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MA Gen L ch 93 § 26 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93 - Regulation of Trade and Certain Enterprises|Section 26 - Sureties; Approval; Filing; Cancellation; Notice

Section 26. Said bond shall be executed by said person, partnership, association or corporation as principal, with a surety company as surety; or cash may be accepted in lieu of a surety company. The bond shall not be accepted unless it is approved by the state treasurer after having been examined and approved by the commissioner of banks. Upon its approval by the treasurer, it shall be filed in his office. Said bond may be cancelled at any time by the principal, by the surety company or by the state treasurer upon written notice by registered mail given by the principal, the surety company or the state treasurer to each of the others, said notice to state the effective date of the cancellation which shall not be sooner than thirty days from the date of the mailing of such notice.
MA Gen L ch 93 § 27 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93 - Regulation of Trade and Certain Enterprises|Section 27 - Record of Bonds; Open to Public Inspection

Section 27. The state treasurer shall keep a record open to public inspection of the bonds filed with him under the preceding section, with the names, places of residence and places of business of the principals and sureties, and the name of the officer before whom the bond was executed or acknowledged.
MA Gen L ch 93 § 28 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93 - Regulation of Trade and Certain Enterprises|Section 28 - Penalties

Section 28. Any person doing any business for which a bond is required by section twenty-four or any member of a partnership or officer of an association or corporation doing such business shall, upon written demand, render a true and complete account to the person, partnership, association or corporation from whom any account, bill or indebtedness was taken for collection and shall turn over to or for such person, partnership, association or corporation the proceeds of such collection within thirty days after such written demand and shall return any claim or claims upon the written demand of such person, partnership, association or corporation within thirty days after such written demand and after the tender of any amounts, if any, as may be due and owing from such person, partnership, association or corporation to the agency.  Whoever fails to comply with any provision of this section or sections twenty-four to twenty-seven, inclusive, or any regulation promulgated in accordance with the provisions of section twenty-four, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than three months, or both.  Failure to comply with any provision of this section or of section twenty-four to twenty-seven, inclusive, or any regulation promulgated in accordance with the provisions of section twenty-four shall constitute an unfair or deceptive act or practice under the provisions of paragraph (a) of section two of chapter ninety-three A.
MA Gen L ch 93 § 28d (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93 - Regulation of Trade and Certain Enterprises|Section 28d - Violations of Secs. 28a to 28c; Penalties

Section 28D. Whoever violates any provision of sections twenty-eight A to twenty-eight C, inclusive, or section twenty-eight F, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days, or both, and each day on which a sale is conducted in violation of any of said provisions shall constitute a separate offence.
MA Gen L ch 93 § 28e (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93 - Regulation of Trade and Certain Enterprises|Section 28e - Jurisdiction of Superior Court

Section 28E. Upon complaint of any person, the superior court shall have jurisdiction in equity to restrain and enjoin any act forbidden or declared illegal by any provision of sections twenty-eight A to twenty-eight C, inclusive, or section twenty-eight F.
MA Gen L ch 93 § 28f (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93 - Regulation of Trade and Certain Enterprises|Section 28f - Fire Sales; Advertising

Section 28F. No person shall advertise or offer for sale a stock of goods, wares or merchandise under designation of ''fire sale'', or other designation of like meaning, indicating the effect or result of fire, water or smoke, unless the goods, wares or merchandise so advertised or so offered for sale have, in fact, been salvaged from a fire, and unless such goods, wares or merchandise are segregated and identified. No other goods, wares or merchandise shall be included under such designation in any form of advertising, tagging or labeling.
MA Gen L ch 93 § 29 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93 - Regulation of Trade and Certain Enterprises|Section 29 - Powers of Outdoor Advertising Board; Rules and Regulations; Permits; Hearings

