Consolidated Cigar Corp. v. Department of Public Health

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• “shall establish, by promulgation of regulations, such minimum standards relating to the rights of visitation under this section as will ensure the adequate protection of said rights”
• agency’s interpretation of statute given deference “particularly ‘where [it] must interpret a legislative policy which is only broadly set out in the governing statute’ ”
• “The importance of an administrative interpretation of a statute is ‘never greater than where, as here, an agency must interpret a legislative policy which is only broadly set out in the governing statute.’ ” (citations omitted)
• administrative regulations are to be tested by the same standard we apply to statutes
• G. L. c. Ill, § 128H, as amended by St. 1971, c. 373, authorized the department to establish “by promulgation of regulations, such minimum standards relating to the rights of visitation ... as will ensure the adequate pro tection of said rights”

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