Section 5. In all cases where a question arises between executive or administrative departments, or officers or boards thereof, as to their respective jurisdictions or powers, or where such departments, or officers or boards thereof, issue conflicting orders or make conflicting rules and regulations, the governor and council may, on appeal by any such department or by any person affected thereby, determine the question, and order any such order, rule or regulation amended or annulled; provided, that this section shall not deprive any person of the right to pursue any other lawful remedy. The time within which such appeal may be taken shall be fixed by the governor and council.

Terms Used In Massachusetts General Laws ch. 30 sec. 5

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • departments: as used in this chapter , shall, unless the context otherwise requires, mean all the departments of the commonwealth, except the department of banking and insurance, but including the divisions of banks and loan agencies, of insurance, and also including the several boards serving in the division of registration, the board of registration in medicine and each of the executive offices created by chapters six A and seven. See Massachusetts General Laws ch. 30 sec. 1
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