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2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 6 - Consultation With and Giving of Advice and Assistance to District Attorneys

Section 6. He shall consult with and advise district attorneys in matters relating to their duties; and, if in his judgment the public interest so requires, he shall assist them by attending the grand jury in the examination of a case in which the accused is charged with a capital crime, and appear for the commonwealth in the trial of indictments for capital crimes.
He shall also consult with and advise district attorneys in all civil actions brought pursuant to chapter two hundred and fifty-eight, and may assist them in the defense of such actions.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 6a - Conferences of District Attorneys and Other Officials; Notification as to New Laws

Section 6A. He may from time to time, and as often as occasion may require, call into conference the district attorneys, the sheriffs of the several counties and the chiefs of police of the several cities and towns, or such of them as he may deem advisable, for the purpose of discussing the duties of their respective offices with a view to the uniform and adequate enforcement of the laws of the commonwealth.
He shall, as soon as convenient after the end of each legislative session, notify the sheriffs of the several counties and the chiefs of police of the several cities and towns of all laws enacted during such session which it is their duty to enforce. Such notice shall include a list by chapter number and title of each law so enacted.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 7 - Persons Intruding on Land, Property or Rights of Commonwealth; Prosecution

Section 7. He may, if in his judgment the public interest so requires, prosecute informations or other processes against persons who intrude on the land, rights or property of the commonwealth, or commit or erect a nuisance thereon.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 8a - Definitions Applicable to Secs. 8a to 8m

Section 8A. As used in this section and in sections eight B to eight M, inclusive, the following words and phrases shall, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context, have the following meanings:—
''Director'', the director of public charities appointed pursuant to the provisions of section eight C.
''Division'', the division of public charities established under section eight B.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 8b - Division of Public Charities; Duties

Section 8B. There shall be in the department of the attorney general a division of public charities which shall, under the direction and control of the attorney general, perform the duties imposed upon him by the provisions of section eight to eight M, inclusive.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 8d - Employees; Appointment and Removal

Section 8D. The director may appoint and remove, subject to the approval of the attorney general, such accounting, investment, clerical and other experts and assistants as the work of the division may require.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 8g - Attorney General as a Party; Service

Section 8G. The attorney general shall be made a party to all judicial proceedings in which he may be interested in the performance of his duties under the provisions of sections eight to eight M, inclusive, and service upon or notice to the director in any such proceeding shall be deemed sufficient service upon or notice to the attorney general.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 8i - Compliance With Investigations; Enforcement; Penalties

Section 8I. A person upon whom a notice is served pursuant to the provisions of section eight H shall comply with the terms thereof unless otherwise provided by the order of a court of the commonwealth. Any person who fails to appear, or with intent to avoid, evade, or prevent compliance, in whole or in part, with any civil investigation under this chapter, removes from any place, conceals, withholds, or destroys, mutilates, alters, or by any other means falsifies any documentary material in the possession, custody or control of any person subject to any such notice, or knowingly conceals any relevant information, shall be assessed a civil penalty of not more than five thousand dollars.
The attorney general may file in the superior court of the county in which such person resides or has his principal place of business, or in the superior court of Suffolk county if such person is a non-resident or has no principal place of business in the commonwealth, and serve upon such person, in the same manner as provided in section eight H, a petition for an order of such court for the enforcement of this section and section eight H. Any disobedience of any final order entered under this section by any court shall be punished as a contempt thereof.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 8j - Rules and Regulations

Section 8J. The director shall from time to time formulate such reasonable rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of sections eight to eight M, inclusive, and such rules and regulations shall thereafter govern all such matters.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 8k - Gift for Public Charitable Purpose; Presumed Intention

Section 8K. A gift made for a public charitable purpose shall be deemed to have been made with a general intention to devote the property to public charitable purposes, unless otherwise provided in a written instrument of gift.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 8l - Fiscal Records

