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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 175, sec. 171 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 175 / Section 171
Illegal insurance contracts; liability of agent
Status: in_force

Section 171. An insurance agent shall be personally liable on all contracts of insurance unlawfully made by or through him, directly or indirectly, for or in behalf of any company not authorized to do business in the commonwealth.

Section 171. An insurance agent shall be personally liable on all contracts of insurance unlawfully made by or through him, directly or indirectly, for or in behalf of any company not authorized to do business in the commonwealth.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 92B, sec. 7 — MA Code / Part I / Title XIV / Chapter 92B / Section 7
Fiscal year; report
Status: in_force

Section 7. The corporation shall operate on the same fiscal year as the commonwealth and shall annually submit a detailed fiscal report of the corporation and the zoos' activities within ninety days after the end of each fiscal year to the commission and to the clerks of the house of representatives and the senate and the house and senate committee on ways and means.

Section 7. The corporation shall operate on the same fiscal year as the commonwealth and shall annually submit a detailed fiscal report of the corporation and the zoos' activities within ninety days after the end of each fiscal year to the commission and to the clerks of the house of representatives and the senate and the house and senate committee on ways and means.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 6, sec. 101 — MA Code / Part I / Title II / Chapter 6 / Section 101
Obscene literature control commission; members; appointment, compensation, etc.
Status: in_force

Section 101. There shall be an obscene literature control commission consisting of seven members, of whom one shall be an educator, one a representative of the Protestant faith, one a representative of the Catholic faith and one a representative of the Jewish faith, to be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the council, for terms of five years. The governor shall in like manner fill any vacancy for the unexpired term. The members shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed for all traveling expenses incurred by them in the administration of their duties. Said commission shall, in order to facilitate the enforcement of sections twenty-eight to thirty-two, inclusive, of chapter two hundred and seventy-two, recommend to the attorney general, whenever it appears that a violation of the provisions of said sections has occurred, that appropriate action be taken thereunder. Said commission shall be provided with suitable quarters in the state house or elsewhere, and the attorney general shall provide secretarial, clerical and such other services as he deems necessary to carry out the purposes of this section. Said commission shall meet at least once a month, except that any such meeting may be omitted by a two-thirds' vote of those present and voting at the preceding meeting. Not more than fifteen meetings shall be held in any year.

Section 101. There shall be an obscene literature control commission consisting of seven members, of whom one shall be an educator, one a representative of the Protestant faith, one a representative of the Catholic faith and one a representative of the Jewish faith, to be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the council, for terms of five years. The governor shall in like manner fill any vacancy for the unexpired term. The members shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed for all traveling expenses incurred by them in the administration of their duties. Said commission shall, in order to facilitate the enforcement of sections twenty-eight to thirty-two, inclusive, of chapter two hundred and seventy-two, recommend to the attorney general, whenever it appears that a violation of the provisions of said sections has occurred, that appropriate action be taken thereunder. Said commission shall be provided with suitable quarters in the state house or elsewhere, and the attorney general shall provide secretarial, clerical and such other services as he deems necessary to carry out the purposes of this section. Said commission shall meet at least once a month, except that any such meeting may be omitted by a two-thirds' vote of those present and voting at the preceding meeting. Not more than fifteen meetings shall be held in any year.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 157B, sec. 9 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 157B / Section 9
Power to make, amend or repeal by-laws
Status: reserved

Section 9. The power to make, amend or repeal by-laws shall be reserved to the stockholders.

Section 9. The power to make, amend or repeal by-laws shall be reserved to the stockholders.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 149, sec. 108 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXI / Chapter 149 / Section 108
Thermometers for humidity and temperature; regulations; place; reading; record
Status: in_force

Section 108. In every weaving and spinning department in a textile factory wherein water is introduced for humidifying purposes there shall be provided, maintained and kept in correct working order, for the purpose of recording and regulating the humidity of the atmosphere and the temperature, at least one set of standardized wet and dry bulb thermometers, and, if required by an inspector, two sets of such thermometers, and the following regulations shall be observed in their use: (a) The thermometers shall be placed as directed or sanctioned by an inspector, and be plainly visible to the workers. (b) The occupier or manager or person for the time being in charge of the weaving or spinning department shall read the thermometers thrice in the day, namely, between seven and eight o'clock in the forenoon, between ten and eleven o'clock in the forenoon and between three and four o'clock, except in rooms lighted by gas, and then between four and five o'clock, in the afternoon of every day when persons are employed in any weaving or spinning department, and he shall record the readings of each thermometer in such department at each of the said times upon a form provided therefor, which, together with the regulations relating thereto, shall be furnished by the department of labor and workforce development. The records of the readings shall not be destroyed until the inspector in whose district the factory is situated has examined them and given his consent to their destruction.

