TITLE VI COUNTIES AND COUNTY OFFICERS
- CHAPTER 34 COUNTIES AND COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
- Section 1 Boundaries in tide water; powers
- Section 2 Alteration of maps
- Section 3 Public buildings
- Section 3A Repealed, 1978, 349, Sec. 3
- Section 4 Election; tenure
- Section 5 Salaries
- Section 5A Salaries; acceptance of provision of this section
- Section 6 Repealed, 1930, 400, Sec. 2
- Section 7 Commissioners acting by appointment; compensation; travel expenses
- Section 8 Statement of expenses; certification; payment; audit
- Section 9 Meetings; frequency; location; special meetings
- Section 9A Records
- Section 9B Docket defined
- Section 9C Files defined
- Section 9D Record of payments; form and contents
- Section 9E Extended record; form and contents
- Section 9F Definitions
- Section 9G Open meetings of governmental bodies
- Section 10 Record of proceedings; copy to director of accounts
- Section 11 Clerical employees; temporary clerk; duties
- Section 12 Absence or disqualification of commissioners; appointment of substitute; tenure
- Section 13 Powers; administration of oaths; punishment for contempt
- Section 14 Additional powers
- Section 14A Associate commissioner for affairs concerning the elderly
- Section 14B Associate commissioner for affairs concerning handicapped persons
- Section 15 Qualification of officers; return to state secretary
- Section 16 Office hours; holidays; certain acts performable on next business day
- Section 17 Repealed, 1989, 687, Sec. 4
- Section 18 Recognizances and damages
- Section 19 Proceedings at other times than regular meetings and returns thereof
- Section 20 Applicability of laws relating to county commissioners and clerks to certain other officers
- Section 21 Official letters
- Section 22 Breach or neglect of duty; penalty
- Section 23 Gifts; use and disposition
- Section 24 Federal grants; acceptance, custody and disposition
- Section 25 Acquisition of real property
- CHAPTER 34A COUNTY CHARTER PROCEDURES
- Section 1 Short title; definitions
- Section 2 Power to adopt or revise charters
- Section 3 Elections to create charter study commissions; petitions
- Section 4 Election of charter study commission members
- Section 5 Candidates for charter commission; nomination
- Section 6 Members of charter commission; boundaries of election districts
- Section 7 First meeting; officers; vacancies; expenses
- Section 8 Function of commission
- Section 9 Powers and duties of commission; funds; assistance; tax levy
- Section 10 Nonvoting members
- Section 11 Public hearings; reports; publication of proposed charter
- Section 12 Report and recommendation; findings and determinations
- Section 13 Optional forms of government, referendum; special charter, enabling legislation
- Section 14 Petitions for adoption or revision of charters
- Section 15 Application of optional plans and general laws; abolition or consolidation of agencies; intent of chapter
- Section 16 Powers and duties of counties
- Section 17 County executive plan
- Section 18 County manager plan
- Section 19 Board chairperson plan
- Section 20 Relations between legislative and executive branches
- Section 21 Applicability
- CHAPTER 34B ABOLITION OF COUNTY GOVERNMENT
- Section 1 Transfer date for abolished counties
- Section 2 Governments of abolished counties
- Section 3 County commissioners; terms
- Section 4 Abolished counties’ functions, duties and responsibilities transferred to commonwealth; employees transferred under administrative office of trial court
- Section 5 Liabilities, debts and assets of abolished counties
- Section 6 Real and personal property of abolished counties
- Section 7 Leases and contracts of abolished counties
- Section 8 Plan to recover amounts paid by commonwealth for liabilities and debts of abolished counties
- Section 9 Treasurers of abolished counties
- Section 10 Registries of deeds of abolished counties; employees, functions and proceedings transferred to commonwealth
- Section 11 Rights of employees of registries of deeds
- Section 12 Sheriffs of abolished counties
- Section 13 Employees of sheriffs of abolished counties
- Section 14 Sheriffs, deputies, jailers, superintendents, keepers, officers, and assistants and other employees of the sheriffs of abolished counties
- Section 15 Statutory rights of employees of abolished counties
- Section 16 Group insurance coverage for employees
- Section 17 Education aid for independent agricultural and technical schools
- Section 18 Retirement systems
- Section 19 Regional retirement systems; boards; members
- Section 20 Cities and towns; regional charter commissions; regional councils of government
- Section 21 Secretary of administration and finance; plans for effective transfer of county functions to commonwealth
- Section 22 Municipalities of abolished counties; dog funds
- CHAPTER 35 COUNTY TREASURERS, STATE SUPERVISION OF COUNTY ACCOUNTS AND COUNTY FINANCES
- Section 1 Qualifications; election; tenure
- Section 2 Assistant treasurer; bond; duties
- Section 3 Oaths; bonds
- Section 4 Salaries; source of payment
- Section 5, 6 Repealed, 1931, 301, Sec. 5
- Section 7 Commissioners acting by appointment; compensation; travel expenses
- Section 8 Traveling expenses
