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2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 15 - Disposition of Proceeds

Section 15. The proceeds of such sale, after deducting reasonable charges and expenses incurred in the storage and sale of such property, shall be applied to the discharge of the lien of such innholder thereon for the board, lodging and other charges of such guest, and any proceeds remaining thereafter shall be paid to the commonwealth.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 16 - Sale Proceeds; Payment to Owner by State Treasurer

Section 16. If, within three years after such sale, the owner of any such property claims it and proves his ownership thereof, the said proceeds, after deducting all reasonable charges and expenses, shall be paid over to him by the state treasurer.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 17 - Loss by Guest; Negligence and Violation of Regulations as Defense

Section 17. An innholder against whom a claim is made for loss sustained by a guest may show that such loss is attributable to the negligence of the guest or to his failure to comply with the regulations of the inn, if they are reasonable and proper and are shown to have been duly brought to the notice of the guest by the innholder.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 18 - Signs; Penalty for Failure to Have Sign

Section 18. Every innholder and common victualler shall at all times have a board or sign affixed to his house, shop, cellar or store, or in a conspicuous place near the same, with his name legibly inscribed thereon in large letters and the business for which he is licensed inscribed thereon, and upon neglect thereof shall forfeit twenty dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 19 - Summary of Laws for Authorities and Licensees

Section 19. The state secretary shall cause a condensed summary of all laws relative to innholders and common victuallers to be printed, and shall supply copies thereof to licensing authorities, who shall at the time of granting each license provide the licensee with a copy of such summary.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 21a - Sale of Certain Non-Intoxicating Beverages; City and Town Licenses for Sale of Certain Non&ndash;intoxicating Beverages; Retail Sales

Section 21A. Cities and towns may provide by ordinance or by-law for the licensing of persons to keep open their places of business for the retail sale of beverages derived wholly or in part from cereals or substitutes therefor and containing less than one-half of one per cent of alcohol, unfermented grape juice, ginger ale, root beer, sarsaparilla, pop, artificial mineral waters, carbonated waters or beverages, natural fruit juices, and other so-called soft drinks, and may fix the fee for said licenses within the limit hereinafter provided, except that in cities having licensing boards the authority to provide for the licensing of such persons and the fixing of fees therefor shall be vested in said licensing boards. For the purposes of this section, the term retail sale shall mean the providing of a beverage as herein defined to a patron in or by a licensed premise in exchange for something of value by means of an in-person exchange or by means of a vending machine exchange or by means of a cover charge, so-called, which gives the patron the right to obtain drinks without additional payment.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 21b - Contents of License; Coverage; Expiration; Fee; Suspension; Revocation

Section 21B. Licenses granted as aforesaid shall specify the street or place and the number if there be any, and if there is no number, then the location of the place of business in which the license is to be exercised, and the license shall not be valid in any other place. Licenses so issued shall expire on April thirtieth of each year. Unless otherwise established in a town by town meeting action and in a city by city council action, and in a town with no town meeting by town council action, by adoption of appropriate by-laws and ordinances to set such fees, the fee for a license shall not be more than one dollar, and the license may be suspended or revoked at any time after a hearing by the authorities granting the same, but in no event shall any such fee be greater than twenty-five dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 21c - Unlicensed Business; Penalties

Section 21C. Whoever not being licensed as aforesaid keeps open his place of business for the retail sale of any such beverage shall be punished by a fine of fifty dollars for each day of violation, and whoever commits a second such offense shall be punished by a fine of one hundred dollars for each day of violation; and whoever commits a third such offense shall be punished by a fine of one thousand dollars for each day of violation; and whoever commits a fourth or subsequent such offense shall be punished by a fine of five thousand dollars for each day of violation. In addition to any criminal penalty, herein provided, the attorney general or district attorney for the district or the city or town may petition the superior court department of the trial court to enjoin any violation of chapter twenty-one A to twenty-one D, inclusive.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 21d - Inapplicability of Statute to Certain Persons

Section 21D. The provisions of the three preceding sections shall not apply to innholders, common victuallers, druggists, nor to dealers whose principal business is the sale of groceries and meats or either of said products, nor to the sale of any or all of such beverages when sold not to be drunk on the premises.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 21e - Grant of License to Dispense Food and Beverages Consumed on Premises; Governing Statutes; Fee; Names of Officers and Members; Suspension; Revocation; Excepted Organizations

