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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 66, sec. 17 — MA Code / Part I / Title X / Chapter 66 / Section 17
Municipality in which records to be kept; contracts for records storage; penalty
Status: in_force

Section 17. Except as otherwise provided by law, all public records shall be kept in the custody of the person having the custody of similar records in the county or municipality to which the records originally belonged; provided, however, that the custodian of public records may enter into a contract for the storage of records containing public record information, but no contract for the storage of public records shall be entered into if the contract prevents or unduly restricts a records access officer or custodian of records from providing or storing the records in accordance with this chapter. Records not directly in the custodian's possession shall be considered in the custody of the custodian if subject to a contract for the storage of public records that is permitted by this section. If the custodian does not have custody of public records, the custodian shall demand delivery from any person unlawfully having possession of the records, and the records shall immediately be delivered by such person to the custodian. A person who refuses or neglects to perform any duty required by this section shall be punished by fine of not more than $20.

Section 17. Except as otherwise provided by law, all public records shall be kept in the custody of the person having the custody of similar records in the county or municipality to which the records originally belonged; provided, however, that the custodian of public records may enter into a contract for the storage of records containing public record information, but no contract for the storage of public records shall be entered into if the contract prevents or unduly restricts a records access officer or custodian of records from providing or storing the records in accordance with this chapter. Records not directly in the custodian's possession shall be considered in the custody of the custodian if subject to a contract for the storage of public records that is permitted by this section. If the custodian does not have custody of public records, the custodian shall demand delivery from any person unlawfully having possession of the records, and the records shall immediately be delivered by such person to the custodian. A person who refuses or neglects to perform any duty required by this section shall be punished by fine of not more than $20.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 267, sec. 19 — MA Code / Part IV / Title I / Chapter 267 / Section 19
Common utterers of counterfeit coin
Status: in_force

Section 19. Whoever, having been convicted of any of the crimes mentioned in the preceding section, is again convicted of the same crimes committed after the former conviction, and whoever is at the same sitting of the court convicted upon three distinct charges of said crimes, shall be adjudged a common utterer of counterfeit coin, and punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than twenty years.

Section 19. Whoever, having been convicted of any of the crimes mentioned in the preceding section, is again convicted of the same crimes committed after the former conviction, and whoever is at the same sitting of the court convicted upon three distinct charges of said crimes, shall be adjudged a common utterer of counterfeit coin, and punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than twenty years.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 118I, sec. 6 — MA Code / Part I / Title XVII / Chapter 118I / Section 6
Patient's electronic access to health records
Status: in_force

Section 6. Every patient shall have electronic access to such patient's health records. The executive office shall ensure that each patient will have secure electronic access to such patient's electronic health records with each of such patient's providers. The executive office shall ensure that the design of the statewide health information exchange includes the ability to transmit copies of electronic health records to patients directly or allow facilities to provide mechanisms for such patient to access such patient's own electronic health record.

Section 6. Every patient shall have electronic access to such patient's health records. The executive office shall ensure that each patient will have secure electronic access to such patient's electronic health records with each of such patient's providers. The executive office shall ensure that the design of the statewide health information exchange includes the ability to transmit copies of electronic health records to patients directly or allow facilities to provide mechanisms for such patient to access such patient's own electronic health record.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 223, sec. 68 — MA Code / Part III / Title II / Chapter 223 / Section 68
Fraudulently conveyed realty; duty of register
Status: in_force

Section 68. The register in such case, in addition to the names of the parties to the action which he is required to enter as provided in section sixty-five, shall also enter in his docket of attachments the names of the persons in whom the record or legal title stands, as returned by the officer, in the same manner as if the estate of such persons were attached as defendants in the action.

Section 68. The register in such case, in addition to the names of the parties to the action which he is required to enter as provided in section sixty-five, shall also enter in his docket of attachments the names of the persons in whom the record or legal title stands, as returned by the officer, in the same manner as if the estate of such persons were attached as defendants in the action.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 74, sec. 42L — MA Code / Part I / Title XII / Chapter 74 / Section 42L
Special trusts, etc.; management
Status: in_force

Section 42L. The trustees of the college and the trustees of the institute shall administer property held in accordance with special trusts, and shall also administer grants or devises of land and gifts or bequests of personal property made to the commonwealth for the use of said college or institute, and execute said trusts, investing the proceeds thereof in notes or bonds secured by sufficient mortgages or other securities. The trustees shall have the authority to assent to federal laws designed to benefit said college or institute and to enter into agreements or contracts with the federal government or agencies thereof, as well as into agreements or contracts with agencies of other governments, other colleges and universities, foundations, corporations, interstate compact agencies and individuals where such agreements or contracts, in the judgment of the trustees, will promote the objectives of the college and the institute.

