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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 143, sec. 90 — MA Code / Part I / Title XX / Chapter 143 / Section 90
Contract to repair or remodel dwelling; exculpatory provisions
Status: in_force

Section 90. Any provision in a contract to repair or remodel a dwelling whereby the contractor seeks by the use of any words whatsoever to preclude or exonerate himself from liability to the owner, tenant or any other person for any injury, loss or damage arising from any omission, fault, negligence or other misconduct on his part shall be printed in twelve point bold face type.

Section 90. Any provision in a contract to repair or remodel a dwelling whereby the contractor seeks by the use of any words whatsoever to preclude or exonerate himself from liability to the owner, tenant or any other person for any injury, loss or damage arising from any omission, fault, negligence or other misconduct on his part shall be printed in twelve point bold face type.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 260, sec. 21 — MA Code / Part III / Title V / Chapter 260 / Section 21
Recovery of land
Status: in_force

Section 21. An action for the recovery of land shall be commenced, or an entry made thereon, only within twenty years after the right of action or of entry first accrued, or within twenty years after the demandant or the person making the entry, or those under whom they claim, have been seized or possessed of the premises; provided, however, that this section shall not bar an action by or on behalf of a nonprofit land conservation corporation or trust for the recovery of land or interests in land held for conservation, parks, recreation, water protection or wildlife protection purposes.

Section 21. An action for the recovery of land shall be commenced, or an entry made thereon, only within twenty years after the right of action or of entry first accrued, or within twenty years after the demandant or the person making the entry, or those under whom they claim, have been seized or possessed of the premises; provided, however, that this section shall not bar an action by or on behalf of a nonprofit land conservation corporation or trust for the recovery of land or interests in land held for conservation, parks, recreation, water protection or wildlife protection purposes.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 6, sec. 15DD — MA Code / Part I / Title II / Chapter 6 / Section 15DD
Independence Day
Status: in_force

Section 15DD. The governor shall annually issue a proclamation calling for a proper observance of July fourth as Independence Day, in commemoration of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress of 1776 and recommending that said day be observed in an appropriate manner by the people.

Section 15DD. The governor shall annually issue a proclamation calling for a proper observance of July fourth as Independence Day, in commemoration of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress of 1776 and recommending that said day be observed in an appropriate manner by the people.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 146, sec. 26 — MA Code / Part I / Title XX / Chapter 146 / Section 26
Insurance on non-certificated boiler; notice; inspection; boiler not conforming to rules
Status: in_force

Section 26. If a boiler is insured which has not previously been inspected externally and internally and a certificate of inspection issued, the company so insuring shall forthwith notify the chief to that effect, and shall inspect such boiler internally and externally within one month after the insurance is effected. No insurance shall be effected on any boiler which does not conform to the rules of the board.

Section 26. If a boiler is insured which has not previously been inspected externally and internally and a certificate of inspection issued, the company so insuring shall forthwith notify the chief to that effect, and shall inspect such boiler internally and externally within one month after the insurance is effected. No insurance shall be effected on any boiler which does not conform to the rules of the board.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 231, sec. 61 — MA Code / Part III / Title II / Chapter 231 / Section 61
Filing interrogatories
Status: in_force

Section 61. The provisions of this section and of sections sixty-two through sixty-nine, inclusive, shall be applicable only to civil proceedings which are not governed by the Massachusetts Rules of Civil Procedure or the District-Municipal Courts Rules of Civil Procedure. Any party, after the commencement of an action, may interrogate an adverse party for the discovery of facts and documents admissible in evidence at the trial of the case. No party shall file as of right more than thirty interrogatories, including interrogatories subsidiary or incidental to, or dependent upon, other interrogatories, and however the same may be grouped, combined or arranged; but for adequate cause shown, the court may allow additional interrogatories to be filed. The word ''party'', in this section, in sections sixty-two to sixty-five, inclusive, and in section sixty-seven, shall be deemed to include parties intervening or otherwise admitted after the beginning of the suit.

