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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 171, sec. 10 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 171 / Section 10
Amendment of by-laws
Status: in_force

Section 10. The by-laws may be amended at any annual meeting, or at a special meeting called for the purpose, by a majority vote of all of the members present and entitled to vote; provided, however, that the notice of the meeting and of the proposed amendment is given each member in the manner prescribed in said by-laws. No amendment or amendments containing a change in the conditions of residence, occupation or association which qualify persons for membership shall become operative until approved in writing by the commissioner.

Section 10. The by-laws may be amended at any annual meeting, or at a special meeting called for the purpose, by a majority vote of all of the members present and entitled to vote; provided, however, that the notice of the meeting and of the proposed amendment is given each member in the manner prescribed in said by-laws. No amendment or amendments containing a change in the conditions of residence, occupation or association which qualify persons for membership shall become operative until approved in writing by the commissioner.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 6, sec. 92 — MA Code / Part I / Title II / Chapter 6 / Section 92
Nuclear material or facility; license or permit
Status: in_force

Section 92. No person shall manufacture, construct, produce, transfer, acquire or possess any special nuclear material, by-product material, production facility, or utilization facility, or act as an operator of a production or utilization facility within this commonwealth unless he shall have first obtained a license or permit for the activity in which he proposes to engage from the United States Atomic Energy Commission if, pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, the Commission requires a license or permit to be obtained by persons proposing to engage in activities of the same type over which it has jurisdiction. Special nuclear materials, as defined in Section 2014 of Title 42 of the United States Code, produced in industrial, commercial or medical facilities may not be transferred, reprocessed, used or otherwise made available by any person for nuclear explosive purposes.

Section 92. No person shall manufacture, construct, produce, transfer, acquire or possess any special nuclear material, by-product material, production facility, or utilization facility, or act as an operator of a production or utilization facility within this commonwealth unless he shall have first obtained a license or permit for the activity in which he proposes to engage from the United States Atomic Energy Commission if, pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, the Commission requires a license or permit to be obtained by persons proposing to engage in activities of the same type over which it has jurisdiction.

Special nuclear materials, as defined in Section 2014 of Title 42 of the United States Code, produced in industrial, commercial or medical facilities may not be transferred, reprocessed, used or otherwise made available by any person for nuclear explosive purposes.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 221, sec. 7 — MA Code / Part III / Title I / Chapter 221 / Section 7
Deputy assistant clerks
Status: in_force

Section 7. The clerks of the courts may designate such employees in their offices, as in their judgment may be necessary for the convenience of the public, as deputy assistant clerks of the courts, who shall have the same authority to administer oaths as the assistant clerks of the courts. Under the direction of the clerk, such of his duties as clerk of the county commissioners as he shall designate shall be performed by a deputy assistant clerk. The clerks of the courts may from time to time, as necessity or the public convenience requires, authorize in writing one or more deputy assistant clerks, designated as aforesaid, to act as assistant clerks of the courts and may in like manner invest them with such powers of assistant clerks as may be necessary for the purpose.

Section 7. The clerks of the courts may designate such employees in their offices, as in their judgment may be necessary for the convenience of the public, as deputy assistant clerks of the courts, who shall have the same authority to administer oaths as the assistant clerks of the courts. Under the direction of the clerk, such of his duties as clerk of the county commissioners as he shall designate shall be performed by a deputy assistant clerk. The clerks of the courts may from time to time, as necessity or the public convenience requires, authorize in writing one or more deputy assistant clerks, designated as aforesaid, to act as assistant clerks of the courts and may in like manner invest them with such powers of assistant clerks as may be necessary for the purpose.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 90H, sec. 3 — MA Code / Part I / Title XIV / Chapter 90H / Section 3
Consultations; annual report
Status: in_force

Section 3. The secretary and the commissioner shall consult on a regular basis with the secretary of economic development, the secretary of the executive office of environmental affairs, the commissioner of the department of environmental management and the director of the office of travel and tourism in order to determine the extent and nature of improvements the department may undertake to accomplish the purposes of this chapter. The commissioner shall file a report with the clerks of the senate and house of representatives on or before the first day of December of each year detailing the improvements undertaken on the gateway roads during the prior year and outlining the projects to be undertaken on said roads during the subsequent year.

