Whoever wilfully and maliciously sets fire to, burns, or causes to be burned, or whoever aids, counsels or procures the burning of, a dwelling house.
Massachusetts General Laws - Meeting house; burning or aiding in burning - Chapter 266, Section 2
Whoever wilfully and maliciously sets fire to, burns, or causes to be burned, or whoever aids, counsels or procures the burning of, a meeting house.
Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1932, 192, Sec. 3 - Chapter 266, Section 3 4
Whoever wilfully and maliciously sets fire to, or burns or otherwise destroys or injures by burning, or causes to be burned or otherwise so destroyed.
Massachusetts General Laws - Attempts - Chapter 266, Section 5A
Whoever wilfully and maliciously attempts to set fire to, or attempts to burn, or aids, counsels or assists in such an attempt to set fire.
Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1932, 192, Sec. 3 - Chapter 266, Section 6
Whoever by wantonly or recklessly setting fire to any material, or by increasing a fire already set, causes injury to, or the destruction of, any.
Massachusetts General Laws - Injury by fire; negligent use - Chapter 266, Section 8
Whoever, not being a tenant thereof, sets or increases a fire upon land of another whereby the property of another is injured, or whoever negligently.
Massachusetts General Laws - Injury by fire; negligent use in town; damages - Chapter 266, Section 9
Whoever, in a town which accepts this section or has accepted corresponding provisions of earlier laws, sets a fire on land which is not owned.
Massachusetts General Laws - Insured property; burning with intent to defraud - Chapter 266, Section 10
Whoever, wilfully and with intent to defraud or injure the insurer, sets fire to, or attempts to set fire to, or whoever causes to be.
Massachusetts General Laws - Fire alarm, engine or apparatus; injury before fire - Chapter 266, Section 11
Whoever, during the burning of a building or other property, wilfully and maliciously cuts or removes a bell rope or a wire or conduit connected.
Massachusetts General Laws - Fire engines; wanton or malicious injury - Chapter 266, Section 13
Whoever wantonly or maliciously injures a fire engine or other fire apparatus shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars.
Massachusetts General Laws - Duty of hotel manager to notify fire department and sound alarm; penalty - Chapter 266, Section 13A
Whoever breaks and enters a dwelling house in the night time, with intent to commit a felony, or whoever, after having entered with such intent.
Massachusetts General Laws - Burglary; unarmed - Chapter 266, Section 15
Whoever breaks and enters a dwelling house in the night time, with the intent mentioned in the preceding section, or, having entered with such intent.
Massachusetts General Laws - Breaking and entering at night - Chapter 266, Section 16
Whoever enters a dwelling house by false pretenses, without breaking and with the intent to commit a felony, no person lawfully therein being put in.
Massachusetts General Laws - Railroad car; breaking and entering - Chapter 266, Section 19
Whoever breaks and enters, or enters in the night time without breaking, a railroad car, with intent to commit a felony, shall be punished by.
Massachusetts General Laws - Stealing in building, ship or railroad car - Chapter 266, Section 20
Whoever breaks and enters, or enters without breaking, a truck, tractor/trailer unit, trailer, semi-trailer or freight container with intent to commit a felony, shall be.
Massachusetts General Laws - Stealing in trucks, tractors, trailers or freight containers - Chapter 266, Section 20B
Whoever steals in a truck, tractor/trailer unit, trailer, semi-trailer or freight container shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than.
Massachusetts General Laws - Stolen property; refusal to surrender - Chapter 266, Section 21
Whoever, having been convicted, either as principal or accessory, of burglary or robbery, or of any of the crimes described in sections seventeen to twenty.
Massachusetts General Laws - Poultry thieves; detention by owner; penalty - Chapter 266, Section 22
Whoever, with intent to commit larceny, breaks or enters or enters in the night without breaking any building or enclosure wherein is kept or confined.
Massachusetts General Laws - Embezzlement of property at fire; effect - Chapter 266, Section 23
Whoever steals, conveys away or conceals any furniture, goods, chattels, merchandise or effects of persons whose houses or buildings are on fire or are endangered.
