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MA Gen L ch 180 § 17i (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 180 - Corporations for Charitable and Certain Other Purposes|Section 17i - Payroll Deductions for Public School Teachers

Section 17I. A single deduction on payroll schedules shall be made from the salary of any school teacher in an amount which such teacher may specify in writing to the city, town or district school committee by which he is employed; provided, however, that no specific deduction shall be made for the payment of contributions to political campaign committees or political campaign organizations. Any such authorization may be withdrawn by such teacher by giving at least sixty days' notice in writing of such withdrawal to said school committee. The treasurer of the city, town or district shall deduct from the salary of such teacher such amount as may be certified to him on the payroll and shall transmit the sum so deducted to the state teacher association of which such teacher is a member within thirty days; provided, that the city, town or district treasurer is satisfied by such evidence as he may require that the treasurer of such state teacher association has given a bond, in form approved by the commissioner of corporations and taxation, for the faithful performance of his duties, in a sum and with such surety or sureties as are satisfactory to the city, town or district treasurer. The provisions of this section shall take effect in each city, town or regional school district which accepts the provisions hereof by vote of its school committee.
MA Gen L ch 180 § 17j (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 180 - Corporations for Charitable and Certain Other Purposes|Section 17j - Public Employees; Payroll Deductions for Insurance or Employee Benefits

Section 17J. Deductions on payroll schedules may be made from the salary of any state, county, municipal or other public employee of an amount which such employee may specify in writing to any state, county or municipal officer, or public department head, board, commission or agency by whom or which he is employed, for any insurance or employee benefit offered in conjunction with the employee organization, which, in accordance with the provisions of chapter one hundred and fifty E is duly recognized by the employer or designated by the labor relations commission as the exclusive bargaining agent for the appropriate unit in which such employee is employed; provided, however, that such purpose has been approved by the comptroller. Deductions in an amount determined by the employee and in compliance with applicable law may also be made for any committee on political education designated by the employee pursuant to this section. The approval of the comptroller shall not be required for such deductions. All deductions pursuant to this section shall be made without charge to any person or entity. Any such authorization may be withdrawn by the employee by giving at least sixty days notice in writing to the state, county or municipal officer, or public department head, board, commission or agency by whom or which he is then employed.  The state treasurer, the common paymaster, as defined in section one hundred and thirty-three of chapter one hundred and seventy-five, or the treasurer of the county or municipality by which such employee is employed, shall deduct from the salary of such employee such amount of authorized deductions as may be certified to him on the payroll and transmit the sum so deducted to the recipient specified by such employee.
MA Gen L ch 180 § 17k (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 180 - Corporations for Charitable and Certain Other Purposes|Section 17k - State Employees; Payroll Deductions for Near-Site Parking Fees, On-Site Child Care Fees and Other Employer-Provided Benefits

Section 17K. Deductions on payroll schedules may be made from the salary of a state employee for the payment of the cost of near-site parking fees for state employees whose work location lacks adequate public transportation, for on-site state employer-provided child care fees and for other state employer-provided benefits. Any categories of payroll deductions established under this section for such other state employer-provided benefits shall be approved by the comptroller as appropriate payroll deductions. The state treasurer, the common paymaster as defined in section 133 of chapter 175, shall deduct from the salary of state employees the full amount for such near-site parking fees, on-site child care fees and fees for any such other state employer-provided benefits as are established pursuant to this section.
MA Gen L ch 180 § 17l (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 180 - Corporations for Charitable and Certain Other Purposes|Section 17l - Public Employee; Payroll Deductions for Qualified State Tuition Program

Section 17L. Deductions on payroll schedules may be made from the salary of a state, county, municipal or other public employee of an amount which such employee may specify in writing to any state, county or municipal officer or public department head, board, commission or agency by whom or which he is employed, for deposit into a ''qualified state tuition program'' as defined under the Internal Revenue Code and any prepaid tuition program established under general or special law if such purpose has been approved by the comptroller. An employee may withdraw such authorization for the deduction by giving at least 60 days notice in writing to the state, county or municipal officer or public department head, board, commission or agency by whom or which he is then employed. The state treasurer, the common paymaster as defined in section 133 of chapter 175, or the treasurer of the county, municipality or other public employer by which such employee is employed shall deduct from the salary of such employee such amount of authorized deductions as may be certified to him on the payroll and transmit the sum to the specified tuition program.
MA Gen L ch 180 § 17m (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 180 - Corporations for Charitable and Certain Other Purposes|Section 17m - State Police Employees; Payroll Deductions for Contributions to State Police Museum and Learning Center, Inc.

