General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 156B Certain Business Corporations

• Massachusetts General Laws - Short title - Chapter 156B, Section 1
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Business Corporation Law.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions; corporation; articles of organization - Chapter 156B, Section 2
  In this chapter, unless a contrary intention appears: (a) “corporation” shall mean a corporation to which, under section three, this chapter applies; and (b) “articles...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application of chapter - Chapter 156B, Section 3
  Except so far as such application may be inconsistent with (i) provisions still in force of any special acts of incorporation, enacted before March eleventh,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rights and liabilities of existing corporations, directors, officers and stockholders - Chapter 156B, Section 4
  All corporations existing on October first, nineteen hundred and sixty-five and their directors, officers and stockholders shall be entitled to all the rights, privileges and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Adoption of chapter by certain corporations created by special act; liability for debts - Chapter 156B, Section 5
  Corporations which would otherwise be within the application of this chapter pursuant to clause (a) of section three, but which were created before March eleventh,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - State secretary; duties - Chapter 156B, Section 6
  The state secretary shall examine each document submitted to him under the provisions of this chapter. If he finds that the provisions of law relative...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Correction of inaccurate corporate records; filing - Chapter 156B, Section 6A
  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 - Change of law; effect - Chapter 156B, Section 7
  All corporations shall be subject to such laws as may be enacted affecting or altering their corporate rights or duties or dissolving them.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Voting by stockholders; effect of articles of organization or by-laws - Chapter 156B, Section 8
  (a) Whenever, with respect to any action to be taken by the stockholders of a corporation, the articles of organization or by-laws require the vote...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Corporate powers; exceptions - Chapter 156B, Section 9
  Except as otherwise provided in its articles of organization, every corporation shall have power in furtherance of its corporate purposes: (a) to have perpetual succession...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Partnership - Chapter 156B, Section 9A
  If and to the extent authorized by its articles of organization, a corporation may be a partner in any business enterprise which said corporation would...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Contracts of guarantee and suretyship - Chapter 156B, Section 9B
  A corporation may make contracts of guarantee and suretyship, whether or not in furtherance of the contracting corporation’s purposes; provided, however, that such contracts are...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unauthorized exercise of franchise or privilege or transaction of business; injunction - Chapter 156B, Section 10
  Upon an information in equity by the attorney general at the relation of the state secretary, the supreme judicial or superior court may restrain by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Name - Chapter 156B, Section 11
  (a) A corporation may assume any name which, in the judgment of the state secretary, indicates that it is incorporated; but it shall not assume...
• Massachusetts General Laws - First meeting; by-laws; officers; consent to action; articles of organization - Chapter 156B, Section 12
  One or more persons, of the age of eighteen years or more in the case of natural persons, may act as incorporators of a corporation...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Articles of organization; contents - Chapter 156B, Section 13
  (a) The articles of organization shall state: (1) that the incorporators (stating their names, including their given names, and post office addresses) associate themselves with...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Change of principal office - Chapter 156B, Section 14
  The directors of a corporation may at any time, and from time to time, change the principal office of the corporation in the commonwealth; provided,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Limitation on stock holdings in certain other corporations - Chapter 156B, Section 15
  No corporation, unless authorized by a special act still in force, shall purchase, acquire, take or hold, directly or indirectly, more than ten per cent...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Scope of by-laws - Chapter 156B, Section 16
  A corporation may make by-laws which may contain any provisions not inconsistent with law or the articles of organization for the regulation and management of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Power to make, amend and repeal by-laws - Chapter 156B, Section 17
  The power to make, amend or repeal by-laws shall be in the stockholders; provided that if authorized by the articles of organization, the by-laws may...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Consideration for issuance of stock - Chapter 156B, Section 18
  Capital stock may be issued for cash, tangible or intangible property, services, or for a debt, note or expenses. Stock having par value shall not...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Payment for stock; cash or instalments; record; transfer - Chapter 156B, Section 19
  Stock issued for cash may be paid for in full before it is issued or by instalments. If it is paid for by instalments and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Pre-emptive rights - Chapter 156B, Section 20
  No stockholder shall have any pre-emptive right to acquire stock of the corporation except to the extent provided in the articles of organization or in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unissued shares; authority to issue; consideration - Chapter 156B, Section 21
  Any unissued capital stock from time to time authorized under the articles of organization may be issued by vote of the stockholders, or by vote...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reacquired shares; restoration to unissued share status - Chapter 156B, Section 21A
  Shares of stock previously issued which have been reacquired by the corporation, may, unless the articles of organization or by-laws otherwise require, be restored to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Terms of payment; demand; notice of payment due - Chapter 156B, Section 22
