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MA Gen L ch 155 § 16 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 155 - General Provisions Relative to Corporations|Section 16 - Par Value of Common and Preferred Shares

Section 16. The par value of the common or preferred shares of all corporations shall be one hundred dollars. Any corporation which may be organized with shares of a par value other than one hundred dollars may at a meeting of stockholders called for the purpose change the par value of its shares to that amount if a certificate of such change shall, within ten days thereafter, be made, signed and sworn to by its president, treasurer and a majority of its directors, or other officers having the powers of directors, and, having been approved as to its form by the commissioner, be filed in the office of the state secretary.
MA Gen L ch 155 § 17 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 155 - General Provisions Relative to Corporations|Section 17 - Issue at Less Than Par

Section 17. No corporation shall issue a share for a less amount to be actually paid in thereon than the par value of the shares at the date of issue.
MA Gen L ch 155 § 18 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 155 - General Provisions Relative to Corporations|Section 18 - Preferred Stock; Amount; Preferences and Voting Powers; Exceptions

Section 18. Every corporation may issue preferred stock of one or more classes to an amount not exceeding at any time the amount of the common stock then outstanding and all cash premiums paid to the company thereon and applied to the purposes of the corporation with such preferences and voting powers or restrictions or qualifications thereof as shall be fixed and determined in the agreement of association at the organization of the corporation; or after organization, as to any such preferred stock or additional class thereof, by a two thirds vote of all the stock entitled to vote thereon or by a by-law adopted by a two thirds vote of all the stock entitled to vote thereon, at a meeting duly called for the purpose. This section shall not apply to corporations organized under chapter one hundred and fifty-six or to railroad corporations or street railway companies.
MA Gen L ch 155 § 19 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 155 - General Provisions Relative to Corporations|Section 19 - Preferred Stock; Content of Certificate

Section 19. Such stock shall be issued subject to all general laws governing the issue of capital stock; and each certificate subsequently issued of stock in the corporation shall have fully and plainly printed thereon the preferences and voting powers or restrictions or qualifications thereof as fixed and determined in respect of each class of preferred stock pursuant to the provisions of section eighteen.
MA Gen L ch 155 § 20 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 155 - General Provisions Relative to Corporations|Section 20 - Increase of Capital Stock; Notice of Vote; Disposition of New Shares

Section 20. If a corporation, not subject to chapter one hundred and fifty-six, increases its capital stock and no other provision therefor is made by law, its directors shall forthwith give written notice thereof to each stockholder who was such at the date of the vote to increase, stating the amount of the increase, the number of shares or fractions of shares of the new stock which such stockholder is entitled to take, and the time, not less than thirty days after the date of such vote, within which such new stock shall be taken; and, within said time, each stockholder may take at par his proportion of such new shares, according to the number of his shares at the date of such vote to increase. If, at the expiration of said time, any shares remain untaken, the directors shall sell them by public auction for the benefit of the corporation at not less than the par value thereof.
MA Gen L ch 155 § 21 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 155 - General Provisions Relative to Corporations|Section 21 - Voting Rights, Etc. of Persons in Representative or Fiduciary Capacity

Section 21. An executor, administrator, guardian, conservator, trustee or person in any other representative or fiduciary capacity shall represent the shares of his trust at all meetings of a corporation, and may vote as a stockholder.
MA Gen L ch 155 § 23 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 155 - General Provisions Relative to Corporations|Section 23 - Shareholders List; Filing; Failure to File

Section 23. A corporation not subject to chapter one hundred and fifty-six shall within fifteen days after a written request by a stockholder thereof, made not less than thirty nor more than sixty days prior to the time fixed for the annual meeting of stockholders, cause a complete list of the stockholders as of the sixtieth day prior to the time so fixed, with the residence of and the number of shares belonging to each stockholder, to be made and filed in the office of the state secretary. The list shall be in such form as the secretary shall require or approve, and shall be signed and sworn to by the treasurer of the corporation or by some other officer cognizant of the facts specially appointed by the corporation to make the same. If a corporation and its treasurer or other officer so specially appointed omits or neglects to cause a list of stockholders to be so made and filed, they shall each forfeit not more than one thousand dollars to be recovered in the manner provided in section forty-two of chapter one hundred and fifty-eight.
MA Gen L ch 155 § 45 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 155 - General Provisions Relative to Corporations|Section 45 - Record Transfer of Stock Not Paid For