Massachusetts General Laws - Stealing at a fire; punishment - Chapter 266, Section 24
(a) Whoever commits larceny by stealing from the person of a person sixty-five years or older shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison.
Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1945, 282, Sec. 1 - Chapter 266, Section 26
Whoever steals any tool belonging to any contractor, builder or mechanic from any building during the course of its construction, completion, alteration or repair, shall.
Massachusetts General Laws - Motor vehicle or trailer; removal or concealment to defraud insurer - Chapter 266, Section 27A
(a) Whoever steals a motor vehicle or trailer, whoever maliciously damages a motor vehicle or trailer, whoever buys, receives, possesses, conceals, or obtains control of.
Massachusetts General Laws - Statement concerning theft; recovery of vehicles; restitution - Chapter 266, Section 29
Whenever a motor vehicle is stolen or misappropriated, the owner of record shall sign and submit to the appropriate police authority a statement under the.
Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1980, 463, Sec. 4 - Chapter 266, Section 29A
Whenever a motor vehicle is burned, the owner of record of such vehicle shall submit to the appropriate fire department a statement signed under the.
Massachusetts General Laws - Larceny; general provisions and penalties - Chapter 266, Section 30
(1) Whoever steals, or with intent to defraud obtains by a false pretence, or whoever unlawfully, and with intent to steal or embezzle, converts, or.
Massachusetts General Laws - Shoplifting; penalty; arrest without warrant - Chapter 266, Section 30A
Any person who intentionally takes possession of, carries away, transfers or causes to be carried away or transferred, any merchandise displayed, held, stored or offered.
Massachusetts General Laws - Signature; obtaining under false pretenses - Chapter 266, Section 31
Whoever by a false pretence, with intent to defraud, obtains the signature of a person to a written instrument, the false making whereof would be.
Massachusetts General Laws - Fraudulent conversion of property by captain of vessel - Chapter 266, Section 32
Whoever, being a captain of a vessel, embezzles or fraudulently converts or appropriates money, goods or property, held or possessed by or delivered to him.
Massachusetts General Laws - Larceny; false pretences relating to contracts, banking transactions or credit - Chapter 266, Section 33
(1) Whoever, with intent to defraud, obtains by a false pretence the making, acceptance or endorsement of a bill of exchange or promissory note, the.
Massachusetts General Laws - Obtaining computer services by fraud or misrepresentation; penalties - Chapter 266, Section 33A
Whoever, with intent to defraud, obtains, or attempts to obtain, or aids or abets another in obtaining, any commercial computer service by false representation, false.
Massachusetts General Laws - Larceny; inducement to part with property - Chapter 266, Section 34
Whoever, with intent to defraud and by a false pretence, induces another to part with property of any kind or with any of the benefits.
Massachusetts General Laws - Non-applicability of Secs. 30, 31 and 34 - Chapter 266, Section 35
(a) As used in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly otherwise requires: Funds , shall include, but not.
Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1945, 282, Sec. 1 - Chapter 266, Section 36
Whoever, with intent to defraud, makes, draws, utters or delivers any check, draft or order for the payment of money upon any bank or other.
Massachusetts General Laws - Misuse of credit cards; definitions - Chapter 266, Section 37A
As used in sections thirty-seven A to thirty-seven C, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meanings, unless the context otherwise requires: Cardholder , the.
Massachusetts General Laws - Misuse of credit cards; penalties; multiple possession, presumption; arrest - Chapter 266, Section 37B
Whoever, with intent to defraud, (a) obtains control over a credit card as security for debt, or (b) receives a credit card which he knows.
Massachusetts General Laws - Publishing credit card numbering or coding systems - Chapter 266, Section 37D
(a) For purposes of this section, the following words shall have the following meanings: Harass , willfully and maliciously engage in an act directed at a.
Massachusetts General Laws - Larceny; wrongful detention of money by carriers - Chapter 266, Section 38
Whoever, being engaged in the business of transporting merchandise, parcels or other property for hire, accepts from a consignor or his agent or from a.
