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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 150C, sec. 1 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXI / Chapter 150C / Section 1
Legal status of agreements
Status: in_force

Section 1. A written agreement or a provision in a written agreement between a labor organization or organizations, as defined in subsection (5) of section two of chapter one hundred and fifty A, and an employer or employers or association or group of employers to submit to arbitration any existing controversy or any controversy thereafter arising between parties to the agreement, including but not restricted to any controversy dealing with rates of pay, wages, hours or other terms and conditions of employment of any employee or employees, shall be valid, enforceable and irrevocable, except as otherwise provided by law or in equity for the revocation of any contract.

Section 1. A written agreement or a provision in a written agreement between a labor organization or organizations, as defined in subsection (5) of section two of chapter one hundred and fifty A, and an employer or employers or association or group of employers to submit to arbitration any existing controversy or any controversy thereafter arising between parties to the agreement, including but not restricted to any controversy dealing with rates of pay, wages, hours or other terms and conditions of employment of any employee or employees, shall be valid, enforceable and irrevocable, except as otherwise provided by law or in equity for the revocation of any contract.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 33A, sec. 110 — MA Code / Part I / Title V / Chapter 33A / Section 110
Improper hazarding of vessel
Status: in_force

Article 110. Improper hazarding of vessel. (a) A person subject to this code who willfully and wrongfully hazards or suffers to be hazarded any vessel of the armed forces of the United States or of any state military force shall suffer such punishment as a court-martial may direct. (b) A person subject to this code who negligently hazards or suffers to be hazarded any vessel of the armed forces of the United States or of any state military force shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

Article 110. Improper hazarding of vessel.

(a) A person subject to this code who willfully and wrongfully hazards or suffers to be hazarded any vessel of the armed forces of the United States or of any state military force shall suffer such punishment as a court-martial may direct.

(b) A person subject to this code who negligently hazards or suffers to be hazarded any vessel of the armed forces of the United States or of any state military force shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 29, sec. 19A — MA Code / Part I / Title III / Chapter 29 / Section 19A
Time of making transfers called for in general appropriation acts
Status: in_force

Section 19A. Whenever a general appropriation act provides that transfers shall be made from a fund, account or receipts, of a specific sum, a percentage of payments, or a sum equivalent to payments, such transfers of a specific sum shall be made upon the effective date of such act, and all other such transfers shall be made monthly unless otherwise provided, except that at the close of a fiscal year, the amount equivalent to payments in a continuing account shall be construed to mean the amount of such appropriation.

Section 19A. Whenever a general appropriation act provides that transfers shall be made from a fund, account or receipts, of a specific sum, a percentage of payments, or a sum equivalent to payments, such transfers of a specific sum shall be made upon the effective date of such act, and all other such transfers shall be made monthly unless otherwise provided, except that at the close of a fiscal year, the amount equivalent to payments in a continuing account shall be construed to mean the amount of such appropriation.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 94, sec. 139B — MA Code / Part I / Title XV / Chapter 94 / Section 139B
Sale of dressed poultry slaughtered without commonwealth; inspection
Status: in_force

Section 139B. All dressed poultry, including chickens, fowl, ducks, geese, pheasants and turkeys, slaughtered without the commonwealth shall, unless it has been inspected for wholesomeness by the United States Department of Agriculture, be deemed unfit for food, and shall not be sold or offered for sale.

Section 139B. All dressed poultry, including chickens, fowl, ducks, geese, pheasants and turkeys, slaughtered without the commonwealth shall, unless it has been inspected for wholesomeness by the United States Department of Agriculture, be deemed unfit for food, and shall not be sold or offered for sale.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 231, sec. 85A — MA Code / Part III / Title II / Chapter 231 / Section 85A
Prima facie evidence of owner's responsibility for operation of motor vehicle
Status: in_force

Section 85A. In all actions to recover damages for injuries to the person or to property or for the death of a person, arising out of an accident or collision in which a motor vehicle was involved, evidence that at the time of such accident or collision it was registered in the name of the defendant as owner shall be prima facie evidence that it was then being operated by and under the control of a person for whose conduct the defendant was legally responsible, and absence of such responsibility shall be an affirmative defence to be set up in the answer and proved by the defendant.

