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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 33A, sec. 59 — MA Code / Part I / Title V / Chapter 33A / Section 59
Error of law; lesser included offense
Status: in_force

Article 59. Error of law; lesser included offense. (a) A finding or sentence of a court-martial may not be held incorrect on the ground of an error of law unless the error materially prejudices the substantive rights of the accused. (b) Any reviewing authority with the power to approve or affirm a finding of guilty may approve or affirm, instead, so much of the finding as includes a lesser included offense.

Article 59. Error of law; lesser included offense.

(a) A finding or sentence of a court-martial may not be held incorrect on the ground of an error of law unless the error materially prejudices the substantive rights of the accused.

(b) Any reviewing authority with the power to approve or affirm a finding of guilty may approve or affirm, instead, so much of the finding as includes a lesser included offense.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 79, sec. 38 — MA Code / Part I / Title XIII / Chapter 79 / Section 38
Costs
Status: in_force

Section 38. In all proceedings before county commissioners under this chapter, section eighteen of chapter thirty-four shall be applicable. In all proceedings brought under section fourteen, if a petition is filed after an award of damages has been made and the damages are increased, or if no award has been made and the petitioner is found to be entitled to damages, he shall recover costs, which shall be taxed as in actions at law; otherwise he shall pay costs.

Section 38. In all proceedings before county commissioners under this chapter, section eighteen of chapter thirty-four shall be applicable. In all proceedings brought under section fourteen, if a petition is filed after an award of damages has been made and the damages are increased, or if no award has been made and the petitioner is found to be entitled to damages, he shall recover costs, which shall be taxed as in actions at law; otherwise he shall pay costs.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 7B, sec. 9 — MA Code / Part I / Title II / Chapter 7B / Section 9
Effect on powers and duties of capital asset management and maintenance division
Status: in_force

Section 9. The provisions of this chapter are not intended and shall not be construed to limit, override or otherwise modify the procedures, powers and duties of the division of capital asset management and maintenance unless specifically so authorized by the asset management board pursuant to the standards and procedures established by this chapter.

Section 9. The provisions of this chapter are not intended and shall not be construed to limit, override or otherwise modify the procedures, powers and duties of the division of capital asset management and maintenance unless specifically so authorized by the asset management board pursuant to the standards and procedures established by this chapter.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 171, sec. 51 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 171 / Section 51
Adverse claims to shares or deposits; process; bond
Status: in_force

Section 51. No credit union shall be required to recognize an adverse claim to shares or a deposit standing on its books to the credit of or for the account of any person, except by virtue of the service upon it of appropriate process issued by a court of competent jurisdiction in a suit or action to which such person, or his executors or administrators, has been made a party, unless the adverse claimant gives bond satisfactory to the credit union and the adverse claimant to hold harmless and indemnify it from any liability, loss, damage, costs and expenses whatsoever on account of such adverse claim, or files with the credit union an affidavit setting forth facts showing a reasonable cause for belief that a fiduciary relationship exists between such person and said adverse claimant and that such person is about to misappropriate the deposit or shares in question.

Section 51. No credit union shall be required to recognize an adverse claim to shares or a deposit standing on its books to the credit of or for the account of any person, except by virtue of the service upon it of appropriate process issued by a court of competent jurisdiction in a suit or action to which such person, or his executors or administrators, has been made a party, unless the adverse claimant gives bond satisfactory to the credit union and the adverse claimant to hold harmless and indemnify it from any liability, loss, damage, costs and expenses whatsoever on account of such adverse claim, or files with the credit union an affidavit setting forth facts showing a reasonable cause for belief that a fiduciary relationship exists between such person and said adverse claimant and that such person is about to misappropriate the deposit or shares in question.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 91, sec. 43C — MA Code / Part I / Title XIV / Chapter 91 / Section 43C
Fraudulent claim to abandoned vessel; penalty
Status: in_force

Section 43C. A person who obtains or attempts to obtain title to a vessel through fraudulent means shall be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000.

Section 43C. A person who obtains or attempts to obtain title to a vessel through fraudulent means shall be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 94, sec. 171 — MA Code / Part I / Title XV / Chapter 94 / Section 171
Sale, etc., of adulterated vinegar; penalty
Status: in_force

Section 171. Whoever himself or by his servant or agent sells, exchanges or delivers or has in his custody or possession with intent so to do, or exposes or offers for sale or exchange adulterated vinegar, or whoever labels, brands or sells as cider vinegar or as apple vinegar, any vinegar not the exclusive product of the alcoholic and subsequent acetous fermentation of the pure juice of fresh apples, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars.

