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MA Gen L ch 93 § 103 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93 - Regulation of Trade and Certain Enterprises|Section 103 - Equal Rights; Age and Handicap; Violations; Remedies

Section 103. (a) Any person within the commonwealth, regardless of handicap or age as defined in chapter one hundred and fifty-one B, shall, with reasonable accommodation, have the same rights as other persons to make and enforce contracts, inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold and convey real and personal property, sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property, including, but not limited to, the rights secured under Article CXIV of the Amendments to the Constitution.  (b) Any person whose rights under the provisions of subsection (a) have been violated may commence a civil action for injunctive and other appropriate equitable relief, including, but not limited to, the award of compensatory and exemplary damages. Said civil action shall be instituted either in the superior court for the county in which the conduct complained of occurred, or in the superior court for the county in which the person whose conduct complained of resides or has his principal place of business.  (c) A violation of subsection (a) shall be established if, based upon the totality of circumstances, it is shown that any individual is denied any of the rights protected by subsection (a).  (d) An aggrieved person who prevails in an action authorized by subsection (b), in addition to other damages, shall be entitled to an award of the costs of the litigation and reasonable attorneys' fees in an amount to be determined by the court.
MA Gen L ch 93 § 104 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93 - Regulation of Trade and Certain Enterprises|Section 104 - Definitions Applicable to Secs. 104 and 105

Section 104. For purposes of this section and section one hundred and five, the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context otherwise requires or specifically prescribes a different meaning:  ''Check'', an instrument, draft or order issued or made for the payment of money upon any bank or other depository institution.  ''Credit Card'', any instrument or device, whether known as a credit card, credit plate, or by any other name, issued with or without fee by an issuer for the use of the card holder in obtaining money, goods, services, or anything else of value on credit. Credit card shall not include a check guarantee card.
MA Gen L ch 93 § 106 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93 - Regulation of Trade and Certain Enterprises|Section 106 - Video Rental; Records; Penalty

Section 106. (1) No persons engaged in the business of leasing or renting videos or any employee thereof shall maintain records that would indicate the title or category of any video leased or rented by a borrower other than the records necessary to ensure a completed transaction of such video. Records indicating the name of the borrower together with the title or category of the video shall be eliminated within thirty days after the transaction is completed. A transaction shall not be considered complete until all contractual rights or obligations between the parties regarding a particular video have been satisfied, including any credit due, late fees, rewinding charges or settlement for property damage and any investigation related thereto.  (2) No persons engaged in the business of leasing or renting videos or any employees thereof shall make available to a third party records that would indicate the name of the borrower or the title or category of any video leased or rented by a borrower, except under a proceeding authorized by 18 USC 2710(b)(2) (C) and (F).  (3) Any violation of this section shall be punishable by imprisonment in a house of correction for not more than sixty days or a fine of one thousand dollars, or both such fine and imprisonment.
MA Gen L ch 93 § 108 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93 - Regulation of Trade and Certain Enterprises|Section 108 - Definitions Applicable to Secs. 108 to 113

Section 108. As used in sections 108 to 113, inclusive, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:—  ''Customer'', a person who resides in the commonwealth and subscribes to local or long distance telecommunications services.  ''Department'', the department of telecommunications and cable.  ''Interexchange carrier'' or ''IXC'', any person engaged in the provision of long distance telephone service.  ''Letter of agency'' or ''LOA'', a document meeting the form and content requirements of section 109 and 47 CFR 64.1150.  ''Local exchange carrier'' or ''LEC'', any person engaged in the provision of telephone exchange service, not including a person engaged in the provision of commercial mobile service under section 332(e) of the Federal Communications Act of 1934, except to the extent that the department determines such service should be included in the definition of such term.  ''Third party verification'' or ''TPV'', service provider, an entity registered with the department pursuant to section 12E of chapter 159 that provides customer authorization confirmation services under section 110.
MA Gen L ch 93 § 111 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93 - Regulation of Trade and Certain Enterprises|Section 111 - Information Booklet Describing Customer's Rights Under Secs. 108 to 113

