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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 140, sec. 79 — MA Code / Part I / Title XX / Chapter 140 / Section 79
Record book; information furnished to authorities
Status: in_force

Section 79. Every pawnbroker shall keep a book in which, at the time of making a loan, shall be legibly written in the English language an account and description, including all distinguishing marks and numbers, of the articles pawned, the amount of money loaned thereon, the time of pawning them, the rate of interest to be paid on such loan, and the name and residence of the person pawning such articles, and shall furnish a correct record of such transactions, containing all such information, once a week, or oftener if required, to the licensing authorities or to any person designated by them. Every pawnbroker shall also photograph any person pawning articles and keep the photographs with said books as part of his records.

Section 79. Every pawnbroker shall keep a book in which, at the time of making a loan, shall be legibly written in the English language an account and description, including all distinguishing marks and numbers, of the articles pawned, the amount of money loaned thereon, the time of pawning them, the rate of interest to be paid on such loan, and the name and residence of the person pawning such articles, and shall furnish a correct record of such transactions, containing all such information, once a week, or oftener if required, to the licensing authorities or to any person designated by them. Every pawnbroker shall also photograph any person pawning articles and keep the photographs with said books as part of his records.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 111, sec. 146 — MA Code / Part I / Title XVI / Chapter 111 / Section 146
Orders of prohibition; service
Status: in_force

Section 146. Orders of prohibition issued under section one hundred and forty-three shall be served by an officer qualified to serve civil process upon the occupant or person having charge of the premises where such trade or employment is exercised, and the board shall take all necessary measures to prevent such exercise. Whoever refuses or neglects for twenty-four hours thereafter to obey the same shall forfeit not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars.

Section 146. Orders of prohibition issued under section one hundred and forty-three shall be served by an officer qualified to serve civil process upon the occupant or person having charge of the premises where such trade or employment is exercised, and the board shall take all necessary measures to prevent such exercise. Whoever refuses or neglects for twenty-four hours thereafter to obey the same shall forfeit not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 36, sec. 18 — MA Code / Part I / Title VI / Chapter 36 / Section 18
Attestation of records by volume
Status: in_force

Section 18. He may attest the records by the volume, and the attestation shall be sufficient when the volume containing the same bears the attest, with the written signature of the register or other person lawfully authorized.

Section 18. He may attest the records by the volume, and the attestation shall be sufficient when the volume containing the same bears the attest, with the written signature of the register or other person lawfully authorized.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 151A, sec. 47A — MA Code / Part I / Title XXI / Chapter 151A / Section 47A
Utterance or delivery of insufficient funds check with intent to defraud; punishment
Status: in_force

Section 47A. Whoever, with intent to defraud, makes, draws, utters or delivers any check, draft or order for the payment of any amount required under this chapter upon any bank or other depository, with knowledge that the maker or drawer has not sufficient funds or credit at such bank or other depository for the payment of such instrument, although no express representation is made in reference thereto, shall be punished by a fine of not less than five hundred nor more than five thousand dollars, or imprisonment for not more than two years, or both such fine and imprisonment. As against the maker or drawer thereof, the making, drawing, uttering or delivery of such check, draft or order, payment of which is refused by the drawee, shall be prima facie evidence of intent to defraud and of knowledge of insufficient funds in, or credit with, such bank or other depository, unless the maker or drawer shall have paid the holder thereof the amount due thereof, together with all costs and protest fees, within two days after receiving notice that such check, draft or order has not been paid by the drawee. The word ''credit'' as used herein, shall be construed to mean an arrangement or understanding with the bank or depository for the payment of such check, draft or order.

Section 47A. Whoever, with intent to defraud, makes, draws, utters or delivers any check, draft or order for the payment of any amount required under this chapter upon any bank or other depository, with knowledge that the maker or drawer has not sufficient funds or credit at such bank or other depository for the payment of such instrument, although no express representation is made in reference thereto, shall be punished by a fine of not less than five hundred nor more than five thousand dollars, or imprisonment for not more than two years, or both such fine and imprisonment. As against the maker or drawer thereof, the making, drawing, uttering or delivery of such check, draft or order, payment of which is refused by the drawee, shall be prima facie evidence of intent to defraud and of knowledge of insufficient funds in, or credit with, such bank or other depository, unless the maker or drawer shall have paid the holder thereof the amount due thereof, together with all costs and protest fees, within two days after receiving notice that such check, draft or order has not been paid by the drawee. The word ''credit'' as used herein, shall be construed to mean an arrangement or understanding with the bank or depository for the payment of such check, draft or order.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 161, sec. 105 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 161 / Section 105
Additional passenger accommodations
Status: in_force

