Law Library  Massachusetts Executive Orders First Series (1941-1947)

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• Governor Leverett Saltonstall, 1939-1945
  • No. 1: (1st Series) Creating a state and local civil defense organization 
  • No. 2: (1st Series) Transfer of Mass. Division of Employment Security to U.S. Employment Service for national defense purposes 
  • No. 3: (1st Series) Air raid and blackout regulations 
  • No. 4: (1st Series) Class I license to buy and sell used motor vehicles 
  • No. 5: (1st Series) Production and transportation of war materials: Commissioner of Labor and Industries authorized to suspend certain sections of M.G.L. c.149 
  • No. 6: (1st Series) Dept. of Public Utilities authorized to issue permits to allow the transportation and handling of war supplies and food on Sunday (waiver of Blue Law restrictions) 
  • No. 7: (1st Series) Definitions and rules of construction applicable to Executive Orders 
  • No. 8: (1st Series) Establishing a 40 m.p.h. speed limit on public ways 
  • No. 9: (1st Series) Pay increases for State Farm (Bridgewater) personnel 
  • No. 10: (1st Series) Practice blackouts and air raid drills 
  • No. 11: (1st Series) Wartime public transportation and taxi service 
  • No. 12: (1st Series) Fire permits for burning automobiles or motor vehicles to make scrap metal during wartime 
  • No. 13: (1st Series) State pier in Bourne closed to public use 
  • No. 14: (1st Series) Closing of public ways to public use during wartime upon request of federal government 
  • No. 15: (1st Series) Establishing police mobilization regions and organizations; functions defined 
  • No. 16: (1st Series) Sale of scrap metal for war efforts: permits expedited; restrictions of conflicting laws and town by-laws waived 
  • No. 17: (1st Series) Permitting the Metropolitan District Commission to supply water to certain industrial plants to Lynn 
  • No. 18: (1st Series) Authorizing state commissioner of insurance to issue licenses to insurers to participate in Federal War Department Insurance Rating Plan 
  • No. 19: (1st Series) Suspending statutory and regulatory limits on motor vehicles and trailer weights, lengths, and heights 
  • No. 20: (1st Series) Authorizing resident and non-resident Armed Forces Chaplains to solemnize marriages of Armed Forces personnel 
  • No. 21: (1st Series) Authorizing car pools by commuting employees: Certain statutory restrictions waived 
  • No. 22: (1st Series) Establishing fire mobilization regions and organizations 
  • No. 23: (1st Series) Regulating bank operations during wartime 
  • No. 24: (1st Series) Authorizing the Metropolitan District Commission to provide sewerage disposal service to Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard in Hingham 
  • No. 25: (1st Series) Sale of materials produced by prisoners to the U.S. government for war effort is authorized subject to regulations prescribed by the Commissioner of Corrections 
  • No. 26: (1st Series) Disclosure of employment information by Division of Employment Security to the U.S. government 
  • No. 27: (1st Series) Suspending certain statutory and local restrictions re local government purchases of fuel 
  • No. 28: (1st Series) Authorizing the Federal War Damage Corporation to do insurance business in the state 
  • No. 29: (1st Series) Commission on Administration and Finance authorized to purchase insurance afforded by the War Damage Corporation 
  • No. 30: (1st Series) Civil Defense System; emergency food and shelter arrangements; Medical services 
  • No. 31: (1st Series) Blackout Regulations in coastal and island areas (with supplement) 
  • No. 32: (1st Series) Establishing legal place of settlement for eligibility of military dependents for local welfare assistance 
  • No. 33: (1st Series) Authorizing appointment to Industrial Accident Board of person to replace member temporarily absent on Military Service 
  • No. 34: (1st Series) Authorizing certain highway and bridge construction over the Weymouth Back River in aid of war effort 
  • No. 35: (1st Series) Lowering the speed limit to 35 mph 
  • No. 36: (1st Series) Suspending Certain Statutory Restrictions on Employment of Minors Aged 14 or More in Harvesting Crops 
  • No. 37: (1st Series) Authorizing certain motor vehicle insurance refunds to motor vehicle owners 
  • No. 38: (1st Series) Welfare assistance to certain restricted or detained enemy aliens and their families 
  • No. 39: (1st Series) Registration and insurance of motor vehicles and trailers owned by military personnel 
  • No. 40: (1st Series) Blackout regulations 
  • No. 41: (1st Series) Authorizing appointment to Industrial Accident Board of person to replace board member temporarily absent on military service 
  • No. 42: (1st Series) Regulating hours of business of state agencies to reduce the consumption of oil and coal 
  • No. 43: (1st Series) Authorizing the Metropolitan District Commission to sell water to certain war industries 
  • No. 44: (1st Series) Federal income tax withholding from state and local government employees 
  • No. 45: (1st Series) Emergency measures during fuel shortage caused by war 
  • No. 46: (1st Series) Regulation of fuel sales and distribution 
  • No. 47: (1st Series) Establishing day care program for children of female employees of war industries 
  • No. 48: (1st Series) Authorizing car pools by commuting employees and others 
