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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 33A, sec. 48 — MA Code / Part I / Title V / Chapter 33A / Section 48
Contempt
Status: in_force

Article 48. Contempt. (a) A military judge or summary court-martial officer may punish for contempt any person who uses any menacing word, sign or gesture in its presence or who disturbs its proceedings by any riot or disorder. (b) A person subject to this code may be punished for contempt by confinement not to exceed 30 days or a fine of $100 or both. (c) A person not subject to this code may be punished for contempt by a military court in the same manner as a criminal court of the state.

Article 48. Contempt.

(a) A military judge or summary court-martial officer may punish for contempt any person who uses any menacing word, sign or gesture in its presence or who disturbs its proceedings by any riot or disorder.

(b) A person subject to this code may be punished for contempt by confinement not to exceed 30 days or a fine of $100 or both.

(c) A person not subject to this code may be punished for contempt by a military court in the same manner as a criminal court of the state.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 54, sec. 154 — MA Code / Part I / Title VIII / Chapter 54 / Section 154
District attorneys
Status: in_force

Section 154. At the biennial state election in nineteen hundred and twenty-two, and in every fourth year thereafter, a district attorney shall be chosen by the voters in each of the districts into which the commonwealth is divided for the administration of the criminal law.

Section 154. At the biennial state election in nineteen hundred and twenty-two, and in every fourth year thereafter, a district attorney shall be chosen by the voters in each of the districts into which the commonwealth is divided for the administration of the criminal law.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 94, sec. 77D — MA Code / Part I / Title XV / Chapter 94 / Section 77D
Importation of fresh swordfish
Status: in_force

Section 77D. No person shall import, or cause to be imported into this commonwealth for purposes of sale, any fresh swordfish unless properly packed in ice so as to prevent the same from becoming infected, contaminated or unwholesome.

Section 77D. No person shall import, or cause to be imported into this commonwealth for purposes of sale, any fresh swordfish unless properly packed in ice so as to prevent the same from becoming infected, contaminated or unwholesome.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 29, sec. 31C — MA Code / Part I / Title III / Chapter 29 / Section 31C
Schools and colleges; non-teaching positions; vacation time
Status: in_force

Section 31C. Any officer or employee of the commonwealth, employed in a non-teaching position in any school or college within any department of the commonwealth, whose regular service is rendered between September 1 and June 30, may be granted the vacation leave to which the officer or employee is entitled either during the period of the officer or employee's regular service, or after the expiration of said period, as is determined by the employing authority of such officer and employee. Funds made available by appropriation for the payment of personal services required in the operation and maintenance of such schools shall be available for the payment of vacations, which, under the authority of this section, are granted to be taken after the termination of the period of regular service of an officer or employee subject to this section.

Section 31C. Any officer or employee of the commonwealth, employed in a non-teaching position in any school or college within any department of the commonwealth, whose regular service is rendered between September 1 and June 30, may be granted the vacation leave to which the officer or employee is entitled either during the period of the officer or employee's regular service, or after the expiration of said period, as is determined by the employing authority of such officer and employee. Funds made available by appropriation for the payment of personal services required in the operation and maintenance of such schools shall be available for the payment of vacations, which, under the authority of this section, are granted to be taken after the termination of the period of regular service of an officer or employee subject to this section.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 149, sec. 29B — MA Code / Part I / Title XXI / Chapter 149 / Section 29B
Waiver or cancellation of payment bond
Status: in_force

Section 29B. No provision in specifications inviting bids for construction work reserving the right to waive or cancel the requirement for furnishing a payment bond shall be valid as a defense against a claimant who relied upon the provision requiring the furnishing of the payment bond unless that reservation appears in the specifications immediately following the provision requiring the furnishing of the payment bond.

Section 29B. No provision in specifications inviting bids for construction work reserving the right to waive or cancel the requirement for furnishing a payment bond shall be valid as a defense against a claimant who relied upon the provision requiring the furnishing of the payment bond unless that reservation appears in the specifications immediately following the provision requiring the furnishing of the payment bond.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 266, sec. 67 — MA Code / Part IV / Title I / Chapter 266 / Section 67
Corporate books; false entries with intent to defraud
Status: in_force

Section 67. An officer of a corporation or an agent, clerk or servant of a person, firm or corporation who makes a false entry or omits to make a true entry in any book of such person, firm or corporation, with intent to defraud, and any person whose duty it is to make a record or entry of the transfer of stock, or of the issuing or cancelling of certificates thereof, or of the amount of stock issued by a corporation, in any book thereof, who, with intent to defraud, omits to make a true record or entry thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than ten years or in the house of correction for not more than one year.