Section 105. If the department deems additional accommodations including waiting rooms, stations, water closets and other sanitary conveniences for the traveling public are required upon any street railway, it may, after due notice to the company and a hearing, make an order for such additional accommodations, and may alter, renew or revoke the order. A company which, for more than one week after receiving written notice of such order, fails to comply therewith, shall forfeit to the use of the city or town where such additional accommodations are to be used, or if they are to be used in more than one city or town, to the use equally of such cities or towns, one hundred dollars for each day thereafter during which such failure continues.

Section 105. If the department deems additional accommodations including waiting rooms, stations, water closets and other sanitary conveniences for the traveling public are required upon any street railway, it may, after due notice to the company and a hearing, make an order for such additional accommodations, and may alter, renew or revoke the order. A company which, for more than one week after receiving written notice of such order, fails to comply therewith, shall forfeit to the use of the city or town where such additional accommodations are to be used, or if they are to be used in more than one city or town, to the use equally of such cities or towns, one hundred dollars for each day thereafter during which such failure continues.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 111, sec. 67A — MA Code / Part I / Title XVI / Chapter 111 / Section 67A
Notice of birth of infant weighing 2500 grams or less or with high risk problem; annual reporting on status of premature and high risk infants
Status: in_force

Section 67A. (a) Within 10 days after the birth of any infant weighing 2500 grams or less or any infant with a high risk problem as defined by the department, each hospital or in the case of a birth outside of a hospital, the person responsible for delivery shall file a written notice of such birth on a form with the department. The department shall promulgate rules which shall define the high risk problems and shall provide such reporting forms and shall set forth the procedure to be followed when making such reports. Such notices and reports shall be for the use of the department and its programs and shall not constitute a public record. (b) The department shall submit an annual report to the general court not later than October 1 on the status of premature and high risk infants. The report shall include: (i) a description of the progress in implementing section 67C; (ii) information about the incidence and cause of re-hospitalizations of infants born premature within their first 6 months of life; and (iii) recommendations for improvement of newborn health outcomes and ensuring continued health quality improvement, including recommendations concerning technological needs to improve monitoring of premature infants after discharge from the hospital and transition to a health care provider.

Section 67A. (a) Within 10 days after the birth of any infant weighing 2500 grams or less or any infant with a high risk problem as defined by the department, each hospital or in the case of a birth outside of a hospital, the person responsible for delivery shall file a written notice of such birth on a form with the department. The department shall promulgate rules which shall define the high risk problems and shall provide such reporting forms and shall set forth the procedure to be followed when making such reports. Such notices and reports shall be for the use of the department and its programs and shall not constitute a public record.

(b) The department shall submit an annual report to the general court not later than October 1 on the status of premature and high risk infants. The report shall include: (i) a description of the progress in implementing section 67C; (ii) information about the incidence and cause of re-hospitalizations of infants born premature within their first 6 months of life; and (iii) recommendations for improvement of newborn health outcomes and ensuring continued health quality improvement, including recommendations concerning technological needs to improve monitoring of premature infants after discharge from the hospital and transition to a health care provider.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 161B, sec. 21 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 161B / Section 21
Interest bearing or discounted notes and bond anticipation notes authorized; limitations; disposition of proceeds; payment
Status: in_force

Section 21. An authority is authorized to provide by resolution at one time or from time to time for the issue of interest bearing or discounted notes for the purposes and in the amounts that bonds may be issued. The notes shall be payable within three years from their dates, but the principal of and interest on notes issued for a shorter period may be renewed or paid from time to time by the issue of other notes hereunder maturing within the required time from the date of the original loan being refunded. When bonds are issued for the purposes for which the notes were issued, the proceeds of the bonds shall be used to repay the notes, except that interest on the notes may be financed as a current expense to the extent deemed appropriate by the authority. The notes may be secured by a trust agreement or by the provisions of a resolution, as in the case of bonds. Bond anticipation notes may be issued either before or after the authorization of the bonds being anticipated. If any bond anticipation note is paid otherwise than from the proceeds of bonds or renewal notes, such payment shall be included in the measure of the net cost of service. But, if bonds or renewal notes are later issued to provide for such payment, there shall be a corresponding offset against the net cost of service.