Section 17M. A deduction on a payroll schedule may be made from the salary of an employee of the department of state police in the amount of $3 per pay period for the payment of a contribution to Massachusetts State Police Museum and Learning Center, Inc. A deduction under this section shall not be used in whole or in part for a political purpose. Authorization for the deduction shall be made by the employee in writing to the officer or head of the department and withdrawal of the authorization shall be made by a 60 day written notice to the officer or head of the department. The state treasurer shall deduct the contribution from the salary of the employee and transmit the sum to the treasurer of the Massachusetts State Police Museum and Learning Center, Inc. The state treasurer may require that the treasurer of the Massachusetts State Police Museum and Learning Center, Inc. give a bond, in a form approved by the commissioner of revenue, for the faithful performance of his duties in a sum and with surety satisfactory to the state treasurer.
MA Gen L ch 180 § 17n (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 180 - Corporations for Charitable and Certain Other Purposes|Section 17n - University of Massachusetts Employee Payroll Deductions for Certain University Sponsored Activities; Withdrawal of Authorization; Transmittal of Sum

Section 17N. Deductions on payroll schedules may be made from the salary of a university of Massachusetts employee of an amount which the employee may specify in writing to the payroll office of the campus where he is employed for payment of certain university sponsored activities. The authorization may be withdrawn by the employee, by giving 60 days notice in writing of the withdrawal to the payroll office where he is employed. The treasurer of the university shall deduct from the salary of the employee the amount of authorized deductions certified to him on the payroll and transmit the sum so deducted to the recipient specified by the employee.
MA Gen L ch 180 § 18 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 180 - Corporations for Charitable and Certain Other Purposes|Section 18 - Expulsion of Member; Examination of Books by Member

Section 18. No member of such corporation shall be expelled by vote of less than a majority of all the members thereof, nor by vote of less than three quarters of the members present and voting upon such expulsion. Every member of such corporation and every person who has an interest in its funds shall be entitled to examine its books and records.
MA Gen L ch 180 § 19 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 180 - Corporations for Charitable and Certain Other Purposes|Section 19 - Fines Imposed on Members by Unions

Section 19. No fine or notice of intention to impose a fine by any union or any other association, incorporated or unincorporated, or by any authorized representative thereof, upon any member, according to the rules to which such member has agreed to conform, shall be held to be unlawful or coercive as to such member or as to any other person; provided, that such fine is reasonable in amount and is for a legal purpose.
MA Gen L ch 180 § 20 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 180 - Corporations for Charitable and Certain Other Purposes|Section 20 - Medical Milk Commission; Formation; Definition

Section 20. For the purpose of supervising the production of milk, any five or more registered physicians may form a corporation under this chapter. The members of the board of health of any town where such corporation is formed shall be ex officiis members of the corporation. At least one member of said board of health shall be a member of the board of directors thereof.  For the purposes of this section and sections twenty-one to twenty-five, inclusive, the word ''milk'' shall include goats' milk.
MA Gen L ch 180 § 21 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 180 - Corporations for Charitable and Certain Other Purposes|Section 21 - Medical Milk Commission; Naming and Designation of Town Where Established

Section 21. The name of any such corporation shall be ''Medical Milk Commission of '', designating the name of the town where such corporation is established, and, if more than one such corporation shall be organized in any town, the subsequent corporations shall use the name designated herein, but shall indicate in such name its proper sequence in incorporation by adding thereto the words ''Number Two'' or ''Number Three'' and so forth.
MA Gen L ch 180 § 22 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 180 - Corporations for Charitable and Certain Other Purposes|Section 22 - Salary, Emolument or Other Compensation Received by Member From Dairymen Prohibited

