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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 127, sec. 22 — MA Code / Part I / Title XVIII / Chapter 127 / Section 22
Separation of prisoners
Status: in_force

Section 22. Male and female prisoners shall not be put or kept in the same room in a jail or house of correction; nor, unless the crowded state of the institution so requires, shall any two prisoners, other than debtors, be allowed to occupy the same room, except for work. Persons committed for debt shall be kept separate from convicts and from persons who are confined upon a charge of an infamous crime. Conversation between prisoners in different apartments shall be prevented. Minors shall be kept separate from notorious offenders and from persons convicted of an infamous crime. Persons committed on charge of crime shall not be confined with convicts, and prisoners charged with or convicted of a crime not infamous shall not be confined with those charged with or convicted of an infamous crime, except while at labor or assembled for moral or religious instruction, at which time no communication shall be allowed between prisoners of different classes. Persons committed on a charge of a crime may participate in residential treatment or other rehabilitative programs with persons serving a criminal sentence; provided, however, that such person shall not be housed in the same cell with a person serving a criminal sentence. The commissioner of correction or, for a county facility, the sheriff shall adopt policies and procedures for the management of such participation consistent with public safety and the security and operational needs of the facility.

Section 22. Male and female prisoners shall not be put or kept in the same room in a jail or house of correction; nor, unless the crowded state of the institution so requires, shall any two prisoners, other than debtors, be allowed to occupy the same room, except for work. Persons committed for debt shall be kept separate from convicts and from persons who are confined upon a charge of an infamous crime. Conversation between prisoners in different apartments shall be prevented. Minors shall be kept separate from notorious offenders and from persons convicted of an infamous crime. Persons committed on charge of crime shall not be confined with convicts, and prisoners charged with or convicted of a crime not infamous shall not be confined with those charged with or convicted of an infamous crime, except while at labor or assembled for moral or religious instruction, at which time no communication shall be allowed between prisoners of different classes.

Persons committed on a charge of a crime may participate in residential treatment or other rehabilitative programs with persons serving a criminal sentence; provided, however, that such person shall not be housed in the same cell with a person serving a criminal sentence. The commissioner of correction or, for a county facility, the sheriff shall adopt policies and procedures for the management of such participation consistent with public safety and the security and operational needs of the facility.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 64M, sec. 4 — MA Code / Part I / Title IX / Chapter 64M / Section 4
Registration of service providers
Status: in_force

Section 4. No person shall do business in this commonwealth as a direct broadcast satellite service provider unless a registration shall have been issued to him in accordance with section 67 of chapter 62C.

Section 4. No person shall do business in this commonwealth as a direct broadcast satellite service provider unless a registration shall have been issued to him in accordance with section 67 of chapter 62C.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 71, sec. 2C — MA Code / Part I / Title XII / Chapter 71 / Section 2C
Implementation of policy and discipline code addressing teen dating violence in public schools
Status: in_force

Section 2C. Each school district in the commonwealth, subject to appropriation, shall implement a specific policy and discipline code to address teen dating violence in public schools. The policy shall clearly state that dating violence will not be tolerated and shall include guidelines for addressing alleged incidents of dating violence. The policy may include a teen dating violence prevention task force comprised of staff, students and parents to provide awareness training and education for the school community. Topics to be covered in the policy include, without limitation, defining the issue of teen dating violence, recognizing warning signs, identifying issues of confidentiality, safety and appropriate legal school-based interventions.

Section 2C. Each school district in the commonwealth, subject to appropriation, shall implement a specific policy and discipline code to address teen dating violence in public schools. The policy shall clearly state that dating violence will not be tolerated and shall include guidelines for addressing alleged incidents of dating violence. The policy may include a teen dating violence prevention task force comprised of staff, students and parents to provide awareness training and education for the school community. Topics to be covered in the policy include, without limitation, defining the issue of teen dating violence, recognizing warning signs, identifying issues of confidentiality, safety and appropriate legal school-based interventions.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 260, sec. 12 — MA Code / Part III / Title V / Chapter 260 / Section 12
Fraudulent concealment; commencement of limitations
Status: in_force

Section 12. If a person liable to a personal action fraudulently conceals the cause of such action from the knowledge of the person entitled to bring it, the period prior to the discovery of his cause of action by the person so entitled shall be excluded in determining the time limited for the commencement of the action.

