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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 10, sec. 34 — MA Code / Part I / Title II / Chapter 10 / Section 34
Minors; payment of prize money
Status: in_force

Section 34. If the person entitled to a prize or any winning ticket is under the age of eighteen years, and such prize is less than five thousand dollars, the director may direct payment of the prize by delivery to an adult member of the minor's family or a guardian of the minor of a check or draft payable to the order of such minor. If the person entitled to a prize or any winning ticket is under the age of eighteen years, and such prize is five thousand dollars or more, the director may direct payment to such minor by depositing the amount of the prize in any bank to the credit of an adult member of the minor's family or a guardian of the minor as custodian for such minor. The director shall be discharged of all further liability upon payment of a prize to a minor pursuant to this section.

Section 34. If the person entitled to a prize or any winning ticket is under the age of eighteen years, and such prize is less than five thousand dollars, the director may direct payment of the prize by delivery to an adult member of the minor's family or a guardian of the minor of a check or draft payable to the order of such minor. If the person entitled to a prize or any winning ticket is under the age of eighteen years, and such prize is five thousand dollars or more, the director may direct payment to such minor by depositing the amount of the prize in any bank to the credit of an adult member of the minor's family or a guardian of the minor as custodian for such minor. The director shall be discharged of all further liability upon payment of a prize to a minor pursuant to this section.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 171, sec. 78A — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 171 / Section 78A
Merger or consolidation of credit unions with savings bank, co-operative bank or subsidiary banking institution
Status: in_force

Section 78A. Any 1 or more credit unions may merge or consolidate with 1 or more savings banks, as defined in section 1 of chapter 168, or 1 or more co-operative banks, as defined in section 1 of chapter 170, or 1 or more subsidiary banking institutions, as defined in section 1 of chapter 167H and section 4 of chapter 167I.

Section 78A. Any 1 or more credit unions may merge or consolidate with 1 or more savings banks, as defined in section 1 of chapter 168, or 1 or more co-operative banks, as defined in section 1 of chapter 170, or 1 or more subsidiary banking institutions, as defined in section 1 of chapter 167H and section 4 of chapter 167I.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 15D, sec. 1 — MA Code / Part I / Title II / Chapter 15D / Section 1
Purpose
Status: in_force

Section 1. It is hereby declared to be the policy of the commonwealth to assure every child a fair and full opportunity to reach his full potential by providing and encouraging services which maximize a child's capacity and opportunity to learn, which strengthen family life, and which support families in their essential function of nurturing a child's physical, social, educational, moral, and spiritual development.

Section 1. It is hereby declared to be the policy of the commonwealth to assure every child a fair and full opportunity to reach his full potential by providing and encouraging services which maximize a child's capacity and opportunity to learn, which strengthen family life, and which support families in their essential function of nurturing a child's physical, social, educational, moral, and spiritual development.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 2, sec. 58 — MA Code / Part I / Title I / Chapter 2 / Section 58
Artist of commonwealth
Status: in_force

Section 58. Norman Rockwell shall be the official artist of the commonwealth.

Section 58. Norman Rockwell shall be the official artist of the commonwealth.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 150, sec. 5 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXI / Chapter 150 / Section 5
Controversies; inquiry as to cause; advice as to adjustment; decision; publication; effect
Status: in_force

Section 5. If a controversy exists between an employer and his employees, the board shall, upon application as provided in the following section, as soon as practicable visit the place where the controversy exists and make careful inquiry into its cause, and may, with the consent of the governor, conduct such inquiry outside the commonwealth. The board shall hear all persons interested who come before it, advise the respective parties what ought to be done or submitted to by either or both to adjust said controversy, and make a written decision thereof which shall at once be made public, shall be open to public inspection and shall be recorded by the board. A short statement thereof may, in the discretion of the board, be published in the annual report, and the board shall cause a copy thereof to be filed with the clerk of the city or town in which said business is carried on. Said decision shall for six months be binding upon the parties who join in said application, unless by agreement of both parties it is stipulated in the application that the contract is to run for a longer period of time, in which event the decision of the board will be binding for the length of time agreed upon by both parties in their application.

