Massachusetts Statutes

Section 2. There shall be two commissioners of pilots for district one and one deputy commissioner of pilots for each of the other three districts. On or before December first in any year when their terms of office expire, their successors shall be appointed by the governor, with…

Section 20. A pilot taking charge of a vessel drawing more water than his commission authorizes shall be suspended or removed.

Section 21. Every foreign vessel of three hundred and fifty gross tons or over, every other United States vessel that is carrying oil, hazardous material, or hazardous waste in bulk as cargo in or entering upon areas of special interest within the waters of the commonwealth, ever…

Section 28. All coastwise vessels not sailing under register and not carrying oil, hazardous material or hazardous waste in bulk as cargo in or entering upon areas of special interest within the waters of the commonwealth, United States public vessels, and United States fishing v…

Section 3. The commissioners, subject to the approval of the trustees of said society, shall formulate rules and regulations for pilotage. The commissioners also, in accordance with such rules and regulations, shall grant commissions as pilots for their districts or for special l…

Section 31. Rates of pilotage outward and inward for the port of Boston, calculated per foot of draught, shall be as follows: for vessels 3,500 gross tons or under $50.06 for vessels over 3,501 to 7,000 gross tons $65.30 for vessels over 7,001 to 15,000 gross tons $74.26 for vess…

Section 31A. (a) There shall be a pilotage rate board which shall determine the rates to be charged by pilots commissioned under this chapter to ensure the safe navigation of vessels within the waters of the commonwealth and to ensure that the most qualified individuals are retai…

Section 33. A pilot failing to anchor a vessel carrying alien passengers or a vessel subject to quarantine at the place assigned by the proper authorities shall be suspended or removed.

Section 34. All controversies between pilots relative to their mutual rights, privileges and duties shall be referred to and settled by three master pilots, to be chosen by the parties for the purpose.

Section 35. No person unless he holds a commission as a pilot shall, if a commissioned pilot offers his services or can be obtained within a reasonable time, assume or continue to act as pilot in the charge or conduct of any vessel within the waters of this commonwealth, unless h…

Section 3A. In determining the eligibility of applicants for consideration for appointment to any status as pilot candidate or for a warrant or full branch pilot commission, the pilot commissioners shall adopt regulations allowing applicants who are members of any uniformed servi…

Section 4. The commissioners of district one shall appoint a secretary who shall keep an office and attend the same during the day to receive complaints by and against the pilots for said district, and who shall keep a fair record of his doings which shall be open at all times fo…

Section 5. Once in every three months each pilot shall render to the commissioners for his district an accurate account of all vessels piloted by him and of all money received for pilotage by him or by any person for him, and shall pay to the said commissioners four per cent of t…

Section 6. No person shall receive a commission or exercise the office of pilot until he has given to the state treasurer a bond with two sureties, approved by the commissioners, or a surety bond of a surety company authorized to transact business in the commonwealth, in the pena…

Section 1. A factor or other agent intrusted with the possession of merchandise or of a bill of lading consigning merchandise to him with authority to sell the same shall be deemed the true owner of such merchandise, so far as to give validity to any bona fide contract of sale ma…

Section 2. A shipper in lawful possession of merchandise at the time of shipment and in whose name it is shipped for sale shall be deemed the true owner thereof so far as to entitle the consignee to a lien thereon for money advanced or for securities given to the shipper for or o…

Section 3. If a person intrusted with merchandise has authority to sell or consign the same, a consignee to whom he consigns it shall have a lien thereon for any money or merchandise advanced or for any negotiable security given by him on the faith of such consignment, to or for …

Section 4. If a consignee or factor, having possession of merchandise, or a bill of lading, permit, certificate or order for the delivery thereof, with authority to sell said merchandise, deposits or pledges such merchandise or a part thereof or such document with any other perso…

Section 5. If such merchandise or document is accepted in deposit or pledge for an antecedent debt due from such consignee or factor, the person receiving the same shall thereby acquire no other or further right or interest in or authority over or lien upon the same than the cons…

Section 6. The three preceding sections shall not affect the lien of a consignee or factor for expenses and charges attending the shipment, transportation and care of merchandise intrusted to him; nor prevent the actual owner of merchandise from recovering it, previous to any ple…

Section 7. The following terms as used in sections eight and nine, unless the context otherwise requires, shall have the following meanings: ''Commission'', compensation accruing to a sales representative for payment by a principal, earned through the last day on which services w…

Section 8. The terms of the contract between a principal and a sales representative shall determine when a commission shall be due. If the time when such commission shall be due is not specified in a contract, the past practices between the parties shall control or, if there are …

