§ 1 Status; governing body
§ 1A Board of trustees; membership; qualifications; tenure; vacancies; powers and duties; indemnification
§ 1B Student charges for the university; revolving trust fund; tuition credits; annual report
§ 2 Purpose; courses of instruction; standards; powers of trustees
§ 2A Branch banks on university grounds authorized
§ 3 Rules and regulations
§ 3A Delegation of powers by trustees
§ 4 Meetings of trustees; quorum; executive sessions
§ 5 Seal
§ 6 Audit of accounts
§ 7 Budget
§ 8 Appropriations
§ 9 Insurance
§ 10 Receipts and expenditures; annual report; monthly statements; accounting system
§ 11 Special trusts, etc.; management
§ 11A Funds for legislative agents or organizations attempting to influence legislation
§ 12 University property; management and administration
§ 13 Purchases
§ 14 Election of officers; salary of president; employment, status and benefits of personnel
§ 14A Prescription and enforcement of regulations; contracts
§ 14B Campus council
§ 14C University of Massachusetts Research Foundation; powers; regulations
§ 14D University of Massachusetts; extension board of public overseers
§ 15 Reports and bulletins
§ 15A Center for adoption research and policy
§ 16 Massachusetts agricultural experiment station
§ 16A Diagnostic laboratory
§ 17 Experiments and investigations; nature and scope
§ 18 Officers; equipment
§ 19 Reports on results of experiments; distribution
§ 21 Fee for testing poultry
§ 22 University farm
§ 23 Purposes
§ 24 Status
§ 25 Sale of commonwealth land to university employees
§ 26 Leasing of commonwealth land to university employees
§ 27 Approvals of sales and leases
§ 28 Taxation of leased property
§ 29 Protection and maintenance of Mount Toby state demonstration forest
§ 30 Use; purposes
§ 32 Travel policy
§ 32A Control, movement and parking of motor vehicles; appointment of police officers
§ 32B David I. Walsh–Leverett Saltonstall visiting lectureship program
§ 33 University scholarships
§ 33A General Court Fellowship Program
§ 34 University of Massachusetts medical school; grants
§ 34A Tuition; residents
§ 35 Dean and other officers and members of professional staff
§ 36 Annual budget
§ 36A Cremation and disposal of donated bodies
§ 36B Analysis of drugs, medicine, chemicals, etc.; law enforcement; report
§ 36C Acquisition of or affiliation with certain health care programs or facilities by trustees; approval of proposed transactions; procedures
§ 36D Payback provisions in learning contracts; interest accrual; annual report
§ 36E Military service-related behavioral health conditions; development of continuing education program by University of Massachusetts medical school
§ 37 Establishment; purpose; contracts
§ 38 National Environmental Technology Institute
§ 39 Environmental technology testing facility and environmental business center
§ 40 Marine technology, environmental, and engineering programs
§ 41 Center for materials reuse
§ 42 Funding for environmental programs; administration
§ 43 Biologic laboratories; advisory board; insurance; agreements with private parties; yearly reports; accounts
§ 44 Appointment of trustees to corporation receiving assets from clinical operations of Worcester campus; student representative
§ 45 Edward J. Collins, Jr. center for public management
§ 45B Innovation Commercialization Seed Fund
§ 45C Innovation Voucher Program Fund
§ 46 Office of dispute resolution
§ 47 Statewide community mediation center grant program; funds; compliance for eligibility
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Terms Used In Massachusetts General Laws > Chapter 75 - University of Massachusetts

  • 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
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • Donor: The person who makes a gift.
  • Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
  • Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
  • 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.
  • Interests: includes any form of membership in a domestic or foreign nonprofit corporation. See Massachusetts General Laws ch. 156D sec. 11.01
  • 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
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • 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.
  • Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. Source: FDIC
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • 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.
  • 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.