Section 29. The outdoor advertising board, herein and in sections twenty-nine A, thirty A and thirty-one called the board, may make, amend or repeal rules and regulations for the proper control and restriction of billboards, signs and other advertising devices, except as provided in section thirty-two, on public ways or on private property within public view of any highway, public park or reservation. Such rules and regulations may require that said billboards, signs or other devices be located in business, commercial, industrial, marketing or mercantile areas, or on unrestricted commercial arteries and adjacent to commercial enterprises; may prescribe standards of size, setback and clearance, considering the public interest; may require said billboards, signs or other devices to be licensed by the board by the issuance of permits in accordance therewith and with this section; and may prescribe permit fees, to be fixed with regard to the cost of administering this section, and said fees need not be uniform throughout the commonwealth. No permit, whether permanent or temporary, for a billboard, sign or other advertising device shall be issued unless written notice of the application therefor stating the proposed location shall have been given at least thirty days earlier to the city or town in which the proposed billboard, sign or other advertising device is to be located. The board shall delegate to the executive director authority to issue licenses or permits, subject to the provisions of section twenty-nine A, where no objection has been received to the pending application. Except as hereinafter provided, before establishing or amending rules and regulations under this section, the board shall hold duly advertised public hearings in Boston and in such other cities and towns within the commonwealth as it deems necessary or expedient. Cities and towns may further regulate and restrict said billboards, signs or other devices within their respective limits by ordinance or by-law, not inconsistent with sections twenty-nine to thirty-three, inclusive, or with said rules and regulations.
MA Gen L ch 93 § 29a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93 - Regulation of Trade and Certain Enterprises|Section 29a - Objection to Application for Permit for Billboard, Sign or Other Advertising Device; Hearing; Issuance; Appeal

Section 29A. Whenever, within thirty days after notification to the city or town, the board shall have received written objection to an application for a permit, such permit shall issue only after consideration by the board of such objection, and whenever, within thirty days after notification to the city or town, the board shall have received written notice of intention to appear in opposition to the application, the board shall issue such permit only after a public hearing on due notice to the applicant and the city or town. Any applicant for a permit, or any city or town wherein a permit is to be issued, aggrieved by a decision of the executive director with respect to the issuance or revocation of a license or permit for the erection or maintenance of a billboard, sign or other advertising device, may, within fifteen days thereafter, appeal from such decision to the board, which may, after a public hearing held on due notice, order such decision to be affirmed, modified or annulled. The board may in its discretion order a public hearing with respect to any decision of the executive director within fifteen days after such decision, and may after such hearing order such decision to be affirmed, modified or annulled. The findings of the board on matters heard before it shall be final except with respect to matters of law.
MA Gen L ch 93 § 30 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93 - Regulation of Trade and Certain Enterprises|Section 30 - Prohibition of Certain Billboards; Conformance to Rules and Regulations; Application

Section 30. No person, firm, association or corporation shall post, erect, display or maintain on any public way or on private property within public view from any highway, public park or reservation any billboard or other advertising device, whether erected before August twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and twenty, or not, which advertises or calls attention to any business, article, substance or any other thing, unless such billboard or device conforms to the rules and regulations and ordinances or by-laws established under section twenty-nine; provided, that this section shall not apply to signs or other devices erected and maintained in conformity with law and which advertise or indicate either the person occupying the premises in question or the business transacted thereon, or advertise the property itself or any part thereof as for sale or to let and which contain no other advertising matter or which are maintained on land owned by a person, firm, association or corporation engaged in the outdoor advertising business if owned by the same person, firm, association or corporation on January first, nineteen hundred and twenty-five, and if billboards or other devices were maintained thereon prior to August twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and twenty, and have been maintained thereon from that time until January first, nineteen hundred and forty-five.
MA Gen L ch 93 § 30a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93 - Regulation of Trade and Certain Enterprises|Section 30a - Abatement and Removal of Billboard, Sign or Other Device; Nuisance

Section 30A. Any billboard, sign or other device, erected after August twentieth, nineteen hundred and twenty, without the authorization or permit of the outdoor advertising division, or of the outdoor advertising authority, or of the department of highways prior to the establishment of the authority, in cases where such authorization or permit is required, or maintained after said date in violation of any rule or regulation of the board, shall be deemed a nuisance. The outdoor advertising board shall have the same power to abate and remove any such nuisance as is given 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, and the provisions of said sections shall, so far as applicable, apply in the case of a nuisance as herein defined. The remedy herein provided shall be in addition to any other remedy provided by law.
MA Gen L ch 93 § 31 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93 - Regulation of Trade and Certain Enterprises|Section 31 - Jurisdiction of Supreme Judicial and Superior Courts

Section 31. The supreme judicial and superior courts shall have jurisdiction in equity upon petition of the attorney general, of any city or town or any officer thereof, or of any interested party, to restrain the erection or maintenance of any billboard, sign or other device erected or maintained in violation of any rule, or regulation, adopted by the board under section twenty-nine, and to order the removal or abatement of such billboard, sign or device as a nuisance.
MA Gen L ch 93 § 32 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93 - Regulation of Trade and Certain Enterprises|Section 32 - Application of Secs. 29 to 31 and Sec. 33; Exempted Signs, Etc.

