Massachusetts General Laws

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 30A, § 8 (2026)

Advisory rulings by agencies

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Section 8. On request of any interested person, an agency may make an advisory ruling with respect to the applicability to any person, property or state of facts of any statute or regulation enforced or administered by that agency. In issuing the advisory ruling, the agency need not comply with the requirements of this chapter with respect to regulations.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 12 cases, 1972–2018 · leading case: Elena Given v. Com. Ins., 796 N.E.2d 1275 (Mass. 2003).

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Elena Given v. Com. Ins., 796 N.E.2d 1275 (Mass. 2003). · cites it 3× “See G. L. c. 30A, § 8 (authorizing agencies to render advisory rulings “with respect to the applicability to any person, property or state of facts of any statute or regulation enforced or administered by that agency”).”

Casey v. Massachusetts Elec. Co., 467 N.E.2d 1358 (Mass. 1984). · cites it 2× “See G. L. c. 30A, § 8. The company argues that “matters pertaining to electric utilities are uniquely the province of the DPU,” contending that “the DPU is uniquely able to understand the issue of allocation of house moving costs .”

Town of Brookline v. Med. Area Serv. Corp., 392 N.E.2d 1070 (Mass. App. Ct. 1979). · cites it 2× “On April 2, 1975, Harvard’s financial vice president wrote to the department requesting an advisory ruling pursuant to the provisions of G. L. c. 30A, § 8, 8 and the department’s own regulations, 9 that the proposed energy plant which Harvard intended to build on its land in the…”

Dorrian v. LVNV Funding, LLC, 94 N.E.3d 370 (Mass. 2018). “" See G. L. c. 30A, § 8. An entity that meets either definition of "debt collector" must be licensed by the **268 commissioner of banks (commissioner) through the division.”

Comm'r of Revenue v. Marr Scaffolding Co., 608 N.E.2d 1041 (Mass. 1993). · cites it 2× “After an analysis of Massachusetts and out-of-State opinions concerning equitable estoppel in tax and nontax situations, and after a discussion analogizing the 1980 letter in its effect to a letter ruling of the Commissioner (see G. L. c. 30A, § 8 [1990 ed.]; 830 Code Mass.”

Sch. Comm. of Springfield v. Bd. of Educ., 287 N.E.2d 438 (Mass. 1972). “22 *442 The means of accomplishing this object are found in G. L. c. 30A, §§ 1 (2), (5), 2, 3, which establish rule-making procedures applicable to all but a few of the administrative agencies of State government.”

Town of Holden v. Div. of Water Pollution Control, 376 N.E.2d 1259 (Mass. App. Ct. 1978). “Although the director of the division has the general power under G. L. c. 30A, § 8, to make advisory rulings with respect to the applicability to any person of any statute administered by the agency, such rulings may not be contrary to the statute.”

Murby v. Child.'s Hosp. Corp., 33 Mass. L. Rptr. 335 (Mass. Super. Ct. 2016). “See G.L.c. 30A, §8; 105 C.M.R. §100.120. It is therefore empowered to construe its statutory mandate in the process of making such an advisoiy ruling, even if it has not addressed the same issue in a formal regulation.”

Wasserman v. Registrar of Motor Vehs., 18 Mass. L. Rptr. 259 (Mass. Super. Ct. 2004). · cites it 2× “L.c. 30A, §8].” Section 8 of c. 30A, however, deals with the availabilify of advisory rulings by an administrative agency.”

Lustig, Glaser & Wilson, P.C. v. Cotney, 33 Mass. L. Rptr. 472 (Mass. Super. Ct. 2016). · cites it 2× “BACKGROUND G.L.c. 30A, §8 provides that: “On request of any interested person, an agency may make an advisory ruling with respect to the applicability to any person, property or state of facts of any statute or regulation enforced or administered by that agency.”

Dorrian v. LVNV Funding, LLC (Mass. 2018). “" See G. L. c. 30A, § 8. An entity that meets either definition of "debt collector" must be licensed by the commissioner of banks (commissioner) through the division.”

Sullivan v. Cora Operations, Inc., 102 N.E.3d 428 (Mass. App. Ct. 2018). “7 Instead, the claims rest on the plaintiff's contention that DLS can only set wages through wage schedules, not opinion letters, and accordingly the 2014 DLS letter did not relieve the defendants of their obligation to pay the plaintiff in accordance with the earlier wage…”

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