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MA Gen L ch 151a § 42 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151a - Unemployment Insurance|Section 42 - Judicial Review; Procedures; Appeals; Rules

Section 42. The commissioner or any interested person aggrieved by any decision in any proceeding before the board of review may obtain judicial review of such decision by commencing within thirty days of the date of mailing of such decision, a civil action in the district court within the judicial district in which he lives, or is or was last employed, or has his usual place of business, and in such proceeding, every other party to the proceeding before the board shall be made a defendant. If an appeal to the board of review is deemed denied pursuant to subsection (a) of section forty-one because the board failed to act upon such appeal, judicial review may be obtained by commencing a civil action as prescribed in the preceding sentence, except that the time for commencing such action shall run from the date such appeal is deemed denied. The commissioner shall be deemed to have been a party to any such proceeding before the board. The complaint shall state the grounds upon which such review is sought. The plaintiff shall serve a copy of the complaint upon each defendant by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, within seven days after commencing the action for judicial review.  The commissioner shall make every reasonable effort to file with the court a certified copy of the decision of the board of review, including all documents and a transcript of all testimony taken at the hearing before said board or the commissioner as the case may be, within twenty-eight days after service of the complaint upon the commissioner or within twenty-eight days after the commencement of the action for judicial review by the commissioner. Each defendant shall file an answer within twenty-eight days after receipt of the complaint, except that the commissioner may, by way of answer, file in court within such time period a certified copy of the record of the proceeding under review.  Except as otherwise provided in this section, or if inconsistent with the provisions of this section, such proceeding shall be governed by the Rules of Civil Procedure for the district courts and the municipal court of the city of Boston. The findings and decisions of the board shall be reviewed in accordance with the standards for review provided in paragraph (7) of section fourteen of chapter thirty A. Any proceeding under this section shall be given precedence over all other civil cases.  An appeal may be taken from the decision of the justice of the district court directly to the appeals court. Notice of appeal shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the district court within thirty days after entry of the judgment by the clerk. The completion of such appeal shall be made in accordance with the Massachusetts Rules of Appellate Procedure. Benefits shall be paid or denied in accordance with the decision of the trial court justice during the pendency of such appeal.
MA Gen L ch 151a § 42a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151a - Unemployment Insurance|Section 42a - Commissioner Represented by Attorney General or Designated Attorney

Section 42A. In any action to enforce any provision of this chapter, or any criminal proceedings thereunder, the commissioner shall be represented by the attorney general, or by any attorney at law designated by the attorney general for such purpose.
MA Gen L ch 151a § 42b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151a - Unemployment Insurance|Section 42b - Modification or Reversal of Decision; Recovery of Payments

Section 42B. If any determination under section thirty-nine, or any decision under section thirty-nine, forty-one or forty-two, is finally modified or reversed, any benefits which have been paid but to which the claimant was not entitled under such final decision shall be deemed to be erroneous payments recoverable under section sixty-nine.
MA Gen L ch 151a § 43 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151a - Unemployment Insurance|Section 43 - Administering Oaths; Depositions; Certifications; Witnesses; Production of Evidence; Contempt; Self-Incrimination

Section 43. In the discharge of the duties prescribed by this chapter, the commissioner and the members of the board of review and of the state advisory council, or the duly authorized representative of any of them, shall have the power to administer oaths, take depositions, certify to official acts, and require by summons the attendance of witnesses and the production of books, papers, documents and records. Witnesses so summoned shall be paid for attendance and travel the same fees as witnesses in civil actions before the courts. Such fees shall be paid from the employment security administration account. In case of refusal to obey a subpoena issued to any person under authority of this chapter, any court of the commonwealth, within the jurisdiction of which the inquiry is carried on or the person so refusing to obey is found or resides or transacts business, may, upon application by the commissioner or his duly authorized representative or the board of review, issue to such person an order requiring him to appear before the commissioner, or his duly authorized representative or the board of review, as the case may be, to produce evidence if so ordered or to give testimony touching the matter under investigation or in question; and any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by said court as a contempt thereof. No person shall be excused from giving testimony, or from producing any book, record, document or other paper, pertinent to the matter in question, in any investigation or inquiry by, or upon any hearing before, the commissioner or the board of review or the duly authorized representative of the commissioner or said board, when ordered to do so by the commissioner, or said board, or such representative, respectively, upon the ground that the testimony or the book, record, document or other paper required of him may tend to incriminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture; but no person shall be prosecuted, punished or subject to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any act, transaction, matter or thing concerning which, after claiming his privilege, he shall by order have testified or produced documentary evidence, except for perjury committed in giving such testimony or forgery committed by him in such documentary evidence.
MA Gen L ch 151a § 44 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151a - Unemployment Insurance|Section 44 - Accounts for Employers; Records for Employees; Disposition of Papers; Summaries; Reproductions