Section 8L. Every public charity required to file written annual reports with the division pursuant to section eight F shall, in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by the division, keep true fiscal records as to its activities within the commonwealth in such form as will enable it accurately to provide the information required by said section. Upon demand, such records shall be made available to the division for inspection. Such records shall be retained for a period of at least three years after the end of the period to which the annual report relates.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 8m - Public Records; Inspection

Section 8M. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, all registration statements, annual reports and all other information required to be filed under sections eight to eight M, inclusive, or by the division, shall be public records in the office of the division and shall be open to the general public for inspection at such time and under such conditions as the division may prescribe.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 8n - Fees, Costs, Penalties and Other Monies; General Fund

Section 8N. All fees, attorneys fees, costs, civil penalties and other monies received by the commonwealth pursuant to sections eight through eight M or sections eighteen through thirty-five of chapter sixty-eight shall be credited by the state treasurer to the General Fund.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 9 - Advice and Aid to General Court and Committees

Section 9. He shall, when required by either branch of the general court, attend during its sessions and give his aid and advice in the arrangement and preparation of legislative documents and business, and shall give his opinion upon questions of law submitted to him by the governor and council or by either branch of the general court. He, or some person designated by him, shall, when requested by a vote of a legislative committee, appear before such committee and advise it upon the legal effect of proposed legislation pending before it.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 10 - Violations of Court Orders; Restraint of Trade; Institution of Investigations and Appropriate Actions

Section 10. He shall take cognizance of all violations of law or of orders of courts, tribunals or commissions affecting the general welfare of the people, including combinations, agreements and unlawful practices in restraint of trade or for the suppression of competition, or for the undue enhancement of the price of articles or commodities in common use, and shall institute or cause to be instituted such criminal or civil proceedings before the appropriate state and federal courts, tribunals and commissions as he may deem to be for the public interest, and shall investigate all matters in which he has reason to believe that there have been such violations. Whenever it appears to the attorney general that the commonwealth or any city, town, or other governmental agency, body or authority established under the laws of the commonwealth has been so injured or damaged by any conspiracy, combination or agreement in restraint of trade or commerce or similar unlawful action, as to entitle the commonwealth, a city, town, or other such governmental agency, body or authority to a right to bring any action or proceeding for the recovery of damages under the provisions of any federal anti-trust or other similar law, the attorney general shall have authority to institute and prosecute any such actions or proceedings on behalf of the commonwealth or of any city, town, or other governmental agency, body or authority established under the laws of the commonwealth, and shall have authority to intervene on behalf of the commonwealth or of any city, town or other governmental agency, body or authority in such actions or proceedings. For the purposes of this section, he may appoint necessary assistants, with such compensation as, with the approval of the governor and council, he may fix, and may expend such sums as may be approved by the governor and council. In criminal proceedings hereunder he may require district attorneys to assist him and under his direction to act for him in their respective districts.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 11 - Annual Report of Cases Handled

Section 11. He shall make an annual report showing the number of cases tried, argued or conducted by him during the preceding fiscal year, with suggestions and recommendations as to the amendment and the proper and economical administration of the laws. He shall include in his annual report a statement of his acts under section nine, with suggestions and recommendations relative thereto. He may, with the approval of the governor and council, prepare and publish such reports of capital trials as he deems expedient for public use. One copy shall be sent to each public and law library in the commonwealth, and the balance may be sold, or otherwise disposed of, at the discretion of the state secretary.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 11a - Division of Civil Rights and Liberties

Section 11A. There shall be in the department of the attorney general a division of civil rights and liberties. The attorney general shall designate an assistant attorney general as director of said division. Said director may appoint and remove, subject to the approval of the attorney general, such expert, clerical and other assistants as the work of the division may require.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 11b - Board of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws; Obscene Literature Commission

Section 11B. The board of commissioners on uniform state laws and the obscene literature commission are hereby declared to be within the department of the attorney general; provided, that nothing herein shall be construed as diminishing the powers and duties conferred and imposed upon the foregoing agencies by any provision of law.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 11c - Narcotic and Harmful Drugs; Training Program for Law Enforcement Officers