Section 32. Sections twenty-nine to thirty-one, inclusive, and section thirty-three shall not apply to signs or other devices on or in the rolling stock of any common carrier, nor shall said sections apply to signs or other devices on or in stations, subways or structures of or used by any common carrier unless such signs or devices are displayed within view of a public way.
MA Gen L ch 93 § 33 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93 - Regulation of Trade and Certain Enterprises|Section 33 - Violations of Rule, Regulation, etc., Established Under Sec. 29; Penalties

Section 33. Whoever violates any rule, regulation, ordinance or by-law established or adopted under section twenty-nine shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, and whoever after conviction of such violation unlawfully maintains such a billboard, sign or other device for twenty days thereafter shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars.
MA Gen L ch 93 § 40 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93 - Regulation of Trade and Certain Enterprises|Section 40 - Solicitation of Business on Public Sidewalks

Section 40. Whoever makes a practice of accosting persons, other than acquaintances, upon any public sidewalk and induces or tries to induce such persons to purchase merchandise shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars. This section shall not apply to licensed pedlers, or to persons holding permits or licenses to expose for sale or sell merchandise upon public streets or sidewalks, acting within the scope of their permits or licenses, or to persons when seeking to sell newspapers.
MA Gen L ch 93 § 40a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93 - Regulation of Trade and Certain Enterprises|Section 40a - Dishonored Checks; Demand for Payment

Section 40A. Whoever makes, draws, utters or delivers any check, draft or order for the payment of money upon any bank or other depository which refuses to honor the same because the maker has no account with such bank or other depository or because the maker has insufficient funds on deposit therein and who fails to pay the amount of such check, draft or order within thirty days following a written demand therefor by the payee in accordance with this section and delivered to such person by regular mail and also by certified mail return receipt requested shall, in addition to any criminal penalties which may be imposed in accordance with law, be liable to the payee for the face amount of such check, draft or order, and for additional damages, as determined by the court, but in no event shall the amount of such damages be less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars.  The written demand for payment required by this section shall be in the following form and shall be printed in at least ten point type in both the English and Spanish languages:  DEMAND FOR PAYMENT OF DISHONORED CHECK DATE:_________________________________  TO:___________________________________   NAME OF MAKER  WARNING: YOU MAY BE SUED 30 DAYS AF-   TER THE DATE OF THIS NOTICE IF YOU DO   NOT MAKE PAYMENT  _______________________________________  _______________________________________  _______________________________________  LAST KNOWN RESIDENCE ADDRESS OR PLACE OF BUSINESS  YOUR CHECK/DRAFT/ORDER IN THE AMOUNT OF $___________  DATED _________ PAYABLE TO THE ORDER OF ________________  HAS BEEN DISHONORED BY THE BANK OR OTHER DEPOSITORY UPON WHICH IT HAS BEEN DRAWN BECAUSE:  — THE MAKER HAD NO ACCOUNT WITH SUCH BANK OR DEPOSITORY  — THE MAKER HAD INSUFFICIENT FUNDS ON DEPOSIT WITH SUCH BANK OR DEPOSITORY  IF YOU DO NOT MAKE PAYMENT WITHIN THIRTY DAYS OF THE ABOVE DATE, YOU MAY BE SUED TO RECOVER PAYMENT. IF A JUDGMENT IS RENDERED AGAINST YOU IN COURT, IT WILL INCLUDE NOT ONLY THE ORIGINAL FACE AMOUNT OF THE CHECK/DRAFT/ORDER, BUT ALSO ADDITIONAL LIQUIDATED DAMAGES OF NOT LESS THAN ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100.00) NOR MORE THAN FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($500.00).  PLEASE MAKE PAYMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF $_____________ TO:  _______________________________________  NAME OF PAYEE  _______________________________________  _______________________________________  _______________________________________  ADDRESS TO WHICH PAYMENT SHOULD BE DELIVERED
MA Gen L ch 93 § 42a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93 - Regulation of Trade and Certain Enterprises|Section 42a - Trade Secrets; Injunctive Relief

