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2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library › Section 17 - Commissions and Boards Serving Under Governor

Section 17. The armory commission, the art commission, the executive office for administration and finance, the commissioners of uniform state laws, the public bequest commission, the state ballot law commission, the Schooner Ernestina commission, the trustees of the state library, the Greylock reservation commission, the Port of Boston commission, the Massachusetts commission against discrimination, the Massachusetts office on disability, the state airport management board, weather amendment board, the boxers' fund board, state finance and governance board established under section 97 of chapter 6, medical, dental and nursing scholarship board, retirement law commission, the obscene literature control commission, the manufactured homes commission, the municipal police training committee, the Massachusetts rehabilitation commission, the service corps commission, the World War II memorial commission, the health and welfare commission, state council on juvenile behavior, governor's mansion commission, the American and Canadian French cultural exchange commission, Massachusetts educational communications commission, the committee on criminal justice, the commission on the employment of people with disabilities, the nutrition board, the office of the child advocate and the commission on employee involvement and ownership, shall serve under the governor, and shall be subject to such supervision as the governor deems necessary and proper.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library › Section 17a - Governor's Cabinet

[ Text of section effective until May 30, 2023. For text effective May 30, 2023, see below.]
Section 17A. There shall be a cabinet, which shall serve under the governor. The cabinet shall consist of the secretary of administration and finance, the secretary of education, the secretary of elder affairs, the secretary of energy and environmental affairs, the secretary of health and human services, the secretary of housing and economic development, the secretary of labor and workforce development, the secretary of public safety and security, the secretary of transportation, the secretary of veterans' services and other officers of the executive department that the governor may from time to time designate.
Chapter 6: Section 17A. Governor's cabinet
[ Text of section as amended by 2023, 7, Sec. 4 effective May 30, 2023. See 2023, 7, Sec. 298. For text effective until May 30, 2023, see above.]
Section 17A. There shall be a cabinet, which shall serve under the governor. The cabinet shall consist of the secretary of administration and finance, the secretary of education, the secretary of elder affairs, the secretary of energy and environmental affairs, the secretary of health and human services, the secretary of economic development, secretary of housing and livable communities, the secretary of labor and workforce development, the secretary of public safety and security, the secretary of transportation, the secretary of veterans' services and other officers of the executive department that the governor may from time to time designate.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library › Section 18 - Armory Commission

Section 18. There shall be an armory commission composed of the following members: the adjutant general, who shall serve as chairperson; the state quartermaster, who shall serve as clerk; 3 assistant adjutants general, 1 of whom shall be an army officer and 1 of whom shall be an air officer. Neither the adjutant general nor the state quartermaster shall receive additional compensation on account of their membership in the armory commission. The assistant adjutants general shall, if not currently on full-time military duty, receive 1 day's pay of grade and allowances for each day of service as a member of the armory commission.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library › Section 18b - Public Education Nominating Council; Membership; Duties

Section 18B. (a) A public education nominating council is hereby established to advise the governor with respect to appointments to the board of education, the board of higher education, and all boards of trustees of community colleges, state universities, and the University of Massachusetts, other than the student and alumni trustees elected pursuant to section twenty-one of chapter fifteen A, and in the case of the university, pursuant to section one A of chapter seventy-five. Said council shall consist of not fewer than twelve nor more than fifteen members and shall act with the concurrence of at least a majority of its members.
(b) Members of the council shall be appointed to serve without compensation for terms coterminous with that of the governor. Members may be reimbursed for all expenses reasonably incurred in the performance of their duties. Any succeeding appointments and vacancies on the council shall be filled by the governor. A member of the council shall be considered a ''person employed by the commonwealth for compensation'' for the purposes of section thirteen of chapter fifty-five.
(c) The governor shall from time to time select one member to serve as chair of the council. The council shall adopt and make public by-laws for the conduct of its affairs. All records and deliberations with respect to persons under consideration as nominees or prospective nominees shall be held in confidence by the council but shall be available to the governor and the governor's representatives.
(d) Whenever a vacancy occurs or is expected to occur on the board of education, the board of higher education or on a board of trustees, the governor shall notify the council. The council shall submit to the governor a list of persons who, in the judgment of the council, are qualified and willing to serve as members or trustees. Said list shall include at least twice as many names as there are vacant positions. The governor may appoint any person whose name is forwarded to him by the council. If the governor declines to appoint a person from any such list, the council shall submit additional names for that vacancy.
(e) In considering candidates, the council shall seek persons of the highest quality who, by experience, temperament, ability and integrity will provide policy direction and oversight for the commonwealth's educational system and its community colleges, state universities, and the University of Massachusetts. Candidates shall be evaluated according to law and without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation or political affiliation. There shall be persons from diverse cultural, racial, social, geographic and ethnic backgrounds on the council. No member of the council may be considered for appointment to any board while a member of the council.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library › Section 26 - Board of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws; Appointment; Term; Organization; Removal