Section 11C. The attorney general shall establish a program designed to train law enforcement officials, including municipal, metropolitan and state police, in practices and procedures relating to the narcotic and harmful drug laws of the commonwealth. The program shall include, but shall not limited to, the dissemination of information concerning:
(1) the laws of the commonwealth relating to the possession, sale, and manufacture of narcotic and harmful drugs;
(2) the methods and procedures for detecting and ascertaining the identity of the various narcotic and harmful drugs;
(3) law enforcement techniques, intelligence operations, and methods of promoting cooperation among the municipal, metropolitan, and state police departments;
(4) search and seizure techniques in accordance with the Constitution of the United States and with the Constitution and laws of the commonwealth;
(5) the physiological and psychological effects of the various narcotic and harmful drugs;
(6) the underlying psychological and sociological causes of drug use and drug abuse;
(7) opportunities for treatment and rehabilitation of drug dependent persons; and
(8) educational programs relating to drugs sponsored by the department of education, other public agencies, and private organizations.
The attorney general may appoint such expert, clerical and other staff members as the operation of the training program may require.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 11f - Insurance Companies; Intervention in Legal Proceedings on Behalf of Consumers; Expenditure of Funds

Section 11F. The attorney general is hereby authorized to intervene in administrative or judicial proceedings held in the commonwealth on behalf of any group of consumers in connection with any matter involving the rates, charges, premiums and prices charged by any insurance company doing business in the commonwealth and subject to the division of insurance within the department of banking and insurance.
For the purpose of such intervention the attorney general may expend such funds as may be appropriated therefor; provided, however, that such expenditures shall not exceed annually one hundred and fifty percent of the amount assessed against insurance companies under the provisions of section eight F of chapter twenty-six.
The attorney general shall have no authority to expend any of such funds wherever the expenditure thereof shall conflict with the duties imposed upon him under the provisions of section three.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 11g - Local Consumer Aid Fund; Eligibility for Assistance

Section 11G. There shall be established within the department of the attorney general a local consumer aid fund, which may receive and expend monies as may be appropriated to said fund by the general court, as well as additional monies which may be made available from sources other than the General Fund. The purpose of said fund shall be to provide financial assistance to eligible, local or regional agencies which deal with the resolution of consumer problems. The attorney general shall determine the standards for eligibility in order for such agencies to receive financial assistance. No more than ten per cent of said fund may be expended for administrative purposes.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 11i - Violations of Constitutional Rights; Civil Actions by Aggrieved Persons; Costs and Fees

Section 11I. Any person whose exercise or enjoyment of rights secured by the constitution or laws of the United States, or of rights secured by the constitution or laws of the commonwealth, has been interfered with, or attempted to be interfered with, as described in section 11H, may institute and prosecute in his own name and on his own behalf a civil action for injunctive and other appropriate equitable relief as provided for in said section, including the award of compensatory money damages. Any aggrieved person or persons who prevail in an action authorized by this section shall be entitled to an award of the costs of the litigation and reasonable attorneys' fees in an amount to be fixed by the court.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 11i3/4 - Reproductive and Gender-Affirming Health Care Services; Laws Governing Case or Controversies Heard in Commonwealth

Section 11I3/4. Notwithstanding any general or special law or common law conflict of law rule to the contrary, the laws of the commonwealth shall govern in any case or controversy heard in the commonwealth related to reproductive health care services or gender-affirming health care services, as those terms are defined in section 11I1/2, except as may be required by federal law.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 11j - Violations of Constitutional Rights; Temporary Restraining Orders and Injunctions; Violations; Punishment; Vacation of Order

