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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 161, sec. 137 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 161 / Section 137
Certificate of incorporation; organization of railway company
Status: in_force

Section 137. The state secretary shall receive the agreement of association, and preserve it in form convenient for reference and open to public inspection, and shall issue a certificate of incorporation in the form authorized by section nine. Thereupon, the company shall organize in the manner provided in this chapter for the organization of a company. Such company may begin business as soon as it is organized, and shall have all the rights and be subject to all the duties of a street railway company, except as otherwise provided in this and the preceding section. If said purchasers fail to organize a company as hereinbefore provided, all rights and powers to operate said railway shall thereupon cease.

Section 137. The state secretary shall receive the agreement of association, and preserve it in form convenient for reference and open to public inspection, and shall issue a certificate of incorporation in the form authorized by section nine. Thereupon, the company shall organize in the manner provided in this chapter for the organization of a company. Such company may begin business as soon as it is organized, and shall have all the rights and be subject to all the duties of a street railway company, except as otherwise provided in this and the preceding section. If said purchasers fail to organize a company as hereinbefore provided, all rights and powers to operate said railway shall thereupon cease.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 112, sec. 145 — MA Code / Part I / Title XVI / Chapter 112 / Section 145
Speech-language pathologists and audiologists; activities and services of certain parties
Status: in_force

Section 145. The provisions of sections one hundred and thirty-eight to one hundred and forty-seven, inclusive, shall not prohibit the activities and services of: (1) a qualified person licensed in the commonwealth under any other law from engaging in the profession or business for which he is licensed, including activities and services by a physician licensed to practice medicine and surgery and by a person employed by and under the direct supervision of such physician. (2) a person engaged in the specialty of hearing aid fitting and sales; provided, however, that no separate or additional fee for hearing testing or interpretation of such tests is received; and provided further, that the person fitting or selling such hearing aids does not present himself as an audiologist unless such person is licensed as an audiologist in the commonwealth. This clause does not preclude remuneration for any other service offered solely in conjunction with the fitting or maintaining of a hearing aid. (3) a teacher of esophageal speech, a certified industrial audiometric technician or an audiometric screening technician provided that such person engages in no other practice of speech-language pathology or audiology. (4) a person engaged in fulfilling the requirements set forth in clauses (2) and (3) of section one hundred and forty-four.

Section 145. The provisions of sections one hundred and thirty-eight to one hundred and forty-seven, inclusive, shall not prohibit the activities and services of:

(1) a qualified person licensed in the commonwealth under any other law from engaging in the profession or business for which he is licensed, including activities and services by a physician licensed to practice medicine and surgery and by a person employed by and under the direct supervision of such physician.

(2) a person engaged in the specialty of hearing aid fitting and sales; provided, however, that no separate or additional fee for hearing testing or interpretation of such tests is received; and provided further, that the person fitting or selling such hearing aids does not present himself as an audiologist unless such person is licensed as an audiologist in the commonwealth. This clause does not preclude remuneration for any other service offered solely in conjunction with the fitting or maintaining of a hearing aid.

(3) a teacher of esophageal speech, a certified industrial audiometric technician or an audiometric screening technician provided that such person engages in no other practice of speech-language pathology or audiology.

(4) a person engaged in fulfilling the requirements set forth in clauses (2) and (3) of section one hundred and forty-four.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 111, sec. 192 — MA Code / Part I / Title XVI / Chapter 111 / Section 192
Lead poisoning educational and publicity program
Status: in_force

Section 192. The director shall institute an educational and publicity program, in order to inform the general public, and particularly parents of children residing in areas of significant exposure to sources of lead poisoning; teachers, social workers and other human service personnel; owners of residential property, particularly property constructed previous to the year nineteen hundred and forty-five; and health services personnel, and particularly interns, residents and other intake personnel at major hospitals, of the dangers, frequency, and sources of lead poisoning, and the methods of preventing such poisoning.