Section 45. Stock shall not be transferred on the books of a corporation if any instalments thereon remain overdue and unpaid.
MA Gen L ch 155 § 46 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 155 - General Provisions Relative to Corporations|Section 46 - New Certificates Upon Transfer or Pledge

Section 46. A pledgee of stock transferred as collateral security shall be entitled to a new certificate if the instrument of transfer substantially describes the debt or duty which is intended to be secured thereby. Such new certificate shall express on its face that it is held as collateral security, and the name of the pledgor shall be stated thereon, who alone shall be liable as a stockholder, and entitled to vote thereon.
MA Gen L ch 155 § 47 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 155 - General Provisions Relative to Corporations|Section 47 - Publication of Unclaimed Dividend List

Section 47. Every corporation shall, once in every five years, publish three times successively in a newspaper in Boston, and also in a newspaper in the county where the corporation is established, a list of all dividends which have remained unclaimed for two years or more and the names of the persons to whose credit such dividends stand.
MA Gen L ch 155 § 48 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 155 - General Provisions Relative to Corporations|Section 48 - False Statements; Penalty

Section 48. Whoever knowingly makes, executes, files or publishes any report or statement required by law to be made, executed, filed or published by a corporation in this commonwealth, whether such corporation is organized under the laws of this commonwealth or elsewhere, or whoever causes the same to be done, which report or statement is false in any material representation, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than three years, or both.
MA Gen L ch 155 § 49 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 155 - General Provisions Relative to Corporations|Section 49 - Statement Required by Foreign Law; Penalty for Falsifying

Section 49. Whoever knowingly makes, executes or publishes any report or statement required by the law of another state or country to be made, executed, or published by a corporation, or whoever causes the same to be done, within this commonwealth, which report or statement is false in any material representation, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than three years, or both.
MA Gen L ch 155 § 50 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 155 - General Provisions Relative to Corporations|Section 50 - Voluntary Dissolution

Section 50. A corporation which desires to close its affairs may, unless otherwise provided in the agreement of association, by the vote of a majority of its members if it has no capital stock, otherwise by a vote of a majority of all its stock, or, if two or more classes of stock have been issued, of a majority of each class outstanding and entitled to vote, authorize a petition for its dissolution to be filed in the supreme judicial or superior court setting forth in substance the grounds of the application, or such a petition may be so filed by the holder or holders of not less than forty per cent of the capital stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote of a corporation subject to chapter one hundred and fifty-six, if the votes of its board of directors and of its stockholders are equally divided on a question affecting the general management of the affairs of the corporation, or if the votes of its stockholders are equally divided in the election of directors, and there appears to be no way of reaching an agreement and breaking such deadlock; and the court, after notice to parties interested and a hearing, may decree a dissolution of the corporation. A corporation so dissolved shall be held to be extinct in all respects as if its corporate existence had expired by the limitation of its charter.
MA Gen L ch 155 § 50a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 155 - General Provisions Relative to Corporations|Section 50a - Failure to File Reports or Returns; Application of Secretary or Commissioner to Dissolve

Section 50A. If a corporation has failed to comply with the provisions of law requiring the filing of reports with the state secretary or tax returns with the commissioner of revenue for two consecutive years, or if the secretary is satisfied that a corporation has become inactive and that its dissolution would be in the public interest, said secretary or said commissioner may apply to the supreme judicial court for its dissolution, and the court, after notice by mail or otherwise as it may order, may decree such dissolution subject to the provisions of sections fifty-one, fifty-two and fifty-six. The said secretary or said commissioner may include as many corporations in a single application as they deem fit and the court may include in its decree any or all thereof. The secretary or the commissioner shall furnish to each county law library within the commonwealth, upon application therefor, a copy, mimeographed or otherwise prepared as he shall determine, of the list of the corporations dissolved as herein provided.
MA Gen L ch 155 § 51 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 155 - General Provisions Relative to Corporations|Section 51 - Continuation to Close Affairs

Section 51. Every corporation whose charter expires by its own limitation or is annulled by forfeiture or otherwise, or whose corporate existence for other purposes is terminated in any other manner, shall nevertheless be continued as a body corporate for three years after the time when it would have been so dissolved 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 and to divide its capital stock, 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 within said period of three years, shall continue beyond said period for a further period of sixty days after the final judgment in the suit.
MA Gen L ch 155 § 51a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 155 - General Provisions Relative to Corporations|Section 51a - Distribution of Assets on Petition; Notice; Liability of Directors

