Section 12 – Annual Reports
Section 12. Every association or trust shall annually on or before June first file with the state secretary a report signed under the penalties of perjury by its trustees stating (a) the name of the association or trust; (b) the location (with street address) of its principal office in this commonwealth and elsewhere if the […]
Section 13 – Examination of Report; Approval; Endorsement; Filing; Fee
Section 13. The state secretary shall examine such report, and if he finds that it conforms to the requirements of this chapter, he shall endorse his approval thereon, and upon the payment of a fee to be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven shall […]
Section 14 – Failure to File Report
Section 14. If the trust or association fails to file its report within the time required by law, the state secretary shall give notice by mail, postage prepaid, to such trust or association in default. If the trust or association omits to file such report within thirty days after such notice of default has been […]
Section 2a – Names of or Similar to Other Businesses; Enjoining Violations
Section 2A. No association or trust shall assume the name of any corporation established under the laws of the commonwealth, or of a corporation, firm, or association or trust whether or not as defined in section one, or of an individual, carrying on business in the commonwealth at the time when the association or trust […]
Section 26 – Change of Location by Certain Corporations
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 for reading rooms, libraries or social meetings, or organized under this chapter for the purpose of maintaining grounds suitable for exhibitions and trials of the speed or strength […]
Section 26a – Annual Statements; Required Information; Certification; Fee; Violations; Penalties
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 of chapter one hundred and fifty-six do not apply and which is licensed to conduct a horse racing meeting in connection with a state or county fair, and […]
Section 26b – Corporation in Good Standing; Certificate
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 if such corporation has filed all annual reports required to be filed by it with the state secretary, has paid all fees due with respect to such reports, […]
Section 27 – Conviction Under Liquor or Gambling Laws; Voiding Charter
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 thirty-eight, on the premises occupied by any club or organization described in section four or of illegal gaming upon said premises or of being present where implements of […]
Section 28 – Conviction of Conducting Illegal Match; Voiding of Charter of Club or Organization
[ Text of section effective until July 18, 2021. For text effective July 18, 2021, see below.] 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, kickboxing, mixed martial arts or other unarmed combative sporting match or […]
Section 29 – Local Regulation of Entertainments, Dances, Etc.
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 by law to be licensed, including the hours of holding the same, by corporations which are subject to section twenty-six, and may affix penalties for breaches thereof not […]