Massachusetts Cultural Council

The Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities (1966) and the Massachusetts Arts Lottery Council (1980) were abolished and succeeded in their functions by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, effective 1990.

St 1989, c 653, ss 14-16 abolished the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities and the Massachusetts Arts Lottery Council, combining their functions in the Massachusetts Cultural Council, effective 1990. Appointed by the governor and placed in the office of the state treasurer, the council is mandated to review facilities, activities, and needs of public and private institutions in the Commonwealth and fund programs concerned with the arts, humanities, and interpretive sciences; to serve as administrator of funds received by the Commonwealth under the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act of 1965 (PL 89-209); and to administer the State Arts Lottery Fund, allocating its monies to regional and local arts councils. The council's functions are currently described in MGLA c 10, ss 52-58.

NAME AUTHORITY NOTE. Series relating to the agency described above can be found by searching the following access point for the time period stated: 1990-present--Massachusetts Cultural Council.