General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 93 Regulation of Trade and Certain Enterprises

• Massachusetts General Laws - Short title; purpose - Chapter 93, Section 1
  Sections one to fourteen A, inclusive, shall be known, and may be cited, as the “Massachusetts Antitrust Act”. It is the purpose of this chapter...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 93, Section 2
  For purpose of this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings: “Attorney general”, the attorney general of the commonwealth and individuals...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Jurisdiction - Chapter 93, Section 3
  Nothing in the Massachusetts Antitrust Act, hereinafter referred to as the Act, shall apply to any course of conduct, pattern of activity, or activities unless...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Restraint of trade or commerce - Chapter 93, Section 4
  Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce in the commonwealth shall be unlawful.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Monopolies - Chapter 93, Section 5
  It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to monopolize, or attempt to monopolize or combine or conspire with any other person or persons...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Discouraging competition - Chapter 93, Section 6
  It shall be unlawful for any person engaged in trade or commerce, in the course thereof, to lease or make a sale or contract for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Exemptions - Chapter 93, Section 7
  No provision of this Act shall apply to (a) Any activities which are exempt from any of the federal antitrust laws or the Federal Trade...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Investigation by attorney general - Chapter 93, Section 8
  Whenever the attorney general has reasonable cause to believe that any person has engaged in, is engaging in, or is about to engage in any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Civil actions by attorney general - Chapter 93, Section 9
  The attorney general may bring a civil action in the name of the commonwealth to prevent and restrain violations of section four, five or six...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1978, 459, Sec. 1 - Chapter 93, Section 9A
  Repealed, 1978, 459, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2000, 159, Sec. 202 - Chapter 93, Section 9B
  Repealed, 2000, 159, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Knowing intent to injure; punishment; jurisdiction - Chapter 93, Section 10
  Any person who knowingly violates sections four or five with specific intent to injure any person, or knowingly aids or participates in such violation with...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Judgment or decree as prima facie evidence; effect on public contracts - Chapter 93, Section 11
  A final judgment or decree rendered in any civil or criminal proceeding brought by the attorney general under this chapter to the effect that a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Civil actions; treble damages; attorneys fees; injunction; stay - Chapter 93, Section 12
  Any person who shall be injured in his business or property by reason of a violation of the provisions of this chapter may sue therefor...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Limitations of actions - Chapter 93, Section 13
  An action brought to enforce the provisions of this Act shall be barred unless commenced within four years after the cause of action accrued. Whenever...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 295 - Chapter 93, Section 14
  Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Effect of law upon consumer protection laws - Chapter 93, Section 14A
  The Massachusetts Antitrust Act shall have no effect upon the provisions of chapter ninety-three A, except as explicitly provided in said chapter ninety-three A.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1977, 74, Sec. 1 - Chapter 93, Section 14B to 14D
  Repealed, 1977, 74, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 93, Section 14E
  When used in sections fourteen E to fourteen K, inclusive:— (a) The term “cost to the retailer” shall mean the invoice cost of the merchandise...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties - Chapter 93, Section 14F
  Any retailer who, with intent to injure competitors or destroy competition, advertises, offers to sell or sells at retail any item of merchandise at less...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Advertising or offering to sell or selling at retail or wholesale excepted - Chapter 93, Section 14G
  Sections fourteen E and fourteen F and sections fourteen H to fourteen K, inclusive, shall not apply with respect to advertising or offering to sell,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Injunction; duties of district attorneys - Chapter 93, Section 14H
  Upon complaint of any person, the superior court shall have jurisdiction to restrain and enjoin any act forbidden or declared illegal by any provision of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Conflict of laws - Chapter 93, Section 14I
  Whenever the application of any provision of any other law of the commonwealth, except chapter sixty-four C, conflicts with the application of any provision of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Partial invalidity - Chapter 93, Section 14J
