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2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 279 - Judgment and Execution › Section 33a - Credit for Days of Confinement Awaiting and During Trial

Section 33A. The court on imposing a sentence of commitment to a correctional institution of the commonwealth, a house of correction, or a jail, shall order that the prisoner be deemed to have served a portion of said sentence, such portion to be the number of days spent by the prisoner in confinement prior to such sentence awaiting and during trial.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 279 - Judgment and Execution › Section 34 - Delivery to Sheriff of Certified Transcript From Minutes of Court of Conviction and Sentence; Execution of Sentence

Section 34. When a convict is sentenced to pay a fine or to be imprisoned, the clerk of the court shall forthwith make out and deliver to the sheriff or to some officer in court a duly certified transcript from the minutes of the court of the conviction and sentence, which shall authorize the officer to execute such sentence, and he shall execute it accordingly. When such convict is sentenced to be imprisoned in a correctional institution of the commonwealth, except the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Bridgewater and the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Framingham, the officer authorized to execute such sentence shall deliver him to the reception center established in accordance with the provisions of section twenty of chapter one hundred and twenty-seven for examination and classification.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 279 - Judgment and Execution › Section 35 - Transmission of Complaint or Indictment to Correctional Institution

Section 35. When a person is committed to any correctional institution of the commonwealth or to any other public penal institution, on conviction of felony, the clerk of the court shall, without charge, transmit with the mittimus an attested copy of the complaint or indictment under which such person was convicted and, if such complaint or indictment does not contain a reference to the chapter and section of the General Laws under which such person was convicted, a statement designating such chapter and section, and the names and addresses of the witnesses who testified for and against such person at the trial, together with a record containing the names and addresses of the presiding justice, district attorney and of the attorney for the defendant.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 279 - Judgment and Execution › Section 36 - Sentences to State Farm

Section 36. Except for commitments under sections thirty-five or forty-eight of chapter one hundred and twenty-three, no person shall be sentenced to the state farm except for drunkenness. Whoever is sentenced to the state farm for drunkenness may be there held in custody for not more than six months.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 279 - Judgment and Execution › Section 37 - Setting Out Statutory Name of Crime in Warrant for Commitment

Section 37. Every warrant for the commitment of a person sentenced by a district court shall set forth the statutory name, if any, of the crime of which the person was convicted, and shall contain a citation of the statute, if any, under which the complaint was drawn.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 279 - Judgment and Execution › Section 38 - Powers of Sheriff or Constable in Execution of Warrant of Commitment

Section 38. A sheriff, deputy sheriff or constable, when engaged in the execution of a warrant for the commitment of a person to a penal institution which is not in his own county, shall have the same powers in any county through which he may pass as he would have in his own county in the performance of a similar duty.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 279 - Judgment and Execution › Section 39 - Return of Precept to Magistrate

Section 39. The officer serving the precept in a criminal case shall, without charging travel therefor, return it with his doings and fees endorsed thereon to the court or magistrate issuing it, who shall tax, allow and certify the fees as a part of the expenses in the case. In case of commitment, the officer shall leave with the superintendent, jailer or keeper of the prison an attested copy of the precept, with his return thereon, which shall authorize the detention of the person committed.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 279 - Judgment and Execution › Section 40 - Service of New Warrant of Commitment Upon Convict

Section 40. If a convict imprisoned under sentence is again sentenced to confinement in a prison other than that in which he is then held, the warrant for his commitment in pursuance of the second sentence shall be placed in the hands of the superintendent or keeper of the prison where the convict is held, and said superintendent or keeper, upon the expiration of the first sentence, shall commit the convict in obedience to said warrant.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 279 - Judgment and Execution › Section 41 - Default of Corporation

Section 41. If a corporation, after being duly served with process, fails to appear and answer to an indictment or complaint brought against it under the laws of the commonwealth, its default shall be recorded, the charges in the indictment or complaint taken to be true, and judgment rendered accordingly.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 279 - Judgment and Execution › Section 42 - Warrant of Distress to Compel Payment of Penalty or Assessment

