The Code of Massachusetts Regulations (CMR) is the canonical collection of

regulations Regulation is the management of complex systems according to a set of rules and trends. In systems theory, these types of rules exist in various fields of biology and society, but the term has slightly different meanings according to context. Fo ...

promulgated by various agencies of the Commonwealth of

Massachusetts Massachusetts ( ; ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Maine to its east, Connecticut and Rhode ...

. It is the state counterpart to the national

Code of Federal Regulations In the law of the United States, the ''Code of Federal Regulations'' (''CFR'') is the codification of the general and permanent regulatory law, regulations promulgated by the executive departments and agencies of the federal government of the ...

(CFR). Regulations approved by ANNS according to a procedure established by the legislature have the force of law. This allows the state legislature to delegate the details of certain types of lawmaking to executive agencies. Updates to the CMR are published in the bi-weekly Massachusetts Register from the Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth. The executive cabinet agency organized the code. In citations, the number before the "CMR" refers to the issuing agency, and the numbers thereafter refer to a specific chapter or section. Code of Massachusetts Regulations FAQ
/ref> N.B. The official CMR is available online on a subscription basis. A
unofficial version of the CMR
is available online for free from the Massachusetts Trial Court Law Libraries.

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Code of Massachusetts Regulations
from the Massachusetts Trial Court Law Libraries. Massachusetts law

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