Section 192. The director shall institute an educational and publicity program, in order to inform the general public, and particularly parents of children residing in areas of significant exposure to sources of lead poisoning; teachers, social workers and other human service personnel; owners of residential property, particularly property constructed previous to the year nineteen hundred and forty-five; and health services personnel, and particularly interns, residents and other intake personnel at major hospitals, of the dangers, frequency, and sources of lead poisoning, and the methods of preventing such poisoning.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 156C, sec. 13 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 156C / Section 13
Amendment of certificate of organization
Status: in_force

Section 13. (a) A certificate of organization may be amended by filing a certificate of amendment thereto in the office of the state secretary. The certificate of amendment shall set forth: (1) the name of the limited liability company; (2) the date of filing of its certificate of organization; and (3) the amendment to the certificate of organization. (b) A manager or, it there is no manager, then any member, who becomes aware that any statement in a certificate of organization was false when made, or that any matter described in the certificate of organization has changed, making the certificate of organization false in any material respect, shall promptly amend the certificate of organization to correct such matter. (c) A certificate of organization shall be amended to reflect (i) the designation of managers of a limited liability company which theretofore did not have managers or (ii) any change in the managers of a limited liability company or other authorized signatories. (d) A certificate of organization may be amended at any time for any other proper purpose. (e) Unless otherwise provided in this chapter or unless a later effective date, which shall be a date certain, is provided for in the certificate of amendment, a certificate of amendment shall be effective at the time of its filing with the state secretary.

Section 13. (a) A certificate of organization may be amended by filing a certificate of amendment thereto in the office of the state secretary. The certificate of amendment shall set forth:

(1) the name of the limited liability company;

(2) the date of filing of its certificate of organization; and

(3) the amendment to the certificate of organization.

(b) A manager or, it there is no manager, then any member, who becomes aware that any statement in a certificate of organization was false when made, or that any matter described in the certificate of organization has changed, making the certificate of organization false in any material respect, shall promptly amend the certificate of organization to correct such matter.

(c) A certificate of organization shall be amended to reflect (i) the designation of managers of a limited liability company which theretofore did not have managers or (ii) any change in the managers of a limited liability company or other authorized signatories.

(d) A certificate of organization may be amended at any time for any other proper purpose.

(e) Unless otherwise provided in this chapter or unless a later effective date, which shall be a date certain, is provided for in the certificate of amendment, a certificate of amendment shall be effective at the time of its filing with the state secretary.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 149, sec. 141 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXI / Chapter 149 / Section 141
Medical and surgical chests; accommodations for treatment of injured or ill persons; facilities for heating food; violation of statute
Status: in_force

Section 141. Every person operating a factory, shop or mechanical establishment where machinery is used for any manufacturing or other purpose except for elevators, or for heating or hoisting apparatus, shall keep and maintain, free of expense to the employees, such medical or surgical chest, or both, as shall be required by the department, containing plasters, bandages, absorbent cotton, gauze, and all other necessary medicines, instruments and appliances for the treatment of persons injured or taken ill upon the premises. Every such person employing one hundred or more persons shall, if so required by the department, provide accommodations satisfactory to it for the treatment of persons injured or taken ill upon the premises, and also suitable and sanitary facilities for heating or warming food to be consumed by those employees of the factory, shop or mechanical establishment who so desire. Every person carrying on a mercantile establishment where twenty or more persons are employed shall in the manner aforesaid provide such medical and surgical chest as the department may require. Whoever violates any provision hereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than five nor more than five hundred dollars for every week during which such violation continues.

Section 141. Every person operating a factory, shop or mechanical establishment where machinery is used for any manufacturing or other purpose except for elevators, or for heating or hoisting apparatus, shall keep and maintain, free of expense to the employees, such medical or surgical chest, or both, as shall be required by the department, containing plasters, bandages, absorbent cotton, gauze, and all other necessary medicines, instruments and appliances for the treatment of persons injured or taken ill upon the premises. Every such person employing one hundred or more persons shall, if so required by the department, provide accommodations satisfactory to it for the treatment of persons injured or taken ill upon the premises, and also suitable and sanitary facilities for heating or warming food to be consumed by those employees of the factory, shop or mechanical establishment who so desire. Every person carrying on a mercantile establishment where twenty or more persons are employed shall in the manner aforesaid provide such medical and surgical chest as the department may require. Whoever violates any provision hereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than five nor more than five hundred dollars for every week during which such violation continues.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 62C, sec. 24 — MA Code / Part I / Title IX / Chapter 62C / Section 24
Verification of returns; inspection of stampers
Status: in_force

Section 24. For the purpose of verifying any return filed under this chapter, the commissioner or his duly authorized representative may at any time within three years after the date prescribed for filing the return, or the date filed, whichever is later, examine the books, papers, records and other data of the taxpayer which shall be open to such person for verification. The taxpayer shall provide to the commissioner all accounting records and information in a searchable electronic format, as requested by the commissioner, to the extent that the taxpayer maintains such records in electronic format. Stocks of unused stamps in the possession of stampers, as defined in section one of chapter sixty-four C, shall be open to inspection by the commissioner or his duly authorized representative at all reasonable times. If the books, papers, records, and other data of the taxpayer are so voluminous as to make a complete audit thereof impractical and inefficient, the commissioner may use such statistical sample methods in conducting such audit as may be agreed to by the parties and project the audit findings derived therefrom over the entire audit period to determine the proper tax. If, after a good faith effort, the parties cannot reach such an agreement, the commissioner may utilize such statistical sample methods which he deems appropriate and which comply with the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.