Section 171. Whoever himself or by his servant or agent sells, exchanges or delivers or has in his custody or possession with intent so to do, or exposes or offers for sale or exchange adulterated vinegar, or whoever labels, brands or sells as cider vinegar or as apple vinegar, any vinegar not the exclusive product of the alcoholic and subsequent acetous fermentation of the pure juice of fresh apples, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 43D, sec. 16 — MA Code / Part I / Title VII / Chapter 43D / Section 16
Rules and regulations
Status: in_force

Section 16. The secretary shall promulgate rules and regulations to implement this chapter.

Section 16. The secretary shall promulgate rules and regulations to implement this chapter.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 63B, sec. 4A — MA Code / Part I / Title IX / Chapter 63B / Section 4A
Amount and time of installment payments
Status: in_force

Section 4A. If the first required installment of estimated tax is paid after the fifteenth day of the third month of the taxable year and is required by section four to be paid on or before the fifteenth day of the sixth month of the taxable year, sixty-five percent of the estimated tax shall be paid; the second required installment shall be paid on or before the fifteenth day of the ninth month of the taxable year and shall be equal to twenty-five percent of the estimated tax; and the last installment shall be paid on or before the fifteenth day of the twelfth month of the taxable year and shall be equal to the remaining ten percent of the estimated tax. If the first required installment of estimated tax is paid after the fifteenth day of the sixth month of the taxable year and is required by section four to be paid on or before the fifteenth day of the ninth month of the taxable year, ninety percent of the estimated tax shall be paid; and the last installment shall be paid on or before the fifteenth day of the twelfth month of the taxable year and shall be equal to the remaining ten percent of the estimated tax. If the first required installment of estimated tax is paid after the fifteenth day of the ninth month of the taxable year and is required by section four to be paid on or before the fifteenth day of the twelfth month of the taxable year, the estimated tax shall be paid in full on or before the fifteenth day of the twelfth month of the taxable year.

Section 4A. If the first required installment of estimated tax is paid after the fifteenth day of the third month of the taxable year and is required by section four to be paid on or before the fifteenth day of the sixth month of the taxable year, sixty-five percent of the estimated tax shall be paid; the second required installment shall be paid on or before the fifteenth day of the ninth month of the taxable year and shall be equal to twenty-five percent of the estimated tax; and the last installment shall be paid on or before the fifteenth day of the twelfth month of the taxable year and shall be equal to the remaining ten percent of the estimated tax.

If the first required installment of estimated tax is paid after the fifteenth day of the sixth month of the taxable year and is required by section four to be paid on or before the fifteenth day of the ninth month of the taxable year, ninety percent of the estimated tax shall be paid; and the last installment shall be paid on or before the fifteenth day of the twelfth month of the taxable year and shall be equal to the remaining ten percent of the estimated tax.

If the first required installment of estimated tax is paid after the fifteenth day of the ninth month of the taxable year and is required by section four to be paid on or before the fifteenth day of the twelfth month of the taxable year, the estimated tax shall be paid in full on or before the fifteenth day of the twelfth month of the taxable year.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 223, sec. 12 — MA Code / Part III / Title II / Chapter 223 / Section 12
Land title actions
Status: in_force

Section 12. If a tract of land lies in two or more counties, an action relative to it, to which neither a county, the city of Boston nor any corporation named in section eight is a party, may be brought in any of said counties, and the complaint shall be so drawn as to include the whole tract.

Section 12. If a tract of land lies in two or more counties, an action relative to it, to which neither a county, the city of Boston nor any corporation named in section eight is a party, may be brought in any of said counties, and the complaint shall be so drawn as to include the whole tract.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 265, sec. 22D — MA Code / Part IV / Title I / Chapter 265 / Section 22D
False representation by health care provider or clergy to induce patient or client to engage in sexual intercourse
Status: in_force

Section 22D. (a) For the purposes of this section, ''health care provider'' shall mean a person licensed by the commonwealth to provide health care or professional services as a physician, dentist, registered or licensed nurse, optometrist, podiatrist, chiropractor, physical therapist, psychologist, social worker or acupuncturist acting in the scope and course of their employment. (b) A person who is, or holds themselves out to be, a health care provider or clergy member and who knowingly induces by false misrepresentation a patient or client to engage in sexual intercourse during the course of diagnosis, counseling or treatment shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 20 years. In a prosecution commenced under this section, the patient or client shall be deemed incapable of consenting to contact of a sexual nature when consent was procured by false representation that such contact was for a legitimate medical, counseling or treatment purpose and not consistent with generally accepted principles of professional medical practice.