Section 3. The secretary and the commissioner shall consult on a regular basis with the secretary of economic development, the secretary of the executive office of environmental affairs, the commissioner of the department of environmental management and the director of the office of travel and tourism in order to determine the extent and nature of improvements the department may undertake to accomplish the purposes of this chapter. The commissioner shall file a report with the clerks of the senate and house of representatives on or before the first day of December of each year detailing the improvements undertaken on the gateway roads during the prior year and outlining the projects to be undertaken on said roads during the subsequent year.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 184, sec. 5 — MA Code / Part II / Title I / Chapter 184 / Section 5
Conveyance vesting life estate and remainder to heirs
Status: in_force

Section 5. If land is granted or devised to a person and after his death to his heirs in fee, however the grant or devise is expressed, an estate for life only shall vest in such first taker, and a remainder in fee simple in his heirs.

Section 5. If land is granted or devised to a person and after his death to his heirs in fee, however the grant or devise is expressed, an estate for life only shall vest in such first taker, and a remainder in fee simple in his heirs.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 175, sec. 110A — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 175 / Section 110A
Disability insurance; exemption from attachment; exception
Status: in_force

Section 110A. So much of any benefit under a policy of insurance insuring against disability from injury or disease as does not exceed four hundred dollars for each week during any period of disability covered thereby shall not be liable to attachment, trustee process or other process, or to be seized, taken, appropriated or applied by any legal or equitable process or by operation of law, either before or after payment of such benefit, to pay any debt or liabilities of the person insured under such policy, but this exemption shall not apply where an action or suit is brought to recover for necessaries contracted for during said period and the writ or bill of complaint contains a statement to that effect.

Section 110A. So much of any benefit under a policy of insurance insuring against disability from injury or disease as does not exceed four hundred dollars for each week during any period of disability covered thereby shall not be liable to attachment, trustee process or other process, or to be seized, taken, appropriated or applied by any legal or equitable process or by operation of law, either before or after payment of such benefit, to pay any debt or liabilities of the person insured under such policy, but this exemption shall not apply where an action or suit is brought to recover for necessaries contracted for during said period and the writ or bill of complaint contains a statement to that effect.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 8, sec. 14 — MA Code / Part I / Title II / Chapter 8 / Section 14
Military history museum
Status: in_force

Section 14. The superintendent may expend not more than $10,000 from the State House Special Event Fund established in section 35P of chapter 10 annually for the maintenance of the museum established in the state house for the preservation and exhibition of the regimental flags and other military relics in the possession of the commonwealth and of other objects connected with the military history of the United States and especially of the New England states.

Section 14. The superintendent may expend not more than $10,000 from the State House Special Event Fund established in section 35P of chapter 10 annually for the maintenance of the museum established in the state house for the preservation and exhibition of the regimental flags and other military relics in the possession of the commonwealth and of other objects connected with the military history of the United States and especially of the New England states.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 110A, sec. 403 — MA Code / Part I / Title XV / Chapter 110A / Section 403
Filing of Sales and Advertising Literature
Status: in_force

Section 403. The secretary by rule or order may require the filing of any prospectus, pamphlet, circular, form letter, advertisement, or other sales literature or advertising communication addressed or intended for distribution to prospective investors, unless the security or transaction is exempted by section 402 or is a federal covered security. A rule or order relating to any security including a revenue obligation issued or guaranteed by the commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof or any agency or corporate or other instrumentality of one or more of the foregoing or any certificate of deposit for any of the foregoing may require the issuer thereof to file sales literature, but no such rule or order shall require sales literature to be prepared or require affirmative approval or filing of sales literature before it is used or require issuers located outside the commonwealth to file any literature; nor shall violation of any such rule or order be subject to the penalties provided by paragraph (a) of section 409.