Section 67. An officer of a corporation or an agent, clerk or servant of a person, firm or corporation who makes a false entry or omits to make a true entry in any book of such person, firm or corporation, with intent to defraud, and any person whose duty it is to make a record or entry of the transfer of stock, or of the issuing or cancelling of certificates thereof, or of the amount of stock issued by a corporation, in any book thereof, who, with intent to defraud, omits to make a true record or entry thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than ten years or in the house of correction for not more than one year.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 164, sec. 82 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 164 / Section 82
Form of records of work at manufacturing station
Status: in_force

Section 82. Gas and electric companies and manufacturing companies or persons engaged in the manufacture or sale of gas or electricity shall keep such records of their work at their manufacturing station, and in respect to their distributing plant, and in such form as the department may from time to time require.

Section 82. Gas and electric companies and manufacturing companies or persons engaged in the manufacture or sale of gas or electricity shall keep such records of their work at their manufacturing station, and in respect to their distributing plant, and in such form as the department may from time to time require.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 232A, sec. 3 — MA Code / Part III / Title II / Chapter 232A / Section 3
Tender or offer of judgment in lien proceeding
Status: in_force

Section 3. A person upon whose property a lien is claimed may make in any proceeding a tender or an offer of judgment relating thereto in like manner and with like effect as in matters of contract.

Section 3. A person upon whose property a lien is claimed may make in any proceeding a tender or an offer of judgment relating thereto in like manner and with like effect as in matters of contract.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 114, sec. 43F — MA Code / Part I / Title XVI / Chapter 114 / Section 43F
Community mausoleums; construction; supervision
Status: in_force

Section 43F. The department of environmental protection shall have supervisory control over the erection of any such community mausoleum and shall enforce compliance with the approved plans and specifications therefor. Said department shall appoint an inspector, experienced in modern mausoleum construction and engineering science, to supervise the erection of any such mausoleum and said department shall determine the reasonable amount of compensation of said inspector, which compensation shall be paid by the cemetery association or other agency erecting such community mausoleum. No departure from the original plans and specifications shall be permitted, except upon approval of said department evidenced in like manner and form as the approval of the original plans and specifications.

Section 43F. The department of environmental protection shall have supervisory control over the erection of any such community mausoleum and shall enforce compliance with the approved plans and specifications therefor. Said department shall appoint an inspector, experienced in modern mausoleum construction and engineering science, to supervise the erection of any such mausoleum and said department shall determine the reasonable amount of compensation of said inspector, which compensation shall be paid by the cemetery association or other agency erecting such community mausoleum. No departure from the original plans and specifications shall be permitted, except upon approval of said department evidenced in like manner and form as the approval of the original plans and specifications.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 262, sec. 53C — MA Code / Part III / Title VI / Chapter 262 / Section 53C
Compensatory time off to police officers
Status: in_force

Section 53C. Any police officer, including an officer of the department of state police appointed under section ten of chapter twenty-two C, on duty at night or on vacation, furlough or on a day off, who attends as a witness for the commonwealth in a criminal case pending in a district court, including the municipal court of the city of Boston, or any juvenile court, or the superior court, may, in lieu of the witness fee to which he would otherwise be entitled under section fifty-three or section fifty-three B, as the case may be, be granted such compensatory time off as shall be equal to the time during which he was in attendance at such court, but in no event shall less than three hours compensatory time off be granted him or, if such additional time off cannot be given because of personnel shortage or other cause, he shall, in lieu of said witness fee, be entitled to additional pay for the time during which he was in attendance at such court, but in no event shall he receive less than three hours additional pay.

