Massachusetts Statutes

Section 6C. The corporation shall establish a fund to be known as the Massachusetts Broadband Incentive Fund. The corporation shall hold the fund separate and apart from its other funds, to finance the activities of the institute. The corporation shall credit to the fund any appr…

Section 6D. (a) There shall be established an institute for health care innovation, technology and competitiveness, to be known as the Massachusetts e–Health Institute. The executive director of the corporation shall appoint a qualified individual to serve as the director of the …

Section 6E. (a) There shall be established and set up on the books of the corporation a separate fund to be known as the e–Health Institute Fund, referred to in this section as the fund. There shall be credited to the fund revenue from appropriations or other monies authorized by…

Section 6H. There shall be established and set up on the books of the corporation a Big Data Innovation and Workforce Fund. There shall be credited to the fund the proceeds of any bonds or notes of the commonwealth issued for the purpose of the fund and any appropriations designa…

Section 6I. (a) The Massachusetts Technology Park Corporation established in section 3 and doing business as the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative shall, subject to appropriation, establish and promote computer science education in public schools. The collaborative shall ser…

Section 6J. (a) There shall be established within the corporation a Massachusetts cybersecurity center. The purpose of the center shall be to enhance the conditions for economic growth through outreach to the cybersecurity industry cluster in the commonwealth and to foster cybers…

Section 6K. (a) There shall be established within the corporation a center for advanced manufacturing. The purpose of the center shall be to support companies engaged in manufacturing in the commonwealth and shall be administered in a manner that considers the needs of manufactur…

Section 7. (a) The board shall select a qualified individual to act as executive director and shall delegate to the executive director full authority to manage the affairs of the corporation and the Massachusetts Microelectronics Center. The executive director shall serve at the …

Section 8. The corporation annually shall submit a complete and detailed report of the center's activities within ninety days after the end of the fiscal year to the clerk of the house of representatives and to the clerk of the senate.

Section 9. The books and records of the corporation shall be subject to an audit by the state auditor, in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards, as often as the state auditor determines is necessary.

Section 1. Definitions.—as used in this chapter the following words shall, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, have the following meaning:— ''Agricultural land'', land suitable for agricultural or horticultural use, including land rated by the United States Department…

Section 10. The provisions of this chapter shall apply in a city after acceptance by a majority vote of the city council with the approval of the mayor, in the case of a city with a Plan A, Plan B or Plan F charter; by a majority vote of the city council, in the case of a city wi…

Section 2. The board of selectmen in a town or the mayor of a city with approval of the city council may establish an agricultural incentive area committee for the purpose of investigating, delineating, and establishing an agricultural incentive area in the municipality, hereinaf…

Section 3. The committee shall locate and map all land in agricultural or horticultural use within the town or city showing such soil classification information as is available from the United States Department of Agriculture Soil Conservation Service. Such map or maps shall indi…

Section 4. Upon completion of the requirements of section three, the committee shall formulate its recommendations for the formation of an agricultural incentive area within the town or city. Such areas shall be composed principally of agricultural land, land in agricultural or h…

Section 5. Land within an agricultural incentive area shall not be sold for or converted to residential, industrial or commercial use or removed from the area unless the city or town in which such land is located and the department of food and agriculture on behalf of the state h…

Section 6. Land in an agricultural incentive area, determined by the local assessor to be actively devoted to agricultural, horticultural, or agricultural and horticultural use as defined in sections one to five, inclusive, of chapter sixty-one A, shall be assessed for general pr…

Section 7. Land in an agricultural incentive area, determined by the local assessor to be actively devoted to agricultural, horticultural, or agricultural and horticultural use as defined in sections one to five, inclusive, of chapter sixty-one A and which is subject to special a…

Section 8. Land in an agricultural incentive area shall receive priority for a determination of eligibility for the purchase of agricultural preservation restrictions by the commonwealth pursuant to the program established by section eleven A to eleven D, inclusive, of chapter on…

Section 9. The commissioner of the department of food and agriculture is hereby empowered to promulgate such rules and regulations and to prescribe such forms as he shall deem necessary to effectuate the purposes of this chapter.

