Massachusetts. Special Commission to Investigate and Study the Uniform Commercial Code

Resolves 1953, c 61 provided for a nine-person unpaid special commission of Senate, House, and gubernatorial appointees to investigate and study establishment in the Commonwealth of a uniform commercial code relative to transactions involving personal property and contracts, including sales, commercial paper, and miscellaneous matters, and to report thereon to the General Court, which it first did in Jan. 1954 (1953 H 2400). The commission was successively continued by Resolves 1954, c 121 (reporting in Jan. 1955 (1955 H 2417)) and Resolves 1955, c 89 (reporting in Jan. 1956) to consider the appendix to the minority section of the 1954 report.

The Uniform Commercial Code had originated in 1942 as a joint project of the American Law Institute and the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, in which Massachusetts participated pursuant to St 1909, c 416. The code was promulgated in 1951, first adopted in Pennsylvania in 1953-1954, and since then in all other states. The Massachusetts version of the code was eventually adopted as St 1957, c 765, now MGLA c 106. (At that time another commission was established to study amendments to the code (St 1957, c 765, s 20); it was continued by Resolves 1958, c 46 (see also c 97), and its recommendations incorporated in St 1958, c 542)

NAME AUTHORITY NOTE. Series relating to the agency described above can be found by searching the following access point for the time period stated: 1953-1956--Massachusetts. Special Commission to Investigate and Study the Uniform Commercial Code.