Section 108. In every weaving and spinning department in a textile factory wherein water is introduced for humidifying purposes there shall be provided, maintained and kept in correct working order, for the purpose of recording and regulating the humidity of the atmosphere and the temperature, at least one set of standardized wet and dry bulb thermometers, and, if required by an inspector, two sets of such thermometers, and the following regulations shall be observed in their use: (a) The thermometers shall be placed as directed or sanctioned by an inspector, and be plainly visible to the workers. (b) The occupier or manager or person for the time being in charge of the weaving or spinning department shall read the thermometers thrice in the day, namely, between seven and eight o'clock in the forenoon, between ten and eleven o'clock in the forenoon and between three and four o'clock, except in rooms lighted by gas, and then between four and five o'clock, in the afternoon of every day when persons are employed in any weaving or spinning department, and he shall record the readings of each thermometer in such department at each of the said times upon a form provided therefor, which, together with the regulations relating thereto, shall be furnished by the department of labor and workforce development. The records of the readings shall not be destroyed until the inspector in whose district the factory is situated has examined them and given his consent to their destruction.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 146, sec. 44 — MA Code / Part I / Title XX / Chapter 146 / Section 44
Rules; effect; printing; furnished on request
Status: in_force

Section 44. The rules so formulated shall have the force of law and shall be printed and furnished to those requesting them by the division.

Section 44. The rules so formulated shall have the force of law and shall be printed and furnished to those requesting them by the division.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 40U, sec. 11 — MA Code / Part I / Title VII / Chapter 40U / Section 11
Schedule of fines for violations
Status: in_force

Section 11. The municipality shall, by ordinance or by-law, establish a schedule of fines for violations subject to this chapter committed within the municipality; provided, however, that all such fines shall be uniform for the same offense committed in the same zone or district, if any. A fine established under this chapter shall not exceed the maximum allowable amount under the relevant sections of the housing or sanitary code or municipal snow and ice removal requirement, excluding late fees.

Section 11. The municipality shall, by ordinance or by-law, establish a schedule of fines for violations subject to this chapter committed within the municipality; provided, however, that all such fines shall be uniform for the same offense committed in the same zone or district, if any. A fine established under this chapter shall not exceed the maximum allowable amount under the relevant sections of the housing or sanitary code or municipal snow and ice removal requirement, excluding late fees.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, sec. 8 — MA Code / Part IV / Title I / Chapter 272 / Section 8
Soliciting for prostitute
Status: in_force

Section 8. Whoever solicits or receives compensation for soliciting for a prostitute shall be punished by imprisonment in a house of correction for not more than 2 and one-half years, or by a fine of not less than $1,000 and not more than $5,000 or by both such imprisonment and fine.

Section 8. Whoever solicits or receives compensation for soliciting for a prostitute shall be punished by imprisonment in a house of correction for not more than 2 and one-half years, or by a fine of not less than $1,000 and not more than $5,000 or by both such imprisonment and fine.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 161, sec. 65 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 161 / Section 65
Powers and duties of combined companies
Status: in_force

Section 65. Such purchasing or consolidated company shall have the powers and privileges, and be subject to the duties, liabilities and restrictions, of the company selling or merged, but, except as provided in this chapter or chapter one hundred and fifty-nine, no right to conduct an express business or to be a common carrier of merchandise shall, by reason of any such sale or consolidation, be allowed over any location where it had not been granted prior to April tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.

Section 65. Such purchasing or consolidated company shall have the powers and privileges, and be subject to the duties, liabilities and restrictions, of the company selling or merged, but, except as provided in this chapter or chapter one hundred and fifty-nine, no right to conduct an express business or to be a common carrier of merchandise shall, by reason of any such sale or consolidation, be allowed over any location where it had not been granted prior to April tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 23A, sec. 13R — MA Code / Part I / Title II / Chapter 23A / Section 13R
International trade office; advisory council
Status: in_force

Section 13R. The executive director of the international trade office may establish an advisory council to assist and advise the director on matters related to the administration and evaluation of the international trade programs provided through the international trade office.