Section 12. If a person liable to a personal action fraudulently conceals the cause of such action from the knowledge of the person entitled to bring it, the period prior to the discovery of his cause of action by the person so entitled shall be excluded in determining the time limited for the commencement of the action.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 115, sec. 2B — MA Code / Part I / Title XVII / Chapter 115 / Section 2B
Veterans employment opportunities commission
Status: in_force

Section 2B. There shall be a commission on veterans employment opportunities that shall investigate whether veterans are subjected to employment discrimination on the basis of their status as veterans. The commission shall report its findings and recommendation annually on March 1 to the secretary of veterans affairs. The commission shall consist of 5 persons as follows: the secretary of veterans affairs or a designee, the secretary of economic development or a designee, a member appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives, a member appointed by the president of the senate and a veteran appointed by the Governor.

Section 2B. There shall be a commission on veterans employment opportunities that shall investigate whether veterans are subjected to employment discrimination on the basis of their status as veterans. The commission shall report its findings and recommendation annually on March 1 to the secretary of veterans affairs. The commission shall consist of 5 persons as follows: the secretary of veterans affairs or a designee, the secretary of economic development or a designee, a member appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives, a member appointed by the president of the senate and a veteran appointed by the Governor.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 36, sec. 25 — MA Code / Part I / Title VI / Chapter 36 / Section 25
Indexes; number; form
Status: in_force

Section 25. He shall keep two indexes, each divided into six columns, with headings in one as follows:

Section 25. He shall keep two indexes, each divided into six columns, with headings in one as follows:

And in the other as follows:

In Suffolk county neither index need contain the last column.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 32, sec. 85G — MA Code / Part I / Title IV / Chapter 32 / Section 85G
Service credit on retirement of former reserve officers
Status: in_force

Section 85G. Any member of a police or fire department who is hereafter retired under the provisions of sections eighty to eighty-five F, inclusive, and who was appointed a reserve police officer or reserve or call fireman prior to July first, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, shall, for the purposes of such retirement, be credited with the service actually rendered in any calendar year as such reserve police officer or reserve or call fireman as a part of his continuous service.

Section 85G. Any member of a police or fire department who is hereafter retired under the provisions of sections eighty to eighty-five F, inclusive, and who was appointed a reserve police officer or reserve or call fireman prior to July first, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, shall, for the purposes of such retirement, be credited with the service actually rendered in any calendar year as such reserve police officer or reserve or call fireman as a part of his continuous service.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 41, sec. 26A — MA Code / Part I / Title VII / Chapter 41 / Section 26A
Employment of counsel in certain proceedings
Status: in_force

Section 26A. The assessors, or selectmen acting as assessors, may employ counsel at the expense of the city or town in all proceedings under chapter fifty-eight A; provided, that if such city or town maintains a city solicitor or town counsel the assessors, or selectmen acting as assessors, shall not employ other counsel but shall use such solicitor or counsel therefor, whose expenses incurred shall be paid from his general appropriation. The foregoing restriction on the right of the assessors to employ counsel for such purpose shall not apply in case the town has made an appropriation covering the employment of counsel therefor.

Section 26A. The assessors, or selectmen acting as assessors, may employ counsel at the expense of the city or town in all proceedings under chapter fifty-eight A; provided, that if such city or town maintains a city solicitor or town counsel the assessors, or selectmen acting as assessors, shall not employ other counsel but shall use such solicitor or counsel therefor, whose expenses incurred shall be paid from his general appropriation. The foregoing restriction on the right of the assessors to employ counsel for such purpose shall not apply in case the town has made an appropriation covering the employment of counsel therefor.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 83, sec. 13 — MA Code / Part I / Title XIV / Chapter 83 / Section 13
Equity jurisdiction
Status: in_force

Section 13. The supreme judicial court and the superior court shall have jurisdiction in equity to restrain the unlawful use of common sewers or the placing or depositing of materials therein or the violation of regulations regarding the use thereof made under section ten, and to enforce the provisions of sections five to seven, inclusive.

Section 13. The supreme judicial court and the superior court shall have jurisdiction in equity to restrain the unlawful use of common sewers or the placing or depositing of materials therein or the violation of regulations regarding the use thereof made under section ten, and to enforce the provisions of sections five to seven, inclusive.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 94, sec. 27A — MA Code / Part I / Title XV / Chapter 94 / Section 27A
Persons receiving raw milk at dairy farms; determining basis for payment; necessity of certificate of competency; requirements; fee
Status: in_force

Section 27A. Except as provided in section twenty-eight A with respect to emergency licensing, no person in determining the basis for payment in buying or selling shall measure, sample or accept raw milk at a dairy farm for inclusion in a bulk tank truck unless he has first obtained from the director or his agent a certificate indicating that he is competent in such operations and thereafter has been licensed under the provisions of section twenty-eight A. The fee for such a certificate of competency shall be set by and be payable to the director. The director shall establish such requirements with respect to the application for and granting of said certificates as he deems appropriate. A copy of each such certificate shall be furnished to the said chief of the bureau of milk marketing.

