The director may designate any employee of the division to supervise any of the bureaus during the absence or disability of the chief thereof, and they shall have all the powers required to administer such bureaus, provisions in the general laws to the contrary notwithstanding.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 132A, § 1G
Absence or disability of chiefs
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