Section 55A Liability of depositor for losses due to bankruptcy
Section 55A. A city, town, district or regional school district officer receiving public money and lawfully and in good faith and in the exercise of due care depositing the same in a savings bank or trust company organized under the laws of the commonwealth, on paid-up shares and accounts of and in cooperative banks, a banking company organized under the laws of the commonwealth which is a member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or in a national bank doing business in the commonwealth or in participation units in a combined investment fund under section thirty-eight A of chapter twenty-nine, or, in the case of the city of Boston, in accordance with the provisions of section fifty-five in a national bank or trust company in the city of New York, or in good faith and in the exercise of due care purchasing share accounts of a federal savings and loan association located in the commonwealth, shall not be personally liable to the city, town, district or regional school district for any loss of such money by reason of the closing up of such depository or federal and loan association for the liquidation of its affairs.