Section 1. Five or more public entities may participate in an organization in which the governmental units are members, and agree to effect such property and casualty insurance coverage as the governmental unit may otherwise purchase by itself. A self-insurance group that is issu…

Section 10. (A) Each group shall submit to the commissioner of insurance thirty days before the end of its policy year a performance report estimating total outstanding liability, including incurred but not reported claims, for that policy year. (B) Each group shall submit to the…

Section 11. (A) A group shall file with the commissioner its rating plan. (B) Each group shall be audited at least annually by an auditor acceptable to the commissioner to verify proper rating. A report of the audit shall be filed with the commissioner in a form prescribed by the…

Section 12. (A) Any monies for a fund year in excess of the amount necessary to fund all obligations, including reserves for claims and reserves for incurred but not reported claims for that fund year may be declared to be refundable by the board of trustees not less than six mon…

Section 13. (A) Each group shall establish to the satisfaction of the commissioner a premium payment plan in which at least thirty-three per cent of each members estimated net annual premium is payable at the start of the groups fund year and payment of the balance of each member…

Section 14. (A) If the assets of a group are at any time insufficient to enable the group to discharge its legal liabilities and other obligations and to maintain the reserves required of it under this chapter, it shall forthwith make up the deficiency or levy an assessment upon …

Section 15. After notice and opportunity for a hearing, the commissioner may issue an order requiring a person or public employer self-insurance group to cease and desist from engaging in an act or practice found to be in violation of any provision of this chapter or of any rules…

Section 16. (A) After notice and opportunity for a hearing, the commissioner may revoke a public employer self-insurance group's certificate of approval if it (1) is found to be insolvent, (2) fails to pay any regulatory fee or assessment, imposed upon it, or (3) fails to comply …

Section 17. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, chapter 176V shall apply to groups governed by this chapter.

Section 2. ''Administrator'', an individual, partnership, corporation, or unincorporated association engaged by a public employer self-insurance group's board of trustees and to provide day to day management of the group. ''Commissioner'', the commissioner of insurance. ''Insolve…

Section 3. No person, association or other entity shall act as a public employer self-insurance group unless it has been issued a certificate of approval by the commissioner.

Section 4. (A) A proposed public employer self-insurance group shall file with the commissioner its application for a certificate of approval accompanied by a nonrefundable filing fee in the amount of one hundred dollars. The application shall include the group's name, location o…

Section 5. (A) The certificate of approval issued by the commissioner to a public employer self-insurance group authorizes the group to provide insurance coverage. The certificate of approval remains in effect until terminated at the request of the group or revoked by the commiss…

Section 6. The commissioner may examine the affairs, transactions, accounts, records and assets of each group as often as the commissioner deems advisable. Notwithstanding any other provision of the General Laws, including clause Twenty-sixth of section 7 of chapter 4 and chapter…

Section 7. Each public employer self-insurance group shall be operated by a board of trustees which shall consist of not less than three persons who are elected officials or employees of public entities within this commonwealth. The board of trustees of each group shall ensure th…

Section 8. (A) A public employer joining a public employer's self-insurance group after the group has been issued a certificate of approval shall submit an application for membership to the board of trustees or its administrator. Membership takes effect no earlier than each membe…

Section 9. Except for trustees, officers, directors or salaried employees of a group or its administrator, any person soliciting membership in a property and casualty self-insurance group must be a licensed agent as provided by section sixty-three of chapter one hundred and seven…

Section 1. It is hereby declared essential for the benefit of the people of each municipality which accepts this act, in order that there be an increase in their commerce, welfare and prosperity and an improvement in their living conditions, that the municipality establish or con…

Section 10. (a) The commission is hereby authorized and empowered to provide by resolution for the issuance, at one time or from time to time within three years following the acceptance of this chapter, of notes of the commission for the purpose of providing funds for (i) paying …

Section 11. In addition to the notes issued under the provisions of section nine, the commission may provide by resolution for the issuance from time to time of bonds of the commission for any of its corporate purposes or the borrowing of money in anticipation of the issuance of …

Section 12. The principal of, premium, if any, and interest on all bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter, unless otherwise provided herein, shall be payable solely from the funds provided therefor from revenues as herein provided. Bonds of each issue shall be dated, s…

Section 13. The commission may issue refunding bonds for the purpose of paying any of its bonds at maturity or upon acceleration or redemption. Refunding bonds may be issued at such time prior to the maturity or redemption of the refunded bonds as the commission deems to be in th…

Section 14. Bonds, notes and other evidences of indebtedness issued or entered into under the provisions of this chapter shall not be deemed to be a debt or a pledge of the faith and credit of the commonwealth or, excepting any note guaranteed by the municipality pursuant to sect…

Section 15. All moneys received pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, whether as proceeds from the issue of bonds or as revenues or otherwise, shall be deemed to be trust funds to be held and applied solely as provided in this chapter.

Section 16. Bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter are hereby made securities in which all public officers and public bodies of the commonwealth and its political subdivisions, all insurance companies, trust companies in their commercial departments, savings banks, co-…