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MA Gen L ch 159b § 14a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 159b - Carriers of Property by Motor Vehicle|Section 14a - Examination of Cargo and of Papers Relating to Cargo

Section 14A. Every motor carrier, including private carriers and interstate licensees, their agents and employees, when requested by a duly authorized state police officer who is in uniform or displays the proper insignia of his office, shall stop and submit to said duly authorized state police officer all transportation documents, including bills of lading, way bills and other papers relating to his cargo which are in his possession and shall submit the cargo and other contents, if any, of his motor vehicle to such reasonable examination as may be necessary to inform the duly authorized state police officer of the nature and the weight thereof. No detail examination of the cargo shall be made that requires the removal of the cargo from the vehicle except at a place where the motor vehicle stops for the purpose of loading or delivery, and such motor vehicle may be required to detour to the nearest available scale within a distance of not more than five miles for the purpose of determining the weight thereof. Any such carrier who, personally or by his agent, or any such driver who violates any provision of this section, shall be punished by a fine of not less than two hundred and fifty nor more than five hundred dollars for the first offense and not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars for subsequent offenses.
MA Gen L ch 159b § 14b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 159b - Carriers of Property by Motor Vehicle|Section 14b - Violations of Investigation Provisions

Section 14B. Any person who, while operating or in charge of a commercial motor vehicle, refuses, when requested by an investigator or examiner of the commercial motor vehicle division, to give his name and address and the name and address of the owner of such commercial motor vehicle, or who gives a false name or address, or who refuses or neglects to stop when signalled by said investigator or examiner who is in uniform or displays his badge conspicuously on the outside of his outer coat or garment, or fails or refuses on demand of such investigator or examiner to produce his license to operate such vehicle, or his certificate of registration, or to permit such investigator or examiner to take the license or certificate in hand for the purpose of examination, or refuses on demand of such investigator or examiner to sign his name in the presence of such investigator or examiner, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars.
MA Gen L ch 159b § 15 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 159b - Carriers of Property by Motor Vehicle|Section 15 - Temporary Certificates and Permits

Section 15. The department may, upon application therefor, when consistent with the public interest and the policy of this chapter, as set forth in section one, issue such temporary certificates to common carriers by motor vehicles and such temporary permits to contract carriers by motor vehicle as it deems necessary to meet special and individual circumstances wherein adequate service by motor carriers is not readily available. Motor carriers operating under such temporary certificates and permits shall conform to all requirements of this chapter with respect to the filing of rates, copies of written contracts, minimum schedules and other provisions relating to the justice and reasonableness of rates, rules, regulations and charges, and the department, in issuing such temporary certificates and permits, shall consider the effect thereof upon competing carriers as is required by sections three, four, six and seven in acting thereunder.
MA Gen L ch 159b § 15a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 159b - Carriers of Property by Motor Vehicle|Section 15a - Agricultural Carrier's Permit

Section 15A. No person shall engage in the business of an agricultural carrier by motor vehicle unless there is in effect with respect to such carrier an agricultural carrier's permit issued by the department. Each application for such a permit shall be in writing in such form and contain such information as the department may require and be verified by oath or written declaration that it is made under the penalties of perjury. Upon the filing of such an application the department shall hold a hearing, with or without the notice required by paragraph (b) of section three, and if it finds that the applicant is fit, willing and able to provide the services proposed and otherwise to conform to this chapter and the lawful requirements, orders, rules and regulations of the department thereunder, may issue an agricultural carrier's permit to the applicant, upon the filing of a schedule of rates and charges acceptable to the department; otherwise, such application shall be denied. The department shall specify in the permit the operations covered thereby at the time of issuance and from time to time thereafter shall attach to it such terms and conditions, not inconsistent with the status of the holder as an agricultural carrier, as the public interest may require. A suitable distinguishing plate shall be prescribed and furnished by the department annually for each of the vehicles necessary for the conduct of the business of the holder of the permit. Section nine shall apply to such plates except that the annual charge for each such plate shall be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven.
MA Gen L ch 159b § 16 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 159b - Carriers of Property by Motor Vehicle|Section 16 - Rules and Regulations

