Lease of State Facilities for Re-Education and Rehabilitation in Industry of Soldiers and Sailors

Section 41. The governor, with the advice and consent of the council, may lease to, or permit to be used by, the United States or any department, bureau or agency thereof, any state hospital, school or workshop, and its premises and equipment, or any other suitable resources belonging to the commonwealth, to enable the United States to re-educate and rehabilitate in industry any soldiers and sailors in the service of the United States or its allies.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 42b - Bradford Durfee College of Technology and New Bedford Institute of Technology; Honorary Doctorates

Section 42B. The board of trustees of the Bradford Durfee College of Technology and of the New Bedford Institute of Technology, with the approval of the board of higher education, may grant such honorary doctorates as they may determine.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 42c - Professors and Teachers; Removal; Hearing

Section 42C. A professor or teacher in the Bradford Durfee College of Technology or the New Bedford Institute of Technology, who is not employed in a position classified under chapter thirty-one, and who has served as such for three consecutive years, shall not be dismissed from such employment except for just cause, and for reasons specifically given him in writing by the trustees of the college or institute in which he is employed. Before any such removal is effected, the professor or teacher, upon his written request made within ten days of receipt by him of the required written notice, shall be given a full hearing before the trustees of the college or institute in which he is employed, of which hearing he shall have at least thirty days' written notice from the trustees, and he shall be allowed to answer the charges preferred against him either personally or by counsel.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 42d - Board of Trustees, Powers and Duties

Section 42D. The Bradford Durfee College of Technology and the New Bedford Institute of Technology shall continue as state institutions within the department of education but not under its control and shall be governed by the boards of trustees established therefor under section twenty-one of chapter fifteen. In addition to the authority, responsibility, powers and duties specifically conferred by sections forty-two to forty-two C, inclusive, and by sections forty-two E to forty-six B, inclusive, the said boards of trustees shall have the authority, responsibility, rights, privileges, powers and duties customarily and traditionally exercised by governing boards of institutions of higher learning. In exercising such authority, responsibility, powers and duties said board shall not in the management of the affairs of said institutions be subject to, or superseded in any such authority by, any other state board, bureau, department or commission, except as herein provided.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 42e - Standards; Courses of Instructions; Powers of Trustees

Section 42E. The trustees shall maintain high educational standards at the college and the institute and shall have complete authority to establish, support, consolidate or abolish classes, courses and curricula whenever and wherever required in meeting the needs of the college and institute and the citizens of the commonwealth. The trustees shall establish appropriate qualifications and standards for admission, promotion and graduation.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 42f - Rules and Regulations; Meetings of Trustees; Quorum

Section 42F. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, except as herein provided, the trustees may adopt, amend or repeal such rules and regulations for the government of the college or institute, for the management, control and administration of its affairs, for its faculty, students and employees, and for the regulation of their own body, as they may deem necessary, and may impose reasonable penalties for the violation of such rules and regulations. The trustees shall publish such rules and regulations and shall file copies thereof with the governor, the commission on administration and finance, and the joint committee on ways and means. The trustees shall determine the time and place of their meetings and the manner of giving notice thereof. Nine members shall constitute a quorum.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 42g - Delegation of Powers by Trustees

Section 42G. The trustees may, except as to duties imposed or powers granted under sections forty-two E and forty-two F, delegate their authority or any portion thereof to the president or any other officer of the college and of the institute whenever in their judgment such delegation may be necessary or desirable.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 42h - Audit of Accounts

Section 42H. All accounts of the college or institute, as the case may be, under the direction of the board of trustees, including the accounts of all property or funds received, held or disbursed by the trustees under any provision of section forty-two L, 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 74 - Vocational Education › Section 42j - Appropriations

Section 42J. 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 college and the institute, 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 college or institute designated by the trustees.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 42k - Receipts and Expenditures; Annual Report; Monthly Statements; Accounting System

Section 42K. 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 college and the institute.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 42l - Special Trusts, etc.; Management

Section 42L. The trustees of the college and the trustees of the institute 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 said college or institute, 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 said college or institute 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 college and the institute.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 42m - College and Institute Property; Management and Administration

Section 42M. The trustees shall, on behalf of the commonwealth, manage and administer the college and the institute, and all property, real and personal, belonging to the commonwealth and occupied or used by said college or institute, and shall keep in repair houses, buildings and equipment so used or occupied.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 42n - Purchases

Section 42N. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the trustees of the college or an officer of the college designated by them and the trustees of the institute or an officer of the institute 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 college or institute 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 the college and by the institute; provided, that the college and the institute shall have the right to review all bids received on college or institute requisitions and to make binding recommendation on the award of the contract based on the judgment of the college or institute as to which of the bids best meet the specification of the college or institute on which the bids were received.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 42q - Control, Movement and Parking of Motor Vehicles

Section 42Q. The trustees shall make rules and regulations for the control, movement and parking of vehicles on the campus of the college and the institute, 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 the college and the institute who in the enforcement of said rules and regulations and throughout the college and the institute 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 authority of this section shall be accounted for by the clerk of the court and forwarded to the trustees of the college or to the trustees of the institute, as the case may be, to be deposited in the scholarship trust fund of said college or institute for scholarship purposes.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 46a - Functions; Testing of New and Useful Improvements in Textile Machinery and Apparatus