Section 21. An authority is authorized to provide by resolution at one time or from time to time for the issue of interest bearing or discounted notes for the purposes and in the amounts that bonds may be issued. The notes shall be payable within three years from their dates, but the principal of and interest on notes issued for a shorter period may be renewed or paid from time to time by the issue of other notes hereunder maturing within the required time from the date of the original loan being refunded. When bonds are issued for the purposes for which the notes were issued, the proceeds of the bonds shall be used to repay the notes, except that interest on the notes may be financed as a current expense to the extent deemed appropriate by the authority. The notes may be secured by a trust agreement or by the provisions of a resolution, as in the case of bonds. Bond anticipation notes may be issued either before or after the authorization of the bonds being anticipated. If any bond anticipation note is paid otherwise than from the proceeds of bonds or renewal notes, such payment shall be included in the measure of the net cost of service. But, if bonds or renewal notes are later issued to provide for such payment, there shall be a corresponding offset against the net cost of service.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 51, sec. 21 — MA Code / Part I / Title VIII / Chapter 51 / Section 21
Registrars; term of office
Status: in_force

Section 21. Each registrar shall, unless sooner removed, hold his office for the term for which he is appointed and until his successor is qualified.

Section 21. Each registrar shall, unless sooner removed, hold his office for the term for which he is appointed and until his successor is qualified.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 160, sec. 198 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 160 / Section 198
Workingmen's trains
Status: in_force

Section 198. Every railroad corporation having a terminus in Boston shall furnish such number of workingmen's trains, not less than two each way, as the department, upon a petition for such trains filed with it, shall in each case order. Such trains shall arrive at Boston between six and half past seven o'clock in the morning and leave Boston between the same hours in the evening and special cars may be provided therefor. Season tickets, good once a day each way for six days in the week, shall be furnished for such trains at a rate not exceeding, for yearly tickets, three dollars a mile, and for quarterly tickets, one dollar a mile.

Section 198. Every railroad corporation having a terminus in Boston shall furnish such number of workingmen's trains, not less than two each way, as the department, upon a petition for such trains filed with it, shall in each case order. Such trains shall arrive at Boston between six and half past seven o'clock in the morning and leave Boston between the same hours in the evening and special cars may be provided therefor. Season tickets, good once a day each way for six days in the week, shall be furnished for such trains at a rate not exceeding, for yearly tickets, three dollars a mile, and for quarterly tickets, one dollar a mile.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 166, sec. 14 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 166 / Section 14
Connections with exchanges; equal facilities for applicants for telephone service; cost of extensions
Status: in_force

Section 14. A person owning, controlling or operating a telephone exchange or service in the commonwealth shall, on application and the tender of the charges or rental usual or customary for the class of service required, without discrimination for the same class of service rendered, furnish the applicant with the use of a telephone and telephone service and connection with his exchanges and the subscribers thereto, if the applicant secures the rights necessary to make the connections applied for and pays to the telephone company in advance an amount sufficient to cover the actual cost of the extension, if said extension is more than one mile from any main exchange circuit of such company.

Section 14. A person owning, controlling or operating a telephone exchange or service in the commonwealth shall, on application and the tender of the charges or rental usual or customary for the class of service required, without discrimination for the same class of service rendered, furnish the applicant with the use of a telephone and telephone service and connection with his exchanges and the subscribers thereto, if the applicant secures the rights necessary to make the connections applied for and pays to the telephone company in advance an amount sufficient to cover the actual cost of the extension, if said extension is more than one mile from any main exchange circuit of such company.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 10, sec. 5A — MA Code / Part I / Title II / Chapter 10 / Section 5A
Annual personnel report
Status: in_force

Section 5A. The state treasurer shall file an annual report not later than the first Wednesday in February with the senate and house committees on ways and means containing the job classification, duties and salary of each officer and employee within the department and all personnel regulations established pursuant to section five. The treasurer shall file amendments to such report with the senate and house committees on ways and means whenever any changes become effective.

Section 5A. The state treasurer shall file an annual report not later than the first Wednesday in February with the senate and house committees on ways and means containing the job classification, duties and salary of each officer and employee within the department and all personnel regulations established pursuant to section five. The treasurer shall file amendments to such report with the senate and house committees on ways and means whenever any changes become effective.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 233, sec. 13 — MA Code / Part III / Title II / Chapter 233 / Section 13
Penalty for nonattendance outside state
Status: in_force

Section 13. If the person on whom such summons is served is paid or tendered double the fees allowed by law for travel and attendance of witnesses in the supreme judicial court, and double traveling expenses for the whole distance out and home by the ordinary traveled route, he shall, if he neglects without good cause to attend as a witness at the court named in such summons, forfeit not more than three hundred dollars.