Section 16. The department may establish from time to time such reasonable rules and regulations consistent with this chapter as may be necessary to carry out its administration thereof.
MA Gen L ch 159b § 16a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 159b - Carriers of Property by Motor Vehicle|Section 16a - Books and Records; Inspection or Production

Section 16A. The department, in the enforcement of this chapter, may inspect or cause to be produced the books and records of persons engaged in the business of leasing trucks and motor vehicles, or either, for the transportation of property for hire, and may compel such persons to furnish such information as the department may find necessary relative to the identity of the lessee, or the use to which any such truck or motor vehicle is to be put, or both. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to diminish the powers conferred on the director of the commercial motor vehicle division of the department by section twelve G of chapter twenty-five.
MA Gen L ch 159b § 16b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 159b - Carriers of Property by Motor Vehicle|Section 16b - Transporting Household Goods; Advertisements

Section 16B. Every motor carrier engaged in the transportation of household goods between points within the commonwealth including a carrier providing a service incidental to or part of such intrastate transportation, shall include, and shall require each of its agents to include, in every advertisement as defined therein, the name or trade name of the motor carrier under whose operating authority the advertised service will originate and the certificate number assigned to such operating authority by the department.  Such certificate number shall be in the following form in every advertisement: ''MDPU NO.''  As used in this section, ''advertisement'' shall mean any written or printed communication to the public, in connection with an offer or sale of any intrastate transportation service, but not including the name, address and telephone number of such carrier.
MA Gen L ch 159b § 17 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 159b - Carriers of Property by Motor Vehicle|Section 17 - Submission of Accounts, Records or Memoranda; Penalty

Section 17. In case of failure or refusal on the part of any person, including shipper, consignee, consignor, leasing company, motor carrier, broker, his executor, administrator, guardian, conservator, assignee, receiver, and trustee, to submit accounts, records or memoranda of such person or persons, motor carrier, shipper, consignee, consignor or leasing company in its possession or control, in so far as such accounts, records or memoranda relate to the transportation of property by common carrier or contract carrier and charges therefor, to the inspection of the department or its authorized representatives, such person, motor carrier, shipper, consignee, consignor, broker, leasing company or fiduciary shall be punished by a fine of two hundred dollars for each and every day during the continuance of such offense, such fine to be paid into the treasury of the commonwealth.
MA Gen L ch 159b § 18 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 159b - Carriers of Property by Motor Vehicle|Section 18 - Drivers; Hours

Section 18. No driver shall operate any motor vehicle used for the transportation of property on the ways within the commonwealth, and no owner, lessee or other person having control of any such vehicle shall require or permit any driver so to operate the same, at any time after the driver has been continuously on duty for twelve hours and before he shall have had at least eight consecutive hours off duty, or at any time after the driver has been on duty sixteen hours in the aggregate in any twenty-four hour period and before he shall have had ten consecutive hours off duty. Periods of release from duty herein required shall be given at such place and under such circumstances that rest and relaxation from the strain of the duties of the employment may be obtained. No period off duty shall be deemed to break the continuity of duty unless it be for at least three consecutive hours at a place where there is opportunity for a rest. In case of flood, storm or other unforeseen emergency, the driver may complete his run or tour of duty if such run or tour of duty would reasonably have been completed without a violation of this section, except for the delay caused by such emergency, or may make deliveries of necessaries of life notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section. The department may make such rules and regulations as it deems necessary or advisable to insure proper enforcement of this section.
MA Gen L ch 159b § 19 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 159b - Carriers of Property by Motor Vehicle|Section 19 - Rebates, Concessions or Discrimination; Rates at Less Than Required; Evasion of Regulation