Section 21E. Licensing authorities may grant a license to any club, society, association or other organization, whether incorporated or unincorporated, authorizing it to dispense food and beverages to be consumed on its premises, to its stockholders or members and their guests, but to no others; provided, that the licensing authorities are satisfied that such organization is a proper one to which to grant such a license. Such licenses and the granting thereof shall be subject to the provisions of sections two and four, except that compliance with the provisions of law relative to innholders or common victuallers shall not be required as a condition of obtaining such license. The fee for such a license shall be set by said authorities, but in no event shall any such fee be greater than ten dollars. If such organization is unincorporated, the names of all the officers and members shall be submitted with the application for the license, and shall be kept available for public inspection. Section two hundred and one shall apply to the premises of any organization subject to this section. If any such organization at any time exercises in an improper manner the authority conferred upon it by such license the licensing authorities, after notice to the licensee and reasonable opportunity for a hearing, may upon satisfactory proof thereof suspend or revoke the license. The provisions of this and the following section shall not apply to literary, benevolent, charitable, scientific or religious corporations or religious organizations or associations whose real or personal property is exempt from taxation, nor to any club so long as it is licensed under section twelve of chapter one hundred and thirty-eight to sell alcoholic beverages, as defined in section one of said chapter one hundred and thirty-eight, nor to any recognized veteran or fraternal organization.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 21f - Unlicensed Organization; Officer or Employee Dispensing Food or Beverage

Section 21F. Any officer or employee of any such organization who dispenses or causes to be dispensed any food or beverage on its premises, unless such organization is then licensed under section twenty-one E, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars for the first or second offence and by such fine and imprisonment for not more than three months for each subsequent offence. If any officer or employee of any such organization which is incorporated is convicted of any offence under this section, the selectmen, or the aldermen, in the place where such 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 organization void, and shall publish a notice in at least one newspaper published in the county where such organization is located that such incorporation is void and of no further effect.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 22 - ''lodging House'' Defined

Section 22. ''Lodging house'', as used in sections twenty-two to thirty-one, inclusive, shall mean a house where lodgings are let to four or more persons not within second degree of kindred to the person conducting it, and shall include fraternity houses and dormitories of educational institutions, but shall not include dormitories of charitable or philanthropic institutions or convalescent or nursing homes licensed under section seventy-one of chapter one hundred and eleven or rest homes so licensed, or group residences licensed or regulated by agencies of the commonwealth.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 22a - Cooking Facilities

Section 22A. Notwithstanding any provision of law or any regulation, ordinance or by-law to the contrary, a lodging house where lodgings are let to more than five but less then twenty persons may furnish individual cooking facilities for the preparation, serving, eating and storage of food; provided that no such facility shall be furnished in a room having an area of less than one hundred fifty square feet. Such facilities shall, in a single room, consist of a gas or electric plate, a refrigerator and hot and cold running water and in a unit consisting of two adjoining rooms shall consist of a gas or electric range, a sink with hot and cold running water, a refrigerator and storage area for food. Any facilities furnished under this section shall comply with the building code applicable thereto. This section shall apply only to cities and towns which accept its provisions.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 23 - Term; Fee

Section 23. Licensing authorities may grant licenses for lodging houses which shall be for the period provided in section four, and shall charge for each license such fee as the council or selectmen may establish; otherwise, the same shall be granted without charge, but in no event shall any such fee be greater than fifty dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 24 - Unlicensed Keepers; Injunction

Section 24. Whoever conducts a lodging house without a license shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than three months, or both. Upon the complaint of an aggrieved party, the licensing authority or an officer of a city or town wherein such unlicensed lodging house is conducted, a justice of the housing court division or the superior court division of the trial court, may enjoin the conducting of any unlicensed lodging house and may make such other orders as the court may deem equitable to enforce the provisions of sections twenty-two to thirty-one, inclusive.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 25 - Inspection of Premises

