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Chapter 30A: STATE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE
- Section 1 Definitions
- Section 1A Department of correction; application of chapter
- Section 1B Department of youth services; application of chapter
- Section 1C Parole board; application of chapter
- Section 1D Criminal record review board; application of chapter
- Section 2 Regulations requiring hearings; adoptions, amendments or repeals; small business impact statement; emergency regulations
- Section 3 Regulations not requiring hearings; small business impact statement; adoptions, amendments or repeals
- Section 3A Publication of required notices
- Section 4 Petitions for adoption, amendment or repeal of regulations
- Section 5 Regulations; filing; small business impact statement
- Section 5A Review of rules and regulations regarding economic impact on small businesses
- Section 6 Massachusetts Register; publication of filed documents and regulations; legal effect; distribution of issues
- Section 6A Code of Massachusetts Regulations; publication
- Section 6B Agencies to purchase register issues; public access
- Section 6C Failure to comply with Sec. 6B; report
- Section 6D Expected regulations; publication of list
- Section 6E Failure to comply with Sec. 6D; report
- Section 7 Judicial review of regulations
- Section 7A Repealed, 1970, 712, Sec. 7
- Section 8 Advisory rulings by agencies
- Section 9 Standard rules; substitute rules; amendments to rules
- Section 10 Adjudicatory proceedings; appeals
- Section 10A Damage to environment; intervention in adjudicatory proceeding; procedure
- Section 11 Adjudicatory proceedings; additional requirements
- Section 11A, 11A1/2 Repealed, 2009, 28, Sec. 17
- Section 11B Studies of state boards, commissions and authorities; notice to city or town affected
- Section 11C Hearings in municipalities
- Section 12 Adjudicatory proceedings; subpoenas
- Section 13 Licenses; revocation, etc.; hearings; exceptions; student loan defaulters
- Section 13A Issuance and renewal of licenses; social security number of applicant; information provided to IV–D agency
- Section 14 Judicial review
- Section 15 Supreme judicial court and appeals court; concurrent jurisdiction
- Section 16 Supreme judicial court; powers
- Section 17 Partial invalidity of chapter; effect
- Section 18 Definitions applicable to Secs. 18 to 25
- Section 19 Division of open government; open meeting law training; open meeting law advisory commission; annual report
- Section 20 Meetings of a public body to be open to the public; notice of meeting; remote participation; recording and transmission of meeting; removal of persons for disruption of proceedings; office holders to certify receipt of open meeting law and educational materials
- Section 21 Meeting of public body in executive session
- Section 22 Minutes of meetings
- Section 23 Enforcement of open meeting law; complaints; hearing; civil action
- Section 24 Investigation by attorney general of violations of open meeting law
- Section 25 Authority of attorney general to promulgate rules and regulations, letter rulings and advisory opinions