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MA Gen L ch 138 § 64 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 138 - Alcoholic Liquors|Section 64 - Suspension or Revocation of License; Hearing; Notice; Disqualification; Surrender of License; Refunds

Section 64. The licensing authorities after notice to the licensee and reasonable opportunity for him to be heard by them, may modify, suspend, revoke or cancel his license upon satisfactory proof that he has violated or permitted a violation of any condition thereof, or any law of the commonwealth. If at any hearing a licensee is charged with serving or selling alcohol or alcoholic beverages to a person under twenty-one years of age, written notice of said allegations shall be sent by the licensing authorities to the parent or guardian of such person. If the license is revoked, the licensee shall be disqualified to receive a license for one year after the expiration of the term of the license so revoked, and if he is the owner of the premises described in such revoked license, no license shall be issued to be exercised on said premises for the residue of the term thereof.  If it appears to the commission that a license has been issued under this chapter by the local licensing authorities in excess of the quota prescribed by section seventeen or in violation of section sixteen A or any other provision of this chapter, the commission shall, after notice to said authorities and to the holder of such license and after reasonable opportunity for them to be heard by it, revoke such license, whereupon such license shall be surrendered to said authorities, and the decision of the commission shall be final and conclusive. The holder of a license so revoked shall not be subject to prosecution for any sales theretofore made by him under such license on the ground that such license was illegally issued. The city or town whose licensing authorities issued any license so revoked shall forthwith refund to the holder thereof the entire fee paid therefor and authority is hereby granted to such city or town to pay the same out of any funds available.
MA Gen L ch 138 § 64a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 138 - Alcoholic Liquors|Section 64a - Sale of Alcohol to Person Under 21 or Intoxicated Person; Sanctions; Liability Insurance

Section 64A. In any hearing by a licensing authority under the first paragraph of section 64 where a licensing authority finds that a licensee under section 12 has served or sold alcohol or alcoholic beverages either to a person under 21 years of age in violation of section 64 or to an intoxicated person in violation of section 69 within the 24 months immediately preceding the date of the alleged violation that is the subject of the hearing, the licensing authority may require, in addition to imposing any other sanctions, as a condition precedent to any modification, reinstatement or renewal of the license that the licensee provide a certificate of insurance for liquor liability providing security for the liability of the licensee to a limit of not less than $100,000 to any 1 person and $200,000 to all persons; provided, however, if the licensee is required to obtain insurance coverage under said section 12, then the licensing authority may increase the limits set by said section 12. Limits imposed or increased under this section shall be set at the discretion of the licensing authorities.
MA Gen L ch 138 § 64b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 138 - Alcoholic Liquors|Section 64b - Insurance Policy Required by Licensing Authority; Disclosure to Insurer; Proof of New Insurance

Section 64B. In any case in which a liquor liability insurance policy has been required or the limits of any such policy have been increased as a condition precedent to the modification, reinstatement or renewal of a license as provided in section 64A or section 67, a licensee shall disclose to the insurer that such policy has been required or such policy limits have been increased, shall provide to the liquor liability insurer the mailing address of the licensing authority and shall direct the insurer to include the licensing authority as a recipient of any notice which the insurer is required to issue to the licensee pursuant to chapter 175. In any case in which the insurer notifies the licensee and the licensing authorities that it intends to terminate the contract upon expiration of the requisite notice period, the licensee shall provide proof of reinstatement or new insurance to the licensing authorities within such period. If the licensee fails to provide such proof prior to receipt by the licensing authorities of a notice of cancellation from the insurer, the licensing authorities shall suspend such license until proof of insurance is delivered, or revoke such license, at their discretion.
MA Gen L ch 138 § 65 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 138 - Alcoholic Liquors|Section 65 - Delivery of License Upon Suspension, Revocation, Cancellation or Forfeiture

Section 65. Upon suspension, revocation, cancellation or forfeiture by the licensing authorities of a license or permit granted under this chapter, the holder thereof shall forthwith deliver the same to such authorities. Refusal so to deliver, or failure so to do for seven days following a request therefor by such authorities, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than three months, or both.
MA Gen L ch 138 § 66 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 138 - Alcoholic Liquors|Section 66 - Separability of Provisions of Chapter

