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MA Gen L ch 68 § 11 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XI - Certain Religious and Charitable Matters|Chapter 68 - Donations and Conveyances for Pious and Charitable Uses|Section 11 - Monthly Meeting of Quakers; Appointment of Trustees; Powers and Duties

Section 11. Such monthly meeting may appoint, in such manner and for such time as it may determine, three members of any preparative meeting which belongs to it or forms a part thereof to act as a board of trustees. Such trustees and their successors shall be a body corporate for the purpose of taking, holding managing or conveying any real estate which may be owned or acquired by such preparative meeting or granted to the use of said meeting, and, upon their appointment, the power of the overseers of such monthly meeting to receive, hold or manage any real estate for the use of such preparative meeting shall cease, and they shall convey to said trustees any real estate the legal title to which is vested in them as the body corporate in trust for such preparative meeting to be held by said trustees upon the same trusts. The trustees may manage and convey any real estate held by them upon the same terms and conditions upon which it was granted and may prosecute or defend any action relative thereto, but they shall not convey it without the written consent of the preparative meeting, granted as the decision of said meeting. The income of real estate so held by them in trust and the income of any gifts of personal estate which may be held by overseers for the same preparative meeting under the preceding section shall not, in all, exceed five thousand dollars a year.
MA Gen L ch 68 § 12 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XI - Certain Religious and Charitable Matters|Chapter 68 - Donations and Conveyances for Pious and Charitable Uses|Section 12 - Unincorporated Religious Societies; Powers

Section 12. Unincorporated religious societies shall have like power as incorporated societies to manage, use and employ, according to its terms and conditions, any gift or grant made to them; they may elect trustees, agents or other officers therefor, and may sue for any right which may vest in them in consequence of such gift or grant; for which purposes they shall be corporations.
MA Gen L ch 68 § 13 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XI - Certain Religious and Charitable Matters|Chapter 68 - Donations and Conveyances for Pious and Charitable Uses|Section 13 - Reports of Trustees

Section 13. All trustees, whether incorporated or not, who hold funds given or bequeathed to a town for a charitable, religious or educational purpose shall make an annual exhibit of the condition thereof to the aldermen of the city, or to the selectmen of the town to which such funds have been given or bequeathed; and the records of all transactions by the trustees relative to such funds shall be open to inspection by the board to which such exhibit is to be made.
MA Gen L ch 68 § 14 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XI - Certain Religious and Charitable Matters|Chapter 68 - Donations and Conveyances for Pious and Charitable Uses|Section 14 - Removal of Trustees

Section 14. The probate court for the county where a town is situated, to which funds have been so given or bequeathed, may, upon the petition of five persons, cite all parties interested to appear before it to answer all complaints which may then and there be made; and if a trustee neglects or refuses to render such annual exhibit, or is incapable of discharging the trust reposed in him, or unsuitable to manage the affairs of the same, the court may remove him and fill the vacancy.
MA Gen L ch 68 § 16 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XI - Certain Religious and Charitable Matters|Chapter 68 - Donations and Conveyances for Pious and Charitable Uses|Section 16 - Regulation of Solicitation of Funds for Charitable Purposes on Public Ways

Section 16. Every person, association or corporation, domestic or foreign, soliciting or collecting by agents or solicitors, upon ways or in any other public places within the commonwealth to which the public have a right of access, contributions of money for charitable purposes or represented to be for such purposes, or receiving any money so collected, shall keep a full and true record of the names and addresses of all such solicitors and collectors and of the amounts so collected by each, and also such a record of all expenditures and disbursements of said money, and the names and addresses of all persons to whom expended or disbursed. Said records shall include money received from any other source and expended for the purposes of such solicitation or collection. All records required hereunder shall be open to inspection at all times by the attorney general, and upon demand shall be presented to him for inspection. Upon an information in equity brought by the attorney general the supreme judicial or superior court may enforce the provisions of this section and may restrain the soliciting of contributions by or on behalf of a person, association or corporation violating its provisions.
MA Gen L ch 68 § 19a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XI - Certain Religious and Charitable Matters|Chapter 68 - Donations and Conveyances for Pious and Charitable Uses|Section 19a - Designation as Veterans' Charitable Organization