Section 27A. Except as provided in section twenty-eight A with respect to emergency licensing, no person in determining the basis for payment in buying or selling shall measure, sample or accept raw milk at a dairy farm for inclusion in a bulk tank truck unless he has first obtained from the director or his agent a certificate indicating that he is competent in such operations and thereafter has been licensed under the provisions of section twenty-eight A. The fee for such a certificate of competency shall be set by and be payable to the director. The director shall establish such requirements with respect to the application for and granting of said certificates as he deems appropriate. A copy of each such certificate shall be furnished to the said chief of the bureau of milk marketing.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 160, sec. 72 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 160 / Section 72
Application for consolidation; notice; hearing; determination
Status: in_force

Section 72. The presidents, or a majority of the boards of directors, or the holders of not less than one third in interest of the capital stock of two or more railroad corporations, may apply to the department for its determination as to whether the consolidation of the railroads of such corporations is consistent with the public interest. If the department, after public notice and hearing, shall find that such consolidation is consistent with the public interest, it shall report its findings to the general court, together with drafts of a law or laws to authorize such consolidation upon the agreement of the corporations to be consolidated, and after ratification by a vote of not less than two thirds in interest of the stockholders in each, and under terms and conditions which will effectually prevent any decrease in the facilities for transportation on the railroad of either of such corporations or any increase in the rates for passengers or freight by the said consolidation, and which will, in the opinion of the department, secure to the commonwealth adequate control over the organization, conduct, and management of the said corporations and railroads, and upon such other terms and conditions as may seem to the department desirable and proper.

Section 72. The presidents, or a majority of the boards of directors, or the holders of not less than one third in interest of the capital stock of two or more railroad corporations, may apply to the department for its determination as to whether the consolidation of the railroads of such corporations is consistent with the public interest. If the department, after public notice and hearing, shall find that such consolidation is consistent with the public interest, it shall report its findings to the general court, together with drafts of a law or laws to authorize such consolidation upon the agreement of the corporations to be consolidated, and after ratification by a vote of not less than two thirds in interest of the stockholders in each, and under terms and conditions which will effectually prevent any decrease in the facilities for transportation on the railroad of either of such corporations or any increase in the rates for passengers or freight by the said consolidation, and which will, in the opinion of the department, secure to the commonwealth adequate control over the organization, conduct, and management of the said corporations and railroads, and upon such other terms and conditions as may seem to the department desirable and proper.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 53, sec. 44 — MA Code / Part I / Title VIII / Chapter 53 / Section 44
Nomination papers; number of signatures
Status: in_force

Section 44. The nomination of candidates for nomination at state primaries shall be by nomination papers. In the case of the governor, lieutenant-governor, attorney general and United States senator, nomination papers shall be signed in the aggregate by at least ten thousand voters; in the case of the state secretary, state treasurer and state auditor, they shall be signed by at least five thousand voters. Such papers for all other offices to be filled at a state election shall be signed by a number of voters as follows: for representative in congress, two thousand voters; for councillor, district attorney, clerk of courts, register of probate, register of deeds, county commissioner, sheriff and county treasurer, one thousand voters, except that in Barnstable, Berkshire, Franklin, and Hampshire counties such papers for nomination to the office of clerk of courts, register of probate, register of deeds, county commissioner, sheriff and county treasurer shall be signed by five hundred voters; for state senator, three hundred voters; for representative in the general court, one hundred and fifty voters. In Dukes and Nantucket counties such papers for nomination to all offices within the county to be filled at any state election shall be signed by twenty-five voters. In no event shall the number of signatures required be more than the number of a candidate for the same office in the same electoral district or division to have his name placed on the ballot as provided for under section six.