Section 13. If the person on whom such summons is served is paid or tendered double the fees allowed by law for travel and attendance of witnesses in the supreme judicial court, and double traveling expenses for the whole distance out and home by the ordinary traveled route, he shall, if he neglects without good cause to attend as a witness at the court named in such summons, forfeit not more than three hundred dollars.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 6, sec. 15SSS — MA Code / Part I / Title II / Chapter 6 / Section 15SSS
Emergency Management Week
Status: in_force

Section 15SSS. The governor shall annually issue a proclamation calling for the proper observance of Emergency Management Week during the week following the second Sunday of May as a period for special attention to preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation to protect lives and property from natural and technological hazards. During said Emergency Management Week, public safety, emergency response and emergency management personnel shall make a reasonable effort to conduct public information programs, training exercises and other activities designed to educate and inform the public regarding the importance of preparedness for emergencies, mitigation, to reduce harmful effects of natural and technological hazards, and appropriate response and recovery actions in the event of emergencies in the home, workplace, neighborhood, community or region.

Section 15SSS. The governor shall annually issue a proclamation calling for the proper observance of Emergency Management Week during the week following the second Sunday of May as a period for special attention to preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation to protect lives and property from natural and technological hazards. During said Emergency Management Week, public safety, emergency response and emergency management personnel shall make a reasonable effort to conduct public information programs, training exercises and other activities designed to educate and inform the public regarding the importance of preparedness for emergencies, mitigation, to reduce harmful effects of natural and technological hazards, and appropriate response and recovery actions in the event of emergencies in the home, workplace, neighborhood, community or region.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 94, sec. 9K — MA Code / Part I / Title XV / Chapter 94 / Section 9K
Inspection of bakeries; notice to owner, etc., of failure to comply with law; remedy
Status: in_force

Section 9K. If, after inspection, it is found that a bakery is not constructed, maintained, operated or the distribution of its products not conducted in accordance with sections two to six, inclusive, and sections nine F to nine J, inclusive, written notice shall be given to the owner or manager, stating the delinquency, and fixing a reasonable time within which the same shall be remedied and for hearing any party in interest.

Section 9K. If, after inspection, it is found that a bakery is not constructed, maintained, operated or the distribution of its products not conducted in accordance with sections two to six, inclusive, and sections nine F to nine J, inclusive, written notice shall be given to the owner or manager, stating the delinquency, and fixing a reasonable time within which the same shall be remedied and for hearing any party in interest.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 43, sec. 54 — MA Code / Part I / Title VII / Chapter 43 / Section 54
Removal of officials; exceptions
Status: in_force

Section 54. The mayor may remove the head of a department or member of a board by filing a written statement with the city clerk setting forth in detail the specific reasons therefor, a copy of which shall be delivered or mailed to the person thus removed, who may make a written reply, which, if he desires, may be filed with the city clerk; but such reply shall not affect the action taken unless the mayor so determines. This section shall not apply to the school committee, or to officials appointed by the governor, or to assessors if elected by the people.

Section 54. The mayor may remove the head of a department or member of a board by filing a written statement with the city clerk setting forth in detail the specific reasons therefor, a copy of which shall be delivered or mailed to the person thus removed, who may make a written reply, which, if he desires, may be filed with the city clerk; but such reply shall not affect the action taken unless the mayor so determines. This section shall not apply to the school committee, or to officials appointed by the governor, or to assessors if elected by the people.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 21E, sec. 15 — MA Code / Part I / Title II / Chapter 21E / Section 15
Citizen enforcement
Status: in_force

Section 15. In any suit by Massachusetts residents to enforce the requirements of this chapter, or to abate a hazard related to oil or hazardous materials in the environment, the court may award costs, including reasonable attorney and expert witness fees, to any party other than the commonwealth who advances the purposes of this chapter.

Section 15. In any suit by Massachusetts residents to enforce the requirements of this chapter, or to abate a hazard related to oil or hazardous materials in the environment, the court may award costs, including reasonable attorney and expert witness fees, to any party other than the commonwealth who advances the purposes of this chapter.