Section 11J. In actions brought pursuant to subsection (a) of section 11H or section 11I, whenever the court issues a temporary restraining order or a preliminary or permanent injunction, ordering a defendant to refrain from certain conduct or activities, the order issued shall contain the following statement: VIOLATION OF THIS ORDER IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE.
After any such order has been served upon the defendant, any violation of such order shall be punishable by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than two and one-half years in a house of correction, or both such fine and imprisonment; provided, however, that if bodily injury results from such violation, the violation shall be punishable by a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than ten years, or both.
The clerk shall transmit two certified copies of each such order issued under subsection (a) of section 11H or section 11I to each appropriate law enforcement agency having jurisdiction over locations where such defendant is alleged to have committed the act giving rise to the action, and such law enforcement agency shall serve one copy of the order upon such defendant. Unless otherwise ordered by the court, service shall be by delivering a copy in hand to the defendant. Law enforcement agencies shall establish procedures adequate to ensure that all officers responsible for the enforcement of the order are informed of the existence and terms of such order. Whenever any law enforcement officer has probable cause to believe that such defendant has violated the provisions of this section, such officer shall have the authority to arrest said defendant.
Following the final disposition of a criminal contempt proceeding initiated by the attorney general for violation of an order issued in an action brought by the attorney general under subsection (a) of section 11H, the commonwealth shall move to dismiss any charges brought under this section against such defendant for such violation of the order.
Whenever the court vacates a temporary restraining order or a preliminary or permanent injunction issued under subsection (a) of section 11H or section 11I, the clerk shall promptly notify in writing each appropriate law enforcement agency which had been notified of the issuance of the order and shall direct each such agency to destroy all record of such vacated order, and such agency shall comply with such directive.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 11k - Division of Victim Compensation and Assistance

Section 11K. Subject to appropriation, there shall be established within the department of the attorney general a division of victim compensation and assistance to administer the provisions of chapter two hundred and fifty-eight C. The attorney general shall designate a program director of said division. Said program director may appoint and remove, subject to the approval of the attorney general, such investigative, legal, clerical and other assistants as the work of the division may require. The program director shall have the authority to promulgate rules and regulations pursuant to chapter thirty A as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of said chapter two hundred and fifty-eight C.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 11m1/2 - Fantasy Contests

Section 11M1/2. Notwithstanding sections 24, 24A and 27 of chapter 10, chapter 271 or any other general or special law to the contrary, a person or entity that offers fantasy contests for a cash prize to members of the public may offer a fantasy contest to residents of the commonwealth pursuant to and in accordance with regulations promulgated by the attorney general: provided further, for the purposes of section 7 of chapter 4, a fantasy contest shall not be considered illegal gaming. ''Fantasy contest'' includes any fantasy or simulated game or contest, including, but not limited to, any fantasy or simulated game or contest based on professional sports events in which: (i) the value of all prizes and awards offered to winning participants are established and made known to the participants in advance of the contest; (ii) all winning outcomes reflect the relative knowledge and skill of the participants and shall be determined predominantly by accumulated statistical results of the performance of individuals, including athletes in the case of sports events; and (iii) no winning outcome is based on the score, point spread, or any performance or performances of any single actual team or combination of Such teams or solely on any single performance of an individual athlete Or player in any single actual event.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 11n - Monitoring Health Care Market Trends; Investigation of Unfair Methods of Competition or Anti-Competitive Behavior; Exemption or Waiver From Federal Law

