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MA Gen L ch 112 § 288 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 112 - Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations|Section 288 - Appraisal Management Companies; Injunctive Relief

Section 288. The board may file an action for injunctive relief to prevent violations of sections 276 to 289, inclusive. The superior court may grant an injunction against a person who it deems to be violating said sections 276 to 289, inclusive, notwithstanding that criminal prosecution has been or may be instituted for such violation or that the person deemed to be violating said sections 276 to 289, inclusive, is the holder of a registration issued by the board.
MA Gen L ch 112 § 289 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 112 - Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations|Section 289 - Appraisal Management Companies; Investigations and Examinations by Board

Section 289. (a) The board may conduct investigations and examinations for the purposes of:  (i) initial registration, registration renewal, registration suspension, registration conditioning, registration revocation or termination or general or specific inquiry or investigation to determine compliance with sections 276 to 289, inclusive; provided, however, that for the purposes of any such investigation or examination, the board may access, receive and use any books, accounts, records, files, documents, information or other evidence including, but not limited to: (A) criminal, civil and administrative history, including nonconviction data as specified in the General Laws; and (B) any other material the board deems relevant to the inquiry or investigation without regard to the location, possession, control or custody of such material;  (ii) investigating violations or complaints arising under sections 276 to 289, inclusive; and  (iii) reviewing, investigating or examining any registrant, individual or person subject to sections 276 to 289, inclusive.  (b) If a criminal history record check for a person who directly or indirectly owns more than 10 per cent of an entity applying for registration or for an officer, controlling person, employee in charge or managing principal of an entity applying for registration pursuant to subsection (c) of section 279 reveals a conviction, such conviction shall not automatically bar registration if the conviction is not related to the financing or transfer of real property. The board shall consider all of the following factors regarding the conviction:  (i) the seriousness of the crime;  (ii) the date of the crime;  (iii) the age of the person at the time of the conviction;  (iv) the circumstances surrounding the commission of the crime, if available;  (v) the nexus between the criminal conduct of the person and the job duties of the position to be filled; and  (vi) the person's prison, jail, probation, parole, rehabilitation and employment records since the date the crime was committed.
MA Gen L ch 112 § 23m.5 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 112 - Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations|Section 23m.5 - Practice Settings of Licensees; Regulations

[ Subsection (a) effective until fulfillment of the conditions of 2021, 39 Sec. 127. For text effective upon the conditions of 2021, 39 Sec. 127, see below.]  Section 23M1/2. (a) The board shall promulgate regulations necessary to regulate and inspect the practice settings of its licensees and may require the practice settings to be licensed by the board if the practice settings are not regulated by the department of public health. Fees for the licensing of any practice setting and renewals thereof shall be determined by the secretary of administration pursuant to section 3B of chapter 7 and shall be deposited in the Division of Professional Licensure Trust Fund established by section 35V of chapter 10.[ Subsection (a) as amended by 2021, 39, Sec. 49 effective upon the fulfillment of the conditions of 2021, 39 Sec. 127. For text effective until the conditions of 2021, 39 Sec. 127, see above.]  (a) The board shall promulgate regulations necessary to regulate and inspect the practice settings of its licensees and may require the practice settings to be licensed by the board if the practice settings are not regulated by the department of public health. Fees for the licensing of any practice setting and renewals thereof shall be determined by the secretary of administration pursuant to section 3B of chapter 7 and shall be deposited in the Quality in Health Professions Trust Fund established in Section 35X of chapter 10.  (b) This section shall not apply to a physical therapist who owns and operates the practice, does not employ a physical therapist and is not in partnership with any other physical therapist.
MA Gen L ch 113 § 1 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 113 - Promotion of Anatomical Science|Section 1 - Disposition of Bodies of Deceased Persons

Section 1. Upon the written application of the dean or other officer of any medical school established by law in the commonwealth, the penal institutions commissioner of Boston, the trustees and superintendent of the Tewksbury hospital or other public institution supported in whole or part at the public expense, except the Soldiers' Home in Massachusetts and the Soldiers' Home in Holyoke, in this chapter called the authorities, shall permit such dean or other officer to take, within three days after death, the body of any person, required to be buried at the public expense, who died in any institution under the control of such authorities, to be used within the commonwealth for the promotion of anatomical science. In giving such permission regard shall be had to delivering such bodies to any such medical schools in proportion, so far as practicable, to the number of students therein.
MA Gen L ch 113 § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 113 - Promotion of Anatomical Science|Section 2 - Bodies of Veterans, Strangers or Travelers; Disposition