  If any provision of said sections fourteen E to fourteen K, inclusive, or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance, shall be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Citation of Secs. 14E to 14K - Chapter 93, Section 14K
  Sections 14E to 14K, inclusive, shall be known, and may be cited, as the “Unfair Sales Act”.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 93, Section 14L
  The following words as used in this section and in sections fourteen M to fourteen R, inclusive, shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Distribution and redemption of trading stamps; printing; minimum value - Chapter 93, Section 14M
  No trading stamp company shall distribute trading stamps in the commonwealth or shall redeem trading stamps issued therein, unless each such stamp has legibly printed...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Distribution and redemption of trading stamps; conditions precedent - Chapter 93, Section 14N
  No trading stamp company shall distribute or redeem trading stamps in the commonwealth until it has filed with the state treasurer— (a) A statement of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - New bonds; liability - Chapter 93, Section 14O
  On the effective date of each new bond filed with the statement of registration, all liability on bonds previously filed shall terminate, and in the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Cessation of business; conditions precedent - Chapter 93, Section 14P
  No trading stamp company shall cease the distribution and redemption of trading stamps in the commonwealth unless it notifies the state treasurer in writing at...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Redemption of stamps; defaults; procedure - Chapter 93, Section 14Q
  In the event a trading stamp company defaults in the performance of its obligation to redeem trading stamps, any rightful holder shall be entitled to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties; jurisdiction - Chapter 93, Section 14R
  Any trading stamp company which violates any provision of sections fourteen M to fourteen P, inclusive, shall be punished by a fine of not more...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Redemption of credit slips; time limitation - Chapter 93, Section 14S
  A credit slip issued by a store to a buyer who returns goods, which credit slip enables said buyer to receive other goods of similar...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Publication of statement of financial condition of mining corporation - Chapter 93, Section 15
  No officer, agent, clerk or servant of a mining corporation, and no person dealing in the shares of such corporation, shall cause to be published...
• Massachusetts General Laws - False statement filed with commissioner - Chapter 93, Section 16
  An officer or director of a mining corporation who signs any false statement filed with the state secretary under the preceding section, knowing such statement...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of stock with knowledge of false advertisement; penalty - Chapter 93, Section 17
  Whoever, having caused the publication of an advertisement described in section fifteen, or being a promoter, officer, clerk or servant of a mining corporation, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - False statements to stock exchanges; penalty - Chapter 93, Section 18
  An officer of a mining corporation who makes a false statement, knowing the same to be false, in an application to any stock exchange to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Identification marks; report of type and style; change in identification system - Chapter 93, Section 18A
  Every person conducting a laundry or dry cleaning establishment, or offering as an independent contractor the services of such an establishment, shall report to the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Coin operated laundries; notice to consumer of drying times - Chapter 93, Section 18B
  Every person conducting a commercial coin operated laundry, where there is no full time attendant shall display, in a conspicuous manner, a sign no less...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1931, 426, Sec. 212 - Chapter 93, Section 19 20
  Repealed, 1931, 426, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2012, 106, Sec. 4 - Chapter 93, Section 20A to 21C
  Repealed, 2012, 106, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1977, 826, Sec. 12 - Chapter 93, Section 21D
  Repealed, 1977, 826, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2012, 106, Sec. 4 - Chapter 93, Section 21E to 21G
  Repealed, 2012, 106, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1963, 652, Sec. 3 - Chapter 93, Section 22 23
  Repealed, 1963, 652, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 93, Section 24
  As used in sections 24 to 28, inclusive the following words shall have the following meanings, unless the context requires otherwise:— “Commissioner”, the commissioner of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Term of license; bond; registration; rules and regulations - Chapter 93, Section 24A
  (a) No person shall directly or indirectly engage in the commonwealth in the business of a debt collector, or engage in the commonwealth in soliciting...
