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Massachusetts Regulatory Research

All administrative rules and regulations currently in effect appear in the Code of Massachusetts Regulations (C.M.R.). The Massachusetts Register publishes executive orders of general applicability, rules and regulations, notices, and other items deemed by the Secretary of the Commonwealth to be of public interest.

Begin your regulatory research by consulting secondary sources. These sources provide citations to relevant regulations and will help you determine whether your issue requires you to research statutes or case law, in addition to administrative law.

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Code of Massachusetts Regulations:

The official Code of Massachusetts Regulations (C.M.R.) is published by the Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Print: Law Massachusetts Collection
Westlaw: MA-ADC database
Lexis: MA- Code of Massachusetts Regulations
Social Law Library: Code of Massachusetts Regulations
Internet: Code of Massachusetts Regulations via the Trial Court Libraries (selected sections)

If you need to find the title and section of a regulation, you can consult an index:

Weil's Index to the Code of Massachusetts Regulations
Print: Law Massachusetts Collection, shelved immediately after the C.M.R.

Code of Massachusetts Regulations Index
Internet: Code of Massachusetts Regulations Index via the Trial Court Libraries

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Massachusetts Register:

In Massachusetts, updates to the Code of Massachusetts Regulations are published contemporaneously with the Massachusetts Register. Therefore, in libraries like Pappas where those updates are filed immediately into the C.M.R., it is not necessary to update one's research with research in the Massachusetts Register. However, consult the Massachusetts Register for notices, proposed rules and other documents required by the state's administrative procedure act.

Print: Law Massachusetts Collection
Lexis: Massachusetts Register (May 1995-date)

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Last updated: April 2009