Chap. 380. Chap. 380. An Act making appropriations fob the fiscal year NINETEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-NINE, FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF THE DEPARTMENTS, BOARDS, COMMISSIONS, INSTITUTIONS AND CERTAIN ACTIVITIES OF THE COMMONWEALTH, FOR INTEREST, SINKING FUND AND SERIAL BOND REQUIREMENTS, AND FOR CERTAIN PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Section 1. To provide for the maintenance of the several departments, board's, commissions and institutions, of sundry other services, and for certain permanent improvements, and to meet certain requirements of law, the sums set forth in section two, for the several purposes and subject to the conditions specified in said section two, are hereby appropriated from the General Fund unless specifically designated otherwise in the item, subject to the provisions of law regulating the disbursement of public funds and the approval thereof, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixty-nine, in this act referred to as the year nineteen hundred and sixty-nine, or for such period as may be specified. Section 2. Legislature. Item 0111-0000 0111-8000 0112-0000 0113-0000 0114-0000 0115-0000 0117-0000 0118-0000 0121-0000 0121-8000 0122-0000 0123-0000 0124-0000 0125-0000 0126-0000 Senate. For the compensation of senators, prior appropriation continued .........$434,999 For expenses of senators, including travel, prior appropriation continued......... 75,000 For the office of senate clerk, prior appropriation continued, including not more than six permanent positions . . 89,301 For the salary of the chaplain of the senate . . . 5,417 For the office of the senate counsel, prior appropriation continued, including not more than five permanent positions . _ 114,500 For the office of the senate committee on rules, prior appropriation continued, including not more than eight permanent positions 270,858 For the office of the senate committee on ways and means, prior appropriation continued, including not more than four permanent positions ........ . 64,358 For traveling and such other expenses of the committees of the senate, as may be authorized by order of the senate . . 2,000 Total $1,056,433 House of Representatives. For the compensation of representatives, prior appropriation continued.........$2,443,332 For expenses of representatives, including travel, prior appropriation continued........485,000 For the office of the clerk of the house of representatives, prior appropriation continued, including not more than eight permanent positions.........115,100 For the salary of the chaplain of the house of representatives 5,417 For the office of the house counsel, prior appropriation continued, including not more than eight permanent positions . 166,384 For the office of the house committee on rules, prior appropriation continued, including not more than fourteen permanent positions......229,100 For the office of the house committee on ways and means, prior appropriation continued, including not more than nine permanent posi-" tions ." . . * . . . . . . 160,000 Acts, 1968. — Chap. 380. Item 0127-0000 0129-0000 For clerical and other expenses of the members of the house of representatives, including not more than one permanent position $150,000 For traveling and such other expenses of the committees of the hoase of representatives, as may be authorized by order of the house of representatives ....... 3,000 Total $3,757,333 0131-0000 0132-0000 0132-1000 0133-0000 0134-0000 0135-0000 0136-0000 0141-0000 0142-0000 Sergeant-at-Arms. For the office of the sergeant-at-arms, including not more than eleven permanent positions . . . . . $119,603 For the salaries of the doorkeepers, assistant doorkeepers, general court officers and pages of the senate and house of representatives, with the approval of the sergeant-at-arms, including not more than ninety-four permanent positions ..... 1,066,474 For the salaries of clerks employed in the legislative document room, including not more than three permanent positions . 85,894 For contingent expenses of the senate and house of representatives and necessary expenses in and about the state house, with the approval of the sergeant-at-arms, prior appropriation continued . 100,000 For the payment of witness fees to persons summoned to appear before committees of the general court, and for expenses incidental to summoning them with the approval of the sergeant-at-arms 300 For the rental and maintenance of an electric roll call system 12,500 For certain improvements and renovations including furnishings and equipment, prior appropriation continued . . . 90,000 Total ....... Legislative Research Council. For the expenses of the council For the office of the legislative research bureau Total....... $1,474,671 $7,500 175,000 $182,500 Recodification Counsel. 0151-0000 For the office of the counsel, including not more than four permanent positions........$52,492 Other Expenses. 0161-0000 For printing, binding and paper ordered by the senate and house of representatives, or by concurrent order of the two branches, for printing the manual of the general court, with the approval of the clerks of the respective branches, and for biographical sketches o! certain state and federal officials . . . . . $532,500 0161-1000 For telephone and telegraph service, prior appropriation continued ........155,000 0161-2000 For the emergency services of a physician, for medical supplies in the state house and for expenses including the purchase of equipment in connection therewith, subject to the approval of the joint committee on rules; provided, that section twenty-one of chapter thirty of the General Laws shall not apply to the payments made under this item......... 8,000 0161-3000 For the compilation, indexing, annotating, printing and distribution of veterans laws, as provided by a joint order, and for expenses in connection with the publication of the bulletin of committee hearings and of the daily list, with the approval of the joint committee on rules, and for printing a descriptive pamphlet of the murals, house of representatives, including not more than two permanent positions .........165,654 0162-0000 For the service of the joint committee on federal financial assistance........ 17,490 Acts, 1968. — Chap. 380. Item 0163-0000 0164^-0000 0165-0000 For clerical and other assistance to the joint committees $33,631 For traveling and such other expenses of joint committees of the general court, as may be authorized by joint order of the general court......... 10,000 For the annual membership fee of the common-wealth in the national conference of state legislative leaders . . . 1,000 Total $923,075 Special Investigations. 0181-5000 For the expenses of the revolutionary bicentennial commission, including the preparation of a documentary history of the revolutionary government in Massachusetts, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy-three. 0182-1000 For an investigation and study by a special commission relative to the construction of certain connections of the various islands of the Boston harbor to each other and to the mainland and relative to the development of lands near the mouth of the Neponset river and the shores of Dorchester bay, as authorized by chapter eighty-six of the resolves of nineteen hundred and sixty-six . . . $75,000 0182-6000 For an investigation and study relative to the causes and possible prevention of the current wave of violence and crime in the common--wealth, as authorized by chapter one hundred and forty-three of the resolves of nineteen hundred and sixty-five . . 15,000 0183-0000 For an investigation and study relative to the disposal of solid waste matters and related matters, as authorized by chapter fifty-three of the resolves of nineteen hundred and sixty-six . . 25,CO0 0183-5000 For an investigation and study by a special commission to develop a master plan and program for taxation within the commonwealth, as authorized by chapter one hundred and sixty-two of the resolves of nineteen hundred and sixty-seven .... 100,000 0183-7000 For an investigation and study relative to the celebration of the three hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims, as authorized by chapter ninety-eight of the resolves of nineteen hundred and sixty-seven ...... 1,600 0183-8000 For an investigation and study relative to the conduct, operation, administration and management of state governmental departments, agencies, boards, divisions and commissions, as authorized by chapter one hundred and thirty-one of the resolves of nineteen hundred and sixty-seven ....... 10,000 0183-9000 For an investigation and study relative to the finances and operation of the Massachusetts. Bay .Transportation Authority, as authorized by chapter one hundred and twenty-six of the resolves of nineteen hundred and sixty-seven ...... 75,000 Total Total, Legislature $301,600 $7,748,004 Judiciary. Supreme Judicial Court, 0301-0001 For the salaries, traveling allowances and expenses of the chief justice and of the six associate justices .... $212,000 0301-0002 For law clerks and clerical assistance for the justices . 142,114 0301-A006 For office supplies, services and equipment . . . 14,600 0301-0101 For the salary of the clerk and the assistant clerk for the commonwealth ......... 38,982 0301-0102 For clerical assistance to the clerk .... 16,221 0301-0200 For the salaries of the officers and messengers . . 10,620 0301-0300 For the commonwealth's part of the salaries of the clerk and assistant clerks for the county of Suffolk .... 6,670 Acts, 1968. — Chap. 380. Item 0301-0400 0301-0500 0301-0601 0301-0700 For the use by certain state agencies of the facilities of the social law library; provided, that no payment shall be made for the use of the said facilities other than from funds provided by this item $7,000 For the service of the executive secretary . . 57,062 For expenses of the Massachusetts defenders committee, to be expended with any other public or private funds available for the purpose, and including not more than thirty-nine permanent positions . - . . . . . ... . 739,946 For the office of the reporter of decisions, including not more than four permanent positions ...... 49,666 Total $1,293,661 Superior Court. 0302-0000 For the salaries, traveling allowances and expenses of the chief justice and of the forty-five justices.....$1,304,600 0302-0001 For court expenses.......187,000 0302-0100 For the salary of the assistant clerk of Suffolk County . 2,500 0302-0301 For the compensation of justices of district courts while sitting in the superior court, prior appropriation continued . 46,000 0302-0302 For expenses of justices of district courts while sitting in the superior court, prior appropriation continued. 0302-0303 For reimbursing certain comities for compensation of certain special justices for services in holding sessions of district courts in place of the justice while sitting in the superior court . . 33,000 Local Aid Fund . . . .100.0% 0302-0401 For the compensation of probation officers, including not more than fifty-six permanent positions ..... 560,000 0302-0402 For personal services and expenses of the office of the supervisor of probation ........ 9,600 Total . $2,141,700 0303-0001 Judicial Council. For the service of the council $17,500 Administration of District Courts. 0304-0001 For compensation and expenses in connection with the administration of district courts ......$23,000 Administration of Probate and Insolvency Courts. 0305-1001 For the compensation of the special judge of probate when acting for other judges of probate......$16,000 0305-2001 For expenses of the special judge of probate when acting for other judges of probate ....... 1,500 0305-3001 For reimbursing officials for premiums paid for procuring sureties on their bonds, as provided by law .... 800 0305-4001 For expenses of the administrative committee of probate courts 600 0305-5001 For office expenses of the chief judge .... 27,144 Total $44,944 Probate and Insolvency Courts. For the salaries of judges of probate, registers of probate, assistant registers and clerical assistance to registers of the several counties: 0305-6011 Barnstable, including not more than eight permanent positions $67,520 0305-6021 Berkshire, including not more than eight permanent positions 68,695 0305-6031 Bristol, including not more than nineteen permanent positions 166,616 Acts, 1968. — Chap. 380. 235 Item 0305-6041 Dukes, including not more than three permanent positions $19,285 0305-6051 Essex, including not more than twenty-six permanent positions 206,605 0305-6061 Franklin, including not more than five permanent positions 54,130 0305-6071 Hampden, including not more than twenty-seven permanent positions .........207,856 0305-6081 Hampshire, including not more than five permanent positions 54,055 0305-6091 Middlesex, including not more than fifty-eight permanent positions .........430,732 0305-6101 Nantucket, including not more than three permanent positions 19,771 0305-6111 Norfolk, including not more than twenty-seven permanent positions ......... 242,345 0305-6121 Plymouth, including not more than fourteen permanent positions ......... 131,420 0305-6131 Suffolk, including not more than sixty-three permanent positions ......... 488,160 0305-6141 Worcester, including not more than twenty-four permanent positions .........198,096 Total.........$2,345,275 Land Court. 0306-0001 For the office of the land court, including not more than fifty-eight permanent positions ...... $594,342 Pensions for Certain Retired Justices. 0307-0001 For pensions of retired judges or their widows, as authorized by law.........$225,000 District Attorneys. For the salaries of district attorneys and assistants for the nine districts: 0308-0001 Suffolk, including not more than twenty-nine permanent positions ......... $309,900 0308-0002 Northern, including not more than fifteen permanent positions 147,900 0308-0003 Eastern, including not more than eight permanent positions 70,600 0308-0004 Southern, including not more than seven permanent positions 63,000 0308-0005 Middle, including not more than nine permanent positions 78,000 0308-0006 Western, including not more than six permanent positions 49,000 0308-0007 Northwestern, including not more than three permanent positions ......... 19,900 0308-0008 Norfolk, including not more than seven permanent positions 58,600 0308-0009 Plymouth, including not more than six permanent positions 51,500 0308-0010 For the traveling expenses necessarily incurred by the above district attorneys except in the Suffolk district, including expenses incurred in previous years ...... 7,000 Total.........$855,200 Committee on Probation. 0309-0001 For the office of the commissioner of probation, including not more than sixty-one permanent positions .... $487,193 0309-0002 For compensation and expenses of the members of the committee on probation . . . . . . . . 2,400 Total.........$489,593 Board of Bar Examiners. 0310-0001 For the service of the board, including not more than six permanent positions ....... $52,666 Acts, 1968. — Chap. 380. Item 0312-0001 Suffolk County Court House. For reimbursing the city of Boston for thirty per cent of the cost of maintenance of the Suffolk County court house, as provided by and subject to the conditions of section six of chapter four hundred and seventy-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and thirty-five; provided, that this appropriation shall not be construed as fixing the specific amount for which the commonwealth shall be liable on account of said maintenance ..... $250,000 Local Aid Fund.....100.0% Total, Judiciary $8,332,770 0411-1000 0411-1901 0411-2000 0411-3000 0411-4000 0411-5000 0411-7000 0411-8000 Executive. Governor. For the salaries of the governor and officers and employees in the governor's office........$565,000 For postage, printing, office and other contingent expenses, including travel of the governor . . . . 122,000 For the administration of the medical assistance advisory council .......... 23,000 For the commonwealth's share of the expenses of the New England regional commission to coordinate interstate development and planning projects under the economic development act of nineteen hundred and sixty-five ........ 6,000 For the administration of the public safety committee . 35,800 For the office of the governor's highway safety committee 15,036 Highway Fund . . . . 100.0% For the maintenance and operation of the governor's mansion, including not more than four permanent positions . . 68,092 For the cost, not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars, of entertainment of distinguished visitors to the commonwealth; provided, that no expenditure shall be allowed for a party exceeding fifty visitors, for the payment of extraordinary expenses not otherwise provided for, and for transfers to appropriation accounts where the amounts otherwise available are insufficient; provided, that requests for such transfers shall be referred to the commissioner of administration who, after investigation, shall submit for approval of the governor his written recommendation as to the amount of funds required with facts pertinent thereto ...... 100,000 Total . $934,928 Lieutenant-Governor. 0412-1000 For the salary of the lieutenant-governor and for personal services for the lieutenant-governor's office ..... $85,800 Governor's Council. 0413-1000 For the salaries and personal services of the council, for the expenses of the governor and council, and for the expenses and travel of the lieutenant-governor and council from and to their homes $105,803 Civil Defense Agency. 0414-0000 For the service of the civil defense agency as authorized by chapter six hundred and thirty-nine of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty, as amended, and chapter five hundred and twenty-two of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-one; provided, that expenditures from this item shall be contingent upon the prior approval of the proper federal authorities and shall be expended with at least an equivalent amount of federal funds for the purposes of this item, and including not more than one hundred and nine permanent positions $485,000 0414-3000 For training and training supplies; provided, that expenditures from this item shall be contingent upon the prior approval of the proper federal authorities for reimbursement of fifty per cent of the amounts expended for the purposes of this item . . . 17,900 Acts, 1968. — Chap. 380. 237 Item 0414-4000 For the purchase and installation of certain equipment to be allocated to the state civil defense program; provided, that expenditures from this item shall be contingent upon the prior approval of the proper federal authorities and shall be expended with at least an equivalent amount of federal grants for the purposes of this item $36,000 Total $537,900 Total, Executive.......$1,664,431 Military Division. Notwithstanding the provisions of chapter thirty of the General Laws, certain military personnel in the military division may be paid salaries according to military pay grades, so called: Adjutant General. 0431-0000 For the office of the adjutant general, including not more than thirty-seven permanent positions ..... $302,120 0431-0100 For officers' uniform allowances..... 70,000 0431-0200 For compensation for special and miscellaneous duty, transportation of officers to and from military meetings and drills and expenses of camps of instruction, including not more than eight permanent positions.......158,464 0431-0300 For allowances to companies and other administrative units, to be expended under the direction of the adjutant general 186,000 0431-0400 For compensation for accidents and injuries sustained in the performance of military duty and for small claims for damages to private property........ 8,000 0431-0500 For the operation of the war records project, so called, including not more than ten permanent positions .... 58,340 Total $782,914 State Quartermaster. 0431-1000 For the office of the state quartermaster . . . $8,660 0431-1100 For the operation of armories of the first class, including not more than one hundred and three permanent positions . . 1,177,430 0431-1200 For reimbursement for rent and maintenance of armories not of the first class........ 15,000 0431-1300 For the Camp Curtis Guild rifle range, including not more than seven permanent positions....... 39,016 0431-1400 For certain storage and maintenance facilities, including not more than twenty-eight permanent positions .... 164,416 0431-1500 For certain national guard aviation facilities, including not more than ten permanent positions ...... 68,610 0431-9001 For the military reservation, located in Barnstable County, including compensation of the commissioner .... 1,166 0431-9002 For expenses of maintaining, in the state house, headquarters for the Department of Massachusetts, United Spanish War Veterans, with the approval of the department commander and the adjutant general ......... 1,500 Total.........$1,466,676 0431-9003 Armory Commission, For compensation of one member and for of the commis-$242 Total, Military Division $2,238,831 238 Acts, 1968. — Chap. 380. Item 0441-0000 Massachusetts Commission for the Blind. For the office of the commissioner, including not more than ten permanent positions . . ¦ . . . . . $89,338 Bureau of Medical Care. 0441-1000 For administration of the bureau, to be in addition to any federal funds available for the purpose, and including not more than fifty-four permanent positions. . . . . . . $147,990 0441-1010 For aiding the adult blind, subject to the conditions provided by law, to be in addition to any federal funds available for the purpose, prior appropriation continued . . ..... . 