Section 19. No person, whether carrier, shipper, consignee, or broker, or any officer, employee, agent, or representative thereof, shall (1) knowingly offer, grant or give, or solicit, accept or receive, any rebate, concession or discrimination in violation of any provision of this chapter, or (2) by means of any false statement or representation, or by the use of any false or fictitious bill, bill of lading, receipt, voucher, roll, account, claim, certificate, affidavit, deposition, lease or bill of sale, or by any other means or device, knowingly or wilfully assist, suffer or permit any person to obtain transportation of property subject to this chapter for less than the applicable rate or charge, or (3) by any such means, or otherwise, fraudulently seek to evade or defeat regulation as in this chapter provided.
MA Gen L ch 159b § 19a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 159b - Carriers of Property by Motor Vehicle|Section 19a - Transportation Bills; Credit; Exemptions

Section 19A. Transportation bills for all transportation charges by common carriers of property by motor vehicle shall be presented or mailed to the shippers within seven calendar days from twelve o'clock midnight following delivery of the property. Such carriers may extend credit in the amount of such charges to those who undertake to pay them for a period of fifteen days, excluding Sundays and legal holidays, from the date of presentation or mailing of the transportation bills. If payment for transportation is not received by the carrier before the expiration of the period set forth above, such carrier is prohibited from engaging in any transportation operations for such shipper, except upon a cash basis, until final settlement and payment for the original transportation has been made. This section does not apply to the commonwealth and its political subdivisions and shall have no application to the transportation of rubbish, demolition waste and other waste materials. The department upon determining a violation exists under this section, involving construction dump trucks, shall prohibit all such certificate holders under its jurisdiction from furnishing transportation services to the shipper involved in the violation until and unless the violation has been removed.
MA Gen L ch 159b § 20 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 159b - Carriers of Property by Motor Vehicle|Section 20 - Conflicting Authority

Section 20. Nothing in this chapter shall lessen or affect the authority or powers of the department of highways or of the registrar of motor vehicles under chapter ninety. No person holding a certificate or a permit authorizing the transportation of property for compensation by motor vehicle within the city of Boston, shall be required to obtain a license from the police commissioner for said city on account of such transportation or the use of motor vehicles therein.
MA Gen L ch 159b § 21 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 159b - Carriers of Property by Motor Vehicle|Section 21 - Violations

Section 21. Whoever violates any provision of this chapter, or any order, rule or regulation adopted or established thereunder, or any lawful requirement, condition, limitation or restriction contained in any certificate, permit or license, shall be punished, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, for a first offense by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars and for any subsequent offense by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars; and, in addition, the supreme judicial and superior courts shall severally have jurisdiction in equity to restrain any such violation upon petition of the department, or of any person, organization or body politic affected by such violation.  Any such person, organization or body politic may file with the department a complaint of any such violation, and the department shall within seven calendar days investigate such complaint, and shall within fourteen calendar days issue an order for remedial action if warranted or shall order hearings to be conducted within a period of twenty-one calendar days from the date of the department's order. Continuances of hearings on such complaint for any reason shall not be allowed beyond a period of twenty-one calendar days from the date of the last preceding hearing date. Upon completion of all hearings deemed necessary the department shall render a decision no later than ninety days from the date of the last hearing held on such a complaint. The department may hold a hearing on the question of revocation of the certificate, permit or license of any motor carrier, broker or interstate licensee complained against and may institute in any court of the commonwealth in the county or district wherein the carrier shall have a place of business, or in the county or district wherein the violation occurred, such action, suit or complaint as may be necessary to enforce compliance with any provision of this chapter or any rule, regulation or order of the department thereunder, or any lawful requirement, condition, limitation or restriction contained in any certificate, permit or license.
MA Gen L ch 159b § 22 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 159b - Carriers of Property by Motor Vehicle|Section 22 - Saving Clause

Section 22. If any provision of this chapter shall be declared unconstitutional, the validity of its remaining provisions shall not be affected thereby.
MA Gen L ch 159c § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 159c - Telemarketing Solicitation|Section 2 - Unsolicited Telephonic Sales Calls; Consumer Listing; Updates