Section 403. The secretary by rule or order may require the filing of any prospectus, pamphlet, circular, form letter, advertisement, or other sales literature or advertising communication addressed or intended for distribution to prospective investors, unless the security or transaction is exempted by section 402 or is a federal covered security. A rule or order relating to any security including a revenue obligation issued or guaranteed by the commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof or any agency or corporate or other instrumentality of one or more of the foregoing or any certificate of deposit for any of the foregoing may require the issuer thereof to file sales literature, but no such rule or order shall require sales literature to be prepared or require affirmative approval or filing of sales literature before it is used or require issuers located outside the commonwealth to file any literature; nor shall violation of any such rule or order be subject to the penalties provided by paragraph (a) of section 409.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 176A, sec. 3 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 176A / Section 3
Certificate of compliance; examination by commissioner
Status: in_force

Section 3. No non-profit hospital service corporation shall make or issue any contract to provide hospital care and reimbursement for other health services until it has obtained from the commissioner of insurance, in this section called the commissioner, a certificate, in such form as he may prescribe, stating that the corporation has complied with the conditions set forth in this chapter and all other provisions of law authorizing it to make or issue such contract. No such certificate shall be issued until the commissioner is satisfied, by such examination as he may make and such evidence as he may require, that the corporation has complied with the laws of the commonwealth, adopted a proper system of accounting, and employed either full time or on a consulting basis a competent accountant, a competent claim manager, a competent and experienced underwriter, and a competent and experienced actuary; nor, until the commissioner is satisfied, by such examination as he may make and by an affidavit filed with him, and by such evidence as he may require, that the corporation is without liabilities, except such organization expenses as the commissioner shall approve as reasonable; nor until he is satisfied that its officers and directors are of good repute and competent to manage a non-profit hospital service corporation.

Section 3. No non-profit hospital service corporation shall make or issue any contract to provide hospital care and reimbursement for other health services until it has obtained from the commissioner of insurance, in this section called the commissioner, a certificate, in such form as he may prescribe, stating that the corporation has complied with the conditions set forth in this chapter and all other provisions of law authorizing it to make or issue such contract. No such certificate shall be issued until the commissioner is satisfied, by such examination as he may make and such evidence as he may require, that the corporation has complied with the laws of the commonwealth, adopted a proper system of accounting, and employed either full time or on a consulting basis a competent accountant, a competent claim manager, a competent and experienced underwriter, and a competent and experienced actuary; nor, until the commissioner is satisfied, by such examination as he may make and by an affidavit filed with him, and by such evidence as he may require, that the corporation is without liabilities, except such organization expenses as the commissioner shall approve as reasonable; nor until he is satisfied that its officers and directors are of good repute and competent to manage a non-profit hospital service corporation.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, sec. 63 — MA Code / Part I / Title XIX / Chapter 130 / Section 63
Exclusive rights of licensees or transferees; trespass on licensed area; treble damages
Status: in_force

Section 63. The licensee or transferee, or his legal representatives, shall, for the purposes set forth in section fifty-seven and in accord with the terms set forth in said license, have during the term of the license or of any renewal thereof the exclusive use of the waters, flats or creeks described in the license, and the exclusive right to take all shellfish therefrom during the time therein specified, notwithstanding any regulations made by the aldermen, city council or selectmen of the city or town, subsequent to the issuance of such license or to the renewal thereof, as the case may be; provided, that this section shall not be construed to authorize any taking prohibited by law. The licensee or transferee, or his legal representatives, may in tort recover treble damages of any person who without his or their consent, unless otherwise authorized by law or by lawful regulation so to do, digs or takes shellfish of any kind, or shells, from such waters, flats or creeks, or disturbs the same thereon, during the continuance of the license or of any renewal thereof.

Section 63. The licensee or transferee, or his legal representatives, shall, for the purposes set forth in section fifty-seven and in accord with the terms set forth in said license, have during the term of the license or of any renewal thereof the exclusive use of the waters, flats or creeks described in the license, and the exclusive right to take all shellfish therefrom during the time therein specified, notwithstanding any regulations made by the aldermen, city council or selectmen of the city or town, subsequent to the issuance of such license or to the renewal thereof, as the case may be; provided, that this section shall not be construed to authorize any taking prohibited by law. The licensee or transferee, or his legal representatives, may in tort recover treble damages of any person who without his or their consent, unless otherwise authorized by law or by lawful regulation so to do, digs or takes shellfish of any kind, or shells, from such waters, flats or creeks, or disturbs the same thereon, during the continuance of the license or of any renewal thereof.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 29, sec. 9F — MA Code / Part I / Title III / Chapter 29 / Section 9F
Periodic appropriations; notification of expenditures
Status: in_force

Section 9F. After the close of each monthly accounting period, the comptroller shall notify the secretary of administration and finance and each officer having charge of an office, department or undertaking which receives a periodic appropriation, of the amount and per cent of each such appropriation which had been expended at the close of the preceding month for that month and for the year-to-date, of the amount available for each such appropriation and of the amount and per cent of each appropriation, if any, for the same purpose expended during the corresponding period in the preceding fiscal year.