Section 85A. In all actions to recover damages for injuries to the person or to property or for the death of a person, arising out of an accident or collision in which a motor vehicle was involved, evidence that at the time of such accident or collision it was registered in the name of the defendant as owner shall be prima facie evidence that it was then being operated by and under the control of a person for whose conduct the defendant was legally responsible, and absence of such responsibility shall be an affirmative defence to be set up in the answer and proved by the defendant.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 53, sec. 113 — MA Code / Part I / Title VIII / Chapter 53 / Section 113
Caucus officers; eligibility; terms; oaths; duties
Status: in_force

Section 113. At the caucus held for the choice of candidates for a city or town election there shall be chosen annually a warden, a clerk, and at least five inspectors, and, in wards having more than five precincts, such additional inspectors as the city committee of the political party whose caucuses are to be held may determine. They shall be voters of the ward or town where elected and members of the political party whose caucus is to be held. No person shall be eligible to the position of warden, clerk or inspector who is a state, county or city employee, or a member of a ward or town committee, and no person shall serve as a caucus officer at any caucus wherein he is a candidate for nomination to an elective office. Every caucus officer shall hold office for one year, beginning with the first day of the month succeeding his election, and until his successor is elected. He shall, before entering upon the performance of his duties, be sworn by the warden, clerk, or a justice of the peace, and a record thereof made upon the record book of such caucus. The respective duties of caucus officers shall be in general the same required of election officers at elections.

Section 113. At the caucus held for the choice of candidates for a city or town election there shall be chosen annually a warden, a clerk, and at least five inspectors, and, in wards having more than five precincts, such additional inspectors as the city committee of the political party whose caucuses are to be held may determine. They shall be voters of the ward or town where elected and members of the political party whose caucus is to be held. No person shall be eligible to the position of warden, clerk or inspector who is a state, county or city employee, or a member of a ward or town committee, and no person shall serve as a caucus officer at any caucus wherein he is a candidate for nomination to an elective office. Every caucus officer shall hold office for one year, beginning with the first day of the month succeeding his election, and until his successor is elected. He shall, before entering upon the performance of his duties, be sworn by the warden, clerk, or a justice of the peace, and a record thereof made upon the record book of such caucus. The respective duties of caucus officers shall be in general the same required of election officers at elections.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 128, sec. 85 — MA Code / Part I / Title XIX / Chapter 128 / Section 85
Sale of seeds; labeling or tagging containers; required information
Status: in_force

Section 85. Except as otherwise provided in section ninety-two, each container of agricultural, vegetable, flower or tree and shrub seed which is sold, offered for sale or exposed for sale within the commonwealth for sowing purposes shall bear thereon, or have attached thereto in a conspicuous place on one side of a plainly written or printed label or tag, in the English language, the name and address of the person who labeled said seed, or who sells, offers or exposes said seed for sale within the commonwealth. If said seed has been treated, a separate label may be used, which shall bear thereon a word or statement indicating that the seed has been treated, the commonly accepted coined, chemical or abbreviated chemical name of the applied substance, and, if the substance in the amount present with the seed is harmful to humans or other vertebrate animals, a statement advising caution such as ''Do not use for food, feed or oil purposes''. If said seed contains mercurials or similarly toxic substances, a statement or symbol shall indicate that it is poisonous. It shall contain the name and number of each kind of ''Restricted Noxious-Weed Seed'' per pound when present.

Section 85. Except as otherwise provided in section ninety-two, each container of agricultural, vegetable, flower or tree and shrub seed which is sold, offered for sale or exposed for sale within the commonwealth for sowing purposes shall bear thereon, or have attached thereto in a conspicuous place on one side of a plainly written or printed label or tag, in the English language, the name and address of the person who labeled said seed, or who sells, offers or exposes said seed for sale within the commonwealth. If said seed has been treated, a separate label may be used, which shall bear thereon a word or statement indicating that the seed has been treated, the commonly accepted coined, chemical or abbreviated chemical name of the applied substance, and, if the substance in the amount present with the seed is harmful to humans or other vertebrate animals, a statement advising caution such as ''Do not use for food, feed or oil purposes''. If said seed contains mercurials or similarly toxic substances, a statement or symbol shall indicate that it is poisonous. It shall contain the name and number of each kind of ''Restricted Noxious-Weed Seed'' per pound when present.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 30, sec. 44 — MA Code / Part I / Title III / Chapter 30 / Section 44
Employees as agents for others; sale of lands
Status: in_force

Section 44. No officer or employee of the commonwealth shall act as agent or attorney of any person in a sale or conveyance of land to the commonwealth. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars and shall be disqualified for employment in any state department.

