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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 275, sec. 8 — MA Code / Part IV / Title II / Chapter 275 / Section 8
Appeal from order to recognize
Status: in_force

Section 8. Whoever having waived jury trial in accordance with the provisions of section twenty-six A of chapter two hundred and eighteen is aggrieved by an order of the Boston municipal court or the district court, requiring him to recognize as provided aforesaid, may, upon giving the security required, appeal to the jury session designated pursuant to section twenty-seven A of chapter two hundred and eighteen for the conduct of jury trials in cases brought in the court wherein said order was made.

Section 8. Whoever having waived jury trial in accordance with the provisions of section twenty-six A of chapter two hundred and eighteen is aggrieved by an order of the Boston municipal court or the district court, requiring him to recognize as provided aforesaid, may, upon giving the security required, appeal to the jury session designated pursuant to section twenty-seven A of chapter two hundred and eighteen for the conduct of jury trials in cases brought in the court wherein said order was made.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 40U, sec. 5 — MA Code / Part I / Title VII / Chapter 40U / Section 5
Sidewalk snow and ice removal; penalties for non-compliance; standards for clearance
Status: in_force

Section 5. A municipality shall by ordinances and by-laws provide for the removal of snow and ice from sidewalks within such portions of the municipality as they consider expedient by the owner of land abutting such sidewalks. Such ordinances and by-laws shall determine the time and manner of removal and shall affix penalties, not exceeding $200, for each such violation. Such ordinances and by-laws shall be specific as to the width of the area to be cleared and the standards for clearance.

Section 5. A municipality shall by ordinances and by-laws provide for the removal of snow and ice from sidewalks within such portions of the municipality as they consider expedient by the owner of land abutting such sidewalks. Such ordinances and by-laws shall determine the time and manner of removal and shall affix penalties, not exceeding $200, for each such violation. Such ordinances and by-laws shall be specific as to the width of the area to be cleared and the standards for clearance.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 7, sec. 3E — MA Code / Part I / Title II / Chapter 7 / Section 3E
Reports; annual printing; electronic form
Status: in_force

Section 3E. All reports required to be made by permanent state departments, officers and commissions may, subject to the approval of the secretary and except as otherwise provided, be printed annually or otherwise published in electronic form.

Section 3E. All reports required to be made by permanent state departments, officers and commissions may, subject to the approval of the secretary and except as otherwise provided, be printed annually or otherwise published in electronic form.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 267, sec. 3 — MA Code / Part IV / Title I / Chapter 267 / Section 3
Seal of land court; stamping documents without authority
Status: in_force

Section 3. Whoever forges, procures to be forged or assists in forging, the seal of the land court, or, without lawful authority, stamps or procures to be stamped, or assists in stamping, any document with such forged seal or with the genuine seal of said court, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than ten years or in jail for not more than two years.

Section 3. Whoever forges, procures to be forged or assists in forging, the seal of the land court, or, without lawful authority, stamps or procures to be stamped, or assists in stamping, any document with such forged seal or with the genuine seal of said court, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than ten years or in jail for not more than two years.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 81, sec. 24 — MA Code / Part I / Title XIV / Chapter 81 / Section 24
Authorization
Status: in_force

Section 24. The department may, whenever any money is appropriated by the general court for its use in the construction or improvement of any particular way, expend such money in constructing or improving the whole or such part of said way as it deems best, either upon the location of the existing way or upon any new location that may be established by the county commissioners or the selectmen, and no part of the way so improved shall thereby become a state highway or be maintained as such. The department may, however, lay out the whole or any part of any such way as a state highway.

Section 24. The department may, whenever any money is appropriated by the general court for its use in the construction or improvement of any particular way, expend such money in constructing or improving the whole or such part of said way as it deems best, either upon the location of the existing way or upon any new location that may be established by the county commissioners or the selectmen, and no part of the way so improved shall thereby become a state highway or be maintained as such. The department may, however, lay out the whole or any part of any such way as a state highway.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 6, sec. 172F — MA Code / Part I / Title II / Chapter 6 / Section 172F
Conviction and arrest data available to department of early education and care
Status: in_force

[Text of section applicable as provided by 2018, 202, 27.]

[Text of section applicable as provided by 2018, 202, 27.]