• Massachusetts General Laws - License; application; fee; terms; multi-state licensing system - Chapter 93, Section 24B
  (a) The application for the license shall be in writing, shall contain information as the commissioner may determine and shall be accompanied by an investigation...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Registration of third-party loan servicer; fees; multi-state licensing system - Chapter 93, Section 24C
  (a) The registration of a third party loan servicer shall be in writing, shall contain information as the commissioner may determine and shall be accompanied...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Investigation by commissioner; business records; records of investigation; penalties - Chapter 93, Section 24D
  (a) The commissioner may investigate the collection records of a licensee or registrant, and for that purpose the commissioner shall have free access to the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Annual or periodic report; failure to file; penalties - Chapter 93, Section 24E
  The commissioner may from time to time on an annual or periodic basis require each licensee and registrant to file a report with the commissioner...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Production of books and papers; administration of oath; failure to appear or produce evidence; obstruction; penalty - Chapter 93, Section 24F
  The commissioner, or such other of his assistants as he may designate, may summon a licensee, or any of his agents or employees, and other...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Requisites for license; grounds for denial; written decision; appeal - Chapter 93, Section 24G
  (a) Upon the filing of an application for a license, if the commissioner finds that the financial responsibility, character, reputation, integrity and general fitness of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violation of act by non-applicant; investigation; police authority; violation of chapter 93A - Chapter 93, Section 24H
  (a) The commissioner, if he has reason to believe that a person other than a licensee has violated this act, shall have the power to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Revocation or suspension of license; grounds; notice and hearing; surrender; civil and criminal liability; contracts - Chapter 93, Section 24I
  (a) The commissioner may suspend or revoke a license issued pursuant to this chapter if the commissioner finds that: (1) the licensee has violated this...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Cease and desist orders; temporary orders; notice and hearing; review - Chapter 93, Section 24J
  (a) If the commissioner determines, after giving notice of and opportunity for a hearing, that a licensee has engaged in or is about to engage...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement; civil action - Chapter 93, Section 24K
  The commissioner may enforce this chapter, or restrain any violations thereof, by filing a civil action in any court of competent jurisdiction.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Amount, form and provisions of bond - Chapter 93, Section 25
  The bond required under section 24 shall run to the state treasurer and shall cover an indeterminate period but it may be cancelled at any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sureties; approval; filing; cancellation; notice - Chapter 93, Section 26
  Said bond shall be executed by said person, partnership, association or corporation as principal, with a surety company as surety; or cash may be accepted...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Record of bonds; open to public inspection - Chapter 93, Section 27
  The state treasurer shall keep a record open to public inspection of the bonds filed with him under the preceding section, with the names, places...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties - Chapter 93, Section 28
  Any person doing any business for which a bond is required by section twenty-four or any member of a partnership or officer of an association...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Removal or termination sales - Chapter 93, Section 28A
  (1) The following words, as used in this section, shall have the following meanings:— “Person” shall include any natural person, corporation, trust, partnership, incorporated or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1953, 164, Sec. 2 - Chapter 93, Section 28B
  Repealed, 1953, 164, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1981, 463, Sec. 2 - Chapter 93, Section 28C
  Repealed, 1981, 463, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalty - Chapter 93, Section 28D
  Whoever violates any provision of sections twenty-eight A to twenty-eight C, inclusive, or section twenty-eight F, shall be punished by a fine of not more...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Jurisdiction of superior court - Chapter 93, Section 28E
  Upon complaint of any person, the superior court shall have jurisdiction in equity to restrain and enjoin any act forbidden or declared illegal by any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fire sales; advertising - Chapter 93, Section 28F
  No person shall advertise or offer for sale a stock of goods, wares or merchandise under designation of “fire sale”, or other designation of like...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Powers of outdoor advertising board; rules and regulations; permits; hearings - Chapter 93, Section 29
  The outdoor advertising board, herein and in sections twenty-nine A, thirty A and thirty-one called the board, may make, amend or repeal rules and regulations...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Objection to application for permit; hearing; issuance; appeal - Chapter 93, Section 29A
  Whenever, within thirty days after notification to the city or town, the board shall have received written objection to an application for a permit, such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Prohibition of certain billboards; conformance to rules and regulations; application - Chapter 93, Section 30
  No person, firm, association or corporation shall post, erect, display or maintain on any public way or on private property within public view from any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Abatement and removal; nuisance - Chapter 93, Section 30A
  Any billboard, sign or other device, erected after August twentieth, nineteen hundred and twenty, without the authorization or permit of the outdoor advertising division, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Jurisdiction of supreme judicial and superior courts - Chapter 93, Section 31