Section 9. A principal who wilfully or knowingly fails to comply with provisions relating to the prompt payment of commissions set forth in section eight shall be liable to the sales representative in a civil action for the principal amount of the commissions owed and for an addi…

Section 1. As used in this chapter, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings: ''Artist'', the person who creates a work of fine art or, if such person is deceased, such person's heir, legatee, or personal representative…

Section 2. (a) Notwithstanding any custom, practice or usage of the trade to the contrary, or any other language herein, whenever a consignor delivers or causes to be delivered a work of fine art to a consignee in the commonwealth for the purpose of exhibition or sale, or both, o…

Section 3. The following provisions shall apply to consignment of a work of fine art: (a) The consignee, after delivery of the work of fine art, shall constitute an agent of the consignor for the purpose of sale or exhibition of the consigned work of fine art. (b) The work of fin…

Section 4. (a) A work of fine art received as a consignment, and the funds derived from the sale of the work of fine art, shall remain trust property, notwithstanding the subsequent purchase thereof by the consignee directly or indirectly for the consignee's own account until the…

Section 4A. (a) A consignee who accepts a work of fine art hereunder and who shall receive money upon the sale of a consigned work of fine art shall show the accounts of each consignor separately on its books. Maintenance by the consignee of separate sub-accounts at its bank in t…

Section 5. Any provision of a contract or agreement whereby the consignor waives any provision of this chapter is void.

Section 6. The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to a written contract executed prior to its effective date, unless either the parties agree by mutual consent that the provisions of this chapter shall apply or such contract is extended or renewed after the effective date…

Section 1. The commissioner of division of occupational licensure or his designee, in this chapter hereinafter called the commissioner, may license suitable persons, or corporations established under the laws of and having their places of business within the commonwealth, to be p…

Section 2. Whoever keeps and maintains a public warehouse for the storage of goods, wares and merchandise without procuring a license and giving a bond, as provided in the preceding section, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, and may be enjoined by…

Section 2A. A surety upon a bond given by a public warehouseman as a condition of holding a license issued pursuant to section one, who desires to be discharged from liability thereunder shall give written notice to that effect to the commissioner and to the state treasurer, in s…

Section 2B. After the revocation of his license, the warehouseman shall accept for storage no more goods, wares or merchandise. Forthwith upon such revocation, he shall offer to return to the person or persons entitled thereto all goods, wares and merchandise then deposited for s…

Section 2C. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this chapter, persons, or corporations established under the laws of, and having their places of business within, the commonwealth, may keep and maintain a public warehouse on the premises of any other person or corporation …

Section 3. Whoever is injured by the failure of a licensed warehouseman to perform his duty or his violation of any provision of this chapter may bring an action for his own benefit, in the name of the commonwealth, on the bond of such warehouseman. The writ shall be endorsed by …

Section 4. A licensed warehouseman shall, upon written request by a party placing property with him on storage, cause such property to be insured for whom it may concern. A railroad corporation acting as warehouseman may itself be the insurer. Any warehouse receipt delivered to a…

Section 5. Such warehouseman shall keep books in which shall be entered an account of all his transactions relative to the storing and insuring of goods, wares and merchandise, to the issuing of receipts therefor and to the disposition of proceeds of sales thereof under this chap…

Section 55. A warehouseman, or any officer, agent or servant of a warehouseman, who issues or aids in issuing a receipt, knowing that the goods for which such receipt is issued have not been actually received by such warehouseman, or are not under his actual control at the time o…

Section 56. A warehouseman, or any officer, agent or servant of a warehouseman, who fraudulently issues or aids in fraudulently issuing a receipt for goods, knowing that it contains any false statement, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by impri…

Section 57. A warehouseman, or any officer, agent or servant of a warehouseman, who issues or aids in issuing a duplicate or additional negotiable receipt for goods, knowing that a former negotiable receipt for the same goods or any part of them is outstanding and uncancelled, wi…

Section 58. If there are deposited with or held by a warehouseman goods of which he is owner, either solely or jointly or in common with others, such warehouseman, or any of his officers, agents or servants, who, knowing such ownership, issues or aids in issuing a negotiable rece…

Section 59. A warehouseman, or any officer, agent or servant of a warehouseman, who delivers goods out of the possession of such warehouseman, knowing that a negotiable receipt the negotiation of which would transfer the right to the possession of such goods is outstanding and un…

Section 6. The commissioner shall, at the expense of each warehouseman, give notice of his license and qualification, of the amount of the bond given by him and of any discontinuance of his license and shall, at the expense of any surety on his bond proceeding under section two A…

Section 60. Whoever deposits goods to which he has no title, or upon which there is a lien or mortgage, and takes for such goods a negotiable receipt which he afterwards negotiates for value with intent to deceive, and without disclosing his want of title or the existence of the …