Section 111. (a) An LEC doing business in the commonwealth shall prepare an information booklet describing customer's rights under the provisions of sections 108 to 113, inclusive. The LEC shall mail such booklet to each of its customers, including new customers. The information booklet shall be approved by the department.  (b) After switching a customer's IXC or LEC, said LEC shall include in the customer's next monthly statement a notice that shall include the following: (i) the customer's telephone number for which the LEC switched the IXC or LEC; (ii) the name, address, and telephone number of the original IXC or original LEC.
MA Gen L ch 93 § 113 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93 - Regulation of Trade and Certain Enterprises|Section 113 - Annual Report; Records of Companies That Have Engaged in Unauthorized Switching of Customer's Ixc or Lec

Section 113. (a) The department shall track instances in which an IXC, LEC, or TPV company switched a customer's IXC or LEC without the customer's valid LOA or TPV.  (b) The department shall prepare an annual report of the impact of the provision of sections 108 to 113, inclusive, and submit it to the joint committee on government relations and the attorney general, within 30 days of its completion.  (c) The department shall keep monthly records of each unauthorized IXC or LEC change by company and produce an annual report of each violation by company and submit it to the joint committee on government regulations and the attorney general.  (d) The department shall keep a record of any TPV companies and any other agent affiliated with an IXC or an LEC that has engaged in the unauthorized switching of a customer's IXC or LEC.  (e) The department shall promulgate rules and regulations for the implementation of this section.
MA Gen L ch 93 § 114 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93 - Regulation of Trade and Certain Enterprises|Section 114 - Real Estate Transactions; Disclosure; Psychologically Impacted Property

Section 114. The fact or suspicion that real property may be or is psychologically impacted shall not be deemed to be a material fact required to be disclosed in a real estate transaction. ''Psychologically impacted'' shall mean an impact being the result of facts or suspicions including, but not limited to, the following:  (a) that an occupant of real property is now or has been suspected to be infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus or with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome or any other disease which reasonable medical evidence suggests to be highly unlikely to be transmitted through the occupying of a dwelling;  (b) that the real property was the site of a felony, suicide or homicide; and  (c) that the real property has been the site of an alleged parapsychological or supernatural phenomenon.  No cause of action shall arise or be maintained against a seller or lessor of real property or a real estate broker or salesman, by statute or at common law, for failure to disclose to a buyer or tenant that the real property is or was psychologically impacted.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the provisions of this section shall not authorize a seller, lessor or real estate broker or salesman to make a misrepresentation of fact or false statement.
MA Gen L ch 93a § 1 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93a - Regulation of Business Practices for Consumers Protection|Section 1 - Definitions

Section 1. The following words, as used in this chapter unless the text otherwise requires or a different meaning is specifically required, shall mean—  (a) ''Person'' shall include, where applicable, natural persons, corporations, trusts, partnerships, incorporated or unincorporated associations, and any other legal entity.  (b) ''Trade'' and ''commerce'' shall include the advertising, the offering for sale, rent or lease, the sale, rent, lease or distribution of any services and any property, tangible or intangible, real, personal or mixed, any security as defined in subparagraph (k) of section four hundred and one of chapter one hundred and ten A and any contract of sale of a commodity for future delivery, and any other article, commodity, or thing of value wherever situate, and shall include any trade or commerce directly or indirectly affecting the people of this commonwealth.  (c) ''Documentary material'' shall include the original or a copy of any book, record, report, memorandum, paper, communication, tabulation, map, chart, photograph, mechanical transcription, or other tangible document or recording, wherever situate.  (d) ''Examination of documentary material'', the inspection, study, or copying of any such material, and the taking of testimony under oath or acknowledgment in respect of any such documentary material.
MA Gen L ch 93a § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93a - Regulation of Business Practices for Consumers Protection|Section 2 - Unfair Practices; Legislative Intent; Rules and Regulations

Section 2. (a) Unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in the conduct of any trade or commerce are hereby declared unlawful.  (b) It is the intent of the legislature that in construing paragraph (a) of this section in actions brought under sections four, nine and eleven, the courts will be guided by the interpretations given by the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Courts to section 5(a)(1) of the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 45(a)(1)), as from time to time amended.  (c) The attorney general may make rules and regulations interpreting the provisions of subsection 2(a) of this chapter. Such rules and regulations shall not be inconsistent with the rules, regulations and decisions of the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Courts interpreting the provisions of 15 U.S.C. 45(a)(1) (The Federal Trade Commission Act), as from time to time amended.
MA Gen L ch 93a § 3 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93a - Regulation of Business Practices for Consumers Protection|Section 3 - Exempted Transactions