[Text of section applicable as provided by 2018, 228, Sec. 70.]  Section 42A. (a) Actual or threatened misappropriation may be enjoined upon principles of equity, including but not limited to consideration of prior party conduct and circumstances of potential use, upon a showing that information qualifying as a trade secret has been or is threatened to be misappropriated. Upon application to the court, an injunction shall be terminated when the trade secret has ceased to exist, but the injunction may be continued for an additional reasonable period of time in order to eliminate any economic advantage that otherwise would be derived from misappropriation.  (b) In exceptional circumstances, an injunction may condition future use upon payment of a reasonable royalty for no longer than the period of time for which use could have been prohibited. Exceptional circumstances include, but are not limited to, a material and prejudicial change of position prior to acquiring knowledge or reason to know of misappropriation that renders a prohibitive injunction inequitable.  (c) In appropriate circumstances, affirmative acts to protect a trade secret may be compelled by court order.
MA Gen L ch 93 § 42b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93 - Regulation of Trade and Certain Enterprises|Section 42b - Trade Secrets; Damages

[Text of section applicable as provided by 2018, 228, Sec. 70.]  Section 42B. (a) Except to the extent that a material and prejudicial change of position prior to acquiring knowledge or reason to know of misappropriation renders a monetary recovery inequitable, a complainant is entitled to recover damages for misappropriation of information qualifying as a trade secret. Damages can include both the actual loss caused by misappropriation and the unjust enrichment caused by misappropriation that is not taken into account in computing actual loss. In lieu of damages measured by any other methods, the damages caused by misappropriation may be measured by the imposition of liability for a reasonable royalty for a misappropriator's unauthorized disclosure or use of a trade secret.  (b) If willful and malicious misappropriation exists, the court may award exemplary damages in an amount not exceeding twice any award made under subsection (a).
MA Gen L ch 93 § 42c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93 - Regulation of Trade and Certain Enterprises|Section 42c - Trade Secrets; Attorney's Fees and Costs

[Text of section applicable as provided by 2018, 228, Sec. 70.]  Section 42C. The court may award reasonable attorney's fees and costs to the prevailing party if: (i) a claim of misappropriation is made or defended in bad faith, (ii) a motion to enter or to terminate an injunction is made or resisted in bad faith, or (iii) willful and malicious misappropriation exists. In considering such an award, the court may take into account the claimant's specification of trade secrets and the proof that such alleged trade secrets were misappropriated.
MA Gen L ch 93 § 42d (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93 - Regulation of Trade and Certain Enterprises|Section 42d - Trade Secrets; Preservation of Secrecy; Alleging Misappropriation With Reasonable Particularity

[Text of section applicable as provided by 2018, 228, Sec. 70.]  Section 42D. (a) In an action under sections 42 to 42G, inclusive, a court shall preserve the secrecy of an alleged trade secret by reasonable means, which may include granting protective orders in connection with discovery proceedings, holding in-camera hearings, sealing the records of the action, and ordering any person involved in the litigation not to disclose an alleged trade secret without prior court approval.  (b) In an action under sections 42 to 42G, inclusive, in alleging trade secrets misappropriation a party must state with reasonable particularity the circumstances thereof, including the nature of the trade secrets and the basis for their protection. Before commencing discovery relating to an alleged trade secret, the party alleging misappropriation shall identify the trade secret with sufficient particularity under the circumstances of the case to allow the court to determine the appropriate parameters of discovery and to enable reasonably other parties to prepare their defense.
MA Gen L ch 93 § 42e (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93 - Regulation of Trade and Certain Enterprises|Section 42e - Trade Secrets; Statute of Limitations

[Text of section applicable as provided by 2018, 228, Sec. 70.]  Section 42E. An action for misappropriation must be brought within 3 years after the misappropriation is discovered or by the exercise of reasonable diligence should have been discovered. For the purposes of sections 42 to 42G, inclusive, a continuing disclosure or use constitutes a single claim.
MA Gen L ch 93 § 42f (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 93 - Regulation of Trade and Certain Enterprises|Section 42f - Trade Secrets; Effect on Other Law

[Text of section applicable as provided by 2018, 228, Sec. 70.]  Section 42F. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), sections 42 to 42G, inclusive, shall supersede any conflicting laws of the commonwealth providing civil remedies for the misappropriation of a trade secret.  (b) Sections 42 to 42G, inclusive, do not affect:  (1) contractual remedies, provided that, to the extent such remedies are based on an interest in the economic advantage of information claimed to be confidential, such confidentiality shall be determined according to the definition of trade secret in section 42, where the terms and circumstances of the underlying contract shall be considered in such determination;  (2) remedies based on submissions to governmental units;  (3) other civil remedies to the extent that they are not based upon misappropriation of a trade secret; or  (4) criminal remedies, whether or not based upon misappropriation of a trade secret.