Session Laws

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Section 29 of chapter 90 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 1984 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out the third, fourth and fifth sentences and inserting in place thereof the following three sentences:- He may also appoint, and for cause remove, a director of field operations, a deputy registrar, chief deputy registrar, an assistant to the registrar, hearings officers, a director of law enforcement, a chief inspector, a chief supervisor of special services, supervising inspectors with power to hold hearings, supervisors of special services, and assistant supervisors of special services, and may delegate to such deputy registrar, chief deputy registrar, director of field operations, deputy, assistant, hearings officers, director of law enforcement, chief inspector, chief supervisor of special services, supervising inspectors, supervisors and assistant supervisors the performance of any duty imposed upon the registrar relative to the administration or enforcement of laws relating to motor vehicles. He may establish a section for the inspection of motor vehicles used for the transportation of property with reference to all police requirements, including equipment and weight of loads. Said director of law enforcement, chief inspector, chief supervisor of special services, deputy registrar, chief deputy registrar, supervising inspectors with power to hold hearings, supervisors of special services and assistant supervisors of special services, investigators, examiners and safety instructors shall have and exercise throughout the commonwealth all the powers of police officers and constables under any provision of law, except the power of serving and executing civil process, and may carry within the commonwealth such weapons as the registrar may determine; provided, however, that no such director of law enforcement, chief inspector, chief supervisor of special services, deputy registrar, chief deputy registrar, supervising inspectors with power to hold hearings, supervisors of special services and assistant supervisors of special services, investigators, examiners and safety instructors shall carry any weapon nor exercise any powers of police officers or constables other than with respect to the enforcement of the laws relating to motor vehicles until such person has either satisfactorily completed a course of study lasting at least six weeks at a police training school approved by the Massachusetts police training council, as provided in section one hundred and eighteen of chapter six or an equivalent course of study as determined by the registrar.