Section 61. The provisions of this section and of sections sixty-two through sixty-nine, inclusive, shall be applicable only to civil proceedings which are not governed by the Massachusetts Rules of Civil Procedure or the District-Municipal Courts Rules of Civil Procedure. Any party, after the commencement of an action, may interrogate an adverse party for the discovery of facts and documents admissible in evidence at the trial of the case. No party shall file as of right more than thirty interrogatories, including interrogatories subsidiary or incidental to, or dependent upon, other interrogatories, and however the same may be grouped, combined or arranged; but for adequate cause shown, the court may allow additional interrogatories to be filed. The word ''party'', in this section, in sections sixty-two to sixty-five, inclusive, and in section sixty-seven, shall be deemed to include parties intervening or otherwise admitted after the beginning of the suit.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 53, sec. 21 — MA Code / Part I / Title VIII / Chapter 53 / Section 21
Applications; filing deadline; number of questions; resubmission
Status: in_force

Section 21. Applications shall be filed with the state secretary not later than the first Wednesday of August before the election at which the questions are to be submitted. Not more than three questions under section nineteen shall be placed upon the ballot at one election, and they shall be submitted in the order in which the applications are filed. No question negatived and no question substantially the same shall be submitted again in less than three years.

Section 21. Applications shall be filed with the state secretary not later than the first Wednesday of August before the election at which the questions are to be submitted. Not more than three questions under section nineteen shall be placed upon the ballot at one election, and they shall be submitted in the order in which the applications are filed. No question negatived and no question substantially the same shall be submitted again in less than three years.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 176B, sec. 16 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 176B / Section 16
Operators of medical service plan
Status: in_force

Section 16. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association, except a medical service corporation, to establish, maintain or operate a non-profit medical service plan; provided, however, that this chapter shall not render unlawful or affect any operation or activity of any company organized under the provisions of chapter one hundred and seventy-five, of any society or fraternal benefit society organized under the provisions of chapter one hundred and seventy-six or subject to any of the provisions thereof, of any non-profit hospital service or medical service corporation organized under the provisions of chapter one hundred and seventy-six A or one hundred and seventy-six C, or of any corporation organized or to be organized under chapter one hundred and eighty, the existence, purposes, activities and operations of which were lawful or would be lawful notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter.

Section 16. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association, except a medical service corporation, to establish, maintain or operate a non-profit medical service plan; provided, however, that this chapter shall not render unlawful or affect any operation or activity of any company organized under the provisions of chapter one hundred and seventy-five, of any society or fraternal benefit society organized under the provisions of chapter one hundred and seventy-six or subject to any of the provisions thereof, of any non-profit hospital service or medical service corporation organized under the provisions of chapter one hundred and seventy-six A or one hundred and seventy-six C, or of any corporation organized or to be organized under chapter one hundred and eighty, the existence, purposes, activities and operations of which were lawful or would be lawful notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 128, sec. 86 — MA Code / Part I / Title XIX / Chapter 128 / Section 86
Sale of seeds; labeling or tagging containers; variety or cultivar designation
Status: in_force

Section 86. Each container of agricultural seeds, including lawn seeding mixtures, shall also bear the commonly accepted name of the kind and variety or cultivar of those kinds which are usually named as to variety or cultivar, as prescribed by rules and regulations, of each seed component in excess of five per cent of the whole and the percentage by weight of each in the order of its predominance. When the variety or cultivar thereof is unknown, the label or tag shall have printed thereon the words ''variety unknown''. When more than one component is required to be named, the word ''mixture'' or ''mixed'' shall be shown conspicuously on the label. The lot number or other lot identification, the origin, if known, of alfalfa, red clover, white clover, and field corn, except hybrid corn, shall also be shown on such label. If the origin is unknown, that fact shall be stated. The container shall bear thereon the percentage by weight of all weed seeds, the percentage by weight of agricultural seeds other than those required to be named on the label, which shall be designated as ''other crop seed'', and the percentage by weight of inert matter. For each agricultural seed named there shall appear, the percentage of germination, exclusive of hard seed, the percentage of hard seed, if present and the calendar month and year the test was completed to determine such percentages.

