Executive work organized in departments
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On or before January first, nineteen hundred twenty-one, the executive and administrative work of the commonwealth shall be organized in not more than twenty departments, in one of which every executive and administrative office, board and commission, except those officers serving directly under the governor or the council, shall be placed. Such departments shall be under such supervision and regulation as the may from time to time prescribe by law.
Note (Massachusetts Legislature): [Annulled by Amendments, Art. LXXXVII.]
Simplified explanation
Annulled: It required the executive and administrative work of the commonwealth to be organized, by January first, 1921, in not more than twenty departments, under such supervision and regulation as the general court prescribes by law. A note says it was annulled by Amendments, Art. LXXXVII.