Section 42L. The trustees of the college and the trustees of the institute shall administer property held in accordance with special trusts, and shall also administer grants or devises of land and gifts or bequests of personal property made to the commonwealth for the use of said college or institute, and execute said trusts, investing the proceeds thereof in notes or bonds secured by sufficient mortgages or other securities. The trustees shall have the authority to assent to federal laws designed to benefit said college or institute and to enter into agreements or contracts with the federal government or agencies thereof, as well as into agreements or contracts with agencies of other governments, other colleges and universities, foundations, corporations, interstate compact agencies and individuals where such agreements or contracts, in the judgment of the trustees, will promote the objectives of the college and the institute.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 176G, sec. 4KK — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 176G / Section 4KK
Coverage for medically necessary mental health acute treatment, community-based acute treatment and intensive community-based acute treatment
Status: in_force

Section 4KK. (a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly requires otherwise: ''Community-based acute treatment'', 24–hour clinically managed mental health diversionary or step-down services for children and adolescents that is usually provided as an alternative to mental health acute treatment. ''Intensive community-based acute treatment'', intensive 24–hour clinically managed mental health diversionary or step-down services for children and adolescents that is usually provided as an alternative to mental health acute treatment. ''Mental health acute treatment'', 24–hour medically supervised mental health services provided in an inpatient facility, licensed by the department of mental health, that provides psychiatric evaluation, management, treatment and discharge planning in a structured treatment milieu. (b) An individual or group health maintenance contract that is issued or renewed within or without the commonwealth shall provide coverage for medically necessary mental health acute treatment, community-based acute treatment and intensive community-based acute treatment and shall not require a preauthorization before the administration of such treatment; provided, however, that the facility shall notify the carrier of the admission and the initial treatment plan within 72 hours of admission.

Section 4KK. (a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly requires otherwise:

''Community-based acute treatment'', 24–hour clinically managed mental health diversionary or step-down services for children and adolescents that is usually provided as an alternative to mental health acute treatment.

''Intensive community-based acute treatment'', intensive 24–hour clinically managed mental health diversionary or step-down services for children and adolescents that is usually provided as an alternative to mental health acute treatment.

''Mental health acute treatment'', 24–hour medically supervised mental health services provided in an inpatient facility, licensed by the department of mental health, that provides psychiatric evaluation, management, treatment and discharge planning in a structured treatment milieu.

(b) An individual or group health maintenance contract that is issued or renewed within or without the commonwealth shall provide coverage for medically necessary mental health acute treatment, community-based acute treatment and intensive community-based acute treatment and shall not require a preauthorization before the administration of such treatment; provided, however, that the facility shall notify the carrier of the admission and the initial treatment plan within 72 hours of admission.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 218, sec. 34 — MA Code / Part III / Title I / Chapter 218 / Section 34
Arrest without warrant; endorsement of complaint by arresting officer
Status: in_force

Section 34. Said courts may dispense with the issuing of a warrant if the person charged with a crime has been arrested without a warrant and brought before the court or admitted to bail; but in such case the officer making the arrest shall endorse upon the complaint a statement of his doings.

Section 34. Said courts may dispense with the issuing of a warrant if the person charged with a crime has been arrested without a warrant and brought before the court or admitted to bail; but in such case the officer making the arrest shall endorse upon the complaint a statement of his doings.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 63, sec. 32C — MA Code / Part I / Title IX / Chapter 63 / Section 32C
Maximum amount of credits; carryover
Status: in_force

Section 32C. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections thirty-one A and thirty-eight E and section eleven of chapter seven hundred and fifty-two of the acts of nineteen hundred and seventy-three, the maximum amount of credits, otherwise allowable in any one taxable year to a corporation, shall not exceed fifty per cent of its excise imposed by section thirty-nine. Any corporation may carry over and apply to its excise for any subsequent taxable year the portion of those credits, as reduced from year to year, which were not allowed by this section.