Section 86. Each container of agricultural seeds, including lawn seeding mixtures, shall also bear the commonly accepted name of the kind and variety or cultivar of those kinds which are usually named as to variety or cultivar, as prescribed by rules and regulations, of each seed component in excess of five per cent of the whole and the percentage by weight of each in the order of its predominance. When the variety or cultivar thereof is unknown, the label or tag shall have printed thereon the words ''variety unknown''. When more than one component is required to be named, the word ''mixture'' or ''mixed'' shall be shown conspicuously on the label. The lot number or other lot identification, the origin, if known, of alfalfa, red clover, white clover, and field corn, except hybrid corn, shall also be shown on such label. If the origin is unknown, that fact shall be stated. The container shall bear thereon the percentage by weight of all weed seeds, the percentage by weight of agricultural seeds other than those required to be named on the label, which shall be designated as ''other crop seed'', and the percentage by weight of inert matter. For each agricultural seed named there shall appear, the percentage of germination, exclusive of hard seed, the percentage of hard seed, if present and the calendar month and year the test was completed to determine such percentages.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 127, sec. 166 — MA Code / Part I / Title XVIII / Chapter 127 / Section 166
Payment or receipt of money for obtaining pardon, parole, commutation of or respite from sentence
Status: in_force

Section 166. No person shall, in the attempt to procure, or for the procurement of, any pardon, parole, commutation of or respite from sentence of a prisoner then confined in, or at liberty after having been confined in, any of the penal institutions of this commonwealth, or then under sentence to serve a term of imprisonment in any of said institutions, knowingly pay or offer to pay, or solicit, offer to receive or receive, either by way of gift or of reward or of compensation for services, or otherwise, except for proper legal services, any money or other thing of value, or shall transmit the same from one person to another; nor in such attempt or for such procurement shall any person make, or offer or promise to make, or to procure or induce the making of, any appointment to any position, whether or not in the public service.

Section 166. No person shall, in the attempt to procure, or for the procurement of, any pardon, parole, commutation of or respite from sentence of a prisoner then confined in, or at liberty after having been confined in, any of the penal institutions of this commonwealth, or then under sentence to serve a term of imprisonment in any of said institutions, knowingly pay or offer to pay, or solicit, offer to receive or receive, either by way of gift or of reward or of compensation for services, or otherwise, except for proper legal services, any money or other thing of value, or shall transmit the same from one person to another; nor in such attempt or for such procurement shall any person make, or offer or promise to make, or to procure or induce the making of, any appointment to any position, whether or not in the public service.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 123B, sec. 2 — MA Code / Part I / Title XVII / Chapter 123B / Section 2
Regulations
Status: in_force

Section 2. The department shall, in accordance with section two of chapter thirty A and subject to appropriation, adopt regulations consistent with this chapter which establish procedures and the highest practicable professional standards for the reception, examination, treatment, restraint, transfer and discharge of persons with an intellectual disability in departmental facilities. Said regulations shall be adaptable to changing conditions and to advances in methods of care and treatment and in programs and services for persons with an intellectual disability. Said regulations (1) shall include, but not necessarily be limited to, long and short-term residential care, educational services, and preschool clinical services, (2) shall define the levels of and other aspects of intellectual disability as deemed necessary by the department, and (3) shall provide for different procedures for particular facilities or programs. The department shall, in accordance with section 2 of chapter 30A and subject to appropriation, adopt regulations consistent with this chapter which establish procedures and the highest practicable professional standards for community services for persons with developmental disabilities.

Section 2. The department shall, in accordance with section two of chapter thirty A and subject to appropriation, adopt regulations consistent with this chapter which establish procedures and the highest practicable professional standards for the reception, examination, treatment, restraint, transfer and discharge of persons with an intellectual disability in departmental facilities. Said regulations shall be adaptable to changing conditions and to advances in methods of care and treatment and in programs and services for persons with an intellectual disability. Said regulations (1) shall include, but not necessarily be limited to, long and short-term residential care, educational services, and preschool clinical services, (2) shall define the levels of and other aspects of intellectual disability as deemed necessary by the department, and (3) shall provide for different procedures for particular facilities or programs.

The department shall, in accordance with section 2 of chapter 30A and subject to appropriation, adopt regulations consistent with this chapter which establish procedures and the highest practicable professional standards for community services for persons with developmental disabilities.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 266, sec. 65 — MA Code / Part IV / Title I / Chapter 266 / Section 65
Stock; unauthorized issue
Status: in_force

Section 65. An officer, agent, clerk or servant of a corporation, or any other person, who issues or signs with intent to issue a certificate of stock in a corporation, or who issues, signs or endorses with intent to issue, a bond, note, bill or other obligation or security in the name of such corporation, beyond the amount authorized by law or limited by the legal votes of such corporation or its proper officers, or negotiates, transfers or disposes of such certificate with intent to defraud, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than ten years or in the house of correction for not more than one year.