Section 66. In respect to their constitutionality, all the provisions of this chapter are hereby declared to be separable.
MA Gen L ch 138 § 68 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 138 - Alcoholic Liquors|Section 68 - Sales or Deliveries of Alcoholic Beverages in Times of Riot or Great Public Excitement

Section 68. The mayor of a city and the selectmen of a town may, in cases of riot or great public excitement, order licensees under this chapter not to sell, give away or deliver any alcoholic beverages on the licensed premises for a period not exceeding three days at any one time. Whoever, himself or by his agents or servants, sells, gives away or delivers any such beverages in violation of an order given under the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine of two hundred dollars, and upon conviction, his license shall be revoked by the licensing authority.
MA Gen L ch 138 § 69 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 138 - Alcoholic Liquors|Section 69 - Sale or Delivery to Intoxicated Persons

Section 69. No alcoholic beverage shall be sold or delivered on any premises licensed under this chapter to an intoxicated person.
MA Gen L ch 138 § 70 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 138 - Alcoholic Liquors|Section 70 - Issuance of License or Permit Upon Payment of Fee; Bond

Section 70. No license or permit under this chapter shall be granted by the commission or the local licensing authorities unless the fee therefor has been paid into the state treasury or the city or town treasury, as the case may be; provided, however, that the local licensing authority may allow such fees to be paid semiannually. No license shall be granted by the commission under section 18, 19, 19B, 19C, 19D or 76 unless the applicant shall have filed with the state treasurer a bond running to the commonwealth. Every such bond shall be in a penal sum and form approved by the commission and be executed by the applicant as principal and by a surety company authorized to do business in the commonwealth as surety, conditioned upon performance by the licensee of all the conditions of the license and observance of all provisions of this chapter.
MA Gen L ch 138 § 71 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 138 - Alcoholic Liquors|Section 71 - Effective Date of Rules; Approval of Governor

Section 71. All rules and regulations made under the provisions of this chapter by the commission shall not take effect until approved by the governor and council.
MA Gen L ch 138 § 76 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 138 - Alcoholic Liquors|Section 76 - Licenses for Manufacture, Transportation, and Sale of Alcohol for Mechanical, Manufacturing or Chemical Purposes; Fees

Section 76. The commission may annually grant licenses for the manufacture, transportation, importation, exportation and sale of alcohol for mechanical, manufacturing or chemical purposes only, or for sale to any person holding a license under section eighteen or nineteen, to any registered pharmacist holding a certificate of fitness, any registered physician or dentist, or to any hospital or educational or scientific institution for use other than for beverage purposes. Licenses shall be granted under this section only if it appears that the applicant therefor is a proper person to receive such a license. The fee for a license hereunder shall be not less than three hundred nor more than five hundred dollars. Nothing contained in said section eighteen shall limit the scope of a license issued under this section.
MA Gen L ch 138 § 77 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 138 - Alcoholic Liquors|Section 77 - Cancellation of License Upon Cessation of Licensed Business

Section 77. The licensing authorities may, after hearing or reasonable opportunity therefor, cancel any license issued under this chapter if the licensee ceases to conduct the licensed business. If the local licensing authorities determine that a license should be cancelled as aforesaid the licensee may appeal to the commission as if such authorities had refused to grant the license upon an original application therefor, and the decision of the commission upon such appeal shall be final.
MA Gen L ch 138 § 78 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 138 - Alcoholic Liquors|Section 78 - Book Entries at Time of Sale of Alcohol; Form

Section 78. Every person to whom such a license is granted shall keep a book in which he shall enter, at the time of every sale of alcohol, the date thereof, the name and residence of the purchaser, his residence by street and number, if any, the quantity and price of the alcohol sold, and the purpose for which it is to be used. Said book shall be in form substantially as follows:
MA Gen L ch 139 § 1 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 139 - Common Nuisances|Section 1 - Orders Adjudging Burnt or Dangerous Buildings, Structures or Vacant Land to Be Nuisances; Notice, Hearing and Service of Copy of Order

