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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 161A, sec. 19 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 161A / Section 19
Stabilization fund; fare stability fund
Status: in_force

Section 19. The authority shall establish a Stabilization Fund into which it shall deposit revenues in excess of expenses pursuant to section 21 until the fund balance is equal to or greater than 5 per cent of total revenues of the fiscal year most recently ended. The authority may draw funds from the Stabilization Fund only in the event that, after implementing all efficiencies and savings possible, annual revenues are projected to be less than annual expenses, or if it has insufficient funds on-hand to pay current expenses. The authority may not assume draws from the Stabilization Fund in preparing its budget pursuant to section 20. In the event the authority draws funds from the Stabilization Fund, it shall file with the secretary of administration and finance, the secretary of transportation and construction, the joint committee on transportation and the house and senate committees on ways and means a financial plan that projects to produce in the following fiscal year an excess of revenues over expenses. The authority shall also establish a Fare Stability Fund, into which it shall deposit revenues in excess of expenses pursuant to section 21. The authority may assume draws from the Fare Stability Fund in preparing its budget pursuant to section 20. Funds in said Fare Stability Fund shall be utilized within five fiscal years after being deposited.

Section 19. The authority shall establish a Stabilization Fund into which it shall deposit revenues in excess of expenses pursuant to section 21 until the fund balance is equal to or greater than 5 per cent of total revenues of the fiscal year most recently ended. The authority may draw funds from the Stabilization Fund only in the event that, after implementing all efficiencies and savings possible, annual revenues are projected to be less than annual expenses, or if it has insufficient funds on-hand to pay current expenses. The authority may not assume draws from the Stabilization Fund in preparing its budget pursuant to section 20. In the event the authority draws funds from the Stabilization Fund, it shall file with the secretary of administration and finance, the secretary of transportation and construction, the joint committee on transportation and the house and senate committees on ways and means a financial plan that projects to produce in the following fiscal year an excess of revenues over expenses.

The authority shall also establish a Fare Stability Fund, into which it shall deposit revenues in excess of expenses pursuant to section 21. The authority may assume draws from the Fare Stability Fund in preparing its budget pursuant to section 20. Funds in said Fare Stability Fund shall be utilized within five fiscal years after being deposited.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 164, sec. 115 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 164 / Section 115
Easy ascertainment of gas meter reading
Status: in_force

Section 115. Meters for measuring gas supplied to consumers shall register the quantity of gas passing through them in cubic feet so that the number of cubic feet of gas consumed may be easily ascertained by the consumer thereof. No meter shall be used which may confuse or deceive the consumer in ascertaining the price he pays per thousand cubic feet or the number of cubic feet consumed.

Section 115. Meters for measuring gas supplied to consumers shall register the quantity of gas passing through them in cubic feet so that the number of cubic feet of gas consumed may be easily ascertained by the consumer thereof. No meter shall be used which may confuse or deceive the consumer in ascertaining the price he pays per thousand cubic feet or the number of cubic feet consumed.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 111E, sec. 14 — MA Code / Part I / Title XVI / Chapter 111E / Section 14
Findings; recording
Status: in_force

Section 14. Each finding, determination and order required to be made by any court pursuant to this chapter, and the reasons therefor, shall be in writing and entered in the record of the proceeding.

Section 14. Each finding, determination and order required to be made by any court pursuant to this chapter, and the reasons therefor, shall be in writing and entered in the record of the proceeding.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 203E, sec. 203 — MA Code / Part II / Title II / Chapter 203E / Section 203
Trust proceedings; dismissal of matters relating to foreign trusts
Status: in_force

Section 203. Trust proceedings; dismissal of matters relating to foreign trusts The court shall not over the objection of a party, entertain proceedings under section 201 involving a trust registered or having its principal place of administration in another state, unless: (1) all appropriate parties could not be bound by litigation in the courts of the state where the trust is registered or has its principal place of administration; or (2) the interests of justice otherwise would seriously be impaired. The court may condition a stay or dismissal of a proceeding under this section on the consent of a party to submit to the jurisdiction of the state in which the trust is registered or has its principal place of administration or the court may grant a continuance or enter any other appropriate order.