Section 3. Nothing in this chapter shall apply to transactions or actions otherwise permitted under laws as administered by any regulatory board or officer acting under statutory authority of the commonwealth or of the United States.  For the purpose of this section, the burden of proving exemptions from the provisions of this chapter shall be upon the person claiming the exemptions.
MA Gen L ch 93a § 5 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93a - Regulation of Business Practices for Consumers Protection|Section 5 - Assurance of Discontinuance of Unlawful Method or Practice

Section 5. In any case where the attorney general has authority to institute an action or proceeding under section four, in lieu thereof he may accept an assurance of discontinuance of any method, act or practice in violation of this chapter from any person alleged to be engaged or to have been engaged in such method, act or practice. Such assurance may, among other terms, include a stipulation for the voluntary payment by such person of the costs of investigation, or of an amount to be held in escrow pending the outcome of an action or as restitution to aggrieved buyers, or both. Any such assurance of discontinuance shall be in writing and be filed with the superior court of Suffolk county. Matters thus closed may at any time be reopened by the attorney general for further proceedings in the public interest. Evidence of a violation of such assurance shall be prima facie evidence of a violation of section two in any subsequent proceeding brought by the attorney general.
MA Gen L ch 93a § 7 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93a - Regulation of Business Practices for Consumers Protection|Section 7 - Failure to Appear or to Comply With Notice

Section 7. A person upon whom a notice is served pursuant to the provisions of section six shall comply with the terms thereof unless otherwise provided by the order of a court of the commonwealth. Any person who fails to appear, or with intent to avoid, evade, or prevent compliance, in whole or in part, with any civil investigation under this chapter, removes from any place, conceals, withholds, or destroys, mutilates, alters, or by any other means falsifies any documentary material in the possession, custody or control of any person subject to any such notice, or knowingly conceals any relevant information, shall be assessed a civil penalty of not more than five thousand dollars.  The attorney general may file in the superior court of the county in which such person resides or has his principal place of business, or of Suffolk county if such person is a nonresident or has no principal place of business in the commonwealth, and serve upon such person, in the same manner as provided in section six, a petition for an order of such court for the enforcement of this section and section six. Any disobedience of any final order entered under this section by any court shall be punished as a contempt thereof.
MA Gen L ch 93a § 8 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93a - Regulation of Business Practices for Consumers Protection|Section 8 - Habitual Violation of Injunctions

Section 8. Upon petition by the attorney general, the court may for habitual violation of injunctions issued pursuant to section four order the dissolution, or suspension or forfeiture of franchise of any corporation or the right of any individual or foreign corporation to do business in the commonwealth.
MA Gen L ch 93a § 10 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93a - Regulation of Business Practices for Consumers Protection|Section 10 - Notice to Attorney General; Injunction, Prima Facie Evidence

Section 10. Upon commencement of any action brought under section nine or section eleven, the clerk of the court shall mail a copy of the bill in equity to the attorney general and, upon entry of any judgment or decree in the action, the clerk of the court shall mail a copy of such judgment or decree to the attorney general.  Any permanent injunction or order of the court made under section four shall be prima facie evidence in an action brought under section nine or section eleven that the respondent used or employed an unfair or deceptive act or practice declared unlawful by section two.
MA Gen L ch 93b § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93b - Regulation of Business Practices Between Motor Vehicle Manufacturers, Distributors and Dealers|Section 2 - Applicability of Chapter

Section 2. Any person who engages directly or indirectly in purposeful contacts in the commonwealth in connection with the offering or advertising for sale or has business dealings with respect to a motor vehicle in the commonwealth shall be subject to this chapter and shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of the commonwealth, upon service of process in accordance with chapter 223A.
MA Gen L ch 93b § 3 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93b - Regulation of Business Practices Between Motor Vehicle Manufacturers, Distributors and Dealers|Section 3 - Unfair Competition and Practices