2,300,400 0441-1020 For administration of a program of medical assistance, to be in addition to any federal funds available for the purpose, and including not more than five permanent positions .... 122,350 0441-1030 For payments of the state share of certain medical assistance programs, including medical supplies and equipment . . . 1,110,200 Total $3,680,940 Bureau of Individual Services. 0441-2000 For administration of a program of individual services, including not more than two permanent positions .... $15,435 0441-2010 For administration of a talking book program, including not more than three permanent positions . . . . . _ 69,667 0441-2020 For administration of a home teaching program, including not more than nineteen permanent positions ' . ' . . . 119,980 0441-2030 For administration of a children's services program, including not more than seven permanent positions . . . . 55,085 Total $250,167 Bureau of Rehabilitation. 0441-3000 For administration of the bureau, to be in addition to any federal funds available for the purpose, including not more than two permanent positions . . . . . . . $13,970 0441-3010 For a program of vocational rehabilitation of the blind in co-operation with the federal government, prior appropriation continued 267,500 Total $281,470 Bureau of Industrial Aid and Workshops. • 0441-4000 For the administration of the bureau, including not more than three permanent positions. ... . . . $26,625 0441-4010 For operation of local shops, including not more than thirteen permanent positions . .... . . . . 318,845 0441-4020 For operation of the salesroom and other expenses in connection with the sales of material made by blind persons, and including not more than four permanent positions ..... 49,750 0441-4030 For operation of the Cambridge mdustries for the blind, including not more than eleven permanent positions . . . 584,533 0441-4040 For the administration and operation of the service of piano tuning...... . . 33,000 0441-4050 For certain payments to blind persons, as authorized by chapter six hundred and sixty-nine of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-seven........ 62,597 Total $1,075,350 Acts, 1968. —Chap. 380. 239 Bureau of Research. Item ¦ 0441-5000 For the administration of the bureau, including not more than four permanent positions ': . . . . . $20,125 Total, Massachusetts Commission for the Blind . . $5,397,390 Executive Office for Administration and Finance. 0451-1100 For the office of the commissioner of administration, to be in addition to any federal funds available for the purpose, including not more than thirty-three permanent positions . . . . ¦ . . $514,071 Highway Fund .... 30.0% General-Fund . . .¦ . 70.0% 0451-1191 For a reserve for transfers to items of appropriation made specifically in this act for purchase of equipment or repair, alteration or renovation projects by the commissioner of administration with the approval of the governor where the amount appropriated is insufficient for the purpose of said item; provided, that the transfer shall not exceed five per cent of the amount originally appropriated for any such item, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy . . . .... . 50,000 0451-1200 For the personal expenses of the governor while living in the vicinity of Boston, with approval of the commissioner of administration . ;¦'.'. . . . 10,000 0451-1601 For personal services and expenses in connection -with, the administration and operation of highway safety programs with the approval of the commissioner of administration; provided, that expenditures from this item shall be contingent upon prior approval of the proper federal authorities,' and shall be expended with at least an equivalent amount of federal funds available for the purposes of this item .........800,000 Highway Fund .... 100.0% 0451-1701 For the administration of the bureau of retardation . 36,033 Total . . . . ... . . . $1,410,104 Fiscal Affairs Division. 0451-2100 For administration of the division, to be in addition to any federal funds available for .the purpose, including not more than one hundred and thirty-six permanent positions .... $1,309,946 Highway Fund . . . . 30.0% General Fund . . .. .' . 70.0% 0451-2200 For the compensation and expenses of the personnel appeals board, . as authorized by section fifty-five of chapter thirty of the General Laws; provided, that notwithstanding the limitations of said section fifty-five compensation and expenses may be allowed each member for forty additional days, and including not more than three permanent positions '..'.. . . . . 13,350 0451-2300 For the administration of the bureau of hospital costs and finances, including not more than six permanent positions . 73,061 0451-2400 For the expenses of an in-service training program for engineering ;. employees, to be .in addition to any amounts paid by cities or towns for the purpose . . . •' . . . . 80,000 Highway Fund . . . . 100.0% 0451-^2500 For other in-service training programs .... 50,000 Total .........$1,626,357 Central Services Division. 0451-3100 For the administration of the division, to be in addition to any federal funds available for the purpose, including not more than five permanent positions . . . . . . . $64,205 Acts, 1968.—Chap. 380. Item 0451-3200 For the administration of the bureau of building construction, to be in addition to any federal funds available for the purpose, including not more than seventy permanent positions . . . $971,020 0451-3300 For the bureau of state buildings, and for the maintenance of the state house and Ford building, including not more than one hundred and seventy-five permanent positions .... 1,572,651 For the maintenance of the new state office building, including not more than seventy-four permanent positions . . . 1,364,225 For regilding the state house dome, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy ..... 42,000 For the operation of certain central services and the telephone system, including not more than twenty-eight permanent positions 206,032 0451-3400 0451-3903 0451-4000 Total.........$4,220,033 Comptroller's Division. 0452-1000 For the administration of the division, including not more than one hundred and seventy-seven permanent positions . $1,660,636 Highway Fund .... 30.0% General Fund .... 70.0% 0452-2000 For the design, development and installation of a coordinated, automated financial and information system for the comptroller's division and other state agencies; provided, the necessary consultant services may be furnished by an accredited accounting firm . 125,000 Total.........$1,775,636 Purchasing Agent's Division. 0453-1000 For the administration of the division, including not more than ninety permanent positions ...... $632,587 Highway Fund .... 30.0% General Fund .... 70.0% 0453-2000 For the operation of a central mailing room in the new state office building, including not more than four permanent positions 20,386 0453-3000 For the purchase of paper used in the execution of contracts for printing, other than legislative ..... 138,600 Total $791,472 Group Insurance Commission. 0454-1000 For administration of the group insurance program, including not more than forty permanent positions .... $398,756 0454-2000 For the commonwealth's share of the group insurance premium; provided, that the group insurance commission shall charge the division of employment security and other departments, authorities, agencies and divisions which have federal or other funds allocated to them for this purpose for that portion of the cost of the program as it determines should be borne by such funds, and shall notify the comptroller of the amounts to be transferred, after similar determination, from the several state or other funds, and amounts received in payment of all such charges or such transfers shall be credited to the General Fund; provided, that notwithstanding the provisions of section twenty-six of chapter twenty-nine of the General Laws, the commission is hereby authorized to negotiate and execute contracts for group life and health insurance; and provided further, that the contract shall provide benefits, when supplemented by benefits authorized by federal legislation, that will be comparable to those at present in effect, prior appropriation continued . . . 9,302,290 0454-3000 For the group insurance premium for certain retired employees and their dependents; provided, that amounts received from cities, towns or districts are to be in addition to this item and to be available for expenditure without further appropriation . . . 160,000 Total . $9,861,046 Acts, 1968. — Chap. 380. 241 Rate Setting Board for Convalescent or Nursing Homes and Rest Homes. Item 0455-0000 For expenses of the board, including not more than eleven permanent positions........$153,016 Suggestion Awards Board. 0456-0000 For awards to state employees.....$1,435 Board of Economic Advisors. 0457-0000 For the expenses of the board.....$32,067 Total, Executive Office for Administration and Finance $19,771,164 Other Boards and Commissions serving under the Governor and Council. Commission on Uniform State Laws. 0461-1000 For the expenses of the commission .... $3,695 George Fingold Library. 0461-2000 For the administration of the library, including not more than thirty-one permanent positions . . . . . . $265,520 Art Commission. 0461-3000 For expenses of the commission, notwithstanding the limitation of section nineteen of chapter six of the General Laws . $900 Ballot Law Commission. 0461-4000 For compensation and expenses of the commissioners, including not more than three permanent positions . . . $4,550 Massachusetts Commission against Discrimination. 0461-5100 For the office of the commission, providing, that all special or general laws to the contrary, notwithstanding, all positions under this item shall be subject to chapter thirty-one of the General Laws, including not more than fifty-seven permanent positions . . $606,909 0461-5110 For administration of the Springfield office . . . 29,633 0461-5120 For administration of the New Bedford office . . 16,830 Total..........$662,372 State Racing Commission. 0461-6000 For the office of the commission; provided, that fees paid to veterinarians for services in connection with horse racing shall not exceed forty-five dollars per diem, and in connection with dog racing shall not exceed thirty-five dollars per diem, including not more than ten permanent positions.......$199,416 Records Conservation Board. 0i61-7000 For expenses of the board...... $1,810 Commission on Aging. 0462-0100 For expenses of the commission, to be in addition to any federal funds available for the purpose ....... $132,950 0462-0200 For a demonstration grant program for the elderly . 25,000 Local Aid Fund . . . . 100.0% Total.........$167,950 242 Acts, 1968.—Chap. 380. Old State House. Item 0462-2000 For the contribution of the commonwealth toward the maintenance of the old provincial state house . . . . . $1,500 Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission. 0462-3000 For the office of the commission, including not more than sixty-four permanent positions ...... $618,170 Contributory Retirement Appeal Board. 0462-4000 For the expenses of the board..... $100 Obscene Literature Control Commission. 0462-5000 For the expenses of the commission . . . . $1,000 Mobile Homes Commission. 0462-6000 For the expenses of the commission . . . . $5,000 Metropolitan Area Planning Council. 0462-7100 For personal services and expenses of the council . . $125,520 Consumers' Council. 0462-8000 For the administration of the council, including not more than seven permanent positions ...... $66,341 New England Board of Higher Education. 0463-0000 For expenses of the board, and for compensation and expenses of the members, as provided by chapter five hundred and eighty-nine of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-four . . . $52,806 0463-1000 For payments to medical or dental schools on acceptance of certain Massachusetts students, as authorized by chapter five hundred and eighty-nine of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-four 176,000 Total .........$227,806 Finance Advisory Board. 0463-2000 For the expenses of the board..... $100 Retirement Law Commission. 0463-3000 For the administration of the commission, including not more than two permanent positions ...... $29,191 Boxers' Fund Board. 0463-4100 For the expenses of the board..... $250 Committee on Law Enforcement and Administration of Criminal Justice. 0463-5000 For the expenses of the committee .... $500 Commissioner of Veterans' Services. 0463-6100 For the office of the commissioner, including not more than ninety permanent positions ...... $680,450 0463-6300 For the payment of annuities to certain, disabled veterans 150,000 0463-6400 For reimbursing cities and towns for money paid for veterans' benefits.........10,000,000 Local Aid Fund .... 100.0% Acts, 1968.—Chap. 380. 243 Item 0463-6500 For reimbursing cities and towns for financial aid granted to certain, needy dependents of persons in the service of the armed forces.........$24,000 Local Aid Fund .... 100.0% Total .........$10,854,450 Municipal Police Training Council. 0463-7000 For the administration of the council . . . . $25,036 Massachusetts Aeronautics Commission. 0463-8100 For the personal services and expense of the commissioners, including not more than five permanent positions . . ¦ . $8,250 0463-8200 For the administration of the commission, including not more than ten permanent positions ...... 114,410 0463-8400 For the expenses of air navigation facilities . . . 50,000 Total..........$172,660 Health and Welfare Commission. 0464-1000 For the office of the commission, including not more than three permanent positions.......$27,730 Advisory Council on Home and Family. 0464-2000 For expenses of the council......$10,000 Commission on Employment of the Handicapped. 0464-3000 For the expenses of the commission .... $500 Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission. 0464—4010 For the administration of the commission, including not more than one permanent position . . . . . . . $2,300,409 Teachers' Corps Commission. 0464-5000 For the expenses of the commission, prior appropriation continued. Governor's Mansion Commission. 0464-6000 For the expenses of the commission . . . . $250 Soldiers' Home in Massachusetts. 0471-0000 For the maintenance of the home, including not more than six hundred and fourteen permanent positions .... $4,836,751 0471-9001 For the replacement of unit heaters in certain hospital wards, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy......... 12,000 0471-9002 For weatherproofing the power plant, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy . . . 15,000 Total........ $4,862,751 Soldiers' Home in Holyoke. 0481-0000 For the maintenance of the home, including not more than two hundred and twenty-six permanent positions . . $1,775,595 0481-9001 For the replacement of floor covering for the hospital building, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy 35,000 Total.........$1,810,595 Acts, 1968. — Chap. 380. Item Service Corps Commission. 0491-1000 For the expenses of the commission, prior appropriation continued...... . $837,000 Total, Other Boards and Commissions serving under the Governor and Council........$23,262,971 Secretary of the Commonwealth. 0511-0000 For the office of the secretary, including not more than eighty-four permanent positions....... $833,363 0513-0000 For the expense of processing certain statistical data . 7,600 0514-0000 For the administration of the bureau of corporate organization and registration, including not more than thirteen permanent positions .........144,405 0516-0000 For the expenses of reproduction of the manuscript collection designated "Massachusetts Archives", and for furnishing copies of corporation papers, election papers and acts and resolves 32,650 0517-0000 For the expense of printing various public documents, prior appropriation continued........106,800 0518-0000 For the purchase and distribution of certain journals of the house of representatives, as authorized by chapter four hundred and thirteen of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty, as amended 3,000 0521-0000 For preparing, printing and distributing ballots and other miscellaneous expenses for primary and other elections, prior appropriation continued, and including not more than nine permanent positions 667,040 0522-0000 For expenses of publications of lists of candidates and of questions before state elections......30,000 0523-0000 For services and expenses of the electoral college . 1,270 0524-0000 For expenses of compiling and publishing information to voters 188,260 Total.........$2,004,268 Commission on Interstate Co-operation. 0525-0000 For the office of the commission; provided, that the position of director, commission on interstate co-operation shall not be subject to the provisions of chapter thirty-one of the General Laws, and including not more than two permanent positions .... $44,010 Massachusetts Historical Commission. 0526-0000 For the administration of the commission, including not more than one permanent position ...... $32,993 Total, Secretary of the Commonwealth $2,081,271 Treasurer and Receiver-General. 0610-0000 For the office of the treasurer and receiver-general; provided, that there shall be charged against this appropriation certain shortages in the amount of two thousand seven hundred and thirty dollars and thirty-five cents determined by the auditor to be the shortage as of January thirty-first, nineteen hundred and sixty-seven, including not more than eighty-eight permanent positions . . $970,668 Highway Fund .... 30.0% General Fund .... 70.0% 0611-1000 For payments to soldiers in recognition of service in World War I and the Spanish war . . . . . . 760 0611-2000 For payments to soldiers in recognition of service in World War II 5,000 0611-3000 For payments to soldiers in recognition of service in the Korean conflict ......... 2,500 Total $978,808 Acts, 1968.—Chap. 380. 245 Stale Board of Retirement. Item 0612-0000 For the administration of the board, including not more than thirty-nine permanent positions ...... $291,945 0612-1000 For the payment of the commonwealth's share in financing the state employees retirement system, as provided by chapter thirty-two of the General Laws, prior appropriations continued; provided, that the amounts of all reimbursements received on account of retirement allowances paid and all contributions received from the federal government, authorities, agencies of the commonwealth and political subdivisions thereof on account of the retirement of employees are to be in addition to this item and to be available for expenditure without further appropriation ..... 18,161,000 Highway Fund .... 15.0% General Fund .... Remainder 0612-2000 For the compensation of veterans who may be retired by the state board of retirement under the provisions of sections fifty-six to fifty-nine, inclusive; of chapter thirty-two of the General Laws, and under the provisions of chapter four hundred and ninety of the acts of nineteen hundred and sixty-one, as amended, and for the cost of medical examinations in connection therewith, and for the commonwealth's proportionate share of retirement allowances payable under chapter four hundred and sixty-five of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-six, as amended .... 6,203,000 Highway Fund .... 22.0% General Fund .... 78.0% 0612-3000 For payment of any claims for allowances to families of certain employees killed or fatally injured in the discharge of their duties 14,700 0612-4000 For the compensation of certain prison officers and instructors formerly in the service of the commonwealth, now retired . 19,500 0612-5000 For retirement allowances of certain employees formerly in the service of the administrative division of the metropolitan district commission; provided, that the metropolitan district commission's share of this item shall be assessed by methods fixed by law . 15,400 MDC Sewerage District Fund . 25.0% MDC Water District Fund . . 25.0% Highway Fund .... 25.0% MDC Parks District Fund . . 25.0% 0612-6000 For retirement allowances of certain veterans and police officers, formerly in the service of the metropolitan district commission; provided, that the commission's share of this item shall be assessed by methods fixed by law........639,200 Highway Fund .... 60.0% MDC Parks District Fund . . 39.0% General Fund .... 1.0% 0612-7000 For retirement allowances of certain veterans formerly in the service of the metropolitan sewerage district . . . 185,400 MDC Sewerage District Fund . 100.0% 0612-8000 For retirement allowances of certain veterans formerly in the service of the metropolitan water system ..... 382,900 MDC Water District Fund . . 100.0% 0612-9000 For annuities for widows of certain former members of the uniformed branch of the state police, as authorized by chapter five hundred and twenty-six of the acts of nineteen hundred and sixty-three 40,000 Highway Fund .... 66.0% General Fund .... 34.0% Total.........