Section 65. An officer, agent, clerk or servant of a corporation, or any other person, who issues or signs with intent to issue a certificate of stock in a corporation, or who issues, signs or endorses with intent to issue, a bond, note, bill or other obligation or security in the name of such corporation, beyond the amount authorized by law or limited by the legal votes of such corporation or its proper officers, or negotiates, transfers or disposes of such certificate with intent to defraud, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than ten years or in the house of correction for not more than one year.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 237, sec. 3 — MA Code / Part III / Title III / Chapter 237 / Section 3
Form of declaration
Status: in_force

Section 3. The plaintiff shall declare on his own seisin within twenty years then last past, without specifying any particular day, and shall allege a disseisin by the defendant, but need not aver a taking of the profits. He shall set forth the estate which he claims in the land whether in fee simple, fee tail or for life, and if the latter, whether for his own life or for the life of another, but he need not set forth the original gift, devise or other conveyance or title by which he claims the estate.

Section 3. The plaintiff shall declare on his own seisin within twenty years then last past, without specifying any particular day, and shall allege a disseisin by the defendant, but need not aver a taking of the profits. He shall set forth the estate which he claims in the land whether in fee simple, fee tail or for life, and if the latter, whether for his own life or for the life of another, but he need not set forth the original gift, devise or other conveyance or title by which he claims the estate.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 1, sec. 9 — MA Code / Part I / Chapter 1 / Section 9
Massachusetts General Laws - Damages caused by entry on lands by employees of commonwealth or United States; payment - Chapter 1, Section 9
Status: in_force

Section 9. In case of entry by persons employed by the commonwealth, it shall pay all damages thereby caused. In case of entry, not constituting a taking, by persons employed by the United States, such persons shall pay all such damages. If the parties interested cannot agree upon the amount to be paid for damages under the preceding section, such damages shall be determined and recovered under chapter seventy-nine.

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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 163, sec. 9 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 163 / Section 9
Commencement of operation; limitation
Status: in_force

Section 9. The right of any corporation to erect poles, wires and other appliances in accordance with any permit granted under section six, and to operate trackless trolley vehicles upon the line designated in such permit, shall cease as to so much thereof as shall not be in operation within two years after the date of approval by the department, or within such further time as it may, after a hearing, grant.

Section 9. The right of any corporation to erect poles, wires and other appliances in accordance with any permit granted under section six, and to operate trackless trolley vehicles upon the line designated in such permit, shall cease as to so much thereof as shall not be in operation within two years after the date of approval by the department, or within such further time as it may, after a hearing, grant.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 176B, sec. 7C — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 176B / Section 7C
Retroactive premium rate increase
Status: in_force

Section 7C. For purposes of this section, retroactive premium rate increase shall mean any premium rate increase based upon an actual approved rate which is assessed to a subscriber after any payment has been made by said subscriber based upon an estimated premium rate for such period of coverage. A medical service corporation governed by this chapter which offers medicare supplemental individual or group coverage shall, in the event of a retroactive premium rate increase for such coverage, allocate such increase among the remaining outstanding premium payments due; provided, however, that no finance charge or additional cost may be charged as a result of such allocation.

Section 7C. For purposes of this section, retroactive premium rate increase shall mean any premium rate increase based upon an actual approved rate which is assessed to a subscriber after any payment has been made by said subscriber based upon an estimated premium rate for such period of coverage.

A medical service corporation governed by this chapter which offers medicare supplemental individual or group coverage shall, in the event of a retroactive premium rate increase for such coverage, allocate such increase among the remaining outstanding premium payments due; provided, however, that no finance charge or additional cost may be charged as a result of such allocation.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 159C, sec. 7 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 159C / Section 7
National consumer database; inclusion of commonwealth portion in no sales solicitation calls listing
Status: in_force

Section 7. If the Federal Communications Commission establishes a single national database of telephone numbers of consumers who do not wish to receive unsolicited telephonic sales calls pursuant to 47 U.S.C. section 227 (c)(3), the office shall include that part of such single national database that relates to the commonwealth in the listing established pursuant to this chapter.

Section 7. If the Federal Communications Commission establishes a single national database of telephone numbers of consumers who do not wish to receive unsolicited telephonic sales calls pursuant to 47 U.S.C. section 227 (c)(3), the office shall include that part of such single national database that relates to the commonwealth in the listing established pursuant to this chapter.