  • No. 49: (1st Series) Purchases by local governments of coal burning heating systems 
  • No. 50: (1st Series) Civil defense and emergency regulations for hospitals and hospital service 
  • No. 51: (1st Series) Authorizing the State Superintendent of Buildings to enter into a contract for the furnishing of electric power and heat to the State House 
  • No. 52: (1st Series) Blackout and Air Raid Regulations 
  • No. 53: (1st Series) Issuance of licenses for the storage of inflammable and explosive materials required for War effort 
  • No. 54: (1st Series) Establishing Programs re (1) evacuation and emergency welfare aid, (2) civilian war assistance 
  • No. 55: (1st Series) Blackout regulations 
  • No. 56: (1st Series) Authorizing operation of certain test cars in excess of 35 m.p.h. speed limit 
  • No. 57: (1st Series) Federal income tax withholding procedures re state and local government employees 
  • No. 58: (1st Series) Allowing persons under age 30 to enlist in state police if otherwise qualified; statutory minimum age of 30 suspended 
  • No. 59: (1st Series) Allowing persons aged 17 to join state guards; statutory minimum age of 18 suspended 
  • No. 60: (1st Series) Authorizing Handy Pad Supply Co., manufacturer of medical supplies, to build overhead bridge across Webster Street in Worcester 
  • No. 61: (1st Series) Authorizing Simplex Wire and Cable Co. to build an overhead bridge across Pacific Street in Cambridge 
  • No. 62: (1st Series) Use of prison labor in war effort 
  • No. 63: (1st Series) Speed limit in blacked-out areas 
  • No. 64: (1st Series) Use of municipal employees and trucks for the transportation of scrap materials required for war effort 
  • No. 65: (1st Series) Allowing Sylvania Electrical Products to build an overhead bridge across Barton Square in Salem 
  • No. 66: (1st Series) Replacement of lost or mutilated motor vehicle number plates without collecting a fee 
  • No. 67: (1st Series) Registration of medical students as assistants in medicine; certain statutory age requirements suspended 
  • No. 68: (1st Series) Fire permit for open-air burning for agricultural purposes 
  • No. 69: (1st Series) Implementing federal requirements re manufacture and repair of hot water tanks 
  • No. 70: (1st Series) Issuance of temporary motor vehicle licenses of armed forces personnel 
  • No. 71: (1st Series) Purchase of federal war supplies by state 
  • No. 72: (1st Series) Issuance of plates by Department of Public Utilities to commercial carriers operating leased vehicles 
  • No. 73: (1st Series) Designating Board of Collegiate Authority as agent of state for certain purposes under P.L. 78-346 Federal Veterans Educational Aid Program 
  • No. 74: (1st Series) Participation of Massachusetts banks in federal loan guaranty program for veterans under P.L. 78-346 
  • No. 75: (1st Series) Federal income tax withholding procedures re state and local government employees 
• Governor Maurice J. Tobin, 1945-1947
  • No. 76: (1st Series) Wartime public transportation and taxis 
  • No. 77: (1st Series) Revoking Executive Orders 8 and 35, Highway speed revoked 
  • No. 78: (1st Series) Implementing federal loan guaranty program for reconversion of businesses to peacetime production 
  • No. 79: (1st Series) State take-over of strike-ridden Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Company 
  • No. 80: (1st Series) Revoking Executive Order no. 79 
  • No. 81: (1st Series) Business hours of state agencies 
  • No. 82: (1st Series) State participation in federal apprenticeship training program for returning veterans 
  • No. 83: (1st Series) Federal income tax withholding procedures re state and local government employees 
  • No. 84: (1st Series) Suspending maximum age ceiling (30 years) of state police enlistees 
  • No. 85: (1st Series) Closing state offices on December 24, 1945 
  • No. 86: (1st Series) Revoking Executive Orders 1, 3, 6, 10, 12, 15, 16, 19, 22, 25, 27, 29, 31, 32, 40, 45, 46, 49, 50, 52, 53, 54 (Part 1), 55, 56, 62, 63, 64, 68, 70, 71, and 74 
  • No. 87: (1st Series) Revoking Executive Order no. 72 
  • No. 88: (1st Series) Bread supply shortage; certain laws suspended to permit increase in production and distribution of bread 
  • No. 89: (1st Series) Closing certain forests and woodlands in the Counties of Plymouth, Bristol, Barnstable, and Dukes to cope with fire hazard 
  • No. 90: (1st Series) Closing forests and woodlands in Berkshire County due to fire hazard 
  • No. 91: (1st Series) Revoking Executive Order no. 90 
  • No. 92: (1st Series) Revoking Executive Order no. 89 
  • No. 93: (1st Series) State system of rent control established in lieu of expiring federal rent control system 
  • No. 94: (1st Series) Restricting tenant evictions during wartime 
  • No. 95: (1st Series) Revoking Executive Orders 93 and 94 
  • No. 96: (1st Series) Revoking Executive Order no. 72 
  • No. 97: (1st Series) Implementing P.L. 79-549 for return of local offices of U.S. Employment Service to state control (Division of Employment Security) 
• Governor Robert F. Bradford, 1947-1949
  • No. 98: (1st Series) Revoking Executive Orders 2, 5, 9, 13, 14, 17, 18, 21, 23, 26, 28, 33, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 42, 44, 47, 48, 51, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 65, 66, 67, 75, 78, 81, 84, 85, 88, and 97 
  • No. 99: (1st Series) Revoking Executive Orders 4, 7, 11, 20, 24, 34, 43, 54, 73, 76, 82, and 83