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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

Section 2

Citation
Section 2
Parent Document
Altschuler v. Boston Rent Board, 425 N.E.2d 781 (1981)
Jurisdiction
Massachusetts (state)
Effective Date
1981-09-22

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377 Mass. 576, 581 (1979) (holding that commissioner’s broad statutory authority to “fix maximum and minimum rates” for taxi industry includes power to adopt order reducing fares for elderly and handicapped). It is further established that where, as here, an agency is vested with “broad authority” to effectuate the purposes of an act, the agency may do so by all means which are “reasonably related” to those purposes. See Levy v. Board of Registration & Discipline in Medicine, 378 Mass. 519, 524-525 (1979), and cases cited; Grocery Manufacturers of America, Inc. v. Department of Pub. Health, supra