Massachusetts · statute · Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 50 · 10 active provisions
Section 1. Terms used in chapters fifty to fifty-seven, inclusive, shall be construed as follows, unless a contrary intention clearly appears: ''Aldermen'' or ''board of aldermen'' shall include the board of election commissioners or election commission of any city having such a board or commission, as to all matters c…
Section 2. In elections, the person receiving the highest number of votes for an office shall be deemed and declared to be elected to such office; and if two or more are to be elected to the same office, the several persons, to the number to be chosen to such office, receiving the highest number of votes, shall be deem…
Section 3. All elections in cities which by charter or statute are to be held on a Monday shall be held on the following Tuesday.
Section 3A. Wherever the written acceptance of a candidate upon a nomination paper or a signature and place of residence of the person filing the same is required by law, it shall be sufficient if such acceptance or signature and place of residence is placed upon one nomination paper only of the group of nomination pap…
Section 4. In computing the period of time prescribed in any statute relating to primaries, caucuses or elections, Sundays and holidays shall generally be included; but when the last day of such period falls on a Sunday or on a holiday, the following day shall be considered the final day of such period; and when the fi…
Section 5. All lists, notices and copies of laws relating to primaries or elections, required to be posted, shall be posted at the same places with the voting lists, or as near as may be thereto.
Section 6. Laws from time to time in force relating particularly to any city or town shall prevail where they are in conflict with the provisions of chapters fifty-one to fifty-seven, inclusive; but, except as otherwise provided by any such law, said chapters and all other statutes in any way concerning the right to vo…
Section 6A. If an elected state, city, or town officer is to be retired on or before the next regular election by reason of superannuation before the completion of the term of office to which he was elected, thereby causing a vacancy in said office, such vacancy shall be filled at said regular election as provided by l…
Section 7. A city or town clerk may make regulations consistent with law relative to the use of ballot boxes and seals, counting and other apparatus, the receiving of ballots and the counting and returning of votes.
Section 8. In any criminal prosecution for the violation of any law relating to the listing of persons seventeen years of age and over and to the qualification or registration of voters, to voting lists or ballots or matters pertaining thereto, or to primaries, caucuses or elections or matters pertaining thereto, the p…