Section 26. There shall be a board of commissioners on uniform state laws, consisting of three suitable persons, who shall be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the council, for five year terms. Within thirty days after the appointment of such commissioners, they shall meet and organize. The governor may remove for cause any or all of said commissioners.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library › Section 27 - Board of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws; Duties

Section 27. The commissioners shall examine subjects upon which uniformity of legislation in the various states of the United States is desirable, but which are outside of the jurisdiction of the congress of the United States; shall confer upon these matters with the commissioners appointed by other states for the same purpose; shall consider and draft uniform laws to be submitted for approval and adoption by the several states; and generally shall devise and recommend such other or further course of action as may tend to accomplish such purposes. They shall keep a record of their doings, and shall make an annual report.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library › Section 28 - Board of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws; Compensation and Expenses

Section 28. They shall serve without compensation, but each commissioner shall be paid by the commonwealth the amount of his actual traveling and other necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of his official duty, after an account thereof has been audited by the commissioners. They shall keep a full account of their expenditures. They may make a contribution each year toward the expenses of the conference of commissioners on uniform state laws, to be paid from the appropriation for the expenses of the commissioners at the discretion of the attorney general.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library › Section 33 - Board of Trustees of the State Library

Section 33. There shall be a board of trustees of the state library, consisting of the president of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives and the state secretary, who shall be trustees ex-officiis, and four other persons appointed by the governor, of whom one shall be appointed annually for a four year term commencing June first of the year of appointment. An ex-officio member of the board may designate another person to serve in his place by notice in writing to the librarian. Any person so designated shall serve until such member ceases to be a member of the board ex-officio or until sooner removed by such member by notice in writing to the librarian stating the reasons for removal. The board shall elect from its membership a chairman to serve for a term of one year. The librarian shall serve as clerk to the board. Four members of the board, or their designees, shall constitute a quorum for the conduct of the official business of the board.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library › Section 34 - Powers and Duties of Trustees of the State Library

Section 34. Said trustees shall have the management and control of the state library and of the moneys appropriated therefor. They may sell or otherwise dispose of such books belonging to the library as they consider unsuitable for its purposes, and they may deposit any duplicate volumes for safe keeping and use in any town, city or college library in the commonwealth, upon such terms and conditions as they shall prescribe. They may make and enforce rules for the use of the library, and shall see that its rooms are properly prepared for the accommodation of persons permitted to use them.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library › Section 35 - Librarian of the State Library; Compensation, Etc.