Section 53C. Any police officer, including an officer of the department of state police appointed under section ten of chapter twenty-two C, on duty at night or on vacation, furlough or on a day off, who attends as a witness for the commonwealth in a criminal case pending in a district court, including the municipal court of the city of Boston, or any juvenile court, or the superior court, may, in lieu of the witness fee to which he would otherwise be entitled under section fifty-three or section fifty-three B, as the case may be, be granted such compensatory time off as shall be equal to the time during which he was in attendance at such court, but in no event shall less than three hours compensatory time off be granted him or, if such additional time off cannot be given because of personnel shortage or other cause, he shall, in lieu of said witness fee, be entitled to additional pay for the time during which he was in attendance at such court, but in no event shall he receive less than three hours additional pay.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 64C, sec. 5A — MA Code / Part I / Title IX / Chapter 64C / Section 5A
Collection of excises imposed on residents purchasing cigarettes and tobacco products in interstate commerce; statements of sellers and shipping invoices
Status: in_force

Section 5A. (1) The department shall aggressively seek to collect all excises imposed by this chapter from residents of the commonwealth who purchase cigarettes and tobacco products in interstate commerce. The department shall, pursuant to 15 U.S.C. section 376, seek statements from persons selling cigarettes in interstate commerce to residents of the commonwealth and obtain the monthly invoices covering all such shipments of cigarettes into the commonwealth, as required by said section 376. Those invoices shall, as authorized by said section 376, include the name and address of the person to whom the cigarette shipment was made, the brand, the quantity thereof, and the amount paid. Upon receipt of that information, the department shall make all reasonable efforts to collect all excises due under this chapter. (2) The department shall provide information received pursuant to this section to the department of public health. The department shall report every 6 months to the house and senate committees on ways and means and the joint committee on health care on the steps taken to enforce this section and the amounts collected pursuant to collection activities mandated by this section.

Section 5A. (1) The department shall aggressively seek to collect all excises imposed by this chapter from residents of the commonwealth who purchase cigarettes and tobacco products in interstate commerce. The department shall, pursuant to 15 U.S.C. section 376, seek statements from persons selling cigarettes in interstate commerce to residents of the commonwealth and obtain the monthly invoices covering all such shipments of cigarettes into the commonwealth, as required by said section 376. Those invoices shall, as authorized by said section 376, include the name and address of the person to whom the cigarette shipment was made, the brand, the quantity thereof, and the amount paid. Upon receipt of that information, the department shall make all reasonable efforts to collect all excises due under this chapter.

(2) The department shall provide information received pursuant to this section to the department of public health. The department shall report every 6 months to the house and senate committees on ways and means and the joint committee on health care on the steps taken to enforce this section and the amounts collected pursuant to collection activities mandated by this section.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 32A, sec. 17B — MA Code / Part I / Title IV / Chapter 32A / Section 17B
Hospice services for commonwealth employees insured under group insurance commission
Status: in_force

Section 17B. The commission shall provide to any active or retired employee of the commonwealth, who is insured under the group insurance commission, coverage for licensed hospice services to terminally ill patients with a life expectancy of six months or less, as set forth and regulated by the provisions of section fifty-seven D of chapter one hundred and eleven and as authorized by a duly licensed physician.

Section 17B. The commission shall provide to any active or retired employee of the commonwealth, who is insured under the group insurance commission, coverage for licensed hospice services to terminally ill patients with a life expectancy of six months or less, as set forth and regulated by the provisions of section fifty-seven D of chapter one hundred and eleven and as authorized by a duly licensed physician.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 29, sec. 2LLLLLL — MA Code / Part I / Title III / Chapter 29 / Section 2LLLLLL
Office of the Inspector General Recovery Fund
Status: in_force

[ Text of section added by 2025, 14, Sec. 18 effective August 5, 2025.] Section 2LLLLLL. (a) There shall be established and set up on the books of the commonwealth a separate, non-budgeted special revenue fund known as the Office of the Inspector General Recovery Fund, which shall be administered by the inspector general. The fund shall be credited with any money payable to the inspector general from civil recoveries, settlement funds or recoupment of administrative and investigatory costs and any interest earned from money in the fund. (b) Amounts credited to the fund shall be expended, without further appropriation, for the office of the inspector general's operational, administrative and investigatory purposes. (c) The unexpended balance in the fund at the end of a fiscal year shall not revert to the General Fund and shall be available for expenditure in subsequent fiscal years. No expenditure made from the fund shall cause the fund to be in deficit at any point. (d) Annually, not later than January 1, the office of the inspector general shall report to the house and senate committees on ways and means on disbursements from the fund and the balance of the fund.

[ Text of section added by 2025, 14, Sec. 18 effective August 5, 2025.]

