The Board shall issue advisory rulings in writing. The advisory ruling must include a statement of facts or assumptions, or both, upon which the ruling is based. The statement, without reference to other documents, must be sufficiently detailed to apprise the reader of the basis of the opinion. The ruling must be signed by the Board chair, must be identified specifically as an advisory ruling and must be numbered serially.
02-658 C.M.R. ch. 2, § 3