Section 11N. (a) The attorney general shall monitor trends in the health care market including, but not limited to, trends in provider organization size and composition, consolidation in the provider market, payer contracting trends and patient access and quality issues in the health care market. The attorney general may obtain the following information from a private health care payer, public health care payer, provider or provider organization, as those terms are defined in section 1 of chapter 6D: (i) any information that is required to be submitted under sections 8, 9 and 10 of chapter 12C, (ii) filings, applications and supporting documentation related to any cost and market impact review under section 13 of chapter 6D (iii) filings, applications and supporting documentation related to a determination of need application filed under section 25C of chapter 111; and (iv) filings, applications and supporting documentation submitted to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services or the Office of the Inspector General for any demonstration project. Under section 17 of chapter 12C and section 8 of chapter 6D and subject to the limitations stated in those sections, the attorney general may require that any provider, provider organization, private health care payer or public health care payer produce documents, answer interrogatories and provide testimony under oath related to health care costs and cost trends, the factors that contribute to cost growth within the commonwealth's health care system and the relationship between provider costs and payer premium rates.
(b) The attorney general may investigate any provider organization referred to the attorney general by the health policy commission under section 13 of chapter 6D to determine whether the provider organization engaged in unfair methods of competition or anti-competitive behavior in violation of chapter 93A or any other law, and, if appropriate, take action under chapter 93A or any other law to protect consumers in the health care market.
(c) The attorney general may intervene or otherwise participate in efforts by the commonwealth to obtain exemptions or waivers from certain federal laws regarding provider market conduct, including, from the federal Office of the Inspector General, a waiver of, or expansion of, the ''safe harbors'' provided for under 42 U.S.C. section 1320a–7b and obtaining from the federal Office of the Inspector General a waiver of, or exemption from, 42 U.S.C. section 1395nn subsections (a) to (e).
(d) Nothing in this section shall limit the authority of the attorney general to protect consumers in the health care market under any other law.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 12 - District Attorneys; Qualifications; Election; Term; Appearances

Section 12. There shall be a district attorney for each district set forth in the following section, who shall be a resident therein and a member of the bar of the commonwealth and shall be elected as provided by section one hundred and fifty-four of chapter fifty-four. He shall serve for four years beginning with the first Wednesday of January after his election and until his successor is qualified.
The district attorney shall appear for a county constituting such district in all civil actions in which such county is a party under the provisions of chapter two hundred and fifty-eight.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 13 - Districts for Administration of Criminal Law or Defense of Civil Actions

Section 13. For the administration of the criminal law, or for the defense of civil actions brought pursuant to chapter two hundred and fifty-eight, Suffolk county shall constitute the Suffolk district; Middlesex county, the northern district; Essex county, the eastern district; Norfolk county, the Norfolk district; Plymouth county, the Plymouth district; Bristol county, the Bristol district; Barnstable, Nantucket and Dukes counties, the Cape and Islands district; Worcester county, excluding the town of Athol, the middle district; Berkshire county, the Berkshire district; Hampden county, the Hampden district; and Franklin county, including the town of Athol, and Hampshire county, the northwestern district.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 15 - Practice of Law Prohibited; Salary

Section 15. District attorneys shall devote their full time during ordinary business hours to their duties, shall neither directly nor indirectly engage in the practice of law, and shall receive from the commonwealth a salary of $191,000 annually.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 16 - Salaries of Assistant District Attorneys

Section 16. Each district attorney shall, subject to appropriation and subject to the conditions of this section, appoint and may, at his pleasure, remove such assistant district attorneys as are necessary to the functioning of the office of the district attorney. Assistant district attorneys shall receive from the commonwealth salaries as recommended by the district attorney appointing them, subject to appropriation and subject to the conditions of this section. No assistant district attorney shall be appointed and no such salary shall be paid unless and until such position and such salary (a) shall have been recommenced in writing by the district attorney making the appointment and (b) shall have been included in a schedule of offices and positions approved by the house and senate committees on ways and means. The provisions of sections nine A and forty-five of chapter thirty, chapter thirty-one, and chapter one hundred and fifty E shall not apply to said assistant district attorneys. Assistant district attorneys shall devote their full time during ordinary business hours to their duties, and shall neither directly nor indirectly engage in the practice of law.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 18 - Appointment of an Assistant to District Attorney; Compensation

Section 18. If there is no assistant district attorney, the district attorney may employ a clerk to aid him; and in the northern, eastern, middle, Norfolk, Plymouth, Berkshire, Hampden and northwestern districts, the district attorney may appoint, for the sitting at which the appointment is made, a competent person to act as an assistant to the district attorney. The compensation of any person employed or appointed hereunder shall be paid by the commonwealth.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 19 - Suffolk District; Appointment of Messengers and Other Employees