$24,953,045 Commissioners on Firemen's Relief. 0620-0000 For the expenses of administration, and for relief disbursed by the commissioners........$16,625 Acts, 1968. — Chap. 380. Item Emergency Finance Boards. 0630-0000 For administration of the board, including not more than one permanent position ....... $31,173 Total, Treasurer and Receiver-General $25,979,651 Auditor of the Commonwealth. 0710-0000 For the office of the auditor, including not more than seventy-two permanent positions ....... $1,189,930 Highway Fund .... 30.0% General Fund .... 70.0% Total, Auditor of the Commonwealth $1,189,930 Department of the Attorney General. 0810-0000 For the office of the attorney general, including not more than fifty-two permanent positions . . . . . . $1,484,433 0821-0100 For the settlement of certain claims on account of damages by cars owned by the commonwealth and operated by state employees and for the settlement of certain small claims; provided, that the comptroller shall transfer to the General Fund from the appropriate funds sums equal to the payments made under this item for claims against agencies whose appropriations are derived from other funds 108,000 Total, Department of the Attorney General $1,592,433 Department of Agriculture. 0911-1000 For the office of the commissioner, including the expenses of the board of agriculture, and including not more than twenty-nine permanent positions........$214,000 0912-1000 For apiary inspection and for reimbursement of owners of diseased bees, including not more than one permanent position . 10,178 Total $224,178 Division of Poultry and Poultry Products. 0913-1000 For the office of the division, including not more than six permanent positions........ $50,620 0913-2000 For a program of quality improvement of the production and marketing of eggs; provided, that the sum appropriated herein shall be expended with at least an equivalent amount of federal grants for the purposes of this item ....... 4,650 Total $55,270 0914-1000 0914-2000 Division of Dairying and Animal Husbandry. For the office of the division, including not more than twenty permanent positions. . . . . . . . . $176,966 For a program of quality improvement of dairy products; provided, that the sum appropriated herein shall be expended with at least an equivalent amount of federal grants for the purposes of this item......... 4,600 Total $181,465 Division of Animal Health. 0915-1000 For the office of the division, including not more than twenty-eight permanent positions......$263,020 Acts, 1968. — Chap. 380. Item 0915-2000 For travel, when allowed, of inspectors of animals, incidental expenses of killing and burial of animals, quarantine and emergency services, and for laboratory and veterinary supplies and equipment $1,875 0915-3000 For the reimbursement of owners of cattle killed, as authorized by sections twelve A and thirty-six G, respectively, of chapter one hundred and twenty-nine of the General Laws and in accordance with certain provisions of law and agreements made under authority of section thirty-three of said chapter one hundred and twenty-nine, prior appropriation continued. 0915-4000 For the reimbursement of certain towns for compensation paid to inspectors of animals, prior appropriation continued. Local Aid Fund .... 100.0% Total $264,895 0916-1000 0916-2000 0916-7000 Division of Markets. For the office of the division, including not more than eleven permanent positions.......$132,410 For a program of preparing crop survey reports; provided, that the sum appropriated herein shall be expended with at least an equivalent amount of federal grants for the purposes of this item 5,956 For a program of improving roadside marketing; provided, that the sum appropriated herein shall be expended with at least an equivalent amount of federal grants for the purposes of this item 3,500 Total $141,865 Division of Plant Pest Control. 0917-1000 For the office of the division, including not more than four permanent 0918-1000 0919-0100 0919-0200 positions $45,762 Division of Fairs. For the office of the division and for state prizes and agricultural exhibits, including allotment of funds for the 4-H activities, prior appropriation continued, and including not more than three permanent positions ....... $292,500 Agricultural Purposes Fund . . 100.0% State Reclamation Board. For the office of the board, including not more than three permanent positions For the control of the greenhead fly Total $23,260 6,500 $29,760 For the expenses of the following mosquito control projects: 0919-0300 Cape Cod........ M Mosquito and Greenhead Fly Control Fund 100.0% 0919-1100 Berkshire County...... Mosquito and Greenhead Fly Control Fund 100.0% 0919-1200 Norfolk County....... Mosquito and Greenhead Fly Control Fund 100.0% 0919-1300 Bristol County....... Mosquito and Greenhead Fly Control Fund 100.0% 0919-1400 Plymouth County...... Mosquito and Greenhead Fly Control Fund 100.0% 0919-1500 Essex County, city of Revere, and town of Winthrop Mosquito and Greenhead Fly Control Fund 100.0% $155,232 107,441 117,760 102,327 111,895 107,032 Total $701,687 248 Acts, 1968. — Chap. 380. Item Division of Milk Control. 0920-1000 For the office of the division, including not more than thirty-four permanent positions.......$248,710 Total, Department of Agriculture $2,186,092 Department of Natural Resources. 1000-0000 For the office of the commissioner, including the expenses of the natural resources board; provided, that the position of deputy commissioner shall not be subject to the provisions of chapter thirty-one of the General Laws, and including not more than thirty-eight permanent positions . . .....$349,455 Inland Fisheries and Game Fund . .7% Public Access Fund . . . 2.8% General Fund .... 96.5% Public Access Board. 1000-1491 For the acquisition of land and the construction of public access and related facilities in and to the waters of the commonwealth, as defined in section seventeen of chapter twenty-one of the General Laws and to such other public waters as the public access board may determine; provided, that notwithstanding any provision of the General Laws to the contrary, the public access board may be the contracting agent for such land acquisition and construction, and said board may acquire such land by purchase as well as by eminent domain under the provisions of section five A of chapter ninety-one of the General Laws, prior appropriation continued ..... $500,000 Public Access Fund . . . 100.0% Division of Forests and Parks. 1010-0000 For the office of the division, including not more than fourteen permanent positions.......$132,500 1011-0000 For the office of the bureau of recreation, including not more than one hundred and thirty-three permanent positions . . 1,831,355 State Recreational Areas Fund . 100.0% 1011-9006 For the improvement of roads in state forests, state parks and state reservations, prior appropriation continued . . 160,000 State Recreational Areas Fund . 100.0% 1012-0000 For the development of forests, including not more than five permanent positions ........ 60,535 1012-9001 For the administration of an accelerated program of forest management on the state forest lands, as authorized by chapter four hundred and eighty-six of the acts of nineteen hundred and sixty . 45,900 1012-9002 For a federal-state co-operative forest management program and for certain farm forestry projects in cooperation with tne United States Forest Service and the counties of Berkshire, Essex and Hampshire; provided, that no expenditures shall be made under this item for farm forestry projects until the county shall have deposited the sum of twenty-five per cent of the expenses of its projects, as determined by the commissioner of natural resources, in the state treasury, and including not more than ten permanent positions . . 130,990 1013-0000 For the office of the state fire warden and for expenses of the northeastern forest fire protection commission, and for compensation of commissioners, as authorized by chapter four hundred and fifty-seven of the acts of nineteen hundred and forty-nine, and including not more than nineteen permanent positions . . . . 614,425 1013-0002 For the administration of the forest fire patrol, including not more than eleven permanent positions . . . . . 120,080 Acts, 1968. — Chap. 380. 249 Item 1014-0000 For the suppression of insect pests and shade tree diseases, including gypsy and brown tail moths and Japanese beetles under any general or special law, and including not more than thirty-two permanent positions........$233,015 Total $3,318,800 Division of Law Enforcement. 1020-0000 For the office of the division, including not more than seventy-seven permanent positions ...... $700,000 Inland Fisheries and Game Fund . 26.0% Marine Fisheries Fund . . . 24.0% State Recreational Areas Fund . 5.0% General Fund .... 45.0% 1020-0200 For the supervision of public fishing and hunting grounds . 11,070 Inland Fisheries and Game Fund . 100.0% Total $711,070 Division of Conservation Services. 1030-0000 For the office of the division, including the expenses for the committee for conservation, and including not more than five permanent positions ......... $128,900 1030-1200 For assistance to community conservation commissions in the acquisition of conservation lands ...... 1,000,000 Local Aid Fund .... 100.0% 1030-1241 For the administration of a land and water conservation program, including not more than one permanent position . . 69,316 State Recreational Areas Fund . 100.0% 1039-8000 For the payment of interest on certain bonded debt of the commonwealth; provided, that any deficit existing in this item at the close of this fiscal year shall be charged to the State Recreation Areas Fund........ 128,681 State Recreational Areas Fund . 100.0% 1039-9000 For certain serial bonds maturing; provided, that any deficit existing in this item at the close of this fiscal year shall be charged to the State Recreation Areas Fund......394,900 State Recreational Areas Fund . 100.0% Total.........$1,721,797 Division of Marine Fisheries. 1040-0000 For the office of the division, and for the administration of the activities provided for under item 1040-1361, including not more than twenty permanent positions ...... $205,215 Marine Fisheries Fund . . . 100.0% 1040-0001 For the expenses of the marine fisheries advisory commission 1,600 Marine Fisheries Fund . . . 100.0% 1040-1311 For a program of estuarine research .... 102,860 Marine Fisheries Fund . . . 100.0% 1040-1341 For the operation of a shellfish treatment plant, as authorized by chapter five hundred and six of the acts of nineteen hundred and sixty-one ......... 78,366 Marine Fisheries Fund . . . 100.0% 1040-1361 For the reimbursement to certain coastal cities and towns of a part of the cost of projects for the suppression of enemies of shellfish and for propagation; provided, that the expenditures by said cities and towns Acts, 1968.—Chap. 380. of funds herein provided shall not be subject to appropriation as required by section fifty-three of chapter forty-four of the General Laws . . . . . . . . . $22,000 Marine Fisheries Fund . . . 100.0% Total.........$409,941 Expenditures from the following items shall be contingent upon the prior approval of the proper federal authorities for reimbursement of at least fifty per cent of the amounts expended: 1040-1371 For a special program of marine food science and technology research to improve quality of Massachusetts commercial fishery products........$39,000 Marine Fisheries Fund . . . 100.0% 1040-1372 For the collection, compilation, evaluation and dissemination of commercial fisheries statistics ..... 18,145 Marine Fisheries Fund . . . 100.0% 1040-1373 For a program, in cooperation with the Woods Hole laboratory of the bureau of commercial fisheries, to increase the knowledge of coastal flounder population ....... 17,080 Marine Fisheries Fund . . . 100.0% 1040-1374 Coordination of commercial fisheries research and development work . . . . . . . . . 30,605 Marine Fisheries Fund . . . 100.0% 1040-1375 For consumer education in and the development of Massachusetts fishery products .... 120,000 Marine Fisheries Fund . ... 100.0% 1040-1376 For an investigation of the use of anadromous fish . 16,330 Marine Fisheries Fund . . . 100.0% 1040-1377 For the improvement of the program for the protection of shellfish......... 9,600 Marine Fisheries Fund . . . 100.0% 1040-1378 For a study of the effect of the projected Cape Cod canal power plant; provided, that expenditures from this item shall be contingent upon the prior approval of the proper federal authorities for reimbursement of one hundred per cent of the amounts expended for the purpose of this item........26,325 Marine Fisheries Fund . . . 100.0% Total.........$277,085 Division of Fisheries and Game. It is hereby provided that federal funds received as reimbursements under the following items are to be credited as income to the Inland Fisheries and Game Fund. For the office of the division, including expenses of the fish and game board, including not more than seventeen permanent positions . . .......$203,760 Inland Fisheries and Game Fund . 100.0% For contributions to the state retirement system for retirement allowances on account of the death or retirement of employees, officers and officials now or formerly employees of the division 39,000 Inland Fisheries and Game Fund . 100.0% For the purchase of fish and wildlife lands and waters . 50,000 Inland Fisheries and Game Fund . 100.0% For the administration of the fish hatcheries and for the improvement and management of lakes, ponds and rivers, including not more than forty-nine permanent positions . . . . . 500,050 Inland Fisheries and Game Fund . 100.0% 1070-0000 1070-1000 1070-2204 1070-2300 Acts, 1968. — Chap. 380. Item 1070-2304 For certain construction and improvements to the East Sandwich trout hatchery, prior appropriation continued . . . $25,000 Inland Fisheries and Game Fund . 100.0% 1070-2322 For certain anadromous fish restoration programs; provided, that expenditures from this item shall be contingent upon prior approval of the proper federal authorities for reimbursement of at least fifty per cent of the amounts expended .... 11,800 Inland Fisheries and Game Fund . 100.0% 1070-2341 For the contribution of the department of natural resources towards a fisheries co-operative research project, in accordance with a contract with the federal government, to be expended by the University of Massachusetts....... 10,000 Inland Fisheries and Game Fund . 100.0% 1070-2342 For fish restoration projects, as authorized by chapter two hundred and seven of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-one, including not more than four permanent positions ..... 49,685 Inland Fisheries and Game Fund . 100.0% 1070-2400 For the administration of game farms and for wildlife research and management, including not more than forty-nine permanent positions ........ 485,260 Inland Fisheries and Game Fund . 100.0% 1070-2441 For the contribution of the department of natural resources towards a wildlife co-operative research project, in accordance with a contract with the federal government, to be expended by the University of Massachusetts . . . . . . . 8,600 Inland Fisheries and Game Fund . _ 100.0% 1070-2451 For the payment of damages caused by wild deer, prior appropriation continued, including not more than one permanent position 10,866 Inland Fisheries and Game Fund . 100.0% 1070-2461 For the administration of a program for wildlife restoration projects, as authorized by chapter three hundred and ninety-two of the acts of nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, including not more than twenty-one permanent positions ...... 167,905 Inland Fisheries and Game Fund . 100.0% 1070-2502 For the eastern dove management unit; provided, that expenditures from this item shall be contingent upon the prior approval of the proper federal authorities for one hundred per cent reimbursement of the amounts expended ...... 3,500 Inland Fisheries and Game Fund . 100.0% 1079-8000 For the payment of interest on certain bonded debt of the commonwealth; provided, that any deficit existing in this item at the close of this fiscal year shall be charged to the Inland Fisheries and Game Fund, prior appropriation continued. Inland Fisheries and Game Fund . 100.0% 1079-9000 For certain serial bonds maturing; provided, that any deficit existing in this item at the close of this fiscal year shall be charged to the Inland Fisheries and Game Fund, prior appropriation continued. Inland Fisheries and Game Fund . 100.0% Total ......... $1,565,216 Division of Water Resources. 1080-0000 For the office of the division, to be in addition to any federal or other funds available, and including not more than sixteen permanent positions........$190,412 1080-0102 For property surveys for establishment of flood plain limits in Assabet and Chicopee river valleys ..... 10,000 1080-0200 For water planning, including not more than four permanent positions ......... 65,732 1080-0501 For the administration of the Thames River Valley Flood Control Commission, as authorized by chapter six hundred and sixteen of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-seven . . 600 Acts, 1968. — Chap. 380. Item 1080-0502 For the administration of the Connecticut River Valley Flood Control Commission and for reimbursement for loss of taxes, as authorized by chapter six hundred and ninety-two of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-one.......$49,106 1080-0503 For the administration of the Merrimack River Valley Flood Control Commission, as authorized by chapter six hundred and eight of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-six . . . 80,450 1080-0801 For the expenses of a certain flood control project in the town of New Marlborough ........ 150 1080-0802 For the expenses of the flood control reservoirs on the Clam river watershed ......... 5,000 1080-0803 For the expenses of the flood control reservoirs on the Quaboag river watershed........ 6,000 1080-0804 For the expenses of the flood control reservoirs on the SuAsCo watershed ........ 10,000 1080-0805 For the commonwealth's share of the cost of a federal-state cooperative water favorability stvidy ..... 80,000 1080-0806 For the commonwealth's share of the cost of a federal-state cooperative water reservoir site study ..... 60,000 1080-OS07 For the commonwealth's share of the New England River Basin Commission ......... 10,000 Total . $567,460 Division of Water Pollution Control. 1085-0000 For the office of the division; provided, that any federal funds available for this purpose, when received, shall be credited to the General Fund, including not more than thirty-nine permanent positions $526,383 1085-8000 For the compensation and expenses of the New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission, as authorized by chapter four hundred and twenty-one of the acts of nineteen hundred and forty-seven ......... 12,076 Total....... Total, Department of Natural Resources $538,458 $9,949,272 1111-0000 Department of Banking and Insurance. Division of Banks. Foi the office of the commissioner, including not more than two hundred and forty-two permanent positions .... $2,152,460 Total $2,152,460 Division of Insurance. 1121-0000 For the office of the division, including expenses of the board of appeal, and certain other costs of supervising motor vehicle liability insurance; provided, that the positions of "area legal counsel" and "assistant area legal counsel" shall not be subject to the provisions of chapter thirty-one of the General Laws; and, provided further, that contracts or orders for the purchase of statement blanks for the making of annual reports to the commissioner of insurance shall not be subject to the restrictions prescribed by section one of chapter five of the General Laws, and including not more than three hundred and nine permanent positions ...... $2,407,175 Highway Fund .... 20.0% General Fund . . . 80.0% Acts, 1968. — Chap. 380. Item Division of Savings Bank Life Insurance. 1131-0000 For the office of the division, including not more than twenty-nine permanent positions ...... $235,236 Total, Department of Banking and Insurance . $4,794,870 Department of Corporations and Taxation. 1201-0000 For personal services of the department except as otherwise provided, including not more than nine hundred and seventy-eight permanent positions including not more than eighty permanent intermittent positions.........$7,698,070 Highway Fund.....6.0% Local Aid Fund .... 87.0% General Fund .... 7.0% 1201-1000 For the expenses of the department except as provided in other items contained in this section; provided, that the comptroller shall transfer to the General Fund the sum of one hundred and twenty-nine thousand dollars from the receipts of the cigarette tax in accordance with provisions of paragraph (B) of section twenty-eight of chapter sixty-four C of the General Laws.....1,813,310 Highway Fund.....2.5% Local Aid Fund .... 68.0% General Fund .... 29.5% 1201-2000 For certain tax audits of foreign corporations. . . 69,730 Total.........$9,681,110 Bureau of Accounts. 1231-0000 For the administration of the bureau, including the expenses of auditing and installing systems of municipal accounts and the expenses of certain books, forms and other material which may be sold to cities and towns requiring the same for maintaining their system of accounts, and including not more than one hundred and thirty-one permanent positions ...... $1,298,790 1231-1000 For the administration of the county personnel board, including not more than six permanent positions ..... 