Section 35. The governor, with the advice and consent of the council, shall appoint a librarian of the state library, who shall hold office during their pleasure and the position of librarian shall be classified in accordance with section forty-five of chapter thirty and the salary shall be determined in accordance with section forty-six C of said chapter thirty.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library › Section 36 - Expenditures for State Library; Approval of Accounts

Section 36. The trustees of the state library may expend such sums annually as the general court may appropriate for permanent assistants and clerks, for books, maps, papers, periodicals and other material for the library and for binding the same and for incidental expenses including binding their report. All accounts for the maintenance of the state library shall be approved by the trustees thereof or by such person as may be designated for the purpose in a vote of said trustees who shall, nevertheless, remain responsible for such approval.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library › Section 37 - Trustees of the State Library; Annual Report

Section 37. The trustees of the state library shall keep records of their doings, and shall make an annual report thereof, with a list of books, maps and charts lost, missing or acquired during the preceding fiscal year, specifying those obtained by exchange, gift or purchase, and such suggestions for the improvement of the library as they may deem proper.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library › Section 37a - Gifts in Trust for State Library

Section 37A. The said trustees may receive in trust for the commonwealth any gift or bequest of money or securities for any purpose incident to the uses of the state library, and shall forthwith transfer any money or securities so received to the state treasurer, who shall administer the same as provided by section sixteen of chapter ten.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library › Section 38 - State Library; Location; Persons Authorized to Use

Section 38. The state library shall be in the state house, and shall be kept open every day except Saturday, Sunday and legal holidays for the use of the governor, lieutenant governor, council, general court and such officers of the government and other persons as may be permitted to use it.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library › Section 39 - Definitions Applicable to Secs. 39 to 39b

Section 39. As used in sections thirty-nine to thirty-nine B, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meanings, unless the context otherwise requires:—
''Agency'', each agency, office, state-supported institution of higher education, department, authority, executive office, bureau, officer, board, committee, task force, commission, special commission, division, executive office of the commonwealth, whether permanent or temporary in nature, including any state agency supported wholly or in part by public funds.
''Publication'', any document, study, rule, regulation, report, directory, pamphlet, brochure, periodical, newsletter, bibliography, microphotographic form, tape or disc recording, annual, biennial or special report, statistical compendium, or other printed material regardless of its format or manner of duplication, issued in the name of or at the request of any agency of the commonwealth or produced and issued as part of a contract entered into by any agency of the commonwealth regardless of the source of funding, provided they constitute ''public records'' as defined in clause Twenty-sixth of section seven of chapter four, excepting correspondence, blank forms, and university press publications.
''Regional public libraries'', those libraries as defined in section nineteen C of chapter seventy-eight. These definitions shall not include any records of the general court.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library › Section 39a - Depository Library for State Publications; Collection; System

Section 39A. (1) In order that all state publications of the commonwealth are preserved and made available for the use of citizens of the state, the state library is hereby designated as the depository library for Massachusetts state publications.
(2) The state library shall maintain a complete collection of Massachusetts state publications, both current and historic.
(3) A depository library system, providing for the distribution of state documents to the Library of Congress and to each of the regional public libraries in the state shall be established and maintained by the state library.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library › Section 39b - State Library; Copies of State Agency Publications

Section 39B. Each state agency shall furnish the state library eight copies of its publications. Said copies shall be forwarded to the state library no later than five working days after they are received from the printer or contractor. The state library shall make three copies available for public consultation in the library and for permanent historic preservation by the library. The others shall be provided to the Library of Congress and to each of the state's regional public libraries.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library › Section 40 - Board of Trustees for State-Operated Veterans' Homes

Section 40. (a) There shall be a board of trustees for each state-operated veterans' home, consisting of 5 persons, 3 of whom shall be war veterans, Gold Star Mothers or Gold Star family members, family members of active or former residents or family members of disabled American veterans. Upon the expiration of the term of office of a member, a successor shall be appointed by the secretary of veterans' services established in subsection (a) of section 14 of chapter 115A, with the approval of the governor, to serve for 5 years. The governor may remove a member for cause at any time during the member's term. The members shall vote to select a chair. The members shall serve without compensation, but shall receive their necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of their official duties.
(b) The boards of trustees for each state-operated veterans' home shall represent the local community, residents and family members of residents of each home on the veterans' homes council established in section 41. Each member of the boards of trustees shall serve ex officio, as voting members, on the veterans' homes council.
(c) The boards of trustees for each state-operated veterans' home shall each nominate 1 candidate for superintendent of their respective veterans' home for approval by the veterans' homes council, who shall then submit their final candidate to the secretary of veterans' services for consideration for appointment.
(d) The boards of trustees for each state-operated veterans' home shall hold and administer in trust the property included in the ''legacy fund'' and the ''effects accounts'', if the transfer thereof to the commonwealth is effected pursuant to a decree of a court of competent jurisdiction and in accordance with the terms and conditions imposed by such decree.
(e) All members of the boards of trustees for each state-operated veterans' home shall complete annual training pursuant to paragraph (5) of subsection (a) of section 41.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library › Section 74 - Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission; Establishment; Expenditure of Funds