Section 25. Premises occupied, used or controlled by a licensee under sections twenty-two to thirty-one, inclusive, or under an innholder's license shall be subject to inspection by the licensing authorities and their authorized agents, and by the police on request from the licensing authorities.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 26 - Permitting Immoral Conduct; Defense; Evidence

Section 26. Whoever, being licensed as a lodging house keeper under sections twenty-two to thirty-one, inclusive, or as an innholder, or, being licensed under sections thirty-two A to thirty-two E, inclusive, or being in actual charge, management or control of such lodging house, inn or premises for which the license is issued, knowingly permits the property under his control to be used for the purpose of immoral solicitation, immoral bargaining or immoral conduct shall be punished by a fine of not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not less than six months nor more than one year, or both. Evidence that a room in a hotel or lodging house or that the premises licensed under sections thirty-two A to thirty-two E, inclusive, were not actually used for immoral conduct shall not prevent a conviction under this section of a person in actual charge, control or management of the hotel, lodging house or premises who permits the occupation of such a room or such premises knowing or having good reason to know that the person occupying such room or premises intends to use either for immoral solicitation, immoral bargaining or immoral conduct. If it is required that registers be kept, as provided in sections twenty-seven and twenty-eight, evidence that the person in actual charge, control or management of the hotel, lodging house or premises has knowingly permitted the occupation of a private room of less than four hundred square feet floor area or of premises, containing a bed or couch, by the same woman on different occasions within a period of thirty days with different men, or by the same man on different occasions within a period of thirty days with different women, shall be prima facie evidence of a violation of this section.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 27 - Register; Entry of Names; Condition Precedent to Occupancy; Retention; Inspection; Penalty

Section 27. Every innholder, and every lodging house keeper required so to do under section twenty-eight, and every person who shall conduct, control, manage or operate, directly or indirectly, any recreational camp, overnight camp or cabin, motel or manufactured housing community shall keep or cause to be kept, in permanent form, a register in which shall be recorded the true name or name in ordinary use and the residence of every person engaging or occupying a private room averaging less than four hundred square feet floor area, excepting a private dining room not containing a bed or couch, or opening into a room containing a bed or couch, for any period of the day or night in any part of the premises controlled by the licensee, together with a true and accurate record of the room assigned to such person and of the day and hour when such room is assigned. The entry of the names of the person engaging a room and of the occupants of said room shall be made by said person engaging said room or by an occupant thereof, except that when five or more members of a business, fraternal, or social group or other group having a common interest are engaging rooms, they may designate one person to make said entry on their behalf and prior to occupancy. Until the entry of such name and the record of the room has been made, such person shall not be allowed to occupy privately any room upon the licensed premises. Such register shall be retained by the holder of the license for a period of at least one year after the date of the last entry therein, and shall be open to the inspection of the licensing authorities, their agents and the police. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than three months, or both.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 28 - Register; Order to Keep

Section 28. Every person conducting a lodging house shall within twenty-four hours after he is ordered to do so by the licensing authorities keep a register. The said authorities may issue such order at any time, and shall do so upon receipt of an affidavit of a commissioned officer of the United States army or navy or a police officer stating that the affiant knows or believes such lodging house is being used for immoral solicitation, immoral bargaining or immoral conduct.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 29 - Register; True or Used Name; Failure to Register; Penalty

Section 29. No person shall write or cause to be written, or if in charge of a register knowingly permit to be written, in any register in any lodging house or hotel, recreational camp, overnight camp, cabin, motel or trailer camp, any other or different name or designation than the true name or name in ordinary use of the person registering or causing himself to be registered therein. No person occupying such room shall fail to register or fail to cause himself to be registered. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than twenty-five dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 30 - Revocation and Suspension of License; Investigation; Hearing; Notice; Appeal

Section 30. A license issued under sections twenty-two to thirty-one, inclusive, or an innholder's license, shall be revoked if at any time the licensing authorities are satisfied that the licensee is unfit to hold the license. They may suspend and make inoperative, for such period of time as they may deem proper, the licenses mentioned herein for any cause deemed satisfactory to them. The revocation and suspension shall not be made until after investigation and a hearing, or after giving the licensee an opportunity to be heard; notice of the hearing shall be left at the premises of the licensee not less than three days before the time therefor.
Any person aggrieved by a determination of a licensing authority pursuant to the provisions of this section or by the failure of a licensing authority to grant or act upon a renewal license shall have the right to appeal in accordance with the provisions of chapter thirty A to the housing court division of the trial court having jurisdiction in the city or town wherein the lodging premises are located or if there is no such housing court division having jurisdiction, the superior court division of the trial court.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 31 - Posting of Notice of Statutes