28,890 Total.........$1,327,680 1233-1000 1233-2000 1233-3000 Bureau of Local Taxation. For reimbursing cities and towns for loss of taxes on land used for state institutions and certain other state activities, as certified by the commissioner of corporations and taxation for the calendar year nineteen hundred and sixty-eight, and for reimbursement of certain towns.........$1,630,000 Local Aid Fund . . . . 100.0% For reimbursing cities and towns for abatements granted, prior appropriation continued ...... 256,000 Local Aid Fund . . . . 100.0% For reimbursing the city of Boston for loss of taxes on land for the government center, as authorized by section eight of chapter six hundred and thirty-five of the acts of nineteen hundred and sixty 367,575 Local Aid Fund .... 100.0% Total $2,142,675 1281-0000 Appellate Tax Board. For the personal services and expenses of the board; provided, that the board is hereby authorized to prepare official transcripts of hearings at no net expense to the commonwealth and, in addition to the 254 Acts, 1968. — Chap. 380. Item sums appropriated in this item, expend from the receipts therefor, without appropriation, income derived from the sale of such transcripts, and including not more than thirty-two permanent positions ......... $311,550 Total, Department of Corporations and Taxation $13,362,915 Department of Civil Service and Registration. Division of Civil Service. 1411-0000 For the office of the division, including the compensation of the members of the commission, and including the expenses of hearings, as authorized by section forty-three of chapter thirty-one of the General Laws, and including not more than three hundred and nineteen permanent positions ...... $2,541,948 Highway Fund .... 15.0% General Fund .... 85.0% Division of Registration. 1421-0000 For the administration of the division; provided, that the position of investigator of radio-television technicians shall not be subject to chapter thirty-one of the General Laws, and including not more than seventy-one permanent positions .... $684,695 For the services of the following agencies in the division. 1421-0100 Board of registration in medicine, including not more than seven permanent positions . ... . . . $12,575 1421-0200 Board of dental examiners, including not more than five permanent positions ........ 7,450 1421-0300 Board of registration in chiropody, notwithstanding the limitations of section twelve C of chapter thirteen of the General Laws, and including not more than five permanent positions . . 3,400 1421-0400 Board of registration in pharmacy, including not more than nine permanent positions ....... 49,742 1421-0500 Board of registration of nurses, including not more than twelve permanent positions ....... 8,000 1421-0600 Board of registration in embalming and funeral directing, including not more than five permanent positions . . . 13,125 1421-0700 Board of registration in optometry, including not more than five permanent positions ....... 3,750 1421-0800 Board of registration in veterinary medicine, including not more than five permanent positions ...... 3,730 1421-0900 Board of registration of chiropractors, including not more than five permanent positions . . . . . . 14,500 1421-1000 Board of registration of architects, including not more than five permanent positions ....... 9,930 1421-1100 Board of registration of professional engineers and land surveyors 24,750 1421-1200 Board of public accountancy, including not more than nine permanent positions ........ 60,800 1421-1300 State examiners of electricians, including not more than two permanent positions........ 10,000 1421-1400 State examiners of plumbers, including not more than three permanent positions........ 10,250 1421-1500 Board of registration of real estate brokers and salesmen, provided, that persons employed under this item shall not be subject to the civil service law and rules, including not more than twenty-nine permanent positions . ... . . 293,270 1421-1600 Board of registration of electrologists, including not more than three permanent positions . . . . . 2,725 1421-1700 Board of registration of barbers, including not more than ten permanent positions .... ... 67,275 Acts, 1968. — Chap. 380. Item 1421-1800 1421-1900 1421-2000 1421-2100 Board of registration of hairdressers, including not more than eighteen permanent positions . . . . . . $135,410 Board of registration of dispensing opticians, including not more than five permanent positions . . . . . . 1,375 Board of registration of sanitarians, including not more than four permanent positions . . . ' . . . . 1,500 Board of registration of radio and television technicians, including not more than seven permanent positions . . . 13,200 Total $736,757 Total, Department of Civil Service and Registration $3,963,400 1500-0000 1522-1000 1522-9001 1532-9001 1543-9003 1554-9001 1554^900-2 Department of Commerce and Development. For the general administration of the department; provided, that section twenty-five of chapter thirty of the General Laws shall not apply to payments made for the expenses of the New York office, and including not more than one hundred and thirty-eight permanent positions . .'.......$1,733,943 Tourism and Industrial Promotion Fund 30.0% General Fund . . . . 70.0% Division of Tourism. For expenses of not more than one tourist information booth $46,500 Tourism and Industrial Promotion Fund 100.0% For the promotion of vacation travel within the commonwealth; provided, that no salaries or expenses of employees shall be chargeable to this item........600,000 Tourism and Industrial Promotion Fund 100.0% Total $646,600 Division of Economic Development. For the promotion of industry within the commonwealth; provided, that no salaries or expenses of employees shall be chargeable to this item.........$300,000 Tourism and Industrial Promotion Fund 100.0% Division of Planning. For the commonwealth's share of the cost of certain federally-aided planning studies of district planning commissions established under the provisions of chapter forty B of the General Laws and of county and other regional planning agencies except such agencies as are directly financed by state appropriations; provided, that the commonwealth's share of the cost of such planning projects shall not exceed the contribution assessed on the constituent cities and towns within the district...... $30,000 Local Aid Fund .... 100.0% Division of Housing. For certain financial assistance for housing projects for the elderly, as authorized by sections twenty-six NN, twenty-six OO and twenty-six W of chapter one hundred and twenty-one of the General Laws, prior appropriation continued ..... $3,560,000 Local Aid Fund . _ . . . 100.0% For certain financial assistance for housing projects for veterans, as authorized by sections twenty-six NN and twenty-six OO of chapter one hundred and twenty-one of the General Laws, prior appropriation continued ....... 4,665,000 Local Aid Fund .... 100.0% Acts, 1968. — Chap. 380. Item 1554-9003 1554-9004 For a program of financial assistance for certain low income housing, as authorized by sections twenty-six NN and twenty-six OO of chapter one hundred and twenty-one of the General Laws . . $500,000 Local Aid Fund . . . . 100.0% For a program of rental assistance for families of low income; provided, that at least fifty per cent of said appropriation shall be allocated for dwellings containing four or less units; and, provided further, the term commonly referred to as "row housing" shall be considered in the category of nine or more units; and, provided further, that notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, first preference for admission shall be granted to the eligible elderly; and, provided further, that not more than ten per cent of the appropriation available in this item may be used for administration of the said program .........1,000,000 Local Aid Fund .... 100.0% Total $9,625,000 Division of Urban Renewal. 1563-9001 For reimbursement of cities and towns for the commonwealth's share of federally-aided urban renewal projects, as authorized by the provisions of section twenty-six FFF of chapter one hundred and twenty-one of the General Laws .... $1,600,000 Local Aid Fund .... 100.0% 1563-9002 For reimbursement of cities and towns for the commonwealth's share of certain nonfederally-aided urban renewal projects, as authorized by the provisions of section twenty-six HHH of chapter one hundred and twenty-one of the General Laws .... 290,000 Local Aid Fund .... 100.0% Total . $1,790,000 Total, Department of Commerce and Development $14,125,443 Department of Labor and Industries. 1610-1000 For the general administration of the department, including not more than thirteen permanent positions .... $129,135 For the personal services and expenses of the following agencies of the department. 1610-2000 Division of industrial safety, including not more than seventy-nine permanent positions . . . . . . $722,885 1610-3000 Division of occupational hygiene, including not more than fifteen permanent positions ...... 159,695 1610-4000 Division of statistics, including not more than thirty-four permanent positions....... . . 218,490 1610-5100 Division on the necessaries of life, including not more than five permanent positions ....... 37,770 1610-5200 Division on the necessaries of life relating to the sale of motor fuel, including not more than twelve permanent positions . 104,207 1610-6000 Commission on minimum wage and for expenses of wage boards, and including not more than thirty-four permanent positions 250,800 1610-7000 Division of standards, including not more than twenty-one permanent positions........195,896 1610-8000 Board of conciliation and arbitration, including not more than fifteen permanent positions ...... 183,080 1610-9000 Division of employment agencies, including not more than one permanent position ....... 31,680 Total $1,904,503 Acts, 1968. — Chap. 380. Item 1614-9000 1620-1000 1630-1000 Division of Apprentice Training. For the office of the division, including not more than thirty-six permanent positions; provided, that all of the positions of this division shall not be subject to chapter thirty-one of the General Laws..........$247,300 Labor Relations Commission. For the office of the commission, including not more than twenty-four permanent positions ...... $230,210 Health, Welfare and Retirement Trust Funds Board. For the administration of the board, including not more than twenty-. eight permanent positions ..... $254,410 Division of Industrial Accidents. 1650-1000 For the office of the division and for clerical and other assistance for the industrial accident rehabilitation board, including not more than one hundred and eighty-six permanent positions . $1,320,870 1650-1901 For expenses of impartial examinations . . . 33,000 1650-3000 For the compensation of certain public employees for injuries sustained in the course of their employment .... 1,625,000 Highway Fund .... 35.0% General Fund .... 65.0% Total.........$2,978,870 Division of Self-Insurance. 1650-4000 For the service of the division, including not more than six permanent positions........$49,906 Industrial Accident Rehabilitation Board. 1650-5000 For the service of the board, including not more than six permanent positions........ $16,390 Total, Department of Labor and Industries $5,810,724 Department of Correction. 1801-0000 For administration; provided, that the persons employed under the division of classification of prisoners shall not be subject to the civil service law and rules; and, provided further, that notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the director of civil service shall certify to the commissioner of correction, on receipt of permanent requisitions, names of correction officers to fill permanent vacancies, and the salary of these employees during the period of official training shall be paid from this item, and including not more than sixty-six permanent positions ...... $675,735 For the maintenance of and for certain improvements at the following institutions under the control of the department of correction: 1810-0000 Correctional institution at Bridgewater, including not more than five hundred and seventy-seven permanent positions . $6,528,030 1812-0000 Correctional institution at Walpole; including not more than three hundred and nine permanent positions . . . 3,008,110 1812-2000 Correctional institution at Walpole, industries; provided, that the commissioner of correction shall determine the cost of the manufacture of motor vehicle registration plates and certify to the comptroller the amounts to be transferred therefor from the Highway Fund to the General Fund, including not more than thirty-one permanent positions........1,576,030 258 Acts, 1968. — Chap. 380. Item 1814-0000 1814-2000 1816-0000 1816-2000 1818-0000 1818-2000 1831-0000 1831-9001 1880-0000 Correctional institution at Concord, including not more than two hundred and fifty-one permanent positions . . . $2,387,450 Correctional institution at Concord, industries, including not more than fifteen permanent positions ..... 311,795 Correctional institution at Framingham, including not more than one hundred and thirty-two permanent positions . . 1,245,600 Correctional institution at Framingham, industries, including not more than ten permanent positions ..... 224,915 Correctional institution at Norfolk, including not more than two hundred and sixty-three permanent positions . . . 2,894,950 Correctional institution at Norfolk, industries, including not more than thirty permanent positions ..... 603,745 Correctional institution camps, including not more than thirty-six permanent positions . . . . . . 557,700 For a motor vehicle maintenance garage, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy . . . 7,500 Total . . $19,346,825 Parole Board. For the office of the board; provided, that the position of employment officer, parole board, shall not be subject to the provisions of chapter thirty-one of the General Laws, and including not more than ninety-five permanent positions ...... $858,700 Total, Department of Correction $20,880,260 Department of Public Welfare. 1900-1000 For the office of the commissioner, including not more than four thousand six hundred and fifty-four permanent positions . $34,271,096 1900-9600 For other forms of assistance wholly reimbursed by the federal government; provided, that the federal reimbursement shall be credited to this account and may be expended without further appropriation ......... 25,000 Local Aid Fund .... 100.0% 1901-1000 For care and maintenance of children under the jurisdiction of the division of child guardianship . . . . . 13,922,000 1901-2000 For tuition in the public schools, including transportation to and from school, of children boarded by the department, for the twelve months ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixty-eight 1,029,000 Local Aid Fund .... 100.0% 1901-1000 For payments on account of medical assistance and permanent and total disability assistance for recipients at Tewksbury hospital 26,600 1902-2000 For payments on account of medical assistance and old age assistance for recipients at Tewksbury hospital .... 48,500 1902-3000 For payments on account of the programs of medical assistance-mental health and old age assistance-mental health . _ . 19,550,000 1902-4000 For reimbursement to cities and towns for a medical assistance program provided under Public Law 89-97, Title XIX and in accordance with the provisions of chapter eight hundred and seventy-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and sixty-five, including certain (a) families with dependent children, as provided by chapter one hundred and eighteen of the General Laws; (6) totally and permanently disabled persons, as provided by chapter one hundred and eighteen D of the General Laws; (c) aged persons; and (d) individuals with insufficient resources to meet the cost of necessary medical services, as provided by chapter one hundred and eighteen A of the General Laws, prior appropriation continued. Local Aid Fund .... 100.0% 1902-5000 For a direct medical assistance program; provided, that all federal funds received for the purpose of this item shall be credited to the Local Aid Fund . ,......195,470,000 Local Aid Fund .... 100.0% Acts, 1968.—Chap. 380. Item 1903-1000 For the payment of suitable aid to certain dependent children, prior appropriation continued. Local Aid Fund .... 100.0% 1903-2000 For a program of direct aid to families with dependent children; provided, that all federal funds received for the purpose of this item shall be credited to the Local Aid Fund . . . $95,020,000 Local Aid Fund . . . . 100.0% 1905-1000 For neimbursement to cities and towns for old age assistance as provided by law, prior appropriation continued. Local Aid Fund .... 100.0% 1905-2000 For a direct old age assistance program; provided, that all federal funds received for the purpose of this item shall be credited to the Local Aid Fund.......43,275,000 Local Aid Fund . _ . . . 100.0% 1906-1000 For reimbursement to cities and towns for general relief and for purposes of items 3019-02, 3019-03, 3019-04 and 3019-05 prior to their inclusion herein, prior appropriation continued. Local Aid Fund .... 100.0% 1906-2000 For a program of direct general relief .... 13,135,000 Local Aid Fund .... 100.0% 1907-1000 For the reimbursement to cities and towns for total and permanent disability assistance, as provided by chapter one hundred and eighteen D of the General Laws, prior appropriation continued. Local Aid Fund .... 100.0% 1907-2000 For a direct totally and permanently disabled persons program; provided, that all federal funds received for the purpose of this item shall be credited to the Local Aid Fund . . 14,785,000 Local Aid Fund .... 100.0% Total, Department of Public Welfare $430,557,196 2010-0100 2010-0200 2010-O700 2011-0100 2011-0200 2011-0300 2011-0500 Department of Public Health. Bureau of Administration. For the office of the bureau, including not more than fifty-nine permanent positions . . . . . . . $517,024 For the administration of certain research in connection with a health program for children and youth, to be in addition to any federal funds available for the purpose ...... 6,766 For the administration of the medical assistance unit . 119,635 Total . $643,325 Bureau of Environmental Sanitation. For the office of the bureau, to be in addition to any federal funds available for the purpose, and including not more than sixty-six permanent positions........$724,025 For the administration of the Lawrence experiment station, including not more than thirty-one permanent positions . . 302,276 For the administration of the air pollution control district, as authorized by section one hundred and forty-two B of chapter one hundred and eleven of the General Laws; provided, that the commissioner of public health shall certify the amounts to be assessed by the state treasurer upon the several cities and towns in the district to be in addition to any federal funds available for the purpose, and including not more than nine permanent positions . 87,955 For the administration of the lower Pioneer Valley air pollution control district, as authorized by section one hundred and forty-two C of chapter one hundred and eleven of the General Laws; provided, that the commissioner of public health shall certify the amounts to be assessed by the state treasurer upon the several cities and towns in the district to be in addition to any federal funds available for the purpose, including not more than two permanent positions 18,450 Acts, 1968. — Chap. 380. Item 2011-9003 For certain improvements at Lake Mahkeenac in the town of Stock-bridge, as authorized by chapter four hundred and forty-two of the acts of nineteen hundred and sixty-four, prior appropriation continued. 2011-9008 For a program to assist cities and towns in the establishment of a rat control program, as authorized by chapter seven hundred and fifty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and sixty-seven, prior appropriation continued. 2012-0100 2012-0110 2012-0120 2012-0150 2012-0200 2012-0300 2012-0400 2012-0500 2012-0600 2012-0700 2013-1000 2013-2100 2013-2110 2013-2200 2014-0100 2015-0100 Total . $1,132,705 Bureau of Chronic Disease Control. For the office of the division of communicable and venereal diseases, including not more than twenty-three permanent positions $648,237 For a poliomyelitis vaccine program .... 100,000 For a measles vaccine program ..... 250,000 For a mumps vaccine program ..... 400,000 For the office of the division of alcoholism, including not more than eleven permanent positions ..... 814,579 For the office of the division of adult health, including not more than fourteen permanent positions ..... 400,500 For the office of the division of nursing home facilities, including not more than fourteen permanent positions . . 330,850 For the office of the division of dental health, including not more than twelve permanent positions ..... 116,235 For a study of equine encephalitis .... 