Massachusetts General Laws - Construction loan; misapplication - Chapter 266, Section 38A
Whoever obtains a building or construction loan, secured by a mortgage of real estate, for the payment for labor furnished or to be furnished and/or.
Massachusetts General Laws - Wills; destruction or concealment - Chapter 266, Section 39
Whoever steals or for any fraudulent purpose destroys, mutilates or conceals a will, codicil or other testamentary instrument shall be punished by imprisonment in the.
Massachusetts General Laws - Common and notorious thief - Chapter 266, Section 40
Whoever, having been convicted, upon indictment, of larceny or of being accessory to larceny before the fact, afterward commits a larceny or is accessory thereto.
Massachusetts General Laws - Larceny of bicycles; second conviction - Chapter 266, Section 41
Whoever is convicted of a second offence of the larceny of a bicycle shall, if the value of the bicycle stolen exceeds ten dollars, be.
Massachusetts General Laws - Larceny of paper designated for bank bills - Chapter 266, Section 42
Whoever commits larceny of a printed piece of paper or blank designed for issue by any incorporated bank or banking company in the United States.
Massachusetts General Laws - Paper designated for bank bills; retention by printer with intent to pass - Chapter 266, Section 43
Whoever, having been employed to print or having assisted in printing a printed piece of paper or blank described in the preceding section, or having.
Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1945, 282, Sec. 1 - Chapter 266, Section 44 to 46
Whoever wrongfully removes the collar from a dog which is licensed and collared as provided in chapter one hundred and forty shall be punished by.
Massachusetts General Laws - Stolen goods; duty of arresting officers to secure - Chapter 266, Section 48
An officer who arrests a person charged as principal or accessory in a robbery or larceny shall secure the property which is alleged to have.
Massachusetts General Laws - Burglarious instruments; making; possession; use - Chapter 266, Section 49
Whoever makes or mends, or begins to make or mend, or knowingly has in his possession, an engine, machine, tool or implement adapted and designed.
Massachusetts General Laws - State treasury; fraud or embezzlement by employee - Chapter 266, Section 50
A person employed in the treasury of the commonwealth who commits a fraud or embezzlement therein shall be punished by a fine of not more.
Massachusetts General Laws - City, town or county officers; fraud or embezzlement - Chapter 266, Section 51
A county, city or town officer who embezzles or fraudulently converts, or who fraudulently takes or secretes with intent so to do, effects or property.
Massachusetts General Laws - Bank officers and employees; fraud or embezzlement - Chapter 266, Section 52
An officer, director, trustee, agent or employee of a bank, as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and sixty-seven, who fraudulently converts, or.
Massachusetts General Laws - Bank officers or employees; prosecution for fraud or embezzlement; evidence - Chapter 266, Section 53
In prosecutions for such crimes, the fraudulent taking or receiving by any person of bullion, money, notes, bills or other security for money which belongs.
Massachusetts General Laws - Bank officers and employees; misconduct; penalty - Chapter 266, Section 53A
An officer, director, trustee, agent or employee of a bank, as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and sixty-seven, who wilfully misapplies otherwise.
Massachusetts General Laws - Receipt of deposits by insolvent banks; penalty - Chapter 266, Section 54
Any officer or employee of a bank, as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and sixty-seven, who receives or permits the receipt of.
Massachusetts General Laws - Liquidating agent or receiver; embezzlement - Chapter 266, Section 55
An agent appointed by the commissioner of banks for the purposes of liquidating the affairs of a bank, as defined in section one of chapter.
Massachusetts General Laws - Brokers or agents; embezzlement - Chapter 266, Section 56
A broker, or officer, manager or agent of a corporation doing the business of brokers, who, having been intrusted, solely or jointly, with money, stock.
Massachusetts General Laws - Fiduciaries; embezzlement - Chapter 266, Section 57
A trustee under an express trust created by a deed, will or other instrument in writing, or a guardian, conservator, executor or administrator, or any.