Section 31. All innholders, and all lodging house keepers who have been ordered to keep a register, shall post in a conspicuous place near the register a notice, to be furnished by the licensing authorities, containing the provisions of sections twenty-seven and twenty-nine relating to the entry of names and residences in the register, together with the penalty provided for their violation.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 32 - Convictions; Transmission of Copy of Record to Licensing Authorities

Section 32. The clerk of a court where any person is convicted of a violation of any provision of sections twenty-two to thirty-one, inclusive, shall forthwith send a copy of the record of the conviction to the licensing authorities in the town where the offence occurred.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 32a - Necessity of License; Motel Defined

Section 32A. No person shall conduct, control, manage or operate, directly or indirectly, any recreational camp, overnight camp or cabin, motel or manufactured housing community unless he is the holder of a license granted under the following section. The term ''motel'', as used in section twenty-seven, in this section, and in sections thirty-two B to thirty-two E, inclusive, shall be construed to mean any building or group of buildings which provide sleeping accommodations for transient motorists and which is not licensed as an inn.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 32c - Examination of Licensed Camps and Cabins; Unsanitary Conditions

Section 32C. Every board of health shall, from time to time, examine all camps, motels, manufactured housing communities and cabins licensed by it under authority of section thirty-two B, and if, upon such examination, such camp, motel, manufactured housing community or cabin is found to be in an unsanitary condition, said board of health may, after notice and a hearing, suspend or revoke such license.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 32d - Rules and Regulations; Posting

Section 32D. Whoever conducts, controls, manages or operates any camp, motel, manufactured housing community or cabin licensed under section thirty-two B shall post, in a conspicuous place near the entrance to every such camp, motel, manufactured housing community or cabin or in a conspicuous place at the office of the manager on the site, a copy of the rules and regulations adopted thereunder, as most recently altered or amended.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 32e - Operating Business Without License

Section 32E. Whoever conducts, controls, manages or operates any camp, motel or cabin subject to section thirty-two A to thirty-two C, inclusive, which is not licensed under section thirty-two B, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars.
Whoever conducts, controls, manages or operates any manufactured housing community subject to sections thirty-two A to thirty-two C, inclusive, which is not licensed under section thirty-two A to thirty-two B or which is not managed or operated in compliance with sections thirty-two A to thirty-two S, inclusive, shall be punished by a fine of one hundred dollars for each day in which such violation occurs or continues.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 32f - ''mobile Home Parks'' Defined; License Requirement for Manufactured Housing Community; Copy Sent to City or Town Clerk; Exceptions

Section 32F. Any lot or tract of land upon which three or more manufactured homes occupied for dwelling purposes are located, including any buildings, structures, fixtures and equipment used in connection with manufactured homes shall be defined as a manufactured housing community. No lot or tract of land may be used for a manufactured housing community unless the owner or occupant thereof is the holder of a license granted under section thirty-two B. The board of health of a city or town shall, forthwith upon granting an original or renewal license under said section thirty-two B for a manufactured housing community, send a copy of such license to the city or town clerk.
A lot or tract of land provided by a state or county fair, agricultural and horticultural society, grange or 4–H club for the use of manufactured homes to accommodate personnel who are to participate in any fair or exhibition conducted by such organization, which fair or exhibition does not continue for a period of exceeding ten consecutive days, or a lot or tract of land provided by a college or university for the use of manufactured homes to accommodate students lacking dormitory facilities shall not be deemed a manufactured housing community.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 32h - Unequipped Communities; Plans; Cost Estimates; Conditional Licenses; Suspension or Revocation

