General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 180 Corporations for Charitable and Certain Other Purposes
- 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- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1971, 819, Sec. 3 - Chapter 180, Section 2A 2B
Repealed, 1971, 819, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - 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 - Notice of actions proposed under Sec. 7 or Sec. 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 - Directors, officers or incorporators; good faith performance of duties; liability - 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 Sec. 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
Repealed, 1947, 559, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sale, lease, or exchange of corporate property and assets; grant of security interest; public charities; notification of attorney general and commissioner of public health; investigation - 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
Repealed, 1971, 819, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Consolidation and merger; 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; governing state law; submission of articles; filing 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 - Consolidation and merger; effect; amendments - 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) A charitable corporation constituting a public charity organized under any general or special law, which desires to voluntarily windup and close its affairs, may...
- 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, Secs. 4, 5 - Chapter 180, Section 12 12A
Repealed, 1954, 529, Secs. 4,
- Massachusetts General Laws - Conferring of degree or issuance of diploma or certificate purporting to confer degree by medical corporation prohibited - Chapter 180, Section 13
A corporation organized under this chapter for medical purposes shall not confer degrees, or issue diplomas or certificates conferring or purporting to confer degrees, unless...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment and maintenance of exhibition grounds and holding of exhibition by horse breeding corporation - Chapter 180, Section 14
Corporations formed under this chapter for encouraging the raising of choice breeds of horses may establish and maintain grounds suitable for exhibitions and trials of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Trade or employment organizations - 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, united fund, scholarship, etc.; 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 - State employees; payroll deductions for near-site parking fees, on-site child care fees and other employer-provided benefits - Chapter 180, Section 17K
Deductions on payroll schedules may be made from the salary of a state employee for the payment of the cost of near-site parking fees for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Public employee; payroll deductions for qualified state tuition program - Chapter 180, Section 17L
Deductions on payroll schedules may be made from the salary of a state, county, municipal or other public employee of an amount which such employee...
- Massachusetts General Laws - State police employees; payroll deductions for contributions to State Police Museum and Learning Center, Inc. - Chapter 180, Section 17M
A deduction on a payroll schedule may be made from the salary of an employee of the department of state police in the amount of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - University of Massachusetts employee payroll deductions for certain university sponsored activities; withdrawal of authorization; transmittal of sum - Chapter 180, Section 17N
Deductions on payroll schedules may be made from the salary of a university of Massachusetts employee of an amount which the employee may specify in...
- 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...
- 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 - Medical Milk Commission; naming and designation of town where established - 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 other compensation received by member from dairymen prohibited - 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...
- 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; 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 match; voiding of charter of club or organization - Chapter 180, Section 28
If a person is convicted of a violation of section 12 of chapter 265 for engaging in, giving or promoting a public or private boxing,...
- 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: September 11, 2015