The civil service laws shall not apply to the appointment of the mayor's secretaries or of the stenographers, clerks, telephone operators and messengers connected with his office, and the mayor may remove such appointees without a hearing and without making a statement of the cause of their removal.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 43, § 25
Employees in mayor's office not subject to civil service
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