Section 32H. An applicant for a license under section thirty-two B for a manufactured housing community which has not been equipped with the buildings, structures, fixtures and facilities necessary to conduct a manufactured housing community shall file with the board a plan showing the buildings, structures, fixtures and facilities and the proposed set-up which he plans to have upon said premises if and when the license may issue, together with an itemized estimate of the cost of the same and, thereupon, the board, with the approval of the state department of environmental quality engineering, shall grant a manufactured housing community license upon the condition that such license shall issue upon the completion of the premises according to the plans and estimate submitted, providing that the proposed manufactured housing community will be in compliance with all applicable laws, ordinances, rules and regulations. Such conditional license may be suspended or revoked in accordance with the provisions of said section thirty-two B.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 32i - Register; Retention; Inspection; Penalty

Section 32I. Every holder of a license for a manufactured housing community shall keep or cause to be kept, in permanent form, a register in which shall be recorded the true name or name in ordinary use, address and registration of each owner of a manufactured home or motor vehicle renting space in such community and each tenant of such space or subtenant of which the tenant may have notified the operator, the date of entering and the date of leaving such manufactured home or motor vehicle. Such register shall be retained by the holder of the license for a period of at least one year after the date of the last entry, and shall be open to the inspection of the licensing authorities, their agents and the police. Whoever willfully and knowingly violates any provision of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 32k - Appeals; Reinstatement; Reissuance

Section 32K. Any person aggrieved by any act, rule, order or decision of the licensing board may appeal to the superior court. After suspension or revocation, the license may be reinstated or reissued if the conditions leading to such suspension or revocation have been remedied and the community is being maintained and operated in full compliance with the law.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 32m - Sale or Proposed Sale of Manufactured Home Located in Licensed Mobile Home Park Community

Section 32M. Upon the sale or proposed sale of a manufactured home located on a lot in a manufactured housing community and which is not owned by the manufactured housing community licensee, the prospective purchaser and members of his household may not be refused entrance if they meet the current rules of the community.
Failure to comply with the provisions of this section shall constitute an unfair or deceptive trade practice under the provisions of section two (a) of chapter ninety-three A.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 32n - Reprisals for Report of Violations

Section 32N. Any manufactured housing community licensee or his agent who threatens to or takes reprisals against any manufactured housing community resident or group of residents for reporting a violation or suspected violation of section thirty-two L or section thirty-two M or any applicable building or health code to the board of health of a city or town in which the manufactured housing community is located, the department of public health, the department of the attorney general or any other appropriate government agency, shall be liable for damages which shall not be less than one month's rent or more than five months' rent, or the actual damages sustained by the manufactured housing community resident or group of residents, whichever is greater, and the costs of the court action brought for said damages including reasonable attorney's fees. The receipt of any notice of termination of tenancy by such manufactured housing community resident or group of residents, except for nonpayment of rent, within six months after making such a report of a violation or a suspected violation, shall create a rebuttable presumption that such notice is a reprisal against the manufactured housing community resident or group of residents for making such report and said presumption may be pleaded in defense to any eviction proceeding against such manufactured housing community resident or group of residents brought within a year after such report.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 32o - Actions to Enforce Secs. 32l or 32m; Mailing Copies of Orders

Section 32O. In any action to enforce the provisions of section thirty-two L or section thirty-two M, the clerk of the court shall mail copies of any judgment, decree, permanent injunction or order of the court upon the entry thereof to the attorney general and to the board of health of the city or town in which the manufactured housing community of the licensee is located.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 32q - ''manufactured Home'' Defined

Section 32Q. As used in sections thirty-two A to thirty-two P, inclusive, the words ''manufactured home'' shall mean a structure, built in conformance to the National Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards which is transportable in one or more sections, which in the traveling mode, is eight body feet or more in width or forty body feet or more in length, or, when erected on site, is three hundred twenty or more square feet, and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling unit with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and electrical systems contained therein.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 32s - Rules and Regulations

Section 32S. The attorney general from time to time shall promulgate such rules and regulations as he deems necessary for the interpretation, implementation, administration and enforcement of sections thirty-two A to thirty-two S, inclusive. Such authority shall be in addition to, and not in derogation of, the attorney general's authority to promulgate rules and regulations under section two of chapter ninety-three A with respect to manufactured housing communities.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 33 - Public Lodging House; Definition; Cubicle Plan