Section 42. If judgment is rendered against a corporation upon an indictment or complaint under the laws of the commonwealth, the court may issue a warrant of distress to compel payment of the penalty or assessment, as the case may be, as prescribed by law, together with interest thereon if so ordered by the court.
If the records of the registrar of motor vehicles indicate that a corporation has failed to pay an assessment for a civil motor vehicle infraction as provided in section three of chapter ninety C, the registrar may issue a warrant of distress to compel payment of the assessment, plus any late fees or other administrative fees which the registrar is required or authorized by law or regulation to impose, unless such fees are waived in whole or in part by the registrar.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 279 - Judgment and Execution › Section 57 - Death Sentence; Pronouncement or Revocation of Stay; Warrant of Conviction; Execution of Sentence; Certified Copy of Record to Governor

Section 57. Immediately upon the pronouncing of the sentence of death upon a person convicted of a capital crime, and immediately upon the revocation under section four of the stay of execution of such a sentence, the clerk shall make, sign and deliver to the sheriff of the county where the conviction is had a warrant under the seal of the court stating the conviction and sentence, and that a stay of execution of the sentence has been granted under section four, and that such stay has been revoked under said section, and shall at the same time transmit to the superintendent of the state prison a certified copy of the warrant. Such warrant shall be directed to said superintendent commanding him to cause execution to be done in accordance with the provisions of such sentence. The clerk of the court shall, upon revocation under section four of the stay of execution of the sentence, make out and deliver to the governor a certified copy of the whole record of the conviction and sentence, including any rescripts from the supreme judicial court.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 279 - Judgment and Execution › Section 59 - Execution of Death Sentence; Time Constraints

Section 59. The sentence of death shall be executed by the superintendent of the state prison, or by a person acting under his direction, not earlier than twenty days nor later than thirty days after service upon said superintendent, or officer performing his duties, of a certificate of the clerk of the court that the stay of the execution of the sentence has been revoked under section four, unless the governor pardons the crime, commutes the punishment therefor or respites the execution or said execution is otherwise delayed by process of law. If the execution is respited or stayed by process of law, the sentence of death shall be executed within the week beginning on the day next after the day on which the term of respite or stay expires. The sentence of death shall be executed upon such day within the limits of time provided in this section as the superintendent elects; but no previous announcement thereof shall be made, except to such persons as may be permitted to be present in accordance with section sixty-five.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 279 - Judgment and Execution › Section 60 - Means of Execution of Death Sentence

Section 60. The punishment of death shall be inflicted by causing a current of electricity of sufficient intensity to cause death to pass through the body of the prisoner, the application of said current to be continuous until he is dead or, at the election of the prisoner, by intravenous injection of a substance or substances in a lethal quantity sufficient to cause death and until such prisoner is dead. The sentence shall be executed within an enclosure or building for that purpose at the state prison and the company which furnishes the electric power or light to the state prison shall provide all necessary electricity for executions by electrocution at such times as the superintendent orders.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 279 - Judgment and Execution › Section 61 - Capital Crime Conviction; Imposition of Sentence; Insane and Pregnant Persons

Section 61. If a person convicted of a capital crime is, at the time when sentence is to be imposed, found by the court to be insane, it may cause such person to be removed to one of the state hospitals for such term and under such limitations as it may order. If a person convicted of a capital crime is, at the time when sentence is to be imposed, found by the court to be pregnant, the court shall not pass sentence upon her until it finds that she is no longer pregnant.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 279 - Judgment and Execution › Section 62 - Delay in Execution of Death Sentence; Insanity or Pregnancy of Prisoner; Psychiatric Examination and Written Certification

Section 62. After examination by two psychiatrists designated by the commissioner of mental health, if it appears that a prisoner under sentence of death has become insane, the governor, with the advice and consent of the council, may, from time to time for a stated period, respite the execution of said sentence until it appears to their satisfaction that the prisoner is no longer insane. Upon such respite, the governor may order the removal of such prisoner to the hospital at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Bridgewater. Within ten days prior to the termination date of said respite, the medical director of said hospital shall have the said prisoner examined by two psychiatrists designated by the commissioner of mental health. If, after said examination, the said medical director is of the opinion that the prisoner is no longer insane, he shall so certify to the superintendent of the state prison, accompanied by a written statement regarding the mental condition of said prisoner. The superintendent shall thereupon cause the prisoner to be reconveyed to the state prison and to be kept there pursuant to the sentence of the court, and shall notify the governor of the return of said prisoner, and of his mental condition. If, however, in the opinion of the said medical director of said hospital the said prisoner is still insane, he shall so certify to the governor, accompanied by a written statement regarding the mental condition of the prisoner. Thereupon, the governor, with the advice and consent of the council, may further respite the execution of the sentence from time to time for a stated period, until it is determined that the prisoner is no longer insane, as herein provided.
If it appears to the satisfaction of the governor and council that a prisoner under sentence of death is pregnant, the governor, with the advice and consent of the council, shall from time to time respite the execution of said sentence for stated periods until it appears to their satisfaction that she is no longer pregnant.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 279 - Judgment and Execution › Section 63 - Delay in Execution of Death Sentence; Consideration of Pardon