Section 13R. The executive director of the international trade office may establish an advisory council to assist and advise the director on matters related to the administration and evaluation of the international trade programs provided through the international trade office.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 111E, sec. 17 — MA Code / Part I / Title XVI / Chapter 111E / Section 17
Liability for cost of treatment; rules and regulations
Status: in_force

Section 17. Any patient in a public facility, or the estate, spouse or adult child of such patient, or, if the patient is a minor, the parent of such patient if of sufficient financial ability, shall be liable to such facility for the cost of maintenance and treatment of the patient therein in accordance with rates established pursuant to chapter six A. If a person is a patient in a private facility pursuant to an agreement between the facility and the division, and neither the patient nor the estate, spouse or adult child of such patient, or, if the patient is a minor, the parent of such patient is of sufficient financial ability to pay the cost of maintenance and treatment of the patient therein, and the patient is not entitled to the payment of such cost from any other source, the division shall pay the cost of such maintenance and treatment in accordance with rates established pursuant to chapter six A. The division shall promulgate rules and regulations governing financial ability which shall take into consideration the income, savings and other personal and real property of the person required to pay, as well as any support actually being furnished by him to any person whom he may be required by law to support.

Section 17. Any patient in a public facility, or the estate, spouse or adult child of such patient, or, if the patient is a minor, the parent of such patient if of sufficient financial ability, shall be liable to such facility for the cost of maintenance and treatment of the patient therein in accordance with rates established pursuant to chapter six A. If a person is a patient in a private facility pursuant to an agreement between the facility and the division, and neither the patient nor the estate, spouse or adult child of such patient, or, if the patient is a minor, the parent of such patient is of sufficient financial ability to pay the cost of maintenance and treatment of the patient therein, and the patient is not entitled to the payment of such cost from any other source, the division shall pay the cost of such maintenance and treatment in accordance with rates established pursuant to chapter six A.

The division shall promulgate rules and regulations governing financial ability which shall take into consideration the income, savings and other personal and real property of the person required to pay, as well as any support actually being furnished by him to any person whom he may be required by law to support.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 69, sec. 9A — MA Code / Part I / Title XII / Chapter 69 / Section 9A
Establishment of class
Status: in_force

Section 9A. Upon application of twenty or more residents of any city or town who are eighteen years of age or over certifying that they desire to attend a class for instruction of the type described in section nine, the school committee of such city or town shall establish and cause to be conducted such a class or classes for a period of not less than forty sessions; provided, that, in case the attendance of any such class falls below fifteen, such school committee may discontinue such class.

Section 9A. Upon application of twenty or more residents of any city or town who are eighteen years of age or over certifying that they desire to attend a class for instruction of the type described in section nine, the school committee of such city or town shall establish and cause to be conducted such a class or classes for a period of not less than forty sessions; provided, that, in case the attendance of any such class falls below fifteen, such school committee may discontinue such class.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 123B, sec. 9 — MA Code / Part I / Title XVII / Chapter 123B / Section 9
Mailing privileges; visitation rights; legal and civil rights
Status: in_force

Section 9. A person with an intellectual disability in the care of the department shall be provided with stationery and postage in reasonable amounts and shall have free and unrestricted mailing privileges. A person with an intellectual disability shall have the right to be visited at all reasonable times by anyone unless he is ill or incapacitated and the superintendent determines that such a visit would be unreasonable. A statement of the reasons for any such denial of visiting rights shall be entered in the treatment record of said person. In addition to the rights specified above and any other rights guaranteed by law, a person with an intellectual disability in the care of the department shall have the following legal and civil rights: to wear his own clothes, to keep and use his own personal possessions including toilet articles, to keep and be allowed to spend a reasonable sum of his own money for canteen expenses and small purchases, to have access to individual storage space for his private use, reasonable access to telephones to make and receive confidential calls, to refuse shock treatment, to refuse lobotomy, and any other rights specified in the regulations of the department; provided, however, that any of these rights may be denied for good cause by the superintendent or his designee and a statement of the reasons for any such denial entered in the treatment record of such person.

Section 9. A person with an intellectual disability in the care of the department shall be provided with stationery and postage in reasonable amounts and shall have free and unrestricted mailing privileges.

A person with an intellectual disability shall have the right to be visited at all reasonable times by anyone unless he is ill or incapacitated and the superintendent determines that such a visit would be unreasonable. A statement of the reasons for any such denial of visiting rights shall be entered in the treatment record of said person.

