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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 185, sec. 105 — MA Code / Part II / Title I / Chapter 185 / Section 105
Subrogation rights
Status: in_force

Section 105. In every case where payment has been made by the state treasurer under section one hundred and three, the commonwealth shall be subrogated to the rights of the plaintiff against any other parties or securities, and the state treasurer shall enforce the same, and the amounts recovered shall be placed to the account of the assurance fund.

Section 105. In every case where payment has been made by the state treasurer under section one hundred and three, the commonwealth shall be subrogated to the rights of the plaintiff against any other parties or securities, and the state treasurer shall enforce the same, and the amounts recovered shall be placed to the account of the assurance fund.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 266, sec. 63 — MA Code / Part IV / Title I / Chapter 266 / Section 63
Unlawful taking or use of transportation media
Status: in_force

Section 63. Whoever wilfully, mischievously and without right takes or uses a boat or vehicle, other than a motor vehicle, or takes, drives, rides or uses any draught animal which is the property of another, without the consent of the owner or other person who has the legal custody, care or control thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than six months; but this section shall not apply to the property of another taken with intent to steal it, or under a claim of right, or with the presumed consent of the owner or other person who has the legal control, care or custody thereof.

Section 63. Whoever wilfully, mischievously and without right takes or uses a boat or vehicle, other than a motor vehicle, or takes, drives, rides or uses any draught animal which is the property of another, without the consent of the owner or other person who has the legal custody, care or control thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than six months; but this section shall not apply to the property of another taken with intent to steal it, or under a claim of right, or with the presumed consent of the owner or other person who has the legal control, care or custody thereof.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 132, sec. 12A — MA Code / Part I / Title XIX / Chapter 132 / Section 12A
Suppression of public nuisances on land under control of commonwealth
Status: in_force

Section 12A. All persons in charge of land under the control of the commonwealth shall take measures on lands within their charge to suppress the public nuisances named in section eleven, and shall use such lawful means of suppression as the chief superintendent, with the approval of the commissioner, may require, and shall carry out such requirements pursuant to the advice and direction of the chief superintendent, except that the bureau of shade tree management and pest control may, on the request of the agency in charge of said lands, carry out all the duties required by the chief superintendent in connection with control of the Dutch elm disease and the beetles which spread said disease.

Section 12A. All persons in charge of land under the control of the commonwealth shall take measures on lands within their charge to suppress the public nuisances named in section eleven, and shall use such lawful means of suppression as the chief superintendent, with the approval of the commissioner, may require, and shall carry out such requirements pursuant to the advice and direction of the chief superintendent, except that the bureau of shade tree management and pest control may, on the request of the agency in charge of said lands, carry out all the duties required by the chief superintendent in connection with control of the Dutch elm disease and the beetles which spread said disease.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 10, sec. 16 — MA Code / Part I / Title II / Chapter 10 / Section 16
Trust funds; receipts from department of education or state library trustees; authority to receive, invest, hold and disburse
Status: in_force

Section 16. He shall invest, reinvest and hold in the name of the commonwealth any money or securities, or the proceeds thereof, received from the department of education under section three of chapter sixty-nine, or from the trustees of the state library under section thirty-seven A of chapter six, and shall disburse the income or principal thereof, subject to the prior approval of the house and senate committees on ways and means, on the order of the commissioner, director or head of the department or agency having charge of the work in aid of which the gift or bequest was made, or on the order of the trustees of the state library in case of gifts or bequests for the use of the state library; provided, that no disposition of either income or principal shall be made which is inconsistent with the terms of the trust on which the property is held. He shall be responsible on his bond for the faithful management of all such property.

Section 16. He shall invest, reinvest and hold in the name of the commonwealth any money or securities, or the proceeds thereof, received from the department of education under section three of chapter sixty-nine, or from the trustees of the state library under section thirty-seven A of chapter six, and shall disburse the income or principal thereof, subject to the prior approval of the house and senate committees on ways and means, on the order of the commissioner, director or head of the department or agency having charge of the work in aid of which the gift or bequest was made, or on the order of the trustees of the state library in case of gifts or bequests for the use of the state library; provided, that no disposition of either income or principal shall be made which is inconsistent with the terms of the trust on which the property is held. He shall be responsible on his bond for the faithful management of all such property.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 160, sec. 120 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 160 / Section 120
Draw tender
Status: in_force

Section 120. Every railroad corporation shall provide for each drawbridge upon the line of its railroad an experienced draw tender, who shall have full control of the passing of vessels through the draw; and the corporation shall make and enforce regulations for each drawbridge conformable to the seven following sections.