  In the case of capital stock authorized to be issued for cash, whether or not to be paid in full before issue, the directors may...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Stockholders’ liability for issued stock - Chapter 156B, Section 23
  Shares of stock issued in accordance with section twenty-one shall, except for unpaid instalments on instalment stock issued pursuant to section nineteen, be fully paid...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Default of subscriber; sale; deficiency or surplus; action; forfeiture - Chapter 156B, Section 24
  If capital stock issued for cash is to be paid for in full before it is issued, and the subscriber refuses or neglects to pay...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Default in instalment payments; sale; surplus or deficiency; action; forfeiture; dividends on forfeited shares - Chapter 156B, Section 25
  If capital stock is issued payable by instalments, and a stockholder refuses or neglects to pay an instalment for thirty days after the time limited...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Division of class of stock into series; variations; reissue of restored shares; filing of certificate - Chapter 156B, Section 26
  If the articles of organization so provide, the directors may determine, in whole or in part, the preferences, voting powers, qualifications, and special or relative...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certificates for shares held - Chapter 156B, Section 27
  (a) The shares of a corporation shall be represented by certificates or shall be uncertificated shares. Each such certificate shall be signed by the chairman...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fractional shares; scrip; dividends and voting rights; exchange or sale - Chapter 156B, Section 28
  Except as otherwise provided in the articles of organization or by-laws, a corporation may issue fractional shares of stock, and may issue in lieu thereof...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Replacement of certificates - Chapter 156B, Section 29
  The directors of a corporation may, subject to section 8-405 of chapter one hundred and six and to the by-laws of the corporation, determine the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate for stock transferred as collateral security - Chapter 156B, Section 30
  A pledgee of certificated stock transferred as collateral security shall be entitled to a new certificate if the instrument of transfer substantially describes the debt...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unclaimed dividends; publication - Chapter 156B, Section 31
  Every corporation shall, once in every five years, publish once each week for three successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in Boston, and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Location of records; stock and transfer records, evidence, exhibition or refusal, court order - Chapter 156B, Section 32
  The original, or attested copies, of the articles of organization, by-laws, and records of all meetings of incorporators and stockholders, and the stock and transfer...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Restrictions on exercise, transfer, receipt or holding of rights or options issued by corporations - Chapter 156B, Section 32A
  The terms and conditions of any rights or options issued by the corporation, including those outstanding on the effective date of this section, may include,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Annual stockholders’ meeting - Chapter 156B, Section 33
  There shall be an annual meeting of stockholders within six months after the end of the fiscal year of the corporation. The date, hour and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Special stockholders’ meeting - Chapter 156B, Section 34
  (a) Special meetings of the stockholders of a corporation not described in subsection (b) may be called by the president or by the directors, and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Place of stockholders’ meetings - Chapter 156B, Section 35
  Meetings of stockholders shall be held within the commonwealth or, to the extent permitted by the articles of organization, elsewhere in the United States.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of stockholders’ meeting - Chapter 156B, Section 36
  A written notice of the place, date and hour of all meetings of stockholders stating the purposes of the meeting shall be given by the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Waiver of notice - Chapter 156B, Section 37
  Whenever notice of a meeting is required to be given a stockholder under any provision of this chapter or of the articles of organization or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1986, 186, Sec. 7 - Chapter 156B, Section 38
  Repealed, 1986, 186, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Filing of certificate - Chapter 156B, Section 38A
  Following any change in the fiscal year previously adopted, a certificate of such change, signed under the penalties of perjury by the clerk or an...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Quorum - Chapter 156B, Section 39
  Unless the articles of organization or by-laws otherwise provide, a majority in interest of all stock issued, outstanding and entitled to vote at a meeting...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Voting by corporation - Chapter 156B, Section 40
  No corporation shall directly or indirectly vote any share of its own stock. Nothing in this section shall be construed as limiting the right of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Stockholders’ voting rights; proxy regulations - Chapter 156B, Section 41
  Stockholders entitled to vote shall have one vote for each share of stock owned by them and a proportionate vote for a fractional share; provided...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Agreements for voting shares - Chapter 156B, Section 41A
  An agreement between two or more stockholders or between one or more stockholders and one or more other persons, if in writing and signed by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Record date; closing transfer books - Chapter 156B, Section 42
  The directors may fix in advance a time, which, unless a shorter period is provided in the articles of organization or the by-laws, shall be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Consent in lieu of stockholders’ meeting; effect - Chapter 156B, Section 43
  Any action required or permitted to be taken at any meeting of the stockholders may be taken without a meeting if all stockholders entitled to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Exercise of stockholders’ rights by incorporators prior to stock issuance - Chapter 156B, Section 44
