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Section 1 - Application of Chapter - Section 1. This chapter shall apply to all corporations whenever...
Section 2 - Definitions - [ Section impacted by 2020, 53, Sec. 16, as amended...
Section 3 - Incorporators; Manner of Incorporation; Classes of Members; Personal Liability of Officers and Directors to Corporation - Section 3. One or more persons, of the age of...
Section 3a - Correction of Inaccurate Corporate Records; Filing - Section 3A. Whenever any document authorized or required to be...
Section 4 - Purposes - Section 4. A corporation may be formed for any one...
Section 4a - Credit Counseling Services; Practice of Law - Section 4A. Credit counseling services as used in this chapter...
Section 5 - Investigation by Local Authorities of Proposed Corporation or Corporations Seeking Change of Location or Name - Section 5. Before making and issuing a certificate of incorporation...
Section 6 - Corporate Powers; Religious Corporations; Indemnification of Officers, Et Al. - Section 6. A corporation shall have in furtherance of its...
Section 6a - By-Laws; Contents - Section 6A. A corporation may make, amend and repeal by-laws...
Section 6b - Notice of Actions Proposed Under Sec. 7 or Sec. 8a; Notice to Certain Non-Voting Members - Section 6B. If members of a corporation are entitled to...
Section 6c - Directors, Officers or Incorporators; Good Faith Performance of Duties; Liability - Section 6C. A director, officer or incorporator of a corporation...
Section 6d - Filing Certificate of Change Regarding Powers of Directors, Etc. - Section 6D. Following any change in the board with the...
Section 7 - Amendment or Restatement of Articles of Organization; Change of Purposes or Name; Approval - Section 7. A corporation may authorize, by vote of two-thirds...
Section 7a - Amendment or Restatement of Articles of Organization, or Articles of Consolidation or Merger; Inability to Comply With Sec. 7 or Sec. 10; Approval - Section 7A. A corporation that is unable to comply with...
Section 8a - Sale, Lease, or Exchange of Corporate Property and Assets; Grant of Security Interest; Public Charities; Notification of Attorney General and Commissioner of Public Health; Investigation - Section 8A. (a) A corporation may authorize, by vote of...
Section 9 - Evidence of Corporate Existence - Section 9. Any civic, educational, charitable, benevolent, church or cemetery...
Section 10 - Consolidation and Merger; Agreement; Submission of Articles; Filing Copy of Articles - Section 10. (a) Any two or more corporations as defined...
Section 10a - Consolidation and Merger With Foreign Corporations; Agreement; Governing State Law; Submission of Articles; Filing of Articles - Section 10A. (a) Any one or more corporations as defined...
Section 10b - Consolidation and Merger; Effect; Amendments - Section 10B. Any consolidation or merger carried out in the...
Section 10c - Application of Laws; Exception - Section 10C. Every corporation shall, except as otherwise provided in...
Section 11 - Dissolution; Non-Charitable Corporation - Section 11. A corporation which does not constitute a public...
Section 11a - Dissolution; Voluntary; Charitable Corporation - Section 11A. (a) A charitable corporation constituting a public charity...
Section 11b - Dissolution; Involuntary; Failure of Charitable Corporation to File Annual Financial Reports - Section 11B. If any charitable corporation described in section eleven...
Section 11c - Filing Fees - Section 11C. Filing fees for the following shall be determined...
Section 13 - Conferring of Degree or Issuance of Diploma or Certificate Purporting to Confer Degree by Medical Corporation Prohibited - Section 13. A corporation organized under this chapter for medical...
Section 14 - Establishment and Maintenance of Exhibition Grounds and Holding of Exhibition by Horse Breeding Corporation - Section 14. Corporations formed under this chapter for encouraging the...
Section 15 - Trade or Employment Organizations - Section 15. Corporations may be formed under this chapter for...
Section 16 - Approval of Certificate of Organization - Section 16. The state secretary shall not endorse his approval...
Section 17 - By-Laws - Section 17. The by-laws shall contain clear and distinct provisions...
Section 17a - Pay-Roll Deductions for Union Dues of Employees of State, County or Municipality; Revocation - Section 17A. Deductions on payroll schedules may be made from...
Section 17b - Community Chest, United Fund, Scholarship, etc.; Pay-Roll Deductions of Town, County or State Employees - Section 17B. Deductions on pay-roll schedules may be made from...
Section 17d - School Teachers; Payroll Deductions for Income Protection Insurance Premiums - Section 17D. With the approval of a school committee deductions...
Section 17f - State Employees; Payroll Deductions for Contributions to Massachusetts Independent Health Agencies - Section 17F. Deductions on payroll schedules may be made from...
Section 17h - Public Employees; Payroll Deductions for Periodic Pass for Public Transportation - Section 17H. Deductions on pay-roll schedules may be made from...
Section 17i - Payroll Deductions for Public School Teachers - Section 17I. A single deduction on payroll schedules shall be...
Section 17j - Public Employees; Payroll Deductions for Insurance or Employee Benefits - Section 17J. Deductions on payroll schedules may be made from...
Section 17k - State Employees; Payroll Deductions for Near-Site Parking Fees, On-Site Child Care Fees and Other Employer-Provided Benefits - Section 17K. Deductions on payroll schedules may be made from...
Section 17l - Public Employee; Payroll Deductions for Qualified State Tuition Program - Section 17L. Deductions on payroll schedules may be made from...
Section 17m - State Police Employees; Payroll Deductions for Contributions to State Police Museum and Learning Center, Inc. - Section 17M. A deduction on a payroll schedule may be...
Section 17n - University of Massachusetts Employee Payroll Deductions for Certain University Sponsored Activities; Withdrawal of Authorization; Transmittal of Sum - Section 17N. Deductions on payroll schedules may be made from...
Section 18 - Expulsion of Member; Examination of Books by Member - Section 18. No member of such corporation shall be expelled...
Section 19 - Fines Imposed on Members by Unions - Section 19. No fine or notice of intention to impose...
Section 20 - Medical Milk Commission; Formation; Definition - Section 20. For the purpose of supervising the production of...
Section 21 - Medical Milk Commission; Naming and Designation of Town Where Established - Section 21. The name of any such corporation shall be...
Section 22 - Salary, Emolument or Other Compensation Received by Member From Dairymen Prohibited - Section 22. No member of any such corporation shall receive...
Section 23 - Contracts for Production of Milk - Section 23. Every such corporation may enter into written agreements...
Section 24 - Investigatory Powers of Department of Public Health - Section 24. The working methods of any such corporation and...
Section 25 - Violations; Penalty - Section 25. Whoever sells or exchanges, or offers or exposes...
Section 26 - Change of Location by Certain Corporations - Section 26. No corporation organized under general laws for the...
Section 26a - Annual Statements; Required Information; Certification; Fee; Violations; Penalties - Section 26A. (1) Every corporation heretofore or hereafter organized under...
Section 26b - Corporation in Good Standing; Certificate - Section 26B. A corporation which is required to file annual...
Section 27 - Conviction Under Liquor or Gambling Laws; Voiding Charter - Section 27. If any person is convicted of exposing and...
Section 28 - Conviction of Conducting Illegal Match; Voiding of Charter of Club or Organization - [ Text of section effective until July 18, 2021. For...
Section 29 - Local Regulation of Entertainments, Dances, Etc. - Section 29. Cities and towns may by ordinance or by-law...