Chapter 12 - DEPARTMENT OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, AND THE DISTRICT ATTORNEYS
- Section 12:1 - Attorney general; supervision of department; salary; qualifications; term limitation
- Section 12:2 - Assistants and employees; appointment; duties; compensation; tenure; vacancies
- Section 12:2A - Attorney general; disability; filling vacancies
- Section 12:2B - Annual personnel report
- Section 12:3 - Appearances for commonwealth, prosecution or defense; rendering of legal services
- Section 12:3E - Defense of actions against officers or employees
- Section 12:4 - Claims of commonwealth; enforcement
- Section 12:4A - Acceptance of gifts or grants of money or property
- Section 12:5 - Civil actions to recover money for commonwealth
- Section 12:5A - False claims; definitions for Secs. 12:5A to 12:5O
- Section 12:5B - False claims; liability
- Section 12:5C - Violations under Secs. 5B to 5O; investigation by attorney general; civil actions
- Section 12:5D - Prosecution by attorney general
- Section 12:5E - Alternate remedies to determine civil penalty
- Section 12:5F - Payments to relators
- Section 12:5G - Actions brought against governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, treasurer, secretary of state, etc. ; jurisdiction
- Section 12:5H - Money recovered by commonwealth; costs and attorney's fees
- Section 12:5I - Awards of attorney general fees and expenses; awards of costs and attorney's fees against relators; liability
- Section 12:5J - Employers preventing employees from acting to further false claim actions
- Section 12:5K - Limitation of actions; final judgments in criminal proceedings
- Section 12:5L - Preponderance of evidence standard
- Section 12:5M - Rules, regulations or guidelines; attorney general
- Section 12:5N - Civil investigative demands; attorney general
- Section 12:5O - Agency reporting requirements
- Section 12:6 - Consultation with and giving of advice and assistance to district attorneys
- Section 12:6A - Conferences of district attorneys and other officials; notification as to new laws
- Section 12:7 - Persons intruding on land, property or rights of commonwealth; prosecution
- Section 12:8 - Due application of charity funds enforced
- Section 12:8A - Definitions applicable to secs. 8A to 8M
- Section 12:8B - Division of public charities; duties
- Section 12:8C - Director of public charities; designation
- Section 12:8D - Employees; appointment and removal
- Section 12:8E - Charitable corporations; filing of information; exceptions; penalties; enforcement
- Section 12:8F - Annual reports of public charities; financial statements; fees; penalties; enforcement
- Section 12:8G - Attorney general as a party; service
- Section 12:8H - Investigations by attorney general
- Section 12:8I - Compliance with investigations; enforcement; penalties
- Section 12:8J - Rules and regulations
- Section 12:8K - Gift for public charitable purpose; presumed intention
- Section 12:8L - Fiscal records
- Section 12:8M - Public records; inspection
- Section 12:8N - Fees, costs, penalties and other monies; general fund
- Section 12:9 - Advice and aid to general court and committees
- Section 12:10 - Violations of court orders; restraint of trade; institution of investigations and appropriate actions
- Section 12:11 - Annual report of cases handled
- Section 12:11A - Division of civil rights and liberties
- Section 12:11B - Board of commissioners on uniform state laws; obscene literature commission
- Section 12:11C - Narcotic and harmful drugs; training program for law enforcement officers
- Section 12:11D - Division of environmental protection
- Section 12:11E - Public utilities; office of ratepayer advocacy; intervention in legal proceedings on behalf of consumers; expenditure of funds; information requests
- Section 12:11F - Insurance companies; intervention in legal proceedings on behalf of consumers; expenditure of funds
- Section 12:11G - Local consumer aid fund; eligibility for assistance
- Section 12:11H - Violations of constitutional rights; civil actions by attorney general; venue; compensatory damages; fees; penalties
- Section 12:11I - Violations of constitutional rights; civil actions by aggrieved persons; costs and fees
- Section 12:11I 1/2 - Access to reproductive health care services and gender-affirming health care services
- Section 12:11I 3/4 - Reproductive and gender-affirming health care services
- Section 12:11J - Violations of constitutional rights; temporary restraining orders and injunctions; violations; punishment; vacation of order
- Section 12:11K - Division of victim compensation and assistance
- Section 12:11L - Sexual contact with patients; unlicensed health and mental health professionals; restraining orders, injunctions; penalties
- Section 12:11M - Division of gaming enforcement
- Section 12:11M 1/2 - Fantasy contests
- Section 12:11N - Monitoring of trends in health care maket; investigation of unfair methods of competition or anti-competitive behavior; exemption or waiver from federal law
- Section 12:12 - District attorneys; qualifications; election; term; appearances
- Section 12:13 - Districts for administration of criminal law or defense of civil actions
- Section 12:15 - Practice of law prohibited; salary
- Section 12:16 - Salaries of assistant district attorneys
- Section 12:18 - Appointment of an assistant to district attorney; compensation
- Section 12:19 - Suffolk district; appointment of messengers and other employees
- Section 12:20 - Additional legal assistants; tenure; compensation; powers
- Section 12:20A - Suffolk and Northern districts; special assistant district attorney, appointment and removal; duties; power; salary
- Section 12:20C - Special assistant district attorneys; appointment, removal and salary; participation in federal demonstration programs
- Section 12:20D - Executive director to district attorneys association
- Section 12:21 - Suffolk district; police and detective service
- Section 12:22 - Clerical and stenographic workers
- Section 12:23 - Payment for traveling expenses; exceptions
- Section 12:24 - Expenses payable by commonwealth
- Section 12:25 - Advanced expenses; conditions; vouchers
- Section 12:25A - Advance of expenses necessary in performance of duties; limitation; accounting; unexpended balance
- Section 12:26 - Court appointment of substitute in absence of attorney general and district attorney
- Section 12:27 - District attorneys; duties; control of attorney general
- Section 12:28 - Suits on recognizances; discontinuance
- Section 12:29 - Accounting for fees, bills of costs and money received
- Section 12:30 - Fees for services in performance of duty; appearance in civil action
- Section 12:32 - Community based juvenile justice programs; district attorneys
- Section 12:33 - Domestic violence and sexual violence training for district attorneys and assistant district attorneys
- Section 12:34 - Pre-arraignment diversion program
- Section 12:35 - Student loan ombudsman
- Section 12:36 - [Effective 9/18/2024] Comprehensive educational diversion program about "sexting"