Section 24. For the purpose of verifying any return filed under this chapter, the commissioner or his duly authorized representative may at any time within three years after the date prescribed for filing the return, or the date filed, whichever is later, examine the books, papers, records and other data of the taxpayer which shall be open to such person for verification. The taxpayer shall provide to the commissioner all accounting records and information in a searchable electronic format, as requested by the commissioner, to the extent that the taxpayer maintains such records in electronic format.

Stocks of unused stamps in the possession of stampers, as defined in section one of chapter sixty-four C, shall be open to inspection by the commissioner or his duly authorized representative at all reasonable times.

If the books, papers, records, and other data of the taxpayer are so voluminous as to make a complete audit thereof impractical and inefficient, the commissioner may use such statistical sample methods in conducting such audit as may be agreed to by the parties and project the audit findings derived therefrom over the entire audit period to determine the proper tax. If, after a good faith effort, the parties cannot reach such an agreement, the commissioner may utilize such statistical sample methods which he deems appropriate and which comply with the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 111, sec. 95 — MA Code / Part I / Title XVI / Chapter 111 / Section 95
Powers and duties of boards in cases of infectious diseases
Status: in_force

Section 95. If a disease dangerous to the public health breaks out in a town, or if a person is infected or lately has been infected therewith, the board of health shall immediately provide such hospital or place of reception and such nurses and other assistance and necessaries as is judged best for his accommodation and for the safety of the inhabitants, and the same shall be subject to the regulations of the board. The board may cause any sick or infected person to be removed to such hospital or place, if it can be done without danger to his health; otherwise the house or place in which he remains shall be considered as a hospital, and all persons residing in or in any way connected therewith shall be subject to the regulations of the board, and, if necessary, persons in the neighborhood may be removed. When the board of health of a town shall deem it necessary, in the interest of the public health, to require a resident wage earner to remain within such house or place or otherwise to interfere with the following of his employment, he shall receive from such town during the period of his restraint compensation to the extent of three fourths of his regular wages; provided, that the amount so received shall not exceed two dollars for each working day.

Section 95. If a disease dangerous to the public health breaks out in a town, or if a person is infected or lately has been infected therewith, the board of health shall immediately provide such hospital or place of reception and such nurses and other assistance and necessaries as is judged best for his accommodation and for the safety of the inhabitants, and the same shall be subject to the regulations of the board. The board may cause any sick or infected person to be removed to such hospital or place, if it can be done without danger to his health; otherwise the house or place in which he remains shall be considered as a hospital, and all persons residing in or in any way connected therewith shall be subject to the regulations of the board, and, if necessary, persons in the neighborhood may be removed. When the board of health of a town shall deem it necessary, in the interest of the public health, to require a resident wage earner to remain within such house or place or otherwise to interfere with the following of his employment, he shall receive from such town during the period of his restraint compensation to the extent of three fourths of his regular wages; provided, that the amount so received shall not exceed two dollars for each working day.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 29, sec. 9E — MA Code / Part I / Title III / Chapter 29 / Section 9E
Insufficient appropriations for required expenditures
Status: in_force

Section 9E. Whenever it appears to any officer having charge of any office, department or undertaking that any appropriation therefor will be insufficient to meet all of the expenditures required in the current fiscal year by any law, rule, regulation or order not subject to the officer's control, the officer shall immediately notify the secretary of administration and finance and the house and senate committees on ways and means of the estimated amount of such additional requirements, and such amount shall be added by the secretary to any deficiency reported under section 9C unless, prior to such report, such provisions are changed to make the estimated additional expenditures unnecessary.