  Prior to the initial issue of stock by a corporation, the incorporators may exercise all rights of stockholders and take any action required or permitted...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Stockholders’ liability on distribution causing insolvency - Chapter 156B, Section 45
  Stockholders to whom a corporation makes any distribution, whether by way of dividend, repurchase or redemption of stock, or otherwise, except a distribution of stock...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Stockholder’s action; qualifications of plaintiff - Chapter 156B, Section 46
  No stockholder shall institute or maintain any suit or proceeding in the right of the corporation against stockholders, directors or officers of the corporation as...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Directors; number; election; qualifications - Chapter 156B, Section 47
  Except as reserved to the stockholders pursuant to section fifty-four, the business of every corporation shall be managed by a board of directors. The number...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Election or appointment of officers; qualifications; bonds; records of proceedings - Chapter 156B, Section 48
  The officers of every corporation shall consist of a president, a treasurer and a clerk and such other officers as the corporation by its by-laws...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Resident agent - Chapter 156B, Section 49
  Any corporation may by vote of its directors appoint a resident agent as its true and lawful attorney upon whom all lawful processes in any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Term of officers and directors; contingent term; vacancy - Chapter 156B, Section 50
  Subject to the provisions of section fifty-one, the directors and the president, treasurer and clerk shall hold office until the next annual meeting and until...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Directors; staggered terms; election for exemption; vacancies - Chapter 156B, Section 50A
  (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this section and notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this chapter or in the articles of organization...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Removal of officers and directors - Chapter 156B, Section 51
  Except as otherwise provided in the articles of organization or by-laws, (a) directors and officers elected by stockholders, including persons elected by directors to fill...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Filling vacancies - Chapter 156B, Section 52
  Unless the articles of organization provide otherwise, any vacancy in the board of directors, however occurring, including a vacancy resulting from the enlargement of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of change in officers or directors; forfeiture for failure to file - Chapter 156B, Section 53
  Whenever any change is made in the directors or in the president, treasurer or clerk of a corporation, the corporation shall forthwith file in the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Powers of directors - Chapter 156B, Section 54
  The directors may exercise all the powers of the corporation, except such as by law, by the articles of organization or by the by-laws of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Committees; delegation of powers - Chapter 156B, Section 55
  If and to the extent authorized by its articles of organization or by its by-laws, a corporation may provide for an executive committee or other...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Meetings of directors; necessity of notice - Chapter 156B, Section 56
  Meetings of the directors may be held within or without the commonwealth. Unless otherwise provided by the by-laws, regular meetings of the directors, including the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Quorum at directors’ meeting - Chapter 156B, Section 57
  Unless otherwise provided in the by-laws, the number of directors required to constitute a quorum shall be a majority of the directors then in office....
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of directors’ meeting - Chapter 156B, Section 58
  The by-laws may prescribe what shall constitute proper notice of meetings of the directors. A notice or waiver of notice need not specify the purpose...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Consent in lieu of directors’ meeting; effect; telephone conference meetings - Chapter 156B, Section 59
  Unless the articles of organization or the by-laws otherwise provide, any action required or permitted to be taken at any meeting of the directors may...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Improper stock issue; liability of directors - Chapter 156B, Section 60
  If stock of a corporation is issued for a consideration which does not comply with the requirements of sections eighteen or twenty-one, the directors who...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unauthorized distributions; liability of directors - Chapter 156B, Section 61
  Directors of a corporation who vote to authorize any distribution by the corporation to one or more of its stockholders, whether by way of a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Loans to insiders; liability of officers and directors - Chapter 156B, Section 62
  The directors who vote for, and the officers who knowingly participate in, any loan of any assets of a corporation to any of its officers...
• Massachusetts General Laws - False statement or report; liability of officers - Chapter 156B, Section 63
  The directors and officers of a corporation who sign any statement or report required by this chapter which is false in any material representation shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - False articles; liability of officers and incorporators - Chapter 156B, Section 64
  The incorporators and officers of a corporation who sign any articles of organization, articles of amendment, or articles of consolidation or merger required by this...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Good faith and prudence as defense - Chapter 156B, Section 65
  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 - Contribution - Chapter 156B, Section 66
  Any director, officer or incorporator against whom a claim is successfully asserted under this chapter shall be entitled to contribution from the other directors or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Indemnification of officers and directors - Chapter 156B, Section 67
  Indemnification of directors, officers, employees and other agents of a corporation, and persons who serve at its request as directors, officers, employees or other agents...