Section 120. Every railroad corporation shall provide for each drawbridge upon the line of its railroad an experienced draw tender, who shall have full control of the passing of vessels through the draw; and the corporation shall make and enforce regulations for each drawbridge conformable to the seven following sections.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 112, sec. 251 — MA Code / Part I / Title XVI / Chapter 112 / Section 251
Sheet metal workers; rules governing property owned by commonwealth
Status: in_force

Section 251. The board shall adopt rules relative to the construction, alteration, repair and inspection of all sheet metal work on property and buildings owned, used or constructed by the commonwealth and in property and buildings owned, used or constructed by a public instrumentality of the commonwealth which is not subject to the supervision and control of either the legislative, executive or judicial departments. Such instrumentalities shall include, but not be limited to, the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, and all plans for sheet metal work in such buildings shall be subject to the approval of the board.

Section 251. The board shall adopt rules relative to the construction, alteration, repair and inspection of all sheet metal work on property and buildings owned, used or constructed by the commonwealth and in property and buildings owned, used or constructed by a public instrumentality of the commonwealth which is not subject to the supervision and control of either the legislative, executive or judicial departments. Such instrumentalities shall include, but not be limited to, the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, and all plans for sheet metal work in such buildings shall be subject to the approval of the board.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 176A, sec. 8G — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 176A / Section 8G
Cardiac rehabilitation expense benefits
Status: in_force

Section 8G. Any contract, except contracts providing supplemental coverage to medicare or other governmental programs, between a subscriber and the corporation under an individual or group hospital service plan which shall be delivered or issued or renewed in the commonwealth shall provide, as a basic benefit to all individual subscribers and members within the commonwealth and to all group members having a principal place of employment within the commonwealth, for expense for cardiac rehabilitation. Cardiac rehabilitation shall mean multidisciplinary, medically necessary treatment of persons with documented cardiovascular disease, which shall be provided in either a hospital or other setting and which shall meet standards promulgated by the commissioner of public health after reviewing proposals submitted by the Massachusetts Society for Cardiac Rehabilitation, Inc. and after notice and public hearing on the proposed standards. Such standards shall include, but not be limited to, outpatient treatment which is to be initiated within twenty-six weeks after the diagnosis of such disease.

Section 8G. Any contract, except contracts providing supplemental coverage to medicare or other governmental programs, between a subscriber and the corporation under an individual or group hospital service plan which shall be delivered or issued or renewed in the commonwealth shall provide, as a basic benefit to all individual subscribers and members within the commonwealth and to all group members having a principal place of employment within the commonwealth, for expense for cardiac rehabilitation. Cardiac rehabilitation shall mean multidisciplinary, medically necessary treatment of persons with documented cardiovascular disease, which shall be provided in either a hospital or other setting and which shall meet standards promulgated by the commissioner of public health after reviewing proposals submitted by the Massachusetts Society for Cardiac Rehabilitation, Inc. and after notice and public hearing on the proposed standards. Such standards shall include, but not be limited to, outpatient treatment which is to be initiated within twenty-six weeks after the diagnosis of such disease.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 36, sec. 4 — MA Code / Part I / Title VI / Chapter 36 / Section 4
Assistant registers; appointment
Status: in_force

Section 4. Each register, with the approval of the superior court, may appoint an assistant register of deeds, removable at his pleasure, for whose official acts he shall be responsible; provided, however, that any person so appointed by the register for Suffolk county who has served continuously in any position in the registry of deeds in said county for a period of twenty or more years shall not be removed therefrom except for cause. The assistant shall give bond in the same manner as the register, and may be a woman. Any document or paper certified or attested by such assistant or by a second, third or fourth assistant register or by a chief clerk designated under section seven shall be admissible evidence as if certified or attested by the register.