Massachusetts General Laws - Larceny; embezzlement from voluntary association - Chapter 266, Section 58
Whoever, being an officer, agent, clerk or servant of a voluntary association or society, embezzles or fraudulently converts, or fraudulently takes or secretes with intent.
Massachusetts General Laws - Simple larceny; embezzlement from voluntary association - Chapter 266, Section 59
Whoever embezzles or fraudulently converts, or secretes with intent to embezzle or fraudulently convert, money, goods or property or any part thereof which has been.
Massachusetts General Laws - Stolen goods; buying or receiving - Chapter 266, Section 60
Whoever buys, receives or aids in the concealment of stolen or embezzled property, knowing it to have been stolen or embezzled, or whoever with intent.
Massachusetts General Laws - Stolen trade secrets; buying or selling - Chapter 266, Section 60A
Whoever buys, receives, conceals, stores, barters, sells or disposes of any trade secret, or pledges or accepts as security for a loan any trade secret.
Massachusetts General Laws - Stolen property; restitution; effect - Chapter 266, Section 61
If, upon a first conviction under the preceding section, it is shown that the act of stealing the property was a simple larceny, and if.
Massachusetts General Laws - Stolen goods; common receiver - Chapter 266, Section 62
Whoever is convicted of buying, receiving or aiding in the concealment of stolen or embezzled property, knowing it to have been stolen or embezzled, having.
Massachusetts General Laws - Unlawful taking or use of transportation media - Chapter 266, Section 63
Whoever wilfully, mischievously and without right takes or uses a boat or vehicle, other than a motor vehicle, or takes, drives, rides or uses any.
Massachusetts General Laws - Fraudulent hiring of media of transportation - Chapter 266, Section 64
Whoever hires a horse, carriage or other vehicle, and, with intent to cheat or defraud the owner thereof, makes to him or to his agent.
Massachusetts General Laws - Stock; unauthorized issue - Chapter 266, Section 65
An officer, agent, clerk or servant of a corporation, or any other person, who issues or signs with intent to issue a certificate of stock.
Massachusetts General Laws - Stock; fraudulent issue or transfer - Chapter 266, Section 66
An officer, agent, clerk or servant of a corporation, or any other person, who fraudulently issues or transfers a certificate of the stock of a.
Massachusetts General Laws - Corporate books; false entries with intent to defraud - Chapter 266, Section 67
Whoever, in any matter, relative to procurement of supplies, services or construction, as defined in section one of chapter twelve A, within the jurisdiction of.
Massachusetts General Laws - Presentation of false claims - Chapter 266, Section 67B
Whoever makes or presents to any employee, department, agency or public instrumentality of the commonwealth, or of any political subdivision thereof, any claim upon or.
Massachusetts General Laws - Capital facility construction projects, etc.; false entries in records; penalties - Chapter 266, Section 67C
Any person who knowingly and wilfully, directly or indirectly makes, or knowingly and wilfully causes to be made, a false entry or omission of a.
Massachusetts General Laws - Corporate books as evidence - Chapter 266, Section 68
Upon the trial of a person for a crime under the three preceding sections, the books of any person, firm or corporation to which he.
Massachusetts General Laws - Insignia of societies; unlawful use - Chapter 266, Section 69
Whoever, not being a member of a society, association or labor union, for the purpose of representing that he is a member thereof, wilfully wears.
Massachusetts General Laws - Fraudulent use of labor union seal, trademark or insignia - Chapter 266, Section 69A
Whoever knowingly and fraudulently displays or otherwise uses, in any manner whatsoever, the seal, trademark or insignia of any labor organization as defined by subsection.
Massachusetts General Laws - Insignia of veteran organizations; unlawful use - Chapter 266, Section 70
Whoever, not being a member and without authority of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, the Grand Army of the.
Massachusetts General Laws - Signature, money or membership; obtaining under false pretences - Chapter 266, Section 71
No person, society, association or corporation shall knowingly assume, adopt or use the name of a benevolent, humane, fraternal, charitable or labor organization, whether incorporated.
