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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 61B, sec. 12 — MA Code / Part I / Title IX / Chapter 61B / Section 12
Separation of land for non-recreational use
Status: in_force

Section 12. If, by conveyance or other action of the owner thereof, a portion of land which is valued, assessed and taxed under the provisions of this chapter is separated for a use which does not qualify as recreational land, the land so separated shall be subject to liability for conveyance or roll-back taxes applicable thereto, but such separation shall not impair the right of the remainder of such land to continuance of valuation, assessment and taxation thereunder; provided, however, that such remaining land continues to so qualify.

Section 12. If, by conveyance or other action of the owner thereof, a portion of land which is valued, assessed and taxed under the provisions of this chapter is separated for a use which does not qualify as recreational land, the land so separated shall be subject to liability for conveyance or roll-back taxes applicable thereto, but such separation shall not impair the right of the remainder of such land to continuance of valuation, assessment and taxation thereunder; provided, however, that such remaining land continues to so qualify.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 149, sec. 18F — MA Code / Part I / Title XXI / Chapter 149 / Section 18F
Explosives; longshore and waterfront operations
Status: in_force

Section 18F. Explosives and other dangerous articles and substances shall be loaded, unloaded, stored, transported or otherwise handled in accordance with United States Coast Guard regulations.

Section 18F. Explosives and other dangerous articles and substances shall be loaded, unloaded, stored, transported or otherwise handled in accordance with United States Coast Guard regulations.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 149, sec. 6D — MA Code / Part I / Title XXI / Chapter 149 / Section 6D
Complaints by employees relating to asbestos; retaliation by employer
Status: in_force

Section 6D. No employee shall be penalized by an employer in any way as a result of such employee's filing of a complaint or otherwise providing notice to the department in regard to the occupational health and safety of such employee or other workers engaged in the use, handling, removal or disposal of asbestos or materials containing asbestos.

Section 6D. No employee shall be penalized by an employer in any way as a result of such employee's filing of a complaint or otherwise providing notice to the department in regard to the occupational health and safety of such employee or other workers engaged in the use, handling, removal or disposal of asbestos or materials containing asbestos.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 40, sec. 13B — MA Code / Part I / Title VII / Chapter 40 / Section 13B
Residence quarters for school physicians
Status: in_force

Section 13B. A town of not exceeding three thousand inhabitants which accepts this section by vote in town meeting may appropriate for free residence quarters for a school physician a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars.

Section 13B. A town of not exceeding three thousand inhabitants which accepts this section by vote in town meeting may appropriate for free residence quarters for a school physician a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 71, sec. 26D — MA Code / Part I / Title XII / Chapter 71 / Section 26D
Borrowing in anticipation of federal funds
Status: in_force

Section 26D. If a town shall have a written contract with the federal government whereby said government grants or offers such town a sum of money to be used with funds which may be provided in said town for the purposes of sections twenty-six A to twenty-six F, inclusive, and said town shall be required primarily to pay that portion of the expenses for which reimbursement is to be received from the grant, the treasurer of such town, with the approval of the mayor, or of the city manager, if any, or of the selectmen, as the case may be, in anticipation of the receipt of the proceeds of such grant, may incur debt, outside the debt limit, to an amount not exceeding the amount of the grant as shown by the agreement, and may issue notes therefor, payable in not exceeding one year from their dates. Any loan so issued for a shorter period than one year may be refunded by the issue of other notes maturing within the required period; provided, that the period from the date of issue of the original loan to the date of maturity of the refunding loan shall not be more than one year. The proceeds of the grant, so far as necessary, shall be applied to the discharge of the loan.

Section 26D. If a town shall have a written contract with the federal government whereby said government grants or offers such town a sum of money to be used with funds which may be provided in said town for the purposes of sections twenty-six A to twenty-six F, inclusive, and said town shall be required primarily to pay that portion of the expenses for which reimbursement is to be received from the grant, the treasurer of such town, with the approval of the mayor, or of the city manager, if any, or of the selectmen, as the case may be, in anticipation of the receipt of the proceeds of such grant, may incur debt, outside the debt limit, to an amount not exceeding the amount of the grant as shown by the agreement, and may issue notes therefor, payable in not exceeding one year from their dates. Any loan so issued for a shorter period than one year may be refunded by the issue of other notes maturing within the required period; provided, that the period from the date of issue of the original loan to the date of maturity of the refunding loan shall not be more than one year. The proceeds of the grant, so far as necessary, shall be applied to the discharge of the loan.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 6C, sec. 59 — MA Code / Part I / Title II / Chapter 6C / Section 59
Aeronautics division; administrator
Status: in_force