Section 4. Each register, with the approval of the superior court, may appoint an assistant register of deeds, removable at his pleasure, for whose official acts he shall be responsible; provided, however, that any person so appointed by the register for Suffolk county who has served continuously in any position in the registry of deeds in said county for a period of twenty or more years shall not be removed therefrom except for cause. The assistant shall give bond in the same manner as the register, and may be a woman. Any document or paper certified or attested by such assistant or by a second, third or fourth assistant register or by a chief clerk designated under section seven shall be admissible evidence as if certified or attested by the register.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 276, sec. 32 — MA Code / Part IV / Title II / Chapter 276 / Section 32
Payment of fine, assessment, costs, restitution, support payment, etc.; release from custody
Status: in_force

Section 32. Whenever a person, brought before a court, against whom an outstanding warrant was issued, solely due to the failure of the person brought before the court to pay a fine assessment, court cost, restitution, support payment, or other amount, the court may accept payment of such amount and assess an additional fifty dollars which assessment may be waived by the court upon a finding of good cause and if the person is not being held on other process, the court may direct that the person be released from custody and shall notify the jurisdiction in which the warrant was issued of the payment and the assessment, if any. Upon notice of the release the court that issued the warrant shall recall the warrant and cause such information to be entered in the warrant management system.

Section 32. Whenever a person, brought before a court, against whom an outstanding warrant was issued, solely due to the failure of the person brought before the court to pay a fine assessment, court cost, restitution, support payment, or other amount, the court may accept payment of such amount and assess an additional fifty dollars which assessment may be waived by the court upon a finding of good cause and if the person is not being held on other process, the court may direct that the person be released from custody and shall notify the jurisdiction in which the warrant was issued of the payment and the assessment, if any. Upon notice of the release the court that issued the warrant shall recall the warrant and cause such information to be entered in the warrant management system.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 156, sec. 13 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 156 / Section 13
Scope of by-laws
Status: repealed

Section 13. Every corporation may determine by its by-laws the time and place of holding and the manner of conducting its meetings, and, in accordance with sections twenty-one and twenty-two, of electing its officers, the powers, duties and tenure of its officers, the number of its directors, the number of stockholders and of directors necessary to constitute a quorum, the manner of calling regular and special meetings of the directors, the expediency of providing for an executive committee, the number of members thereof, and the duties which may be delegated to it, the method of making demand for payment of subscriptions to its capital stock, the conditions under which a new certificate of stock may be issued in place of a certificate which is alleged to have been lost or destroyed, the method in general of transacting its business and the manner by which the by-laws may be altered, amended or repealed.

Section 13. Every corporation may determine by its by-laws the time and place of holding and the manner of conducting its meetings, and, in accordance with sections twenty-one and twenty-two, of electing its officers, the powers, duties and tenure of its officers, the number of its directors, the number of stockholders and of directors necessary to constitute a quorum, the manner of calling regular and special meetings of the directors, the expediency of providing for an executive committee, the number of members thereof, and the duties which may be delegated to it, the method of making demand for payment of subscriptions to its capital stock, the conditions under which a new certificate of stock may be issued in place of a certificate which is alleged to have been lost or destroyed, the method in general of transacting its business and the manner by which the by-laws may be altered, amended or repealed.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 40, sec. 42C — MA Code / Part I / Title VII / Chapter 40 / Section 42C
Unpaid charges; report to tax collector
Status: in_force

Section 42C. If a rate or charge for which a lien is in effect under section forty-two B has not been added to or committed as a tax and remains unpaid when the assessors are preparing a real estate tax list and warrant to be committed by them under section fifty-three of chapter fifty-nine, the board or officer in charge of the water department, or the town collector of taxes, if applicable under section thirty-eight A of chapter forty-one, shall certify such rate or charge to the assessors, who shall forthwith add such rate or charge to the tax on the property to which it relates and commit it with their warrant to the collector of taxes as a part of such tax. If the property to which such rate or charge relates is tax exempt, such rate or charge shall be committed as the tax.

