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Additionally, brokers, salesman, warehouses, planes, trains, ships, [2] ship chandlers, [3] and motor vehicles transporting alcoholic beverages in Massachusetts require licensing. The Commission also approves the granting of every retail pouring or package store license application allowed by a city or town.
In addition to the permit and local permitting authority requirements mandated by statute, the trench safety regulations require that all excavators, whether public or private, take specific precautions to protect the general public and prevent unauthorized access to unattended trenches. Accordingly, unattended trenches must be covered ...
The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection [1] is an agency in the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, responsible for protecting the environment in the state. [2]
Massachusetts shares with the five other New England states the New England town form of government. All land in Massachusetts is divided among cities and towns and there are no unincorporated areas, population centers, or townships. Massachusetts has four kinds of public-school districts: local schools, regional schools, vocational-technical ...
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) oversees roads, public transit, aeronautics, and transportation licensing and registration in the US state of Massachusetts. It was created on November 1, 2009, by the 186th Session of the Massachusetts General Court upon enactment of the 2009 Transportation Reform Act.
In 1922, the Massachusetts General Court passed legislation creating the department of administration and finance. The department replaced the office of supervisor of administration and assumed many of the duties of the superintendent of buildings, Secretary of the Commonwealth, state treasurer, and state auditor. [2]
The secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a constitutional officer in the executive branch of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.Originally appointed under authority of the English Crown pursuant to the Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company, the office of secretary of the Commonwealth (equivalent to "secretaries of state" in other U.S. jurisdictions) became an elective one in 1780.
Massachusetts Public Records Law is a law in Massachusetts detailing what kinds of documents are actually public records. [1] It is a state law that is similar to the federal Freedom of Information Act , which was signed into law by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966. [ 2 ]