Section 19A. Any person or charitable organization established for an advocacy, benevolent, educational, humane, patriotic, philanthropic, scientific or social welfare purpose on behalf of veterans or the military that intends to solicit contributions from persons within the commonwealth or to have contributions solicited on its behalf by other charitable organizations shall, prior to such solicitation, apply for designation as a veterans' charitable organization on a form issued by the division that shall include, but not be limited to: (i) the name of the organization and the purpose for which it is organized; (ii) the address of the organization and the address of any offices in the commonwealth or, if the organization does not maintain an office, the name and address of the person having custody of its financial records; and (iii) the charitable purposes for which solicited contributions shall be used. The secretary of veterans' services shall publish on the department's website a list of the names of each veterans' charitable organization. Designation as a veterans' charitable organization shall be valid for 3 years. Any person or organization applying for designation as a veterans' charitable organization shall be exempt from any registration fee or renewal fee pursuant to section 19.
MA Gen L ch 68 § 20 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XI - Certain Religious and Charitable Matters|Chapter 68 - Donations and Conveyances for Pious and Charitable Uses|Section 20 - Exemption From Registration

Section 20. The following shall not be required to file registration statements with the division or to have a certificate of registration under section nineteen: (1) any religious corporation, trust, foundation, association or organization incorporated or established for religious purposes, nor any agency or organization incorporated or established for charitable, purposes and engaged in effectuating one or more of such purposes, which is affiliated with, operated by, or supervised or controlled by a corporation sole or other religious corporation, trust, foundation, association, or organization incorporated or established for religious purposes, nor any other religious agency or organization which serves religion by the preservation of religious rights and freedom from persecution or prejudice or by fostering religion, including the moral and ethical aspects of a particular religious faith; (2) charitable organizations which do not actually raise or receive contributions from the public in excess of five thousand dollars during a calendar year or do not receive contributions from more than ten persons during a calendar year, if all of their functions, including fund-raising activities, are carried on by persons who are unpaid for their services and if no part of their assets or income inures to the benefit of, or is paid to any officer or member; provided, however, that if the contributions raised from the public, whether or not all is received by any charitable organization during any calendar year, is in excess of five thousand dollars, it shall within thirty days after the date it shall have received total contributions in excess of five thousand dollars, register with and report to the division as required by section nineteen.
MA Gen L ch 68 § 22 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XI - Certain Religious and Charitable Matters|Chapter 68 - Donations and Conveyances for Pious and Charitable Uses|Section 22 - Contracts

Section 22. (a) Every contract or agreement between a professional fund-raising counsel or a commercial co-venturer or a professional solicitor and a charitable organization required to have a certificate of registration pursuant to section nineteen shall be in writing, signed by two officers of the charitable organization, and filed with the director of the division within ten days after such contract or agreement is entered into. No solicitation shall be conducted prior to the filing of such contract or agreement. (b) Every contract or agreement between a professional solicitor or a commercial co-venturer and a charitable organization shall include: (1) a statement of the charitable purposes to be described in the solicitation; and (2) a statement of the guaranteed minimum percentage of the gross receipts from fund-raising which will be utilized exclusively for the charitable purposes described in the solicitation.
MA Gen L ch 68 § 23 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XI - Certain Religious and Charitable Matters|Chapter 68 - Donations and Conveyances for Pious and Charitable Uses|Section 23 - Solicitation Disclosures

Section 23. Solicitations by professional solicitors and solicitations by commercial co-venturers shall contain, at the time of solicitation, the following disclosures: (1) the name, address and telephone number of the charitable organization and a description of how the contributions raised by the solicitation will be utilized for charitable purposes, or if there is no charitable organization, the name, address and telephone number of the professional solicitor or commercial co-venturer and a description of how the contributions raised by the solicitation will be utilized for charitable purposes; (2) a statement that the solicitation is being conducted by a paid fundraiser; and (3) such other disclosures as required by relevant rules and regulations promulgated under section 29. If the solicitation is for advertising, the disclosure shall also include the geographic distribution and the circulation of the publication in which the advertising will appear.
MA Gen L ch 68 § 25 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XI - Certain Religious and Charitable Matters|Chapter 68 - Donations and Conveyances for Pious and Charitable Uses|Section 25 - Records; Public Inspection