Section 63. The governor, with the advice and consent of the council, may from time to time respite the execution of a sentence of death for stated periods so long as he may consider it necessary to afford him, with the advice and consent of the council, an opportunity to investigate and consider the facts of the case for the purpose of considering whether or not to pardon the prisoner.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 279 - Judgment and Execution › Section 64 - Judicial Stay of Execution of Death Sentence; Final Determination of Judicial Questions

Section 64. The execution of a sentence of death may be stayed from time to time for stated periods by the supreme judicial court, or a justice thereof, pending the final determination of any judicial question arising in or out of the case in which the sentence is imposed.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 279 - Judgment and Execution › Section 65 - Witnesses; Execution of Death Sentence

Section 65. There shall be present at the execution of the sentence of death, in addition to the superintendent, deputy and such officers of the state prison as the superintendent deems necessary, the commissioner of correction or his representative, the person performing the execution under the direction of the superintendent, if any, and the following physicians: the prison physician, the state surgeon, and a medical examiner for Norfolk county, or if any or all are unable to be present, such physicians as the superintendent approves. The physicians present shall be the legal witnesses of the execution. There may also be present, upon the request of the prisoner who is to be executed, the immediate members of the family of the prisoner. There may also be present, upon the request of said prisoner, a priest, minister, or other representative of religion. There may also be present the sheriff of the county where the prisoner was convicted, or his deputy, and, with the approval of the superintendent, not more than three other persons.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 279 - Judgment and Execution › Section 67 - Warrant for Execution of Death Sentence; Return to Clerk of Court After Execution

Section 67. When the superintendent has executed the sentence of death upon a prisoner in obedience to a warrant from the court, he shall forthwith make return thereof under his hand, with the doings thereon, to the office of the clerk of said court.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 279 - Judgment and Execution › Section 70 - Death Penalty Imposed; Jury Findings Necessary

Section 70. Where, upon a trial by jury, a person is convicted of a crime which is punishable by death, a sentence of death shall not be imposed unless findings in accordance with section sixty-eight are made. Where such findings are made and the jury finds that the death penalty shall be imposed, the court shall sentence the defendant to death. Where such findings are not made or not unanimously made or where a sentence of death is not a unanimous finding by the jury, the court shall sentence the defendant to life imprisonment as provided in section two of chapter two hundred and sixty-five.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 279 - Judgment and Execution › Section 71 - Review of Death Sentence; Remand; Reversal; Affirmation

Section 71. In addition to review of the entire case pursuant to section thirty-three E of chapter two hundred and seventy-eight, the supreme judicial court shall review the sentence of death imposed pursuant to sections sixty-eight, sixty-nine and seventy of chapter two hundred and seventy-nine. If the supreme judicial court determines that (1) the sentence of death was imposed under the influence of passion, prejudice or any other arbitrary factor or (2) the evidence does not support the jury's finding of a statutory aggravating circumstance or statutory aggravating circumstances as defined in section sixty-nine or (3) the evidence does not support the jury's finding that the statutory aggravating circumstance or statutory aggravating circumstances defined in section sixty-nine outweigh the statutory or other mitigating circumstance or statutory or other mitigating circumstances or (4) the sentence of death is excessive or disproportionate to the penalty imposed in other similar cases of one or more jurisdictions legally authorized to impose said penalty of death, with the greater weight of such comparison to be given to similar Massachusetts cases in which the death penalty will have been imposed, with due consideration of both those cases in which a sentence of life imprisonment was imposed and those cases in which a sentence of death was imposed, or in the event that the court determines any or all of the four factors as enumerated in this section exist, the court shall (1) reverse the sentence of death and remand for a new presentence hearing pursuant to section sixty-eight of chapter two hundred and seventy-nine, or (2) reverse the sentence of death and remand to the superior court department of the trial court for sentence of imprisonment in the state prison for life. The court shall also have the authority to affirm the sentence of death.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 280 - Fines and Forfeitures › Section 1 - Recovery of Fines and Forfeitures

