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... The Court agreed with both parties that Natick had a "strong" police chief as defined by the strong chief law and that its fire chief had comparable stat[r] ... See full document

... 11 Town Crier, Inc.. The Attorney General disapproved the by-law because he believed it was not within the powers granted to the town by the Massa- chusetts Home Rule [r] ... See full document

... In that case the School Committee sought an order requir- ing the City to appropriate $46,000,000 for support of special education, 31 basing its request on chapter 71B, section [r] ... See full document

... tiffs then sought injunctive and declaratory relief against the MDCS in the superior court, which declared chapter 226 constitutional in its en- tirety and ordered the MDCS t[r] ... See full document

... This, then, constitutes the rule of Brucato, which both the Superior Court and the Supreme Judicial Court utilized in holding invalid the town of Dracut's attempt to rescind Section [r] ... See full document

... The city contended that the three (or four) weeks of vacation granted by Section lllD consisted of working days only, and that three calendar weeks of vacation time included 6[r] ... See full document

... Indeed, the Court recently considered a case where the Attorney General, representing the Board of Education, took the position-contrary to the Board's view-that th[r] ... See full document

... The dissent agreed with the majority that an equity action in the superior court is the appropriate method by which to obtain review of local registrars' certification d[r] ... See full document

... The first question was whether the appointment of the chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court as the executive head of the judicial system conflicted with t[r] ... See full document

... The Court first considered whether state law authorized the city's appropriation of funds. l l In concluding that state law did not authorize the expenditure, the Cour[r] ... See full document

... [T]he general court shall have full power and authority to erect and constitute municipal or city governments, in any corporate town or towns in this common- wea[r] ... See full document

... Perhaps the most significant legislation affecting local government enacted in this session is Acts of 1965, Chapter 763, which imposes mandatory collective bargaining on [r] ... See full document

... Such executive session may be held only for the purpose of discussing, deliberating or voting on those matters which by general or special statute, or federal grant- in-aid [r] ... See full document

... The local authorities allocate the tax burden by selecting a residential factor and an open space variable. 33 The percentages of the classes are determined by re[r] ... See full document

... munity. is ·an Assistant Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The views expressed here are his own. ' The Massachusetts Constitution has, since its adop[r] ... See full document

... 19 The Court, at the outset, accepted the Commissioner's characterization of the guaranty payment as a non-business bad debt 10ss.20 Noting that for most purposes the deduct[r] ... See full document

... Smith case the rule was that amounts received by a shareholder in liquidation of a corporation were taxable as an ordinary dividend under General Laws, Chapter 6[r] ... See full document

... The amendment purports to tax to such a partnership all of its business income, but presumably the in- tention of the statute was to tax only the business inco[r] ... See full document

... In order to determine the deductible portion of the federal tax where the taxpayer has both business and non-business income, the federal tax payment is multiplied by a frac[r] ... See full document

... 4 G.L.. Settlement of Estates §1l9. Treasurer and Receiver General. City of Cambridge. SIver Johnson Sporting Goods Co. City of Boston. City of Boston. Inhabitants of Brookline[r] ... See full document