Section 22D. (a) For the purposes of this section, ''health care provider'' shall mean a person licensed by the commonwealth to provide health care or professional services as a physician, dentist, registered or licensed nurse, optometrist, podiatrist, chiropractor, physical therapist, psychologist, social worker or acupuncturist acting in the scope and course of their employment.

(b) A person who is, or holds themselves out to be, a health care provider or clergy member and who knowingly induces by false misrepresentation a patient or client to engage in sexual intercourse during the course of diagnosis, counseling or treatment shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 20 years. In a prosecution commenced under this section, the patient or client shall be deemed incapable of consenting to contact of a sexual nature when consent was procured by false representation that such contact was for a legitimate medical, counseling or treatment purpose and not consistent with generally accepted principles of professional medical practice.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 44B, sec. 1 — MA Code / Part I / Title VII / Chapter 44B / Section 1
Title
Status: in_force

Section 1. This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Massachusetts Community Preservation Act.

Section 1. This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Massachusetts Community Preservation Act.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 175, sec. 174F — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 175 / Section 174F
Business Transacted With Broker&ndash;Controlled Insurer Act
Status: in_force

Section 174F. Sections one hundred and seventy-four F to one hundred and seventy-four K, inclusive, shall be known and may be cited as the Business Transacted with Broker–Controlled Insurer Act.

Section 174F. Sections one hundred and seventy-four F to one hundred and seventy-four K, inclusive, shall be known and may be cited as the Business Transacted with Broker–Controlled Insurer Act.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 184, sec. 19 — MA Code / Part II / Title I / Chapter 184 / Section 19
Entry for breach of condition; certificate; recordation
Status: in_force

Section 19. If real property has been conveyed by deed on a condition therein expressed, which is not a mortgage and if proceedings based upon right of entry for breach of such conditions have not been barred by section thirty-one A of chapter two hundred and sixty, the grantor, his heirs and devisees upon breach of such condition may enter on the granted premises in order to revest the title; and a certificate of such entry, made and sworn to before any officer duly qualified to administer oaths by two competent witnesses and recorded within thirty days after such entry in the registry of deeds for the county or district where the land lies, or a duly certified copy of the record of such certificate, shall, after the expiration of three years from such entry, be prima facie evidence of such breach and entry. If a grantor, his heirs or devisees made such entry and certificate and filed the certificate as herein required prior to June ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, said certificate or a duly certified copy of the record thereof shall have like force and effect.

This section shall apply to all such rights whether or not the owner thereof is a corporation or a charity or a government or governmental subdivision, or is under any disability or out of the commonwealth, and it shall apply notwithstanding any recitals in deeds or other instruments heretofore or hereafter recorded.

This section shall not apply to any leasehold estate which has less than fifty years of its term unexpired, or to any leasehold estate mentioned in section one of said chapter one hundred and eighty-six, where rent due under a written instrument has been paid or tendered to the owner of the reversion within a period of twenty years prior to the first day of January, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 149, sec. 119 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXI / Chapter 149 / Section 119
Hoods or hoppers and suction pipes for emery or buffing wheels or belts
Status: in_force

Section 119. Any person operating a factory or workshop where emery wheels or belts or buffing wheels or belts injurious to the health of employees are used shall provide such wheels and belts with a hood or hopper connected with suction pipes, and with fans or blowers, in accordance with the following section, which apparatus shall be so placed and operated as to protect any person using such wheel or belt from the particles or dust produced by its operation, and to convey the particles or dust either outside of the building or to some receptacle so placed as to receive and confine them.

Section 119. Any person operating a factory or workshop where emery wheels or belts or buffing wheels or belts injurious to the health of employees are used shall provide such wheels and belts with a hood or hopper connected with suction pipes, and with fans or blowers, in accordance with the following section, which apparatus shall be so placed and operated as to protect any person using such wheel or belt from the particles or dust produced by its operation, and to convey the particles or dust either outside of the building or to some receptacle so placed as to receive and confine them.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 161, sec. 100 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 161 / Section 100
Heating railway cars
Status: in_force

Section 100. The department shall require every street railway company to heat its cars, when in use for the transportation of passengers, at such times, by such means, and to such extent, as the department shall determine, and the company shall forfeit twenty-five dollars for each trip run by any of its cars not so heated, except in case of accident to the heating process or apparatus, or other unavoidable cause. The state police shall cause this section to be enforced.

