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General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 180 Corporations for Charitable and Certain Other Purposes.
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- Massachusetts General Laws - Application of chapter - Chapter 180, Section 1
This chapter shall apply to all corporations whenever established, except so far as such application may be inconsistent with provisions still in force of any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 180, Section 2
In this chapter the following words shall, unless a contrary intention appears, have the following meanings:— (a) “articles of organization”, the articles of organization of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - 2B. Repealed, 1971, 819, Sec. 3 - Chapter 180, Section 2A
Chapter 180: Section 2A, 2B. Repealed, 1971, 819, Sec. 3
- Massachusetts General Laws - Charitable corporations; incorporators; manner of incorporation; classes of members; personal liability of officers and directors to corporation - Chapter 180, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Correction of inaccurate corporate records; filing - Chapter 180, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Purposes - Chapter 180, 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)...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Credit counseling services; practice of law - Chapter 180, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Investigation by local authorities of proposed corporation or corporations seeking change of location or name - Chapter 180, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Corporate powers; religious corporations; indemnification of officers, et al - Chapter 180, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - By-laws; contents - Chapter 180, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Proposed actions under sec. 7 or 8A; notice to certain non-voting members - Chapter 180, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Director, officer or incorporator; performance of duties; standard - Chapter 180, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Filing certificate of change regarding powers of directors, etc - Chapter 180, 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,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Amendment or restatement of articles of organization; change of purposes or name; approval - Chapter 180, 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,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Amendment or restatement of articles of organization, or articles of consolidation or merger; inability to comply with sec. 7 or 10; approval - Chapter 180, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1947, 559, Sec. 3 - Chapter 180, Section 8
Chapter 180: Section 8. Repealed, 1947, 559, Sec. 3
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sale, lease, or exchange of corporate property and assets; grant of security interest; public charities - Chapter 180, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Evidence of corporate existence - Chapter 180, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1971, 819, Sec. 5 - Chapter 180, Section 9A
Chapter 180: Section 9A. Repealed, 1971, 819, Sec. 5
- Massachusetts General Laws - Consolidation and merger of domestic corporations; agreement; submission of articles; filing copy of articles - Chapter 180, Section 10
(a) Any two or more corporations as defined in section two and any such corporation and any other corporations organized under other laws of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Consolidation and merger with foreign corporations; agreement; submission of articles; filing copy of articles - Chapter 180, Section 10A
(a) Any one or more corporations as defined in section two may consolidate or merge with one or more other corporations organized under the laws...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Effect of merger or consolidation under sec. 10 or 10A - Chapter 180, Section 10B
Any consolidation or merger carried out in the manner specified in section ten or ten A shall have the effect set forth in section eighty...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Application of laws; exception - Chapter 180, Section 10C
Every corporation shall, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, be subject to sections six, eight, ten, eleven, fourteen, thirty-two, thirty-five, thirty-seven, thirty-eight A, forty-three,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Dissolution; non-charitable corporation - Chapter 180, Section 11
A corporation which does not constitute a public charity and which desires to close its affairs may, unless otherwise provided in its articles of organization,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Dissolution; voluntary; charitable corporation - Chapter 180, Section 11A
A charitable corporation constituting a public charity organized under the provisions of general or special law, which desires to close its affairs may, by vote...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Dissolution; involuntary; failure of charitable corporation to file annual financial reports - Chapter 180, Section 11B
If any charitable corporation described in section eleven A fails to comply for two consecutive years with the provisions of section eight F of chapter...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Filing fees - Chapter 180, Section 11C
Filing fees for the following shall be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven: (a)...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1954, 529, Sec. 4 - Chapter 180, Section 12
Chapter 180: Section 12, 12A. Repealed, 1954, 529, Secs. 4, 5
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1954, 529, Sec. 5 - Chapter 180, Section 12A
Medical Corporation.
Horse Breeding Corporations.
Labor or Trade Organizations.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Labor or trade organizations; purposes - Chapter 180, Section 15
Corporations may be formed under this chapter for improving the condition of any employees in any one or more trades or employments, either relative to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Approval of certificate of organization - Chapter 180, Section 16
The state secretary shall not endorse his approval upon the certificate of organization of any such corporation, unless satisfied that the purposes thereof are lawful,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - By-laws - Chapter 180, Section 17
The by-laws shall contain clear and distinct provisions relative to the election, admission and expulsion of members; the titles, duties, powers and tenure of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Pay-roll deductions for union dues of employees of state, county or municipality - Chapter 180, Section 17A
Deductions on pay-roll schedules may be made from the salary of any state, county or municipal employee of any amount which such employee may specify...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Community chest or united fund; pay-roll deductions of town, county or state employees - Chapter 180, Section 17B
Deductions on pay-roll schedules may be made from the salary of any town, county or state employee of any amount which such employee may specify...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Associations of public school teachers; payroll deductions for dues - Chapter 180, Section 17C
Deductions on payroll schedules may be made from the salaries of a school teacher for the current dues of teacher associations, local, county, state or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - School teachers; payroll deductions for income protection insurance premiums - Chapter 180, Section 17D
With the approval of a school committee deductions may be made from the salary of a school teacher of any amount which such teacher may...
- Massachusetts General Laws - School nurses; payroll deductions for dues to associations of teachers - Chapter 180, Section 17E
A city, town or regional school district may provide for deductions on payroll schedules from the salary of a school nurse for the payment of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - State employees; payroll deductions for contributions to Massachusetts independent health agencies - Chapter 180, Section 17F
Deductions on payroll schedules may be made from the salary of any state employee of any amount which such employee may specify in writing to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - State, county or municipal employees; payroll deductions for payment of service fees to collective bargaining agencies - Chapter 180, Section 17G
Deductions on payroll schedules shall be made from the salary of any state, county or municipal employee of any amount which such employee may specify...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Public employees; payroll deductions for periodic pass for public transportation - Chapter 180, Section 17H
Deductions on pay-roll schedules may be made from the salary of any state, county or municipal or other public employee of an amount which such...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Payroll deductions for public school teachers - Chapter 180, Section 17I
A single deduction on payroll schedules shall be made from the salary of any school teacher in an amount which such teacher may specify in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Public employees; payroll deductions for insurance or employee benefits - Chapter 180, Section 17J
Deductions on payroll schedules may be made from the salary of any state, county, municipal or other public employee of an amount which such employee...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Expulsion of member; examination of books by member - Chapter 180, Section 18
No member of such corporation shall be expelled by vote of less than a majority of all the members thereof, nor by vote of less...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Fines imposed on members by unions - Chapter 180, Section 19
No fine or notice of intention to impose a fine by any union or any other association, incorporated or unincorporated, or by any authorized representative...
Medical Milk Commission.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Medical milk commission; formation; definition - Chapter 180, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Name - Chapter 180, 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,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Salary emolument or compensation received by member from dairymen - Chapter 180, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Contracts for production of milk - Chapter 180, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Investigatory powers of department of public health - Chapter 180, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Violations; penalty - Chapter 180, 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...
Miscellaneous Provisions.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Change of location by certain corporations - Chapter 180, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Annual statements; required information; certification; fee; violations; penalties - Chapter 180, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Corporation in good standing with state secretary; certificate - Chapter 180, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Conviction under liquor or gambling laws; voiding charter - Chapter 180, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Conviction of conducting illegal boxing match; voiding charter - Chapter 180, Section 28
If any person is convicted of illegally engaging in, giving or promoting a public or private boxing match or sparring exhibition, the contestants in which...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Local regulation of entertainments, dances, etc - Chapter 180, 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...
Last modified: March 17, 2010
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