2021 Massachusetts General Laws
Part I - Administration of the Government
Title II - Executive and Administrative Officers of the Commonwealth
Chapter 6 - The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Council, Certain Officers Under the Governor and Council, and State Library
Section 116b - Hate Crimes; Police Instruction

Universal Citation: MA Gen L ch 6 § 116b (2021)

[Text of section effective until July 1, 2021. For text effective July 1, 2021, see below.]

Section 116B. The municipal police training committee shall provide instruction for police officers in identifying, responding to and reporting all incidents of hate crime, as defined in section thirty-two of chapter twenty-two C. The municipal police training committee shall include such instruction in all curricula for recruits and in-service trainees and in all police academies operated or certified by said committee.


Chapter 6: Section 116B. Hate crimes; police instruction

[Text of section as amended by 2020, 253, Sec. 9 effective July 1, 2021. See 2020, 253, Sec. 122. For text effective until July 1, 2021, see above.]

Section 116B. The municipal police training committee shall provide instruction for police officers in identifying, responding to and reporting all incidents of hate crime, as defined in section thirty-two of chapter twenty-two C. The municipal police training committee shall include such instruction in all curricula for recruits and in-service trainees and in all police schools, academies and programs operated or certified by said committee.

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