Section 2. Such permission shall not be given to take the body of any veteran as defined in section ten of chapter forty-six, or the body of any stranger or traveler who died suddenly, or the body of a person who, during his last sickness, of his own accord requested that his body be buried or delivered to a friend, but such body shall, in conformity with such request, if any, be buried, or delivered to such friend.
MA Gen L ch 113 § 3 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 113 - Promotion of Anatomical Science|Section 3 - Identification of Body of Deceased Person; Delivery of Body for Burial

Section 3. No body of a deceased person which is subject to section one shall be used for fourteen days after death for the promotion of anatomical science, but it shall during such period be kept by the authorities or dean or other officer in a condition and place to be viewed by any person, at all reasonable times, for the purpose of identification. If, within such time, any person claiming to be and satisfying the authorities that he is a friend or is of kindred to the deceased asks to have the body buried or surrendered to himself, the body shall in conformity with such request be either buried or delivered to such friend or kindred.
MA Gen L ch 113 § 4 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 113 - Promotion of Anatomical Science|Section 4 - Bond of Dean or Officer of Medical School

Section 4. Such dean or other officer, if he has been given permission to take the body of a deceased person as provided in section one, shall, before receiving it, give to the authorities surrendering it, a bond conditioned that he will comply with the preceding section and that after the time prescribed therein, if the body has not been buried or delivered in accordance therewith, it shall be used only for the promotion of anatomical science in the commonwealth in such manner as not to outrage public feeling, and that, after having been so used, the remains shall be decently buried or cremated.
MA Gen L ch 113 § 5 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 113 - Promotion of Anatomical Science|Section 5 - Autopsies

Section 5. Before surrendering the body of any such person as provided in the four preceding sections, the chief medical officer of any institution named in section one may, if the cause of the death cannot otherwise be determined and if such body is unclaimed by relatives or friends, cause an autopsy to be made upon it.
MA Gen L ch 113a § 1 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 113a - Uniform Anatomical Gift Act|Section 1 - Short Title

Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the ''Uniform Anatomical Gift Act''.
MA Gen L ch 113a § 3 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 113a - Uniform Anatomical Gift Act|Section 3 - Applicability

Section 3. This chapter shall apply to an anatomical gift or amendment to, revocation of or refusal to make an anatomical gift, whenever made.
MA Gen L ch 113a § 4 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 113a - Uniform Anatomical Gift Act|Section 4 - Who May Make Anatomical Gift Before Donor's Death

Section 4. Subject to section 8, an anatomical gift of a donor's body or part may be made during the life of the donor for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research or education in the manner provided in section 5 by:  (1) the donor, if the donor is an adult or if the donor is a minor and is:  (i) emancipated; or  (ii) authorized under state law to apply for a driver's license or identification card;  (2) an agent of the donor including, but not limited to, a health care agent appointed under a health care proxy pursuant to chapter 201D, unless the power of attorney for health care or other record prohibits the agent from making an anatomical gift;  (3) a parent of the donor, if the donor is an unemancipated minor; or  (4) the donor's guardian.
MA Gen L ch 113a § 5 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 113a - Uniform Anatomical Gift Act|Section 5 - Manner of Making Anatomical Gift Before Donor's Death

Section 5. (a) A donor may make an anatomical gift:  (1) by authorizing a statement or symbol indicating that the donor has made an anatomical gift to be imprinted on the donor's driver's license or identification card;  (2) by a will;  (3) during a terminal illness or injury of the donor, by any form of communication addressed to at least 2 adults, at least 1 of whom shall be a disinterested witness; or  (4) as provided in subsection (b).  (b) A donor or other individual authorized to make an anatomical gift under section 4 may make a gift by a donor card or other record signed by the donor or other individual making the gift or by authorizing a statement or symbol indicating that the donor has made an anatomical gift to be included on a donor registry. If the donor or other individual is physically unable to sign a record, the record may be signed by another individual at the direction of the donor or other individual and such record shall:  (1) be witnessed by at least 2 adults, at least 1 of whom shall be a disinterested witness, who have signed at the request of the donor or other individual; and  (2) state that it has been signed and witnessed as provided in clause (1).  (c) Revocation, suspension, expiration or cancellation of a driver's license or identification card upon which an anatomical gift has been indicated shall not invalidate the gift.  (d) An anatomical gift made by will shall take effect upon the donor's death whether or not the will is probated. Invalidation of the will after the donor's death shall not invalidate the gift.
MA Gen L ch 113a § 6 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 113a - Uniform Anatomical Gift Act|Section 6 - Amending or Revoking Anatomical Gift Before Donor's Death

