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MA Gen L ch 156b § 94 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 156b - Certain Business Corporations|Section 94 - Notation on Stock Certificates of Pendency of Bill

Section 94. On motion the court may order stockholder parties to the bill to submit their certificates of stock to the corporation for the notation thereon of the pendency of the bill and may order the corporation to note such pendency in its records with respect to any uncertificated shares held by such stockholder parties, and may on motion dismiss the bill as to any stockholder who fails to comply with such order.
MA Gen L ch 156b § 95 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 156b - Certain Business Corporations|Section 95 - Costs; Interest

Section 95. The costs of the bill, including the reasonable compensation and expenses of any master appointed by the court, but exclusive of fees of counsel or of experts retained by any party, shall be determined by the court and taxed upon the parties to the bill, or any of them, in such manner as appears to be equitable, except that all costs of giving notice to stockholders as provided in this chapter shall be paid by the corporation. Interest shall be paid upon any award from the date of the vote approving the proposed corporate action, and the court may on application of any interested party determine the amount of interest to be paid in the case of any stockholder.
MA Gen L ch 156b § 96 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 156b - Certain Business Corporations|Section 96 - Dividends and Voting Rights After Demand for Payment

Section 96. Any stockholder who has demanded payment for his stock as provided in this chapter shall not thereafter be entitled to notice of any meeting of stockholders or to vote such stock for any purpose and shall not be entitled to the payment of dividends or other distribution on the stock (except dividends or other distributions payable to stockholders of record at a date which is prior to the date of the vote approving the proposed corporate action) unless:  (1) A bill shall not be filed within the time provided in section ninety;  (2) A bill, if filed, shall be dismissed as to such stockholder; or  (3) Such stockholder shall with the written approval of the corporation, or in the case of a consolidation or merger, the resulting or surviving corporation, deliver to it a written withdrawal of his objections to and an acceptance of such corporate action.  Notwithstanding the provisions of clauses (1) to (3), inclusive, said stockholder shall have only the rights of a stockholder who did not so demand payment for his stock as provided in this chapter.
MA Gen L ch 156b § 97 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 156b - Certain Business Corporations|Section 97 - Status of Shares Paid For

Section 97. The shares of the corporation paid for by the corporation pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall have the status of treasury stock, or in the case of a consolidation or merger the shares or the securities of the resulting or surviving corporation into which the shares of such objecting stockholder would have been converted had he not objected to such consolidation or merger shall have the status of treasury stock or securities.
MA Gen L ch 156b § 98 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 156b - Certain Business Corporations|Section 98 - Exclusive Remedy; Exception

Section 98. The enforcement by a stockholder of his right to receive payment for his shares in the manner provided in this chapter shall be an exclusive remedy except that this chapter shall not exclude the right of such stockholder to bring or maintain an appropriate proceeding to obtain relief on the ground that such corporate action will be or is illegal or fraudulent as to him.
MA Gen L ch 156b § 99 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 156b - Certain Business Corporations|Section 99 - Petition for Dissolution in Supreme Judicial Court; Cases

Section 99. A petition for dissolution of a corporation may be filed in the supreme judicial court in the following cases:—  (a) A corporation which desires to close its affairs may authorize the filing of such a petition by a vote of a majority of each class of its stock outstanding and entitled to vote thereon;  (b) Such a petition may be filed by the holder or holders of not less than forty per cent of all the shares of its stock outstanding and entitled to vote thereon, treating all classes of stock entitled to vote as a single class for the purpose of determining whether the petition is brought by the holders of not less than forty per cent of the outstanding shares as aforesaid, if:  (1) the directors are deadlocked in the management of corporate affairs, and the shareholders are unable to break the deadlock; or  (2) the shareholders are deadlocked in voting powers and have failed to elect successors to directors whose terms have expired or would have expired upon the election of their successors.  After such notice as the court may order and after hearing, the court may decree a dissolution of the corporation, notwithstanding the fact that the business of the corporation is being conducted at a profit, if it shall find that the best interests of the stockholders will be served by such dissolution. Upon such dissolution, the existence of the corporation shall cease, subject to the provisions of sections one hundred and two, one hundred and four and one hundred and eight.
MA Gen L ch 156b § 100 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 156b - Certain Business Corporations|Section 100 - Voluntary Dissolution; Manner