Section 59. There shall be within the department an aeronautics division, which shall perform such functions as the secretary may determine in relation to the administration, implementation and enforcement of the department's authority over aeronautics. The division shall be under the supervision and control of the administrator. The administrator shall be the executive and administrative head of the division and shall be responsible for administering and enforcing the provisions of law relative to the division and to each administrative unit thereof. The duties given to the administrator in this chapter and in any other general or special law shall be exercised and discharged subject to the direction, control and supervision of the secretary. The administrator shall be exempt from chapter 31 and the position of administrator shall be classified in accordance with section 45 of chapter 30 and the salary shall be determined in accordance with section 46C of said chapter 30. The administrator shall be appointed with due regard to his fitness, by reason of his experience in matters relating to transportation infrastructure, including roads and bridges, such as the construction, operations or financing thereof or other relevant experience relative to the efficient exercise of his powers and duties. The administrator shall administer this section and the General Laws, rules and regulations that grant powers to or impose duties upon the division, subject to the supervision of the secretary.

Section 59. There shall be within the department an aeronautics division, which shall perform such functions as the secretary may determine in relation to the administration, implementation and enforcement of the department's authority over aeronautics. The division shall be under the supervision and control of the administrator. The administrator shall be the executive and administrative head of the division and shall be responsible for administering and enforcing the provisions of law relative to the division and to each administrative unit thereof. The duties given to the administrator in this chapter and in any other general or special law shall be exercised and discharged subject to the direction, control and supervision of the secretary.

The administrator shall be exempt from chapter 31 and the position of administrator shall be classified in accordance with section 45 of chapter 30 and the salary shall be determined in accordance with section 46C of said chapter 30. The administrator shall be appointed with due regard to his fitness, by reason of his experience in matters relating to transportation infrastructure, including roads and bridges, such as the construction, operations or financing thereof or other relevant experience relative to the efficient exercise of his powers and duties. The administrator shall administer this section and the General Laws, rules and regulations that grant powers to or impose duties upon the division, subject to the supervision of the secretary.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 253, sec. 30 — MA Code / Part III / Title IV / Chapter 253 / Section 30
Action; joinder of parties
Status: in_force

Section 30. Two or more persons who are jointly or separately interested in the land injured may join in a civil action, and the jury may assess joint or several damages as the interest and title of the plaintiffs may require; and judgment and execution shall conform thereto.

Section 30. Two or more persons who are jointly or separately interested in the land injured may join in a civil action, and the jury may assess joint or several damages as the interest and title of the plaintiffs may require; and judgment and execution shall conform thereto.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 41, sec. 130 — MA Code / Part I / Title VII / Chapter 41 / Section 130
Applicability of town tenure provisions to districts
Status: in_force

Section 130. The provisions of section one hundred and twenty-seven and sections one hundred and twenty-nine to one hundred and thirty-two, inclusive, as they apply to towns, town offices and town officers shall be applicable to districts and for this purpose the word ''selectmen'' shall be construed to mean ''commissioner'' or ''member of the prudential committee'', and other references to specific town offices or officers shall be construed as meaning the equivalent office or officer, if any, in a district. For the purpose of determining whether a person is eligible to apply for tenure in a town office or in a district office and for the purpose of determining whether a person has lost his tenure in such an office, offices in a district shall be deemed to be offices in the town in which they are located.

Section 130. The provisions of section one hundred and twenty-seven and sections one hundred and twenty-nine to one hundred and thirty-two, inclusive, as they apply to towns, town offices and town officers shall be applicable to districts and for this purpose the word ''selectmen'' shall be construed to mean ''commissioner'' or ''member of the prudential committee'', and other references to specific town offices or officers shall be construed as meaning the equivalent office or officer, if any, in a district. For the purpose of determining whether a person is eligible to apply for tenure in a town office or in a district office and for the purpose of determining whether a person has lost his tenure in such an office, offices in a district shall be deemed to be offices in the town in which they are located.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 93, sec. 30 — MA Code / Part I / Title XV / Chapter 93 / Section 30
Prohibition of certain billboards; conformance to rules and regulations; application
Status: in_force