Section 42C. If a rate or charge for which a lien is in effect under section forty-two B has not been added to or committed as a tax and remains unpaid when the assessors are preparing a real estate tax list and warrant to be committed by them under section fifty-three of chapter fifty-nine, the board or officer in charge of the water department, or the town collector of taxes, if applicable under section thirty-eight A of chapter forty-one, shall certify such rate or charge to the assessors, who shall forthwith add such rate or charge to the tax on the property to which it relates and commit it with their warrant to the collector of taxes as a part of such tax. If the property to which such rate or charge relates is tax exempt, such rate or charge shall be committed as the tax.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 7C, sec. 72 — MA Code / Part I / Title II / Chapter 7C / Section 72
Annual reporting by commissioner to governor and general court
Status: in_force

Section 72. The commissioner shall, each year, not later than 30 days after the governor submits the budget under section 71, submit to the governor and to the general court a report which shall include, but not be limited to, the following: an evaluation of the effect of the capital facility budget, and the implementation of the proposed long range capital facilities development plan upon important policies, programs, and priorities mandated by the general court or established by the governor in accordance with law such as impact on the environment, energy conservation, preventative maintenance, architectural barriers, and the effective coordination of such policies, programs, and priorities with those of the federal government to assure the maximum benefit to the commonwealth from such federal programs. Not later than an additional 30 days thereafter, the commissioner shall submit to the governor and to the general court a similar report on the impact of and the progress made in the implementation of long range capital facilities plans and previously authorized capital facility projects.

Section 72. The commissioner shall, each year, not later than 30 days after the governor submits the budget under section 71, submit to the governor and to the general court a report which shall include, but not be limited to, the following: an evaluation of the effect of the capital facility budget, and the implementation of the proposed long range capital facilities development plan upon important policies, programs, and priorities mandated by the general court or established by the governor in accordance with law such as impact on the environment, energy conservation, preventative maintenance, architectural barriers, and the effective coordination of such policies, programs, and priorities with those of the federal government to assure the maximum benefit to the commonwealth from such federal programs.

Not later than an additional 30 days thereafter, the commissioner shall submit to the governor and to the general court a similar report on the impact of and the progress made in the implementation of long range capital facilities plans and previously authorized capital facility projects.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 92B, sec. 11 — MA Code / Part I / Title XIV / Chapter 92B / Section 11
Zoo designations; metropolitan parks system
Status: in_force

Section 11. The zoos shall continue to be known as the Franklin Park Zoo and the Walter D. Stone Memorial Zoo but the corporation may offer sponsor naming rights to the zoos or exhibits within the zoos and may add sponsor names to the existing names of the zoos or exhibits. The commonwealth shall at all times retain title to all real property and the appurtenances thereon; only the care, custody and control of the zoos shall be transferred to the corporation pursuant to this chapter. The zoos and all real property shall remain a part of the metropolitan parks system. In the event that, for any reason, the corporation dissolves, the commission shall assume responsibility for the zoos and their operation, and all funds, personal property, and animal collections shall revert to the commission.

Section 11. The zoos shall continue to be known as the Franklin Park Zoo and the Walter D. Stone Memorial Zoo but the corporation may offer sponsor naming rights to the zoos or exhibits within the zoos and may add sponsor names to the existing names of the zoos or exhibits. The commonwealth shall at all times retain title to all real property and the appurtenances thereon; only the care, custody and control of the zoos shall be transferred to the corporation pursuant to this chapter. The zoos and all real property shall remain a part of the metropolitan parks system. In the event that, for any reason, the corporation dissolves, the commission shall assume responsibility for the zoos and their operation, and all funds, personal property, and animal collections shall revert to the commission.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 29, sec. 50 — MA Code / Part I / Title III / Chapter 29 / Section 50
Serial and sinking fund payments; certification
Status: in_force

Section 50. The state treasurer shall annually in December certify to the budget director the amount necessary to provide for serial and sinking fund payments with respect to any bonds or notes of the commonwealth for the fiscal year beginning on July 1 following.

Section 50. The state treasurer shall annually in December certify to the budget director the amount necessary to provide for serial and sinking fund payments with respect to any bonds or notes of the commonwealth for the fiscal year beginning on July 1 following.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 32, sec. 90 — MA Code / Part I / Title IV / Chapter 32 / Section 90
Aged police officers not subject to certain laws
Status: in_force

Section 90. No provision of sections forty-one to forty-five, inclusive, of chapter thirty-one, or of section three of chapter two hundred and forty-two of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-three, shall apply in cities or towns in the case of members of police or fire departments whose services are terminated by retirement on pension or otherwise by reason of having attained age seventy.

Section 90. No provision of sections forty-one to forty-five, inclusive, of chapter thirty-one, or of section three of chapter two hundred and forty-two of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-three, shall apply in cities or towns in the case of members of police or fire departments whose services are terminated by retirement on pension or otherwise by reason of having attained age seventy.