Section 6. (a) Subject to section 8, a donor or other individual authorized to make an anatomical gift under section 4 may amend or revoke an anatomical gift by:  (1) a record signed by:  (i) the donor;  (ii) the other individual; or  (iii) subject to subsection (b), another individual acting at the direction of the donor or other individual if such donor or other individual is physically unable to sign; or  (2) a later-executed document of gift that amends or revokes a previous document of gift or portion of a document of gift, either expressly or by inconsistency.  (b) A record signed pursuant to subclause (iii) of clause (1) of subsection (a) shall:  (1) be witnessed by at least 2 adults, at least 1 of whom shall be a disinterested witness, who have signed at the request of the donor or other individual; and  (2) state that it has been signed and witnessed as provided in clause (1).  (c) Subject to section 8, a donor or other individual authorized to make an anatomical gift under section 4 may revoke an anatomical gift by the destruction or cancellation of the document of gift, or the portion of the document of gift used to make the gift, with the intent to revoke the gift.  (d) A donor may amend or revoke an anatomical gift that was not made in a will by any form of communication during a terminal illness or injury addressed to at least 2 adults, at least 1 of whom shall be a disinterested witness.  (e) A donor who makes an anatomical gift in a will may amend or revoke the gift in the manner provided for amendment or revocation of wills or as provided in subsection (a).
MA Gen L ch 113a § 7 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 113a - Uniform Anatomical Gift Act|Section 7 - Refusal to Make Anatomical Gift; Effect of Refusal

Section 7. (a) An individual may refuse to make an anatomical gift of the individual's body or part by:  (1) a record signed by: (i) the individual; or (ii) subject to subsection (b), another individual acting at the direction of the individual if the individual is physically unable to sign;  (2) the individual's will, whether or not the will is admitted to probate or invalidated after the individual's death; or  (3) any form of communication made by the individual during the individual's terminal illness or injury addressed to at least 2 adults, at least 1 of whom shall be a disinterested witness.  (b) A record signed pursuant to subclause (ii) of clause (1) of subsection (a) shall:  (1) be witnessed by at least 2 adults, at least 1 of whom shall be a disinterested witness, who have signed at the request of the individual; and  (2) state that it has been signed and witnessed as provided in clause (1).  (c) An individual who has made a refusal may amend or revoke the refusal:  (1) in the manner provided in subsection (a) for making a refusal;  (2) by subsequently making an anatomical gift pursuant to section 5 that is inconsistent with the refusal; or  (3) by destroying or canceling the record or portion thereof evidencing the refusal, with the intent to revoke the refusal.  (d) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (h) of section 8, in the absence of an express, contrary indication by the individual set forth in the refusal, an individual's unrevoked refusal to make an anatomical gift of the individual's body or part shall bar all other persons from making an anatomical gift of that individual's body or part.
MA Gen L ch 113a § 8 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 113a - Uniform Anatomical Gift Act|Section 8 - Preclusive Effect of Anatomical Gift, Amendment, or Revocation

Section 8. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (g) and subject to subsection (f), in the absence of an express, contrary indication by the donor, a person other than the donor shall be barred from making, amending or revoking an anatomical gift of a donor's body or part if the donor made an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under section 5 or an amendment to an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under section 6.  (b) A donor's revocation of an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under section 6 shall not be a refusal and shall not bar another person specified in section 4 or 9 from making an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under section 5 or 10.  (c) If an individual other than the donor makes an unrevoked anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under section 5 or an amendment to an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under section 6, no other individual may make, amend or revoke the gift of the donor's body or part under section 10.  (d) A revocation of an anatomical gift of a donor's body or part under section 6 by a person other than the donor shall not bar another person from making an anatomical gift of the body or part under section 5 or 10.  (e) In the absence of an express, contrary indication by the donor or other person authorized to make an anatomical gift under section 4, an anatomical gift of a part is neither a refusal to give another part nor a limitation on the making of an anatomical gift of another part at a later time by the donor or another person.  (f) In the absence of an express, contrary indication by the donor or other individual authorized to make an anatomical gift under section 4, an anatomical gift of a part for 1 or more of the purposes set forth in said section 4 shall not operate as a limitation on the making of an anatomical gift of the part for any of the other purposes in said section 4 by the donor or other individual under section 5 or 10.  (g) If a donor who is an unemancipated minor dies, a parent of the donor who is reasonably available may revoke or amend an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part.  (h) If an unemancipated minor who signed a refusal dies, a parent of the minor who is reasonably available may revoke the minor's refusal.
MA Gen L ch 113a § 9 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 113a - Uniform Anatomical Gift Act|Section 9 - Who May Make Anatomical Gift of Decedent's Body or Part