Section 44. (a) The commissioner shall maintain a separate account for each employer, crediting his account with all the contributions which he has paid during each year.  (b) The commissioner shall maintain suitable records for each employee on which may be recorded that part of his quarterly wages subject to contributions and such other pertinent information as the commissioner may prescribe.  (c) The commissioner may destroy or dispose of any records, reports, claims, or other papers which, in his opinion, are no longer of any value to the department, and he may make such summaries or compilations, photographs, duplications or reproductions of any such records, reports, claims or other papers, which he deems advisable to preserve the information contained therein and such summaries, compilations, photographs, duplications or reproductions shall be admissible in evidence in any proceeding in any court of the commonwealth if the original would have been admissible therein.
MA Gen L ch 151a § 45 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151a - Unemployment Insurance|Section 45 - Records and Reports of Employing Units; Verification

Section 45. Every employing unit shall keep true and accurate records of all individuals employed by him and such other information as the commissioner deems necessary for the effective administration of this chapter. Such records shall be open to inspection by the commissioner or his authorized representatives at any reasonable time. The commissioner may require from any such employing unit such reports on wages, hours, employment, unemployment and related matters concerning his employees as the commissioner deems necessary for the effective administration of this chapter, and every such employing unit shall fully, correctly and promptly furnish to the commissioner all information required by him to carry out the purposes and provisions of this chapter. The commissioner may require that such information be verified under oath, which may be administered by the commissioner, or any person thereto authorized by him.
MA Gen L ch 151a § 47a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151a - Unemployment Insurance|Section 47a - Utterance or Delivery of Insufficient Funds Check With Intent to Defraud; Punishment

Section 47A. Whoever, with intent to defraud, makes, draws, utters or delivers any check, draft or order for the payment of any amount required under this chapter upon any bank or other depository, with knowledge that the maker or drawer has not sufficient funds or credit at such bank or other depository for the payment of such instrument, although no express representation is made in reference thereto, shall be punished by a fine of not less than five hundred nor more than five thousand dollars, or imprisonment for not more than two years, or both such fine and imprisonment. As against the maker or drawer thereof, the making, drawing, uttering or delivery of such check, draft or order, payment of which is refused by the drawee, shall be prima facie evidence of intent to defraud and of knowledge of insufficient funds in, or credit with, such bank or other depository, unless the maker or drawer shall have paid the holder thereof the amount due thereof, together with all costs and protest fees, within two days after receiving notice that such check, draft or order has not been paid by the drawee. The word ''credit'' as used herein, shall be construed to mean an arrangement or understanding with the bank or depository for the payment of such check, draft or order.
MA Gen L ch 151a § 48 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151a - Unemployment Insurance|Section 48 - Unemployment Compensation Fund; Establishment; Composition; Benefits Payable From Pooled Money

Section 48. There is hereby established, separate and apart from all public moneys or funds of the commonwealth, an Unemployment Compensation Fund, which shall be administered by the commissioner without liability on the part of the commonwealth beyond the amounts credited to and earned by the fund.  This fund shall consist of all contributions and moneys paid into the state treasury and credited to the fund as provided in this chapter; all property and securities acquired by and through the use of moneys belonging to the fund and all interest thereon, less payments therefrom under this chapter, and excepting refunds made pursuant to the provisions of section eighteen of sums erroneously paid into the fund, and refunds of contributions made in accordance with the provisions of subsection (e) of section six.  All moneys in the fund shall be pooled and available to pay benefits under this chapter irrespective of the source of such moneys.
MA Gen L ch 151a § 49 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151a - Unemployment Insurance|Section 49 - Vested Rights