Section 74. There shall be a commission for the rehabilitation of handicapped persons to be known as the Massachusetts rehabilitation commission, in this section and in sections seventy-five to eighty-four, inclusive, called the commission. The commission shall cooperate with all federal agencies in the administration of 29 USC 720, relating to the rehabilitation of handicapped persons, and may expend, subject to appropriation, such state, federal or other funds as are available for the rehabilitation, employment, and independent living needs of handicapped persons.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library › Section 76 - Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission; Advisory Council

Section 76. There shall be an advisory council to consist of fourteen members to be appointed by the secretary of health and human services, with the approval of the governor. Said advisory council shall advise the commissioner in matters of interest relating to the delivery of rehabilitation services. At least five of the members shall be individuals or immediate family members of individuals with handicaps. The terms of the initial members shall be as follows: three shall be appointed for one year, three shall be appointed for two years, three shall be appointed for three years and five shall be appointed for four years. Upon the expiration of the term of a member, his successor shall be appointed for a term of four years. Said members shall elect a chairman and shall meet at least quarterly. They shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed for expenses necessarily incurred in the performance of their duties. If any member is absent from two regularly scheduled quarterly meetings in any one calendar year, the office of such member may be declared vacant by the chairman. Upon notification by the chairman that a vacancy exists, the secretary of health and human services shall appoint, with the approval of the governor, another member to fill the unexpired term.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library › Section 78 - Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission; Vocational Rehabilitation Services; Independent Living Rehabilitation Services

Section 78. (1) The commission shall, subject to appropriation, directly provide or purchase vocational rehabilitation services or independent living rehabilitation services for any handicapped individual who meets the eligibility criteria prescribed by the commission and who is present in the state at the time of filing his application therefor; provided, however, that those vocational rehabilitation services set forth in clauses (4) to (15), inclusive, of section seventy-seven shall be provided at public cost only to those handicapped individuals who are found by the commission to require financial assistance with respect thereto; and provided, further that the commission for the blind shall provide vocational rehabilitation services to the blind. The commission shall, prior to providing any of the vocational rehabilitation services set forth in clauses (4) to (15), inclusive, of section seventy-seven consider similar benefits available to the handicapped individuals. If vocational rehabilitation services cannot be provided to all eligible handicapped individuals who apply therefor, the commission shall provide by regulations the order to be followed in selecting those to whom such services will be provided.
(2) The commission shall, subject to appropriation, develop and provide, either directly or through purchase of service, such other rehabilitation services as it determines are necessary and appropriate to enable a handicapped individual to live independently and function within his family and community. The commission shall prescribe eligibility requirements for each such service.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library › Section 78a - Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission; Extended Sheltered Employment

Section 78A. The commission shall, subject to appropriation, administer a program of extended sheltered employment for those handicapped persons over sixteen years of age, who, after individual evaluation, are determined unemployable in the competitive labor market, but who are able to maintain acceptable levels of attendance and productive capacity in extended sheltered employment in a program administered by a private nonprofit organization. The levels of attendance and productive capacity which shall be deemed acceptable shall be established by regulations promulgated by the commission. The commission shall inspect the facilities for extended sheltered employment of such private nonprofit organizations and shall maintain a register of such organizations which it approves as qualified to meet the needs of such handicapped persons and eligible to receive funds. The commission may contract with such organizations for the furnishing of such extended sheltered employment; provided, however, that the rate payable by the commission for such services shall be subject to the approval of the operational services division within the executive office of administration and finance.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library › Section 79 - Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission; Powers and Duties

