§ 1 Creation; secretary; acting secretary; undersecretary
§ 2A Compromise or settlement of claims for damages for injury and for destruction or loss of natural resources; authority of secretary
§ 3 Functions of secretary; report
§ 4 Powers and duties of secretary
§ 4A Coastal zone management office
§ 4C Ocean management plan; ocean advisory commission; ocean science advisory council; duties of secretary
§ 5 Program review boards; appointment; reports; expenses
§ 6 Experts and assistants; appointment; qualifications; classified employees; tenure
§ 7 Departments; commissioners, appointment, removal, qualifications, functions, salary
§ 7B State geologist
§ 8 Organization of departments; powers, duties and functions
§ 8A Water resources commission; members; terms
§ 8B Chairman; duties of commission
§ 8C Water supply policy statement; update and report
§ 8D Rules and regulations
§ 8E Director; staff
§ 8F Meetings; expenses; per diem
§ 9 Grants and gifts; expenditure; records
§ 10A Office of law enforcement; director; deputies; environmental police officers; rules and regulations
§ 10B Enforcement of penal laws
§ 10C Authority of officers
§ 10D Uniforms; badges; fine for unlawful use
§ 10E Entry on private land; disposition of animals
§ 10F Rules and regulations; hours and pay for boat based and land based personnel; assignments
§ 10G Requests for name and address; penalties for refusal to provide information; notices of violations; appearances and payment of fines; seizure and forfeitures
§ 10H Fines for categories of violations
§ 10I Surcharge added on fines for violations under chapter 21A when complaining officer is environmental police officer or deputy environmental police officer
§ 10J Incapacity of environmental police officer due to injuries sustained in performance of duties; leave without loss of pay
§ 11 Boating safety advisory board
§ 11A Bicycle and pedestrian advisory board
§ 11B Public access board; composition; meetings; designation of public access points; regulations; purchase of equipment
§ 11C Prohibition on alteration or pollution of rivers and streams; scenic and recreational classifications; restraint of violations; unreasonable use restriction petitions; uncompensated taking hearings; damages
§ 12 Rules and regulations; adoption; review
§ 13 State environmental code; adoption; preparation of sewage disposal systems; enforcement of code
§ 13A System inspectors of on-site sewage disposal systems; penalty
§ 14 Disposal of dredged materials
§ 16 Civil administrative penalties
§ 17 Soil containing dangerous levels of lead; cover and disposal; regulations
§ 18 Permit application and compliance assurance fees; timely action schedules; regulations
§ 18A Federal safe drinking water assessment; advisory committee
§ 19 Definitions applicable to Secs. 19 to 19J
§ 19A Board of registration of hazardous waste site cleanup professionals
§ 19B Regulations
§ 19C Licensing
§ 19D License requirement; regulations
§ 19E Inspection of known or suspected sites; warrants
§ 19F Violations; orders issued by board; notice to department
§ 19G Civil administrative penalties
§ 19H Adjudicatory hearings; judicial review
§ 19I Jurisdiction of superior court
§ 19J Violations; penalties
§ 20 Joint powers agreements; definitions; approval; administration
§ 21 Competitive procurement of electric generation
§ 22 Carbon dioxide cap and trade program
§ 23 Off-highway vehicle advisory committee
§ 24 Office of the state climatologist; powers and duties; term
§ 25 Water infrastructure advisory committee; members; report
§ 26 Local seafood marketing program; objectives; steering committee
§ 27 Program to facilitate transfer of development rights to protect conservation values and encourage development through market incentives; administration of loan program
§ 28 Protection from harmful flame retardants

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Terms Used In Massachusetts General Laws > Chapter 21A - Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
  • Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • Interests: includes any form of membership in a domestic or foreign nonprofit corporation. See Massachusetts General Laws ch. 156D sec. 11.01
  • Irrevocable trust: A trust arrangement that cannot be revoked, rescinded, or repealed by the grantor.
  • Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
  • Other entity: includes a domestic or foreign nonprofit corporation. See Massachusetts General Laws ch. 156D sec. 11.01
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • Preliminary hearing: A hearing where the judge decides whether there is enough evidence to make the defendant have a trial.
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
  • Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.