Section 172F. Notwithstanding section 172, the following information shall be available, upon request, to the department of early education and care for the purposes of evaluating any residence, facility, program, system or other entity licensed under chapter 15D whether public or private, or any child care provider or program exempt from licensure under said chapter 15D that receives federal or state funding in order to further the protection of children: conviction data, arrest data, sealed record data and juvenile arrest or conviction data. The same information shall be available, upon request, to adoption and foster placement agencies licensed by the department of early education and care for purposes of evaluating prospective or current adoptive or foster parents and their household members 15 years of age and older. The department of early education and care and adoption and foster placement agencies licensed by the department in receipt of such data shall not disseminate this information for any purpose other than to further the protection of children.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 179, sec. 34 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 179 / Section 34
Enclosure by proprietor of own land; effect on common field
Status: in_force

Section 34. A proprietor may enclose his land at his own expense; and, so long as he keeps it enclosed with a sufficient fence, may cultivate and use it as he thinks fit; and during such period, so far as such enclosed land is concerned, he shall neither be assessed for any expenses incident to the common field nor exercise any control over the portion thereof not enclosed.

Section 34. A proprietor may enclose his land at his own expense; and, so long as he keeps it enclosed with a sufficient fence, may cultivate and use it as he thinks fit; and during such period, so far as such enclosed land is concerned, he shall neither be assessed for any expenses incident to the common field nor exercise any control over the portion thereof not enclosed.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 203E, sec. 1009 — MA Code / Part II / Title II / Chapter 203E / Section 1009
Beneficiary's consent, release or ratification
Status: in_force

Section 1009. Beneficiary's consent, release or ratification A trustee shall not be liable to a beneficiary for breach of trust if the beneficiary, while having capacity, in writing, consented to the conduct constituting the breach, released the trustee from liability for the breach or ratified the transaction constituting the breach, unless: (1) the consent, release or ratification of the beneficiary was induced by improper conduct of the trustee; or (2) at the time of the consent, release or ratification, the beneficiary did not know of the material facts relating to the breach.

Section 1009. Beneficiary's consent, release or ratification

A trustee shall not be liable to a beneficiary for breach of trust if the beneficiary, while having capacity, in writing, consented to the conduct constituting the breach, released the trustee from liability for the breach or ratified the transaction constituting the breach, unless:

(1) the consent, release or ratification of the beneficiary was induced by improper conduct of the trustee; or

(2) at the time of the consent, release or ratification, the beneficiary did not know of the material facts relating to the breach.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 67, sec. 34 — MA Code / Part I / Title XI / Chapter 67 / Section 34
Meeting-houses unfit for worship; rights of pew owners to compensation
Status: in_force

Section 34. The preceding section shall not entitle a person to compensation for a pew taken down in a meeting house which is unfit for the purposes of public worship.

Section 34. The preceding section shall not entitle a person to compensation for a pew taken down in a meeting house which is unfit for the purposes of public worship.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 43, sec. 7 — MA Code / Part I / Title VII / Chapter 43 / Section 7
Adoption of plan; filing of petition calling for vote
Status: in_force

Section 7. A petition addressed to the city council, signed by qualified voters of the city to a number equal at least to ten per cent of the registered voters at the state election next preceding the filing of the petition and in the form provided in section eight may be filed with the city clerk who shall forthwith transmit the same to the registrars of voters, who shall within sixty days certify the signatures thereon in accordance with the provisions of law and return the petition to the city clerk. The petition shall be filed with the city clerk at least one hundred and forty days before the date of the election at which the question proposed by the petition is to be submitted to a vote of the voters.

Section 7. A petition addressed to the city council, signed by qualified voters of the city to a number equal at least to ten per cent of the registered voters at the state election next preceding the filing of the petition and in the form provided in section eight may be filed with the city clerk who shall forthwith transmit the same to the registrars of voters, who shall within sixty days certify the signatures thereon in accordance with the provisions of law and return the petition to the city clerk.

The petition shall be filed with the city clerk at least one hundred and forty days before the date of the election at which the question proposed by the petition is to be submitted to a vote of the voters.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 161, sec. 116 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 161 / Section 116
Cost of service; definitions
Status: in_force

Section 116. The cost of the service shall include operating expenses, taxes, rentals, interest on all indebtedness as hereinafter defined, dividends on preferred stock, an interest return at the rate of six per cent per annum upon the stock investment as determined by the department under this section and such allowances for depreciation, obsolescence, and losses in respect to property sold, destroyed or abandoned as may be fixed from time to time in the case of each company by the department, and all other expenditures and charges which, under the classification of accounts of the interstate commerce commission and under the laws of the commonwealth, are properly chargeable against income or surplus. The words ''stock investment'' as used in said sections shall mean the capital investment, as hereinafter defined, less the amount paid in for outstanding preferred stock, bonds and other evidences of funded indebtedness. The words ''capital investment'' as used in said sections shall mean the amount of cash or fair value of the property paid in for stock, bonds and other evidences of funded indebtedness and properly expended for capital purposes, such amount to be determined by the department; provided, that if it has approved the issue of any such securities, no further determination in regard to the capital investment represented by such securities shall be necessary.