• Massachusetts General Laws - False statement or report; domestic; punishment - Chapter 156B, Section 68
  Whoever knowingly makes, executes, files or publishes any report or statement required by law to be made, executed, filed or published by a corporation in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - False statement or report; other state or country; punishment - Chapter 156B, Section 69
  Whoever knowingly makes, executes or publishes any report or statement required by the law of another state or country to be made, executed, or published...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Amendments authorized by majority vote - Chapter 156B, Section 70
  A corporation may authorize, at a meeting duly called for the purpose, an amendment of its articles of organization, by vote of a majority of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Amendment of articles of organization; authorization by corporation - Chapter 156B, Section 71
  A corporation may, subject to the provisions of section eight, authorize, at a meeting duly called for the purpose, by vote of two-thirds of each...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Articles of amendment; filing; time effective - Chapter 156B, Section 72
  After any meeting at which any amendment of the articles of organization has been adopted, articles of amendment signed under the penalties of perjury by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Amendment on reorganization - Chapter 156B, Section 73
  (a) Any corporation, a plan of reorganization of which, pursuant to the provisions of any applicable statute of the United States relating to reorganizations of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Restatement of articles of organization; vote; filing; contents; time effective - Chapter 156B, Section 74
  Every corporation may authorize, at a meeting duly called for the purpose, by vote of a majority of each class of stock outstanding and entitled...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Mortgage or disposal of assets; vote; notice of meeting - Chapter 156B, Section 75
  (a) Every corporation may, subject to the provisions of section eight, authorize, at a meeting duly called for the purpose, by vote of two-thirds of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dissenting stockholder; right to demand payment for stock - Chapter 156B, Section 76
  A stockholder in any corporation which shall have voted to sell, lease or exchange all or substantially all its property and assets, or which shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Amendments adversely affecting rights of stockholder - Chapter 156B, Section 77
  For the purpose of this chapter, the rights of a stockholder shall not be considered adversely affected by any amendment of its articles of organization...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Consolidation or merger of corporations - Chapter 156B, Section 78
  (a) Any two or more corporations may consolidate to form a new corporation, or may merge into a single corporation, which may be any one...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Consolidation or merger with foreign corporation - Chapter 156B, Section 79
  (a) Any one or more corporations may consolidate or merge with one or more other corporations organized under the laws of any other state or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Effect of consolidation or merger; rights of creditors - Chapter 156B, Section 80
  (a) Upon the effective date of the consolidation or merger under articles of consolidation or merger filed pursuant to sections seventy-eight or seventy-nine, for all...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Surviving or new corporation; bond and stock issues to complete merger or consolidation - Chapter 156B, Section 81
  When two or more corporations are consolidated or merged, the corporation resulting from or surviving such consolidation or merger (1) may issue bonds or other...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Merger of subsidiary into parent corporation - Chapter 156B, Section 82
  (a) (1) A corporation owning at least ninety per cent of the outstanding shares of each class of the stock of another corporation or corporations,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Merger of association or trust into corporation - Chapter 156B, Section 83
  (a) The following words as used in this section shall have the following meanings: “association,” a voluntary association under a written instrument or declaration of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Domestic and foreign limited liability companies - Chapter 156B, Section 83A
  Any 1 or more corporations may consolidate or merge with or into 1 or more domestic limited liability companies or 1 or more foreign limited...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of filing articles of consolidation or merger - Chapter 156B, Section 84
  Upon the payment of a fee of ten dollars, the state secretary shall issue a certificate in such form as he shall prescribe evidencing the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dissenting stockholder; right to demand payment for stock; exception - Chapter 156B, Section 85
  A stockholder in any corporation organized under the laws of Massachusetts which shall have duly voted to consolidate or merge with another corporation or corporations...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sections applicable to appraisal; prerequisites - Chapter 156B, Section 86
  If a corporation proposes to take a corporate action as to which any section of this chapter provides that a stockholder who objects to such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Statement of rights of objecting stockholders in notice of meeting; form - Chapter 156B, Section 87
  The notice of the meeting of stockholders at which the approval of such proposed action is to be considered shall contain a statement of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of effectiveness of action objected to - Chapter 156B, Section 88
  The corporation taking such action, or in the case of a merger or consolidation the surviving or resulting corporation, shall, within ten days after the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Demand for payment; time for payment - Chapter 156B, Section 89
  If within twenty days after the date of mailing of a notice under subsection (e) of section eighty-two, subsection (f) of section eighty-three, or section...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Demand for determination of value; bill in equity; venue - Chapter 156B, Section 90
  If during the period of thirty days provided for in section eighty-nine the corporation upon which such demand is made and any such objecting stockholder...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Parties to suit to determine value; service - Chapter 156B, Section 91
