Section 3. Persons desiring to form a medical service corporation shall incorporate as provided in section three of chapter one hundred and eighty. Every certificate of organization of a medical service corporation formed under this chapter, before being filed under chapter one hundred and eighty, shall have endorsed thereon or attached thereto the consent of the department of public health and of the commissioner of public welfare. The board of directors of a medical service corporation shall number not less than nine, of whom at least three and not more than one third shall be subscribing members of such a medical service corporation and of whom at least three and not more than one third shall be physicians who are members of the Massachusetts Medical Society or other recognized association of physicians and who are not associated physicians of the medical service plan.
Structure Massachusetts General Laws
Part I - Administration of the Government
Chapter 176c - Non-Profit Medical Service Plans
Section 3 - Incorporators; Approval of Certificate of Organization; Board of Directors
Section 4 - Contracts to Provide Medical Service
Section 6 - Associated Physician; Grounds for Termination of Agreement
Section 7 - Subscribers; Choice of Physician
Section 8 - Form and Content of Subscription Agreement
Section 9 - Annual Statement; Verification; Content; Violations
Section 11 - Depositary for Funds
Section 12 - Submission of Disputes; Review of Determination
Section 13 - Grounds for Enjoining Transaction of Business; Receivers; Distribution of Funds
Section 14 - Tax Exemption; Liability
Section 15 - Excise Tax; Violation
Section 16 - Salaries, Compensation or Emoluments
Section 16a - Pay-Roll Deductions for Governmental Employees
Section 17 - Right of Organization to Provide Medical Services