STATUTES RELATING TO THE ESTABLISHMENT, POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE POLICE.

Origin and establishment of police force......

Special police and railroad police....
Powers and duties of the commissioner.
Appointment of special and railroad police.
Member of listing board....

To investigate qualifications of jurors.
Petition to abate certain nuisances..
To issue certain licenses and permits.

And powers with regard to licensees.
Miscellaneous powers and duties..
Miscellaneous licenses in which the police are
interested.

Affecting chief of police..
Captain of police...
Police signal system.

The police force, appointment, powers and
duties, pay, pensions, penalties, etc..

Search warrants, seizures and investigations..
Arrests, fugitives from justice, criminal process,
bail, etc.....
Miscellaneous statutes..

Sects. 1-12, inclusive,

Sects. 65, 68 and 69. Sects. 13-18, inclusive.

Sects. 13-18, inclusive.
Sect. 19.

Sect. 20.

Sect. 21.

Sects. 22, 28, 29, 39-48, inclusive.

Sects. 23-27, 49.

Sects. 30, 31-38, 50, 51.

Sects. 52-60, inclusive.
Sects. 61-63, inclusive.
Sect. 64.

Sects. 65, 66 and 80.

Sects. 67-104, inclusive.
Sects. 105-124, inclusive.

Sects. 125-137, inclusive.
Sects. 138-148.

1. Cities and towns authorized to establish and keep a watch. Rev. Laws, chap. 31.

2. Board of police commissioners established, powers, duties, etc. Stats. 1877, chap. 244; Stats. 1898, chap. 282.

3. Board of police for the city of Boston established, powers and duties of board of police commissioners conferred upon, etc. Stats. 1885, chap. 323.

4. Powers of board of police conferred upon police commissioner. Stats. 1906, chap. 291.

5. Police commissioner and licensing board established. Stats. 1906, chap. 291.

6. Members of the regular and permanent police force of the town of Hyde Park to become in their respective grades members of the police force of Boston. Stats. 1911, chap. 469.

7. Police commissioner to furnish certain information to the licensing board. Stats. 1906, chap. 291.

8. Secretary to be appointed by the police commissioner. Salary of secretary established. Stats. 1906, chap. 291.

9. Police commissioner may employ legal assistance. Stats. 1906, chap. 291, sect. 9.

10. Police commissioner to fix salary of superintendent of police. Stats. 1906, chap. 291.

11. The police commissioner may appoint deputy superintendents from the police force without being affected by the rules relating to the civil service. 1909, chap. 311.

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12. The harbor master and assistants are appointed from the police force by the police commissioner; their powers, duties, etc. Stats. 1848, chap. 314; Stats. 1882, chap. 246; Stats. 1889, chap. 147; Stats. 1908, chap. 579.

13. Certain special police officers must be residents of the Commonwealth. Rev. Laws, chap. 108, sects. 11 and 12; Stats. 1903, chap. 333.

14. Special police officers, upon certain emergencies, etc., may be appointed by the police commissioner. Stats. 1878, chap. 244, sect. 7.

15. Special police for city departments appointed by the police commissioner. Stats. 1898, chap. 282, sect. 1. 16. Special police on application by responsible persons appointed by the police commissioner. Stats. 1898, chap. 282, sect. 2.

17. Railroad police are appointed by the police commissioner. Stats. 1898, chap. 282, sect. 1; Rev. Laws, chap. 108, sects. 13-20; Stats. 1904, chap. 59.

18. See railroad police for terminal stations. Stats. 1896, chap. 516, sect. 8.

19. Police commissioner to be member of listing board. Stats. 1906, chap. 291, sect. 18; Stats. 1913, chap. 835.

20.

Police commissioner to investigate as to qualifications of jurors. Stats. 1907, chap. 348, sect. 1.

21. Certain nuisances may be enjoined or abated in

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equity on the petition of the police commissioner. Laws, chap. 101, sect. 8; Stats. 1906, chap. 291, sect. 10. 22. Permits to perform necessary labor on the Lord's day to be issued by the police commissioner or any member of the police department, having a rank not lower than captain, designated by him. Stats. 1909, chap. 420.

23. The police commissioner or any police officer, when specially authorized by the licensing board and the police commissioner, may enter upon the premises of any liquor licensee for certain purposes. Rev. Laws, chap. 100, sect. 46; Stats. 1906, chap. 291, sects. 4-17. 24. Pawnbrokers to furnish records to police commissioner. Stats. 1907, chap. 211. These are not public records. (See Rounds v. O'Meara, 197 Mass. 218.)

25. Pawnbroker's license fee. Adjustment of fee for licenses issued after November first in any year. Stats. 1905, chap. 415.