Section 33. In cities of over fifty thousand inhabitants every building not licensed as an inn, in which ten or more persons are lodged free or for a charge of twenty-five cents or less for each person for a day of twenty-four hours, or for any part thereof, shall be deemed a public lodging house within the meaning of sections thirty-four to forty, inclusive. No building or part thereof erected, altered or converted to be used as such a public lodging house shall have the sleeping compartments arranged on the cubicle plan.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 34 - Licensing Authority; Revocation; Fee; Expiration; Contents; Coverage

Section 34. The officer or board having charge of the police in any such city may license persons to keep public lodging houses therein, and shall immediately revoke such license if the licensee violates any provision of sections thirty-five to thirty-eight, inclusive. The fee for such licenses will be established in a town by town meeting action and in a city by city council action, and in a town with no town meeting by town council action, by adoption of appropriate by-laws and ordinances to set such fees, and, subject to the state building code when applicable, it shall expire on the thirtieth day of April next after the granting of the same, but in no event shall any such fee be greater than fifty dollars. Every such license shall specify the street and number, if any, of the building where the business is to be carried on or give some other particular description thereof, and the license shall not protect a licensee who carries on his business in any other place.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 35 - Certification; Compliance With Statutes; Fire Alarms, Extinguishers, and Means of Escape; Alterations; Additional Appliances

Section 35. No such license shall be granted in any such city until the inspector of buildings thereof, or the other officer or board having authority to administer the laws and ordinances in regard to the construction of buildings therein, has certified that the building, if it has eight or more rooms or ten or more persons are accommodated above the second story, complies with the requirements of the state building code, and in other cases is provided with sufficient means of escape in case of fire, and that suitable appliances are provided for extinguishing fires and for giving alarm to the inmates in case of fire; and such officer or board may from time to time require such alterations to be made or such additional appliances to be provided as may in his or its judgment be necessary for the protection of life and property in case of fire.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 36 - Certification; Water Closets, Urinals and Ventilation; Cleaning and Disinfecting by Licensee

Section 36. No such license shall be granted in any such city until the board of health thereof has certified that the building is provided with a sufficient number of water closets and urinals and with good and sufficient means of ventilation; and the said board may from time to time require the licensee thoroughly to cleanse and disinfect all parts of said building and the furniture therein to the satisfaction of such board.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 39 - Keeping of House Without License

Section 39. Whoever keeps or holds himself out as keeping a public lodging house without being duly licensed as hereinbefore provided, and whoever is concerned or financially interested in any public lodging house, the keeper of which is not so licensed, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 46b - Licensing of Employment Agency; Necessity; Posting; Governing Provisions

Section 46B. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this chapter no person shall open, keep, maintain, carry on, or advertise any employment agency unless he has been issued a license therefor under section forty-six D from the commissioner; provided, however, that a license validly issued pursuant to section one hundred and eighty C shall suffice for the purposes of this section. Such license shall be posted in a conspicuous place in each employment agency conducted by such person. Licensing of theatrical booking agents, personal agents and managers shall be governed by sections one hundred and eighty A to one hundred and eighty G, inclusive. A firm specifically excluded by section forty-six A as an employment agency shall by mail notify the commissioner of its name and address and any change thereof.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 46c - Application for License

Section 46C. Any person desiring to obtain a license to establish, conduct or keep an employment agency shall make application for such license to the commissioner. Such application shall be made by the owner or owners of the employment agency, and if the employment agency is owned by a corporation, such application shall be made by the president and treasurer thereof. Each application shall be in writing and in a form prescribed by the commissioner, and shall contain the name and address of the applicant; the name under which the employment agency is to be conducted; the street and number of the building or place where the business is to be conducted; the former business or occupations of the applicant; the name and address of the individual who will actually direct and operate the placement activities of the agency, whether such individual be the applicant or another; the length of time such individual has spent as a placement employee; a description of the duties of such individual as a placement employee. Such application shall be accompanied by samples or accurate facsimiles of each and every form which the applicant for a license will require applicants for employment to execute, and such forms shall be approved by the commissioner before a license may be issued. The commissioner shall not approve any such form unless it fairly, clearly and fully represents the contractual terms and conditions between the proposed employment agency and an applicant for employment. Each application for a license shall be accompanied by the affidavits of two reputable residents of the commonwealth that the applicant is a person of good moral character.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 46e - Assignment or Transfer of License; Locations; Number of Licenses