Section 79. The commission shall have the following powers and duties:—
(a) it shall continuously study the problems of vocational rehabilitation and may make investigations, demonstrations and reports thereon, and shall establish and maintain contact with such physicians, persons, programs, instrumentalities, organizations or facilities rendering any one or more of the services authorized under the provisions of sections seventy-four to eighty-three, inclusive, and the commissioner shall be satisfied with regard to qualifications to deliver such services; said qualifications for physicians shall include evidence of certification by an appropriate American medical specialty board and with respect to persons, programs, instrumentalities, organizations or facilities, said qualifications shall include, but need not necessarily be limited to, a demonstrated ability to deliver one or more of such services;
(b) it may enter into reciprocal agreements with other states to provide for the vocational rehabilitation of residents of said other states;
(c) it may enter into contracts for the purpose of providing or planning for the provision of services to handicapped individuals;
(d) it may establish and operate rehabilitation facilities and workshops and may make grants to public and contracts with private nonprofit organizations for such purposes;
(e) it may supervise the operation of small business enterprises established to be conducted by handicapped persons;
(f) it may conduct other programs for the provision of rehabilitation and other services to handicapped individuals as it determines are necessary to enhance the ability of a handicapped individual to live independently and function within his family and community and, if appropriate, secure and maintain employment;
(g) it shall maintain records of all persons who are determined by the commission to be fit and eligible for vocational rehabilitation and the actions and procedures taken by the commission in regard to the persons so determined;
(h) it shall make an annual report to the general court, a copy of which shall be filed with the clerk of the house of representatives on or before the first Wednesday in December;
(i) in conjunction with the executive office of health and human services, it shall maintain a central registry of apartment housing which is accessible or adaptable, as defined in section thirteen A of chapter twenty-two, and a list of persons seeking accessible or adaptable apartment housing and shall notify them as said apartment housing becomes available and shall maintain a toll free telephone line, subject to appropriation, for persons to obtain information about accessible and adaptable apartment housing.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library › Section 80 - Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission; Additional Powers and Duties

Section 80. In carrying out the provisions of sections seventy-four to eighty-four, inclusive, the commission shall cooperate with relevant federal agencies and shall develop a state plan including such methods of administration as are found by said agencies and the commission to be necessary for the proper and efficient operation of the commission, to assure that full financial benefits of all federal laws may be available to the commonwealth and the citizens thereof.
The commission is authorized to enter into an agreement on behalf of the commonwealth with relevant federal agencies to carry out the provisions of the federal social security act relating to the making of determinations of disability 42 USC 1381 to 1383(c), inclusive, of said act, and to appoint such agents or assistants as may be necessary to administer the provisions of such agreements.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library › Section 81 - Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission; Cooperation With State Agencies; Agreements

Section 81. The commission shall cooperate with the department of industrial accidents in the executive office of labor and workforce development, the department of career services in the executive office of labor and workforce development, the departments of transitional assistance, children and families, public health, developmental services and mental health, and such other departments, divisions or subdivisions of the commonwealth as are charged or concerned with the rehabilitation of handicapped persons. Where practicable, the commission shall enter into agreements, confirmed in writing, setting forth procedures whereby said handicapped persons are located and listed to have their fitness and eligibility for rehabilitation services determined by the commission. The commission shall also enter into agreement with the department of career services, under which handicapped persons receiving vocational rehabilitation may be referred for preplacement interview or for job placement to the appropriate one-stop career centers; provided, that nothing in said agreement shall prevent reference of said handicapped persons to employment through the commission.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library › Section 82 - Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission; Federal Funds; Custodian; Expenditure

