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relationships, without violating the security deposit statute. 30
limiting the reach of the statute to its express language, i.e., prohibiting only counterclaims for damages in an action brought by a tenant to recover a security deposit, would render it meaningless as a deterrent to landlords’ flouting the...
such law. Indeed, the security deposit statute has no raison
of the security deposit statute. Also, even where the tenant
tender of a security deposit by a tenant to a landlord is well
of the security deposit statute, G. L. c. 186, § 15B, as part of
facilities and not governed by the security deposit statute.
207, 212 (2016). "In passing the [security deposit statute],
for the applicability of the security deposit statute. Regular
enumerated in the security deposit statute, such a prohibition
that the security deposit statute was entirely inapplicable to
because it violated the security deposit statute, and charging
damages-trebling provisions of the security deposit statute were
violation of the security deposit statute. Contrary to the
measures with respect to tenants' security deposits and payments
keeping the security deposits in a separate interest-bearing
lists several violations of the security deposit law which are deemed sufficiently serious to result in the landlord’s forfeiting the right to retain the the security deposit for any purpose. 4 Three of these — (a), *762 (d), and (e)
(6)(e) provides that a lessor forfeits his right to the security deposit if he "fails to return to the tenant the security
of those fees. If a landlord chooses to require a security deposit, the landlord must hold the deposit in a "separate, interest-bearing account in a bank, located within the
“The lessor shall forfeit his right to retain any portion of the security deposit for any reason, or, in any action by a tenant to recover a security deposit, to counterclaim for any damage to the premises if he: . . . (e...