Section 44. The nomination of candidates for nomination at state primaries shall be by nomination papers. In the case of the governor, lieutenant-governor, attorney general and United States senator, nomination papers shall be signed in the aggregate by at least ten thousand voters; in the case of the state secretary, state treasurer and state auditor, they shall be signed by at least five thousand voters. Such papers for all other offices to be filled at a state election shall be signed by a number of voters as follows: for representative in congress, two thousand voters; for councillor, district attorney, clerk of courts, register of probate, register of deeds, county commissioner, sheriff and county treasurer, one thousand voters, except that in Barnstable, Berkshire, Franklin, and Hampshire counties such papers for nomination to the office of clerk of courts, register of probate, register of deeds, county commissioner, sheriff and county treasurer shall be signed by five hundred voters; for state senator, three hundred voters; for representative in the general court, one hundred and fifty voters. In Dukes and Nantucket counties such papers for nomination to all offices within the county to be filled at any state election shall be signed by twenty-five voters. In no event shall the number of signatures required be more than the number of a candidate for the same office in the same electoral district or division to have his name placed on the ballot as provided for under section six.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 6, sec. 15XX — MA Code / Part I / Title II / Chapter 6 / Section 15XX
Joshua James Day
Status: in_force

Section 15XX. The governor shall annually issue a proclamation setting apart the third Sunday in May as Joshua James Day, the first keeper of the Point Allerton Life Saving Station, in the town of Hull and the most decorated member of the U.S. Lifesaving Service, and recommending that said day be observed in an appropriate manner by the people.

Section 15XX. The governor shall annually issue a proclamation setting apart the third Sunday in May as Joshua James Day, the first keeper of the Point Allerton Life Saving Station, in the town of Hull and the most decorated member of the U.S. Lifesaving Service, and recommending that said day be observed in an appropriate manner by the people.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 40U, sec. 17 — MA Code / Part I / Title VII / Chapter 40U / Section 17
Payments of fines, penalties or assessments to the general fund of municipality
Status: in_force

Section 17. All fines, penalties or assessments in actions under this chapter shall be paid to the general fund of the municipality.

Section 17. All fines, penalties or assessments in actions under this chapter shall be paid to the general fund of the municipality.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 67, sec. 19 — MA Code / Part I / Title XI / Chapter 67 / Section 19
Sale or removal of pews or meeting-house
Status: in_force

Section 19. A religious society may, under sections thirty-three and thirty-four, for the purpose of altering, enlarging, removing or rebuilding its house or building a new house, take down any pews therein or sell the house.

Section 19. A religious society may, under sections thirty-three and thirty-four, for the purpose of altering, enlarging, removing or rebuilding its house or building a new house, take down any pews therein or sell the house.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 261, sec. 10 — MA Code / Part III / Title VI / Chapter 261 / Section 10
Subsequent actions for same cause; conditions precedent for commencement
Status: in_force

Section 10. If a judgment for costs upon a nonsuit, discontinuance or dismissal remains unsatisfied, the court in which a subsequent action for the same cause is brought may order proceedings therein to be stayed until such costs have been paid, and may further order that the action be dismissed unless they are paid within a time fixed by the order.

Section 10. If a judgment for costs upon a nonsuit, discontinuance or dismissal remains unsatisfied, the court in which a subsequent action for the same cause is brought may order proceedings therein to be stayed until such costs have been paid, and may further order that the action be dismissed unless they are paid within a time fixed by the order.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 223, sec. 11 — MA Code / Part III / Title II / Chapter 223 / Section 11
Executors or administrators; transitory actions by or against
Status: in_force

Section 11. A transitory action by or against an executor or administrator may be brought in a county in which it might have been brought by or against the testator or intestate at the time of his decease.

Section 11. A transitory action by or against an executor or administrator may be brought in a county in which it might have been brought by or against the testator or intestate at the time of his decease.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 164, sec. 12A — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 164 / Section 12A
Convertible debentures
Status: in_force

Section 12A. A corporation subject to this chapter, and subject to the limitations and restrictions of section fourteen, may, by a vote of the holders of a majority of its shares outstanding and entitled to vote thereon at a meeting called therefor and with the approval of the department, issue debentures to be convertible into stock of said corporation, at the option of the holders of said debentures, in such manner, at such times, upon such terms and at such prices as may be fixed in such vote with the approval of said department and, upon the decision of the department, the shares of stock required for the conversion of said debentures shall be a part of the authorized capital of said corporation, and may be issued from time to time thereafter for the conversion of said debentures without any further authorization, order or decree by the department.

Section 12A. A corporation subject to this chapter, and subject to the limitations and restrictions of section fourteen, may, by a vote of the holders of a majority of its shares outstanding and entitled to vote thereon at a meeting called therefor and with the approval of the department, issue debentures to be convertible into stock of said corporation, at the option of the holders of said debentures, in such manner, at such times, upon such terms and at such prices as may be fixed in such vote with the approval of said department and, upon the decision of the department, the shares of stock required for the conversion of said debentures shall be a part of the authorized capital of said corporation, and may be issued from time to time thereafter for the conversion of said debentures without any further authorization, order or decree by the department.