Section 2LLLLLL. (a) There shall be established and set up on the books of the commonwealth a separate, non-budgeted special revenue fund known as the Office of the Inspector General Recovery Fund, which shall be administered by the inspector general. The fund shall be credited with any money payable to the inspector general from civil recoveries, settlement funds or recoupment of administrative and investigatory costs and any interest earned from money in the fund.

(b) Amounts credited to the fund shall be expended, without further appropriation, for the office of the inspector general's operational, administrative and investigatory purposes.

(c) The unexpended balance in the fund at the end of a fiscal year shall not revert to the General Fund and shall be available for expenditure in subsequent fiscal years. No expenditure made from the fund shall cause the fund to be in deficit at any point.

(d) Annually, not later than January 1, the office of the inspector general shall report to the house and senate committees on ways and means on disbursements from the fund and the balance of the fund.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 80A, sec. 6 — MA Code / Part I / Title XIII / Chapter 80A / Section 6
Default judgments; appointment of guardians
Status: in_force

Section 6. The court shall, on motion of the petitioner, enter a default against all persons served with process or who otherwise appear to have seasonably received personal notice of the petition and who have not appeared and answered within the time prescribed. The court shall appoint one or more disinterested persons to act as guardian or guardians ad litem for minors, for persons under disability, and for all persons not in being, unascertained, unknown or out of the commonwealth, who have been named or described as parties respondent and for whom no duly authorized person has appeared and answered, and such guardian or guardians ad litem shall be allowed thirty days from his or their appointment to appear and answer on behalf of the persons whom he or they represent.

Section 6. The court shall, on motion of the petitioner, enter a default against all persons served with process or who otherwise appear to have seasonably received personal notice of the petition and who have not appeared and answered within the time prescribed. The court shall appoint one or more disinterested persons to act as guardian or guardians ad litem for minors, for persons under disability, and for all persons not in being, unascertained, unknown or out of the commonwealth, who have been named or described as parties respondent and for whom no duly authorized person has appeared and answered, and such guardian or guardians ad litem shall be allowed thirty days from his or their appointment to appear and answer on behalf of the persons whom he or they represent.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 93, sec. 2 — MA Code / Part I / Title XV / Chapter 93 / Section 2
Definitions
Status: in_force

Section 2. For purpose of this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings: ''Attorney general'', the attorney general of the commonwealth and individuals designated by him in writing to act on his behalf in carrying out the purposes of this chapter. ''Demand'', a civil investigative demand issued pursuant to section eight of this chapter. ''Natural person'', not proprietorships, partnerships or any commercial entity. ''New England'', the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. ''Person'', natural persons, corporations and other legal entities. ''Trade or commerce'', the advertising, offering for sale, rent or lease, or the sale, rent, lease, furnishing or distribution of any service or any article, commodity or property, tangible or intangible, which directly and substantially affects the people of the commonwealth; provided, however, that trade or commerce shall not include the conveyance, transfer or use of real property. ''Trade secrets'', anything which constitutes, represents, evidences, or records secret or confidential scientific, technical, merchandising, production, management or commercial information.

Section 2. For purpose of this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings:

''Attorney general'', the attorney general of the commonwealth and individuals designated by him in writing to act on his behalf in carrying out the purposes of this chapter.

''Demand'', a civil investigative demand issued pursuant to section eight of this chapter.

''Natural person'', not proprietorships, partnerships or any commercial entity.

''New England'', the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.

''Person'', natural persons, corporations and other legal entities.

''Trade or commerce'', the advertising, offering for sale, rent or lease, or the sale, rent, lease, furnishing or distribution of any service or any article, commodity or property, tangible or intangible, which directly and substantially affects the people of the commonwealth; provided, however, that trade or commerce shall not include the conveyance, transfer or use of real property.

''Trade secrets'', anything which constitutes, represents, evidences, or records secret or confidential scientific, technical, merchandising, production, management or commercial information.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 6, sec. 15L — MA Code / Part I / Title II / Chapter 6 / Section 15L
John F. Kennedy Day
Status: in_force

Section 15L. The governor shall annually issue a proclamation setting apart the last Sunday in November as John F. Kennedy Day and recommending that said day be observed by the people in an appropriate manner in memory of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the thirty-fifth president of the United States.

Section 15L. The governor shall annually issue a proclamation setting apart the last Sunday in November as John F. Kennedy Day and recommending that said day be observed by the people in an appropriate manner in memory of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the thirty-fifth president of the United States.