  The supreme judicial and superior courts shall have jurisdiction in equity upon petition of the attorney general, of any city or town or any officer...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application of Secs. 29 to 31; exempted signs, etc. - Chapter 93, Section 32
  Sections twenty-nine to thirty-one, inclusive, and section thirty-three shall not apply to signs or other devices on or in the rolling stock of any common...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties - Chapter 93, Section 33
  Whoever violates any rule, regulation, ordinance or by-law established or adopted under section twenty-nine shall be punished by a fine of not more than one...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and duties of commissioner of banks - Chapter 93, Section 34
  The commissioner of banks shall have the same powers and duties in respect to savings and loan associations which he now has or may hereafter...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1923, 470, Sec. 3 - Chapter 93, Section 35 to 39
  Repealed, 1923, 470, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Solicitation of business on public sidewalks - Chapter 93, Section 40
  Whoever makes a practice of accosting persons, other than acquaintances, upon any public sidewalk and induces or tries to induce such persons to purchase merchandise...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dishonored checks; demand for payment - Chapter 93, Section 40A
  Whoever makes, draws, utters or delivers any check, draft or order for the payment of money upon any bank or other depository which refuses to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1921, 486, Sec. 22 - Chapter 93, Section 41
  Repealed, 1921, 486, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Taking of trade secrets - Chapter 93, Section 42
  Whoever embezzles, steals or unlawfully takes, carries away, conceals, or copies, or by fraud or by deception obtains, from any person or corporation, with intent...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Injunctive relief; taking of trade secrets - Chapter 93, Section 42A
  Any aggrieved person may file a petition in equity in the supreme judicial court or in the superior court for the county in which either...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unsolicited merchandise - Chapter 93, Section 43
  Any person who receives unsolicited goods, wares or merchandise, offered for sale, but not actually ordered or requested by him orally or in writing, shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fees, penalties or other charges for sending original bill or invoice by postal mail - Chapter 93, Section 43A
  A person engaged in trade or commerce shall not assess a fee, penalty or other charge for the sending of an original bill or invoice...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Use by performing group of false, deceptive or misleading affiliation, connection or association with recording group - Chapter 93, Section 43B
  For purposes of this section, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— “Performing group”, a vocal or instrumental...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1971, 805, Sec. 2 - Chapter 93, Section 44 to 47
  Repealed, 1971, 805, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Cancellation of agreements consummated at place other than seller’s place of business - Chapter 93, Section 48
  A. An agreement providing for the sale or lease of goods, or the rendering of services, or both, primarily for personal, family or household purposes...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Cancellation of membership camping contracts - Chapter 93, Section 48A
  For purposes of this section, the following words shall have the following meanings: “Membership camping contract” or “Membership camping agreement” means any written agreement of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Use of credit card to obtain travel services; surcharges, reduction of agent’s commission - Chapter 93, Section 48B
  For the purpose of this section, the following words shall, unless the context indicates otherwise, have the following meanings:— “Provider of travel services”, any person,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Debt collection in an unfair, deceptive or unreasonable manner - Chapter 93, Section 49
  No one who is a creditor or an attorney for a creditor, or an assignee of a creditor, of a natural person present or residing...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Retail trade reporting agencies; disclosures - Chapter 93, Section 49A
  Every retail trade reporting agency which discloses to any third person information concerning a business engaged in retail trade shall, upon request of such business,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 93, Section 50
  As used in this section and sections fifty-one through sixty-seven, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meanings: “Consumer”, an individual. “Consumer report”, any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Consumer report; circumstances under which reporting agency may furnish - Chapter 93, Section 51
  (a) A consumer reporting agency may furnish a consumer report under the following circumstances and no other: (1) in response to the order of a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Consumer election to exclude name from consumer reporting agency list; notification system - Chapter 93, Section 51A
  (a) A consumer may elect to have his name and address excluded from any list provided by a consumer reporting agency pursuant to clause (2)...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Information not to be contained in report; exceptions - Chapter 93, Section 52
  (a) Except as authorized under subsection (b) no consumer reporting agency shall make any consumer report containing any of the following items of information: (1)...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Child support arrearages; information furnished to consumer reporting agencies; notice to obligor - Chapter 93, Section 52A
  The IV-D agency, as set forth in chapter 119A, shall report periodically to consumer reporting agencies the name of any non-custodial parent who is delinquent...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Investigative consumer report; disclosures to consumer - Chapter 93, Section 53
  (a) A person may not procure or cause to be prepared an investigative consumer report on any consumer unless: (1) it is clearly and accurately...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Procedures to be maintained by reporting agency - Chapter 93, Section 54
