General Laws of Massachusetts (Last Updated: January 16, 2020) |
PART I ADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT |
TITLE II. EXECUTIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS OF THE COMMONWEALTH |
CHAPTER 6C. MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION |
SECTION 1. Definitions |
SECTION 2. Creation; board of directors; officers and employees |
SECTION 3. Powers |
SECTION 4. Massachusetts Transportation Trust Fund |
SECTION 5. Organization and function as a single state agency for administrative purposes; reporting requirements |
SECTION 6. Office of performance management and innovation; duties |
SECTION 6A. Office of performance management and innovation; goals |
SECTION 7. Employee performance evaluation program |
SECTION 8. Money received to be held as trust funds |
SECTION 9. Internal special audit unit |
SECTION 10. Office of transportation planning |
SECTION 11. Publication of comprehensive state transportation plan; report on plan compliance; equitable capital expenditures |
SECTION 11A. Project selection advisory council |
SECTION 12. Integrated asset management system |
SECTION 12A. Performance and asset management advisory council |
SECTION 13. Toll roads, bridges and tunnels; authority to collect tolls; limitations; use of revenue |
SECTION 14. Department as public agency for purposes of state contracts |
SECTION 15. Department as public agency for purposes of state finance law |
SECTION 16. Annual finance plan |
SECTION 17. Refinancing of bonds relating to financing of the turnpike and metropolitan highway system |
SECTION 18. Appearance by office of the attorney general in civil proceedings against the department |
SECTION 19. Eminent domain powers of department |
SECTION 20. Sale of real property; procedure; sale of buildings or other structures |
SECTION 21. Abandoned, mislaid or lost property; sale of unclaimed property |
SECTION 22. Enforcement by superior court department |
SECTION 23. Termination of department |
SECTION 24. Investigations, studies, grant applications and applications for project approvals; lease, loan, grant or conveyance of real or personal property to department |
SECTION 25. Conduct of secretary, administrators and directors |
SECTION 26. Application of Chapter 12A |
SECTION 27. Exemption from taxes or assessments |
SECTION 28. Annual revenue and expenditure report |
SECTION 29. Office of planning and programming; secretary |
SECTION 30. Duties of the office of planning and programming; agencies within the office; duties of the secretary |
SECTION 31. Administrative units within the office of planning and programming |
SECTION 32. Federal gifts, loans or grants-in-aid for improved transportation management systems |
SECTION 33. Healthy transportation compact |
SECTION 34. Fiscal analysis prior to expending of funds or final approval of transportation infrastructure project |
SECTION 35. Annual report of department's activities |
SECTION 36. Definitions applicable to Secs. 41 to 56 |
SECTION 37. Division of highways; administrator |
SECTION 38. Duties of the division of highways |
SECTION 39. Administrative units within the division of highways; description of organization; appointments |
SECTION 40. Procedure for recommending approval or disapproval of contracts |
SECTION 41. Engineering internship program |
SECTION 42. Co-operative engineer program |
SECTION 43. Real estate appraisal review board |
SECTION 44. Functional replacement of real property in public ownership; relocation of utility or utility facility |
SECTION 45. Repealed, 2014, 79, Sec. 6 |
SECTION 46. Lease of air rights over land owned by the department in connection with the turnpike and the Boston extension portion of the metropolitan highway system |
SECTION 46A. Lease of land owned by the department and no longer required for the turnpike or the Boston extension of the metropolitan highway system |
SECTION 47, 48. Repealed, 2012, 238, Sec. 4 |
SECTION 49. [There is no 6C:49.] |
SECTION 50. Regional mobility assistance program |
SECTION 51. Definitions applicable to Secs. 52 to 54 |
SECTION 52. Mass Transit division; administrator |
SECTION 53. Duties of the Mass Transit division |
SECTION 54. Administrative units within the Mass Transit division; statement of organization |
SECTION 55. Definitions applicable to Secs. 56 to 57 |
SECTION 56. Registry of motor vehicles; administrator |
SECTION 57. Administrative units within the registry of motor vehicles; statement of organization |
SECTION 57A. Motor vehicle insurance merit rating board |
SECTION 58. Definitions applicable to Secs. 59 to 61 |
SECTION 59. Aeronautics division; administrator |
SECTION 60. Duties of the aeronautics division |
SECTION 61. Administrative units within the aeronautics division; statement of organization |
SECTION 62. Definitions applicable to Secs. 62 to 73 |
SECTION 63. Contracts for design-build-finance-operate-maintain or design-build-operate-maintain services |
SECTION 64. Request for proposals; content of public–private agreement |
SECTION 65. End of term or termination of public–private agreement |
SECTION 66. Rights of department upon material default by an operator |
SECTION 67. Issue and sale of bonds or notes of the department |
SECTION 68. Acceptance of funds from the United States and other sources |
SECTION 69. Application of Sec. 26 |
SECTION 70. Exercise of power of eminent domain |
SECTION 71. Powers and jurisdiction of law enforcement officers |
SECTION 72. Waiver of sovereign immunity not limited |
SECTION 73. Public-private partnership infrastructure oversight commission |
SECTION 74. Repair or rehabilitation of certain signs or markers abutting highway or turnpike projects |
SECTION 75. Contracts with fuel providers to provide for the consumption of alternative fuel |
SECTION 76. Removal and storage of vehicle left unattended at state-owned park and ride facility |