Section 116. The cost of the service shall include operating expenses, taxes, rentals, interest on all indebtedness as hereinafter defined, dividends on preferred stock, an interest return at the rate of six per cent per annum upon the stock investment as determined by the department under this section and such allowances for depreciation, obsolescence, and losses in respect to property sold, destroyed or abandoned as may be fixed from time to time in the case of each company by the department, and all other expenditures and charges which, under the classification of accounts of the interstate commerce commission and under the laws of the commonwealth, are properly chargeable against income or surplus. The words ''stock investment'' as used in said sections shall mean the capital investment, as hereinafter defined, less the amount paid in for outstanding preferred stock, bonds and other evidences of funded indebtedness. The words ''capital investment'' as used in said sections shall mean the amount of cash or fair value of the property paid in for stock, bonds and other evidences of funded indebtedness and properly expended for capital purposes, such amount to be determined by the department; provided, that if it has approved the issue of any such securities, no further determination in regard to the capital investment represented by such securities shall be necessary.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 134, sec. 3 — MA Code / Part I / Title XX / Chapter 134 / Section 3
Restitution of property
Status: in_force

Section 3. If, within three months after the finding of stray beasts, or within one year after the finding of lost money or goods, the owner appears and, except as otherwise provided in section two, pays all reasonable expenses incurred by the finder in keeping such goods or beasts and in complying with this chapter, he shall have restitution of the money, goods or beasts.

Section 3. If, within three months after the finding of stray beasts, or within one year after the finding of lost money or goods, the owner appears and, except as otherwise provided in section two, pays all reasonable expenses incurred by the finder in keeping such goods or beasts and in complying with this chapter, he shall have restitution of the money, goods or beasts.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 241, sec. 10 — MA Code / Part III / Title III / Chapter 241 / Section 10
Interlocutory decree; redemption
Status: in_force

Section 10. If it is found that the petitioner is entitled to have partition for the share claimed or for any less share, the court shall make the interlocutory decree that partition be made, and therein determine the persons to whom and the proportions in which the shares shall be set off. The petition shall not be defeated by the payment by a party of a mortgage, lien, tax or other encumbrance upon the land, if the other parties are entitled to redeem from such payment; but the interlocutory decree shall contain such terms and conditions relative to redemption by a contribution on account of any such payment as the court may deem equitable.

Section 10. If it is found that the petitioner is entitled to have partition for the share claimed or for any less share, the court shall make the interlocutory decree that partition be made, and therein determine the persons to whom and the proportions in which the shares shall be set off. The petition shall not be defeated by the payment by a party of a mortgage, lien, tax or other encumbrance upon the land, if the other parties are entitled to redeem from such payment; but the interlocutory decree shall contain such terms and conditions relative to redemption by a contribution on account of any such payment as the court may deem equitable.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 143, sec. 91 — MA Code / Part I / Title XX / Chapter 143 / Section 91
Violations of Secs. 1 to 90; penalty
Status: in_force

Section 91. Whoever violates any of the provisions of sections one to ninety, inclusive, shall, unless another penalty is prescribed, be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars.

Section 91. Whoever violates any of the provisions of sections one to ninety, inclusive, shall, unless another penalty is prescribed, be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 149, sec. 68 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXI / Chapter 149 / Section 68
Time for work of minor messengers
Status: in_force

Section 68. Except for the delivery of messages directly connected with the business of conducting or publishing a newspaper to a newspaper office or directly between newspaper offices, no person shall employ a minor or permit him to work as messenger for a telegraph, telephone or messenger company in the distribution, transmission or delivery of goods or messages before five o'clock in the morning or after ten o'clock in the evening.

