Massachusetts General Laws

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 111, § 27 (2026)

Organization of boards; appointment of physician and clerk; compensation

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Section 27. Every such board shall organize annually by the choice of one of its number as chairman. It may make rules and regulations for its own government and for the government of its officers, agents and assistants. It may appoint a physician to the board, who shall hold his office during its pleasure, may choose a clerk, who in a city shall not be a member of the board, and may employ the necessary officers, agents and assistants to execute the health laws and its regulations. It may fix the salary or other compensation of such physician and its clerk and other agents and assistants.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 5 cases, 1926–1975 · leading case: McCarthy v. City of Malden, 22 N.E.2d 104 (Mass. 1939).

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McCarthy v. City of Malden, 22 N.E.2d 104 (Mass. 1939). · cites it 2× “82, 89 , decided in January, 1925, where it was said, in effect, that general provisions such as, for example, are found in G. L. c. 111, § 27, are subject to appropriations made under the provisions of the budget law (G.”

Bd. of Health of North Adams v. Mayor of North Adams, 334 N.E.2d 34 (Mass. 1975). · cites it 2× “424, 427-428 (1939), that G.L.c. 111, § 27, giving local boards of health authority to employ necessary personnel, precluded interference by the town meeting in a board decision to discharge an individual.”

Hayes v. City of Brockton, 48 N.E.2d 683 (Mass. 1943). “See, for example, G. L. c. 111, § 27. All such general provisions are subject to appropriations made under the provisions of the budget law.”

Commonwealth v. Collins, 154 N.E. 266 (Mass. 1926). “” See also G. L. c. 111, § 27, by which boards of health are *585 given authority to choose a clerk; and § 28 requiring the board of health to make a full report to the city council of its acts during the preceding year, and of the sanitary condition of the city.”

Aldeman v. City of Cambridge, 8 Mass. App. Div. 257 (Mass. Dist. Ct., App. Div. 1943). · cites it 2× “44, section 31) G. L. c. 111, section 27 (see now G. L. (Ter.”

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