General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 68 Donations and Conveyances for Pious and Charitable Uses
- Massachusetts General Laws - Corporate bodies, church officers as - Chapter 68, Section 1
The deacons, wardens or similar officers of churches or religious societies, and the trustees of the United Methodist churches, appointed according to the discipline and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Corporate bodies; status of ministers and lay officials - Chapter 68, Section 2
When the ministers, elders or vestry of a church are joined in the gifts, grants, bequests or devises mentioned in the preceding section, as donees...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Management of trusts; appointment of trustees; rules and regulations - Chapter 68, Section 3
Incorporated and unincorporated religious societies and churches may appoint trustees, not exceeding five, to hold and manage trust funds for their benefit, who shall hold...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Corporate bodies, trustees as - Chapter 68, Section 4
Churches or religious societies may appoint trustees, not exceeding five, who shall with their successors be a body corporate, for the purposes mentioned in section...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Succession of parsonage land - Chapter 68, Section 5
The minister of a church or religious society, if a citizen of the commonwealth, shall be capable of taking in succession any parsonage land granted...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Regulation of conveyances of church land - Chapter 68, Section 6
No conveyance of the land of a church shall be effectual to pass the same, if made by the deacons without the consent of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Conveyance of land by minister - Chapter 68, Section 7
No conveyance by a minister of land held by him in succession shall be valid longer than he continues to be such minister, unless made...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Committees to settle accounts of officers - Chapter 68, Section 8
The several churches, other than those of the Episcopal denomination, may choose committees to settle the accounts of the deacons and other church officers, and,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1965, 40 - Chapter 68, Section 9
Repealed, 1965,
- Massachusetts General Laws - Overseers or trustees of monthly meeting of Quakers as corporation - Chapter 68, Section 10
The overseers or trustees of each monthly meeting of the people called Friends, or Quakers, shall be a body corporate for the purpose of taking...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Monthly meeting of Quakers; appointment of trustees; powers and duties - Chapter 68, Section 11
Such monthly meeting may appoint, in such manner and for such time as it may determine, three members of any preparative meeting which belongs to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Unincorporated religious societies; powers - Chapter 68, Section 12
Unincorporated religious societies shall have like power as incorporated societies to manage, use and employ, according to its terms and conditions, any gift or grant...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Reports of trustees - Chapter 68, Section 13
All trustees, whether incorporated or not, who hold funds given or bequeathed to a town for a charitable, religious or educational purpose shall make an...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Removal of trustees - Chapter 68, Section 14
The probate court for the county where a town is situated, to which funds have been so given or bequeathed, may, upon the petition of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1954, 529, Sec. 3 - Chapter 68, Section 15
Repealed, 1954, 529, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Regulation of solicitation of funds for charitable purposes on public ways - Chapter 68, Section 16
Every person, association or corporation, domestic or foreign, soliciting or collecting by agents or solicitors, upon ways or in any other public places within the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1964, 718, Sec. 2 - Chapter 68, Section 17
Repealed, 1964, 718, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions applicable to Sec. 18 and Secs. 19 to 35 - Chapter 68, Section 18
When used in this section, and in sections nineteen to thirty-five, inclusive, the following terms shall have the following meanings:— “Charitable”, including but not limited...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Registration of charitable organization; filing of statement; contents - Chapter 68, Section 19
Every charitable organization, except one granted an exemption under the provisions of section twenty, which intends to solicit contributions from persons within the commonwealth or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Designation as veterans' charitable organization - Chapter 68, Section 19A
[Text of section added by 2014, 62, Sec. 18 effective July 2, 2014.] Any person or charitable organization established for an advocacy, benevolent, educational, humane,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Exemption from registration - Chapter 68, Section 20
The following shall not be required to file registration statements with the division or to have a certificate of registration under section nineteen: (1) any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2010, 165, Sec. 4 - Chapter 68, Section 21
Repealed, 2010, 165, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Contracts - Chapter 68, Section 22
(a) Every contract or agreement between a professional fund-raising counsel or a commercial co-venturer or a professional solicitor and a charitable organization required to have...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Solicitation disclosures - Chapter 68, Section 23
Solicitations by professional solicitors and solicitations by commercial co-venturers shall contain, at the time of solicitation, the following disclosures: (1) the name, address and telephone...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Registration by professional fund-raising counsel, commercial co-venturer, or professional solicitor; annual financial report - Chapter 68, Section 24
(a) No person shall act as a professional fund-raising counsel, commercial co-venturer or professional solicitor for a charitable organization required to have a certificate of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Records; public inspection - Chapter 68, Section 25
Registration statements, applications, reports, contracts or agreements of professional fund-raising counsel, commercial co-venturers and professional solicitors, and all other documents and information required to be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Fiscal records - Chapter 68, Section 26
Every professional fund raising counsel, commercial co-venturer, professional solicitor, and charitable organization required to have a certificate of registration under section nineteen, shall, in accordance...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Reciprocal agreements - Chapter 68, Section 27
The division may enter into reciprocal agreements with the appropriate authority of any other state or of the United States for the purpose of exchanging...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Deceptive practices prohibited - Chapter 68, Section 28
[ Text of section effective until July 2, 2014. For text effective July 2, 2014, see below.] (a) No charitable organization, professional fund-raising counsel, commercial...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations - Chapter 68, Section 29
The director shall from time to time formulate such reasonable rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of sections eighteen...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Investigation of violations - Chapter 68, Section 30
(a) The attorney general, whenever he believes a person has violated the provisions of sections nineteen to thirty-five, inclusive, or has filed any application required...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Foreign organizations or persons; service of process - Chapter 68, Section 31
Any charitable organization or professional fund-raising counsel, commercial co-venturer or professional solicitor having its principal place of business without the commonwealth or organized under and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Violations; revocation of registration; fines and penalties; injunctions - Chapter 68, Section 32
(a) If any registered charitable organization, professional fund-raising counsel, commercial co-venturer or professional solicitor fails to file any registration application or statement, annual report or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Fiduciary capacity - Chapter 68, Section 33
Every person soliciting, collecting or expending, for charitable purposes, contributions from the public, and every officer and employee of any such person concerned with the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Common Fund for Nonprofit Organizations; membership; investments - Chapter 68, Section 34
Any organization organized under the laws of the commonwealth, if eligible for membership, may become a member of The Common Fund for Nonprofit Organizations, a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Paid solicitations and solicitors; violations; fine - Chapter 68, Section 35
Any person who solicits contributions from the public by door-to-door visitation or in person for any charitable, civic or political cause or purpose, and who...
Last modified: September 11, 2015