Section 9F. After the close of each monthly accounting period, the comptroller shall notify the secretary of administration and finance and each officer having charge of an office, department or undertaking which receives a periodic appropriation, of the amount and per cent of each such appropriation which had been expended at the close of the preceding month for that month and for the year-to-date, of the amount available for each such appropriation and of the amount and per cent of each appropriation, if any, for the same purpose expended during the corresponding period in the preceding fiscal year.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 227, sec. 13 — MA Code / Part III / Title II / Chapter 227 / Section 13
Tort actions
Status: in_force

Section 13. An action of tort against several defendants, any one of whom is absent from the commonwealth at the time of the service of process, shall be conducted with regard to him relative to the service of process, judgment, review thereof and execution as if he were the sole defendant.

Section 13. An action of tort against several defendants, any one of whom is absent from the commonwealth at the time of the service of process, shall be conducted with regard to him relative to the service of process, judgment, review thereof and execution as if he were the sole defendant.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 176, sec. 34 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 176 / Section 34
Foreign or alien societies; suspension or denial of license
Status: in_force

Section 34. When the commissioner upon investigation finds that a foreign or alien society transacting or applying to transact business in this state, (a) has exceeded its powers; (b) has failed to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter; (c) is not fulfilling its contracts in good faith; or (d) is conducting its business fraudulently or in a manner hazardous to its members or creditors or the public, he shall notify the society of his findings, state in writing the reasons for his dissatisfaction, and require the society to show cause on a date named why its license should not be suspended, revoked or refused. If on such date the society does not present good and sufficient reason why its authority to do business in this state should not be suspended, revoked or refused, he may suspend or refuse the license of the society to do business in this state until satisfactory evidence is furnished to him that such suspension or refusal should be withdrawn, or he may revoke the authority of the society to do business in this state. Nothing contained in this section shall be taken or construed as preventing any such society from continuing in good faith all contracts made in the commonwealth during the time such society was legally authorized to transact business herein.

Section 34. When the commissioner upon investigation finds that a foreign or alien society transacting or applying to transact business in this state, (a) has exceeded its powers; (b) has failed to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter; (c) is not fulfilling its contracts in good faith; or (d) is conducting its business fraudulently or in a manner hazardous to its members or creditors or the public, he shall notify the society of his findings, state in writing the reasons for his dissatisfaction, and require the society to show cause on a date named why its license should not be suspended, revoked or refused. If on such date the society does not present good and sufficient reason why its authority to do business in this state should not be suspended, revoked or refused, he may suspend or refuse the license of the society to do business in this state until satisfactory evidence is furnished to him that such suspension or refusal should be withdrawn, or he may revoke the authority of the society to do business in this state.

Nothing contained in this section shall be taken or construed as preventing any such society from continuing in good faith all contracts made in the commonwealth during the time such society was legally authorized to transact business herein.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 176G, sec. 4Z — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 176G / Section 4Z
Preauthorization for substance abuse treatment not to be required
Status: in_force

Section 4Z. For the purposes of this section the term ''substance abuse treatment'' shall include: early intervention services for substance use disorder treatment; a substance use disorder evaluation, as defined in section 511/2 of chapter 111; outpatient services including medically assisted therapies; intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization services; residential or inpatient services, not covered under section 4AA; and medically managed intensive inpatient services, not covered under said section 4AA. Any individual or group health maintenance contract that is issued or renewed shall not require a member to obtain a preauthorization for substance abuse treatment if the provider is certified or licensed by the department of public health.

Section 4Z. For the purposes of this section the term ''substance abuse treatment'' shall include: early intervention services for substance use disorder treatment; a substance use disorder evaluation, as defined in section 511/2 of chapter 111; outpatient services including medically assisted therapies; intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization services; residential or inpatient services, not covered under section 4AA; and medically managed intensive inpatient services, not covered under said section 4AA.

Any individual or group health maintenance contract that is issued or renewed shall not require a member to obtain a preauthorization for substance abuse treatment if the provider is certified or licensed by the department of public health.