General Laws: CHAPTER 194, Section 13

PART II REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS
(Chapters 183 through 210)
TITLE II DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION, WILLS, ESTATES OF DECEASED PERSONS AND ABSENTEES, GUARDIANSHIP, CONSERVATORSHIP AND TRUSTS
CHAPTER 194 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATORS
Section 13 Administration of pending estates at expiration of administrator’s term

Section 13. Public administrators shall complete, as soon as they lawfully may, the administration of estates in their hands of which the administration is not complete at the date of the expiration of their terms.