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Section 1Definitions
Section 1ADepartment of correction; application of chapter
Section 1BDepartment of youth services; application of chapter
Section 1CParole board; application of chapter
Section 1DCriminal record review board; application of chapter
Section 2Regulations requiring hearings; adoptions, amendments or repeals; small business impact statement; emergency regulations
Section 3Regulations not requiring hearings; small business impact statement; adoptions, amendments or repeals
Section 3APublication of required notices
Section 4Petitions for adoption, amendment or repeal of regulations
Section 5Regulations; filing; small business impact statement
Section 5AReview of rules and regulations regarding economic impact on small businesses
Section 6Massachusetts Register; publication of filed documents and regulations; legal effect; distribution of issues
Section 6ACode of Massachusetts Regulations; publication
Section 6BAgencies to purchase register issues; public access
Section 6CFailure to comply with Sec. 6B; report
Section 6DExpected regulations; publication of list
Section 6EFailure to comply with Sec. 6D; report
Section 7Judicial review of regulations
Section 7ARepealed, 1970, 712, Sec. 7
Section 8Advisory rulings by agencies
Section 9Standard rules; substitute rules; amendments to rules
Section 10Adjudicatory proceedings; appeals
Section 10ADamage to environment; intervention in adjudicatory proceeding; procedure
Section 11Adjudicatory proceedings; additional requirements
Section 11A, 11A1/2Repealed, 2009, 28, Sec. 17
Section 11BStudies of state boards, commissions and authorities; notice to city or town affected
Section 11CHearings in municipalities
Section 12Adjudicatory proceedings; subpoenas
Section 13Licenses; revocation, etc.; hearings; exceptions; student loan defaulters
Section 13AIssuance and renewal of licenses; social security number of applicant; information provided to IV-D agency
Section 14Judicial review
Section 15Supreme judicial court and appeals court; concurrent jurisdiction
Section 16Supreme judicial court; powers
Section 17Partial invalidity of chapter; effect
Section 18Definitions applicable to Secs. 18 to 25
Section 19Division of open government; open meeting law training; open meeting law advisory commission; annual report
Section 20Meetings 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
Section 21Meeting of public body in executive session
Section 22Minutes of meetings
Section 23Enforcement of open meeting law; complaints; hearing; civil action
Section 24Investigation by attorney general of violations of open meeting law
Section 25Authority of attorney general to promulgate rules and regulations, letter rulings and advisory opinions
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