Section 1. Fines and forfeitures exacted as punishments for offences or violation or neglect of any duty imposed by statute may, unless otherwise provided, be prosecuted for and recovered by indictment or complaint or by an action of tort in the name of the commonwealth in a court having jurisdiction of the offence or action.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 280 - Fines and Forfeitures › Section 2 - Payment of Certain Fines and Forfeitures; Apportionment Among Beneficiaries

Section 2. A fine or forfeiture imposed by a court shall, except as otherwise provided, be paid over to the state treasurer. Twenty per cent of the fines imposed under the provisions of chapter three hundred and fifty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and fifty-two shall be paid over to the state treasurer. If the whole or any part of a fine is by law payable to a complainant or informant or to a person or corporation as beneficiary, the court may apportion the fine or forfeiture between such complainant, informant or other beneficiary and the commonwealth, respectively.
Fines imposed under the provisions of chapters eighty-nine and ninety, including fines, penalties and assessments imposed under the provisions of chapter ninety C for the violation of the provisions of chapters eighty-nine and ninety, fines assessed by a hearing officer of a city or town as defined in sections twenty A and twenty A1/2 of chapter ninety and forfeitures imposed under the provisions of section one hundred and forty-one of chapter one hundred and forty, shall be paid over to the treasury of the city or town wherein the offense was committed; provided, however, that only fifty per cent of the amount of fines, penalties and assessments collected for violations of section seventeen of chapter ninety or of a special speed regulation lawfully made under the authority of section eighteen of said chapter ninety shall be paid over to the treasury of the city or town wherein the offense was committed and the remaining fifty per cent shall be paid over to the state treasurer and credited to the Highway Fund.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 280 - Fines and Forfeitures › Section 3 - Proceedings to Recover Penalties; Appointment of Counsel

Section 3. In proceedings in the name of the commonwealth for the recovery of fines, forfeitures or penalties, the whole or any part of which do not enure to the benefit of the commonwealth, the court may, upon motion of the district attorney, appoint an attorney to conduct the cause under his direction; but such attorney so appointed shall have no right to control the cause or receive compensation from the commonwealth.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 280 - Fines and Forfeitures › Section 4 - Criminal Prosecutions; Expenses Paid by Commonwealth; Waiver of Costs for Indigent Defendants

Section 4. Expenses arising in a criminal prosecution, including fees of grand and traverse jurors for travel and attendance therein, shall be paid by the commonwealth.
Fees and costs of indigent defendants in criminal prosecutions except attorneys' fees, shall or may be waived or substituted by the court or paid by the commonwealth in accordance with the provisions of sections twenty-seven A to twenty-seven G, inclusive, of chapter two hundred and sixty-one.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 280 - Fines and Forfeitures › Section 5 - Appeal Briefs in Criminal Cases; Payment of Costs

Section 5. In a criminal case in which questions of law are carried to the supreme judicial court, the attorney general or district attorney may have necessary copies of the brief for the commonwealth printed, and the expense thereof shall be paid in the same manner as other expenses in the case.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 280 - Fines and Forfeitures › Section 6 - Costs as Penalty for Crime; Expenses of Prosecution

Section 6. Costs shall not be imposed by a justice as a penalty for a crime. A justice may, as a condition of the dismissal or placing on file of a complaint or indictment, or as a term of probation, order the defendant to pay the reasonable and actual expenses of the prosecution. A justice may impose reasonable costs as a result of a default by a criminal defendant that was intentional or negligent and without good cause.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 280 - Fines and Forfeitures › Section 6a - Special Cost Assessments; Exemption

Section 6A. Before imposing a fine or forfeiture as a punishment or part punishment for a crime, the court or justice shall levy as a special cost assessment an amount equal to twenty-five per cent of the fine or forfeiture; provided however, that no special cost assessment shall be levied on fines or forfeitures for minor motor vehicle offenses, and juvenile offenses or acts of delinquency. Minor motor vehicle offenses shall be defined as those not punishable by incarceration.
When a fine is suspended, in whole or in part, the special cost assessment shall be computed on the fine remaining to be paid. The court or justice may waive all or any part of said cost assessment upon a finding that such payment would cause a substantial financial hardship to the person, the person's immediate family or the person's dependents.
Said cost assessment shall be accounted for by the clerk of the court and forwarded to the state treasurer who shall deposit such assessment in the General Fund.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 280 - Fines and Forfeitures › Section 6b - Criminal Assessments

