Section 8. Upon application of a party or, if an application to the court is pending under sections ten, eleven or twelve, on submission to the arbitrators by the court under such conditions as the court may order, the arbitrators may modify or correct the award upon the grounds stated in clauses (1) and (3) of paragraph (a) of section twelve, or may clarify or correct an award which is so indefinite or incomplete that it cannot be performed. The application shall be made within ten days after delivery of the award to the applicant. Written notice thereof shall be given forthwith to the opposing party, stating that he must serve his objections thereto, if any, within ten days from the notice. The award so modified or corrected shall be subject to the provisions of sections ten, eleven and twelve.
Notes of Decisions
Sch. Comm. v. Hanover Teachers Ass'n, 761 N.E.2d 918 (Mass. 2002).
“” The school committee, pursuant to G. L. c. 150C, §§ 8, 11, commenced an action in the Superior Court to modify or vacate the arbitrator’s award maintaining, as it does here, that the award was unlawful.”
Unite Here Local 26 v. Taj Hotel Boston, 731 F. Supp. 2d 95 (D. Mass. 2010).
· cites it 2× “Under Massachusetts law, motions to the arbitrator to modify or correct an award, or to "clarify or correct an award which is so indefinite or incomplete that it cannot be performed” are to be brought within 10 days after the award is delivered to the applicant, see Mass. Gen.…”
City of Boston v. Boston Police Patrolmen's Ass'n. (Mass. App. Ct. 2025).
“In G. L. c. 150C, § 8, the Legislature did not place any time limit on a judge's remand to an arbitrator for clarification, as it did in §§ 11 and 12 for a party's application to vacate, modify, or correct.”
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