38,240 For the office of the division of epilepsy control program 50,000 Total . $3,147,641 Bureau of Health Services. For the office of the bureau, including not more than sixty-four permanent positions ....... $1,240,025 For maternal and infant care projects and preschool and school age children's projects, to be in addition to any federal, city or town or any private funds available for these purposes; provided, that the commonwealth's share shall not exceed twelve and one half per cent of the cost of any project, prior appropriation continued. For certain comprehensive public health and medical care programs, including research, to be in addition to any federal, city or town or private funds available for the purpose; provided, that the maximum period of state participation shall be four years and the commonwealth's share shall not exceed the following yearly percentages of the cost of any project: seventy-five per cent in the first; sixty per cent in the second; forty per cent in the third; and twenty-five per cent in the fourth year of state participation, prior appropriation continued. For the reimbursement of cities and towns for the care of certain infants.........160,000 Local Aid Fund .... 100.0% Total . $1,390,025 Bureau of Hospital Facilities. For the office of the bureau, including not more than eighteen permanent positions........$164,120 Bureau of Tuberculosis and Institutions. For the office of the bureau, including such payments for hospital care of tubercular patients as may be contracted for by the commissioner of public health, and for the commonwealth's share of the operation of certain tuberculosis clinics, and including not more than thirty-eight permanent positions ..... $4,574,900 Acts, 1968. — Chap. 380. Item 2016-0100 Institute of Laboratories. For the office of the institute, including not more than one hundred and fifty, permanent positions ...... $1,225,387 the " " 2016-9001 For the replacement of certain vacuum drier equipment . Total......... 40,000 $1,265,387 2017-0100 2017-0200 2031-0000 2032-0000 2032-9002 2033-0000 2034-0000 2034-9001 2035-0000 2036-0000 2037-0000 2037-9001 Bureau of Consumer Products Protection. For the office of the bureau, including not more than seventy permanent positions ........ $684,350 For the administration of the pesticide board . . 22,935 Total $707,285 For the maintenance of and for certain improvements at the following institutions under the control of the department of public health: Lakeville hospital, including not more than three hundred and twenty-seven permanent positions ..... $2,423,175 Lemuel Shattuck hospital, including not more than eight hundred and twenty-five permanent positions .... 6,300,300 For a research program of chronic hepatitis and related diseases, to be in addition to any federal or other funds available. 65,000 Massachusetts hospital school, including not more than two hundred and ninety-four permanent positions .... 1,949,390 Pondville hospital, including not more than two hundred and eighty-four permanent positions ...... 2,432,645 For the administration of a cancer research project . 25,385 Rutland Heights hospital, including not more than three hundred and forty-seven permanent positions .... 2,460,400 Tewksbury hospital, including not more than eight hundred and six permanent positions ...... 6,329,050 Western Massachusetts hospital, including not more than two hundred and ninety permanent positions .... 2,219,000 For the renewal of cobalt-60 sources and related equipment repair, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy . ........ 19,000 Total . $24,223,245 Drug Addiction Rehabilitation Board. 2072-0000 For the office of the board, including not more than five permanent positions........$275,780 Total, Department of Public Health $37,524,413 2111-0000 2111-9002 2112-0000 Department of Public Safety. For the administration of the department, including not more than one hundred and four permanent positions . . . $935,220 For the replacement of a certain elevator, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy . . 20,000 Total $955,220 Division of State Police. For the administration of the division, including the compensation of state police officers formerly in the service of the commonwealth, now retired, including not more than eight hundred and ninety-two permanent positions ...... $8,523,943 General Fund .... 15.0% Highway Fund .... 85.0% 262 Acts, 1968. — Chap. 380. Division of Subversive Activities. Item 2113-0000 For the administration of the division, including not more than five permanent positions ...... $43,435 Division of Fire Prevention. 2114-0000 For the administration of the division, including not more than twenty-five permanent positions ...... $302,545 Division of Inspection. 2115-0000 For the administration of the division; provided, that the position of examiner of elevator operators shall not be subject to the provisions of chapter thirty-one of the General Laws, including not more than eighty-three permanent positions . . . $956,615 Board of Boiler Rules. 2116-0000 For the administration of the board, including not more than four permanent positions ...... $2,300 State Boxing Commission. 2117-0000 For the office of the commission, including not more than six permanent positions ........ $35,640 Board of Elevator Regulations. 2118-0000 For the administration of the board, including not more than seven permanent positions ...... $6,350 Board of Examiners of Elevator Constructors, Maintenance Men and Repairmen. 2119-0000 For the administration of the board, including not more than one permanent position ....... $1,200 Board of Elevator Appeals. 2120-0000 For the administration of the board, including not more than six permanent positions ....... $2,100 Board of Standards. 2130-0000 For the administration of the board, including not more than seven permanent positions ...... $6,350 Board of Fire Prevention Regulations. 2140-0000 For the administration of the board, including not more than eight permanent positions ...... $6,600 Board of Schoolhouse Structural Standards. 2150-0000 For the expenses of the board, as authorized by chapter six hundred and seventy-five of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-five, as amended ....... $2,000 Total, Department of Public Safety . . $10,844,098 Department of Public Utilities. 2301-0000 For general administration, including not more than seventy-seven permanent positions ...... $702,850 2311-9001 For hearings and special investigations; provided, that no salaries or expenses of permanent employees shall be chargeable to this item.........26,600 Total . $729,350 Acts, 1968.—Chap. 380. Item Commercial Motor Vehicle Division. 2321-0000 For the office of the division, including not more than thirty-two permanent positions.......$292,904 Securities Division. 2331-0000 For the office of the division, including not more than ten permanent positions........$74,005 Gas Fitting Regulations Board. 2380-0000 For administration- of the program of regulating the installation of gas fittings in buildings, including not more than one permanent position.........$28,240 Total, Department of Public Utilities $1,124,499 Metropolitan District Commission. Administration. 2410-0000 For general administration, including not more than sixty-nine per- 2410-9002 2420-0000 2422-9006 2425-9001 2425-9008 2426-9002 2429-8000 2429-9000 manent positions Highway Fund MDC Parks District Fund . MDC Sewerage District Fund MDC Water District Fund . For the exterior waterproofing and building ..... Highway Fund MDC Parks District Fund . MDC Sewerage District Fund MDC Water District Fund . Total..... 25.0% 25.0% 25.0% 25.0% pointing of the 25.0% 25.0% 25.0% 25.0% $646,240 administration 25,000 $671,240 Metropolitan Water System. For the maintenance and operation of the metropolitan water system, including payments to the state retirement system under the provisions of the General Laws, and including not more than six hundred and eleven permanent positions .... $5,385,900 MDC Water District Fund . . 100.0% For the purchase of a tractor shovel, Quabbin section . 15,000 MDC Water District Fund . . 100.0% For emergency repairs to water mains, prior appropriation continued ......... 10,000 MDC Water District Fund . . 100.0% For the purchase of a pneumatractor, distribution section 15,000 MDC Water District Fund . . 100.0% For certain roof repairs to buildings, pumping service . 15,000 MDC Water District Fund . . 100.0% For the payment of interest on certain bonded debt of the commonwealth; provided, that any deficit existing in this item at the close of this fiscal year shall be charged to the Metropolitan Water District Fund.........3,377,165 MDC Water District Fund . . _ 100.0% For certain serial bonds maturing; provided, that any deficit existing in this item at the close of this fiscal year shall be charged to the Metropolitan Water District Fund.....5,653,000 MDC Water District Fund . . 100.0% Total . $14,471,065 Acts, 1968.—Chap. 380. Item 2430-0000 2432-9006 2432-9007 2433-9001 2439-8000 2439-9000 2440-0000 2442-9012 2444-9001 2444-9002 2444-9003 2444-9004 2444-9005 2444-9006 Metropolitan Sewerage District. For the maintenance and operation of a system of sewage disposal for the metropolitan sewerage district, including payments to the state retirement system under the provisions of the General Laws, and including not more than five hundred and thirty-seven permanent positions........$5,131,430 MDC Sewerage District Fund . 100.0% For the replacement of a diesel pumping unit, Reading station 16,000 MDC Sewerage District Fund . 100.0% For the replacement of certain valves, Charlestown station 20,000 MDC Sewerage District Fund . 100.0% For the purchase of a heavy duty crane . . . 26,000 MDC Sewerage District Fund . 100.0% For the payment of interest on certain bonded debt of the commonwealth; provided, that any deficit existing in this item at the close of this fiscal year shall be charged to the Metropolitan Sewerage District Fund........2,856,140 MDC Sewerage District Fund . 100.0% For certain serial bonds maturing; provided, that any deficit existing in this item at the close of this fiscal year shall be charged to the Metropolitan Sewerage District Fund . . . 4,004,000 MDC Sewerage District Fund . 100.0% Total $12,052,570 Metropolitan Parks District. For the maintenance of boulevards and parkways, including Bunker Hill and the adjacent property, and for the maintenance of parks, reservations and the Charles River basin, and for the payment of damages caused by defects in boulevards and parkways under the control of the commission with the approval of the attorney general, including payments to the state retirement system under the provisions of the General Laws; provided, that notwithstanding any provisions of chapter thirty-one of the General Laws, members of the metropolitan district commission police force may be temporarily allocated to special secondary ratings in accordance with the schedule approved by the joint committees on ways and means, a copy of which is on file with the director of personnel and standardization, and including not more than one thousand two hundred and forty-two permanent positions. ...... $14,986,000 HighwavFund . . . . 60.0% MDC Parks District Fund . . 39.0% General Fund . . . . 1.0% For the modernization of certain parks sanitary facilities 45,000 MDC Parks District Fund . . 100.0% For the construction, reconstruction and improvement of boulevards and parkways, including bridges, and including the resurfacing and repairing thereof, and including the installation of traffic lights 1,500,000 Highway Fund . . . . 100.0% For the purchase of certain highway maintenance equipment 219,000 Highway Fund . . . . 100.0% For certain payments for the use of facilities of the museum of science.........75,000 MDC Parks District Fund . . 100.0% For certain payments for the maintenance and use of the Trailside museum ......... 50,000 MDC Parks District Fund . . 100.0% For the cost of suppressing the gypsy moth . . . 5,000 MDC Parks District Fund . . 100.0% For the expenses of holding band concerts . . . 25,000 MDC Parks District Fund . . 100.0% Acts, 1968. — Chap. 380. Item 2444-9011 For the payment of a certain prior-year claim, as authorized by contract number 1058 MDC.......$19,000 MDC Parks District Fund . . 100.0% 2449-8000 For the payment of interest on certain bonded debt of the commonwealth; provided, that any deficit existing in this item at the close of this fiscal year shall be charged to the Metropolitan Parks District Fund.........1,424.193 MDC Parks District Fund . .100.0% 2449-9000 For certain serial bonds maturing; provided, that any deficit existing in this item at the close of this fiscal year shall be charged to the Metropolitan Parks District Fund .... 2,483,000 MDC Parks District Fund . . 100.0% Total.........$20,831,193 Total, Metropolitan District Commission . . $48,026,068 Department of Mental Health. 5011-0000 For administration, except as otherwise provided, for the boarding out of children, as provided in chapter one hundred and twenty-three of the General' Laws, with the consent of the parents or guardians, and for the transportation and medical examination of patients and certain mentally retarded persons; to be in addition to any federal funds available for the purposes of this item, and including not more than three hundred and twenty-six permanent positions . $4,588,389 Region One. For administration, including not more than seven permanent positions.........$101,564 For mental health and retardation services, including not more than fifty-two permanent positions ..... 639,620 For the maintenance of the Belchertown state school, including not more than five hundred and ninety-one permanent positions......... 4,392,605 For the replacement of certain beds and mattresses, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy . 50,000 For certain improvements to floors, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy .... 37,000 For the replacement of electrical feeder cable, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy . . 30,000 For the maintenance of the Northampton state hospital, including not more than seven hundred and ninety-one permanent positions......... 5,949,087 For the renewal of certain heating stacks, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy . . . 76,000 For the replacement of certain steam return lines, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy . 60,000 Total.........$11,334,776 Region Two. For administration, including not more than seven permanent positions ......... $101,564 For mental health and retardation services, including not more than forty-six permanent positions ..... 723,940 For the maintenance of the Rutland Heights mental health rehabilitation center, including not more than thirty-six permanent positions .........460,080 For the maintenance of the Gardner state hospital, including not more than five hundred and twenty-nine permanent positions 3,989,910 For rewiring and ventilating the laundry, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy . . . 60,000 5111-0000 5121-0000 5181-0000 5181-9001 5181-9002 5181-9003 5191-0000 5191-9001 5191-9002 5211-0000 5221-0000 5271-0000 5291-0000 5291-9001 266 Acts, 1968. — Chap. 380. For the purchase and installation of certain laundry equipment, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy......... $34,500 For the replacement of certain dairy equipment, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy . . 32,000 For the maintenance of the Grafton state hospital, including not more than five hundred and eighty-seven permanent positions 4,304,442 For retubing boiler, pines group, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy ..... 25,000 For the maintenance of the Worcester state hospital, including not more than one thousand and fifty permanent positions 7,199,915 For the maintenance of the Monson state hospital, including not more than seven hundred and twenty-five permanent positions 4,660,805 Total.........$21,472,166 Region Three. For administration, including not more than seven permanent positions........ . $101,664 For mental health and retardation services, including not more than seventy-six permanent positions .... 900,036 For the Lowell mental health center; provided, that any federal funds available for this purpose, when received, shall be credited to the General Fund, and including not more than one hundred and twenty-three permanent positions ..... 1,070,644 For the maintenance of the Walter E. Fernald state school, including not more than nine hundred and eighty-three permanent positions .........7,343,989 For the replacement of certain X-ray equipment, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy . 40,000 For the replacement of doughnut machine, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy . 13,400 For the replacement of certain beds and mattresses, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy . 49,850 For the replacement of ceilings, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy ..... 28,000 For the maintenance of the Metropolitan state hospital, including not more than seven hundred and ninety-seven permanent positions . . -.-..• . . • 5,868,942 For the replacement of certain ceilings, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy . . 50,000 For the replacement of the electrical control board in laundry, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy 34,000 Total.........$15,600,426 Region Four. 5411-0000 For administration, including not more than seven permanent positions........ . $101,664 5421-0000 For mental health and retardation services, including not more than sixty permanent positions ..... 701,730 5471-0000 For the maintenance of the North Reading rehabilitation center, including not more than seventy-seven permanent positions 646,440 5481-0000 For the maintenance of the Hathorne state school, including not more than one hundred and two permanent positions . . 1,254,650 5491-0000 For the maintenance of the Danvers state hospital, including not more than eight hundred and eighty-six permanent positions 6,629,311 5491-9001 For renovation of elevators in "A" and "J" buildings, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy . 30,000 5491-9002 For the removal of the spire over the main entrance, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy . 10,000 Item 5291-9002 5291-9003 5292-0000 5292-9001 5293-0000 5294-0000 5311-0000 5321-0000 5361-0000 5381-0000 5381-9001 5381-9002 5381-9003 5381-9004 5391-0000 5391-9001 5391-9002 Total $9,272,695 Acts, 1968. — Chap. 380. Region Five. Item 5511-0000 For administration, including not more than seven permanent positions....... $101,564 5521-0000 For mental health and retardation services, including not more than ninety-two permanent positions .... 1,127,055 5581-0000 For the maintenance of the Wrentham state school, including not more than six hundred and fifty-three permanent positions . 5,904,136 5581-9001 For replacement of the schoolhouse roof, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy . . 18,750 5581-9002 For the replacement of certain dairy equipment, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy . . 25,000 5581-9003 For certain boiler repairs, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy . . . . 17,000 5591-0000 For the maintenance of the Medfield state hospital, including not more than six hundred and eighty-five permanent positions . 4,753,820 5592-0000 For the maintenance of the Westborough state hospital, including not more than nine hundred and four permanent positions 5,934,515 5592-9001 For the replacement of certain X-ray equipment, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy 30,000 5592-9002 For the replacement of certain wiring, Hadley building, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy . 11,000 5592-9003 For the replacement of certain wiring, administration building, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy 20,000 5593-0000 For the maintenance of the Cushing hospital, including not more than six hundred and eighty-six permanent positions . 4,288,335 5593-9001 For a termite control program, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy ..... 35,000 5593-9002 For the replacement of certain fire fighting equipment, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy . 20,000 5593-9003 For the purchase and installation of certain laundry equipment, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy 40,000 Total . $22,326,175 Region Six. 5611-0000 For administration, including not more than seven permanent positions ....... _ . $101,654 5621-0000 For mental health and retardation services; provided, that any federal funds available for this purpose, when received, shall be credited to the General Fund, and including not more than one hundred and thirty permanent positions ..... 1,640,000 5661-0000 For the maintenance of the Massachusetts mental health center; provided, that any federal funds available for this purpose, when received, shall be credited to the General Fund, and including not more than two hundred and ninety-seven permanent positions 2,398,475 5661-9001 For the replacement of certain steel sash, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy . . . 33,000 5691-0000 For the maintenance of the Boston state hospital; provided, that any federal funds available for this purpose, when received, shall be credited to the General Fund, including not more than one thousand one hundred and fifty-three permanent positions . 