Section 2. The office shall establish and maintain a no sales solicitation calls listing of consumers who do not wish to receive unsolicited telephonic sales calls. The office may contract with a private vendor to establish and maintain such listing, provided that: (i) the private vendor has maintained national no sales solicitation calls listings for more than 2 years; and (ii) the contract requires the vendor to provide the no sales solicitation calls listing in a printed hard copy format and in any other format offered at a cost that does not exceed the production cost of the format offered. The office shall provide notice to consumers of the establishment of a no sales solicitation calls listing. A consumer who wishes to be included on the listing shall notify the office by calling toll-free number provided by the office, or in such other manner and at such times as the office may prescribe, which may include electronic notification. A consumer on such listing shall be deleted from such listing upon the consumer's written request or in such other manner and at such times as the division may prescribe, which may include electronic notification. The office shall update such listing not less than quarterly and shall make such listing available to telephone solicitors and other persons for a fee as the office shall prescribe.
MA Gen L ch 159c § 3 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 159c - Telemarketing Solicitation|Section 3 - Unsolicited Telephonic Sales Calls; Limitations

Section 3. A telephone solicitor shall not make or cause to be made an unsolicited telephonic sales call to a consumer: (i) if the consumer's name and telephone number appear on the then current quarterly no sales solicitation calls listing made available by the office under section 2; (ii) to be received between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m., local time, at the consumer's location; (iii) in the form of electronically transmitted facsimiles; or (iv) by use of a recorded message device.
MA Gen L ch 159c § 4 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 159c - Telemarketing Solicitation|Section 4 - Use of Blocking Devices or Services Prohibited

Section 4. No telephone solicitor shall intentionally cause to be installed or shall intentionally use a blocking device or service to circumvent a consumer's use of a call identification service or device.
MA Gen L ch 159c § 5 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 159c - Telemarketing Solicitation|Section 5 - Exclusion of Consumer Information From Marketing or Sales Solicitation Publications, Compilations, and Databases; Exceptions

Section 5. (a) A person who obtains the name, residential address or telephone number of a consumer from published telephone directories or from any other source and republishes or compiles such information, electronically or otherwise, and sells or offers to sell such publication or compilation to telephone solicitors for marketing or sales solicitation purposes shall, in accordance with this chapter, exclude from any such publication or compilation and from any database used exclusively for marketing or sales solicitation purposes, the name, address and telephone number of a consumer whose name and telephone number appears in the then current quarterly no sales solicitation calls listing made available by the office under section 2.  (b) This section shall not apply to: (i) a telephone company, subject to the authority of the department of telecommunications and energy, for the sole purpose of compiling, publishing or distributing telephone directories or causing the compilation, publication or distribution of telephone directories or providing directory assistance; and (ii) a person, for the sole purpose of compiling, publishing or distributing telephone directories for such telephone company pursuant to an agreement or other arrangement with such telephone company.
MA Gen L ch 159c § 5a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 159c - Telemarketing Solicitation|Section 5a - Disclosures by Telephone Solicitors; Information Provided to Consumers Prior to Payment

Section 5A. (a) A telephone solicitor shall disclose all of the following information within the first minute of a telephonic sales call and before requesting, accepting or arranging for payment by a consumer: (i) that the purpose of the telephone call is to make a sale or solicit funds; (ii) the correct name of the telemarketing company that employs the individual telemarketer who is making the call; (iii) the correct name of the ultimate seller whose goods or services are being offered by means of the telemarketing call; and (iv) a complete and accurate description of the goods or services being offered including, but not limited to, the retail market value of the goods or services.  (b) The telemarketer shall provide all of the following information before requesting, accepting or arranging for payment by a consumer: (i) the cost to the consumer of the goods or services that are the subject of the telemarketing sales call including, but not limited to, any applicable tax, shipping and handling fees; (ii) any restrictions, limitations or conditions attached to purchasing the goods or services; (iii) the complete terms of any applicable refund, return, cancellation, exchange or repurchase policies; (iv) any material aspect of an investment opportunity being offered including, but not limited to, the price of the land or other investment, the location of the investment and the fact that an investor may lose some or all of their original investment.