In addition to the rights specified above and any other rights guaranteed by law, a person with an intellectual disability in the care of the department shall have the following legal and civil rights: to wear his own clothes, to keep and use his own personal possessions including toilet articles, to keep and be allowed to spend a reasonable sum of his own money for canteen expenses and small purchases, to have access to individual storage space for his private use, reasonable access to telephones to make and receive confidential calls, to refuse shock treatment, to refuse lobotomy, and any other rights specified in the regulations of the department; provided, however, that any of these rights may be denied for good cause by the superintendent or his designee and a statement of the reasons for any such denial entered in the treatment record of such person.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 55, sec. 12 — MA Code / Part I / Title VIII / Chapter 55 / Section 12
Soliciting of money for nomination papers prohibited; penalties
Status: in_force

Section 12. No political committee, and no person acting under its authority or in its behalf, shall demand or solicit from any candidate for nomination to elective office, or from any one acting in his behalf, a payment of money or a promise of payment of money, as a prerequisite to his obtaining from such committee or its agent the nomination papers required by sections ninety-five to one hundred and one, inclusive, of chapter fifty-three. Violation of any provision of this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars.

Section 12. No political committee, and no person acting under its authority or in its behalf, shall demand or solicit from any candidate for nomination to elective office, or from any one acting in his behalf, a payment of money or a promise of payment of money, as a prerequisite to his obtaining from such committee or its agent the nomination papers required by sections ninety-five to one hundred and one, inclusive, of chapter fifty-three.

Violation of any provision of this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 142, sec. 7 — MA Code / Part I / Title XX / Chapter 142 / Section 7
Notice to examiners of violation of statute, ordinance or regulation
Status: in_force

Section 7. If, in the opinion of such inspector of buildings, if any, otherwise of the board of health, of a town, the holder of a license or certificate violates any statute, ordinance, by-law, rule or regulation relative to plumbing and gas fitting, said inspector or board of health of the town where such violation is committed shall give notice thereof to the examiners.

Section 7. If, in the opinion of such inspector of buildings, if any, otherwise of the board of health, of a town, the holder of a license or certificate violates any statute, ordinance, by-law, rule or regulation relative to plumbing and gas fitting, said inspector or board of health of the town where such violation is committed shall give notice thereof to the examiners.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 148, sec. 26B — MA Code / Part I / Title XX / Chapter 148 / Section 26B
Automatic fire warning and smoke detection systems in certain buildings; enforcement; appeals
Status: in_force

Section 26B. Every building or structure not exceeding seventy feet in height above the mean grade erected or substantially altered to be occupied for residential purposes shall be protected with an approved automatic fire warning system in accordance with the provisions of the state building code. Such system shall include the features of automatic smoke detection in conjunction with the approved fire detection devices. The head of the fire department as defined in section one shall enforce the provisions of this section. Whoever is aggrieved by the head of the fire department's interpretation, order, requirement, direction or failure to act under the provisions of this section, may, within forty-five days after the service of notice thereof, appeal from such interpretation, order, requirement, direction, or failure to act, to the board of appeals as provided in the state building code and section twenty-three of chapter twenty-three B.

Section 26B. Every building or structure not exceeding seventy feet in height above the mean grade erected or substantially altered to be occupied for residential purposes shall be protected with an approved automatic fire warning system in accordance with the provisions of the state building code. Such system shall include the features of automatic smoke detection in conjunction with the approved fire detection devices.

The head of the fire department as defined in section one shall enforce the provisions of this section.

Whoever is aggrieved by the head of the fire department's interpretation, order, requirement, direction or failure to act under the provisions of this section, may, within forty-five days after the service of notice thereof, appeal from such interpretation, order, requirement, direction, or failure to act, to the board of appeals as provided in the state building code and section twenty-three of chapter twenty-three B.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 277, sec. 2H — MA Code / Part IV / Title II / Chapter 277 / Section 2H
Bristol county; issuance of writs of venire facias for grand jurors
Status: in_force

Section 2H. The clerk of the court for Bristol county shall, not less than twenty-eight days before the first Mondays of January and July respectively, issue writs of venire facias for fifty veniremen from whom the court shall select twenty-three grand jurors to serve in said court, who shall serve for each sitting thereof for six months and until another grand jury has been impanelled in their stead.

Section 2H. The clerk of the court for Bristol county shall, not less than twenty-eight days before the first Mondays of January and July respectively, issue writs of venire facias for fifty veniremen from whom the court shall select twenty-three grand jurors to serve in said court, who shall serve for each sitting thereof for six months and until another grand jury has been impanelled in their stead.