Section 100. Any corporation may be voluntarily dissolved in the following manner:  (a) Dissolution may be authorized (1) by the vote of two thirds of each class of its stock outstanding and entitled to vote thereon; or (2) by compliance with provisions of its articles of organization.  (b) Within thirty days of the date of such authorization, notice that dissolution of the corporation has been duly authorized shall be mailed by the corporation to the commissioner of revenue.  (c) After the giving of such notice, articles of dissolution shall be submitted to the state secretary. Such articles shall be signed by the president or vice president and by the clerk or an assistant clerk under the penalties of perjury, and shall set forth:—  (1) the name of the corporation and the street address of the principal office in the commonwealth;  (2) The name and post office address of each of the directors and officers of the corporation;  (3) A statement that dissolution of the corporation was duly authorized in the manner required by this section, and of the date on which such action was taken;  (4) A statement that notice of the proposed dissolution of the corporation was duly given to the commissioner of revenue as required by this section.  (5) Any other provisions deemed necessary by the corporation for its dissolution; and  (6) The effective date of the dissolution.  (d) Such articles of dissolution shall constitute an amendment of the articles of organization, and the dissolution of the corporation shall become effective when said articles are filed with the state secretary in accordance with section six, unless said articles specify a later effective date not more than thirty days after such filing, in which event the dissolution shall become effective upon such later date, and upon such dissolution the existence of the corporation shall cease, subject to the provisions of sections one hundred and two, one hundred and four, and one hundred and eight.  (e) At any time before the filing of articles of dissolution the corporation may authorize the abandonment of the dissolution proceedings by the same corporate action with respect to such abandonment as is required by this section for the authorization of a dissolution.
MA Gen L ch 156b § 101 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 156b - Certain Business Corporations|Section 101 - Dissolution by State Secretary

Section 101. If a corporation has failed to comply with the provisions of law requiring the filing of reports with the state secretary or the filing of any tax returns or the payment of any taxes under chapter sixty-two C for two or more consecutive years, or if the state secretary is satisfied that a corporation has become inactive and that its dissolution would be in the public interest, the state secretary may dissolve the corporation, subject to the provisions of sections one hundred and two, one hundred and four, and one hundred and eight.  The state secretary shall use the following procedure to dissolve corporations in accordance with this section. The state secretary shall give the corporation at least ninety days notice of the proposed dissolution, and shall send a copy of the notice to the commissioner of revenue. The notice shall be given by mail to the corporation at the address of its principal office as shown in the records of the state secretary and in such other manner as the state secretary may require. The notice shall state that the corporation will be dissolved ninety days from the date of the notice, or at such later date as the state secretary shall order. The notice shall state the reasons for the proposed dissolution and shall state that the corporation may, within sixty days of the date of the notice, request a hearing to show cause why it should not be dissolved.  If the corporation does not request such a hearing, it shall be dissolved as of the date stated in the notice. If the corporation requests such a hearing and at or after the hearing there is a finding that there is cause for dissolution, the corporation shall be dissolved thirty days after the date notice of such finding is given to the corporation. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a corporation shall not be dissolved if the reports that give rise to the state secretary's notice have been filed at least ten days before the effective date of dissolution, if the tax returns or tax payments that gave rise to the state secretary's notice have been filed, paid or provided for at least ten days before the effective date of dissolution and the state secretary has received a certificate issued by the commissioner of revenue that the corporation is in good standing with respect to any and all returns due and taxes payable to said commissioner, or if the state secretary determines before the effective date of dissolution that the dissolution would not be in the public interest.  Hearings under this section shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions of chapter thirty A applicable to adjudicatory proceedings.
MA Gen L ch 156b § 102 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 156b - Certain Business Corporations|Section 102 - Continuation for Purposes of Litigation and Settlement of Affairs