Section 68. Except for the delivery of messages directly connected with the business of conducting or publishing a newspaper to a newspaper office or directly between newspaper offices, no person shall employ a minor or permit him to work as messenger for a telegraph, telephone or messenger company in the distribution, transmission or delivery of goods or messages before five o'clock in the morning or after ten o'clock in the evening.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 160, sec. 193 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 160 / Section 193
Sale of season tickets to express messengers; release of liability for personal injury
Status: in_force

Section 193. Every railroad corporation shall sell to an express messenger or to a person conducting a local express business, as provided in section two hundred and six, in its trains or cars within the commonwealth, a season ticket for his personal transportation, at a price not exceeding that at which similar tickets are sold to passengers, upon receiving from him a release of all right, to whomsoever accruing, to damages or compensation for death or for any personal injury received by him while riding on such ticket.

Section 193. Every railroad corporation shall sell to an express messenger or to a person conducting a local express business, as provided in section two hundred and six, in its trains or cars within the commonwealth, a season ticket for his personal transportation, at a price not exceeding that at which similar tickets are sold to passengers, upon receiving from him a release of all right, to whomsoever accruing, to damages or compensation for death or for any personal injury received by him while riding on such ticket.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 111, sec. 69L — MA Code / Part I / Title XVI / Chapter 111 / Section 69L
Vehicles; moving and parking rules; violations
Status: in_force

Section 69L. The commissioner shall establish rules for the control, movement and parking of vehicles on the lands within the charge of the department or the various institutions under its jurisdiction, and shall provide reasonable penalties for the violation of said rules. The commissioner may authorize the towing of vehicles parked in violation of said rules, and the owner of a vehicle which is towed shall be liable, in addition to the penalty for such violation, for the charge for removal and storage of the vehicle. Citations for violation of any rule established pursuant to this section may be issued by special state police officers appointed pursuant to section sixty of chapter twenty-two C, local and county law enforcement personnel and the state police.

Section 69L. The commissioner shall establish rules for the control, movement and parking of vehicles on the lands within the charge of the department or the various institutions under its jurisdiction, and shall provide reasonable penalties for the violation of said rules. The commissioner may authorize the towing of vehicles parked in violation of said rules, and the owner of a vehicle which is towed shall be liable, in addition to the penalty for such violation, for the charge for removal and storage of the vehicle. Citations for violation of any rule established pursuant to this section may be issued by special state police officers appointed pursuant to section sixty of chapter twenty-two C, local and county law enforcement personnel and the state police.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 132A, sec. 3B — MA Code / Part I / Title XIX / Chapter 132A / Section 3B
Acquisition of rights by prescription or adverse possession
Status: in_force

Section 3B. A person shall not acquire any rights by prescription or adverse possession in any lands or rights in lands of the commonwealth under the control of the department of conservation and recreation.

Section 3B. A person shall not acquire any rights by prescription or adverse possession in any lands or rights in lands of the commonwealth under the control of the department of conservation and recreation.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 176P, sec. 20 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 176P / Section 20
Death benefit certificates
Status: in_force

Section 20. A certificate issued by any society shall specify the amount of death benefit provided by it. The certificate, the charter of the articles of organization, or, if it is a voluntary association, the articles of association, the constitution and by-laws of the society, the application for membership, the medical examination, if any, signed by the applicant, and all amendments to each thereof, shall constitute the agreement between the society and the members. Copies of such documents, certified by the secretary of the society or corresponding officer, shall be received as evidence of the terms and conditions thereof. Any changes, additions or amendments to the charter, articles of incorporation, or articles of association, constitution or by-laws duly made or enacted subsequent to the issuance of a benefit certificate shall bind the member and his beneficiaries, and shall govern and control the agreement in all respects in the same manner as if such changes, additions or amendments had been made prior to and were in force at the time of the application for membership. The language in the preceding sentence shall be incorporated in substance in every benefit certificate hereafter issued.

Section 20. A certificate issued by any society shall specify the amount of death benefit provided by it. The certificate, the charter of the articles of organization, or, if it is a voluntary association, the articles of association, the constitution and by-laws of the society, the application for membership, the medical examination, if any, signed by the applicant, and all amendments to each thereof, shall constitute the agreement between the society and the members. Copies of such documents, certified by the secretary of the society or corresponding officer, shall be received as evidence of the terms and conditions thereof. Any changes, additions or amendments to the charter, articles of incorporation, or articles of association, constitution or by-laws duly made or enacted subsequent to the issuance of a benefit certificate shall bind the member and his beneficiaries, and shall govern and control the agreement in all respects in the same manner as if such changes, additions or amendments had been made prior to and were in force at the time of the application for membership. The language in the preceding sentence shall be incorporated in substance in every benefit certificate hereafter issued.