26. Police commissioner to establish rates of interest of pawnbrokers to the satisfaction of the supervisor of loan agencies. Stats. 1911, chap. 727.

27. Police commissioner to have charge of park and certain other police. Age not to disqualify for appointment on park, etc., police. Stats. 1895, chap. 449, sect. 26.

28. Dog licenses are issued by the police commissioner. Rev. Laws, chap. 102.

29. Dog breeders' licenses are issued by the police commissioner. Rev. Laws, chap. 102. (See also other powers and duties as to dogs and damage done by dogs, statutes collected under Rule 62 of this manual.)

30. The police commissioner must make monthly reports of arrests to the commissioners of prisons. Penalty for neglect. Rev. Laws, chap. 222, sect. 7.

31. Police commissioner may inspect certain records of probation officers, and is entitled to receive from, and shall give to, certain officers information in relation to persons who are under investigation in drunk cases. Rev. Laws, chap. 212, sect. 41.

32. Police commissioner or mayor of the city may during a period of tumult or public disorder suspend and make inoperative any license for the sale of intoxicating liquors. Stats. 1906, chap. 291, sect. 19.

33. The police commissioner may, on request of certain persons, send police to aid police of Hingham in maintaining the peace within certain limits. Stats. 1880, chap. 168, sect. 3.

34. Other cities may request aid from the police force. Rev. Laws, chap. 26, sect. 20.

35. The police commissioner upon the requisition of the board of health must detail not exceeding five police officers to the service of the board of health for certain purposes. Pay, etc., of such officers. Stats. 1889, chap. 450, sect. 7; Stats. 1911, chap. 287.

36. By Stats. 1882, chap. 267, the legislature undertook to give the chairman of the board of police commissioners authority to compel the attendance of witnesses before the board. This statute was probably unconstitutional and was repealed by Stats. 1900, chap. 267. (See Whitcomb's case, 120 Mass. 118.) But witnesses may be compelled to attend hearings before the police commissioner under Rev. Laws, chap. 175, sect. 10, or under the Rev. Laws, chap. 175, sect. 11, by a justice of the superior or of the supreme judicial court, upon the application of the police commissioner.

37. Police authority must assign officers to duty at exhibitions of incorporated agricultural or horticultural societies upon application of the president. Rev. Laws, chap. 124, sect. 16.

38. Police departments to see that certain persons post notices concerning the sale of cigarettes. Stats. 1909, chap. 346.

39. Licenses for persons receiving contributions in the public streets of Boston to be approved by police commissioner in certain respects. Stats. 1909, chap. 538.

40. Conductors, drivers, despatchers and motormen of street railways are licensed by the police commissioner. Stats. 1879, chap. 59; Stats. 1880, chap. 99; Stats. 1897, chap. 343.

41. Private detectives are licensed by the police commissioner. Rev. Laws, chap. 108, sects. 36 and 37. 42. Certain other municipal licenses are issued by the police commissioner under authority of chap. 244 of the Acts of 1878, and of certain city ordinances passed in pursuance of that statute (see chap. 323 of Acts of 1885 and chap. 291 of the Acts of 1906, sect. 10), viz.: auctioneers, carriages, wagons and other vehicles, and itinerant musicians.

43. Dealers in junk and second-hand articles and pawnbrokers are licensed by the police commissioner. Rev. Laws, chap. 102; Stats. 1902, chap. 187; Stats. 1905, chap. 415; Stats. 1906, chap. 291, sect. 10.

44. Junk collectors licensed by the police commissioner. Rev. Laws, chap. 102; Stats. 1902, chap. 187.

45. Parts of public streets in Boston may be used for private business purposes under certain conditions or with licenses issued by the street commissioners approved by the police commissioner. Stats. 1907, chap. 584; Stats. 1908, chap. 519; Stats. 1909, chap. 329.

46. Sight-seeing automobiles and drivers thereof to be licensed by the police commissioner. Stats. 1913, chap. 592.

47. Licenses for certain lodging houses to be issued by the police commissioner. Stats. 1894, chap. 414; Stats. 1904, chap. 242.

48. Licenses to carry loaded revolvers issued by the police commissioner. Stats. 1906, chap. 172; Stats. 1908, chaps. 350, 583; Rev. Laws, chaps. 211, 214.

49. The police commissioner may without a hearing suspend and make inoperative any license issued by him. Stats. 1909, chap. 221.

50. The keeper of the lockup (city prison) is appointed by the police commissioner. Rev. Laws, chap. 26, sect. 40.

51. The police commissioner to appoint police matrons, and to establish a house of detention, make needful rules, etc. Rev. Laws, chap. 108, sects. 32-35; Stats. 1906, chap. 291, sect. 10.

52. Theatrical exhibitions, public shows and public amusements to be licensed by the mayor. Stats. 1908,