  (a) Every consumer reporting agency shall maintain reasonable procedures designed to avoid violations of section fifty-two and to limit the furnishing of consumer reports to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Procedures to ensure accuracy of information reported to consumer reporting agency; disputed information; liability - Chapter 93, Section 54A
  (a) Every person who furnishes information to a consumer reporting agency shall follow reasonable procedures to ensure that the information reported to a consumer reporting...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Identifying information; furnishing to governmental agency - Chapter 93, Section 55
  Notwithstanding sections 51 and 62A, a consumer reporting agency may furnish identifying information respecting any consumer, limited to his name, address, former addresses, places of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Disclosures to consumer; written explanation; notice of rights; content of notice - Chapter 93, Section 56
  (a) Every consumer reporting agency shall, upon request and proper identification of any consumer, clearly and accurately disclose to the consumer: (1) the nature, contents...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Procedure for disclosures; actions based on information disclosed - Chapter 93, Section 57
  (a) A consumer reporting agency shall make the disclosures required under section fifty-six during normal business hours and on reasonable notice. (b) The disclosures required...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Completeness or accuracy of information; dispute by consumer; reinvestigation; deletion of information; notification of deletion or dispute; reinsertion of information - Chapter 93, Section 58
  (a) If the completeness or accuracy of any item of information in his file is disputed by a consumer, and such dispute is directly conveyed...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Charge to consumer for disclosures - Chapter 93, Section 59
  (a) A consumer reporting agency shall make all disclosures pursuant to section fifty-six without charge to the consumer if, within sixty days after receipt by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Report for employment purposes; public record information; notice of request for consumer report - Chapter 93, Section 60
  A consumer reporting agency which furnishes a consumer report for employment purposes and which for that purpose compiles and reports items of information on consumers...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Procedures for accurate reporting of public record information - Chapter 93, Section 60A
  A consumer reporting agency which compiles and reports items of information on consumers which are matters of public record, for the purpose of furnishing a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Adverse information; verification; time of receipt - Chapter 93, Section 61
  Whenever a consumer reporting agency prepares an investigative consumer report, no adverse information in the consumer report, other than information which is a matter of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Denial of credit or employment, etc. because of adverse credit information; disclosures to consumer - Chapter 93, Section 62
  (a) Whenever credit or insurance for personal, family or household purposes, or employment involving a consumer is denied or terminated or the charge for such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Consumer requested security freeze on consumer report - Chapter 93, Section 62A
  If a consumer requests a security freeze, the consumer reporting agency shall disclose to the consumer the process of placing, removing and lifting a security...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Willful noncompliance; liability for damages - Chapter 93, Section 63
  Any consumer reporting agency, person who furnishes information to any consumer reporting agency, or user of information which willfully fails to comply with any requirement...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Negligent noncompliance; liability for damages - Chapter 93, Section 64
  Any consumer reporting agency, person who furnishes information to any consumer reporting agency, or user of information which is negligent in failing to comply with...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Jurisdiction; limitations - Chapter 93, Section 65
  An action to enforce any liability created under sections fifty through sixty-four, inclusive, may be brought in any court of competent jurisdiction, within two years...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Obtaining information from reporting agency under false pretenses; penalty - Chapter 93, Section 66
  Any person who knowingly and willfully obtains information relative to a consumer from a consumer reporting agency under false pretenses shall be punished by a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Introducing false information into reporting agency’s files; penalty - Chapter 93, Section 66A
  Any person who is convicted of knowingly and willfully introducing, attempting to introduce or causing to be introduced, false information into a consumer reporting agency’s...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Providing information to unauthorized person; penalty - Chapter 93, Section 67
  Any officer or employee of a consumer reporting agency who knowingly and willfully provides information concerning an individual from the agency’s files to a person...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Noncompliance as unfair trade practice - Chapter 93, Section 68
  Failure to comply with the provisions of sections fifty through sixty-seven shall constitute an unfair trade practice under the provisions of clause (a) of section...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 93, Section 68A
  For the purposes of sections sixty-eight B to sixty-eight D, inclusive, the following words, unless the context requires otherwise, shall have the following meanings:— “Buyer”,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Credit services organization; restrictions - Chapter 93, Section 68B
  No credit services organization, its salespersons, agents or representatives, or any independent contractor who sells or attempts to sell the services of a credit services...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Written statement provided to buyer; contents - Chapter 93, Section 68C
