Massachusetts Statutes

Section 20. For the purpose of supervising the production of milk, any five or more registered physicians may form a corporation under this chapter. The members of the board of health of any town where such corporation is formed shall be ex officiis members of the corporation. At…

Section 21. The name of any such corporation shall be ''Medical Milk Commission of '', designating the name of the town where such corporation is established, and, if more than one such corporation shall be organized in any town, the subsequent corporations shall use the name des…

Section 22. No member of any such corporation shall receive directly or indirectly therefrom, or from any dairymen producing milk under agreement with the corporation, any salary or emolument or any compensation of any kind for any services rendered as a member of such corporatio…

Section 23. Every such corporation may enter into written agreements with any dairymen for the production of milk under the supervision of such corporation and prescribe in such agreements the conditions under which such milk shall be produced, which, however, shall be approved b…

Section 24. The working methods of any such corporation and the dairies in which milk is produced under contract with it shall at all times be subject to investigation by the department of public health.

Section 25. Whoever sells or exchanges, or offers or exposes for sale or exchange as and for certified milk any milk not conforming to the regulations prescribed by and bearing the certification of a corporation organized under sections twenty to twenty-five, inclusive, shall be …

Section 26. No corporation organized under general laws for the purpose of fostering, encouraging or engaging in athletic exercises or for the establishment and maintenance of places for reading rooms, libraries or social meetings, or organized under this chapter for the purpose …

Section 26A. (1) Every corporation heretofore or hereafter organized under general or special law for any purpose mentioned in section four, every corporation to which the provisions of chapter one hundred and fifty-six do not apply and which is licensed to conduct a horse racing…

Section 26B. A corporation which is required to file annual reports with the state secretary shall be deemed to be in good standing with the state secretary if such corporation has filed all annual reports required to be filed by it with the state secretary, has paid all fees due…

Section 27. If any person is convicted of exposing and keeping for sale or selling alcoholic beverages, as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and thirty-eight, on the premises occupied by any club or organization described in section four or of illegal gaming upon said…

Section 28. If a person is convicted of a violation of section 12 of chapter 265 for engaging in, giving or promoting a public or private boxing, kickboxing, mixed martial arts or other unarmed combative sporting match or sparring exhibition, the contestants who have received or …

Section 29. Cities and towns may by ordinance or by-law regulate the conducting within their respective limits of entertainments, dances and other diversions and amusements not required by law to be licensed, including the hours of holding the same, by corporations which are subj…

Section 3. One or more persons, of the age of eighteen years or more in the case of natural persons, may act as incorporators to form a corporation for any of the purposes mentioned in section four. The corporation shall be formed in the manner prescribed in and subject to sectio…

Section 3A. Whenever any document authorized or required to be filed with the state secretary under any provision of this chapter has been so filed and is an inaccurate record of the corporate action therein referred to, or was defectively or erroneously executed, such instrument…

Section 4. A corporation may be formed for any one or more of the following purposes: (a) for any civic, educational, charitable, benevolent or religious purpose; (b) for the prosecution of any antiquarian, historical, literary, scientific, medical, chiropractic, artistic, monume…

Section 4A. Credit counseling services as used in this chapter shall mean (a) the providing of financial and budgetary advice and judgment to individuals in connection with the creation of a budgetary plan; or (b) the creation of a plan whereby an individual turns over an agreed …

Section 5. Before making and issuing a certificate of incorporation to or approving a change of location of the principal office of a corporation formed for any of the purposes described in section four or approving the change of name of any corporation formed as aforesaid which …

Section 6. A corporation shall have in furtherance of its corporate purposes the powers specified in paragraphs (a) to (d), inclusive, and clause (k) of section nine of chapter one hundred and fifty-six B and the power to convey land to which it has a legal title. Except as other…

Section 6A. A corporation may make, amend and repeal by-laws in the manner prescribed in and subject to sections sixteen and seventeen of chapter one hundred and fifty-six B, substituting members for stockholders. A corporation may prescribe by its by-laws the manner in which and…

Section 6B. If members of a corporation are entitled to vote on any corporate action but are not entitled to vote on action proposed under section seven or eight A, the corporation shall give to such members prior notice of any action proposed under said section seven or eight A.…

Section 6C. A director, officer or incorporator of a corporation shall perform his duties as such, including, in the case of a director, his duties as a member of a committee of the board upon which he may serve, in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believes to be in the b…

Section 6D. Following any change in the board with the power of directors, and presiding financial and recording officers with the powers of president, treasurer, and clerk, the corporation may file in the office of the state secretary a certificate of such change signed under pe…