8,576,590 5691-9001 For the replacement of certain fuel oil tanks, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy . . 35,000 5691-9002 For the replacement of beds and mattresses, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy . . 44,000 5691-9003 For the repair and replacement of certain roofs, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy . . 15,000 Total $12,843,719 5711-0000 For administration, sitions . Region Seven. including not more than seven permanent po-....... $102,765 Acts, 1968. — Chap. 380. Item 5721-0000 For mental health and retardation services, including not more than fifty permanent positions ...... $613,555 5761-0000 For the Fall River mental health center; provided, that any federal funds available for this purpose, when received, shall be credited to . the General Fund, and including not more than one hundred and twelve permanent positions ..... 929,000 5781-0000 For the maintenance of the Paul A. Dever school, including not more than six hundred and thirty-four permanent positions . 5,455,359 5781-9001 For the replacement of dormitory beds and mattresses, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy . 42,000 5791-0000 For the maintenance of the Foxborough state hospital, including not more than five hundred and seventy permanent positions 4,224,416 5791-9001 For the replacement and addition of certain laundry equipment, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy......... 37,000 5792-0000 For the maintenance of the Taunton state hospital, including not more than seven hundred and twenty-three permanent positions.........6,245,211 5792-9001 For the replacement of certain X-ray units, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy . . 45,000 Total.........$17,694,306 Total, Department of Mental Health ... . $115,032,641 Department of Public Works. Highway Activities. Personal Services. For personal services; provided, that the salaries of all officers and employees of the department engaged in projects or activities related to highways shall be charged in full to this item, except for services provided for in item 6020-1900, including not more than four thousand six hundred and three permanent positions . . $38,200,000 Highway Fund .... 100.0% Administrative and Engineering Expenses. For telephone service in the public works building . . $100,000 Recreational Boating Fund . . 3.0% General Fund .... 5.0% State Recreational Areas Fund . 2.0% Highway Fund .... 90.0% For the operation and maintenance of the public works building, including not more than eighty-five permanent positions . 641,400 State Recreational Areas Fund . .4% Highway Fund .... 95.8% Recreational Boating Fund . . .8% General Fund . . _. _ . 3.0% For the purchase of all administrative and engineering equipment .........300,000 Highway Fund . . . . 100.0% For certain administrative and engineering expenses of the commission, the office of the public works commissioner, and the divisions of administrative services, highway engineering, highway maintenance, highway construction and the district and other highway activity offices.......2,229,000 General Fund .... .8% Highway Fund .... 99.2% For the compensation of former employees of'the department of public works, now retired, as authorized by chapter four hundred and three of the acts of nineteen hundred and forty-eight, as amended 7,171 Highway Fund . . . . 100.0% 6010-0000 6020-1509 6020-1900 6020-2401 6020-2501 6020-2801 Acts, 1968.—Chap. 380. Item 6020-2901 For the payment of damages caused by defects in state highways for which the commonwealth is liable under the provisions of section eighteen of chapter eighty-one of the General Laws, with the approval of the attorney general...... $3,000 Highway Fund .... 100.0% Total $3,280,571 Maintenance and Operation of State Highways and Bridges. Appropriations under this heading may be expended for traffic safety and control on certain city or town ways: 6030-7201 For the expenses of snow and ice control, including the removal of sand and other incidental expenses in connection therewith, and including the cost of sand and chemicals . . . $5,600,000 Highway Fund .... 100.0% 6030-7291 For the construction of a glass lined, steel salt storage bin 40,000 Highway Fund . . . . 100.0% 6030-7301 For expenses in connection with traffic line painting, including the cost of materials ....... 696,000 Highway Fund . . . . 100.0% 6030-7401 For the purchase of materials and supplies for the maintenance and operation of state highways and bridges, excluding those specifically provided for in items 6030-7201 and 6030-7301 . . 2,070,000 Highway Fund .... 100.0% 6030-7S01 For the purchase of all equipment to be used directly for the maintenance and operation of state highways and bridges . 2,000,000 Highway Fund .... 100.0% 6030-7601 For the maintenance and operation of state highways and bridges.........2,257,010 • Highway Fund . . . . 100.0% Total.........$12,563,010 Waterways Activities. The salaries of all officers and employees of the department engaged in waterways projects or activities authorized by bond issue or otherwise shall be charged in full to appropriations authorized under this heading in this act: Division of Waterways. 6032-0000 For the administration of the division, including not more than sixty-five permanent positions . . ... . . $749,300 Public Access Fund . . . 2.6% General Fund .... 97.4% 6032-1700 For the administration of public beaches, including not more than five permanent positions ...... 49,370 State Recreational Areas Fund . 100.0% 6032-1711 For the maintenance of Salisbury beach reservation, including not more than three permanent positions..... 180,266 State Recreational Areas Fund . 100.0% 6032-1721 For the maintenance of Horseneck beach, including not more than one permanent position ....... 165,285 State Recreational Areas Fund . 100.0% 6032-1731 For the maintenance of Scusset beach .... 49,475 State Recreational Areas Fund . 100.0% 6032-1741 For the maintenance of Fort Phoenix Beach . . . 30,450 State Recreational Areas Fund . 100.0% 6032-1800 For the purpose of discharging a moral obligation to the city of Fall River.........183,615. Acts, 1968. — Chap. 380. Item 6032-2011 For the purchase and installation of a new elevator, previous appropriation for this purpose expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixty-eight........$86,000 6032-3001 For the maintenance of property in the town of Plymouth, including not more than two permanent positions . . 12,757 6032-3002 For the operation and maintenance of the New Bedford state pier, including not more than one permanent position . 24,657 6032-9800 For the payment of interest on certain bonded debt of the commonwealth; provided, that any deficit existing in this item at the close of this fiscal year shall be charged to the State Recreation Areas Fund......... 31,968 State Recreational Areas Fund . 100.0% 6032-9900 For certain serial bonds maturing; provided, that any deficit existing in this item at the close of this fiscal year shall be charged to the State Recreation Areas Fund ...... 115,000 State Recreational Areas Fund . 100.0% Total $1,678,143 Construction, Reconstruction and Betterments. The following appropriations are for the costs of projects which come within the purposes of appropriations for the accelerated highway program and are to be in addition to sums appropriated therefor: 6033-1001 For the modernizing of the traffic signal system, prior appropriation continued........$500,000 Highway Fund .... 100.0% 6033-1004 For the acquisition and improvement of maintenance sites; provided, that no payment shall be made for the purchase of land until an independent appraisal of the value of the land has been made by a qualified, disinterested appraiser, prior appropriation continued ......... 60,000 Highway Fund . . . . 100.0% 6033-1006 For the construction of three foreman's garages, prior appropriation continued........390,000 Highway Fund . . . . 100.0% 6033-1009 For resurfacing existing state highways with not less than three quarter inch of bituminous aggregate, prior appropriation continued .........2,000,000 Highway Fund . . . . 100.0% 6033-1010 For the cost of improvements on state highways, prior appropriation continued........125,000 Highway Fund . . . .100.0% Total $3,065,000 Local Aid. 6034-0001 For projects for the construction and maintenance of town and county ways, as provided in subdivision (2) (a) of section thirty-four of chapter ninety of the General Laws; provided, that amounts made available by this item in any fiscal year shall be available for expenditure in the succeeding fiscal year; and provided further, that not less than three hundred thousand dollars of the sum herein appropriated shall be available for maintenance projects on said town and county ways; and provided further, that notwithstanding any provision of the General Laws to the contrary, the department of public works is hereby authorized during this fiscal year to enter into agreements with officials of cities and towns for projects to be constructed in the next succeeding fiscal year not exceeding, in the aggregate, eight million five hundred thousand dollars, prior appropriation continued.......$8,000,000 Highway Fund . . . . 100.0% Acts, 1968.—Chap. 380. 271 Item 6034-0002 For aiding cities and towns in the repair and improvement of public ways, as provided by section twenty-six of chapter eighty-one of the General Laws; except, that the state's contribution shall be at an annual rate not to exceed two hundred and seventy-five dollars per mile for the calendar year nineteen hundred and sixty-nine, the provisions of chapter six hundred and eighty-nine of the acts of nineteen hundred and forty-five and chapter seven hundred and six of the acts of nineteen hundred and forty-nine notwithstanding; and provided, that the amount appropriated for the purpose in any fiscal year shall be available for expenditure in the succeeding fiscal year, prior appropriation continued......$3,000,000 Highway Fund . . . . 100.0% 6034-0003 For reimbursing cities and towns for the commonwealth's share of the cost of installation of traffic control devices at high accident locations .........1,000,000 Highway Fund .... 100.0% Total.........$12,000,000 Total, Department of Public Works . . . $70,786,724 Registry of Motor Vehicles. 6111-0000 For the office of the registry; provided, that the positions of administrative assistant to the registrar of motor vehicles, legislative assistants, R.M.V., executive secretary, R.M.V., and executive assistant to the registrar of motor vehicles shall not be subject to the civil service law and rules, and including not more than one thousand one hundred and ninety-two permanent positions . . $10,929,000 Local Aid Fund .... 1.2% Highway Fund . . . . 98.8% 6111-0010 For a motor vehicle safety compact with other states, as provided by paragraph (6) of Article VI of said compact, as appearing in section two of chapter seven hundred and twenty-one of the acts of nineteen hundred and sixty-three ...... 2,000 Highway Fund .... 100.0% Total, Registry of Motor Vehicles .... $10,931,000 Division of Motorboats. 6120-0000 For the office of the division, including not more than fifty-one permanent positions ....... $509,385 Recreational Boating Fund . . 100.0% Total, Division of Motorboats .... $509,385 Outdoor Advertising Division. 6210-0000 For the office of the division, including not more than eleven permanent positions........$78,340 Total, Outdoor Advertising Division . . . $78,340 Government Center Commission. 6300-0000 For the office of the commission.....$246,225 Total, Government Center Commission . . . $246,225 Acts, 1968. — Chap. 380. Debt Service. For the payment of interest on certain bonded debt of the commonwealth; provided, that any deficit existing in this item at the close of this fiscal year shall be charged to the Highway Fund debt service reserve.........$13,297,200 Highway Fund . . . . 100.0% For certain serial bonds maturing; provided, that any deficit existmg in this item at the close of this fiscal year shall be charged to the Highway Fund debt service reserve.....37,782,800 Highway Fund . . . . 100.0% For the cost of financing a portion of the expenditures, authorized by chapter five hundred and fifty-six of the act$ of nineteen hundred and fifty-two; provided, that the amount appropriated in this item shall be charged to the Highway Fund debt service account; and provided further, that said amount shall reduce the amount of bonds authorized in section eight of said chapter five hundred and fifty-six by twenty-four million dollars.....24,000,000 Highway Fund .... 100.0% Total, Debt Service......$75,080,000 Department of Education. Advisory Council on Education. 7001-0000 For the office of the council, including not more than seven permanent positions.........$373,491 Total, Advisory Council on Education . . . $373,491 Board of Education. Board of Education and Commissioner's Office. 7010-0000 For the office of the commissioner, including the expenses of the members of the board, and for the commonwealth's share of the national council of state school officers, including not more than seventeen permanent positions........$189,660 7010-0006 For assistance to children of certain war veterans, as authorized by section seven B of chapter sixty-nine of the General Laws and corresponding provisions of earlier laws, prior appropriation continued ......... 75,000 7010-0009 For the administration of the program for the elimination of racial imbalance, prior appropriation continued. 7010-0010 For certain payments for the use of the facilities of the museum of fine arts; provided, that children age sixteen years or under shall be admitted without charge ...... 100,000 7010-0012 For financial assistance to towns for payments of certain costs incurred under plans for the elimination of racial imbalance . 247,928 Local Aid Fund .... 100.0% Total.........$612,488 Division of Administration and Personnel. 7021-0000 For the office of the division, including not more than twenty-nine permanent positions ...... $234,110 7021-9001 For the expenses of the advisory commission on academically talented pupils ......... 500 7021-9003 For the rental and maintenance of the Tremont street property, including not more than five permanent positions . . 388,935 Item 6980-0000 6990-0000 6999-0001 Acts, 1968. — Chap. 380. Item 7025-0000 7025-9001 7025-9003 7025-9004 For the administration of the bureau of teachers' retirement, including not more than thirty-four permanent positions . . $217,200 For the payment of retirement assessments of teachers formerly in military or naval service, as authorized by section nine of chapter seven hundred and eight of the acts of nineteen hundred and forty-one, as amended ....... B00 For reimbursement of certain cities and towns for pensions to retired teachers ..... Local Aid Fund . For the payment of the commonwealth's retirement system . Local Aid Fund . 4,600,000 100.0% share in financing the teachers' 33,400,000 100.0% Total.........$38,741,246 Division of Curriculum and Instruction. 7030-0000 For the office of the division, to be in addition to any federal funds available for the purpose, including not more than ninety permanent positions........$806,000 7032-0301 For expenses of holding teachers' institutes . . . 800 7032-1001 For printing guides for school curricula . . . 7,000 7033-5001 For the administration of a program of vocational education including teacher training, to comply with the requirement of federal authorities under the provisions of the Smith-Hughes act; provided, that such courses may be furnished free of charge to veterans, as authorized in sections seven and seven A of chapter sixty-nine of the General Laws, and including not more than thirty-four permanent positions .........179,550 7033-5010 For expenses of a fire fighting academy and training program, prior appropriation continued, including not more than two permanent positions . . . . . . . 60,708 7034-0301 For the expenses of educating the emotionally disturbed children of the commonwealth, prior appropriation continued . 6,000,000 7034-0701 For the expenses of educating the deaf, blind and aphasic pupils of the commonwealth, prior appropriation continued . 3,900,000 7034-1101 For a program of sight saving classes . . . . 2,000 7034-1401 For the reimbursement of certain cities and towns for day classes of the deaf and of the blind . . . . . . 600,000 Local Aid Fund .... 100.0% 7034-2801 For the reimbursement of certain counties for county vocational schools.........750,000 Local Aid Fund .... 100.0% 7034-2802 For the reimbursement to cities and towns for the expenses of conducting a learning impairment program . . . 250,000 Local Aid Fund .... 100.0% 7035-0000 For the adult education and extended services program; provided, that the division may, in addition to the sums appropriated for the purpose in this item, expend from receipts, without appropriation, income derived from such courses as may be conducted at no net expense to the commonwealth to an amount not exceeding four hundred thousand dollars with the approval of the state board of education, to be in addition to any federal funds available for the purpose, and including not more than fifty-eight permanent positions........374,000 7035-0001 For the reimbursement of certain towns and regional school districts for the transportation of pupils as provided by law . 11,000,000 Local Aid Fund .... 100.0% 7035-0002 For the reimbursement of certain towns for the transportation of pupils.........250,000 Local Aid Fund . . . . 100.0% 7036-0101 For the administration of the library bureau, to be in addition to any federal funds available for the purpose, including not more than twenty-five permanent positions . . . . 211,810 Acts, 1968. — Chap. 380. Item 7036-1401 For state aid to regional public libraries Local Aid Fund 7036-1501 For state aid to public libraries . Local Aid Fund .... 100.0% 100.0% $825,000 1,250,000 Total...... . $25,456,868 Division of Research and Development. 7040-1011 For the office of the division, to be in addition to any federal funds available for the purpose, and including not more than six permanent positions . . . . . . . $107,768 7044-1801 For certain payments for the use of facilities of the museum of science, as authorized by chapter six hundred and eleven of the acts of nineteen hundred and sixty-three ...... 75,000 State Recreational Areas Fund . 100.0% Total $182,768 7051-0001 7051-1908 7052-0001 7052-0002 7053-1905 7053-1907 7053-1909 7061-0001 7061-0002 Division of School Facilities and Related Services. For the office of the division, including not more than three permanent positions........$30,465 For printing school registers and other school blanks for cities and towns....... . . 8,800 For the administration of the school building assistance bureau 124,325 For reimbursement of certain cities and towns for part of the cost of construction of school projects, as authorized by chapter six hundred and forty-five of the acts of nineteen hundred and forty-eight, as amended........30,000,000 Local Aid Fund .... 100.0% For the administration of the school lunch program; provided, that the comptroller shall transfer to the General Fund the sum of fifty thousand dollars from the school lunch distribution and salvage fund, and including not more than thirty-two permanent positions 261,605 For partial assistance in the furnishing of lunches to school children, as authorized by chapter five hundred and thirty-eight of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-one, and, if necessary, for supplementing federal funds allocated for the special milk program; provided, that notwithstanding any provisions of the law to the contrary, payments so authorized to be paid from state funds shall not exceed fifty per cent of the total reimbursement authorized by the national school lunch act, prior appropriation continued . . . _ 500,000 For the reimbursement of cities and towns for partial assistance in the furnishing of lunches to school children, as authorized by chapter five hundred and thirty-eight of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-one, and, if necessary, for supplementing federal funds allocated for the special milk program; provided, that notwithstanding any provisions of law to the contrary, reimbursements so authorized to be paid from state funds shall not exceed fifty per cent of the total reimbursement authorized by the national school lunch act 3,900,000 Local Aid Fund .... 100.0% Total.........$34,825,195 Division of State and Federal Assistance. For the office of the division, including not more than four permanent positions........$76,720 For personal services of the surplus property agency; provided, that a sum equivalent to the expenditures made under this item shall be transferred to the General Fund from the receipts of the surplus property agency, and including not more than two permanent positions ......... 15,700 Acts, 1968. — Chap. 380. 275 Item 7065-0001 For the commonwealth's share of a certain assistance program, to be expended with the approval of the commissioner of administration and with at least an equivalent amount of federal funds, as authorized to be accepted and disbursed by chapter six hundred and sixty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-eight, and allocated to the commonwealth under the provisions of Public Law 85-864 and Public Law 89-10; provided, that the department may use for matching such federal funds other state appropriated funds or any public or private funds that may be available, in addition to the amount made available by this item.......