Section 203. Trust proceedings; dismissal of matters relating to foreign trusts

The court shall not over the objection of a party, entertain proceedings under section 201 involving a trust registered or having its principal place of administration in another state, unless: (1) all appropriate parties could not be bound by litigation in the courts of the state where the trust is registered or has its principal place of administration; or (2) the interests of justice otherwise would seriously be impaired. The court may condition a stay or dismissal of a proceeding under this section on the consent of a party to submit to the jurisdiction of the state in which the trust is registered or has its principal place of administration or the court may grant a continuance or enter any other appropriate order.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 276B, sec. 4 — MA Code / Part IV / Title II / Chapter 276B / Section 4
Effect of participation in community-based restorative justice program in current or subsequent legal proceedings; confidentiality of statements made during the course of an assignment to program
Status: in_force

Section 4. Participation in a community-based restorative justice program shall not be used as evidence or as an admission of guilt, delinquency or civil liability in current or subsequent legal proceedings against any participant. Any statement made by a juvenile or adult defendant during the course of an assignment to a community-based restorative justice program shall be confidential and shall not be subject to disclosure in any judicial or administrative proceeding and no information obtained during the course of such assignment shall be used in any stage of a criminal investigation or prosecution or civil or administrative proceeding; provided, however, that nothing in this section shall preclude any evidence obtained through an independent source or that would have been inevitably discovered by lawful means from being admitted at such proceedings.

Section 4. Participation in a community-based restorative justice program shall not be used as evidence or as an admission of guilt, delinquency or civil liability in current or subsequent legal proceedings against any participant. Any statement made by a juvenile or adult defendant during the course of an assignment to a community-based restorative justice program shall be confidential and shall not be subject to disclosure in any judicial or administrative proceeding and no information obtained during the course of such assignment shall be used in any stage of a criminal investigation or prosecution or civil or administrative proceeding; provided, however, that nothing in this section shall preclude any evidence obtained through an independent source or that would have been inevitably discovered by lawful means from being admitted at such proceedings.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 62B, sec. 11A — MA Code / Part I / Title IX / Chapter 62B / Section 11A
Penalties
Status: in_force

Section 11A. In addition to any criminal penalty provided by law, if (1) any individual makes a statement under section four which results in a decrease in the amount deducted or withheld under this chapter, and (2) as of the time of such statement was made, there was no reasonable basis for such statement, such individual shall pay a penalty of five hundred dollars for such statement. Said penalty shall be paid upon notice by the commissioner and shall be assessed and collected in the same manner as a tax. The commissioner may waive, in whole or in part, the penalty imposed under this section if the taxes imposed with respect to the individual under chapter sixty-two for the taxable year are equal to or less than the sum of the credits against such taxes allowed by chapter sixty-two and this chapter.

Section 11A. In addition to any criminal penalty provided by law, if (1) any individual makes a statement under section four which results in a decrease in the amount deducted or withheld under this chapter, and (2) as of the time of such statement was made, there was no reasonable basis for such statement, such individual shall pay a penalty of five hundred dollars for such statement.

Said penalty shall be paid upon notice by the commissioner and shall be assessed and collected in the same manner as a tax.

The commissioner may waive, in whole or in part, the penalty imposed under this section if the taxes imposed with respect to the individual under chapter sixty-two for the taxable year are equal to or less than the sum of the credits against such taxes allowed by chapter sixty-two and this chapter.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 136, sec. 8 — MA Code / Part I / Title XX / Chapter 136 / Section 8
Business, trade, labor or work on Sunday; service or execution of process
Status: in_force

Section 8. Civil process shall not be served or executed on Sunday, and such service if made shall be void, and the person who serves or executes it shall be liable in damages to the person aggrieved in like manner as if he had no such process; provided, that this section shall not apply to service of such process by publication in a newspaper published on Sunday.

Section 8. Civil process shall not be served or executed on Sunday, and such service if made shall be void, and the person who serves or executes it shall be liable in damages to the person aggrieved in like manner as if he had no such process; provided, that this section shall not apply to service of such process by publication in a newspaper published on Sunday.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 121B, sec. 8 — MA Code / Part I / Title XVII / Chapter 121B / Section 8
Operating agencies; housing authorities
Status: in_force

Section 8. The operating agencies having the powers and subject to the limitations provided in sections twenty-five to thirty-three, inclusive, shall be housing authorities.

Section 8. The operating agencies having the powers and subject to the limitations provided in sections twenty-five to thirty-three, inclusive, shall be housing authorities.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 64J, sec. 10 — MA Code / Part I / Title IX / Chapter 64J / Section 10
Application of chapter to foreign or interstate commerce
Status: in_force

Section 10. No provision of this chapter shall apply or be construed to apply to foreign or interstate commerce, except in so far as the same may be permitted under the provisions of the constitution and laws of the United States.