Section 44. No officer or employee of the commonwealth shall act as agent or attorney of any person in a sale or conveyance of land to the commonwealth. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars and shall be disqualified for employment in any state department.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, sec. 17B — MA Code / Part I / Title XIX / Chapter 130 / Section 17B
Aquacultural enterprises; permits
Status: in_force

Section 17B. Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter, the director may, by issuance of a written permit under such terms and conditions as he may impose, authorize the possession and taking of fish at any season and of any size for purposes of propagation, rearing, harvesting or sale in connection with an aquacultural enterprise in which the fish being so propagated, reared and harvested are kept separate from natural stocks of the same species.

Section 17B. Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter, the director may, by issuance of a written permit under such terms and conditions as he may impose, authorize the possession and taking of fish at any season and of any size for purposes of propagation, rearing, harvesting or sale in connection with an aquacultural enterprise in which the fish being so propagated, reared and harvested are kept separate from natural stocks of the same species.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 170, sec. 3 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 170 / Section 3
Change of corporate name
Status: in_force

Section 3. A corporation formed pursuant to section 2 may authorize, at a meeting duly called for the purpose, by vote of 2/3 of the shareholders present and voting a change of its corporate name. Within 60 days after any meeting at which such change has been authorized, articles of amendment, signed under the penalties of perjury by the executive officer and by the clerk, setting forth such change and the due adoption thereof, shall be delivered to the state secretary for filing.

Section 3. A corporation formed pursuant to section 2 may authorize, at a meeting duly called for the purpose, by vote of 2/3 of the shareholders present and voting a change of its corporate name. Within 60 days after any meeting at which such change has been authorized, articles of amendment, signed under the penalties of perjury by the executive officer and by the clerk, setting forth such change and the due adoption thereof, shall be delivered to the state secretary for filing.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 62C, sec. 13 — MA Code / Part I / Title IX / Chapter 62C / Section 13
Tangible personal property; reports by organizations filing return under Sec. 11 or Sec. 12
Status: in_force

Section 13. The commissioner may require from any corporation, company, organization or association required to file a return under sections eleven or twelve of this chapter to report in such return such information as the commissioner deems necessary relative to tangible personal property situated in this commonwealth with respect to which such corporation, company, organization or association is either lessor or lessee. Failure to supply such information when required shall make the return an insufficient return under section twenty-eight of this chapter.

Section 13. The commissioner may require from any corporation, company, organization or association required to file a return under sections eleven or twelve of this chapter to report in such return such information as the commissioner deems necessary relative to tangible personal property situated in this commonwealth with respect to which such corporation, company, organization or association is either lessor or lessee. Failure to supply such information when required shall make the return an insufficient return under section twenty-eight of this chapter.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 62, sec. 6G — MA Code / Part I / Title IX / Chapter 62 / Section 6G
Massachusetts State Public Health HIV and Hepatitis fund; voluntary contributions; use of contributions
Status: in_force

Section 6G. An individual who files a separate return and a married couple filing a return jointly may voluntarily contribute all or part of a refund to which they are entitled, or may voluntarily add an amount onto an amount due, to be credited to the Massachusetts State Public Health HIV and Hepatitis Fund established pursuant to section 35R of chapter 10. A contribution made pursuant to this section may be with respect to any taxable year at the time of filing a return of the tax established by this chapter for the taxable year; provided, however, that the commissioner shall prescribe the manner in which such a contribution shall be made on the face of the return required by section 5 of chapter 62C; and provided further, that the commissioner shall assure that taxpayers filing such a form are made clearly aware of their ability to make the contribution under this section. The commissioner shall annually report the total amount designated under this section to the state treasurer, who shall credit the amount to the Massachusetts State Public Health HIV and Hepatitis Fund. Contributions credited to the fund may be used for clinical and public health research, program evaluation and prevention, testing and treatment services with the goal of reducing the illness and death related to infection with HIV or viral hepatitis.

Section 6G. An individual who files a separate return and a married couple filing a return jointly may voluntarily contribute all or part of a refund to which they are entitled, or may voluntarily add an amount onto an amount due, to be credited to the Massachusetts State Public Health HIV and Hepatitis Fund established pursuant to section 35R of chapter 10.

