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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 151A, sec. 50 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXI / Chapter 151A / Section 50
Treasurer of Unemployment Compensation Fund; clearing account; fund account; deposit with United States secretary of the treasury
Status: in_force

Section 50. (a) The state treasurer shall be, ex officio, the treasurer of the Unemployment Compensation Fund. He shall maintain within the Unemployment Compensation Fund two separate accounts as follows:— (1) A clearing account in which the commissioner, immediately upon their receipt, shall deposit all moneys payable to the fund. (2) An unemployment compensation fund account. (b) All money in the clearing account after clearance thereof, and excepting payment of refunds as provided in sections eighteen and forty-eight, shall be deposited by the state treasurer immediately with the secretary of the treasury of the United States of America to the credit of the account of the commonwealth in the Unemployment Trust Fund, established and maintained pursuant to section nine hundred and four of the Social Security Act, as amended, any provisions of the general laws relating to the deposit, administration, release or disbursement of moneys in the possession or custody of the commonwealth to the contrary notwithstanding.

Section 50. (a) The state treasurer shall be, ex officio, the treasurer of the Unemployment Compensation Fund.

He shall maintain within the Unemployment Compensation Fund two separate accounts as follows:—

(1) A clearing account in which the commissioner, immediately upon their receipt, shall deposit all moneys payable to the fund.

(2) An unemployment compensation fund account.

(b) All money in the clearing account after clearance thereof, and excepting payment of refunds as provided in sections eighteen and forty-eight, shall be deposited by the state treasurer immediately with the secretary of the treasury of the United States of America to the credit of the account of the commonwealth in the Unemployment Trust Fund, established and maintained pursuant to section nine hundred and four of the Social Security Act, as amended, any provisions of the general laws relating to the deposit, administration, release or disbursement of moneys in the possession or custody of the commonwealth to the contrary notwithstanding.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 14, sec. 5 — MA Code / Part I / Title II / Chapter 14 / Section 5
Units of departmental divisions; statement of organization
Status: in_force

Section 5. Within each of the divisions established in section one the commissioner shall, with the approval of the secretary, from time to time establish such branches, bureaus, sections, offices and other units as shall be necessary for efficient and economical administration of the work of the department, and, if necessary for such purpose, may with the approval of the secretary, from time to time consolidate or abolish the same. He shall prepare and keep current a general statement of such organization of the department, of the assignment of functions to its various administrative units, officials and employees, and of the established places at which and methods whereby the public may secure information or make requests. Such statement shall be known as the department's ''description of organization''. He shall file with the state secretary an attested copy of such description and of each amendment thereto, and the substance of it shall be included in each annual report he shall make to the governor and the general court.

Section 5. Within each of the divisions established in section one the commissioner shall, with the approval of the secretary, from time to time establish such branches, bureaus, sections, offices and other units as shall be necessary for efficient and economical administration of the work of the department, and, if necessary for such purpose, may with the approval of the secretary, from time to time consolidate or abolish the same. He shall prepare and keep current a general statement of such organization of the department, of the assignment of functions to its various administrative units, officials and employees, and of the established places at which and methods whereby the public may secure information or make requests. Such statement shall be known as the department's ''description of organization''. He shall file with the state secretary an attested copy of such description and of each amendment thereto, and the substance of it shall be included in each annual report he shall make to the governor and the general court.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 112, sec. 87II — MA Code / Part I / Title XVI / Chapter 112 / Section 87II
Aesthetics, barbering, cosmetology, electrolysis, hairdressing and manicuring; penalty for illegal representation or practice
Status: in_force

Section 87II. Whoever engages in or follows, attempts to engage in or follow or acts as an instructor of the occupation of aesthetics, barbering, cosmetology, electrolysis, hairdressing or manicuring, without being duly licensed by the board and whoever conducts or attempts to conduct a shop or school without a license or a mobile business without authorization by the board and whoever violates sections 87T to 87HH, inclusive, shall, in addition to any other penalty prescribed or authorized by said sections 87T to 87HH, inclusive, be subject to penalties under sections 61 to 65E, inclusive. Upon notice from the board, the board of health or any equivalent authority of a city or town shall terminate a general authorization to conduct business given to such shop, school or mobile business. No person shall engage in the practice of electrolysis or hold oneself out as a practitioner of or being able to practice electrolysis unless that person is duly licensed by the board or is a qualified physician licensed under the laws of the commonwealth.