Section 9. (a) Subject to subsections (b) and (c) and unless otherwise prohibited by section 7 or 8, an anatomical gift of a decedent's body or part for transplantation, therapy, research or education may be made by any member of any of the following classes of individuals who is reasonably available, in the order of priority as specified below:  (1) an agent of the decedent at the time of death who could have made an anatomical gift under clause (2) of section 4 immediately before the decedent's death;  (2) the spouse of the decedent;  (3) an adult child of the decedent;  (4) a parent of the decedent;  (5) an adult sibling of the decedent;  (6) an adult grandchild of the decedent;  (7) a grandparent of the decedent;  (8) an adult who exhibited special care and concern for the decedent;  (9) a person who was acting as a guardian of the person of the decedent at the time of death; and  (10) any other person having the authority to dispose of the decedent's body.  (b) If there is more than 1 member of a class listed in clause (1), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (9) or (10) of subsection (a) who is entitled to make an anatomical gift, an anatomical gift may be made by a member of the class unless that member or a person to whom the gift may pass under section 11 knows of an objection by another member of the class. If an objection is known, the gift shall be made by a majority of the members of the class who are reasonably available.  (c) An individual shall not make an anatomical gift if, at the time of the decedent's death, an individual in a prior class under subsection (a) is reasonably available to make or object to the making of an anatomical gift.
MA Gen L ch 113a § 10 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 113a - Uniform Anatomical Gift Act|Section 10 - Manner of Making, Amending, or Revoking Anatomical Gift of Decedent's Body or Part

Section 10. (a) An individual authorized to make an anatomical gift under section 9 may make an anatomical gift by a document of gift signed by the individual making the gift or by that individual's oral communication that is electronically recorded or is contemporaneously reduced to a record and signed by the individual receiving the oral communication.  (b) Subject to subsection (c), an anatomical gift by a person authorized in section 9 may be amended or revoked orally or in a record by any member of a prior class who is or becomes reasonably available after the execution of the document of gift. If more than 1 member of the prior class is or becomes reasonably available after the document of gift was executed, the gift made by an individual authorized under section 9 may be:  (1) amended only if a majority of the reasonably available members agree to amend of the gift; or  (2) revoked if a majority of the reasonably available members agree to the revoking of the gift or if the available members are equally divided as to whether to revoke the gift.  (c) A revocation under subsection (b) shall be effective only if the procurement organization, transplant hospital, physician or technician knows of the revocation before an incision has been made to remove a part from the donor's body or before an invasive procedure has begun to prepare the recipient.
MA Gen L ch 113a § 12 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 113a - Uniform Anatomical Gift Act|Section 12 - Search and Notification

Section 12. (a) The following persons shall make a reasonable search of an individual whom the person reasonably believes to be dead or near death for a document of gift or other information identifying the individual as a donor or as an individual who made a refusal:  (1) a law enforcement officer, firefighter, paramedic or other emergency personnel finding the individual; and  (2) if no other source of the information is immediately available, a hospital, as soon as practical after the individual's arrival at the hospital.  (b) If a document of gift or a refusal to make an anatomical gift is located by the search required by clause (1) of subsection (a) and the individual or deceased individual to whom it relates is taken to a hospital, the person responsible for conducting the search shall send the document of gift or refusal to the hospital.  (c) A person shall not be subject to criminal or civil liability for failing to discharge the duties imposed by this section.
MA Gen L ch 113a § 13 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 113a - Uniform Anatomical Gift Act|Section 13 - Delivery of Document of Gift Not Required; Right to Examine

Section 13. (a) A document of gift need not be delivered during the donor's lifetime to be effective.  (b) Upon or after an individual's death, a person in possession of a document of gift or a refusal to make an anatomical gift with respect to the individual shall allow examination and copying of the document of gift or refusal by a person authorized to make or object to the making of an anatomical gift with respect to the individual or by a person to whom the gift could pass under section 11.