Section 82. The state treasurer shall be supervisor of funds allotted to the commonwealth from appropriations made pursuant to the federal laws set forth in sections seventy-four and eighty. The funds so allotted shall be expended, without specific appropriation, under the order or the approval of the Massachusetts rehabilitation commission.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library › Section 83 - Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission; Gifts to Commission; Acceptance; Investment

Section 83. The commission is hereby authorized and directed to accept and use gifts made unconditionally by will or otherwise for carrying out the provisions of sections seventy-four to eighty-four, inclusive. Gifts made under such conditions as in the judgment of the commission are proper and consistent with said provisions may be so accepted and shall be held, invested, reinvested and the principal and interest thereof may be used in accordance with the conditions of the gift and may be expended under the order or the approval of the commission without specific appropriation.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library › Section 84 - Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission; Information or Records Confidential

Section 84. All records relating to clients and applicants of the commission and all personal and medical information or records given or made available to the commission, including but not limited to, names and addresses of clients and applicants, shall be confidential and for the exclusive use of the commission in the discharge of its duties. Such records or information shall not be open to the public notwithstanding the provisions of section ten of chapter sixty-six or any other general or special law. The provisions of chapter sixty-six A shall be applicable to all such records or information except that notwithstanding said chapter sixty-six A, upon request, relevant information or records concerning a client or applicant shall be made available to that client or applicant or with his written authority, to his attorney, and in the case of medical or psychological records or information, the knowledge of which may be harmful to the client or applicant, the commission shall prescribe by regulation that such records or information shall be released to the client or applicant or the parent, guardian or other authorized representative of the client or applicant or that such records or information shall be released to the client or applicant by a duly licensed physician or psychologist. Notwithstanding any other general or special law to the contrary, the commission may publish information in statistical form without disclosing the identity of the clients or applicants involved.
For the purpose of this section, the term ''client'' shall mean a handicapped person who is receiving or who is eligible to receive or who is a person who has received any one or more of the services authorized under the provisions of sections seventy-four to eighty-three, inclusive, and the term ''applicant'' shall mean a person who has applied for or has attempted to apply for any services from the commission.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library › Section 85 - Definitions Applicable to Secs. 86 to 92

Section 85. As used in sections eighty-six to ninety-two, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meaning unless the context indicates otherwise:—
''Atomic energy'', all forms of energy released in the course of nuclear fission or nuclear transformation.
''By-product material'', any radio-active material, except special nuclear materials, yielded in or made radio-active by exposure to the radiation incident to the process of producing or utilizing special nuclear materials.
''Operator'', any individual who manipulates the controls of a utilization or production facility.
''Production facility'', (a) any equipment or device capable of the production of special nuclear material in such quantity as to be of significance to the common defense and security, or in such manner as to affect the health and safety of the public; or (b) any important component part especially designed for such equipment or device.
''Special nuclear material'', (a) plutonium and uranium enriched in the isotope 233 or in the isotope 235, and any other material which the governor declares by order to be special nuclear material after the United States Atomic Energy Commission has determined the material to be such; or (b) any material artificially enriched by any of the foregoing.
''Utilization facility'', (a) any equipment or device, except an atomic weapon, capable of making use of special nuclear materials in such quantity as to be of significance to the common defense and security, or in such manner as to affect the health and safety of the public, or peculiarly adapted for making use of atomic energy in such quantity as to be of significance to the common defense and security, or in such manner as to affect the health and safety of the public; or (b) any important component part especially designed for such equipment or device.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library › Section 88 - Atomic Energy Commission; Duties

Section 88. Said commission shall keep itself fully and currently informed on the development of atomic energy as it may affect the welfare of the commonwealth, shall consult and advise with the co-ordinator of atomic development, and the governor and council, and shall render an annual report on the progress of atomic energy development in the commonwealth for the information and guidance of the general court and the public. The commission shall, at the call of the chairman, meet within the commonwealth not less often than four times annually but may meet at such other times and at such places, within or without the commonwealth as the chairman deems necessary.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library › Section 91 - Nuclear Material or Facility; Changes in Laws; Certain Departments to Initiate Studies