Section 5. If a controversy exists between an employer and his employees, the board shall, upon application as provided in the following section, as soon as practicable visit the place where the controversy exists and make careful inquiry into its cause, and may, with the consent of the governor, conduct such inquiry outside the commonwealth. The board shall hear all persons interested who come before it, advise the respective parties what ought to be done or submitted to by either or both to adjust said controversy, and make a written decision thereof which shall at once be made public, shall be open to public inspection and shall be recorded by the board. A short statement thereof may, in the discretion of the board, be published in the annual report, and the board shall cause a copy thereof to be filed with the clerk of the city or town in which said business is carried on. Said decision shall for six months be binding upon the parties who join in said application, unless by agreement of both parties it is stipulated in the application that the contract is to run for a longer period of time, in which event the decision of the board will be binding for the length of time agreed upon by both parties in their application.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 156, sec. 21 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 156 / Section 21
Management of corporation
Status: in_force

Section 21. The business of every corporation shall be managed and conducted by a president, a board of not less than three directors, a clerk, a treasurer and such other officers and such agents as the corporation by its by-laws shall authorize. The treasurer may be required to give a bond for the faithful performance of his duty in such sum and with such sureties as the by-laws may prescribe. The clerk, who shall be a resident of the commonwealth, shall be sworn and shall record all votes of the corporation in a book to be kept therefor.

Section 21. The business of every corporation shall be managed and conducted by a president, a board of not less than three directors, a clerk, a treasurer and such other officers and such agents as the corporation by its by-laws shall authorize. The treasurer may be required to give a bond for the faithful performance of his duty in such sum and with such sureties as the by-laws may prescribe. The clerk, who shall be a resident of the commonwealth, shall be sworn and shall record all votes of the corporation in a book to be kept therefor.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 208, sec. 55 — MA Code / Part II / Title III / Chapter 208 / Section 55
Reasonable security for alimony in event of payor's death; orders to maintain life insurance; modification of orders
Status: in_force

Section 55. (a) The court may require reasonable security for alimony in the event of the payor's death during the alimony period. Security may include, but shall not be limited to, maintenance of life insurance. (b) Orders to maintain life insurance shall be based upon due consideration of the following factors: age and insurability of the payor; cost of insurance; amount of the judgment; policies carried during the marriage; duration of the alimony order; prevailing interest rates at the time of the order; and other obligations of the payor. (c) A court may modify orders to maintain security upon a material change of circumstance.

Section 55. (a) The court may require reasonable security for alimony in the event of the payor's death during the alimony period. Security may include, but shall not be limited to, maintenance of life insurance.

(b) Orders to maintain life insurance shall be based upon due consideration of the following factors: age and insurability of the payor; cost of insurance; amount of the judgment; policies carried during the marriage; duration of the alimony order; prevailing interest rates at the time of the order; and other obligations of the payor.

(c) A court may modify orders to maintain security upon a material change of circumstance.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 43, sec. 25 — MA Code / Part I / Title VII / Chapter 43 / Section 25
Employees in mayor's office not subject to civil service
Status: in_force

Section 25. The civil service laws shall not apply to the appointment of the mayor's secretaries or of the stenographers, clerks, telephone operators and messengers connected with his office, and the mayor may remove such appointees without a hearing and without making a statement of the cause of their removal.

Section 25. The civil service laws shall not apply to the appointment of the mayor's secretaries or of the stenographers, clerks, telephone operators and messengers connected with his office, and the mayor may remove such appointees without a hearing and without making a statement of the cause of their removal.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 43, sec. 16 — MA Code / Part I / Title VII / Chapter 43 / Section 16
Primaries and caucuses prohibited
Status: in_force

Section 16. No primary or caucus for municipal officers shall be held, except in a city under Plan F. Candidates for mayor, city council and school committee, and assessors, if elected by the people, shall, except in a city under Plan F, be nominated in accordance with section six of chapter fifty-three.

Section 16. No primary or caucus for municipal officers shall be held, except in a city under Plan F. Candidates for mayor, city council and school committee, and assessors, if elected by the people, shall, except in a city under Plan F, be nominated in accordance with section six of chapter fifty-three.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 13, sec. 20 — MA Code / Part I / Title II / Chapter 13 / Section 20
Board of registration in dentistry; board meetings; officers
Status: in_force

Section 20. The board shall hold at least two regular meetings in each year in Boston, and shall annually choose from its own number a chairman and a secretary.

Section 20. The board shall hold at least two regular meetings in each year in Boston, and shall annually choose from its own number a chairman and a secretary.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 94, sec. 3 — MA Code / Part I / Title XV / Chapter 94 / Section 3
Storage, handling and transportation of bakery products
Status: in_force

Section 3. All bakery products and ingredients thereof shall be stored, handled, transported and kept so as to protect them from spoilage, contamination, disease and unwholesomeness. Boxes and other permanent receptacles or containers for the storing, receiving or handling of bakery products shall be so placed and constructed as to be beyond the reach of contamination from streets, alleys and sidewalks and from animals, and shall be kept clean and sanitary by the dealer. No other articles shall be placed therein in addition to said products. No person shall tamper with, injure or contaminate said boxes, receptacles or containers, nor shall any person other than the baker or dealer or his employees remove anything therefrom or place anything therein.