Section 100. The department shall require every street railway company to heat its cars, when in use for the transportation of passengers, at such times, by such means, and to such extent, as the department shall determine, and the company shall forfeit twenty-five dollars for each trip run by any of its cars not so heated, except in case of accident to the heating process or apparatus, or other unavoidable cause. The state police shall cause this section to be enforced.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 46, sec. 26 — MA Code / Part I / Title VII / Chapter 46 / Section 26
Fees
Status: in_force

Section 26. The town clerk shall receive the following fees from the town upon presenting to the town treasurer a certificate of the receipt of the prescribed copies by the commissioner of public health: For each birth, marriage or death, one dollar. He shall also receive from the town the following fees: For each certificate transmitted under section twelve, fifty cents; for receiving and recording an affidavit and forwarding a copy thereof under section thirteen, one dollar; for sending the notice required by section twenty-three, fifty cents; for each oath administered in his capacity as clerk, twenty-five cents. A town may limit the aggregate compensation allowed to its clerk.

Section 26. The town clerk shall receive the following fees from the town upon presenting to the town treasurer a certificate of the receipt of the prescribed copies by the commissioner of public health: For each birth, marriage or death, one dollar. He shall also receive from the town the following fees: For each certificate transmitted under section twelve, fifty cents; for receiving and recording an affidavit and forwarding a copy thereof under section thirteen, one dollar; for sending the notice required by section twenty-three, fifty cents; for each oath administered in his capacity as clerk, twenty-five cents. A town may limit the aggregate compensation allowed to its clerk.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 161, sec. 154 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 161 / Section 154
Exclusion of municipality from transportation area
Status: in_force

Section 154. The department may exclude from a transportation area any city or town, but such exclusion shall not prevent the operation of street railways in or through its territory. The department may also exclude any city or town or part thereof, the inclusion of which would, in its opinion, handicap the efficient operation of a transportation area. The department may permit the operation of street railways without the commonwealth by any transportation area which borders on the boundary line of another state.

Section 154. The department may exclude from a transportation area any city or town, but such exclusion shall not prevent the operation of street railways in or through its territory. The department may also exclude any city or town or part thereof, the inclusion of which would, in its opinion, handicap the efficient operation of a transportation area. The department may permit the operation of street railways without the commonwealth by any transportation area which borders on the boundary line of another state.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 101, sec. 11 — MA Code / Part I / Title XV / Chapter 101 / Section 11
Return or surrender of state license; cancellation; affidavit of loss; notice
Status: in_force

Section 11. Upon the expiration and return, or surrender before expiration, of each state license, the deputy director shall cancel the same, endorse the date of return or surrender thereon, and place the same on file. If a license is lost he may accept in lieu of the return or surrender thereof an affidavit to that effect, which shall be so endorsed and filed. He shall hold the special deposit of the licensee for sixty days after the return or surrender of the license or the filing of such affidavit and, after satisfying or making provision in accordance with the following section for all claims made upon the same under said section, shall return the surplus, if any, to said licensee; or, if said licensee has given a bond in lieu of said deposit, the deputy director shall, after said sixty days and after all claims made under the following section have been satisfied or settled, cancel said bond and notify said licensee and the surety on said bond.

Section 11. Upon the expiration and return, or surrender before expiration, of each state license, the deputy director shall cancel the same, endorse the date of return or surrender thereon, and place the same on file. If a license is lost he may accept in lieu of the return or surrender thereof an affidavit to that effect, which shall be so endorsed and filed. He shall hold the special deposit of the licensee for sixty days after the return or surrender of the license or the filing of such affidavit and, after satisfying or making provision in accordance with the following section for all claims made upon the same under said section, shall return the surplus, if any, to said licensee; or, if said licensee has given a bond in lieu of said deposit, the deputy director shall, after said sixty days and after all claims made under the following section have been satisfied or settled, cancel said bond and notify said licensee and the surety on said bond.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 6, sec. 13 — MA Code / Part I / Title II / Chapter 6 / Section 13
Lincoln Day
Status: in_force

Section 13. The governor shall annually issue a proclamation setting apart February twelfth as Lincoln Day, and recommending that it be observed by the people with appropriate exercises in the public schools and otherwise, as he may see fit, to the end that the memory of the public service and private virtues of Abraham Lincoln may be perpetuated.

Section 13. The governor shall annually issue a proclamation setting apart February twelfth as Lincoln Day, and recommending that it be observed by the people with appropriate exercises in the public schools and otherwise, as he may see fit, to the end that the memory of the public service and private virtues of Abraham Lincoln may be perpetuated.