Massachusetts General Laws - Fraternal names; use in publication - Chapter 266, Section 72
Whoever, in a newspaper or other publication, or in any written or printed letter, notice, matter or device, without authority of the grand or supreme.
Massachusetts General Laws - Obtaining goods under false pretences - Chapter 266, Section 73
Whoever, with intent to defraud, by a false pretence of carrying on business and dealing in the ordinary course of trade, obtains from any person.
Massachusetts General Laws - Corporate credit; fraudulent use - Chapter 266, Section 74
An officer, agent, clerk or servant of a corporation organized or doing business in the commonwealth, who wilfully uses the name of such corporation, or.
Massachusetts General Laws - Obtaining property by trick - Chapter 266, Section 75
Whoever, by a game, device, sleight of hand, pretended fortune telling or by any trick or other means by the use of cards or other.
Massachusetts General Laws - Gambling devices and vending machines; fraudulent use - Chapter 266, Section 75A
Whoever operates or causes to be operated, or attempts to operate or to cause to be operated, any automatic vending machine, slot machine, turnstile, coin-box.
Massachusetts General Laws - Slugs; manufacture and sale - Chapter 266, Section 75B
Whoever manufactures for sale, advertises for sale, sells, offers for sale, or gives away any slug, device or substance whatsoever, designed or calculated to be.
Massachusetts General Laws - Gift certificates; expiration dates; failure to redeem - Chapter 266, Section 75C
Whoever sells or offers to sell a gift certificate, as defined in section 1 of chapter 255D, which imposes any fees or charges including, but.
Massachusetts General Laws - Deduction of gratuity from gift certificate without consent; penalty - Chapter 266, Section 75F
Whoever redeems a gift certificate, as defined in section 1 of chapter 255D and deducts a gratuity therefrom without the consent of the holder of.
Massachusetts General Laws - Gross fraud or cheat at common law; punishment - Chapter 266, Section 76
Whoever is convicted of any gross fraud or cheat at common law shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than.
Massachusetts General Laws - Sterling and coin silver; contents; sale; penalty - Chapter 266, Section 77
Whoever makes or sells, or offers to sell or dispose of, or has in his possession with intent so to do, any article of merchandise.
Massachusetts General Laws - Articles made of gold; false marking; prohibition - Chapter 266, Section 78
Whoever makes or sells, or offers for sale or disposes of, or has in his possession with intent so to do, any article constructed in.
Massachusetts General Laws - Imitation of furs; false representation; prohibition - Chapter 266, Section 79
Whoever, himself, or by his agent or servant, or as the agent or servant of another person, sells or exchanges, or has in his custody.
Massachusetts General Laws - Encumbered land; conveyance without notice - Chapter 266, Section 80
Whoever conveys land, knowing that an encumbrance exists thereon, without informing the grantee, before the consideration is paid, of the existence and nature of such.
Massachusetts General Laws - Attached land; conveyance without notice - Chapter 266, Section 81
Whoever, with a fraudulent intent to place personal property which is subject to a mortgage beyond the control of the mortgagee, removes or conceals or.
Massachusetts General Laws - Personalty; sale by mortgagor without consent - Chapter 266, Section 83
A mortgagor of personal property who sells or conveys the same or any part thereof without the written consent of the mortgagee, and without informing.
Massachusetts General Laws - Personalty; sale by hirer without consent - Chapter 266, Section 84
A hirer or lessee of personal property who sells or conveys the same or any part thereof without the written consent of the owner or.
Massachusetts General Laws - Collateral security; sale before debt due - Chapter 266, Section 85
Whoever, holding collateral security deposited with him for the payment of a debt which may be due to him, sells, pledges, lends or in any.
Massachusetts General Laws - Hired property; buying or receiving with intent to defraud - Chapter 266, Section 86
Whoever, with intent to defraud, buys, receives or aids in concealing personal property, knowing it to be hired or leased or held as collateral security.
Massachusetts General Laws - Larceny of leased or rented property - Chapter 266, Section 87
The owner or lessee of a leased or rented motor vehicle which has been stolen or placed beyond his control shall report the loss of.