Section 87II. Whoever engages in or follows, attempts to engage in or follow or acts as an instructor of the occupation of aesthetics, barbering, cosmetology, electrolysis, hairdressing or manicuring, without being duly licensed by the board and whoever conducts or attempts to conduct a shop or school without a license or a mobile business without authorization by the board and whoever violates sections 87T to 87HH, inclusive, shall, in addition to any other penalty prescribed or authorized by said sections 87T to 87HH, inclusive, be subject to penalties under sections 61 to 65E, inclusive. Upon notice from the board, the board of health or any equivalent authority of a city or town shall terminate a general authorization to conduct business given to such shop, school or mobile business.

No person shall engage in the practice of electrolysis or hold oneself out as a practitioner of or being able to practice electrolysis unless that person is duly licensed by the board or is a qualified physician licensed under the laws of the commonwealth.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 168, sec. 32 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 168 / Section 32
Exemption of savings banks employees benefit association property from taxation, operation of law relating to insolvency, attachment and execution; assignment of rights
Status: in_force

Section 32. The property of the benefit association shall be exempt from taxation and from the operation of any law relating to insolvency, and shall not be attached or taken on execution or other process to satisfy any debt or liability of the benefit association, a participating bank or any employee member of the benefit association. No assignment of any right in or to said funds or of any pension or annuity payable under section 30 shall be valid, except that deferred annuity contracts purchased by a participating bank on account of past service of eligible employees may be assigned to such bank prior to actual retirement. Nothing in this section shall prevent an employee's annuity or pension from being attached, taken on execution, assigned or subject to other process to satisfy a support order under chapter 208, 209, or 273.

Section 32. The property of the benefit association shall be exempt from taxation and from the operation of any law relating to insolvency, and shall not be attached or taken on execution or other process to satisfy any debt or liability of the benefit association, a participating bank or any employee member of the benefit association. No assignment of any right in or to said funds or of any pension or annuity payable under section 30 shall be valid, except that deferred annuity contracts purchased by a participating bank on account of past service of eligible employees may be assigned to such bank prior to actual retirement.

Nothing in this section shall prevent an employee's annuity or pension from being attached, taken on execution, assigned or subject to other process to satisfy a support order under chapter 208, 209, or 273.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 203E, sec. 812 — MA Code / Part II / Title II / Chapter 203E / Section 812
Collecting trust property
Status: in_force

Section 812. Collecting trust property A trustee shall take reasonable steps to compel a former trustee or other person to deliver trust property to the trustee and to redress a breach of trust known to the trustee to have been committed by a former trustee.

Section 812. Collecting trust property

A trustee shall take reasonable steps to compel a former trustee or other person to deliver trust property to the trustee and to redress a breach of trust known to the trustee to have been committed by a former trustee.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 10, sec. 56A — MA Code / Part I / Title II / Chapter 10 / Section 56A
Application of other laws to the council
Status: in_force

Section 56A. The council shall be subject to section 16G of chapter 6A and section 56 of chapter 23A.

Section 56A. The council shall be subject to section 16G of chapter 6A and section 56 of chapter 23A.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 128A, sec. 13B — MA Code / Part I / Title XIX / Chapter 128A / Section 13B
Use of drugs to affect speed of dogs or horses
Status: repealed

[ Text of section effective until December 15, 2027. Repealed by 2011, 194, Sec. 39. See 2011, 194, Sec. 112 as amended by 2014, 165, Sec. 192; 2016, 176, Sec. 12B; 2017, 56, Sec. 14; 2018, 159, Sec. 14; 2019, 47, Sec. 14; 2020, 1, Sec. 14; 2020, 106, Sec. 14; 2021, 27, Sec. 14; 2022, 128, Sec. 14; 2023, 26, Sec. 20; and 2025, 73, Sec. 73.] Section 13B. No person shall administer or cause to be administered any drug, internally or externally by injection, drench or otherwise, to any horse or dog for the purpose of retarding, stimulating or in any other manner affecting the speed of such horse or dog in or in connection with a race conducted under the provisions of this chapter. Whoever violates this section shall be punished by a fine of five thousand dollars or by imprisonment for one year, or both.

[ Text of section effective until December 15, 2027. Repealed by 2011, 194, Sec. 39. See 2011, 194, Sec. 112 as amended by 2014, 165, Sec. 192; 2016, 176, Sec. 12B; 2017, 56, Sec. 14; 2018, 159, Sec. 14; 2019, 47, Sec. 14; 2020, 1, Sec. 14; 2020, 106, Sec. 14; 2021, 27, Sec. 14; 2022, 128, Sec. 14; 2023, 26, Sec. 20; and 2025, 73, Sec. 73.]