Section 102. Every corporation whose corporate existence for other purposes is terminated (1) by dissolution under the provisions of section ninety-nine, one hundred, or one hundred and one, (2) by the expiration of the period for its duration limited by its articles of organization, or (3) in any other manner, shall nevertheless be continued as a body corporate for three years after the time when its existence is terminated, for the purpose of prosecuting and defending suits by or against it and of enabling it gradually to settle and close its affairs, to dispose of and convey its property to any person and to make distributions to its stockholders of any assets remaining after the payment of its debts and obligations, but not for the purpose of continuing the business for which it was established; provided, that the corporate existence of such a corporation, for the purposes of any suit brought by or against it prior to the commencement of, or during, said period of three years, shall continue beyond said period for a further period of ninety days after the final judgment in the suit.
MA Gen L ch 156b § 103 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 156b - Certain Business Corporations|Section 103 - Petition for Distribution; Notice

Section 103. At any time within the period of three years or the extension of such period by reason of the pendency of any suit, as provided in section one hundred and two, such corporation may petition the supreme judicial or superior court for leave to distribute the whole or part of its assets to the stockholders entitled thereto, and, after notice by certified or registered mail to the state secretary and the commissioner of corporations and taxation and to all known creditors and by publication once a week for three successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation published in the city or town in which the principal office of the corporation is located, or in the county if no such newspaper is published in said city or town, the court may, after hearing, upon a finding that the interests of creditors, if any, and those of the commonwealth, if any, are reasonably protected, enter a decree permitting such distribution; and the directors shall not be subject to the liability set forth in section sixty-one on account of their declaration or assent to a dividend, including one or more liquidating dividends, to the stockholders entitled thereto, in accordance with said decree.
MA Gen L ch 156b § 104 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 156b - Certain Business Corporations|Section 104 - Receivership; Dissolved or Terminated Corporation; Jurisdiction; Application; Powers of Receiver

Section 104. If the existence of the corporation for other purposes is terminated (1) by dissolution under the provisions of section ninety-nine, one hundred, or one hundred and one, (2) by the expiration of the period for its duration limited by its articles of organization, or (3) in any other manner, the supreme judicial or superior court, upon application of a creditor or stockholder, shall have jurisdiction in equity to appoint one or more receivers to take charge of its estate and effects and to collect the debts and property due and belonging to it, with power to prosecute and defend suits in its name or otherwise, to appoint agents under them and to do all other acts which might be done by such corporation, if in being, which may be necessary for the final settlement of its unfinished business. The powers of such receivers and the existence of the corporation may be continued as long as the court finds necessary for said purposes.
MA Gen L ch 156b § 105 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 156b - Certain Business Corporations|Section 105 - Receivership; Corporation as Judgment Debtor; Powers of Receiver

Section 105. If a judgment has been recovered against a corporation and it has neglected for thirty days after demand made on execution to pay the amount due with the officer's fees, or to exhibit to the officer real or personal property belonging to it and subject to be taken on execution sufficient to satisfy the same and the execution has been returned unsatisfied, one or more receivers may be appointed with the powers and duties provided in, and subject to, section one hundred and four.
MA Gen L ch 156b § 106 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 156b - Certain Business Corporations|Section 106 - Duties of Receiver

Section 106. The receivers shall pay all debts due from the corporation if the funds in their hands are sufficient therefor; and if they are not, they shall distribute them ratably among the creditors who approve their debts in the manner directed by any decree of the court for that purpose. If there is a balance remaining after the payment of the debts, the receivers shall distribute and pay it to those who are justly entitled thereto as having been stockholders of the corporation, or their legal representatives.
MA Gen L ch 156b § 107 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 156b - Certain Business Corporations|Section 107 - Dissolution; Return; Notice to Corporation

Section 107. If a corporation is dissolved under the authority of section ninety-nine, the clerk of the court in which the decree therefor is entered shall forthwith make return thereof to the state secretary giving the name of the corporation and the date upon which such decree was entered. The state secretary shall thereupon send notice of such dissolution, and the date thereof, to the corporation at its last address as appearing on the records of the state secretary.
MA Gen L ch 156b § 108 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 156b - Certain Business Corporations|Section 108 - Revival of Dissolved Corporation for General or Limited Purposes; Conditions; Effect

