General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 40U Municipal Fines

• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 40U, Section 1
  “Municipal hearing officer”, a person appointed by the appointing authority of a municipality to conduct hearings of alleged code violations pursuant to this chapter. “Unpaid...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Effective date of chapter in municipality - Chapter 40U, Section 2
  This chapter shall take effect in a municipality upon its acceptance.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Procedures for payment of municipal fines; power to revoke or rescind - Chapter 40U, Section 3
  A municipality that adopts this chapter shall, in the manner provided in this chapter adopt procedures for the payment of the municipal fines provided in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Procedures for payment of fines determined by majority vote - Chapter 40U, Section 4
  The adoption of procedures for the payment of certain municipal fines under this chapter shall be by majority vote of the city council or town
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sidewalk snow and ice removal; penalties for non-compliance; standards for clearance - Chapter 40U, Section 5
  A municipality shall by ordinances and by-laws provide for the removal of snow and ice from sidewalks within such portions of the municipality as they...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Municipal hearing officer - Chapter 40U, Section 6
  A municipality shall appoint a municipal hearing officer. The officer shall hear appeals of violation notices issued within the municipality. The municipal hearing officer may...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Administrative disposition of noncriminal violations - Chapter 40U, Section 7
  A municipality may implement a system for the administrative disposition of noncriminal violations pursuant to section 21D of chapter 40.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violation notices - Chapter 40U, Section 8
  Every officer and inspector who takes notice of a violation of a rule, regulation, order, ordinance or by-law regulating the housing, sanitary or snow and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Affixing of violation tags - Chapter 40U, Section 9
  The tag shall be affixed securely to the building or, for a building with an onsite professionally-managed property office, delivered to the office during normal...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Retention and delivery of violation notice copies - Chapter 40U, Section 10
  Within 3 business days after completion of each shift, the officer or inspector shall give to his superior those copies of each notice of a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Schedule of fines for violations - Chapter 40U, Section 11
  The municipality shall, by ordinance or by-law, establish a schedule of fines for violations subject to this chapter committed within the municipality; provided, however, that...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Return of notice of violation; payment; request for hearing; additional charges for non-payment - Chapter 40U, Section 12
  Where a notice of violation is issued for a code violation, the alleged violator, within 21 days, shall return the notice of violation by mail,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Challenge to validity of violation notice - Chapter 40U, Section 13
  Any person notified to appear before the municipal hearing officer, as provided herein may, without waiving the right to a hearing provided by this chapter...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Written request for hearing; time and location of hearing - Chapter 40U, Section 14
  Notwithstanding section 21D of chapter 40, a person who desires to contest a violation of any ordinance or by-law of a municipality alleged in a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appeal of decision of municipal hearing officer - Chapter 40U, Section 15
  A person aggrieved by a decision of the municipal hearing officer may appeal to the district court, housing court or other court of competent jurisdiction...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Effect of failure to pay, request hearing or appear - Chapter 40U, Section 16
  Any person who has received a notice of violation issued in accordance with this chapter who, within the prescribed time, fails to pay the same...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Payments of fines, penalties or assessments to the general fund of municipality - Chapter 40U, Section 17
  All fines, penalties or assessments in actions under this chapter shall be paid to the general fund of the municipality.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Local ordinances and by-laws superseded - Chapter 40U, Section 18
  In a municipality that has accepted this chapter, this chapter shall supersede any local ordinances or by-laws to the contrary.

Last modified: September 11, 2015