Section 30. No person, firm, association or corporation shall post, erect, display or maintain on any public way or on private property within public view from any highway, public park or reservation any billboard or other advertising device, whether erected before August twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and twenty, or not, which advertises or calls attention to any business, article, substance or any other thing, unless such billboard or device conforms to the rules and regulations and ordinances or by-laws established under section twenty-nine; provided, that this section shall not apply to signs or other devices erected and maintained in conformity with law and which advertise or indicate either the person occupying the premises in question or the business transacted thereon, or advertise the property itself or any part thereof as for sale or to let and which contain no other advertising matter or which are maintained on land owned by a person, firm, association or corporation engaged in the outdoor advertising business if owned by the same person, firm, association or corporation on January first, nineteen hundred and twenty-five, and if billboards or other devices were maintained thereon prior to August twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and twenty, and have been maintained thereon from that time until January first, nineteen hundred and forty-five.

Section 30. No person, firm, association or corporation shall post, erect, display or maintain on any public way or on private property within public view from any highway, public park or reservation any billboard or other advertising device, whether erected before August twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and twenty, or not, which advertises or calls attention to any business, article, substance or any other thing, unless such billboard or device conforms to the rules and regulations and ordinances or by-laws established under section twenty-nine; provided, that this section shall not apply to signs or other devices erected and maintained in conformity with law and which advertise or indicate either the person occupying the premises in question or the business transacted thereon, or advertise the property itself or any part thereof as for sale or to let and which contain no other advertising matter or which are maintained on land owned by a person, firm, association or corporation engaged in the outdoor advertising business if owned by the same person, firm, association or corporation on January first, nineteen hundred and twenty-five, and if billboards or other devices were maintained thereon prior to August twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and twenty, and have been maintained thereon from that time until January first, nineteen hundred and forty-five.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 56, sec. 36 — MA Code / Part I / Title VIII / Chapter 56 / Section 36
Public officers and employees; influencing political action
Status: in_force

Section 36. No person in the service of the commonwealth or of any county, city or town shall use his official authority or influence to coerce the political action of any person or body, or to interfere with any election. Violation of any provision of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars.

Section 36. No person in the service of the commonwealth or of any county, city or town shall use his official authority or influence to coerce the political action of any person or body, or to interfere with any election.

Violation of any provision of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 91, sec. 48 — MA Code / Part I / Title XIV / Chapter 91 / Section 48
Failure to comply with terms of license; completion of work by department
Status: in_force

Section 48. Whenever a licensee under either of the two preceding sections fails to comply with the terms of his license, the department may proceed to complete the work and remove from tide water all materials composing the vessel or other structure, and the cost thereof shall, in the first instance, be paid from the appropriation made therefor. If not repaid to the commonwealth by the licensee, upon demand, it may be recovered by the state treasurer in contract, brought by him in behalf of the commonwealth in the superior court against the licensee or the sureties on his bond.

Section 48. Whenever a licensee under either of the two preceding sections fails to comply with the terms of his license, the department may proceed to complete the work and remove from tide water all materials composing the vessel or other structure, and the cost thereof shall, in the first instance, be paid from the appropriation made therefor. If not repaid to the commonwealth by the licensee, upon demand, it may be recovered by the state treasurer in contract, brought by him in behalf of the commonwealth in the superior court against the licensee or the sureties on his bond.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 167H, sec. 6 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 167H / Section 6
Rights, powers and privileges of reorganized mutual banking institution; corporate governance procedures
Status: in_force

Section 6. Upon the reorganization of a mutual banking institution into a mutual holding company, the mutual holding company shall (i) continue to possess and exercise all the rights, powers and privileges, except deposit-taking powers, of a mutual banking institution and (ii) shall be subject to the limitations and restrictions imposed on bank holding companies by chapter 167A and by applicable federal law and regulations. To the extent not inconsistent with the above, a mutual holding company may elect to follow the corporate governance procedures of the General Laws and shall designate in its by-laws the body of law selected for its corporate governance procedures.

Section 6. Upon the reorganization of a mutual banking institution into a mutual holding company, the mutual holding company shall (i) continue to possess and exercise all the rights, powers and privileges, except deposit-taking powers, of a mutual banking institution and (ii) shall be subject to the limitations and restrictions imposed on bank holding companies by chapter 167A and by applicable federal law and regulations.