Section 3. All bakery products and ingredients thereof shall be stored, handled, transported and kept so as to protect them from spoilage, contamination, disease and unwholesomeness. Boxes and other permanent receptacles or containers for the storing, receiving or handling of bakery products shall be so placed and constructed as to be beyond the reach of contamination from streets, alleys and sidewalks and from animals, and shall be kept clean and sanitary by the dealer. No other articles shall be placed therein in addition to said products. No person shall tamper with, injure or contaminate said boxes, receptacles or containers, nor shall any person other than the baker or dealer or his employees remove anything therefrom or place anything therein.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 159, sec. 76 — MA Code / Part I / Title XXII / Chapter 159 / Section 76
Settlement of claims; failure to file petition
Status: in_force

Section 76. In any case arising under the preceding section, where any person sustaining damage to his property in the manner therein specified fails to bring a petition within the time limited by chapter seventy-nine, the attorney general may join with the other parties interested in a settlement of the claim of such person; and the proportion of the amount agreed upon in settlement thereof which would be chargeable to the commonwealth under section seventy shall be paid by the commonwealth as if it were a part of the actual cost of the work required to be done under said section.

Section 76. In any case arising under the preceding section, where any person sustaining damage to his property in the manner therein specified fails to bring a petition within the time limited by chapter seventy-nine, the attorney general may join with the other parties interested in a settlement of the claim of such person; and the proportion of the amount agreed upon in settlement thereof which would be chargeable to the commonwealth under section seventy shall be paid by the commonwealth as if it were a part of the actual cost of the work required to be done under said section.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 40, sec. 44G — MA Code / Part I / Title VII / Chapter 40 / Section 44G
Exercise of powers; officers of committee
Status: in_force

Section 44G. The powers, duties and liabilities of a regional refuse disposal district shall be vested in and exercised by a regional refuse disposal district committee organized in accordance with the agreement. The committee shall choose a chairman by ballot from its membership. It shall appoint a secretary and a treasurer, who may be the same person, but who need not be members of said committee. The treasurer shall receive and take charge of all money belonging to the district and shall pay any bill of the district which shall have been approved by the committee. The treasurer may, by vote of said committee, be compensated for his services. The treasurer of said district shall be subject to the provisions of sections thirty-five, fifty-two and one hundred and nine A of chapter forty-one, to the extent applicable.

Section 44G. The powers, duties and liabilities of a regional refuse disposal district shall be vested in and exercised by a regional refuse disposal district committee organized in accordance with the agreement. The committee shall choose a chairman by ballot from its membership. It shall appoint a secretary and a treasurer, who may be the same person, but who need not be members of said committee. The treasurer shall receive and take charge of all money belonging to the district and shall pay any bill of the district which shall have been approved by the committee. The treasurer may, by vote of said committee, be compensated for his services. The treasurer of said district shall be subject to the provisions of sections thirty-five, fifty-two and one hundred and nine A of chapter forty-one, to the extent applicable.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 53, sec. 62 — MA Code / Part I / Title VIII / Chapter 53 / Section 62
Death, withdrawal, or ineligibility of candidates; filling vacancies
Status: in_force

Section 62. If a person nominated to be voted for at a city or town primary dies before the day of the primary, or withdraws his name from nomination, or is found ineligible, and there is no other candidate for the party nomination for the office, the vacancy may be filled by vote of the town committee in a town, by vote of the city committee if it occurs for an office to be filled by all the voters of a city, or by vote of the ward committee if it occurs for an office to be filled by the voters of a ward. In cases of vacancies caused by withdrawal, nominations to fill such vacancies shall be filed with the town clerk within twenty-four week-day hours, by a certificate signed by the chairman and secretary of said committee, or if the vacancy occurs in a city, with the city clerk within forty-eight week-day hours, by a similar certificate, signed by the chairman and secretary of the city committee or of the ward committee, as the case may be. No vacancy caused by withdrawal shall be filled before the withdrawal has been filed. If there is a failure to make a nomination at a city or town primary by reason of a tie vote, the vacancy, if in respect to an office to be filled by all the voters of the city or town, shall be filled by vote of the city or town committee and, if in respect to an office to be filled by the voters of a ward, by vote of the ward committee; provided, that any such vacancy shall be filled only by the choice of one of the candidates receiving the tie vote.