  If the bill is filed by the corporation, it shall name as parties respondent all stockholders who have demanded payment for their shares and with...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Decree determining value and ordering payment; valuation date - Chapter 156B, Section 92
  After hearing the court shall enter a decree determining the fair value of the stock of those stockholders who have become entitled to the valuation...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reference to special master - Chapter 156B, Section 93
  The court in its discretion may refer the bill or any question arising thereunder to a special master to hear the parties, make findings and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notation on stock certificates of pendency of bill - Chapter 156B, Section 94
  On motion the court may order stockholder parties to the bill to submit their certificates of stock to the corporation for the notation thereon of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Costs; interest - Chapter 156B, Section 95
  The costs of the bill, including the reasonable compensation and expenses of any master appointed by the court, but exclusive of fees of counsel or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dividends and voting rights after demand for payment - Chapter 156B, Section 96
  Any stockholder who has demanded payment for his stock as provided in this chapter shall not thereafter be entitled to notice of any meeting of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Status of shares paid for - Chapter 156B, Section 97
  The shares of the corporation paid for by the corporation pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall have the status of treasury stock, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Exclusive remedy; exception - Chapter 156B, Section 98
  The enforcement by a stockholder of his right to receive payment for his shares in the manner provided in this chapter shall be an exclusive...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Petition for dissolution in supreme judicial court; cases - Chapter 156B, Section 99
  A petition for dissolution of a corporation may be filed in the supreme judicial court in the following cases:— (a) A corporation which desires to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Voluntary dissolution; manner - Chapter 156B, Section 100
  Any corporation may be voluntarily dissolved in the following manner: (a) Dissolution may be authorized (1) by the vote of two thirds of each class...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dissolution by state secretary - Chapter 156B, Section 101
  If a corporation has failed to comply with the provisions of law requiring the filing of reports with the state secretary or the filing of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Continuation for purposes of litigation and settlement of affairs - Chapter 156B, Section 102
  Every corporation whose corporate existence for other purposes is terminated (1) by dissolution under the provisions of section ninety-nine, one hundred, or one hundred and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Petition for distribution; notice - Chapter 156B, Section 103
  At any time within the period of three years or the extension of such period by reason of the pendency of any suit, as provided...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Receivership; dissolved or terminated corporation; jurisdiction; application; powers of receiver - Chapter 156B, Section 104
  If the existence of the corporation for other purposes is terminated (1) by dissolution under the provisions of section ninety-nine, one hundred, or one hundred...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Receivership; corporation as judgment debtor; powers of receiver - Chapter 156B, Section 105
  If a judgment has been recovered against a corporation and it has neglected for thirty days after demand made on execution to pay the amount...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Duties of receiver - Chapter 156B, Section 106
  The receivers shall pay all debts due from the corporation if the funds in their hands are sufficient therefor; and if they are not, they...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dissolution; return; notice to corporation - Chapter 156B, Section 107
  If a corporation is dissolved under the authority of section ninety-nine, the clerk of the court in which the decree therefor is entered shall forthwith...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Revival of dissolved corporation for general or limited purposes; conditions; effect - Chapter 156B, Section 108
  If the state secretary finds that the existence of a corporation has terminated in any manner and that such corporation ought to be revived for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Annual report; contents - Chapter 156B, Section 109
  Every corporation shall annually, on or before the fifteenth day of the third month following the close of its fiscal year, prepare and submit to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1977, 98, Sec. 6 - Chapter 156B, Section 109A
  Repealed, 1977, 98, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1965, 685, Sec. 50 - Chapter 156B, Section 110
  Repealed, 1965, 685, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1977, 98, Sec. 6 - Chapter 156B, Section 111
  Repealed, 1977, 98, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Annual report; failure or refusal to file; penalties - Chapter 156B, Section 112
  If a corporation fails or refuses to file its annual report within the time prescribed by section one hundred and nine, the state secretary shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Action to recover penalties and forfeitures; venue; injunction - Chapter 156B, Section 113
  Penalties or forfeitures incurred by any corporation which omits to cause to be duly filed any certificate or report required by section thirty-eight, fifty-three or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Filing fees - Chapter 156B, Section 114
  The commissioner of administration shall determine annually under the provision of section three B of chapter seven the following filing fees: (a) The fee for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Conveyance of land - Chapter 156B, Section 115
  Any recordable instrument purporting to affect an interest in real estate, executed in the name of a corporation by the president or a vice president...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of good standing - Chapter 156B, Section 116
  A corporation shall be deemed to be in good standing with the state secretary if such corporation has filed all annual reports required to be...

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