Section 6B. The court shall impose an assessment of not less than thirty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars against any person who has attained the age of 18 years and who is convicted of a misdemeanor or against whom a finding of sufficient facts for a conviction is made on a complaint charging a misdemeanor under sections thirty-two C, thirty-two D, and thirty-two G and thirty-five of chapter ninety-four C. The court shall impose an assessment of not less than one hundred and fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars against any person who is convicted of a felony or against whom a finding of sufficient facts for a conviction is made on a complaint charging a felony under sections thirty-two, thirty-two A, thirty-two B, thirty-two E, thirty-two F and thirty-four of chapter ninety-four C. When multiple criminal offenses arising from a single incident are charged, the total assessment shall not exceed five hundred dollars. The court or justice may waive all or any part of said assessment upon a finding that such payment would cause a substantial financial hardship to the person, the person's immediate family or the person's dependents.
All such assessments made shall be collected by the court and shall be transmitted monthly to the state treasurer. The assessment from any conviction which is subsequently overturned on appeal shall be refunded by the court to the person whose conviction is overturned. Said court shall deduct such funds from the assessments transmitted to the state treasurer. Assessments pursuant to this section shall be in addition to any other fines or restitution imposed in any disposition.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 280 - Fines and Forfeitures › Section 6c - Assessment Proceeds

Section 6C. Any assessment imposed pursuant to section six B shall be deposited in the Drug Analysis Fund established by section fifty-one of chapter ten. The proceeds of the fund shall be made available, subject to appropriation, to the department of public health for services provided to analyse samples used in the prosecution of controlled substances.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 280 - Fines and Forfeitures › Section 7 - Certificates of Fines Imposed; Delivery to State Treasurer

Section 7. At the end of every sitting of the superior court for the transaction of criminal business, the clerk shall make and deliver to the state treasurer certificates of all fines imposed by the court, to the use of the commonwealth or to the treasurer of a city or town under the provisions of section two of this chapter.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 280 - Fines and Forfeitures › Section 8 - Transfer to State Treasurer of Fines Paid

Section 8. The clerk of the superior court for the transaction of criminal business for Suffolk county, the clerks of the municipal courts in Boston, the sheriff, superintendent of the house of correction or other officer, except those named in the following section, upon receiving fines, fees or other money in any criminal proceedings, payable to the commonwealth or to a city or town shall, before the tenth day of every month, pay over to the state treasurer and account, on oath, for all fines, fees or other money so received during the preceding calendar month, and make the detailed statements required by law.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 280 - Fines and Forfeitures › Section 9 - Fines Paid; Transfer to State Treasurer by Clerks of Courts in Suffolk County

Section 9. The clerks of all courts in Suffolk county, except those named in the preceding section, who are required to account to the commonwealth shall, on or before the tenth day of each month, pay over to the state treasurer and account, on oath, for all fines, fees and other money received by them in any criminal proceedings during the preceding calendar month remaining after the payments therefrom allowed by law.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 280 - Fines and Forfeitures › Section 10 - Payment of Witness Fees; Presentment of Certificate

Section 10. The state treasurer shall pay to the persons entitled therein all witnesses fees or other money due for services rendered or expenses incurred in any of the courts named in section eight, or for any of the aforesaid officers, upon presentation to him of a certificate stating the name of the claimant, of the court and of the case, the nature of the services rendered or expenses incurred and the amount due therefor, signed by the clerk of the court or by the officer for whom the service was rendered.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 280 - Fines and Forfeitures › Section 11 - Certification of Fines and Forfeitures; Payment to Commonwealth

Section 11. Except as otherwise provided in section eighty of chapter two hundred and seventy-six, fines and forfeitures imposed in criminal prosecutions by the superior court to the use of the commonwealth, and all amounts found to be due on forfeited recognizances, shall under the direction of the court, be certified by the clerk and paid to the commonwealth.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 280 - Fines and Forfeitures › Section 12 - Escape of Prisoner; Liability of Sheriff for Fines or Forfeitures of Prisoner

Section 12. A sheriff who, having a person in his custody by virtue of the sentence of a court, voluntarily or negligently suffers him to escape shall be held to have received the fines, forfeitures or forfeited recognizances described in the preceding section, at the time of the escape, and shall be liable for the same, with interest and costs, as if he had received them.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 280 - Fines and Forfeitures › Section 13 - Failure of Sheriff to Pay Fines or Forfeitures of Escaped Prisoner; Remedy