Section 25. Registration statements, applications, reports, contracts or agreements of professional fund-raising counsel, commercial co-venturers and professional solicitors, and all other documents and information required to be filed under sections eighteen to thirty-five, inclusive, or by the division, shall be public records in the office of the division and shall be open to the general public for inspection at such times as the division may prescribe.
MA Gen L ch 68 § 26 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XI - Certain Religious and Charitable Matters|Chapter 68 - Donations and Conveyances for Pious and Charitable Uses|Section 26 - Fiscal Records

Section 26. Every professional fund raising counsel, commercial co-venturer, professional solicitor, and charitable organization required to have a certificate of registration under section nineteen, shall, in accordance with the rules and regulations prescribed by the division, keep true fiscal records as to such activities within the commonwealth as may be covered by sections eighteen to thirty-five, inclusive, in such form as will enable them accurately to provide the information required by said sections. Upon demand such records shall be made available to the division for inspection. Such records shall be retained for a period of at least three years after the end of the period of registration to which they relate.
MA Gen L ch 68 § 27 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XI - Certain Religious and Charitable Matters|Chapter 68 - Donations and Conveyances for Pious and Charitable Uses|Section 27 - Reciprocal Agreements

Section 27. The division may enter into reciprocal agreements with the appropriate authority of any other state or of the United States for the purpose of exchanging information with respect to charitable organizations, professional fund-raising counsel, commercial co-venturers and professional solicitors. Pursuant to such agreements the division may accept information filed by a charitable organization with the appropriate authority of another state or of the United States in lieu of the information required to be filed by the charitable organization in accordance with the provisions of sections eighteen to thirty-five, inclusive, if such information is substantially similar to the information required under said sections.
MA Gen L ch 68 § 28 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XI - Certain Religious and Charitable Matters|Chapter 68 - Donations and Conveyances for Pious and Charitable Uses|Section 28 - Deceptive Practices Prohibited

Section 28. (a) No charitable organization, professional fund-raising counsel, commercial co-venturer or professional solicitor subject to the provisions of sections eighteen to thirty-five, inclusive, shall use or exploit the fact of registration so as to lead the public to believe that such registration in any manner constitutes an endorsement or approval by the commonwealth. (b) No person shall, in connection with the solicitation of contributions for or the sale of goods or services of a person other than a charitable organization, misrepresent to or mislead any one by any manner, means, practice or device whatsoever to believe that the person on whose behalf such solicitation or sale is being conducted is a charitable organization or that the proceeds of such solicitation or sale will be used for charitable purposes if such is not the fact. (c) No person shall in connection with the solicitation of contributions or the sale of goods or services for charitable purposes represent to or lead any one by any manner, means, practice or device whatsoever to believe that any other person sponsors or endorses such solicitation of contributions, sale of goods or services for charitable purposes or approves of such charitable purposes or a charitable organization connected therewith when such other person has not given consent to the use of his name for these purposes. Any member of a board of directors or trustees of a charitable organization or any other person who has agreed either to serve or to participate in any voluntary capacity in the campaign shall be deemed thereby to have given his consent to the use of his name in connection with the progress of such campaign. (d) No person shall make any representation that he is soliciting contributions for or on behalf of a charitable organization or shall use or display any emblem, device or printed matter belonging to or associated with a charitable organization for the purpose of soliciting or inducing the contribution of funds from the public without first being authorized to do so by the charitable organization. (e) No commercial co-venturer or professional solicitor shall solicit in the name of or on behalf of any charitable organization unless he has in his possession the written authorization of two officers of such organization, a copy of which shall be filed with the division, and exhibits such written authorization on request to any person solicited, to any police officer or to any agent of the division. Such authorization shall bear the signature of the solicitor and shall state on its face the period for which it is valid, which shall not exceed one year from the date issued. (f) No person or organization shall claim to be a representative of a veterans' charitable organization with the intent to solicit contributions that benefit or profit any person or organization other than the veterans' charitable organization.
MA Gen L ch 68 § 29 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XI - Certain Religious and Charitable Matters|Chapter 68 - Donations and Conveyances for Pious and Charitable Uses|Section 29 - Rules and Regulations