  Before the execution of a contract or other form of agreement between a buyer and a credit services organization or before the receipt by any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Contract between buyer and credit services organization; requirements - Chapter 93, Section 68D
  Each contract or other form of agreement between a buyer and a credit services organization for the purchase of the services of such organization shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violations - Chapter 93, Section 68E
  Any violation of sections sixty-eight B to sixty-eight D, inclusive, shall constitute a violation of chapter ninety-three A.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definition; requirements - Chapter 93, Section 69
  (a) As used in this section the term “multi-level distribution company” shall mean any person, firm, corporation or other business entity which distributes for a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certification of title to mortgaged premises; liability of attorney; unfair practice - Chapter 93, Section 70
  In connection with the granting of any loan or credit to be secured by a purchase money first mortgage on real estate improved with a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 93, Section 71
  As used in sections seventy-two to seventy-five, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meanings:— “Audiologist”, a person who is duly licensed as an...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Purchases and sales of hearing aids; prerequisites - Chapter 93, Section 72
  No person shall enter into a contract for the sale of or sell a hearing aid unless within the preceding six months the prospective purchaser...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Conflict of interest; disclosure; inducement to influence recommendation of purchase - Chapter 93, Section 73
  No physician or otolaryngologist shall sell hearing aids or have a direct or indirect membership, employment, co-ownership, or proprietary interest in or with a business...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sales and delivery receipts; copies of medical clearance and hearing evaluation; customer records - Chapter 93, Section 74
  Every person who sells a hearing aid shall accompany such sale with a receipt that shall include: the name, address and signature of the purchaser;...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violations, effect; rules - Chapter 93, Section 75
  Violations of the provisions of sections seventy-two to seventy-four, inclusive, in the course of a sale of a hearing aid shall void such sale. Violations...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of life leases and long-term leases in nursing homes, retirement homes and homes for aged - Chapter 93, Section 76
  (a) The following terms, as used in this section, shall have the following meanings: “Continuing care”, the furnishing to an individual, other than an individual...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1986, 419, Sec. 1 - Chapter 93, Section 77
  Repealed, 1986, 419, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 93, Section 78
  For purposes of sections 78A to 88, inclusive, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings:— “Buyer”, any person who enters into a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Health clubs to have AED and AED provider on premises - Chapter 93, Section 78A
  A health club shall have on the premises at least 1 AED, as defined in section 12V1/2 of chapter 112, and shall have in attendance...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Bonding provisions - Chapter 93, Section 79
  Prior to the execution of any contract for health club services and for a period of five years after initially commencing operation of a health...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Contract terms - Chapter 93, Section 80
  No contract for health club services shall be for a term measured by the life of the buyer. No contract for health club services shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Cancellation of contract; notice; refund - Chapter 93, Section 81
  Every contract for health club services shall provide clearly and conspicuously in writing that such contract may be cancelled within three business days after the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Cancellation after buyer’s death or disablement; other reasons for cancellation; notice; refund - Chapter 93, Section 82
  Every contract for health club services shall provide clearly and conspicuously in writing that after the expiration of the three day period for cancellation as...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Assignees of contracts; creditors; notice of assignment - Chapter 93, Section 83
  No assignee or creditor who takes a note or other obligation as consideration for a contract for health club services shall fail to honor the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unfair and deceptive trade practices - Chapter 93, Section 84
  It is hereby declared to be an unfair and deceptive trade practice in violation of chapter ninety-three A for a seller, or his agents, employees...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Void and unenforceable contracts - Chapter 93, Section 85
  Any contract for health club services which does not comply with the applicable provisions of this chapter shall be void and unenforceable as contrary to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Actions for damages or other relief; actions involving use or non-use of defibrillator - Chapter 93, Section 86
  Any buyer who has suffered any injury as a result of a violation of sections seventy-eight to eighty-eight, inclusive, or the attorney general, may bring...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Civil penalty - Chapter 93, Section 87
  Any seller or his assignees who violates any provision of sections seventy-eight to eighty-eight, inclusive, or who shall counsel, aid or abet such violation shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement of bonding provisions by attorney general - Chapter 93, Section 88
  In addition to other remedies provided herein, the attorney general may bring an action on behalf of the commonwealth to enforce the bonding provisions of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dressing room surveillance; penalty - Chapter 93, Section 89
  No person who owns or operates a retail establishment selling clothing shall maintain in a dressing room a two-way mirror or electronic video camera or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 93, Section 90
