Massachusetts General Laws
Chapter 151d - Health, Welfare and Retirement Funds
Section 11 - Additional Penalties for Failure to Pay Contributions or Benefits; Venue for Complaints

Section 11. In addition to any other penalty of punishment otherwise prescribed by law any person or employee, and the president, secretary, and treasurer, or officers exercising corresponding functions, of a corporation which is an employer, who is party to an agreement to pay or provide the contributions or benefits covered by this chapter or who is so required to pay these contributions or benefits under the terms of sections twenty-six and twenty-seven of chapter one hundred and forty-nine, and who refuses or fails or neglects to pay such contributions or payments within thirty days after such payments are required to be made shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment in a jail or house of correction for not more than one year, or both.
A complaint under this section may be brought in the municipal court of the city of Boston, or in a district court within the territorial jurisdiction of which the employer has his principal place of business, or within which the contributions are to be paid, or, if said complaint is brought against an officer of a corporation, within which said officer lives.

Structure Massachusetts General Laws

Massachusetts General Laws

Part I - Administration of the Government

Title XXI - Labor and Industries

Chapter 151d - Health, Welfare and Retirement Funds

Section 1 - Definitions

Section 2 - Registration of Trusts, Funds or Plans; Form, etc.; Approval; Filing; Time; Proceedings; Venue; Violations; Penalties

Section 3 - Annual Report or Other Reports by Trustees or Plan Administrators; Exemptions; Information Required; Form; Filing; Time; Powers of Board; Conflicts of Interest; Restrictions; Violations; Penalties; Proceedings; Service of Process on Nonre...

Section 3a - Periodic Review of Registered Pension Plans; Exceptions; Report

Section 4 - Reimbursement for Visual Services

Section 5 - Fees; Registration of Trust or Fund; Filing Annual Reports

Section 6 - Embezzlement or Misappropriation of Trust Funds; Fraud; Penalties

Section 7 - Application of Chapter; Exceptions

Section 8 - Waiver of Compliance With Requirements of This Chapter; Application; Form; Revocation; Judicial Review

Section 9 - Waiver of Requirement for Statutory Vested Benefits; Procedures

Section 10 - Compliance With Other Applicable Laws by Trustees or Plan Administrators

Section 11 - Additional Penalties for Failure to Pay Contributions or Benefits; Venue for Complaints

Section 12 - Bond of Trustee or Plan Administrator; Waiver; Failure to File Certification Thereof; Penalty

Section 13 - Statutory Vested Benefits; Requirement; Standards

Section 14 - Termination of Pension Plan or Profit-Sharing Retirement Plan; Allocation of Benefits and Vesting of Interests; Insurance; Notices

Section 15 - Violations by Trustee or Plan Administrator; Injunctive Relief

Section 16 - Investments and Management

Section 18 - Severability