Section 13B. No person shall administer or cause to be administered any drug, internally or externally by injection, drench or otherwise, to any horse or dog for the purpose of retarding, stimulating or in any other manner affecting the speed of such horse or dog in or in connection with a race conducted under the provisions of this chapter. Whoever violates this section shall be punished by a fine of five thousand dollars or by imprisonment for one year, or both.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 140, sec. 167 — MA Code / Part I / Title XX / Chapter 140 / Section 167
Ordering dogs to be restrained; euthanizing unrestrained dogs
Status: in_force

Section 167. The mayor, aldermen or board of selectmen may order that all dogs shall be restrained from running at large during such times as shall be prescribed by the order. Once passed, a certified copy of the order shall be posted in at least 2 public places in the city or town or, if a daily newspaper is published in the city or town, by publishing a copy once in that newspaper. Following publication, the mayor, aldermen or board of selectmen may issue a warrant to a police officer or constable in a city or town, who shall, not sooner than 24 hours after the publication of the notice, euthanize all dogs in a humane manner that are found running at large contrary to the order. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a police officer or constable may, in the officer's or constable's discretion, hold any such dog for not more than 7 days. If the owner of the dog claims it and pays to the officer or constable a penalty of $40 for each day that the dog has been held, the dog shall be returned to its owner. The amount shall be paid over to the city or town.

Section 167. The mayor, aldermen or board of selectmen may order that all dogs shall be restrained from running at large during such times as shall be prescribed by the order. Once passed, a certified copy of the order shall be posted in at least 2 public places in the city or town or, if a daily newspaper is published in the city or town, by publishing a copy once in that newspaper. Following publication, the mayor, aldermen or board of selectmen may issue a warrant to a police officer or constable in a city or town, who shall, not sooner than 24 hours after the publication of the notice, euthanize all dogs in a humane manner that are found running at large contrary to the order. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a police officer or constable may, in the officer's or constable's discretion, hold any such dog for not more than 7 days. If the owner of the dog claims it and pays to the officer or constable a penalty of $40 for each day that the dog has been held, the dog shall be returned to its owner. The amount shall be paid over to the city or town.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 176A, sec. 26 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 176A / Section 26
Salaries, compensation or emoluments paid by corporation
Status: in_force

Section 26. No corporation subject to this chapter shall pay any salary, compensation or emolument to any officer, trustee or director thereof, nor any salary, compensation or emolument amounting in any year to more than twenty thousand dollars to any person, unless such payment be first authorized by a vote of its board of directors; provided, however, that the amount of such salaries, compensation or emoluments may be adjusted by the corporation to exceed such amount to reflect any decrease or increase in the cost of living since January first, nineteen hundred and sixty-nine, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers, United States City Average, published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor. No corporation subject to this chapter shall make any agreement with any of its officers, trustees or employees whereby it agrees that for any services rendered or to be rendered he shall receive any salary compensation or emolument for a period of more than three years from the date of such agreement; provided, however, that the payment of an amount not in excess of twelve and one half per cent of such annual salary, compensation or emolument, or a larger percentage if approved by the commissioner, may be deferred beyond such period.

Section 26. No corporation subject to this chapter shall pay any salary, compensation or emolument to any officer, trustee or director thereof, nor any salary, compensation or emolument amounting in any year to more than twenty thousand dollars to any person, unless such payment be first authorized by a vote of its board of directors; provided, however, that the amount of such salaries, compensation or emoluments may be adjusted by the corporation to exceed such amount to reflect any decrease or increase in the cost of living since January first, nineteen hundred and sixty-nine, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers, United States City Average, published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor. No corporation subject to this chapter shall make any agreement with any of its officers, trustees or employees whereby it agrees that for any services rendered or to be rendered he shall receive any salary compensation or emolument for a period of more than three years from the date of such agreement; provided, however, that the payment of an amount not in excess of twelve and one half per cent of such annual salary, compensation or emolument, or a larger percentage if approved by the commissioner, may be deferred beyond such period.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 43, sec. 118 — MA Code / Part I / Title VII / Chapter 43 / Section 118
Operative date
Status: in_force

Section 118. Upon the adoption by a city of Plan F, it shall become operative as provided in sections one to forty-five, inclusive.