Section 46E. A license issued under section forty-six D shall not be assigned or transferred without the prior written approval of the commissioner. Application for such approval shall be made in the same manner as an application for a license, as provided in sections forty-six C and forty-six D. The location of an employment agency shall not be changed without the prior written consent of the commissioner and such change of location shall be endorsed upon the license. More than one such license may be issued to the same person. If an applicant desires to establish or keep and employment agency at more than one location, he must apply for a license for each location at which he intends to conduct said employment agency, as provided in section forty-six C.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 46f - Fees; Bond

Section 46F. Each person licensed under section forty-six D to carry on the business of an employment agency shall before such license issues pay to the commissioner a license fee, the amount of which shall be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven for the filing thereof. Each licensee shall, before his license is issued or renewed, deposit with the commissioner a bond in a penal sum of three thousand dollars with two or more sureties or a duly authorized surety company, to be approved by the commissioner. The bond shall be payable to the people of the commonwealth and shall be on condition that the licensee will comply with the provisions of sections forty-six B to forty-six R, inclusive, and shall pay all damages occasioned to any person by reason of any misstatement, misrepresentation, fraud or deceit, or any unlawful act or omission of said licensee, his agents or employees, while acting within the scope of their employment, and made, committed or omitted in the business conducted under such license.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 46g - Claims or Suits Against Licensee

Section 46G. All claims or suits brought in any court against a licensee may be brought in the name of the person damaged upon the bond deposited by the licensee. If such licensee has departed from the commonwealth with the intent to defraud his creditors or to avoid the service of summons in any action brought under this section, or if the presence within the commonwealth of such licensee cannot be discovered by the exercise of reasonable diligence, service shall be made upon the surety and by mailing one copy of the summons to the last known post office address or residence of the licensee within or without the commonwealth and a copy of the summons to the place where he conducted such employment agency as shown by the records of the commissioner.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140 - Licenses › Section 46h - Register; Contents; Record of Receipts and Income; Charges; Monthly Reports to Commissioner

Section 46H. Each licensee shall keep a register or other record-keeping device approved by the commissioner, in which shall be entered under the penalties of perjury the date of each application for employment and the name and address of each applicant, a file designation for each such applicant, and the name and address of a former employer of the applicant, or of a person to whom such applicant is known. The licensee shall also enter in the same register or shall enter under the penalties of perjury in a separate register, approved by the commissioner, the name and address of every employer from whom a fee is received or charged, the date of such employer's request or assent that applicants be furnished, the kind of position for which applicants are requested, the names of the applicants sent, the total amount of the fee received or charged, and the rate of salary or wages agreed upon. Each licensee shall keep complete and accurate written records of all receipts and income received or derived directly from the operation of his employment agency. Each licensee or his duly authorized agent or employee shall communicate with at least one of the persons given as reference by an applicant for domestic or household work and the result of such communication shall be kept on file in such agency for a period of at least three years. Every register shall be retained on the premises of the agency concerned for three years following the date of the last entry therein. Each employment agency shall also enter into its register the last home address; the name and address of the emigrant agent, if any, through whom such applicant was obtained; the name and address of all persons to whom the employment agency has made payments in connection with the recruitment of the applicant, and the amounts of such payments; and the total charges made in the employment agency to the applicant. Said charges shall be separately stated by such agency and shall include: (a) charges for transportation, (b) other charges and (c) the agency fee.
Each recruiting domestic employment agency shall furnish the commissioner on the first Wednesday of each month, in writing, the following information with respect to each out-of-state resident engaged as a domestic or household employee and placed by that agency during the preceding month: (a) the name, and out-of-state home address of the applicant and the file designation assigned to the applicant by the agency; (b) the rate of wage to be paid the applicant, and an itemization of all charges which the employment agency has made to the applicant for its services; and (c) the name and address of any emigrant agent, or other person or organization to whom the employment agency has made any payment, or who or which helped recruit the applicant.