Section 10. No provision of this chapter shall apply or be construed to apply to foreign or interstate commerce, except in so far as the same may be permitted under the provisions of the constitution and laws of the United States.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 159, sec. 92 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 159 / Section 92
Badges
Status: in_force

Section 92. Special police officers appointed by the colonel of state police under the provisions of section fifty-one of chapter twenty-two C shall, when on duty except as detectives, wear in plain sight a metallic badge, inscribed with the words, ''Railroad Special Police'', ''Street Railway Special Police'', ''Railway Express Special Police'' or ''Steamboat Special Police'', as the case may be, and the name or initials of the corporation or company for which they are appointed; and the presence of any such officer on the cars, vehicles, steamboats or premises of the corporation or company upon whose petition he was appointed, wearing such badge, shall be prima facie evidence that he is lawfully upon duty.

Section 92. Special police officers appointed by the colonel of state police under the provisions of section fifty-one of chapter twenty-two C shall, when on duty except as detectives, wear in plain sight a metallic badge, inscribed with the words, ''Railroad Special Police'', ''Street Railway Special Police'', ''Railway Express Special Police'' or ''Steamboat Special Police'', as the case may be, and the name or initials of the corporation or company for which they are appointed; and the presence of any such officer on the cars, vehicles, steamboats or premises of the corporation or company upon whose petition he was appointed, wearing such badge, shall be prima facie evidence that he is lawfully upon duty.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 175, sec. 22I — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 175 / Section 22I
Amounts received in settlement of claims retained for unpaid premiums
Status: in_force

Section 22I. Any insurance company, broker or agent may retain an amount equal to any unpaid premium due on the policy under which a claim is being presented, when settling any such claim for an insured; provided, however, that the unpaid premium remains unpaid sixty days after the effective day of such policy or the date of the original billing thereof, whichever later occurs; provided further, that such unpaid premium shall be retained as against any loss payee or mortgagee named in said policy up to the amount of the unpaid balance owed to such loss payee or mortgagee on the date the loss occurred which gave rise to said claim until the premium payment is made to said insurance company, broker, or agent by the insured, loss payee or mortgagee; and provided, further, that this section shall not be applicable to a health insurance policy.

Section 22I. Any insurance company, broker or agent may retain an amount equal to any unpaid premium due on the policy under which a claim is being presented, when settling any such claim for an insured; provided, however, that the unpaid premium remains unpaid sixty days after the effective day of such policy or the date of the original billing thereof, whichever later occurs; provided further, that such unpaid premium shall be retained as against any loss payee or mortgagee named in said policy up to the amount of the unpaid balance owed to such loss payee or mortgagee on the date the loss occurred which gave rise to said claim until the premium payment is made to said insurance company, broker, or agent by the insured, loss payee or mortgagee; and provided, further, that this section shall not be applicable to a health insurance policy.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 94, sec. 268 — MA Code / Part I / Title XV / Chapter 94 / Section 268
Forfeiture of cask of lime
Status: in_force

Section 268. A cask of lime which is sold, exposed for sale, or put on board a vessel, contrary to any provision of sections two hundred and sixty-two to two hundred and sixty-eight, inclusive, shall be forfeited, and may be seized and libelled by an inspector of lime.

Section 268. A cask of lime which is sold, exposed for sale, or put on board a vessel, contrary to any provision of sections two hundred and sixty-two to two hundred and sixty-eight, inclusive, shall be forfeited, and may be seized and libelled by an inspector of lime.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 30B, sec. 7 — MA Code / Part I / Title III / Chapter 30B / Section 7
Sole source procurements
Status: in_force

Section 7. (a) A procurement officer may award a contract in an amount of not more than $50,000, or, a municipal or regional school district, more than $100,000, or any contract for the procurement of library books, school textbooks, educational programs, educational courses, educational curricula in any media including educational software, newspapers, serials, periodicals, audiovisual materials or software maintenance without competition when, after reasonable investigation, the procurement officer determines in writing that only one practicable source for the required supply or service exists. The procurement officer shall procure a proprietary item by competition if more than one potential bidder or offeror for that item exists. (b) The procurement officer shall record all sole source procurements, specifying each contractor's name, the amount and type of each contract, a listing of supplies or services procured under each contract, and the basis of the determination that the contractor was the only practicable source for the required supply or service. (c) A procurement officer may procure without competition water, gas, electricity, sewer or telephone services from a regulated industry company as defined in section three of chapter twenty-five if the procurement officer certifies in writing that only one practicable source exists.

