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English: Seal of Dartmouth
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(Original text : https://web.archive.org/web/20070929132655/http://www.mass.gov/dhcd/iprofile/seals/default.htm)
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A Guide to the Massachusetts Public Records Law, Published by William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth Division of Public Records, (Updated January 2017) can be found at https://www.mass.gov/files/2017-06/Public%20Records%20Law.pdf and page 7 says:

"With the exception of situations in which a records custodian is withholding records pursuant to Exemption (n), inquiries into a requester's status or motivation for seeking information are expressly prohibited. [1] Consequently, all requests for public records, even if made for a commercial purpose or to assist the requester in a lawsuit against the holder of the records, must be honored in accordance with the Public Records Law."

  1. ↑ See G. L. c. 66, § 10(a) (public records are to be provided to “any person”); see also 950 CMR 32.05(5) (custodian prohibited from inquiring into a requester’s status or motivation); but see G. L. c. 4, § 7(26)(n) (a records custodian may ask the requester to voluntarily provide additional information in order to reach a “reasonable judgment” regarding disclosure of responsive records).
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Public records are defined in A Guide to the Massachusetts Public Records Law, Published by William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth Division of Public Records, (Updated January 2017) at https://www.mass.gov/files/2017-06/Public%20Records%20Law.pdf on page 40, under M. G. L. c. 4, § 7(26) as:

all books, papers, maps, photographs, recorded tapes, financial statements, statistical tabulations, or other documentary materials or data, regardless of physical form or characteristics, made or received by any officer or employee of any agency, executive office, department, board, commission, bureau, division or authority of the commonwealth, or of any political subdivision thereof, or of any authority established by the general court to serve a public purpose, or any person, corporation, association, partnership or other legal entity which receives or expends public funds for the payment or administration of pensions for any current or former employees of the commonwealth or any political subdivision as defined in section 1 of chapter 32, unless such materials or data fall within the following exemptions found on page 40

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Massachusetts seal

History of Image:DartmouthSeal.gif

  • 2007-10-04T21:01:00Z Haemo (Talk | contribs) (409 bytes) (rm tag)
  • 2007-10-04T21:00:53Z Haemo (Talk | contribs) (512 bytes) (/* Fair use */ fix ratioale)
  • 2007-09-16T05:12:01Z BetacommandBot (Talk | contribs) (485 bytes) (tagging as invalid rationale per [[:en:WP:NONFREE|]])
  • 2007-07-20T10:44:37Z Cydebot (Talk | contribs) (381 bytes) (Robot - Renaming non-free template "Seal" per [[:en:Wikipedia:Non-free content/templates|]].)
  • 2007-07-03T18:15:46Z Pharos04 (Talk | contribs) (333 bytes) (== Summary == Seal of [[:en:Darmouth, Massachusetts|]] == Source == http://www.mass.gov/dhcd/iprofile/seals/default.htm#P {{seal}} ==Fair use == The image linked here is claimed to be used under fair use as the image is only being used for i)

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2015-07-07 13:53 223×229× (74240 bytes) Simtropolitan Clearer rendition with transparent margins
2008-10-01 00:14 300×316× (6021 bytes) 718 Bot == Summary == Seal of [[Darmouth, Massachusetts]] == Source == http://www.mass.gov/dhcd/iprofile/seals/default.htm#P == Licensing == {{Non-free logo}} ==Fair use in Dartmouth, Massachusetts== The image linked here is claimed to be used under fair use

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