Section 19. The district attorney for the Suffolk district may appoint a messenger and such stenographers, telephone operators and other office assistants as in his opinion the interests of the commonwealth require. The compensation of any person appointed hereunder shall be paid by the commonwealth, and any such person may be removed by said district attorney at his pleasure.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 20 - Additional Legal Assistants; Tenure; Compensation; Powers

Section 20. The district attorneys may each employ additional legal assistants. The length of time of such employment shall in no instance exceed six months. The amount of compensation shall be determined by the district attorney providing that for legal assistants who devote their entire time to the duties of legal assistants and do not, either directly or indirectly, engage in the private practice of law said compensation shall in no instance exceed ten thousand dollars and for part-time legal assistants shall in no instance exceed five thousand dollars. Such compensation shall be paid, subject to appropriation, by the commonwealth upon presentation of bills approved by the district attorney. In matters connected with the work for which he is so employed a legal assistant shall have all the powers and authority of an assistant district attorney.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 20a - Suffolk and Northern Districts; Special Assistant District Attorney, Appointment and Removal; Duties; Power; Salary

Section 20A. The district attorney for the Suffolk district and the district attorney for the northern district may each appoint an attorney at law as a special assistant district attorney, whose duties shall be the listing and assignment of cases, under the supervision of the district attorney, and may remove him at pleasure. Such special assistants shall have all powers of an assistant district attorney, and shall receive from the commonwealth a salary not exceeding twenty-one thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 20c - Special Assistant District Attorneys; Appointment, Removal and Salary; Participation in Federal Demonstration Programs

Section 20C. The district attorneys may each appoint and may remove at pleasure such additional attorneys-at-law as special assistant district attorneys as may be necessary to participate in federally funded demonstration programs under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 or other federal acts; provided that the compensation of such special assistant district attorneys shall be paid from federal funds. Such special assistant district attorneys shall have all the powers of assistant district attorneys and shall receive such salary not exceeding that provided in section sixteen for assistant district attorneys in their respective districts as the district attorney may determine.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 20d - District Attorneys Association; Executive Director; Report on Criminally Prosecuted Child Abuse and Neglect Cases

Section 20D. The district attorneys may appoint a suitable person to serve as executive director to the Massachusetts District Attorneys Association for the purpose of promoting prosecutorial resources and improving prosecutorial functions through the coordination and standardization of services and programs, together with providing information, technical assistance and educational services to ensure standardization in organization, goals, operations and procedures. The executive director may expend such funds as are appropriated therefor, together with additional funds from federal grants and other contributions that may be made available for these purposes, and may hire such professional assistants as shall be authorized. The executive director shall devote his time during ordinary business hours to his duties and shall neither directly nor indirectly engage in the practice of law.
The executive director shall annually report on the status of child abuse and neglect cases that have been referred for criminal prosecution, including the number prosecuted, the results of those prosecutions, the principal reason for decisions not to prosecute, and what resources would have assisted in those investigations and prosecutions. The report shall be filed with the clerks of the senate and the house, the senate and the house committees on ways and means, the joint committee on children, families and persons with disabilities, the joint committee on the judiciary, the child advocate, and the governor.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 21 - Suffolk District; Police and Detective Service

Section 21. The superintendent of police of Boston shall, upon the written request of the district attorney for the Suffolk district, detail for police and detective service under his direction inspectors or police officers, not exceeding two in number. Such inspectors or officers shall receive no extra compensation for services thus rendered, and shall be subject to the rules and regulations of the police department, unless relieved therefrom temporarily by said superintendent or by the police commissioner of Boston.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 23 - Payment for Traveling Expenses; Exceptions

Section 23. Except as otherwise provided in section twenty-four of this chapter and in section fifteen of chapter two hundred and seventy-six, district attorneys and assistant district attorneys shall receive for traveling expenses necessarily incurred in the performance of their official duties such sums as shall be approved by the district attorney, to be paid by the commonwealth. In each district the traveling and contingent expenses incurred by the district attorney, or his designee, while attending conventions that have been convened for the purpose of considering questions of law reform or statistics and other legal matters affecting the welfare of the people, and the membership dues of the district attorney, or his designee, in the National District Attorney Association, shall, subject to appropriation, be paid by the commonwealth, upon receipt of a certificate from the district attorney that they were necessarily incurred under the provisions of this section, and upon the approval of the district attorney.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 24 - Expenses Payable by Commonwealth