Massachusetts General Laws - Consignee or factor; fraudulent deposit or pledge of property - Chapter 266, Section 88
Whoever, in a book, pamphlet, circular, advertisement or advertising sign, or by a pretended written certificate or diploma, or otherwise in writing, knowingly and falsely.
Massachusetts General Laws - Endorsement or approval; penalty for false claim - Chapter 266, Section 90
Whoever, in a book, pamphlet, circular, advertisement or advertising sign, or otherwise in writing, makes any false and fraudulent statement or assertion of endorsement, authority.
Massachusetts General Laws - Untrue and misleading advertisements; prohibitions - Chapter 266, Section 91
Any person who, with intent to sell or in any way dispose of merchandise, securities, service, or anything offered by such person, directly or indirectly.
Massachusetts General Laws - Merchandise, commodities and service; advertisement; penalty - Chapter 266, Section 91A
Any person who offers for sale merchandise, commodities or service by making, publishing, disseminating, circulating or placing before the public within the commonwealth, in a.
Massachusetts General Laws - Deceptive advertising of merchandise for sale; injunction - Chapter 266, Section 91B
Any person offering for sale merchandise, commodities or service by making, publishing, disseminating, circulating or placing before the public within the commonwealth in any manner.
Massachusetts General Laws - False or exaggerated statements; making or publishing; prohibition - Chapter 266, Section 92
Whoever sells a motor vehicle knowing that its engine or electrical parts have been submerged in water, or knowing that it has been used as.
Massachusetts General Laws - Animals; obtaining or giving false pedigree - Chapter 266, Section 93
Whoever, by a false pretence, obtains from any club, association, society or company for improving the breed of cattle, horses, sheep, swine or other domestic.
Massachusetts General Laws - Boundary monuments and miscellaneous markers; malicious destruction - Chapter 266, Section 94
Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right breaks down, injures, removes or destroys a monument erected for the purpose of designating the boundaries of a town.
Massachusetts General Laws - Historical monuments; malicious destruction or injury - Chapter 266, Section 95
Whoever wilfully or maliciously removes, displaces, destroys, defaces, mars or injures any monument, tablet or other device erected to mark an historic place or to.
Massachusetts General Laws - State building; defacement or injury - Chapter 266, Section 96
Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right defaces, mars or injures the walls, wainscoting or any other part of any building belonging to the commonwealth, or.
Massachusetts General Laws - County buildings; defacement - Chapter 266, Section 97
Whoever wilfully mars or injures the walls, wainscoting or any other part of a court house, jail or house of correction, or of any other.
Massachusetts General Laws - Schoolhouse or church; defacement or injury - Chapter 266, Section 98
Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right, or wantonly and without cause, destroys, defaces, mars or injures a schoolhouse, church or other building erected or used.
Massachusetts General Laws - Public park or playground equipment; destruction, defacement or injury - Chapter 266, Section 98A
Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right, or wantonly and without cause destroys, defaces, mars or injures any playground apparatus or equipment located in a public.
Massachusetts General Laws - Libraries; definitions - Chapter 266, Section 99
As used in sections ninety-nine A and one hundred, the following words shall have the following meanings: Library materials and property , any book, plate, picture.
Massachusetts General Laws - Libraries; theft of materials or property; destruction of records - Chapter 266, Section 99A
Whoever willfully conceals on his person or among his belongings any library materials or property and removes said library materials or property, if the value.
Massachusetts General Laws - Libraries; mutilation or destruction of materials or property - Chapter 266, Section 100
Whoever willfully, maliciously or wantonly writes upon, injures, defaces, tears, cuts, mutilates or destroys any library material or property, shall make restitution in full replacement.
Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions applicable to Secs. 101 to 102D - Chapter 266, Section 101
For the purposes of sections 101 to 102D, inclusive, the following terms shall have the following meanings, unless otherwise clearly required: Ammunition , cartridges or cartridge.
