"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.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 30A, § 30A:13
Amended by Acts 2024, c. 353,§ 1, eff. 1/8/2025.