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- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 36 · Transfers from official service to labor service positions
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 37 · Leaves of absence
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 38 · Unauthorized leaves of absence; reports; separation from employment; review
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 39 · Separation from employment; lack of work or money; abolition of position; disability
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 39A · Conditional employees
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 40 · Reemployment list
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 41 · Discharge; removal; suspension; transfer; abolition of office; reduction of rank or pay; hearings; review
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 41A · Discharge, removal or suspension; hearing before disinterested hearing officer; review
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 42 · Complaints; hearings; jurisdiction; filing of civil action
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 43 · Hearings before commission
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 44 · Judicial review
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 45 · Reimbursement for defense expenses
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 46 · Reinstatement; hearings
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 47 · Blind persons; examinations; temporary appointment of persons with an intellectual disability
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 47A · Disadvantaged persons; certified work-training programs; examination; eligible lists; appointment
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 48 · Civil service offices and positions; exemptions
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 48A · Career management service program; designation of positions; selection of persons; annual listing; performance appraisal system
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 49 · Students in temporary position appropriate to academic interest; appointments to certain state positions subject to or exempt from civil service law; confidential employees
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 50 · Persons ineligible for civil service
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 51 · Cities; civil service offices and positions
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 52 · Towns; civil service offices and positions
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 53 · Application of chapter to municipalities; school districts; elections
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 54 · Petitions; number of signatures; filing
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 55 · Signatures to petitions; certification; objections
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 56 · Incumbents; status; seniority; transfer of school employees
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 57 · Permanent positions in city labor service; removal of intermittent junior building custodians; certification of inspector of wires
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 58 · Municipal police officers and firefighters; qualification
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 58A · Municipal police officers and firefighters; maximum age restrictions
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 59 · Municipal police officers and fire fighters; examinations; appointments and promotions
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 59A · Registers of entry-level municipal police and firefighter candidates; original appointment; candidate requirements
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 59B · Entry-level police cadet program
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 59C · Appointment of fire cadets to civil service fire force
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 59D · Limit on appointments from local public safety service register or cadet program
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 60 · Intermittent or reserve police or fire forces; appointments to regular force
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 60A · Intermittent or reserve police or fire force members; effect of refusals to accept employment on permanent basis in regular police or fire force
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 61 · Municipal police officers or fire fighters; probationary periods; evaluation
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 61A · Police officer and firefighter health and physical fitness standards
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 61B · Wellness program for police officers and firefighters
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 62 · Punishment duty; police officers or fire fighters
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 62A · Punishment duty; police officers or firefighters employed by cities or towns
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 63 · Paraplegic persons; municipal police or fire departments; appointments
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 64 · Massachusetts bay transportation authority police; qualifications
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 65 · Massachusetts bay transportation authority police; appointments and promotions; probationary periods; evaluation
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 66 · Labor service positions in highways department; certification; promotions; districts
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 67 · Annual list of civil service employees; posting; enforcement; penalties
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 68 · Reports of appointment, promotion, demotion, leaves of absence, etc.
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 69 · Reports of appointment or employment by appointing authority upon request; enforcement; penalties
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 70 · Records; examination papers; inspection; destruction
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 71 · Rosters of positions; filing; use; penalties
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 72 · Investigations; subpoenas; summoning witnesses, etc.
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 73 · Violations; notice; writs of mandamus
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 74 · Prohibited activities; penalties
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 75 · Rights of municipal employees
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 76 · Positions subject to federal merit system standards; minimum qualifications
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 77 · Enforcement of laws and rules
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 78 · Recruitment, hiring and retention of municipal police officers and firefighters commission
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31, § 79 · Environmental police officer, probationary period
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31A, § 1 · Decentralized personnel system; accepted merit principles
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31A, § 2 · Definitions
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31A, § 3 · Acceptance by municipality of local option; adoption of personnel ordinance; application of chapter thirty-one
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31A, § 4 · Provisions of personnel ordinance
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31A, § 5 · Submission of proposed ordinance to administrator; rescission of chapter thirty-one provisions; form of ballot
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31A, § 6 · Personnel director; time of appointment; authority
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31A, § 7 · Local merit appeals board; members; duties; hearing appeals
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31A, § 8 · Appeals; options; conditions; collective bargaining agreements
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31A, § 9 · Personnel administration department; performance and special audits; reports; appeal; compliance
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31A, § 10 · Certified employee organizations; right to bargain; issues not subject to collective bargaining
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 31A, § 11 · Revocation of acceptance
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 32, § 1 · Definitions
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 32, § 2 · Description of systems
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 32, § 3 · Membership
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 32, § 3A · Ineligible employees; deferred compensation program
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 32, § 4 · Creditable service
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 32, § 5 · Superannuation retirement
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 32, § 5A · Wellness program
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 32, § 5B · Early intervention plans; rehabilitation plans
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 32, § 6 · Ordinary disability retirement
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 32, § 7 · Accidental disability retirement
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 32, § 8 · Evaluation and reexamination of members retired for disability
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 32, § 9 · Accidental death benefit
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 32, § 10 · Resignation, failure of reappointment, removal or discharge
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 32, § 11 · Return of accumulated total deductions and amounts due beneficiaries of deceased members
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 32, § 12 · Options on retirement
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 32, § 12A · Payment of allowances to certain beneficiaries pending determination of accidental death benefits
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 32, § 12B · Spouse and children; survivor benefits
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 32, § 12C · Widow and children survivor benefits; manner of payment; contributions
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 32, § 12D · Payment of benefits in accordance with requirements of Internal Revenue Code
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 32, § 13 · Payment of allowances
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 32, § 14 · Effect of workers' compensation benefits
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 32, § 14A · Third party recovery
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 32, § 15 · Dereliction of duty by members
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 32, § 16 · Involuntary retirement; right to a hearing; right of review or appeal
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 32, § 17 · Action on behalf of incompetent members
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 32, § 18 · Filing of statements and reports; protection against fraud
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 32, § 19 · Exemption from taxation, attachments and assignments; exception
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 32, § 19A · Assignment of retirement allowances for payment of certain subscriber premiums, income taxes or support orders; deduction for payment of premiums for coverage under chapter 32B
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 32, § 19B · Withholding for payment of insurance premiums; certification of eligible members; death; payment of benefits
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 32, § 19C · Annuity, retirement allowance, etc. subject to child support obligations; payments to IV–D agency
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 32, § 20 · Administration by boards
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 32, § 20A · Civil action against board member; expenses and damages; indemnification