Section 7. A corporation may authorize, by vote of two-thirds of its members entitled to vote thereon or, in the case of a corporation having capital stock, the holders of two-thirds of its capital stock entitled to vote thereon at a meeting duly called for the purpose, with noti…

Section 7A. A corporation that is unable to comply with section seven or section ten may petition the state secretary for any amendment to its articles of organization, or for a restatement of its articles of organization, authorized by said section seven or for approval of artic…

Section 8A. (a) A corporation may authorize, by vote of two-thirds of its members entitled to vote thereon or, in the case of a corporation having capital stock, by the holders of two-thirds of its capital stock entitled to vote thereon, at a meeting duly called for the purpose, …

Section 9. Any civic, educational, charitable, benevolent, church or cemetery organization created or organized under the laws of the commonwealth, the evidence of the corporate existence of which is not on file in the records of the state secretary by reason of the destruction o…

Section 1. As used in this chapter, the following words shall unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— ''Charitable purpose'', the relief of poverty, the advancement of education or religion, the promotion of health, the promotion of a governme…

Section 2. (a) Subject to the intent of a donor expressed in a gift instrument, an institution, in managing and investing an institutional fund, shall consider the charitable purposes of the institution and the purposes of the institutional fund. (b) In addition to complying with…

Section 3. (a) Subject to the intent of a donor expressed in the gift instrument, an institution may appropriate for expenditure or accumulate so much of an endowment fund as the institution determines is prudent for the uses, benefits, purposes and duration for which the endowme…

Section 4. (a) Subject to any specific limitation set forth in a gift instrument or in other general or special law, an institution may delegate to an external agent the management and investment of an institutional fund to the extent that an institution could prudently delegate …

Section 5. (a) If the donor consents in a record, an institution may release or modify, in whole or in part, a restriction contained in a gift instrument on the management, investment, duration or purpose of an institutional fund. A release or modification shall not allow a fund …

Section 6. Compliance with this chapter shall be determined in light of the facts and circumstances existing at the time a decision is made or an action is taken and not by hindsight.

Section 7. This chapter shall apply to institutional funds existing on or established after June 30, 2009. As applied to institutional funds existing on June 30, 2009, this chapter shall govern only decisions made or actions taken on or after that date.

Section 8. This chapter modifies, limits and supersedes the electronic signatures in the Global and National Commerce Act, 15 U.S.C. Section 7001 et seq., but does not modify, limit or supersede Section 101(c) of said act, 15 U.S.C. Section 7001(c) or authorize electronic deliver…

Section 9. In applying and construing this chapter, consideration shall be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact the Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act. To the extent that any provision of …

Section 1. The following words, as used in this chapter, shall, except as otherwise expressly provided in section two A, have the following meanings: ''Association'', a voluntary association under a written instrument or declaration of trust, the beneficial interest under which i…

Section 10. The supreme judicial court shall have jurisdiction in equity to enforce compliance with the three preceding sections, and with all orders of the department made under authority thereof.

Section 11. Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed as authorizing, requiring or justifying the department in making any recommendations, rulings or orders with respect to the rates charged or the service furnished by any corporation subject to its supervision, to ta…

Section 12. Every association or trust shall annually on or before June first file with the state secretary a report signed under the penalties of perjury by its trustees stating (a) the name of the association or trust; (b) the location (with street address) of its principal off…

Section 13. The state secretary shall examine such report, and if he finds that it conforms to the requirements of this chapter, he shall endorse his approval thereon, and upon the payment of a fee to be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provisio…

Section 14. If the trust or association fails to file its report within the time required by law, the state secretary shall give notice by mail, postage prepaid, to such trust or association in default. If the trust or association omits to file such report within thirty days afte…

Section 2. The trustees of an association or trust shall file a copy of the written instrument or declaration of trust creating it with the secretary and with the clerk of every city or town where such association or trust has a usual place of business. The fee for filing said co…

Section 2A. No association or trust shall assume the name of any corporation established under the laws of the commonwealth, or of a corporation, firm, or association or trust whether or not as defined in section one, or of an individual, carrying on business in the commonwealth …

Section 2B. This section shall apply to a trust that is an investment company, as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, and that is registered thereunder with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. A trustee of a trust who with respect to the trust is not …

Section 3. The trustees of an association or trust who own or control a majority of the capital stock of a railroad, street railway, electric railroad, elevated railway, gas, electric or water company, or corporation engaged in the common carriage of passengers by motor vehicle s…

Section 4. The trustees of an association or trust who own or control a majority of the capital stock of a railroad, street railway, electric railroad, elevated railway, gas, electric or water company, or corporation engaged in the common carriage of passengers by motor vehicle s…