Section 118. Upon the adoption by a city of Plan F, it shall become operative as provided in sections one to forty-five, inclusive.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 59, sec. 33 — MA Code / Part I / Title IX / Chapter 59 / Section 33
Storage warehouses; information regarding customers
Status: in_force

Section 33. All persons engaged in the business of storing or keeping merchandise in storage warehouses shall, within ten days after request therefor by the assessors of the town where said property is so stored or kept, permit said assessors to copy from their records a list of the names and addresses of all persons who appear, on January first in such year, to have any such property stored or kept in any such warehouse, except business corporations subject to tax under section 39 of chapter 63; but such persons shall not be required to furnish lists of persons having property stored in warehouses which is composed of imported goods in the original packages owned by the importer, or of goods that have been received for export trade or of property which is deemed to be in transit under section two. Failure to comply with this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than ninety days.

Section 33. All persons engaged in the business of storing or keeping merchandise in storage warehouses shall, within ten days after request therefor by the assessors of the town where said property is so stored or kept, permit said assessors to copy from their records a list of the names and addresses of all persons who appear, on January first in such year, to have any such property stored or kept in any such warehouse, except business corporations subject to tax under section 39 of chapter 63; but such persons shall not be required to furnish lists of persons having property stored in warehouses which is composed of imported goods in the original packages owned by the importer, or of goods that have been received for export trade or of property which is deemed to be in transit under section two. Failure to comply with this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than ninety days.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 29, sec. 25 — MA Code / Part I / Title III / Chapter 29 / Section 25
Advancements; detailed statements; filing by recipients
Status: in_force

Section 25. Such officers shall, within 30 days after receipt of an advance, file with the comptroller a detailed statement of the amounts expended subsequent to the previous accounting, approved by the officer or department authorized to supervise such expenditure, with vouchers therefor if 1 they can be obtained. All advances so made shall be accounted for and vouchers therefor filed with the comptroller before the close of the fiscal year.

Section 25. Such officers shall, within 30 days after receipt of an advance, file with the comptroller a detailed statement of the amounts expended subsequent to the previous accounting, approved by the officer or department authorized to supervise such expenditure, with vouchers therefor if 1 they can be obtained. All advances so made shall be accounted for and vouchers therefor filed with the comptroller before the close of the fiscal year.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 12, sec. 5H — MA Code / Part I / Title II / Chapter 12 / Section 5H
Money recovered by commonwealth; false claims prosecution fund
Status: in_force

Section 5H. (1) All money recovered by the commonwealth, as a result of actions brought by the attorney general or a person pursuant to sections 5B to 5O, inclusive, other than costs and attorney's fees awarded pursuant to paragraph (2), shall be credited by the state treasurer to the False Claims Prosecution Fund, established by section 2YY of chapter 29. (2) Costs and attorney's fees awarded to a relator by final judicial order in an action under this section shall be paid directly by the defendant to the relator.

Section 5H. (1) All money recovered by the commonwealth, as a result of actions brought by the attorney general or a person pursuant to sections 5B to 5O, inclusive, other than costs and attorney's fees awarded pursuant to paragraph (2), shall be credited by the state treasurer to the False Claims Prosecution Fund, established by section 2YY of chapter 29.

(2) Costs and attorney's fees awarded to a relator by final judicial order in an action under this section shall be paid directly by the defendant to the relator.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 164, sec. 69N — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 164 / Section 69N
Parties in interest to proceedings
Status: in_force

Section 69N. The parties in interest to the proceedings on a petition for a certificate shall include the following: (1) the applicant; (2) each public officer entitled to receive notice of the filing under the provisions of section 69L or section 69L1/2, whichever is applicable, provided that such officer files with the board within thirty days of the date of filing specified in the notice of filing under 69L or section 69L1/2, whichever is applicable, a statement of intention to become a party in interest; (3) such other persons or organizations as may be permitted to intervene pursuant to the provisions of chapter thirty A, provided that they have filed with the board, within thirty days of the filing date specified in the publication of the notice of the petition, a petition to be admitted as a party in interest; and (4) any other person whom the board by a majority vote of its members, admits as an intervening party.

Section 69N. The parties in interest to the proceedings on a petition for a certificate shall include the following: (1) the applicant; (2) each public officer entitled to receive notice of the filing under the provisions of section 69L or section 69L1/2, whichever is applicable, provided that such officer files with the board within thirty days of the date of filing specified in the notice of filing under 69L or section 69L1/2, whichever is applicable, a statement of intention to become a party in interest; (3) such other persons or organizations as may be permitted to intervene pursuant to the provisions of chapter thirty A, provided that they have filed with the board, within thirty days of the filing date specified in the publication of the notice of the petition, a petition to be admitted as a party in interest; and (4) any other person whom the board by a majority vote of its members, admits as an intervening party.