A contribution made pursuant to this section may be with respect to any taxable year at the time of filing a return of the tax established by this chapter for the taxable year; provided, however, that the commissioner shall prescribe the manner in which such a contribution shall be made on the face of the return required by section 5 of chapter 62C; and provided further, that the commissioner shall assure that taxpayers filing such a form are made clearly aware of their ability to make the contribution under this section.

The commissioner shall annually report the total amount designated under this section to the state treasurer, who shall credit the amount to the Massachusetts State Public Health HIV and Hepatitis Fund.

Contributions credited to the fund may be used for clinical and public health research, program evaluation and prevention, testing and treatment services with the goal of reducing the illness and death related to infection with HIV or viral hepatitis.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 161, sec. 92 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 161 / Section 92
Stopping at railroad crossings
Status: in_force

Section 92. If a street railway crosses at the same level a steam railroad where locomotive engines are in daily use, every motorman of a car upon the street railway shall, when approaching the point of intersection, stop his car within one hundred feet of the crossing; but the department may, for such term and under such restrictions as it may from time to time prescribe, modify or suspend the requirements of this section with respect to any such crossing by a street railway of a railroad built for private use under section two hundred and forty-five of chapter one hundred and sixty, or of a branch, spur or siding of a railroad built or used only for the transportation of freight to the premises of manufacturing or other industrial plants. For each violation of this section, the motorman shall forfeit ten dollars, and the company employing him shall forfeit twenty dollars.

Section 92. If a street railway crosses at the same level a steam railroad where locomotive engines are in daily use, every motorman of a car upon the street railway shall, when approaching the point of intersection, stop his car within one hundred feet of the crossing; but the department may, for such term and under such restrictions as it may from time to time prescribe, modify or suspend the requirements of this section with respect to any such crossing by a street railway of a railroad built for private use under section two hundred and forty-five of chapter one hundred and sixty, or of a branch, spur or siding of a railroad built or used only for the transportation of freight to the premises of manufacturing or other industrial plants. For each violation of this section, the motorman shall forfeit ten dollars, and the company employing him shall forfeit twenty dollars.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 112, sec. 288 — MA Code / Part I / Title XVI / Chapter 112 / Section 288
Appraisal management companies; injunctive relief
Status: in_force

Section 288. The board may file an action for injunctive relief to prevent violations of sections 276 to 289, inclusive. The superior court may grant an injunction against a person who it deems to be violating said sections 276 to 289, inclusive, notwithstanding that criminal prosecution has been or may be instituted for such violation or that the person deemed to be violating said sections 276 to 289, inclusive, is the holder of a registration issued by the board.

Section 288. The board may file an action for injunctive relief to prevent violations of sections 276 to 289, inclusive. The superior court may grant an injunction against a person who it deems to be violating said sections 276 to 289, inclusive, notwithstanding that criminal prosecution has been or may be instituted for such violation or that the person deemed to be violating said sections 276 to 289, inclusive, is the holder of a registration issued by the board.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 253, sec. 46A — MA Code / Part III / Title IV / Chapter 253 / Section 46A
Dam approval; certificate of compliance
Status: in_force

Section 46A. When a dam has been deemed safe, removed, repaired or constructed pursuant to an order of the commissioner; or a dam has been evaluated, constructed, repaired or altered to the satisfaction of the commissioner under a properly issued permit, the commissioner shall issue a certificate of compliance to the owner approving the dam or the safe removal of the dam but subject to such terms and conditions, if any, as the commissioner deems necessary for the protection of life and property or such terms and conditions, if any, as the commissioner, in consultation with the commissioner of fish and game, deems necessary for the protection of the environment. Such certificate shall be recorded by the owner in the registry of deeds in the county where the dam lies.

Section 46A. When a dam has been deemed safe, removed, repaired or constructed pursuant to an order of the commissioner; or a dam has been evaluated, constructed, repaired or altered to the satisfaction of the commissioner under a properly issued permit, the commissioner shall issue a certificate of compliance to the owner approving the dam or the safe removal of the dam but subject to such terms and conditions, if any, as the commissioner deems necessary for the protection of life and property or such terms and conditions, if any, as the commissioner, in consultation with the commissioner of fish and game, deems necessary for the protection of the environment. Such certificate shall be recorded by the owner in the registry of deeds in the county where the dam lies.