Section 29. The director shall from time to time formulate such reasonable rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of sections eighteen to thirty-five, inclusive.
MA Gen L ch 68 § 31 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XI - Certain Religious and Charitable Matters|Chapter 68 - Donations and Conveyances for Pious and Charitable Uses|Section 31 - Foreign Organizations or Persons; Service of Process

Section 31. Any charitable organization or professional fund-raising counsel, commercial co-venturer or professional solicitor having its principal place of business without the commonwealth or organized under and by virtue of the laws of a foreign state which solicits contributions from people in the commonwealth, subject to sections nineteen to thirty-five, inclusive, shall be subject to the provisions of said sections, and shall be deemed to have irrevocably appointed the state secretary as its agent upon whom may be served any summons, subpoena duces tecum or other process directed to such charitable organization or any partner, principal officer or director thereof, professional fund-raising counsel, commercial co-venturer or professional solicitor in any action or proceeding brought under the provisions of said sections. Service of such process upon the state secretary shall be made by personally delivering to and leaving with him a copy thereof at the office of said secretary in Boston and such service shall be sufficient service; provided notice of such service and a copy of such process shall be forthwith sent by said secretary to such charitable organization or professional fund-raising counsel, commercial co-venturer or professional solicitor by registered mail, with return receipt requested at its or his office as set forth in the registration form required to be filed in the division pursuant to sections nineteen and twenty-four, or in default of the filing of such form, at the last address known to said secretary.
MA Gen L ch 68 § 33 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XI - Certain Religious and Charitable Matters|Chapter 68 - Donations and Conveyances for Pious and Charitable Uses|Section 33 - Fiduciary Capacity

Section 33. Every person soliciting, collecting or expending, for charitable purposes, contributions from the public, and every officer and employee of any such person concerned with the solicitation, collection or expenditure of such funds, shall be deemed to be a fiduciary and acting in a fiduciary capacity.
MA Gen L ch 68 § 34 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XI - Certain Religious and Charitable Matters|Chapter 68 - Donations and Conveyances for Pious and Charitable Uses|Section 34 - Common Fund for Nonprofit Organizations; Membership; Investments

Section 34. Any organization organized under the laws of the commonwealth, if eligible for membership, may become a member of The Common Fund for Nonprofit Organizations, a New York nonprofit membership corporation authorized under section eight E of chapter twelve to operate in the commonwealth and organized to aid and strengthen such corporations, community chests, funds and foundations as are organized and operated exclusively for nonproprietary and nonprofit-making purposes and otherwise eligible for membership by providing means for the investment of their funds in shares or interests in one or more common funds. Any such organization may, either as fiduciary or otherwise, and in addition to any other lawful investment, invest any part or all of the funds which it holds for investment in shares or interests in a common fund or funds established by The Common Fund for Nonprofit Organizations; provided, however, that in the case of funds held as fiduciary, such investment is not prohibited by the language of the will, deed or other instrument creating the fiduciary relationship.
MA Gen L ch 68 § 35 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XI - Certain Religious and Charitable Matters|Chapter 68 - Donations and Conveyances for Pious and Charitable Uses|Section 35 - Paid Solicitations and Solicitors; Violations; Fine

Section 35. Any person who solicits contributions from the public by door-to-door visitation or in person for any charitable, civic or political cause or purpose, and who receives for such solicitation a wage, salary, percentage of the donations received, or other contractual remuneration or thing of value, but not to include reimbursements for expenses incurred in soliciting, shall inform each person so solicited that the solicitation is a paid solicitation. Such information shall be so provided in writing or in the form of a clearly displayed badge or sign bearing the words ''Paid Solicitor''. Any person who violates this section shall be punished by a fine of one hundred dollars for each such violation.  The provisions of this section shall not apply to the finance chairman, accountant, treasurer or auditor of any organization, trust committee, foundation, group, association, partnership, corporation, society, or any combination thereof; provided, however, that such financial officer is not directly soliciting; nor shall such provisions apply to any ordained clergyman, minister, priest, rabbi, officer or any duly authorized member of any religious order or any other tax exempt religious organization.