To the extent not inconsistent with the above, a mutual holding company may elect to follow the corporate governance procedures of the General Laws and shall designate in its by-laws the body of law selected for its corporate governance procedures.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 143, sec. 3U — MA Code / Part I / Title XX / Chapter 143 / Section 3U
Labeling of safety glazing materials
Status: in_force

Section 3U. Each light of safety glazing material manufactured, distributed, imported, or sold for use in hazardous locations or installed in such a location within the commonwealth shall be permanently labeled by such means as etching, sandblasting, firing of ceramic material on the safety glazing material, or by other suitable means so as to be easily visible and legible. The label shall identify the labeler, whether manufacturer, fabricator or installer, and the nominal thickness and the type of safety glazing material and the fact that said material meets the test requirements of section three T. Such safety glazing labeling shall not be used on other than safety glazing materials.

Section 3U. Each light of safety glazing material manufactured, distributed, imported, or sold for use in hazardous locations or installed in such a location within the commonwealth shall be permanently labeled by such means as etching, sandblasting, firing of ceramic material on the safety glazing material, or by other suitable means so as to be easily visible and legible. The label shall identify the labeler, whether manufacturer, fabricator or installer, and the nominal thickness and the type of safety glazing material and the fact that said material meets the test requirements of section three T.

Such safety glazing labeling shall not be used on other than safety glazing materials.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 81, sec. 28 — MA Code / Part I / Title XIV / Chapter 81 / Section 28
Maintenance of ways in small towns; performance of contract
Status: in_force

Section 28. The said towns may contract with the department for the performance of the work authorized by section twenty-six; or, if the selectmen so request, the department may have the work done by such persons and in such manner as it may determine, in which event the towns shall pay their proportionate part of the expense when and as ordered by the department. The cost of any materials, machinery or tools purchased by the department for or on account of the work in any town shall be considered as a part of the expenditures in such town under section twenty-six; and such machinery or tools shall belong to the commonwealth.

Section 28. The said towns may contract with the department for the performance of the work authorized by section twenty-six; or, if the selectmen so request, the department may have the work done by such persons and in such manner as it may determine, in which event the towns shall pay their proportionate part of the expense when and as ordered by the department. The cost of any materials, machinery or tools purchased by the department for or on account of the work in any town shall be considered as a part of the expenditures in such town under section twenty-six; and such machinery or tools shall belong to the commonwealth.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 241, sec. 27 — MA Code / Part III / Title III / Chapter 241 / Section 27
Persons evicted
Status: in_force

Section 27. If a person to or for whom a part of the land has been set off is evicted by one who, at the time of the partition, had a paramount title to that parcel, but not to the whole land, the person so evicted may have a new partition of the remaining land not subject to the paramount title, as if partition had not been made.

Section 27. If a person to or for whom a part of the land has been set off is evicted by one who, at the time of the partition, had a paramount title to that parcel, but not to the whole land, the person so evicted may have a new partition of the remaining land not subject to the paramount title, as if partition had not been made.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 15C, sec. 14B — MA Code / Part I / Title II / Chapter 15C / Section 14B
College opportunity fund; purposes; pledges
Status: in_force

Section 14B. The Authority shall establish, in such form as it deems appropriate, a college opportunity fund, hereinafter referred to as the fund, to which shall be credited all state appropriations and other monies made available to the fund and all income earned on amounts in the fund. Monies in the fund, together with earnings thereon, may be used solely for the purpose of developing, promoting, administering or supporting savings programs and tuition agreements established under this chapter. Monies therein may be held in custody by one or more banks or trust companies having a principal place of business in the commonwealth or may be invested in the manner set forth in section eighteen, as the Authority shall determine. The Authority may pledge all or a portion of the monies or investments which are to be deposited in the fund, or any income therefrom, in furtherance of the purpose for which such fund is created. Such pledge shall be valid and binding as against all parties having claims of any kind against such fund from the time such pledge is made, irrespective of whether such parties have notice thereof.

Section 14B. The Authority shall establish, in such form as it deems appropriate, a college opportunity fund, hereinafter referred to as the fund, to which shall be credited all state appropriations and other monies made available to the fund and all income earned on amounts in the fund. Monies in the fund, together with earnings thereon, may be used solely for the purpose of developing, promoting, administering or supporting savings programs and tuition agreements established under this chapter. Monies therein may be held in custody by one or more banks or trust companies having a principal place of business in the commonwealth or may be invested in the manner set forth in section eighteen, as the Authority shall determine. The Authority may pledge all or a portion of the monies or investments which are to be deposited in the fund, or any income therefrom, in furtherance of the purpose for which such fund is created. Such pledge shall be valid and binding as against all parties having claims of any kind against such fund from the time such pledge is made, irrespective of whether such parties have notice thereof.