  For the purposes of sections ninety to ninety-three, inclusive, the following words shall, unless the context requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— “Consumer lease”, a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Written statement of information prior to execution of lease - Chapter 93, Section 91
  Each lessor shall give to the lessee prior to the execution of the lease a dated written statement on which the lessor and lessee are...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Advertisement for consumer lease; statement regarding payment - Chapter 93, Section 92
  (a) If an advertisement for a consumer lease states the amount of any payment or states that any or no initial payment is required, the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Liability of lessor; limits on recovery; offset and counterclaim - Chapter 93, Section 93
  (a) Any lessee who suffers harm due to the lessor’s failure to comply with any requirement imposed under section ninety-one or section ninety-two shall be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Contract for purchase and sale of propane gas - Chapter 93, Section 94
  A contract or agreement between a propane gas dealer and a real property owner for the purchase and sale of propane gas shall not be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 93, Section 95
  For purposes of sections ninety-five to one hundred, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly requires otherwise:— “Listed action”,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale or distribution of plaintiff personal injury listing; required information - Chapter 93, Section 96
  (1) No plaintiff personal injury listing may be sold or otherwise distributed by a listing service unless it includes a clear and accurate statement of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Disclosure of plaintiff personal injury listing - Chapter 93, Section 97
  Every listing service shall disclose in writing to all persons named in a plaintiff personal injury listing the fact of such listing and the information...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unfair and deceptive acts or practices - Chapter 93, Section 98
  It is hereby declared to be an unfair and deceptive act or practice in violation of chapter ninety-three A for a subscriber, listing service, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Remedies - Chapter 93, Section 99
  Any person who is aggrieved as a result of a violation of sections ninety-six to ninety-eight, inclusive, or the attorney general, may bring an action...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violations; penalties - Chapter 93, Section 100
  Any subscriber or listing service who violates any provision of sections ninety-six to ninety-eight, inclusive, or who shall counsel, aid or abet such violations, shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Waiver of consumer rights prohibited - Chapter 93, Section 101
  Any rights granted to consumers under the provisions of any law or regulation enacted or promulgated by the commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof providing...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Equal rights; violations; civil actions; costs - Chapter 93, Section 102
  (a) All persons within the commonwealth, regardless of sex, race, color, creed or national origin, shall have, except as is otherwise provided or permitted by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Equal rights; age and handicap; violations; remedies - Chapter 93, Section 103
  (a) Any person within the commonwealth, regardless of handicap or age as defined in chapter one hundred and fifty-one B, shall, with reasonable accommodation, have...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 93, Section 104
  For purposes of this section and section one hundred and five, the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context otherwise requires or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Credit cards; checks; personal identification information - Chapter 93, Section 105
  (a) No person, firm, partnership, corporation or other business entity that accepts a credit card for a business transaction shall write, cause to be written...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Video rental; records; penalty - Chapter 93, Section 106
  (1) No persons engaged in the business of leasing or renting videos or any employee thereof shall maintain records that would indicate the title or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Customized wheelchairs; nonconformity with warrant; rights and remedies - Chapter 93, Section 107
  (A) As used in this section the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:— “Collateral costs”, expenses incurred by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 93, Section 108
  As used in sections 108 to 113, inclusive, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— “Customer”, a person...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Authorization of change in customer’s primary interexchange carrier or local exchange carrier - Chapter 93, Section 109
  (a) For purposes of section 110, a change in a customer’s primary IXC or LEC shall be considered to have been authorized only if the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Complaint that customer’s IXC or LEC has been switched without customer authorization - Chapter 93, Section 110
  (a) Either a customer, IXC, or LEC may initiate a complaint that a customer’s IXC or LEC has been switched without the customer’s authorization. (b)...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Information booklet describing customer’s rights under Secs. 108 to 113 - Chapter 93, Section 111
  (a) An LEC doing business in the commonwealth shall prepare an information booklet describing customer’s rights under the provisions of sections 108 to 113, inclusive....
• Massachusetts General Laws - Customer refunds - Chapter 93, Section 112
  (a) If the department determines that a new IXC or new LEC does not have the required LOA or TPV, the department shall calculate and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Annual report; records of companies that have engaged in unauthorized switching of customer’s IXC or LEC - Chapter 93, Section 113
  (a) The department shall track instances in which an IXC, LEC, or TPV company switched a customer’s IXC or LEC without the customer’s valid LOA...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Real estate transactions; disclosure; psychologically impacted property - Chapter 93, Section 114
  The fact or suspicion that real property may be or is psychologically impacted shall not be deemed to be a material fact required to be...

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