Section 32C. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections thirty-one A and thirty-eight E and section eleven of chapter seven hundred and fifty-two of the acts of nineteen hundred and seventy-three, the maximum amount of credits, otherwise allowable in any one taxable year to a corporation, shall not exceed fifty per cent of its excise imposed by section thirty-nine. Any corporation may carry over and apply to its excise for any subsequent taxable year the portion of those credits, as reduced from year to year, which were not allowed by this section.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271, sec. 3 — MA Code / Part IV / Title I / Chapter 271 / Section 3
Innholders and others keeping or suffering implements to be used for gaming
Status: in_force

Section 3. Except as permitted under chapters 23K and 23N, every innholder, common victualler or person keeping or suffering to be kept in any place occupied by him implements such as are used in gaming, in order that the same may for hire, gain or reward be used for amusement, who suffers implements of such kind to be used upon any part of such premises for gaming for money or other property, or who suffers a person to play at an unlawful game or sport therein, shall for the first offence forfeit not more than one hundred dollars or be imprisoned for not more than three months; and for a subsequent offence shall be imprisoned for not more than one year. In either case he shall further recognize with sufficient sureties in a reasonable sum for his good behavior, and especially that he will not be guilty of any offence against any of the provisions of sections one to six, inclusive, for three years from the date of the recognizance.

Section 3. Except as permitted under chapters 23K and 23N, every innholder, common victualler or person keeping or suffering to be kept in any place occupied by him implements such as are used in gaming, in order that the same may for hire, gain or reward be used for amusement, who suffers implements of such kind to be used upon any part of such premises for gaming for money or other property, or who suffers a person to play at an unlawful game or sport therein, shall for the first offence forfeit not more than one hundred dollars or be imprisoned for not more than three months; and for a subsequent offence shall be imprisoned for not more than one year. In either case he shall further recognize with sufficient sureties in a reasonable sum for his good behavior, and especially that he will not be guilty of any offence against any of the provisions of sections one to six, inclusive, for three years from the date of the recognizance.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 46, sec. 22 — MA Code / Part I / Title VII / Chapter 46 / Section 22
Registrars of vital statistics
Status: in_force

Section 22. Any city, except Boston, and any town containing more than ten thousand inhabitants, may provide for the appointment of a person other than the clerk to be registrar. Such registrars, and in Boston the city registrar, shall be sworn and the provisions of this chapter relative to clerks shall apply to them.

Section 22. Any city, except Boston, and any town containing more than ten thousand inhabitants, may provide for the appointment of a person other than the clerk to be registrar. Such registrars, and in Boston the city registrar, shall be sworn and the provisions of this chapter relative to clerks shall apply to them.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 32, sec. 58C — MA Code / Part I / Title IV / Chapter 32 / Section 58C
Retirement allowances of policemen and firemen retiring under Sec. 58
Status: in_force

Section 58C. In any city, town or district which accepts this section, if any veteran who retires under section fifty-eight is a member of the police department or a permanent member of the fire department of such city, town or district, respectively, he shall, in lieu of the retirement allowance provided in said section fifty-eight, receive a retirement allowance, if he retires before attaining age sixty, equal to seventy per cent, before attaining age sixty-one, equal to seventy-one per cent, or after attaining age sixty-one equal to seventy-two per cent, of the highest annual rate of compensation, including any bonuses paid in lieu of additional salary or as a temporary wage increase in addition to his regular compensation, and including any maintenance allowance, payable to him while he was holding the grade held by him at his retirement, and payable from the same source.