Section 1. The aldermen or selectmen in any city or town may, after written notice to the owner of a burnt, dilapidated or dangerous building or other structure, or his authorized agent, or to the owner of a vacant parcel of land, and after a hearing, make and record an order adjudging it to be a nuisance to the neighborhood, or dangerous, and prescribing its disposition, alteration or regulation. The city or town clerk shall deliver a copy of the order to an officer qualified to serve civil process, who shall forthwith serve an attested copy thereof in the manner prescribed in section one hundred and twenty-four of chapter one hundred and eleven, and make return to said clerk of his doings thereon.
MA Gen L ch 139 § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 139 - Common Nuisances|Section 2 - Appeal to Superior Court; Trial by Jury; Costs

Section 2. A person aggrieved by such order may appeal to the superior court for the county where such building or other structure is situated, if, within three days after the service of such attested copy upon him, he commences a civil action in such court. Trial by jury shall be had as in other civil causes. The jury may affirm, annul or alter such order, and the court shall render judgment in conformity with said verdict, which shall take effect as an original order. If the order is affirmed, the plaintiff shall pay the costs; if it is annulled, he shall recover from the town his damages, if any, and costs; and if it is altered, the court may render such judgment as to costs as justice shall require. All proceedings hereunder authorized by section ten of chapter one hundred and forty-three, after issue is joined therein, shall be in order for trial and shall have precedence over any case of a different nature pending in said court and then in order for trial.
MA Gen L ch 139 § 3 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 139 - Common Nuisances|Section 3 - Abatement or Removal of Nuisance by Aldermen or Selectmen

Section 3. The aldermen or selectmen shall have the same power to abate and remove any such nuisance as is given to the board of health of a town under sections one hundred and twenty-three to one hundred and twenty-five, inclusive, of chapter one hundred and eleven.
MA Gen L ch 139 § 3b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 139 - Common Nuisances|Section 3b - Disbursement of Insurance Proceeds for Loss, Damage or Destruction of Building or Structure; Notice; Lien

Section 3B. No insurer shall pay any claims (1) covering the loss, damage, or destruction to a building or other structure, amounting to one thousand dollars or more, or (2) covering any loss, damage or destruction of any amount, which causes the condition of a building or other structure to render section six of chapter one hundred and forty-three applicable, without having at least ten days previously given written notice to the building commissioner or inspector of buildings appointed pursuant to the state building code, to the fire department or arson squad of the city or town and to the board of health or board of selectmen of the city or town in which the same is located. If at any time prior to payment the said city or town notifies the insurer by certified mail of its intent to initiate proceedings designed to perfect a lien pursuant to section three A, or to section nine of chapter one hundred and forty-three, or section one hundred and twenty-seven B of chapter one hundred and eleven, the said payment shall not be made while the said proceedings are pending; provided, however, that said proceedings are initiated within thirty days of receipt of such notification.  Any lien perfected pursuant to section three A, or to section nine of chapter one hundred and forty-three or section one hundred and twenty-seven B of chapter one hundred and eleven, shall extend to and may be enforced by the city or town against any casualty insurance policy or policies covering any loss, damage, or destruction pursuant to which the proceedings to perfect the lien were initiated.  No insurer shall be liable to any insured owner, mortgagee, assignee, city or town, or other interested party for amounts disbursed to a city or town under the provisions of this section, or for amounts not disbursed to a city or town under the provisions of this section.
MA Gen L ch 139 § 4 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 139 - Common Nuisances|Section 4 - Buildings Used for Prostitution, Assignation or Lewdness; Nuisance

Section 4. Every building, part of a building, tenement or place used for prostitution, assignation or lewdness, and every place within or upon which acts of prostitution, assignation or lewdness are held or occur, shall be deemed a nuisance.
MA Gen L ch 139 § 5 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 139 - Common Nuisances|Section 5 - Penalty for Maintaining Place of Prostitution

Section 5. Whoever keeps or maintains such a nuisance shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars and by imprisonment for not less than three months nor more than three years.
MA Gen L ch 139 § 6 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 139 - Common Nuisances|Section 6 - Enjoining Nuisance