Section 13. If a sheriff neglects to make such payment for thirty days, the state treasurer shall recover of him in contract the amount of such fines, forfeitures and forfeited recognizances, with interest at the rate of twelve per cent from the time he is held to have received the same and costs.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 280 - Fines and Forfeitures › Section 14 - Default in Fine Payment; Commitment to Jail or House of Correction; Payment to Jailer or Superintendent

Section 14. A person committed to a jail or house of correction in default of payment of a fine may pay it to the keeper of the jail or superintendent of the house of correction, and the warrant for his commitment shall designate the town where the offence for which the fine was imposed was committed and the uses to which such fine is payable by the officer receiving it.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 280 - Fines and Forfeitures › Section 15 - Quarterly Transfers to State Treasurer of Payments Received by Jailer or Superintendent; Account on Oath

Section 15. Every keeper of a jail and superintendent of a house of correction shall, on the first days of January, April, July and October, pay over to the state treasurer all money received by him under the preceding section during the preceding three months, and render to said state treasurer an account, on oath, showing the names of prisoners by whom payments have been so made, the court by which each was committed and the amount received from each.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 280 - Fines and Forfeitures › Section 16 - Payment by State Treasurer of Expenses or Fees; Time Limit for Demand; Qualifications for Payment to Clerks of District Court

Section 16. The state treasurer shall pay over to the persons entitled thereto all amounts allowed to them for expenses or fees in criminal prosecutions, or allowed by the courts as rewards or compensations to prosecutors, which have been duly certified by the clerks, if demanded within three years after the allowance thereof; but he shall pay no such amounts to a clerk of a district court, until the clerk has rendered a written account of all fines received by him since his last return, and of all fees which have remained in his hands for one year after their allowance.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part V - The General Laws, and Express Repeal of Certain Acts and Resolves › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 281 - The General Laws and Their Effect › Section 1 - Designation as General Laws; Citation; Effective Date

Section 1. This act shall not in any citation or enumeration of the statutes be reckoned as one of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty, but may be designated as the General Laws, adding the number of the chapter and section when necessary, and shall take effect from and after December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and twenty.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part V - The General Laws, and Express Repeal of Certain Acts and Resolves › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 281 - The General Laws and Their Effect › Section 2 - Construction of General Laws as Continuation of Former Acts

Section 2. The provisions of the General Laws, so far as they are the same as those of existing statutes, shall be construed as a continuation thereof and not as new enactments, and a reference in a statute which has not been repealed to provisions of law which are revised and re-enacted herein shall be construed as applying to such provisions as so incorporated in the General Laws.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part V - The General Laws, and Express Repeal of Certain Acts and Resolves › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 281 - The General Laws and Their Effect › Section 3 - Repealed or Superseded Law; Effect of Repeal of Law by General Laws

Section 3. The repeal of a law by this act shall not revive a law heretofore repealed or superseded, nor an office heretofore abolished.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part V - The General Laws, and Express Repeal of Certain Acts and Resolves › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 281 - The General Laws and Their Effect › Section 4 - Rights Accrued or Liability Incurred and Actions Commenced; Effect of Repeal of Law by General Laws; Probate Appeals

Section 4. The repeal of a law by this act shall not affect any act done, ratified or confirmed, any liability incurred, or any right accrued or established, or any action, suit or proceeding commenced or had in a civil case, before the repeal takes effect, but the proceedings in such case shall, when necessary, conform to the provisions of the General Laws; provided, that appeals from orders, decrees or denials of probate courts made before this act takes effect shall be governed by the law then in effect, notwithstanding its subsequent repeal by this act.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part V - The General Laws, and Express Repeal of Certain Acts and Resolves › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 281 - The General Laws and Their Effect › Section 5 - Punishment, Penalty or Forfeiture Incurred; Effect of Repeal of Law by General Laws

Section 5. The repeal of a law by this act shall not affect any punishment, penalty or forfeiture incurred under such law, except that any provision of the General Laws by which a punishment, penalty or forfeiture is mitigated may be extended and applied to any judgment pronounced after said repeal.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part V - The General Laws, and Express Repeal of Certain Acts and Resolves › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 281 - The General Laws and Their Effect › Section 6 - Pending Actions, Suits or Prosecutions; Effect of Repeal of Law by General Laws