Section 3. (a) Unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices, as defined in section 4, are hereby declared to be unlawful.  (b) In construing subsection (a) the courts may be guided by the interpretations of the Federal Trade Commission Act, 15 U.S.C. 45.  (c) The attorney general may make rules and regulations interpreting the subsection (a). The rules and regulations shall not be inconsistent with the rules, regulations and decisions of the Federal Trade Commission and the federal courts interpreting the Federal Trade Commission Act, 15 U.S.C. 45.
MA Gen L ch 93b § 7 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93b - Regulation of Business Practices Between Motor Vehicle Manufacturers, Distributors and Dealers|Section 7 - Advertising by Manufacturer, Distributor or Dealer; New Motor Vehicle Prices; Charges Included

Section 7. (a) No manufacturer, distributor or dealer shall use any false or misleading advertisement in connection with its business as a manufacturer, distributor or dealer.  (b) Any motor vehicle dealer advertising the price of a new motor vehicle shall include all charges of any type, except taxes, and shall include, without limitation, any charges for freight, handling or preparation necessary or usual before delivery to the consumer.
MA Gen L ch 93b § 11 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93b - Regulation of Business Practices Between Motor Vehicle Manufacturers, Distributors and Dealers|Section 11 - Franchise Relationship; Written or Oral Agreements; Applicability

Section 11. This chapter shall apply to all actions by a manufacturer or distributor which relate to the franchise relationship and which arise under any written or oral agreement between the manufacturer or distributor with a motor vehicle dealer including, but not limited to, the franchise offering, the franchise agreement, sales of goods, services or advertising, leases or mortgages of real or personal property, promises to pay, security interests, pledges, insurance contracts, advertising contracts, construction or installation contracts, servicing contracts, and all other such agreements in which said manufacturer or distributor has any direct or indirect interest.
MA Gen L ch 93b § 12 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93b - Regulation of Business Practices Between Motor Vehicle Manufacturers, Distributors and Dealers|Section 12 - Franchise Agreement Renewals; Void and Unenforceable Notice

Section 12. If a manufacturer or distributor renews its franchise agreements periodically, it shall do so as their contractual periods expire on terms equally available to all of its motor vehicle dealers in the commonwealth unless there is good cause to do otherwise. Any notification provided by a manufacturer or distributor to the effect that the market being served by a motor vehicle dealer is not considered viable in the future shall be void and unenforceable.
MA Gen L ch 93b § 13 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93b - Regulation of Business Practices Between Motor Vehicle Manufacturers, Distributors and Dealers|Section 13 - Free Association

Section 13. Every manufacturer, distributor, and motor vehicle dealer shall have the right of free association with other manufacturers, distributors, or motor vehicle dealers for any lawful purpose.
MA Gen L ch 93b § 14 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93b - Regulation of Business Practices Between Motor Vehicle Manufacturers, Distributors and Dealers|Section 14 - Enforcement

Section 14. Upon the written request of a motor vehicle dealer, manufacturer or distributor, the attorney general may enforce compliance with this chapter in accordance with sections 4 to 8, inclusive, of chapter 93A.
MA Gen L ch 93b § 16 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93b - Regulation of Business Practices Between Motor Vehicle Manufacturers, Distributors and Dealers|Section 16 - Franchise Agreement; Void Provisions; Arbitration, Mediation, or Alternative Dispute Resolution Clause; Voluntariness

Section 16. (a) Any provision of a franchise agreement or practice thereunder in violation of this chapter shall be against public policy and shall be void and unenforceable.  (b) A clause or provision in a franchise agreement requiring the parties to submit to arbitration, mediation or any other alternative dispute resolution mechanism before filing suit shall be enforceable only if the parties have voluntarily entered into an agreement to submit to arbitration, mediation or any other alternative dispute resolution mechanism, and the matter is conducted at a reasonable location within the commonwealth; provided, however, that the provisions of this subsection shall not prohibit the enforceability of a clause or provision in a franchise agreement which requires the parties to submit to non-binding mediation; and provided, further, that said non-binding mediation is conducted at a reasonable location within the commonwealth.