Section 24. A district attorney, in the name of the commonwealth, may contract such bills for stationery, experts, travel outside of the commonwealth by witnesses required by the commonwealth in the prosecution of cases, for necessary expenses incurred by himself or by officers and others under his direction in going outside of the commonwealth for the purpose of searching for or bringing back for trial persons under indictment or against whom complaints are pending in his district, and for such other expenses as may in his opinion be necessary for the proper conduct of his office in the investigation of or preparation and trial of criminal cases; and all such bills shall be paid by the commonwealth upon a certificate by the district attorney that they were necessarily incurred in the proper performance of his duty.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 25 - Advanced Expenses; Conditions; Vouchers

Section 25. Money to be used for the necessary expenses to be incurred by officers, under the direction of a district attorney, in going outside of the commonwealth for the purpose of searching for, or bringing back for trial, persons under indictment in any county in the district of said district attorney shall be advanced by the treasurer of the commonwealth, upon the presentation of a certificate signed by the district attorney and approved in the manner provided in the preceding section for approving bills incurred by district attorneys. After their return, such officers shall account for such money by filing with the treasurer itemized vouchers duly sworn to, approved by the district attorney and also approved in the manner provided in the preceding section for approving bills incurred by district attorneys. Such vouchers shall show the necessary expenses so incurred, and the difference between the amount advanced as aforesaid and the amount of the vouchers so approved shall be paid to the treasurer within thirty days after such return.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 25a - Advance of Expenses Necessary in Performance of Duties; Limitation; Accounting; Unexpended Balance

Section 25A. Money to be used for necessary expenses to be incurred in the performance of the duties of a district attorney in relation to any investigation or proceeding in any county in his district, to an amount not exceeding twenty-four thousand dollars in any one year, shall be advanced to him by the treasurer of the commonwealth, or placed to his credit for advance under his direction to persons designated by him, upon the presentation of a certificate signed by him certifying that such amount is necessary for use as aforesaid. Every sum so advanced shall be accounted for by the said district attorney within two months after such advance and said accounts shall be approved in the manner provided in section twenty-four for approving bills incurred by district attorneys; provided, that all sums so advanced by the treasurer during any financial year shall be accounted for, and any unexpended balances thereof be repaid to said treasurer, prior to January tenth next following the close of said financial year.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 27 - District Attorneys; Duties; Control of Attorney General

Section 27. District attorneys within their respective districts shall appear for the commonwealth in the superior court in all cases, criminal or civil, in which the commonwealth is a party or interested, and in the hearing, in the supreme judicial court, of all questions of law arising in the cases of which they respectively have charge, shall aid the attorney general in the duties required of him, and perform such of his duties as are not required of him personally; but the attorney general, when present, shall have the control of such cases. They may interchange official duties.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 28 - Suits on Recognizances; Discontinuance

Section 28. District attorneys shall commence suits upon recognizances in criminal cases within their respective districts within sixty days after default has been entered of record, or after they have satisfactory evidence of an act which would cause a forfeiture thereof, and shall prosecute them without delay. Such suits shall not be discontinued except with consent of the court or upon a certificate, signed by the sheriff or his deputy and filed in court, that the amount of the recognizance and the costs of suit have been paid to him. They may, however, be begun after the expiration of said sixty days.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 12 - Department of the Attorney General, and the District Attorneys › Section 30 - Fees for Services in Performance of Duty; Appearance in Civil Action

Section 30. No prosecuting officer shall receive any fee or reward from or in behalf of a prosecutor for services in any prosecution or business to which it is his official duty to attend, nor shall he be concerned as counsel or attorney for either party in a civil action depending upon the same facts involved in such prosecution or business.