Mass. Gen. Laws » Part I Title XXI Chapter 149
Massachusetts General Laws

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 149, § 30C (2026)

Work week of uniformed members of state police; overtime service; compensation; rules and regulations

✓ current as of July 2026
Find cases: SyfertCases citing this section MAmalegislature.gov (official) JustiaChapter on Justia CornellLII Search CasesGoogle Scholar

Section 30C. The service of all members of the uniformed members of the state police and land based environmental police officers of the division of law enforcement shall consist of an average of forty hours per week over a period of one or more work weeks not in excess of eight, as determined by the commissioner of the department in which they are respectively serving, and shall be restricted to not more than five normal work days, as so determined, in any consecutive seven-day period; provided, however, that all services in excess of the normal work day, as so determined, or in excess of forty hours per week, as so averaged, rendered by any such officer at the request of the commissioner of the department in which he is serving, shall be compensated for at the rate of one and one half times the regular hourly rate of such officer for every hour or fraction thereof of such services rendered.

The personnel administrator is empowered to make rules and regulations, subject to the approval of the commissioner of administration, to carry out the provisions of this section.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases, 1974–2020 · leading case: Erickson v. City of Waltham, 314 N.E.2d 139 (Mass. App. Ct. 1974).
Sort: Relevance Newest Treatment
Erickson v. City of Waltham, 314 N.E.2d 139 (Mass. App. Ct. 1974). “shall not exceed forty-eight in number,” and again in G. L. c. 149, § 30C, which *445 provides that “ [t]he service of all members of the uniform branch of the state police .”
State Police Ass'n of Massachusetts v. Alben (Mass. App. Ct. 2020). · cites it 15× “At issue is whether the State troopers were entitled to overtime pursuant to G. L. c. 149, § 30C, which mandates time and one-half pay for overtime work by State troopers, or whether they were permissibly paid the detail rate set forth in the CBA.”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.