Section 108. If the state secretary finds that the existence of a corporation has terminated in any manner and that such corporation ought to be revived for all purposes or for any specified purpose or purposes with or without limitation of time, he may, upon application by an interested party, file in his office a certificate in such form as he may prescribe reviving such corporation. The state secretary may subject the revival of such corporation to such terms and conditions, including the payment of reasonable fees, as in his judgment the public interest may require. Upon the filing of a certificate reviving a corporation for all purposes, said corporation shall stand revived with the same powers, duties and obligations as if it had not been dissolved, except as otherwise provided in said certificate; and all acts and proceedings of its officers, directors and stockholders, acting or purporting to act as such, which would have been legal and valid but for such dissolution, shall, except as aforesaid, stand ratified and confirmed. If such a corporation is revived as aforesaid for a limited time or for any specified purpose or purposes, it shall stand revived for such time or for the accomplishment of such purpose or purposes in accordance with the terms of the state secretary's certificate. For cause shown to his satisfaction, the state secretary may, by certificate filed as aforesaid, extend the time for which a corporation revived for a limited time shall stand revived. A certificate filed by the state secretary pursuant to this section shall constitute an amendment of the articles of organization of the corporation, effective when filed.
MA Gen L ch 156b § 109 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 156b - Certain Business Corporations|Section 109 - Annual Report; Contents

Section 109. Every corporation shall annually, on or before the fifteenth day of the third month following the close of its fiscal year, prepare and submit to the state secretary a report which shall be signed under the penalties of perjury by an officer of the corporation stating:—  (1) The name of the corporation.  (2) The location (with street address) of its principal office in the commonwealth, and elsewhere in the case of a corporation organized to do business wholly outside the commonwealth.  (3) The total amount of its authorized capital stock so far as it consists of shares with par value, and the total number of its shares without par value authorized to be issued; the amount of stock with par value, and the number of shares without par value, issued and outstanding; the class or classes and series, if any, into which it is divided; the par value, if any, and the number of its shares.  (4) The names and addresses of the president, treasurer, clerk and all the directors of the corporation, and the date at which the term of office of each expires and the name and address of the resident agent, if any.  [There is no paragraph (5).]  (6) whether the corporation is publicly-traded.
MA Gen L ch 156b § 112 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 156b - Certain Business Corporations|Section 112 - Annual Report; Failure or Refusal to File; Penalties

Section 112. If a corporation fails or refuses to file its annual report within the time prescribed by section one hundred and nine, the state secretary shall subject the filing of the report to the payment of an additional fee, to be set at an initial rate of twenty-five dollars, to be subsequently determined from time to time by the secretary of administration and finance pursuant to the provisions of section three B of chapter seven.  If the corporation fails to file the annual report within six months of the date prescribed by section one hundred and nine, the state secretary may give notice by mail postage prepaid, to such corporation of its default. If it omits to file such report within thirty days after notice of default has been given, it shall pay, in addition to the sum provided above, not less than five dollars nor more than ten dollars for each day for fifteen days after the expiration of said thirty days, and not less than ten dollars nor more than two hundred dollars for each day thereafter during which such default continues, or any other sum, not greater than the maximum penalty or forfeiture, which the court may deem just and equitable.
MA Gen L ch 156b § 113 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 156b - Certain Business Corporations|Section 113 - Action to Recover Penalties and Forfeitures; Venue; Injunction

Section 113. Penalties or forfeitures incurred by any corporation which omits to cause to be duly filed any certificate or report required by section thirty-eight, fifty-three or one hundred and nine may be recovered in an action brought in Suffolk county in the name of the commonwealth, or they may be recovered by an information in equity in the name of the attorney general at the relation of the state secretary, brought in the supreme judicial court in Suffolk county. Upon such information, the court may issue an injunction restraining the further prosecution of the business of the corporation until such penalties or forfeitures, with interest and costs, have been paid and until such certificate or report has been filed.