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Exemption: Workers' compensation

Citation: Stat. - Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 152, § 47

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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 152, § 47 :
Chapter 152. Workers' Compensation (Refs & Annos)

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� 47. Assignments; attachments; liability for debts

No payment shall be assignable or subject to attachment or be liable in any way for debts, except to a veteran's agent or the commissioner of veterans' services as and to the extent permitted by section five of chapter one hundred and fifteen and except as permitted to the department of public welfare under chapters eighteen, one hundred and seventeen, one hundred and eighteen, and the division of medical assistance under one hundred and eighteen E, and except to an obligee of support payments who is entitled to receive such payments pursuant to a support order under chapter two hundred and eight, two hundred and nine, two hundred and nine C, two hundred and seventy-three or two hundred and nine D. The division shall permit a veteran's agent, the commissioner of veteran's services, the department of public welfare and the division of medical assistance to inspect the records of the division to ascertain the existence of a claim for personal injuries filed with the division by any employee under this chapter and the existence of any assignment, attachment, or liability for debts permitted under the provisions of this section. This section shall prevail over sections 9-405 and 9- 407 of chapter 106 to the extent, if any, that such sections might otherwise apply.
Last Amended: 2013
2013


Amended by St.1960, c. 792; St.1977, c. 856, � 2; St.1981, c. 428, � 4; St.1982, c. 430, � 6; St.1993, c. 161, �� 23, 24; St.1993, c. 460, � 55; St.1995, c. 5, � 77; St.1996, c. 450, � 194; St.2001, c. 26, � 41; St.2013, c. 30, � 82, eff. July 1, 2013.
2013 Legislation

St.2013, c. 30, � 82, an emergency act, approved July 1, 2013, effective July 1, 2013, in the third sentence, substituted "9-406 and 9-408" for "9-405 and 9- 407".

Section 116 of St.2013, c. 30, provides:

"(a) Sections 1 to 82, inclusive, shall apply to a document of title that is issued or a bailment that arises on or after the effective date of said sections 1 to 82, inclusive. Said sections 1 to 82, inclusive, shall not apply to a document of title that is issued or a bailment that arises before the effective date of said sections 1 to 82, inclusive, even if the document of title or bailment would be subject to this act if the document of title had been issued or bailment had arisen on or after the effective date of said sections 1 to 82, inclusive.

"(b) Sections 1 to 82, inclusive, shall not apply to a right of action that has accrued before the effective date of said sections 1 to 82, inclusive.

"(c) A document of title issued or a bailment that arises before the effective date of sections 1 to 82, inclusive, and the rights, obligations and interests flowing from that document or bailment are governed by any law or other rule amended or repealed by said sections 1 to 82, inclusive, as if such amendment or repeal had not occurred and may be terminated, completed, consummated or enforced under that law or other rule.

"(d) Section 61 shall apply to a sale of an account described in clause (14) of section 9-309 of Article 9 of chapter 106 of the General Laws even if the sale was entered into before the effective date of sections 1 to 82, inclusive; provided, that if the relative priorities of conflicting claims to the account were established before the effective date of said sections 1 to 82, inclusive, the relevant provisions of said Article 9 of said chapter 106 as in effect immediately prior to the effective date of said sections 1 to 82, inclusive, shall determine priority."

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