- Section 9 Wilful violation of duty; penalties
- Section 10 Collection and disbursement of county funds; investment of funds
- Section 10A Disbursement of matching funds for federally funded programs
- Section 11 Payment of expenses, etc.; restrictions
- Section 12 Expenses of court sittings; court costs for indigent parties; delivery of bills to treasurer
- Section 13 Filing of bills
- Section 14 Statement of law authorizing payment of accounts; liability for payments; exceptions
- Section 15 Accounts; form and contents
- Section 16 Fiscal year
- Section 17 Repealed, 1931, 426, Sec. 4
- Section 18 Suffolk and Nantucket counties; applicability of laws
- Section 19 County salaries; payment; payroll deductions; deposits to employee bank accounts authorized
- Section 19A Accumulated vacation allowance; payment upon death or separation from service
- Section 19B Deceased officers and employees; payment of salary to next of kin; effect
- Section 19C Deposits in credit union; pension or retirement allowances
- Section 20 Prosecution of suits upon bonds, notes, etc.; joinder of treasurer as party
- Section 21 Delinquency of officers as to money payments; notification of district attorney
- Section 22 Disposition of surplus money; deposits; investments; interest
- Section 22A Deposit of funds restricted
- Section 23 Money paid into courts; disposition; interest
- Section 23A Unclaimed funds; disposition
- Section 24 Overdue accounts; interest charge
- Section 25 Annual report; contents
- Section 26 Annual report of county commissioners; contents
- Section 26A Capital facilities and capital facility projects; jurisdiction of capital planning and operations division
- Section 27 Annual reports; publication and distribution
- Section 27A Treasurer and custodian of certain funds
- Section 28 Estimates of county receipts and expenditures; preparation; recordation
- Section 28A Repealed, 1981, 351, Sec. 143
- Section 28B Advisory board for county expenditures; action on proposed budget; public hearing; capital improvement fund
- Section 28C Repealed, 1981, 351, Sec. 145
- Section 29 Repealed, 1981, 351, Sec. 145A
- Section 30 Taxes; approval; computation
- Section 31 Taxes; apportionment, assessment and collection
- Section 32 Provisions of appropriation acts for counties and county hospitals; approved schedules; certification; transfers; purposes; expenditures in excess of appropriations; reserve fund
- Section 32A Contributory retirement systems; anticipated costs; recovery of pension costs
- Section 33 Repealed, 1960, 282, Sec. 2
- Section 34 Expenses and liabilities incurred prior to appropriations; limitations; exceptions
- Section 34A Expenses incurred prior to appropriation; highway agreements excepted
- Section 35 Enforcement of provisions; conditions
- Section 36 County receipts, cash on hand and expenditures; monthly account
- Section 36A Emergency borrowing for extraordinary expenditures
- Section 37 Borrowing funds in anticipation of tax income
- Section 37A Bonds and notes; method of payment; use of proceeds; limitations
- Section 37B Temporary notes; refunding; payment
- Section 38 Sale of notes or securities; bids required; exceptions
- Section 38A Bonds issued subject to call and redemption
- Section 38B Refunding bonds and notes; issuance; limitations
- Section 39 Interest rates
- Section 39A Forms for note issues; contents, etc.
- Section 39B Notes; procedure for issuance
- Section 39C Bearer notes; procedure for issuance
- Section 39D Payment of notes; notice
- Section 39E Certification fee; refunds
- Section 39F Effect of certification
- Section 39G Facsimile of county seal on bonds, etc.; validity
- Section 39H Facsimile of county seal on bonds, etc.; authorization of making and use
- Section 39I Facsimile of county seal on bonds or notes; validity of signatures of officers leaving office before delivery of bonds or notes
- Section 40 Fines; accounting; returns
- Section 41 Payments to treasurers; sworn statements
- Section 42 Auditor of Boston; additional duty
- Section 43 Exchange of order instruments for bearer instruments; penalty for noncompliance
- Section 43A Surety bonds of officers and employees; payment of premiums
- Section 43B Recovery on surety bonds of officers and employees; effect of acceptance by county of additional annual bond
- Section 44 Examination of accounts of county treasurers
- Section 45 Examinations of accounts of other county officers
- Section 46 Annual report of commissioner of revenue
- Section 47 Penalty for noncompliance with orders
- Section 48 Establishment of board; membership; election; tenure, etc.
- Section 49 Classification of positions; “salary” defined
- Section 50 Director of accounts; powers and duties
- Section 51 Personnel board; powers and duties; discharge of employees, etc.
- Section 51A Definitions
- Section 51B Salary schedules
- Section 52 Classification and allocation of offices and positions; review
- Section 53 County commissioners; powers and duties
- Section 53A Director of affirmative action; affirmative action plan; reports
- Section 54 Newly elected officers, etc., to receive minimum rate; exceptions; recommendations for promotions, etc.
- Section 55 Salaries to be full compensation; overtime pay, etc.