Section 7. (a) A procurement officer may award a contract in an amount of not more than $50,000, or, a municipal or regional school district, more than $100,000, or any contract for the procurement of library books, school textbooks, educational programs, educational courses, educational curricula in any media including educational software, newspapers, serials, periodicals, audiovisual materials or software maintenance without competition when, after reasonable investigation, the procurement officer determines in writing that only one practicable source for the required supply or service exists. The procurement officer shall procure a proprietary item by competition if more than one potential bidder or offeror for that item exists.

(b) The procurement officer shall record all sole source procurements, specifying each contractor's name, the amount and type of each contract, a listing of supplies or services procured under each contract, and the basis of the determination that the contractor was the only practicable source for the required supply or service.

(c) A procurement officer may procure without competition water, gas, electricity, sewer or telephone services from a regulated industry company as defined in section three of chapter twenty-five if the procurement officer certifies in writing that only one practicable source exists.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 90, sec. 7P — MA Code / Part I / Title XIV / Chapter 90 / Section 7P
Height of motor vehicles; alteration restricted
Status: in_force

Section 7P. No person shall alter, modify or change the height of a motor vehicle with an original manufacturer's gross vehicle weight rating of up to and including ten thousand pounds, by elevating or lowering the chassis or body by more than two inches above or below the original manufacturer's specified height by use of so-called ''shackle lift kits'' for leaf springs or by use of lift kits for coil springs, tires, or any other means or device. The registrar shall establish rules and regulations for such changes in the height of motor vehicles beyond said two inches. No motor vehicle that has been so altered, modified or changed beyond the provisions of this section or the rules and regulations established by the registrar shall be operated on any way.

Section 7P. No person shall alter, modify or change the height of a motor vehicle with an original manufacturer's gross vehicle weight rating of up to and including ten thousand pounds, by elevating or lowering the chassis or body by more than two inches above or below the original manufacturer's specified height by use of so-called ''shackle lift kits'' for leaf springs or by use of lift kits for coil springs, tires, or any other means or device.

The registrar shall establish rules and regulations for such changes in the height of motor vehicles beyond said two inches. No motor vehicle that has been so altered, modified or changed beyond the provisions of this section or the rules and regulations established by the registrar shall be operated on any way.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 221, sec. 71A — MA Code / Part III / Title I / Chapter 221 / Section 71A
Assistant chief court officers in Suffolk county
Status: in_force

Section 71A. The court administrator may designate three of the court officers of the superior court to act as assistant chief court officers for attendance on the superior court in Suffolk county. Such officers, in addition to their regular duties as court officers, shall perform such other duties as from time to time may be prescribed by the court administrator.

Section 71A. The court administrator may designate three of the court officers of the superior court to act as assistant chief court officers for attendance on the superior court in Suffolk county. Such officers, in addition to their regular duties as court officers, shall perform such other duties as from time to time may be prescribed by the court administrator.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 23G, sec. 32 — MA Code / Part I / Title II / Chapter 23G / Section 32
Liability in contract or tort
Status: in_force

Section 32. Except to the extent otherwise provided at law including, without limitation, section 12 of chapter 498 of the acts of 1993, the Agency shall be liable in contract or in tort in the same manner as a private corporation. The directors, employees, officers and agents of the Agency shall not be liable as such on its contracts or for torts not committed or directly authorized by them. The property or funds of the Agency shall not be subject to attachment or to levy and sale on execution, but if the Agency refuses to pay a judgment entered against it in any court of competent jurisdiction, the superior court, sitting within and for the county in which the Agency is situated, may direct the treasurer of the Agency to pay such judgment. The lands of the Agency shall not be subject to liens under chapter 254.

Section 32. Except to the extent otherwise provided at law including, without limitation, section 12 of chapter 498 of the acts of 1993, the Agency shall be liable in contract or in tort in the same manner as a private corporation. The directors, employees, officers and agents of the Agency shall not be liable as such on its contracts or for torts not committed or directly authorized by them. The property or funds of the Agency shall not be subject to attachment or to levy and sale on execution, but if the Agency refuses to pay a judgment entered against it in any court of competent jurisdiction, the superior court, sitting within and for the county in which the Agency is situated, may direct the treasurer of the Agency to pay such judgment. The lands of the Agency shall not be subject to liens under chapter 254.