Section 91. The following departments, divisions and agencies are directed to initiate and to pursue continuing studies as to the need, if any, for changes in the laws and regulations administered by them that would arise from the presence within the commonwealth of special nuclear materials and by-product materials, and from the operation herein of production or utilization facilities, and, on the basis of such studies, to make such recommendations for the enactment of laws or amendments to law administered by it, and such proposals for amendments to the regulations issued by it, as may appear necessary and appropriate:
1. The department of public health, particularly as to hazards, if any, to the public health and safety.
2. The department of labor standards, particularly as to hazardous working conditions, if any.
3. The department of industrial accidents, particularly as to the time and character of proof of claims of injuries and the extent of the compensation allowable therefor.
4. The department of highways, particularly as to the transportation of special nuclear materials and by-product materials on highways of the commonwealth.
5. The department of telecommunications and energy, particularly as to the transportation of special nuclear materials and by-product materials by common carriers not in interstate commerce and as to the participation by public utilities subject to its jurisdiction in projects looking to the development of production or utilization facilities for industrial or commercial use.
6. The division of insurance, particularly as to the insurance of persons and property from hazards to life and property resulting from atomic development.
7. The department of environmental management, particularly as to the hazards, if any, to the natural resources of the commonwealth, including wild life.
8. Such other departments, divisions and agencies including departments and agencies of political subdivisions of the commonwealth as the governor may direct and for the purposes specified by him.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library › Section 92 - Nuclear Material or Facility; License or Permit

Section 92. No person shall manufacture, construct, produce, transfer, acquire or possess any special nuclear material, by-product material, production facility, or utilization facility, or act as an operator of a production or utilization facility within this commonwealth unless he shall have first obtained a license or permit for the activity in which he proposes to engage from the United States Atomic Energy Commission if, pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, the Commission requires a license or permit to be obtained by persons proposing to engage in activities of the same type over which it has jurisdiction.
Special nuclear materials, as defined in Section 2014 of Title 42 of the United States Code, produced in industrial, commercial or medical facilities may not be transferred, reprocessed, used or otherwise made available by any person for nuclear explosive purposes.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library › Section 93 - Nuclear Material or Facility; Injunction Against Violations

Section 93. Whenever, in the opinion of the attorney general, any person is violating or is about to violate section ninety-two, the attorney general may apply to the appropriate court for an order enjoining such person from engaging or continuing to engage in the activity violative of said section, and upon a showing that such person has engaged, or is about to engage, in any such activity, a permanent or temporary injunction, restraining order or other order may be granted.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth › Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library › Section 97 - State Finance and Governance Board; Membership

Section 97. (a) As used in this section and section 98, the following words shall have the following meanings:
''Board'', the state finance and governance board established by subsection (b).
''Derivative financial products'', financial instruments with values derived from or based upon the value of other assets or on the level of an interest rate index including, but not limited to, detached call options, interest rate swaps or swaptions, caps, floors and collars, but not including bond insurance or other credit or liquidity enhancement of bonds or notes or agreements related to the lending or investment of the proceeds of bonds or notes.
''State entity'', the commonwealth, a state authority or another state entity with responsibility for managing and overseeing public funds.
''Secretary'', the secretary of administration and finance.
(b) There shall be a state finance and governance board consisting of 5 members: 3 of whom shall be appointed by the governor and 2 of whom shall be appointed by the state treasurer. Upon the expiration of the term of a member, a successor shall be appointed for a term of 4 years. At least 2 members appointed by the governor shall be persons with expert knowledge of the field of public finance. The governor shall designate 1 of the members to serve as chair. The members shall serve without compensation but shall receive their necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of their official duties. The secretary shall provide the board with appropriate staff and other assistance and may engage professionals to advise the board.