Section 51A. 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 fifty-one, 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 secretary 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 thirty-seven of chapter one hundred and fifty-six, 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 155 § 52 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 155 - General Provisions Relative to Corporations|Section 52 - Appointment of Receivers; Powers; Term

Section 52. If the charter of the corporation expires or is annulled, or if the corporation is dissolved as provided in section fifty, or if its corporate existence for other purposes is terminated in any other manner, the supreme judicial or superior court, upon application of a creditor, stockholder or member, 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 155 § 53 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 155 - General Provisions Relative to Corporations|Section 53 - Payment of Debts; Distribution of Surplus

Section 53. 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 prove 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 or members of the corporation, or their legal representatives.
MA Gen L ch 155 § 54 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 155 - General Provisions Relative to Corporations|Section 54 - Surrender of Certificate of Incorporation; Notice

Section 54. If a petition, signed and sworn to by a majority in interest of the stockholders of a railroad or street railway company organized under general laws or by a majority in number or interest of the members of any other corporation organized under the general laws, except a corporation created for the purpose of business or profit having a capital stock divided into shares or which is under the supervision of the commissioner of insurance, has, with the certificate of incorporation, been filed in the office of the state secretary, stating that such members desire to surrender the certificate of incorporation and to have the corporation dissolved and giving their reasons therefor, the state secretary, if he considers such reasons sufficient, shall require the petitioners to publish a notice in one or more newspapers in the county where the corporation is located stating that, for reasons which appear to him sufficient, the certificate of incorporation of the corporation therein named is annulled. Upon the filing by the petitioner with the state secretary of a copy of each newspaper in which the notice of dissolution was ordered to be published, the corporation shall be dissolved, subject to the three preceding sections.
MA Gen L ch 155 § 55 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 155 - General Provisions Relative to Corporations|Section 55 - Return to State Secretary of Decree of Dissolution

Section 55. If a corporation is dissolved or annulled, 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.
MA Gen L ch 155 § 56 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 155 - General Provisions Relative to Corporations|Section 56 - Revival of Corporations Dissolved Under Provisions of Sec. 50a

Section 56. If the secretary finds that a corporation has been dissolved subject to the provisions of this section by act of the general court or under the provisions of section fifty A 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, not later than five years after the effective date of said act or after the date of the court decree dissolving such corporation under authority of said section fifty A, as the case may be, upon application by an interested party, file in his office a certificate, in such form as he may prescribe, reviving such corporation as aforesaid; and provided, further, that if the sole purpose of the revival of such a dissolved corporation is to enable it to convey title to property or to sell and convey property and to distribute the proceeds among those entitled thereto, and if the revival is for a period not exceeding one year, the secretary may file such certificate of revival at any time after the date of dissolution. The 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 or members, 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 secretary's certificate. For cause shown to his satisfaction, the secretary may, by certificate filed as aforesaid, extend the time for which a corporation revived for a limited time shall stand revived.
MA Gen L ch 156 § 1 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 156 - Business Corporations|Section 1 - Definitions

Section 1. In this chapter unless a contrary intention appears, ''corporation'' shall mean a corporation to which, under section two, this chapter applies, and ''secretary'' or ''state Secretary'' shall mean the secretary of the commonwealth.
MA Gen L ch 156 § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 156 - Business Corporations|Section 2 - Scope of Chapter

Section 2. Except as expressly made applicable by reference in other chapters, this chapter shall not apply to corporations subject to chapter 156A, chapter 156B or chapter 156D or to corporations organized for the purpose of carrying on the business of a bank, savings bank, co-operative bank, trust company, credit union, surety or indemnity company, or safe deposit company, or for the purpose of carrying on within the commonwealth the business of an insurance company, railroad, electric railroad, street railway or trolley motor company, telegraph or telephone company, gas, or electric company, canal, aqueduct or water company, cemetery or crematory company, or to any other corporations which now have or may hereafter have the right to take land within the commonwealth by eminent domain or to exercise franchises in public ways granted by the commonwealth or by any county, city or town; provided, however, that section 17 of this chapter shall remain available to all corporations which were subject to this chapter immediately before the effective date of chapter 156B; and provided, further, that any amendment to the articles of organization of any such corporation adopted before such date shall be effected by filing articles of amendment, and any rights of dissenting stockholders arising from the adoption of such amendment or from a vote of the stockholders to sell, lease or exchange all the property of any such corporation adopted prior to such date, shall be enforced, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.