Section 6. The repeal of a law by this act shall not affect any action, suit or prosecution pending at the time of the repeal for an offence committed, or for the recovery of a penalty or forfeiture incurred, under any of the laws repealed, except that the proceedings therein shall, when necessary, conform to the provisions of the General Laws.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part V - The General Laws, and Express Repeal of Certain Acts and Resolves › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 281 - The General Laws and Their Effect › Section 7 - Tenure of Office Holders; Effect of Repeal of Law by General Laws

Section 7. Whoever, when said repeal takes effect, holds an office under any of the laws repealed shall continue to hold it according to the tenure thereof, unless it is abolished or unless a different provision relative thereto is made by the General Laws.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part V - The General Laws, and Express Repeal of Certain Acts and Resolves › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 281 - The General Laws and Their Effect › Section 8 - Salary or Compensation of Incumbent; Effect of Repeal of Law by General Laws

Section 8. The salary or compensation of any incumbent of any office or position at the time when the General Laws take effect shall not be diminished thereby, notwithstanding the repeal therein of any act establishing such salary or compensation and notwithstanding that the General Laws establish a different salary or compensation for the office or position.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part V - The General Laws, and Express Repeal of Certain Acts and Resolves › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 281 - The General Laws and Their Effect › Section 9 - Statutory Time Periods; Effect of Repeal of Law by General Laws

Section 9. If a limitation or period of time prescribed in any of the acts repealed for acquiring a right, barring a remedy or any other purpose has begun to run, and the same or a similar limitation is prescribed in the General Laws, the time of limitation shall continue to run and shall have like effect as if the whole period had begun and ended under the operation of the General Laws. If a shorter period of time is prescribed by the General Laws in any matter relating to wills or to the administration of the estates of deceased persons, and the limitation has begun to run, it shall continue to run for the time fixed by the law in effect at the time when it began to run, notwithstanding the repeal thereof by the General Laws.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part V - The General Laws, and Express Repeal of Certain Acts and Resolves › Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Chapter 281 - The General Laws and Their Effect › Section 10 - Temporary Laws; Effect of Enactment of General Laws

Section 10. All acts and resolves or parts thereof in force at the time of the taking effect of the General Laws which are of limited duration shall continue in effect according to their terms, notwithstanding any provisions of said General Laws inconsistent therewith.
NOTE: The provisions of this chapter as originally enacted are set forth in chapter 282 of the General Laws (Edition of 1920). For reference to certain legislation affecting the schedule of acts and resolves expressly repealed by said chapter in connection with the original enactment of the General Laws, see the table of changes relating to chapter 282 appearing in the volume containing the laws and resolves of 1931.
2023 Michigan Compiled Laws › Chapter 1 - Constitution of The State of Michigan of 1963 › CONSTITUTION OF MICHIGAN OF 1963 - State Constitution (Article I § 1 - § 0) › Article I - Declaration of Rights (Article I § 1...§ 28) › Article I § 1 Political Power.

§ 1 Political power.
Sec. 1.
All political power is inherent in the people. Government is instituted for their equal benefit, security and protection.
History:
Const. 1963, Art. I, § 1, Eff. Jan. 1, 1964
Former Constitution:
See Const. 1908, Art. II, § 1.
2023 Michigan Compiled Laws › Chapter 1 - Constitution of The State of Michigan of 1963 › CONSTITUTION OF MICHIGAN OF 1963 - State Constitution (Article I § 1 - § 0) › Article I - Declaration of Rights (Article I § 1...§ 28) › Article I § 2 Equal Protection; Discrimination.

§ 2 Equal protection; discrimination.
Sec. 2.
No person shall be denied the equal protection of the laws; nor shall any person be denied the enjoyment of his civil or political rights or be discriminated against in the exercise thereof because of religion, race, color or national origin. The legislature shall implement this section by appropriate legislation.
History:
Const. 1963, Art. I, § 2, Eff. Jan. 1, 1964
2023 Michigan Compiled Laws › Chapter 1 - Constitution of The State of Michigan of 1963 › CONSTITUTION OF MICHIGAN OF 1963 - State Constitution (Article I § 1 - § 0) › Article I - Declaration of Rights (Article I § 1...§ 28) › Article I § 3 Assembly, Consultation, Instruction, Petition.