Section 6. Whenever there is reason to believe that such a nuisance is kept or maintained or exists in any town, either the district attorney for the district, or the attorney general, in the name of the commonwealth, or a citizen in his own name, may bring a civil action perpetually to enjoin the person conducting or maintaining the same, and the owner, lessee or agent of the building or place in or upon which such nuisance exists and their assignees from directly or indirectly maintaining or permitting such nuisance.
MA Gen L ch 139 § 7 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 139 - Common Nuisances|Section 7 - Complaint; Filing; Verification

Section 7. The complaint shall join the owner of record of the premises as a party defendant and shall be filed in the superior court for the county where the nuisance is believed to exist, and shall be verified by oath of the plaintiff unless filed by the attorney general or a district attorney. Such proceeding shall have precedence over all other matters upon the docket except criminal proceedings, election contests and hearings upon actions for other injunctions.
MA Gen L ch 139 § 8 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 139 - Common Nuisances|Section 8 - Temporary Injunction Restraining Nuisance; Removal of Furniture and Other Property From Place of Prostitution

Section 8. If upon a hearing, after at least two days' notice to the respondents of the time and place assigned therefor, the existence of such a nuisance is shown to the satisfaction of the court or justice, either through verified complaint or through evidence in the form of affidavits, depositions, oral testimony or otherwise, a temporary injunction shall be ordered to issue forthwith restraining the maintenance of the nuisance and enjoining the occupants, owner and all other persons from removing fixtures, furniture, musical instruments and all other movable property from the premises until further order of the court.
MA Gen L ch 139 § 9 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 139 - Common Nuisances|Section 9 - Decree for Permanent Injunction; Sale of Furniture; Order Closing Building Used for Prostitution

Section 9. If upon subsequent hearing the existence of the nuisance shall be established, the court shall enter a decree permanently enjoining the maintenance thereof, including in such decree an order of abatement directing the sheriff of the county or his deputy to enter the building or place where the nuisance existed and to sell all furniture, musical instruments and movable property used in maintaining the nuisance, in the manner provided for the sale of chattels under execution, and to remove the same. If it shall appear that the bill of complaint was filed five or more days after notice to the record owner of the premises, and that he did not proceed forthwith to enforce his rights under section nineteen, such order of abatement shall further direct the effectual closing of the building or the place and the prohibition of its use for any purpose for one year, unless sooner released as provided in section eleven. For the purpose of proving the existence of the nuisance the general reputation of the place shall be admissible as evidence.
MA Gen L ch 139 § 10 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 139 - Common Nuisances|Section 10 - Fee for Removal and Sale of Movable Property; Application of Proceeds of Sale of Place of Prostitution

Section 10. For removing and selling the movable property in accordance with the decree of the court the officer shall be entitled to the same fees as for levying upon and selling like property on execution, and for closing the premises and keeping them closed, a reasonable sum shall be allowed by the court. The proceeds shall be applied: first, to the fees and costs of removal and sale; second, to the allowances and costs of so closing and keeping closed the premises; third, to the payment of the complainants' costs in such proceeding, including a reasonable attorney's fee to be fixed by the court; fourth, the remainder, if any, to the owner of the property sold.
MA Gen L ch 139 § 11 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 139 - Common Nuisances|Section 11 - Modification of Order of Abatement; Bond

Section 11. If the owner of any such premises shall pay all costs of the proceedings, and file with the court a bond with sureties approved by the clerk in the full value of such premises as ascertained by the court, or, when the court is not in session, by the clerk, payable to the court and conditioned that the owner of the premises found to be a nuisance will immediately abate such nuisance and prevent the same from being established or kept therein within one year thereafter, the court or justice may, if satisfied of the owner's good faith, order the premises so closed to be delivered to such owner and the order of abatement to be so modified as to dissolve the order that the premises remain closed for one year; provided, that such modification shall not release such premises from any judgment, lien, penalty or liability to which it may be subject.
MA Gen L ch 139 § 12 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 139 - Common Nuisances|Section 12 - Dismissal of Action; Costs

Section 12. No action commenced under section six shall be dismissed, except upon a sworn statement made and filed by the plaintiff and by his attorney setting forth the reasons for dismissal thereof and upon approval of such dismissal by the court in open court. If the court is of opinion that the action ought not to be dismissed he may direct the district attorney to prosecute the case to judgment. If the action was brought by a citizen and the court finds that there was no reasonable ground therefor, costs may be awarded against the plaintiff.