[PDF] Top 20 Chapter 17: State and Local Government

... tiffs then sought injunctive and declaratory relief against the MDCS in the superior court, which declared chapter 226 constitutional in its en- tirety and ordered the MDCS t[r] ... See full document

... 11 Town Crier, Inc.. The Attorney General disapproved the by-law because he believed it was not within the powers granted to the town by the Massa- chusetts Home Rule [r] ... See full document

... 4 G.L.. Settlement of Estates §1l9. Treasurer and Receiver General. City of Cambridge. SIver Johnson Sporting Goods Co. City of Boston. City of Boston. Inhabitants of Brookline[r] ... See full document

... The General Court also adopted the Commission's recommendation to change the allocation method used in arriving at the corporate ex- cess deduction, allowed domestic busi[r] ... See full document

... The Commission has ruled that a Massachusetts corporation, upon proper application attached to its return, may exclude from its income the dividends received from a wh[r] ... See full document

... The city contended that the three (or four) weeks of vacation granted by Section lllD consisted of working days only, and that three calendar weeks of vacation time included 6[r] ... See full document

... This, then, constitutes the rule of Brucato, which both the Superior Court and the Supreme Judicial Court utilized in holding invalid the town of Dracut's attempt to rescind Section [r] ... See full document

... The Court agreed with both parties that Natick had a "strong" police chief as defined by the strong chief law and that its fire chief had comparable stat[r] ... See full document

... Indeed, the Court recently considered a case where the Attorney General, representing the Board of Education, took the position-contrary to the Board's view-that th[r] ... See full document

... The dissent agreed with the majority that an equity action in the superior court is the appropriate method by which to obtain review of local registrars' certification d[r] ... See full document

... The first question was whether the appointment of the chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court as the executive head of the judicial system conflicted with t[r] ... See full document

... The Court first considered whether state law authorized the city's appropriation of funds. l l In concluding that state law did not authorize the expenditure, the Cour[r] ... See full document

... [T]he general court shall have full power and authority to erect and constitute municipal or city governments, in any corporate town or towns in this common- wea[r] ... See full document

... In that case the School Committee sought an order requir- ing the City to appropriate $46,000,000 for support of special education, 31 basing its request on chapter 71B, section [r] ... See full document

... Income from, payments for the use of, or gains from sales or exchanges of any personal tangible or intangible property and gains from sales or exchanges of real es[r] ... See full document

... Perhaps the most significant legislation affecting local government enacted in this session is Acts of 1965, Chapter 763, which imposes mandatory collective bargaining on [r] ... See full document

... In two cases decided during the 1962 SURVEY year, the Supreme Judicial Court had to determine if an enabling act had been properly accepted by a municipality.. Selectmen[r] ... See full document

... Smith case the rule was that amounts received by a shareholder in liquidation of a corporation were taxable as an ordinary dividend under General Laws, Chapter 6[r] ... See full document

... The amendment purports to tax to such a partnership all of its business income, but presumably the in- tention of the statute was to tax only the business inco[r] ... See full document

... In order to determine the deductible portion of the federal tax where the taxpayer has both business and non-business income, the federal tax payment is multiplied by a frac[r] ... See full document