§ 3 Assembly, consultation, instruction, petition.
Sec. 3.
The people have the right peaceably to assemble, to consult for the common good, to instruct their representatives and to petition the government for redress of grievances.
History:
Const. 1963, Art. I, § 3, Eff. Jan. 1, 1964
Former Constitution:
See Const. 1908, Art. II, § 2.
2023 Michigan Compiled Laws › Chapter 1 - Constitution of The State of Michigan of 1963 › CONSTITUTION OF MICHIGAN OF 1963 - State Constitution (Article I § 1 - § 0) › Article I - Declaration of Rights (Article I § 1...§ 28) › Article I § 4 Freedom of Worship and Religious Belief; Appropriations.

§ 4 Freedom of worship and religious belief; appropriations.
Sec. 4.
Every person shall be at liberty to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience. No person shall be compelled to attend, or, against his consent, to contribute to the erection or support of any place of religious worship, or to pay tithes, taxes or other rates for the support of any minister of the gospel or teacher of religion. No money shall be appropriated or drawn from the treasury for the benefit of any religious sect or society, theological or religious seminary; nor shall property belonging to the state be appropriated for any such purpose. The civil and political rights, privileges and capacities of no person shall be diminished or enlarged on account of his religious belief.
History:
Const. 1963, Art. I, § 4, Eff. Jan. 1, 1964
Former Constitution:
See Const. 1908, Art. II, § 3.
2023 Michigan Compiled Laws › Chapter 1 - Constitution of The State of Michigan of 1963 › CONSTITUTION OF MICHIGAN OF 1963 - State Constitution (Article I § 1 - § 0) › Article I - Declaration of Rights (Article I § 1...§ 28) › Article I § 5 Freedom of Speech and of Press.

§ 5 Freedom of speech and of press.
Sec. 5.
Every person may freely speak, write, express and publish his views on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of such right; and no law shall be enacted to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press.
History:
Const. 1963, Art. I, § 5, Eff. Jan. 1, 1964
Former Constitution:
See Const. 1908, Art. II, § 4.
2023 Michigan Compiled Laws › Chapter 1 - Constitution of The State of Michigan of 1963 › CONSTITUTION OF MICHIGAN OF 1963 - State Constitution (Article I § 1 - § 0) › Article I - Declaration of Rights (Article I § 1...§ 28) › Article I § 6 Bearing of Arms.

§ 6 Bearing of arms.
Sec. 6.
Every person has a right to keep and bear arms for the defense of himself and the state.
History:
Const. 1963, Art. I, § 6, Eff. Jan. 1, 1964
Former Constitution:
See Const. 1908, Art. II, § 5.
2023 Michigan Compiled Laws › Chapter 1 - Constitution of The State of Michigan of 1963 › CONSTITUTION OF MICHIGAN OF 1963 - State Constitution (Article I § 1 - § 0) › Article I - Declaration of Rights (Article I § 1...§ 28) › Article I § 7 Military Power Subordinate to Civil Power.

§ 7 Military power subordinate to civil power.
Sec. 7.
The military shall in all cases and at all times be in strict subordination to the civil power.
History:
Const. 1963, Art. I, § 7, Eff. Jan. 1, 1964
Former Constitution:
See Const. 1908, Art. II, § 6.
2023 Michigan Compiled Laws › Chapter 1 - Constitution of The State of Michigan of 1963 › CONSTITUTION OF MICHIGAN OF 1963 - State Constitution (Article I § 1 - § 0) › Article I - Declaration of Rights (Article I § 1...§ 28) › Article I § 8 Quartering of Soldiers.

§ 8 Quartering of soldiers.
Sec. 8.
No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner or occupant, nor in time of war, except in a manner prescribed by law.
History:
Const. 1963, Art. I, § 8, Eff. Jan. 1, 1964
Former Constitution:
See Const. 1908, Art. II, § 7.
2023 Michigan Compiled Laws › Chapter 1 - Constitution of The State of Michigan of 1963 › CONSTITUTION OF MICHIGAN OF 1963 - State Constitution (Article I § 1 - § 0) › Article I - Declaration of Rights (Article I § 1...§ 28) › Article I § 9 Slavery and Involuntary Servitude.

§ 9 Slavery and involuntary servitude.
Sec. 9.
Neither slavery, nor involuntary servitude unless for the punishment of crime, shall ever be tolerated in this state.
History:
Const. 1963, Art. I, § 9, Eff. Jan. 1, 1964
Former Constitution:
See Const. 1908, Art. II, § 8.