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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.
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]
In September 2014, AFP was investigated by the state board of elections of North Carolina after the state Democratic Party filed a complaint regarding an AFP voter registration mailing labelled "official application form" containing inaccurate information including an incorrect filing deadline five days before the actual deadline.
Among the bureaus and programs of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health are the following: Bureau of Communicable Disease Control is concerned with areas including tuberculosis prevention and control, sexually transmitted disease prevention, epidemiology, immunization, influenza and West Nile virus monitoring and control, disease quarantine requirements, HIV/AIDS surveillance and ...
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 bill, which went into effect in 1971, reorganized the state government into 10 executive offices led by secretaries who served at the pleasure of the governor. [6] The Executive Office of Administration and Finance combined the existing administration and finance operation with the department of corporations and taxation.
The Massachusetts Office of Technical Assistance (OTA) is a Massachusetts state agency that provides support and guidance to businesses dealing with potentially toxic materials. The OTA was established in 1989 and is located within the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs in Boston .
The coat of arms is encircled by the Latin text "Sigillum Reipublicæ Massachusettensis" (literally, The Seal of the Republic of Massachusetts). The Massachusetts Constitution designates the form of government a "commonwealth", for which respublica is the correct Latin term. The seal uses the coat of arms of Massachusetts as its central element ...