Section 22. No member of any such corporation shall receive directly or indirectly therefrom, or from any dairymen producing milk under agreement with the corporation, any salary or emolument or any compensation of any kind for any services rendered as a member of such corporation, or for any services rendered under sections twenty to twenty-five, inclusive. Whoever violates this section shall be punished by a fine of one hundred dollars, and shall be removed from his office as a member of said corporation and thereafter be disqualified from becoming a member of any such corporation.
MA Gen L ch 180 § 23 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 180 - Corporations for Charitable and Certain Other Purposes|Section 23 - Contracts for Production of Milk

Section 23. Every such corporation may enter into written agreements with any dairymen for the production of milk under the supervision of such corporation and prescribe in such agreements the conditions under which such milk shall be produced, which, however, shall be approved by the department of public health and shall not fall below the standards of purity and quality for certified milk as fixed by the American Association of Medical Milk Commissions and the standards for milk fixed by law.
MA Gen L ch 180 § 24 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 180 - Corporations for Charitable and Certain Other Purposes|Section 24 - Investigatory Powers of Department of Public Health

Section 24. The working methods of any such corporation and the dairies in which milk is produced under contract with it shall at all times be subject to investigation by the department of public health.
MA Gen L ch 180 § 25 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 180 - Corporations for Charitable and Certain Other Purposes|Section 25 - Violations; Penalty

Section 25. Whoever sells or exchanges, or offers or exposes for sale or exchange as and for certified milk any milk not conforming to the regulations prescribed by and bearing the certification of a corporation organized under sections twenty to twenty-five, inclusive, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars.
MA Gen L ch 180 § 26 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 180 - Corporations for Charitable and Certain Other Purposes|Section 26 - Change of Location by Certain Corporations

Section 26. No corporation organized under general laws for the purpose of fostering, encouraging or engaging in athletic exercises or for the establishment and maintenance of places for reading rooms, libraries or social meetings, or organized under this chapter for the purpose of maintaining grounds suitable for exhibitions and trials of the speed or strength of horses, shall change its location from the town where it is located to another town within the commonwealth, nor change its location within any town, until written consent therefor has been obtained from the police commissioner in Boston, the aldermen in any other city or the selectmen in the town where the corporation proposes to acquire a new location. Such consent shall not take effect until a copy thereof, duly attested by the clerk or secretary of the board or officer consenting thereto, has been filed in the office of the state secretary. A change of location by a corporation contrary to this section shall be sufficient cause for the revocation of its charter by the state secretary.
MA Gen L ch 180 § 26b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 180 - Corporations for Charitable and Certain Other Purposes|Section 26b - Corporation in Good Standing; Certificate

Section 26B. A corporation which is required to file annual reports with the state secretary shall be deemed to be in good standing with the state secretary if such corporation has filed all annual reports required to be filed by it with the state secretary, has paid all fees due with respect to such reports, the charter of the corporation has not been revoked pursuant to section twenty-six A, and the secretary has not received notice of its dissolution pursuant to section eleven, eleven A or eleven B. Upon the request of any person and payment of such fee as may be prescribed by law, the state secretary shall issue a certificate stating, in substance, as to any corporation meeting the requirements of this section, that such corporation appears from the records in his office to be in good standing.
MA Gen L ch 180 § 27 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 180 - Corporations for Charitable and Certain Other Purposes|Section 27 - Conviction Under Liquor or Gambling Laws; Voiding Charter

Section 27. If any person is convicted of exposing and keeping for sale or selling alcoholic beverages, as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and thirty-eight, on the premises occupied by any club or organization described in section four or of illegal gaming upon said premises or of being present where implements of gaming are found upon said premises, or if any such beverages, casks or other vessels or implements of sale and furniture used or kept and provided to be used in the illegal keeping or sale of such beverages, or implements of gaming, are seized on said premises and are forfeited, the selectmen, or the aldermen, in the place where such club or organization is situated, except Boston, and in Boston the police commissioner, shall immediately give notice to the state secretary, who, upon receipt thereof, shall declare the charter of such club or organization void, and shall publish a notice in at least one newspaper published in the county where such club or organization is located that such incorporation is void and of no further effect.
MA Gen L ch 180 § 28 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 180 - Corporations for Charitable and Certain Other Purposes|Section 28 - Conviction of Conducting Illegal Match; Voiding of Charter of Club or Organization