Section 49. No person shall be or be deemed to be vested with any property or other right by virtue of the enactment of this chapter.
MA Gen L ch 151a § 50 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151a - Unemployment Insurance|Section 50 - Treasurer of Unemployment Compensation Fund; Clearing Account; Fund Account; Deposit With United States Secretary of the Treasury

Section 50. (a) The state treasurer shall be, ex officio, the treasurer of the Unemployment Compensation Fund.  He shall maintain within the Unemployment Compensation Fund two separate accounts as follows:—  (1) A clearing account in which the commissioner, immediately upon their receipt, shall deposit all moneys payable to the fund.  (2) An unemployment compensation fund account.  (b) All money in the clearing account after clearance thereof, and excepting payment of refunds as provided in sections eighteen and forty-eight, shall be deposited by the state treasurer immediately with the secretary of the treasury of the United States of America to the credit of the account of the commonwealth in the Unemployment Trust Fund, established and maintained pursuant to section nine hundred and four of the Social Security Act, as amended, any provisions of the general laws relating to the deposit, administration, release or disbursement of moneys in the possession or custody of the commonwealth to the contrary notwithstanding.
MA Gen L ch 151a § 51 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151a - Unemployment Insurance|Section 51 - Requisition From Trust Fund; Transfer to Commissioner

Section 51. The state treasurer shall from time to time requisition from said Unemployment Trust Fund such amounts, not exceeding the amounts standing to the commonwealth's account therein, as the commissioner deems necessary for the payment of benefits for a reasonable future period, and transfer such moneys to the commissioner.
MA Gen L ch 151a § 52 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151a - Unemployment Insurance|Section 52 - Benefit Account

Section 52. All moneys requisitioned from the commonwealth's account in the Unemployment Trust Fund in the United States treasury and received by the commissioner from the state treasurer shall be immediately deposited in a benefit account maintained by the commissioner. All moneys in the benefit account shall be used exclusively for the payment of benefits pursuant to this chapter.
MA Gen L ch 151a § 53 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151a - Unemployment Insurance|Section 53 - Unclaimed Balance in Benefit Account

Section 53. Any balance of moneys requisitioned from the Unemployment Trust Fund which remains unclaimed or unpaid in the benefit account after the expiration of the period for which such sums were requisitioned shall either be deducted from estimates for, and may be utilized for the payment of, benefits during succeeding periods, or, in the discretion of the commissioner, shall be redeposited by the state treasurer with the secretary of the treasury of the United States of America, to the credit of the account of the commonwealth in the Unemployment Compensation Fund.
MA Gen L ch 151a § 54 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151a - Unemployment Insurance|Section 54 - Depositaries; Insurance Charge; Commingling Funds

Section 54. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, moneys in the clearing and benefit accounts and the contingent fund may be deposited in any depositary bank in which general funds of the commonwealth may be deposited, but no public deposit insurance charge or premium shall be paid out of the Unemployment Compensation Fund or the contingent fund.  Moneys in the clearing and benefit accounts and the contingent fund shall not be commingled with other funds of the commonwealth, but shall be maintained as separate accounts on the books of the depositary bank.
MA Gen L ch 151a § 55 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151a - Unemployment Insurance|Section 55 - Bond of Commissioner; Premiums Paid From Administrative Account

Section 55. The commissioner shall give a bond conditioned upon the faithful performance of his duties with respect to the benefit account in an amount not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars, and approved by the governor and council and with surety or sureties satisfactory to the attorney general. Premiums upon bonds pursuant to this section shall be paid from the employment security administration account.
MA Gen L ch 151a § 56 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151a - Unemployment Insurance|Section 56 - Trust Fund; Administration Upon Cessation of Unemployment Compensation Fund or Federal Separate Book Account; Investments