Massachusetts General Laws - Possession or control of incendiary device or material; possession of hoax device or material; penalty - Chapter 266, Section 102
Whoever, without lawful authority, secretes, throws, launches or otherwise places an explosive or a destructive or incendiary device or substance with the intent: (i) to.
Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, , 160, Sec. 6 - Chapter 266, Section 102A1/2
Whoever, without lawful authority, willfully discharges, ignites or explodes any destructive or incendiary device or substance shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison.
Massachusetts General Laws - Biological, chemical, or nuclear weapon or delivery system; possession; punishment - Chapter 266, Section 102C
Whoever, without lawful authority, knowingly develops, produces, stockpiles, acquires, transports, possesses, controls, places, secretes or uses any biological, chemical or nuclear weapon or delivery system.
Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of seizure of explosive or incendiary device resulting from a violation of Secs. 102 to 102C; restitution - Chapter 266, Section 102D
(a) Notice of the seizure of an explosive, destructive or incendiary device or substance, any weapon or the component parts thereof, in violation of any.
Massachusetts General Laws - Oil of vitriol, or other substances; throwing into building or vessel - Chapter 266, Section 103
Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right throws into, against or upon a dwelling house, office, shop or other building, or vessel, or puts or places.
Massachusetts General Laws - Buildings; destruction or injury - Chapter 266, Section 104
Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right destroys, injures, defaces or mars a dwelling house or other building, whether upon the inside or outside, shall be.
Massachusetts General Laws - Goal posts; penalty for destruction - Chapter 266, Section 104A
Whoever wilfully and without right destroys, injures or removes a goal post on a football field shall be punished by a fine of not less.
Massachusetts General Laws - Research animals; unauthorized removal - Chapter 266, Section 104B
Whoever enters any premises in which animals are being housed or used in research by a research institution and, without authority, injures, damages, commits any.
Massachusetts General Laws - Stone walls or fences; unauthorized removal - Chapter 266, Section 105
Whoever wilfully and without right pulls down or removes any portion of a stone wall or fence which is erected or maintained for the purpose.
Massachusetts General Laws - Ice ponds; injury - Chapter 266, Section 106
Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right or license, cuts, injures, mars or otherwise damages or destroys ice upon waters from which ice is or may.
Massachusetts General Laws - Bridge or canal; injury - Chapter 266, Section 107
Whoever casts away, burns, sinks or otherwise destroys a ship or vessel, with intent to injure or defraud an owner thereof, or of any property.
Massachusetts General Laws - Vessel; fitting out with intent to destroy - Chapter 266, Section 109
Whoever lades, equips or fits out, or assists in lading, equipping or fitting out, a ship or vessel, with intent that it shall be wilfully.
Massachusetts General Laws - False invoice of cargo; intent to defraud insurer - Chapter 266, Section 110
An owner of a ship or vessel, or of property laden or pretended to be laden on board the same, or any other person concerned.
Massachusetts General Laws - False affidavit or protest; penalty - Chapter 266, Section 111
A master, officer or mariner of a ship or vessel who makes or causes to be made or swears to a false affidavit or protest.
Massachusetts General Laws - Insurance policies; penalty for fraudulent claims - Chapter 266, Section 111A
Whoever, in connection with or in support of any claim under any policy of insurance issued by any company, as defined in section one of.
Massachusetts General Laws - Motor vehicle insurance policies; penalty for fraudulent claims - Chapter 266, Section 111B
Whoever, in connection with or in support of any application for or claim under any motor vehicle, theft or comprehensive insurance policy issued by an.
Massachusetts General Laws - Fraudulently obtaining benefits under insurance contract; runners; punishment - Chapter 266, Section 111C
(a) As used in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings: Provider , an attorney, a health care professional licensed pursuant to chapter.
Massachusetts General Laws - Domestic animals; malicious killing or injury - Chapter 266, Section 112
Whoever wilfully and maliciously kills, maims or disfigures any horse, cattle or other animal of another person, or wilfully and maliciously administers or exposes poison.