$274,500 ..... $366,920 Total . Total, Board of Education . $100,185,484 Board of Higher Education. 7070-0001 For the office of the board, including the salary of the chancellor, including not more than twelve permanent positions . $293,897 7070-0005 For medical, dental and nursing scholarships, as authorized by section one D of chapter fifteen of the General Laws . . 250,000 7070-0006 For general scholarships, as authorized by section one D of chapter fifteen of the General Laws, to be awarded during this fiscal year for scholarships pertaining to the following fiscal year . 2,000,000 7070-0007 For special educational scholarships, authorized by section seven D of chapter sixty-nine of the General Laws . . . 15,000 7070-0008 For the administration of the bureau of immigration and Americanization, including not more than seventeen permanent positions 136,613 7070-0014 For merit scholarships, as authorized by section one D of chapter fifteen of the General Laws . . ., . . . 32,000 7070-9900 For the administration of a scholarship aid program . 22,640 Total.........$2,750,150 Board of Trustees of State Colleges. For the administration, maintenance of and for certain improvements at state colleges and the boarding halls attached thereto and the Massachusetts maritime academy with the approval of the board of trustees. 7101-0000 For expenses of the board of trustees of state colleges . $3,300 7101-0001 For the office of the board, including not more than nineteen permanent positions........ 208,600 7102-0001 For the purchase of scientific, technological and other education reference material for the libraries ..... 200,000 7105-0001 For the operation of a data processing system . . 57,000 7107-0001 For the program of continuing studies in the methods used in the art of teaching and related subjects and for the summer school in Hyannis or elsewhere, to be conducted by the board of trustees of state colleges, for graduates of state colleges or for such students or graduates of other colleges as may be approved by said board of trustees; provided, that such courses may be furnished free of charge to veterans, as authorized in sections seven and seven A of chapter sixty-nine of the General Laws; and provided further, that said board of trustees may expend from the receipts, without appropriation, income derived from such courses as may be conducted at no net expense to the commonwealth to an amount not exceeding two million dollars with the approval of said trustees. 7108-0000 State college at Boston, including not more than three hundred and seventy-nine permanent positions .... 4,323,680 7108-4102 For the trimester program at the state college at Boston. 225,000 7108-9001 For the replacement of electrical fixtures, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy . . . 16,000 Acts, 1968.—Chap. 380. Item 7108-9704 For the commonwealth's contribution toward the national defense education act loan program and the office of economic opportunity student work program ...... $75,000 7109-0000 State college at Bridgewater, including not more than two hundred and fifty-one permanent positions ..... 2,921,150 7109-1011 State college at Bridgewater, boarding hall, including not more than thirty-eight permanent positions .... 354,000 7109-9704 For the commonwealth's contribution toward the national defense education act loan program and the office of economic opportunity student work program ...... 41,500 7110-0000 State college at Fitchburg; provided, that said college may expend a sum not to exceed seventy thousand dollars for the purpose of maintaining at said college a community college program, as authorized •by chapter four hundred and seventy-seven of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-nine, and including not more than two hundred and twelve permanent positions .... 2,438,400 7110-1011 State college at Fitchburg, boarding hall, including not more than nineteen permanent positions ...... 257,900 7110-9704 For the commonwealth's contribution toward the national defense education act loan program and the office of economic opportunity student work program and for not more than one hundred scholarships, as authorized by section seven C of chapter sixty-nine of the General Laws........ 49,000 7111-0000 State college at Framingham, including not more than one hundred and eighty-two permanent positions. .... 1,786,600 7111-1011 State college at Framingham, boarding hall, including not more than twenty-two permanent positions . 154,400 7111-9001 For the replacement of cornices and capstones on certain buildings, appropriation expires June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventy......... 15,000 7111-9704 For the commonwealth's contribution toward the national defense education act loan program and the office of economic opportunity student work program ...... 23,000 7112-0000 State college at Lowell, including not more than one hundred and fifty-nine permanent positions ...... 1,749,600 7112-1011 State college at Lowell, boarding hall, including not more than four permanent positions ...... 39,100 7112-9704 For the commonwealth's contribution toward the national defense education act loan program and the office of economic opportunity student work program ...... 26,000 7113-0000 State college at North Adams, including not more than eighty-one permanent positions ...... 946,550 7113-1011 State college at North Adams, boarding hall, including not more than six permanent positions . . . . . ._ 34,375 7113-9704 For the commonwealth's contribution toward the national defense education act loan program and the office of economic opportunity student work program ...... 8,000 7114-0000 State college at Salem, including not more than two hundred and seventy-two permanent positions .... 3,051,600 7114-2501 For the trimester program at the state college at Salem . 31,200 7114-9704 For the commonwealth's contribution toward the national defense education act loan program and the office of economic opportunity student work program ...... 51,000 7115-0000 State college at Westfield, including not more than one hundred and eighty-nine permanent positions .... 1,870,700 7115-1011 State college at Westfield, boarding hall, including not more than nine permanent positions ...... 67,800 7115-9704 For the commonwealth's contribution toward the national defense education act loan program and the office of economic opportunity student work program ...... 31,500 7116-0000 State college at Worcester, including not more than one hundred and eighty-one permanent positions . . . . _ 1,924,000 7116-9704 For the commonwealth's contribution toward the national defense education act loan program and the office of economic opportunity student work program ...... 31,000 Acts, 1968. — Chap. 380. 277 Item 7117-0000 7117-9704 7118-0000 Massachusetts College of Art, including not more than fifty permanent positions........ $642,950 For the commonwealth's contribution toward the national defense education act loan program and the office of economic opportunity student work program . . . . 8,460 Massachusetts maritime academy and ship, including not more than fifty-nine permanent positions ..... 719,266 Total $24,382,631 Lowell Technological Institute of Massachusetts. 7210-0000 For the maintenance of the institute, with the approval of the trustees; provided, that said institute is hereby authorized to conduct a summer school at no expense to the commonwealth, and for said purpose the institute may receive and expend income derived therefrom, and including not more than three hundred and thirty-four permanent positions . . . . $4,417,900 7210-9704 For the commonwealth's contribution toward the national defense education act loan program and the office of economic opportunity student work program and for not more than eighty scholarships, as authorized by section seventeen of chapter seventy-five A of the General Laws . . . . . . . 57,000 7210-9705 For the purchase of scientific, technological and other educational reference material for the library .... 60,000 7211-0103 For a program to encourage students in the field of science 4,000 Total . $4,528,900 Southeastern Massachusetts Technological Institute. 7310-0000 For the maintenance of the institute, with the approval of the trustees; provided, that the institute is hereby authorized to conduct a summer school at no net expense to the commonwealth, and for said purpose the institute may receive and expend income derived therefrom, and including not more than two hundred and fifty-six permanent positions ........ $3,355,000 7310-9704 For the commonwealth's contribution toward the national defense education act loan program and the office of economic opportunity student work program and for not more than forty scholarships, as authorized by section forty-six C of chapter seventy-four of the General Laws........ 65,000 7310-9705 For the purchase of scientific, technological and other educational reference material for the library .... 50,000 Total $3,470,000 University of Massachusetts. 7410-0000 For the maintenance of the university, with the approval of the trustees; provided, that the trustees may, in addition to the sums appropriated, receive and expend as university trust funds under section eleven of chapter seventy-five of the General Laws, at no net expense to the commonwealth, without appropriation, funds received from the operation of the boarding halls and from university health services; and provided further, that there shall be transferred from the receipts of said boarding halls the sum of two hundred and forty-five thousand dollars to the General Fund to meet the estimated cost of heat, light, power, rental of facilities at present available for the purpose and the estimated cost of certain employee fringe benefits to be furnished by the commonwealth; and provided further, that the commonwealth shall furnish heat, light, power and necessary repairs in the infirmary building and pay the commonwealth's share of the cost of employee fringe benefits of the university health services Acts, 1968. — Chap. 380. Item 7410-9704 7410-9705 7411-0002 7411-1003 7411-1004 7411-1005 7411-1006 7411-1012 7414-1002 7414-1107 7416-1001 7416-4011 trust fund; and provided further, that the university health services trust fund shall furnish, without charge, health services required by law to be furnished at the university by the commonwealth, and including not more than two thousand and twenty-three permanent positions........$33,193,500 For scholarships, as authorized by sections thirty-one and thirty-three of chapter seventy-five of the General Laws and for a work scholarship program with the approval of the board of trustees; provided, that any part of the sum appropriated by this item may be used for the commonwealth's contribution toward the national defense act loan program and the office of economic opportunity student work program ........ 700,000 Agricultural Purposes Fund . . 38.0% General Fund .... 62.0% For the purchase of scientific, technological and other educational reference material for the library at Amherst . . 200,000 For the payment of the rental fee for the president's house, with the approval of the board of trustees .... 1,200 For a senior internship program; provided, that any public or private funds received for this purpose shall be credited to the General Fund ......... 35,000 For a legislative internship program, to be in addition to any other funds available for the purpose . . . . . 9,000 For the personal services and expenses of the medical school, prior appropriation continued, including not more than twenty-three permanent positions ...... 339,200 For the commonwealth's contribution, to be expended in conjunction with federal funds authorized for programs of assistance to higher education; provided, that any available public or private funds may also be used in addition to the amount made available in this item....... . 100,000 For the entertainment of distinguished visitors to the campus of the university, with the approval of the board of trustees . 1,000 For expenses in connection with research projects for which the commonwealth shall be fully reimbursed; provided, that on and after the effective date of this act the trustees may receive and expend, at no net expense to the commonwealth, funds for such research projects without further appropriation, prior appropriation continued. For the commonwealth's contribution in matching an equivalent amount of federal funds for the administration of the state technical services act, prior appropriation continued .... 150,000 For the maintenance of the facilities of the university in the city of Boston; provided, that administrative expenses may be incurred for this operation, with the approval of the trustees, from the amounts appropriated for the maintenance of the university at Amherst, and including not more than two hundred and seventy-five permanent positions ...... . . 5,164,000 For the purchase of scientific, technological and other educational reference material for the library at Boston . . 100,000 Total . $39,992,900 Massachusetts Board of Regional Community Colleges. For the administration, maintenance of and for certain improvements at community colleges with the approval of the board of regional community colleges: 7501-1001 For the office of the board, as authorized by section twenty-seven of chapter fifteen of the General Laws, including not more than eight permanent positions . . . . . $160,330 7501-3004 For the purchase of scientific, technological and other educational reference material ....... 150,000 7502-0000 Berkshire community college, including not more than fifty-seven permanent positions ....,,, 628,660 Acts, 1968.—Chap. 380. 279 Item 7502-9704 For the commonwealth's contribution toward the national defense education act loan program and the office of economic opportunity student work program ....... $16,500 7503-0000 Bristol community college, including not more than seventy-one permanent positions ....... 840,300 7503-9704 For the commonwealth's contribution toward the national defense education act loan program and the office of economic opportunity student work program ...... 7,500 7504-0000 Cape Cod community college, including not more than forty-six permanent positions ....... 577,087 7504-9704 For the commonwealth's contribution toward the national defense education act loan program and the office of economic opportunity student work program ...... 4,700 7505-0000 Greenfield community college, including not more than forty-three permanent positions ....... 548,282 7505-9704 For the commonwealth's contribution toward the national defense education act loan program and the office of economic opportunity student work program ...... 11,500 7506-0000 Holyoke community college, including not more than one hundred and one permanent positions ..... 1,172,700 7506-9704 For the commonwealth's contribution toward the national defense education act loan program and the office of economic opportunity student work program ...... 9,200 7507-0000 Massachusetts Bay community college, including not more than ninety-two permanent positions ...... 1,188,550 7507-9704 For the commonwealth's contribution toward the national defense education act loan program and the office of economic opportunity student work program ...... 14,000 7508-0000 Massasoit community college, including not more than sixty-three permanent positions ...... 889,065 7508-9704 For the commonwealth's contribution toward the national defense education act loan program and the office of economic opportunity student work program . . . . . . 5,000 7509-0000 Mount Wachusett community college, including not more than fifty-two permanent positions ...... 589,850 7509-9704 For the commonwealth's contribution toward the national defense education act loan program and the office of economic opportunity student work program . . . . . . . 3,200 7510-0000 Northern Essex community college, including not more than eighty-six permanent positions ...... 965,160 7510-9704 For the commonwealth's contribution toward the national defense education act loan program and the office of economic opportunity student work program ....... 14,000 7511-0000 North Shore community college, including not more than eighty permanent positions ....... 874,200 7511-9704 For the commonwealth's contribution toward the national defense education act loan program and the office of economic opportunity student work program . . . . . . . 7,000 7512-0000 Quinsigamond community college, including not more than eighty-four permanent positions ...... 933,700 7512-9704 For the commonwealth's contribution toward the national defense education act loan program and the office of economic opportunity student work program ....... 3,000 7514-0000 Springfield technical institute, including not more than one hundred and thirty-one permanent positions .... 959,300 7514-9704 For the commonwealth's contribution toward the national defense education act loan program and the office of economic opportunity student work program....... 10,000 Total $10,572,764 Total, Board of Higher Education . . $86,697,346 280 Acts, 1968. — Chap. 380. Item 7610-0001 7654-0001 7655-0002 7660-2001 7660-3000 7660-4000 7660-5000 7660-6000 7660-7000 7660-8000 7660-9000 7661-0000 7661-1000 Division of Youth Service. For administration of the division, including the expenses of the board, and including not more than ninety-five permanent positions ..... .... $1,757,952 For the commonwealth's share of delinquency prevention programs in certain cities ....... 158,482 Local Aid Fund .... 100.0% For reimbursement of cities and towns for tuition, including transportation to and from school, of children attending public schools 22,000 Local Aid Fund .... 100.0% Total $1,938,434 For the administration, maintenance of and for certain improvements at the institutions within the division: Stephen L. French youth forestry camp . . $121,100 Residential treatment unit in Oakdale, including not more than twenty-five permanent positions ...... 266,350 Industrial school for boys, including not more than one hundred and thirty-eight permanent positions .... 1,088,675 Industrial school for girls, including not more than ninety-eight permanent positions ....... 733,020 Judge John J. Connelly youth center in the city of Boston, including not more than sixty-two permanent positions . . 548,260 Reception and detention facilities for girls in the city of Boston, including not more than thirty-two permanent positions 300,410 Lyman school for boys, including not more than one hundred and fifty-one permanent positions ...... 1,247,500 Detention center in Hampden county, including not more than nineteen permanent positions ...... 168,250 Institute of juvenile guidance, including not more than fifty-four permanent positions ....... 477,650 Detention center in Worcester county, including not more than twenty permanent positions ...... 179,492 Total..... Total, Division of Youth Service $5,130,707 $7,069,141 Council on the Arts and Humanities. 7700-0000 For the administration of the council, including the expenses of projects and productions of the council, to be in addition to any federal funds available for the purpose ...... $100,000 Total, Council on the Arts and Humanities . . $100,000 Total, Department of Education .... $193,102,986 Debt Service. 9978-0000 For the payment of interest on certain bonded debt of the commonwealth; provided, that any deficit existing in this item at the close of this fiscal year shall be charged to the General Fund debt service reserve.........$15,040,100 9979-0000 For certain serial bonds maturing; provided, that any deficit existing in this item at the close of this fiscal year shall be charged to the General Fund debt service reserve . . . 28,925,000 Total, Debt Service......$43,965,100 Acts, 1968.—Chap. 380. 281 Miscellaneous. Item 9990-0001 For the payment of certain annuities and pensions of soldiers and others under the provisions of certain acts and resolves . $11,100 9990-0002 For the payment, with the approval of the comptroller, of expenses of prior fiscal years for which no funds are available in the current fiscal year; provided, that no payments shall be made unless the subsidiary account item to which the deficiency is to be charged contained a balance sufficient to meet the required payments on or after July first, nineteen hundred and sixty-eight .... 25,000 9990-0003 For payment to claimants, as authorized by section one hundred and forty-nine D of chapter one hundred and seventy-five of the General Laws and for reimbursement of other persons for funds previously deposited in the treasury of the commonwealth and escheated to the commonwealth . ...... 5,000 9990-0004 For the payment of claims for unpaid checks, with the approval of the state treasurer and certification by him to the comptroller of the amount due, where payment has otherwise been prevented as a result of the application of section thirty-two of chapter twenty-nine of the General Laws ....... 