Section 58C. In any city, town or district which accepts this section, if any veteran who retires under section fifty-eight is a member of the police department or a permanent member of the fire department of such city, town or district, respectively, he shall, in lieu of the retirement allowance provided in said section fifty-eight, receive a retirement allowance, if he retires before attaining age sixty, equal to seventy per cent, before attaining age sixty-one, equal to seventy-one per cent, or after attaining age sixty-one equal to seventy-two per cent, of the highest annual rate of compensation, including any bonuses paid in lieu of additional salary or as a temporary wage increase in addition to his regular compensation, and including any maintenance allowance, payable to him while he was holding the grade held by him at his retirement, and payable from the same source.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 92, sec. 67 — MA Code / Part I / Title XIV / Chapter 92 / Section 67
Agreements for lighting reservations and boulevards; duration; payments upon expiration of contract
Status: in_force

Section 67. The commission may enter into an agreement with any electric light, power or gas company within the metropolitan parks district for a period not exceeding ten years, for the lighting of any part of the boulevards or reservations under the control of the commission, upon such terms as said commission deems most advantageous to the commonwealth. Upon the expiration of any such agreement, if no new contract is entered into between the commission and the electric light, power or gas company, the commission may continue to make payments in accordance with the terms of such expired contract or a schedule of rates filed under the provisions of section ninety-four of chapter one hundred and sixty-four or as ordered by the department of telecommunications and energy under the provisions of section ninety-three of said chapter one hundred and sixty-four, until a new contract has been made between the commission and the electric light, power or gas company.

Section 67. The commission may enter into an agreement with any electric light, power or gas company within the metropolitan parks district for a period not exceeding ten years, for the lighting of any part of the boulevards or reservations under the control of the commission, upon such terms as said commission deems most advantageous to the commonwealth. Upon the expiration of any such agreement, if no new contract is entered into between the commission and the electric light, power or gas company, the commission may continue to make payments in accordance with the terms of such expired contract or a schedule of rates filed under the provisions of section ninety-four of chapter one hundred and sixty-four or as ordered by the department of telecommunications and energy under the provisions of section ninety-three of said chapter one hundred and sixty-four, until a new contract has been made between the commission and the electric light, power or gas company.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 49, sec. 39 — MA Code / Part I / Title VII / Chapter 49 / Section 39
Escaped or rescued animals; right to retake
Status: in_force

Section 39. If beasts lawfully distrained or impounded escape or are rescued, the pound keeper, field driver or other person who distrained them may, within seven days thereafter, retake, hold and dispose of them as if there had been no escape or rescue.

Section 39. If beasts lawfully distrained or impounded escape or are rescued, the pound keeper, field driver or other person who distrained them may, within seven days thereafter, retake, hold and dispose of them as if there had been no escape or rescue.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 185, sec. 110 — MA Code / Part II / Title I / Chapter 185 / Section 110
Powers of attorney; acknowledgment and filing of letters of attorney
Status: in_force

Section 110. Any person may, by attorney, procure land to be registered and convey or otherwise deal with registered land, but the letters of attorney shall be acknowledged and filed with the recorder or the assistant recorder of the proper registry district and registered. Any instrument revoking such letter shall be acknowledged and registered in like manner.

Section 110. Any person may, by attorney, procure land to be registered and convey or otherwise deal with registered land, but the letters of attorney shall be acknowledged and filed with the recorder or the assistant recorder of the proper registry district and registered. Any instrument revoking such letter shall be acknowledged and registered in like manner.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 140, sec. 204 — MA Code / Part I / Title XX / Chapter 140 / Section 204
Coverage of license
Status: in_force

Section 204. A license issued as aforesaid shall not protect the holder thereof in a building or place other than that designated in the license unless consent to removal is granted by the licensing board or officer.

Section 204. A license issued as aforesaid shall not protect the holder thereof in a building or place other than that designated in the license unless consent to removal is granted by the licensing board or officer.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 2, sec. 19 — MA Code / Part I / Title I / Chapter 2 / Section 19
Song of commonwealth
Status: in_force

Section 19. The song ''All Hail to Massachusetts'', words and music by Arthur J. Marsh, shall be the song of the commonwealth.

Section 19. The song ''All Hail to Massachusetts'', words and music by Arthur J. Marsh, shall be the song of the commonwealth.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 23A, sec. 13I — MA Code / Part I / Title II / Chapter 23A / Section 13I
Office of travel and tourism; gifts and grants; acceptance
Status: in_force

Section 13I. The office of travel and tourism may accept gifts or grants of money or property from any source, which shall be held in trust for the use of tourism by the treasurer of the partnership as custodian.

Section 13I. The office of travel and tourism may accept gifts or grants of money or property from any source, which shall be held in trust for the use of tourism by the treasurer of the partnership as custodian.