Massachusetts General Laws
Title XI - Certain Religious and Charitable Matters
Chapter 68 - Donations and Conveyances for Pious and Charitable Uses

Section 1 - Corporate Bodies, Church Officers As - Section 1. The deacons, wardens or similar officers of churches...

Section 2 - Corporate Bodies; Status of Ministers and Lay Officials - Section 2. When the ministers, elders or vestry of a...

Section 3 - Management of Trusts; Appointment of Trustees; Rules and Regulations - Section 3. Incorporated and unincorporated religious societies and churches may...

Section 4 - Corporate Bodies, Trustees As - Section 4. Churches or religious societies may appoint trustees, not...

Section 5 - Succession of Parsonage Land - Section 5. The minister of a church or religious society,...

Section 6 - Regulation of Conveyances of Church Land - Section 6. No conveyance of the land of a church...

Section 7 - Conveyance of Land by Minister - Section 7. No conveyance by a minister of land held...

Section 8 - Committees to Settle Accounts of Officers - Section 8. The several churches, other than those of the...

Section 10 - Overseers or Trustees of Monthly Meeting of Quakers as Corporation - Section 10. The overseers or trustees of each monthly meeting...

Section 11 - Monthly Meeting of Quakers; Appointment of Trustees; Powers and Duties - Section 11. Such monthly meeting may appoint, in such manner...

Section 12 - Unincorporated Religious Societies; Powers - Section 12. Unincorporated religious societies shall have like power as...

Section 13 - Reports of Trustees - Section 13. All trustees, whether incorporated or not, who hold...

Section 14 - Removal of Trustees - Section 14. The probate court for the county where a...

Section 16 - Regulation of Solicitation of Funds for Charitable Purposes on Public Ways - Section 16. Every person, association or corporation, domestic or foreign,...

Section 18 - Definitions Applicable to Secs. 18 to 35 - Section 18. When used in this section, and in sections...

Section 19 - Registration of Charitable Organization; Filing of Statement; Contents - Section 19. Every charitable organization, except one granted an exemption...

Section 19a - Designation as Veterans' Charitable Organization - Section 19A. Any person or charitable organization established for an...

Section 20 - Exemption From Registration - Section 20. The following shall not be required to file...

Section 22 - Contracts - Section 22. (a) Every contract or agreement between a professional...

Section 23 - Solicitation Disclosures - Section 23. Solicitations by professional solicitors and solicitations by commercial...

Section 24 - Registration by Professional Fund-Raising Counsel, Commercial Co-Venturer, or Professional Solicitor; Annual Financial Report - Section 24. (a) No person shall act as a professional...

Section 25 - Records; Public Inspection - Section 25. Registration statements, applications, reports, contracts or agreements of...

Section 26 - Fiscal Records - Section 26. Every professional fund raising counsel, commercial co-venturer, professional...

Section 27 - Reciprocal Agreements - Section 27. The division may enter into reciprocal agreements with...

Section 28 - Deceptive Practices Prohibited - Section 28. (a) No charitable organization, professional fund-raising counsel, commercial...

Section 29 - Rules and Regulations - Section 29. The director shall from time to time formulate...

Section 30 - Investigation of Violations - Section 30. (a) The attorney general, whenever he believes a...

Section 31 - Foreign Organizations or Persons; Service of Process - Section 31. Any charitable organization or professional fund-raising counsel, commercial...

Section 32 - Violations; Revocation of Registration; Fines and Penalties; Injunctions - Section 32. (a) If any registered charitable organization, professional fund-raising...

Section 33 - Fiduciary Capacity - Section 33. Every person soliciting, collecting or expending, for charitable...

Section 34 - Common Fund for Nonprofit Organizations; Membership; Investments - Section 34. Any organization organized under the laws of the...

Section 35 - Paid Solicitations and Solicitors; Violations; Fine - Section 35. Any person who solicits contributions from the public...