1,500 9990-0020 For the payment, with the approval of the comptroller, of expenses of prior fiscal years for which no funds are available in the current fiscal year; provided, that no payments shall be made unless the subsidiary account item to which the deficiency is to be charged contained a balance sufficient to meet the required payments on or after July first, nineteen hundred and sixty-eight . . . 5,000 Highway Fund .... 100.0% Total, Miscellaneous......$47,600 Section 3. Wherever, in section two of this act, it is provided that transfers shall be made from a fund, account or receipts, of a specific sum, a percentage of payments, or a sum equivalent to payments, such transfers of a specific sum shall be made upon the effective date of this act, and all others shall be made quarterly unless otherwise provided; except, that at the close of a fiscal year, the amount equivalent to payments in a continuing account shall be construed to mean the amount of such appropriation. Section 4. No moneys appropriated under this act shall be expended for reimbursement for the expenses of meals for persons while traveling within or without the commonwealth at the expense thereof, unless such reimbursement is in accordance with rules and rates established in accordance with section twenty-eight of chapter seven of the General Laws. Section 5. All use of state-owned motor vehicles shall be subject to regulations to be promulgated and enforced by the commissioner of administration. No state-owned vehicle shall be used for providing transportation for state officers or employees between their domiciles and places of employment nor shall any expense be incurred for the garaging of such vehicles except when specifically authorized by said commissioner. The commissioner is hereby authorized to transfer a motor vehicle from one agency or department to another. The allowance to state employees for expenses incurred by them in the operation of motor vehicles owned by them and used in the performance of their official duties shall not exceed eight cents a mile. Section 6. Amounts included for permanent positions in sums appropriated in section two for personal services are based upon sched- 282 Acts, 1968. — Chap. 380. ules of permanent positions and salary rates as approved by the joint committee on ways and means, and, except as otherwise shown by the files of said committee, a copy of which shall be deposited with the bureau of personnel, no part of sums so appropriated in section two shall be available for payment of salaries of any additional permanent position, or for payments on account of reallocations of permanent positions, or for payments on account of any change of salary range or compensation of any permanent position, notwithstanding any special or general act to the contrary; provided, that no vacancy occurring in any classified permanent position included in said schedules of permanent positions may be filled in any manner except upon approval as required by rules and regulations established under the provisions of paragraph six of section forty-five of chapter thirty of the General Laws; and, provided further, that no part of sums appropriated in section two shall be available for the payment of overtime service to any employee of the commonwealth without the prior written approval of such overtime by the commissioner of administration, upon recommendation of the director of personnel and standardization, except where such overtime service is essential to replace the service of an employee necessary for the care of patients or inmates in institutions operated by the commonwealth. Section 6A. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (5A) of section forty-six of chapter thirty of the General Laws, the director of personnel and standardization shall not approve the recruitment of any person at a rate above the minimum of the grade if such proposed employee has been in the service of the commonwealth within a twelvemonth period prior to the date of the proposed recruitment. Notwithstanding the provisions of clause (d) of paragraph (5) of section forty-five of chapter thirty of the General Laws, no part of the sums appropriated for the service of any agency or subdivision of a department in section two of this act shall be available for the payment of any temporary or excess quota position if there is a similar position vacant within the quota of permanent positions as established by the appropriation account for the service of such agency or subdivision of a department and, except such temporary positions as may be authorized in connection with the passage of this act, and except as hereinafter provided, no additional temporary positions shall be authorized; provided, however, the provisions of this section shall not apply to positions essential for the care of patients or inmates in institutions or to positions essential for the educational program in all institutions of higher education operated by the commonwealth, nor to the filling of a position under the provisions of section twenty-four B of said chapter thirty nor to a position required to correct an inequity determined, as provided in sections fifty-three and fifty-six of said chapter thirty. The commissioner of administration may, however, upon certification that an emergency exists requiring additional temporary assistance to perform work essential to the public interest, authorize the temporary employment of such additional personnel as may be necessary within the limits of funds available for the purpose; provided, however, that such emergency authorization shall not be extended to the succeeding fiscal year. The commissioner shall forthwith notify the house and senate committees on ways and means of the employment of any such additional temporary personnel. Acts, 1968. — Chap. 380. 283 Section 7. In addition to the payment of regular salaries, sums appropriated for personal services in the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixty-nine shall be available for the payment of such other forms of compensation as may be due under existing statutes, or under the provisions of rules and regulations made in accordance with said statutes. Section 8. Applications for all federal subventions and grants available to the commonwealth under any act of congress shall be subject to the approval of the commissioner of administration. Any transfer within such subventions or grants shall be subject to the approval of the commissioner of administration. All federal subventions and grants received by the commonwealth, or by a corporation or other organization established as an affiliate of any agency or institution operated by the commonwealth or by an individual employed by the commonwealth, authorized to expend such funds in conjunction with services rendered by the commonwealth, may be expended without specific appropriation under the terms and conditions provided in rules and regulations established by the commissioner of administration and if such expenditures are otherwise in accordance with law. All such federal subventions and grants shallbe reported in full by the head of the agency directly rendering the services mentioned above to the budget director, to the comptroller and to the house and senate committees on ways and means. The report shall include such itemization as required in accordance with state and federal regulations. All federal subventions and grants available to the commonwealth under any act of congress and not otherwise authorized to be received shall be paid into the treasury of the commonwealth. All such expenditures of federal subventions and grants shall be subject to the audit of the state auditor. Section 9. Notwithstanding the provisions of section fifty-one of chapter thirty of the General Laws, or any other provision of law, the state purchasing agent is hereby authorized during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixty-nine to incur liabilities and incidental expenses for the purchase of supplies, as provided by said section fifty-one, including material to be disposed of as surplus, so called, by the federal government through agencies of the federal government in an amount not exceeding three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, in addition to any amount heretofore provided for the purpose, and the comptroller may certify for payment such incidental expenses and liabilities so incurred to an amount not exceeding three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, in addition to any amount heretofore provided for the purpose. Section 10. No agency of the commonwealth receiving an appropriation under section two of this act shall make any expenditure for any document printed, mimeographed or prepared in any other way, whether for outside or interdepartmental circulation, unless publication of such document shall have been approved by the state purchasing agent, and the state purchasing agent is hereby authorized and directed to require such agencies to summarize and consolidate such documents when feasible, and each document authorized to be printed which is four pages or more in length shall state on its face the estimated cost per copy, including the cost of paper, printing and binding. Notwithstanding any special or general law, complete original manuscripts of annual reports of state agencies, whenever printed in full or in summarized or consolidated form or in case such report is not printed, shall be 284 Acts, 1968.—Chap. 380. filed with the secretary of the commonwealth. Except as otherwise provided by law, agencies selling documents shall do so at not less than the stated estimated cost; provided, however, that such agencies may dispose of excess copies of documents no longer current as provided by rules and regulations of the commissioner of administration. Section 11. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1) of section forty-six of chapter thirty of the General Laws, a salary differential is hereby authorized to be paid, in accordance with rules and regulations to be established by the director of personnel and standardization, with the approval of the commissioner of administration, to employees in the nursing services who are employed on evening or night tours of duty, and the establishment of such rules and regulations shall not be subject of chapter thirty A of the General Laws. Section 12. The surplus property agency in the department of education is hereby authorized to expend during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixty-nine for the purposes of the surplus property agency fund, in addition to amounts available in said fund, an amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars; provided, however, that no expenditure or commitment shall be incurred from the amount of the aforesaid fifty thousand dollar authorization in excess of amounts approved therefrom by the commissioner of administration, at the written request of the surplus property agency; and, provided further, that any amounts expended or commitments incurred under this authorization shall be paid or provided for from receipts of said surplus property agency fund prior to the close of the fiscal year. Section 13. Notwithstanding the provisions of section ten A of chapter eight of the General Laws, no lease negotiated as provided therein, payable from state funds, shall take effect until an appropriation has been made specifically for and adequate to meet the costs for the fiscal year for which said lease may be executed. Renewal of rentals may be continued at existing rates pending appropriation if the general court has not provided otherwise. Section 14. In order that the borrowing of funds in anticipation of receipts may be kept at a minimum, every department, board, commission or agency shall, before scheduling for payment or otherwise providing for the disbursement of public funds from any sum available for expenditure or distribution for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixty-nine, submit for approval by a board consisting of the commissioner of administration, or his designated representative, the commissioner of corporations and taxation, or his designated representative, and the state treasurer, or his designated representative, the proposed date of payment or distribution of such funds if the combined total thereof, as prepared by any such single agency, exceeds one million dollars on any one day, notwithstanding any special or general law regulating the disbursement of public funds by the commonwealth. Said board may require any agency to notify it of the anticipated receipt of revenue from any source, including federal subventions and grants. Section 15. The budget director, notwithstanding the provisions of section twenty-nine of chapter twenty-nine of the General Laws, is hereby directed to limit the transfer of funds between subsidiary accounts, established as provided in section twenty-seven of said chapter twenty-nine, to those transfers required to meet unforeseen emergencies Acts, 1968. — Chap. 380. 285 where funds otherwise are not available to protect the public interest. The budget director shall file forthwith, on the approval of any such transfer, a copy of the authorization with the house and senate committees on ways and means. Section 16. No agency of the commonwealth receiving an appropriation under section two of this act, whether or not the expenditure is made from funds authorized by this act, shall make any expenditure for consultant services, so called, or services coded in accordance with the expenditure code manual under the subsidiary title "03 Services — Non-employees" unless the rate of compensation for such services shall have been approved by the commissioner of administration upon the recommendation of the director of personnel and standardization. The said director shall, immediately upon the approval of any such rate or rates, file copies of the schedule or schedules of approved rates with the comptroller and with the house and senate committees on ways and means. Every such agency before engaging such consultant services under said subsidiary title "03", as so coded, as "Professional", except for "Religious Services", shall certify to the budget director that funds are available for the purpose and shall then file a statement of intent with the budget director, the comptroller and the house and senate committees on ways and means. Such statement shall include the rate of compensation, the period of time for which the services are to be engaged or scope of work to be done, and such other pertinent information as may be necessary to establish the maximum limit of the commonwealth's obligation. Section 16A. No agency of the commonwealth, except constitutional officers, whether or not the expenditure is made from funds authorized by this act, shall initiate any encumbrance or make any expenditure involving a lease or the purchase of data processing or a reproduction equipment or systems, without prior request to the budget director under the provisions of sections three and four of chapter twenty-nine of the General Laws; the certification by the head of the agency that funds are specifically available for the purpose; the prior approval of the commissioner of administration, in accordance with rules and regulations established by him, and notification of such approval to the house and senate committees on ways and means. Section 16B. Amounts appropriated in section two of this act under the subsidiary titles " 12 " — Maintenance Repairs, Replacements and Alterations, and " 15" — Equipment, are based upon schedules approved by the joint committee on ways and means, a copy of which shall be deposited with the budget director and shall be expended according to the priority order of such schedules unless exceptions are approved by the budget director on written application of the head of the spending agency. Section 17. Passenger motor vehicles to be purchased from sums appropriated in section two of this act shall be authorized by the purchasing agent in accordance with schedules filed by the budget director with the house and senate committees on ways and means prior to the passage of this act; provided, that the commissioner of administration may authorize the replacement of other motor vehicles with similar models from available funds when he determines that the replacement is necessary because the cost of necessary repairs would not be economical; and, provided further, that no expenditure in excess of three hun- 286 Acts, 1968. — Chap. 380. dred dollars shall be authorized for the repair of a motor vehicle by any department or agency in a garage or shop other than one maintained and operated by such department or agency without the approval of the commissioner of administration. Section 18. For the purpose of allocating charges for engineering services rendered during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixty-nine as a part of the direct cost of the projects for which they were incurred, the comptroller is hereby directed to transfer to Water System Bond Issue Accounts 9204-07, 9204-09, 9204-11 and 9204-13 from the items listed below such amounts as may be certified to him by the commissioner of the metropolitan district commission as chargeable to said items for personal services rendered by the personnel of the construction division upon the projects provided for in said items. 8330-00 9107-25 9107-36 8331-00 9107-26 9107-37 9020-01 9107-31 9107-39 9107-23 9107-33 9126-01 9107-35 Section 19. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, during the entire fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixty-nine, for the payment of classified personal services the fiscal year shall be from July first, nineteen hundred and sixty-eight through June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and sixty-nine. Classified personal services for June twenty-ninth and thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixty-nine shall be charged to the next fiscal year. Section 20. The provisions of sections ten, fifteen, sixteen, sixteen A and sixteen B of this act shall not apply to expenditures from appropriations made under this act for the division of state colleges and institutions under the control of the board of trustees of state colleges, the Lowell Technological Institute of Massachusetts, the Southeastern Massachusetts Technological Institute, the University of Massachusetts and the board of regional community colleges and the community colleges under the control of said board; nor shall the provisions of section nine B or section twenty-nine of chapter twenty-nine of the General Laws or any provision of section six or section eight of this act apply to said expenditures which are inconsistent with any provision of the General Laws specifically regulating the expenditure of public funds at each of said institutions. Section 21. Pursuant to section twenty-five B of chapter fifty-eight of the General Laws, amounts shall be paid for the purposes and in the manner prescribed in said section twenty-five B from the fund established by paragraph (6) of section twenty-eight of chapter sixty-four C, and the comptroller shall reflect such transactions under the heading "Agency Fund". Section 21A. To provide statistical and accounting continuity in recording appropriations authorized by this act, the comptroller is hereby authorized during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixty-nine to record the same under the pattern of account numbers used for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixty-eight; provided, that the final financial report for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixty-nine will be reported under account numbers as shown in this act. Section 22. The effective date of the appropriation accounts, sub- Acts, 1968. — Chaps. 381, 382. 287 sidiary accounts and authorizations in section two of this act shall be July first, nineteen hundred and sixty-eight. However, beginning June first, nineteen hundred and sixty-eight, obligations may be incurred against these appropriation accounts or subsidiary accounts, if any, thereunder, for items to be delivered or for services to be rendered on and after July first, nineteen hundred and sixty-eight; provided, they are in accordance with law and the amounts thereof do not exceed the amount of the appropriation account or subsidiary account. Where the allotment of an appropriation account or subsidiary account is a condition precedent to expenditure, the obligations shall not exceed the amount allotted for said appropriation account or subsidiary account. The certified copies of the schedules as provided for in section twenty-seven of chapter twenty-nine of the General Laws shall be filed with the comptroller and the budget director to permit the effective operation of this section on June first, nineteen hundred and sixty-eight. Where the allotment of an appropriation account or subsidiary account is required by law, allotments shall be made to permit the effective operation of this section on June first, nineteen hundred and sixty-eight. Section 23. The budget director is hereby directed to send a copy of sections three to twenty-two, inclusive, of this act to each departmental, divisional and institutional head immediately following passage of this act. Section- 24. Sections one to twenty-one A, inclusive, of this act shall take effect as of July first, nineteen hundred and sixty-eight, and sections twenty-two and twenty-three shall take effect upon the passage of this act. Approved June 6, 1968.