Section 62. If a person nominated to be voted for at a city or town primary dies before the day of the primary, or withdraws his name from nomination, or is found ineligible, and there is no other candidate for the party nomination for the office, the vacancy may be filled by vote of the town committee in a town, by vote of the city committee if it occurs for an office to be filled by all the voters of a city, or by vote of the ward committee if it occurs for an office to be filled by the voters of a ward. In cases of vacancies caused by withdrawal, nominations to fill such vacancies shall be filed with the town clerk within twenty-four week-day hours, by a certificate signed by the chairman and secretary of said committee, or if the vacancy occurs in a city, with the city clerk within forty-eight week-day hours, by a similar certificate, signed by the chairman and secretary of the city committee or of the ward committee, as the case may be. No vacancy caused by withdrawal shall be filled before the withdrawal has been filed. If there is a failure to make a nomination at a city or town primary by reason of a tie vote, the vacancy, if in respect to an office to be filled by all the voters of the city or town, shall be filled by vote of the city or town committee and, if in respect to an office to be filled by the voters of a ward, by vote of the ward committee; provided, that any such vacancy shall be filled only by the choice of one of the candidates receiving the tie vote.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 83, sec. 27 — MA Code / Part I / Title XIV / Chapter 83 / Section 27
Recording of statements; assessment liens
Status: in_force

Section 27. Whenever the aldermen of a city or the sewer commissioners, selectmen or road commissioners of a town lay out or determine to construct a sewer or drain in a public way, or in a way opened or dedicated to the public use which has not become a public way, or adopt an order for the establishment or reconstruction of a sidewalk for such a way, and assessments may be made or charges imposed under this chapter for the construction of such improvement or the use thereof, they shall forthwith cause to be recorded in the registry of deeds of the county or district in which such city or town is situated a statement of their action, which shall specify the ways in which such sewer, drain or sidewalk is located. All assessments made or charges imposed under this chapter upon land which abuts upon any such way in which such sewer, drain or sidewalk is located shall constitute a lien upon such land from the time such statement is recorded and all charges authorized by section sixteen shall from the time of assessment constitute a lien upon the land connected with the common sewer. Liens under this section shall continue for the same period and under the same conditions as a lien established under chapter eighty.

Section 27. Whenever the aldermen of a city or the sewer commissioners, selectmen or road commissioners of a town lay out or determine to construct a sewer or drain in a public way, or in a way opened or dedicated to the public use which has not become a public way, or adopt an order for the establishment or reconstruction of a sidewalk for such a way, and assessments may be made or charges imposed under this chapter for the construction of such improvement or the use thereof, they shall forthwith cause to be recorded in the registry of deeds of the county or district in which such city or town is situated a statement of their action, which shall specify the ways in which such sewer, drain or sidewalk is located. All assessments made or charges imposed under this chapter upon land which abuts upon any such way in which such sewer, drain or sidewalk is located shall constitute a lien upon such land from the time such statement is recorded and all charges authorized by section sixteen shall from the time of assessment constitute a lien upon the land connected with the common sewer. Liens under this section shall continue for the same period and under the same conditions as a lien established under chapter eighty.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 127, sec. 117A — MA Code / Part I / Title XVIII / Chapter 127 / Section 117A
Temporary placement of prisoners in hospital or medical facility
Status: in_force

Section 117A. Whenever the physician of any jail or house of correction certifies that any prisoner held therein requires medical, dental or other similar professional treatment which is not available in such jail or house of correction, the sheriff or, in the case of the house of correction in Suffolk county, the penal institutions commissioner of the city of Boston may temporarily place such prisoner in a hospital or medical facility to receive such treatment.

Section 117A. Whenever the physician of any jail or house of correction certifies that any prisoner held therein requires medical, dental or other similar professional treatment which is not available in such jail or house of correction, the sheriff or, in the case of the house of correction in Suffolk county, the penal institutions commissioner of the city of Boston may temporarily place such prisoner in a hospital or medical facility to receive such treatment.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 223, sec. 94 — MA Code / Part III / Title II / Chapter 223 / Section 94
Bond; duty to return with writs
Status: in_force

Section 94. The officer who takes such bond shall return it with the writ on which the first attachment is made in like manner as bail bonds are returned, with a certificate of his doings therein; and if the bond is forfeited, any of the attaching creditors may bring an action thereon.

Section 94. The officer who takes such bond shall return it with the writ on which the first attachment is made in like manner as bail bonds are returned, with a certificate of his doings therein; and if the bond is forfeited, any of the attaching creditors may bring an action thereon.