Section 56. The provisions of this chapter, to the extent that they relate to the Unemployment Compensation Fund, shall be operative only so long as such Unemployment Compensation Fund continues to exist and so long as the secretary of the treasury of the United States of America continues to maintain for the commonwealth a separate book account of all funds deposited therein by the commonwealth for benefit purposes, together with the commonwealth's proportionate share of the earnings of such Unemployment Compensation Fund, from which no other state is permitted to make withdrawals. If and when such Unemployment Compensation Fund ceases to exist, or such separate book account is no longer maintained, all moneys belonging to the Unemployment Compensation Fund of the commonwealth shall be requisitioned by the state treasurer as ex officio treasurer of the fund. The state treasurer shall thereafter, in accordance with the pertinent provisions of this chapter, hold, invest, transfer, sell, deposit and release such moneys, and any properties, securities, or earnings acquired as an incident thereto, for the administration by the commissioner as a trust fund for the purposes of paying benefits or refunds; provided, that such moneys shall be invested in the following classes of securities:  (a) Bonds or other interest-bearing obligations of the United States of America;  (b) Other direct obligations of the United States;  (c) Securities which are the direct obligations of the commonwealth;  (d) Bonds and other interest-bearing obligations of any legally constituted political subdivision of the commonwealth, if such subdivision has never defaulted in the payment of the principal or interest of any of its bonds or other interest-bearing obligations.
MA Gen L ch 151a § 57 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151a - Unemployment Insurance|Section 57 - Requisitions From State Trust Fund; Investment Board; Deposits; Investments; Assistance

Section 57. In the event of the provisions contained in section fifty-six becoming operative  (a) The commissioner shall from time to time requisition from the state treasurer as treasurer ex officio of the trust fund such amounts of moneys as he deems necessary for the payment of benefits for a reasonable time and immediately deposit same in the benefit account for the purpose of paying benefits under the provisions of this chapter.  (b) An investment board of three members, hereinafter called the board, the membership of which shall be as provided in the following sentence, is hereby created, and shall be responsible for directing how and to what extent the fund shall from time to time be held, deposited and invested under this chapter. The board shall consist of the state treasurer, the commissioner and the chairman of the state advisory council or their authorized representatives. The board shall perform its duties by the recorded vote of any two of its members and under rules to be adopted by it. Except as otherwise provided in this section and as the board may from time to time determine, not less than twenty nor more than forty per cent of the fund shall either be deposited with the federal reserve bank of Boston, if said bank is authorized to receive and to pay interest on such deposits, or shall be deposited by the commissioner, or shall, at the direction of the board, be held in ear-marked cash either by the commissioner or by the federal reserve bank of Boston, if said bank is authorized to hold such funds for the commonwealth, or in other safe depositories selected by the board. Except as otherwise provided in said section fifty-six, the balance of the fund shall at the direction of the board be invested in any or all of the classes of securities therein referred to. If the fund is so invested, the board may purchase and sell such securities therefor at current market prices, may invest and reinvest the fund from time to time in its discretion, and may, in its discretion, borrow against its investments for current payments. To enable the board to perform its duties under this section, the commissioner shall furnish the board with any necessary assistance duly requested by the board and approved by the commissioner.
MA Gen L ch 151a § 59 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151a - Unemployment Insurance|Section 59 - Liability on State Treasurer's Bond

Section 59. The state treasurer, in addition to the provisions contained in section two of chapter ten, shall be liable on the treasurer's bond for the faithful performance of his duties in connection with the unemployment compensation fund, the clearing account in connection therewith and the employment security administration account provided for under this chapter. Such liability of the treasurer on his official bond shall be effective immediately upon the enactment of this provision, and such liability shall exist in addition to any liability upon any separate bond existent on the effective date of this provision.
MA Gen L ch 151a § 60 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 151a - Unemployment Insurance|Section 60 - Federal Moneys Allotted to Commonwealth Paid Into Accounts

Section 60. All federal moneys allotted or apportioned to the commonwealth by the Federal Social Security Board, the Federal Railroad Retirement Board, or other federal agency, for the administration of this chapter, shall be paid into the employment security administration account, except that moneys received from the Federal Railroad Retirement Board as compensation for services or facilities supplied to said board shall be paid into this account or the employment service accounts thereof, on the same basis as expenditures are made for such services or facilities from such employment security administration account and employment service accounts.