Section 9E. Whenever it appears to any officer having charge of any office, department or undertaking that any appropriation therefor will be insufficient to meet all of the expenditures required in the current fiscal year by any law, rule, regulation or order not subject to the officer's control, the officer shall immediately notify the secretary of administration and finance and the house and senate committees on ways and means of the estimated amount of such additional requirements, and such amount shall be added by the secretary to any deficiency reported under section 9C unless, prior to such report, such provisions are changed to make the estimated additional expenditures unnecessary.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 253, sec. 21 — MA Code / Part III / Title IV / Chapter 253 / Section 21
Reassessment; new action
Status: in_force

Section 21. If either party is dissatisfied with the annual compensation established by proceedings upon a civil action under this chapter or corresponding provisions of earlier laws, a new action may be commenced for the increase or diminution of such compensation or for ascertaining the gross amount of the damages, and the action shall be conducted substantially in the manner provided for an original action; but if a plaintiff has declined to accept gross damages which have been awarded to him, they shall not be again assessed within ten years thereafter.

Section 21. If either party is dissatisfied with the annual compensation established by proceedings upon a civil action under this chapter or corresponding provisions of earlier laws, a new action may be commenced for the increase or diminution of such compensation or for ascertaining the gross amount of the damages, and the action shall be conducted substantially in the manner provided for an original action; but if a plaintiff has declined to accept gross damages which have been awarded to him, they shall not be again assessed within ten years thereafter.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 44, sec. 27A — MA Code / Part I / Title VII / Chapter 44 / Section 27A
Effect of provisions on power to issue notes
Status: in_force

Section 27A. The provisions of sections twenty-three to twenty-seven, inclusive, shall be deemed to provide an additional and alternative means of carrying out the purposes thereof and shall not effect the power of cities, towns and districts to issue notes under and subject to other provisions of law.

Section 27A. The provisions of sections twenty-three to twenty-seven, inclusive, shall be deemed to provide an additional and alternative means of carrying out the purposes thereof and shall not effect the power of cities, towns and districts to issue notes under and subject to other provisions of law.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, sec. 86A — MA Code / Part IV / Title I / Chapter 272 / Section 86A
Stabling horses and mules above first floor; exceeding six; fire exits
Status: in_force

Section 86A. No person shall stable a horse or mule above the first or ground floor of any building not equipped with an automatic sprinkler system, or horses or mules exceeding six in all on the first or ground floor of any building not so equipped, unless there are two unobstructed means of exit from each floor whereon it or they are stabled, as far apart as practicable and so constructed as to grade that the said animal or animals can quickly and safely leave the building in case of fire and approved as to situation, arrangement and utility by the chief of the fire department. The person in charge of horses and mules stabled in any building not equipped with such a system and requiring two exits as aforesaid shall cause each such animal to use each such exit at least once a week. This and the four following sections shall apply only to cities.

Section 86A. No person shall stable a horse or mule above the first or ground floor of any building not equipped with an automatic sprinkler system, or horses or mules exceeding six in all on the first or ground floor of any building not so equipped, unless there are two unobstructed means of exit from each floor whereon it or they are stabled, as far apart as practicable and so constructed as to grade that the said animal or animals can quickly and safely leave the building in case of fire and approved as to situation, arrangement and utility by the chief of the fire department. The person in charge of horses and mules stabled in any building not equipped with such a system and requiring two exits as aforesaid shall cause each such animal to use each such exit at least once a week. This and the four following sections shall apply only to cities.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 6, sec. 12QQ — MA Code / Part I / Title II / Chapter 6 / Section 12QQ
Homeless Unity Day
Status: in_force

Section 12QQ. The governor shall annually issue a proclamation setting aside February twentieth as Homeless Unity Day and recommending that such day be observed in an appropriate manner by the people.

Section 12QQ. The governor shall annually issue a proclamation setting aside February twentieth as Homeless Unity Day and recommending that such day be observed in an appropriate manner by the people.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 248, sec. 32 — MA Code / Part III / Title IV / Chapter 248 / Section 32
Removing or concealing prisoner; penalty
Status: in_force

Section 32. Whoever, having in his custody or power a person entitled to a writ of habeas corpus, transfers him to the custody, or places him under the power or control, of another person, conceals him or changes the place of his confinement, with intent to evade the service of such writ or to avoid the effect thereof, whether the writ has been issued or not, shall forfeit four hundred dollars to the party aggrieved thereby.

Section 32. Whoever, having in his custody or power a person entitled to a writ of habeas corpus, transfers him to the custody, or places him under the power or control, of another person, conceals him or changes the place of his confinement, with intent to evade the service of such writ or to avoid the effect thereof, whether the writ has been issued or not, shall forfeit four hundred dollars to the party aggrieved thereby.