[ Text of section effective until July 18, 2021. For text effective July 18, 2021, see below.]  Section 28. If a person is convicted of a violation of section 12 of chapter 265 for engaging in, giving or promoting a public or private boxing, kickboxing, mixed martial arts or other unarmed combative sporting match or sparring exhibition, the contestants who have received or were promised a pecuniary reward, remuneration or consideration on the premises of or under the auspices of a club or organization described in section 4, the commissioner of the division of professional licensure, the city council or mayor in a city where the club or organization is situated, the board of selectmen or the board of aldermen in a town where the club or organization is situated, or the police commissioner of the city of Boston if the club or organization is situated in Boston shall immediately give notice to the state secretary who, upon receipt thereof, shall declare the charter of the club or organization void. The state secretary shall publish a notice in at least 1 newspaper published in the city or town wherein the club or organization is situated that the charter of the club or organization is void. Chapter 180: Section 28. Conviction of conducting illegal match; voiding of charter of club or organization [ Text of section as amended by 2021, 39, Sec. 120 effective July 18, 2021. See 2021, 39, Sec. 128. For text effective until July 18, 2021, see above.]  Section 28. If a person is convicted of a violation of section 12 of chapter 265 for engaging in, giving or promoting a public or private boxing, kickboxing, mixed martial arts or other unarmed combative sporting match or sparring exhibition, the contestants who have received or were promised a pecuniary reward, remuneration or consideration on the premises of or under the auspices of a club or organization described in section 4, the commissioner of the division of occupational licensure, the city council or mayor in a city where the club or organization is situated, the board of selectmen or the board of aldermen in a town where the club or organization is situated, or the police commissioner of the city of Boston if the club or organization is situated in Boston shall immediately give notice to the state secretary who, upon receipt thereof, shall declare the charter of the club or organization void. The state secretary shall publish a notice in at least 1 newspaper published in the city or town wherein the club or organization is situated that the charter of the club or organization is void.
MA Gen L ch 180 § 29 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 180 - Corporations for Charitable and Certain Other Purposes|Section 29 - Local Regulation of Entertainments, Dances, Etc.

Section 29. Cities and towns may by ordinance or by-law regulate the conducting within their respective limits of entertainments, dances and other diversions and amusements not required by law to be licensed, including the hours of holding the same, by corporations which are subject to section twenty-six, and may affix penalties for breaches thereof not exceeding twenty dollars for each offence, subject as to recovery and disposition to section twenty-one of chapter forty.
MA Gen L ch 180a § 1 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 180a - Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds|Section 1 - Definitions

Section 1. As used in this chapter, the following words shall unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:—  ''Charitable purpose'', the relief of poverty, the advancement of education or religion, the promotion of health, the promotion of a governmental purpose or the promotion of any other purpose the achievement of which is beneficial to the community.  ''Endowment fund'', an institutional fund or part thereof that, under the terms of a gift instrument, is not wholly expendable by the institution on a current basis; provided, however, that ''endowment fund'' shall not include assets that an institution designates as an endowment fund for its own use.  ''Gift instrument'', a record, including an institutional solicitation, under which property is granted to, transferred to or held by an institution as an institutional fund.  ''Institution'', (i) a person, other than an individual, organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes; (ii) a government or governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality to the extent that it holds funds exclusively for a charitable purpose; or (iii) a trust that had both charitable and noncharitable interests, after all noncharitable interests have terminated.  ''Institutional fund'', a fund held by an institution exclusively for charitable purposes or a fund held by trustee for a charitable community trust, but not including: (i) program-related assets; (ii) a fund held for an institution by a trustee that is not an institution, other than a fund which is held for a charitable community trust; or (iii) a fund in which a beneficiary that is not an institution has an interest, other than an interest that could arise upon violation or failure of the purposes of the fund.  ''Person'', an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality or any other legal or commercial entity.  ''Program-related asset'', an asset held by an institution primarily to accomplish a charitable purpose of the institution and not primarily for investment.  ''Record'', information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form.