Section 46A. Said college and said institute may make, under such regulations as their respective boards of trustees may from time to time prescribe, tests, comparative or otherwise, of new and useful improvements in textile machinery or of apparatus, dyes, compounds, processes, methods or means, directly or indirectly relating to the manufacture of textiles or to the machinery, tools, appliances and materials used in connection therewith. The person for whom any such test is made shall pay therefor on account of the commonwealth a sum not less than the actual cost thereof, including a reasonable amount for overhead expense. No such test shall be undertaken by said college or said institute which in the opinion of the trustees will be likely to interfere with the regular, efficient and proper exercise of school functions. In the making of such tests preference shall be given to citizens of, and to corporations organized under the laws of, the commonwealth.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 54 - Establishment and Maintenance of Schools for Institutional On-Farm Training for World War II and Korean Emergency Veterans

Section 54. The board of higher education may establish and maintain, in cooperation with local public or vocational school authorities, one or more schools for institutional on-farm training for veterans of World War II and for veterans of the Korean emergency. Said board may contract or agree with said local school authorities, in such centers as may be selected, for the establishment of such schools, for the use of quarters therefor, for the payment of the cost of operation thereof and equipment therefor, and for local supervision and administration of the training program.
Said board shall appoint, and may remove, the teaching personnel of such schools, shall determine the rates of salary for said personnel, shall pay the costs of instructional and supervisory travel of such personnel, and shall purchase, or provide for the purchase of, approved texts for trainees at said schools. Said board shall employ such additional supervisory and clerical personnel as may be needed by it in the carrying out of the training programs under this section. Said board may contract with the Veterans' Administration for the purpose of procuring reimbursement to the commonwealth for approvable costs of conducting and administering said training courses for veterans of World War II. Said board may contract with and collect from veterans of the Korean emergency tuition for said training.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 56 - Program for Expansion of Not-for-Credit Vocationally-Oriented Instruction

Section 56. The district trustees shall establish a program, in collaboration with the advisory committee, the director of the department of career services and a representative of the local workforce investment board, to expand not-for-credit vocationally-oriented instruction provided through contracts with commonwealth employers. The program shall allow interested business partners to sponsor a prospective or current employee for training provided by the vocational school at the expense of the employer. Each vocational school shall report not later than December 31 annually to the commissioner of education on the level of not-for-credit vocationally-oriented instruction provided in the preceding fiscal year and the anticipated level of such instruction in the current fiscal year. The report shall detail enrollment levels, revenues received, sources of revenues, recruitment tools, the number of service contracts established with commonwealth employers and such other information as the commissioner may require. The commissioner shall prepare a comprehensive report of the information and present copies of the report to the board of higher education and the house and senate chairs of the joint committee on labor and workforce development not later than March 31 annually.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 74 - Vocational Education › Section 58 - Use of Tobacco Products Within School Buildings or Facilities or on School Grounds

Section 58. No person shall use a tobacco product, as defined in section 6 of chapter 270, within the school buildings or facilities or on the grounds or school buses of a public or private vocational school or at a vocational school-sponsored event.
Each school committee or board of trustees shall establish a policy regarding violations of this section. The policy may include, but shall not be limited to, mandatory education classes on the hazards of using tobacco products.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts › Section 1 - Status; Governing Body

Section 1. There shall be a University of Massachusetts, consisting of campuses to be maintained at Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, Lowell, and Worcester, which shall continue as a public institution of higher learning within the system of public higher education and shall be governed by the board of trustees established herein. In addition to the authority, responsibility, powers and duties specifically conferred by this chapter, the board of trustees shall have all authority, responsibility, rights, privileges, powers and duties customarily and traditionally exercised by governing boards of institutions of higher learning. In exercising such authority, responsibility, powers and duties said board shall not in the management of the affairs of the university be subject to, or superseded by, any other state agency, board, bureau, commission, department or officer, except as provided in section 14A of chapter 6A, sections 44 to 58, inclusive, of chapter 7C, chapter fifteen, chapter fifteen A or in this chapter. This chapter shall be liberally construed to effectuate its purposes.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts › Section 2a - Branch Banks on University Grounds Authorized

Section 2A. 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 the university, all branches individually, provided that the board of trustees of said university 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 75 - University of Massachusetts › Section 3 - Rules and Regulations

Section 3. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, except as herein provided, the trustees may adopt, amend or repeal such rules and regulations for the government of the university, for the management, control and administration of its affairs, for its faculty, students and employees, and for the regulation of their own body, as they may deem necessary, provided that such rules and regulations shall be subject to the provisions of sections eleven A and eleven A1/2 of chapter thirty A.
The trustees shall publish such rules and regulations and shall file copies thereof with the clerk of the senate who shall forward said copies to the governor, the commissioner of administration and finance, and the joint committee on ways and means.
The trustees may impose reasonable penalties for the violation of the rules and regulations provided for in this section.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XII - Education › Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts › Section 4 - Meetings of Trustees; Quorum; Executive Sessions

Section 4. The trustees shall determine the time and place of their meeting. Nine members shall constitute a quorum. Meetings of the board of trustees shall be subject to the provisions of said sections eleven A and eleven A1/2 of said chapter thirty A; provided, that in addition to the purposes enumerated in said section eleven A1/2, the trustees may hold an executive session for the following purposes:—
(1) to consider the award of honorary degrees;
(2) to consider the award of tenure to a member of the faculty.