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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 30A, § 13 (2026)

Licenses; revocation, etc.; hearings; exceptions; educational loan defaulters

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Section 13. ''License'', as used in this section, includes any license, permit, certificate, registration, charter, authority or similar form of permission required by law.

Except as otherwise provided in this section, no agency shall revoke or refuse to renew any license unless it has first afforded the licensee an opportunity for hearing in conformity with sections ten, eleven and twelve. If a licensee has, in accordance with any law and with agency regulations, made timely and sufficient application for a renewal, his license shall not expire until his application has been finally determined by the agency. Any agency that has authority to suspend a license without first holding a hearing shall promptly upon exercising such authority afford the licensee an opportunity for hearing in conformity with sections ten, eleven and twelve.

This section shall not apply—

(1) Where a provision of the General Laws expressly provides that an agency is not required to grant a hearing in regard to revocation, suspension or refusal to renew a license, as the case may be; or

(2) Where the agency is required by any law to revoke, suspend or refuse to renew a license, as the case may be, without exercising any discretion in the matter, on the basis of a court conviction or judgment; or

(3) Where the revocation, suspension or refusal to renew is based solely upon failure of the licensee to file timely reports, schedules, or applications, or to pay lawfully prescribed fees, or to maintain insurance coverage as required by any law or by regulation; or

(4) Where there is a refusal to renew the license of a foreign insurance company by the commissioner of insurance, under authority of section one hundred and fifty-one of chapter one hundred and seventy-five or where there is a revocation of the license of a foreign insurance company by said commissioner under authority of section five of chapter one hundred and seventy-five, if such refusal or revocation is upon the grounds that such company is insolvent or is in an unsound financial condition, or that its condition or management is such as to render its further transaction of business hazardous to the public or its policyholders, or that the amount of its funds, net cash or contingent assets is deficient or that its capital stock or deposit or guaranty capital or guaranty fund is impaired, as set forth in section twenty-three A of said chapter one hundred and seventy-five, or that such capital stock, deposit or guaranty capital or guaranty fund has been reduced below the amount required by section one hundred and fifty-one of said chapter one hundred and seventy-five.

A board of registration operating pursuant to chapter 112 or agency shall not deny issuance of, revoke or refuse to renew a professional or occupational certificate, registration, license or authority of an individual based on the individual's default on an educational loan. This paragraph shall not apply to the division of banks.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 15 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1961–2024 · leading case: Kobrin v. Bd. of Reg. in Med., 832 N.E.2d 628 (Mass. 2005).
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Kobrin v. Bd. of Reg. in Med., 832 N.E.2d 628 (Mass. 2005). “775, 785-786, 789 (1980) (administrative summary decision procedures for permit renewals do not offend hearing requirements of G. L. c. 30A, § 13, where hearing would be meaningless).”
Cast Iron Soil Pipe Inst. v. Bd. of State Examiners of Plumbers & Gas Fitters, 396 N.E.2d 457 (Mass. App. Ct. 1979). · cites it 5× “7(c), as unamended, constituted licenses within the meaning of G. L. c. 30A, § 13, to its members to sell its clamp in Massachusetts.”
Massachusetts Outdoor Advert. Council v. Outdoor Advert. Bd., 405 N.E.2d 151 (Mass. App. Ct. 1980). · cites it 3× “The plaintiffs (the advertisers) urge that the Board’s regulations unlawfully deprive them of rights to a hearing to which statute (G. L. c. 30A, § 13), the Constitution of the Commonwealth (arts.”
Sch. Comm. v. Bd. of Educ., 448 Mass. 565 (Mass. 2007). “the school shall have all rights of review as provided in [] G. L. c. 30A, § 13”). The regulation affords no right of judicial review to a school committee for the grant of a charter.”
Konstantopoulos v. Town of Whately, 424 N.E.2d 210 (Mass. 1981). “Therefore, the procedures outlined in G. L. c. 30A, § 13, are not applicable. We recognize that the purpose of § 183A is the preservation of public order at public entertainments.”
Hercules Chem. Co. v. Dep't of Env't Prot., 925 N.E.2d 53 (Mass. App. Ct. 2010). · cites it 2× “However, we agree with Hercules that in the circumstances the department’s combined actions were the equivalent of the revocation of a license under G. L. c. 30A, § 13, which defines license as including “any license, permit, certificate, registration, charter, authority or…”
Saxon Coffee Shop, Inc. v. Boston Licensing Bd., 407 N.E.2d 311 (Mass. 1980). “In view of our disposition of the case, we do not decide this question.”
Bay State Harness Horse Racing & Breeding Ass'n v. State Racing Comm'n, 175 N.E.2d 244 (Mass. 1961). “4 Bay State argues that failure to grant in one year an annual license, similar to one which an applicant has held in a prior year, is in effect a refusal to renew the prior license within the meaning of G. L. c. 30A, § 13, and in some respects comparable to a revocation of a…”
Lincoln v. Hillside Park 'N Shop, Inc., 346 N.E.2d 887 (Mass. 1976). “10 Quite groundless is NEC’s argument that it was entitled to a hearing before its license was “revoked,” citing G. L. c. 30A, § 13 (license revocations by agencies); G.”
Lynch v. Police Comm'r, 681 N.E.2d 307 (Mass. App. Ct. 1997). “673, 675 [1976]), is silent as to the procedures to be followed by license-granting authorities with respect to the issuance of licenses in the first instance, see G. L. c. 30A, § 13, thereby leaving the matter to the provisions of specific statutes and agency regulations.”
Bond v. Comm'r of Pub. Saf., 303 N.E.2d 127 (Mass. App. Ct. 1973). “See the second paragraph of G. L. c. 30A, § 13, as most recently amended by St.”
Swartz v. Comm'r, 3 Mass. Supp. 480 (Mass. Super. Ct. 1982). · cites it 3× “According to G.L.c. 30A, § 13; G.L.c. 175, § 166B cannot come into effect until the agency affords the licensee an oppor- ' tunity for' a hearing in conformity with G.”
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