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Section 1Definitions
Section 2Creation; board or directors; officers and employees
Section 3Powers
Section 4Massachusetts Transportation Trust Fund
Section 5Organization and function as a single state agency for administrative purposes; reporting requirements; manager; annual information technology plan
Section 6Office of performance management and innovation; duties
Section 7Employee performance evaluation program
Section 8Money received to be held as trust funds
Section 9Internal special audit unit
Section 10Office of transportation planning
Section 11Publication of comprehensive state transportation plan; report on plan compliance; equitable capital expenditures
Section 12Integrated asset management system
Section 13Toll roads, bridges and tunnels; authority to collect tolls; limitations; use of revenue
Section 14Department as public agency for purposes of state contracts
Section 15Department as public agency for purposes of state finance law
Section 16Annual finance plan
Section 17Refinancing of bonds relating to financing of the turnpike and metropolitan highway system
Section 18Appearance by office of the attorney general in civil proceedings against the department
Section 19Eminent domain powers of department
Section 20Sale of real property; procedure; sale of buildings or other structures
Section 21Abandoned, mislaid or lost property; sale of unclaimed property
Section 22Enforcement by superior court department
Section 23Termination of department
Section 24Investigations, studies, grant applications and applications for project approvals; lease, loan, grant or conveyance of real or personal property to department
Section 25Conduct of secretary, administrators and directors
Section 26Application of Chapter 12A
Section 27Exemption from taxes or assessments
Section 28Annual revenue and expenditure report
Section 29Office of planning and programming; secretary
Section 30Duties of the office of planning and programming; agencies within the office; duties of the secretary
Section 31Administrative units within the office of planning and programming
Section 32Federal gifts, loans or grants-in-aid for improved transportation management systems
Section 33Healthy transportation compact
Section 34Fiscal analysis prior to expending of funds or final approval of transportation infrastructure project
Section 35Annual report of department’s activities
Section 36Definitions applicable to Secs. 41 to 56
Section 37Division of highways; administrator
Section 38Duties of the division of highways
Section 39Administrative units within the division of highways; description of organization; appointments
Section 40Procedure for recommending approval or disapproval of contracts
Section 41Engineering internship program
Section 42Co-operative engineer program
Section 43Real estate appraisal review board
Section 44Functional replacement of real property in public ownership; relocation of utility or utility facility
Section 45Reimbursement of underground utility or utility facility relocation costs
Section 46Lease of air rights over land owned by the department in connection with the turnpike and the Boston extension portion of the metropolitan highway system
Section 46ALease of land owned by the department and no longer required for the turnpike or the Boston extension of the metropolitan highway system
Section 47Small town rural assistance program
Section 48Economic development projects assistance program for municipalities
Section 49[There is no 6C:49.]
Section 50Regional mobility assistance program
Section 51Definitions applicable to Secs. 52 to 54
Section 52Mass Transit division; administrator
Section 53Duties of the Mass Transit division
Section 54Administrative units within the Mass Transit division; statement of organization
Section 55Definitions applicable to Secs. 56 to 57
Section 56Registry of motor vehicles; administrator
Section 57Administrative units within the registry of motor vehicles; statement of organization
Section 57AMotor vehicle insurance merit rating board
Section 58Definitions applicable to Secs. 59 to 61
Section 59Aeronautics division; administrator
Section 60Duties of the aeronautics division
Section 61Administrative units within the aeronautics division; statement of organization
Section 62Definitions applicable to Secs. 62 to 73
Section 63Contracts for design-build-finance-operate-maintain or design-build-operate-maintain services
Section 64Request for proposals; content of public-private agreement
Section 65End of term or termination of public-private agreement
Section 66Rights of department upon material default by an operator
Section 67Issue and sale of bonds or notes of the department
Section 68Acceptance of funds from the United States and other sources
Section 69Application of Sec. 26
Section 70Exercise of power of eminent domain
Section 71Powers and jurisdiction of law enforcement officers
Section 72Waiver of sovereign immunity not limited
Section 73Public-private partnership infrastructure oversight commission
Section 74Repair or rehabilitation of certain signs or markers abutting highway or turnpike projects
Section 75Contracts with fuel providers to provide for the consumption of alternative fuel