- Section 56 Suffolk county; applicability of act; classification agencies in other counties
- Section 57 Deferred compensation program for employees; authorized investments; requisites; limitations
- Section 57A Employee individual retirement accounts
- CHAPTER 36 REGISTERS OF DEEDS
- Section 1 Registry districts
- Section 2 Election; qualification; tenure
- Section 3 Oath of office; bond
- Section 4 Assistant registers; appointment
- Section 5 Assistant registers in Suffolk county and southern district of Middlesex
- Section 5A Second assistant register and administrative assistant for Norfolk county
- Section 6 Assistant registers for districts of southern Essex and Worcester and Hampden county
- Section 7 Chief clerk in Worcester district
- Section 8 Assistant and temporary registers and clerks; powers and duties
- Section 9 Removal
- Section 10 Duties of new register as to unrecorded instruments
- Section 11 Office hours
- Section 12 Place of record
- Section 12A Refusal to accept certain instruments for recording authorized
- Section 13 Recording of certified copies of instruments in more than county or district
- Section 13A Plans, rules for filing in registries
- Section 13B Plans; filing in registry of deeds; fees
- Section 14 Registry book; form; entries
- Section 14A Certification of historic or archeological site; recording of notice
- Section 15 Method of recording documents; microphotographs
- Section 16 Recordation; receipts of federal succession taxes
- Section 17 Duplicate records; attestation; effect of copies; fees
- Section 18 Attestation of records by volume
- Section 18A Illegible signatures
- Section 19 Facsimile signatures
- Section 20 Instruments affecting mortgages registered in different counties
- Section 21 Marginal references on record of instruments affecting certain mortgages
- Section 22 Instruments affecting interests created by delinquent taxes or assessments; recordation
- Section 23 Recordation; certification of book and page number on instruments
- Section 24 Recordation; federal liens; filing fee
- Section 24A Recordation; petitions, decrees or orders in bankruptcy
- Section 24B Records affecting title to real estate; copies to tax assessors; required information
- Section 25 Indexes; number; form
- Section 26 Entries in indexes; time and manner of making
- Section 27 Recordation; instruments executed by agents; decrees in partition
- Section 28 Classified copies of indexes
- Section 29 New or copies of indexes; printing; selling price
- Section 30 Estimates of cost of indexing
- Section 31 Repealed, 1952, 250, Sec. 2
- Section 31A Notice to commissioner of revenue; recording
- Section 32 Instruments creating interest in property; notice to department of public welfare
- Section 32A Identification of husbands and wives in documents and communications
- Section 33 Salaries
- Section 34 to 36 Repealed, 1931, 301, Sec. 12
- Section 37 Compensation for title work
- Section 38 Clerical assistants; compensation
- Section 39 Fees; recordation; disposition
- Section 40 Technology purchase’s by register of deeds; compatibility with other registers
- Section 41 Surcharge on fees of registers of deeds and assistant recorders; registries under control of county government; surcharge to fund improvements at registries; disposition of surcharge
- CHAPTER 37 SHERIFFS
- Section 1 Election
- Section 2 Oath and bond
- Section 3 Deputies; appointment; oath
- Section 4 Special sheriff; appointment; oath; bond; powers
- Section 5 Special sheriffs; powers and duties
- Section 6 Repealed, 1924, 404, Sec. 5
- Section 7 Failure to post bond; penalty
- Section 8 Suits on bonds of sheriffs
- Section 9 Copies of sheriff’s bonds; source; use as evidence
- Section 10 Suits against sheriff; procedure for satisfying judgment
- Section 11 Duties of sheriffs and deputies; service of precepts
- Section 12 Duties of sheriffs and deputies; service of demands, notices and citations
- Section 13 Powers and duties; requisition of aid
- Section 14 Service of writs and precepts after removal
- Section 15 Service of writs against the sheriff or deputies
- Section 16 Attendance at sessions of courts
- Section 17 Salaries
- Section 18 to 20 Repealed, 1931, 301, Sec. 15
- Section 21 Traveling expenses
- Section 21A Travel vouchers or other verification of travel expenses
- Section 22 Accounting of fees; disposition of funds
- Section 23 Repealed, 1937, 148
- Section 24 Transportation of prisoners or persons in custody; sheriffs’ duties
- Section 25 Transportation of prisoners or persons in custody; costs; appropriations; report
- CHAPTER 38 MEDICAL EXAMINERS AND INQUESTS
- Section 1 Definitions
- Section 1A to 1C Repealed, 1992, 368, Sec. 2
- Section 2 Chief medical examiner; qualifications; appointment; powers and duties; district medical examiners
- Section 2A State and local multidisciplinary child fatality review teams
- Section 3 Duty to report deaths; failure to report
- Section 4 Investigation; transportation of bodies
- Section 4A Death resulting from single-vehicle accident; blood sample analysis; liability of medical examiner
- Section 5 Cooperation with office of chief medical examiner
- Section 6 Unmarked human skeletal remains; notice to office of chief medical examiner; inquiry; notification of commission on Indian affairs
- Section 7 Attorney general; notice of circumstances of death
- Section 8 Inquests
- Section 9 Accidental deaths; public conveyances; transcript of inquest
- Section 10 Report of findings by court
- Section 11 Persons charged with crime; arrest
- Section 12 Embalming fluid; restriction on use
- Section 13 Release of body; pronouncement of death
- Section 14 Bodies intended for cremation or burial at sea; authorization; fees
- Section 15 Personal property of deceased; disposition