Massachusetts General Laws - Timber, wood and shrubs; wilful cutting and destruction on land of another - Chapter 266, Section 113
Whoever wilfully cuts down or destroys timber or wood standing or growing on the land of another, or carries away any kind of timber or.
Massachusetts General Laws - Trees and fences; malicious injury - Chapter 266, Section 114
Whoever wilfully and maliciously or wantonly breaks glass in a building which is not his own, or whoever wilfully and maliciously breaks down, injures, mars.
Massachusetts General Laws - Trespass in orchards and gardens - Chapter 266, Section 115
Whoever wilfully and maliciously enters an orchard, nursery, garden or cranberry meadow, and takes away, mutilates or destroys a tree, shrub or vine, or steals.
Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1962, 172 - Chapter 266, Section 116
No person shall pull up or dig up the plant of a wild azalea, wild orchid or cardinal flower (lobelia cardinalis), or any part thereof.
Massachusetts General Laws - Orchards and gardens; entry with intent to injure or destroy - Chapter 266, Section 117
Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right enters upon the orchard, garden or other improved land of another, with intent to cut, take, carry away, destroy.
Massachusetts General Laws - Domestic animals; trespass on land - Chapter 266, Section 118
Whoever, having the charge or custody of sheep, goats, cattle, horses, swine or fowl, wilfully suffers or permits them to enter or remain on or.
Massachusetts General Laws - Pests; bringing into state; penalty; exception - Chapter 266, Section 119
Whoever, without right enters or remains in or upon the dwelling house, buildings, boats or improved or enclosed land, wharf, or pier of another, or.
Massachusetts General Laws - Motor vehicle; parking on private way; prosecution; evidence - Chapter 266, Section 120A
In any prosecution for committing the crime of trespass by parking a motor vehicle upon a private way or upon improved or enclosed land, proof.
Massachusetts General Laws - Entry on land by abutting property owners not constituting trespass - Chapter 266, Section 120B
As used in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings: Medical facility , any medical office, medical clinic, medical laboratory, or hospital. Notice .
Massachusetts General Laws - Reproductive health care facilities - Chapter 266, Section 120E1/2
(a) For the purposes of this section, reproductive health care facility means a place, other than within or upon the grounds of a hospital, where.
Massachusetts General Laws - Unauthorized access to computer system; penalties - Chapter 266, Section 120F
Whoever, without authorization, knowingly accesses a computer system by any means, or after gaining access to a computer system by any means knows that such.
Massachusetts General Laws - Entry on land with firearms - Chapter 266, Section 121
Whoever, without right, enters upon the land of another with firearms, with intent to fire or discharge them thereon, and, having been requested by the.
Massachusetts General Laws - Trespasses involving motor vehicles and other powered devices - Chapter 266, Section 121A
Whoever, without right, enters upon the private land of another, whether or not such land be posted against trespass, and in so entering makes use.
Massachusetts General Laws - Notice against trespassers; defacement; penalty - Chapter 266, Section 122
Whoever wilfully tears down, removes or defaces any notice posted on land, or other property described in section one hundred and twenty, by the owner.
Massachusetts General Laws - State land; public institutions; trespass; penalty - Chapter 266, Section 123
Whoever willfully trespasses upon land or premises belonging to the commonwealth, or to any authority established by the general court for purposes incidental to higher.
Massachusetts General Laws - Willful trespass upon public source of water, water supply facility or land - Chapter 266, Section 123A
(a) Whoever willfully trespasses upon any public source of water or public water supply facilities or land after having been forbidden to do so by.
Massachusetts General Laws - Legal notice; penalty for malicious injury - Chapter 266, Section 124
Whoever wilfully and maliciously, or wantonly and without cause, tears down, removes or defaces a warrant for a town meeting, list of jurors or other.
Massachusetts General Laws - Show bill or advertisement; penalty for malicious injury - Chapter 266, Section 125
Whoever wilfully and maliciously removes, destroys or mutilates a show bill, placard, program or other advertisement posted upon a wall, fence, billboard or structure not.
Massachusetts General Laws - Natural scenery; penalty for defacement - Chapter 266, Section 126
Whoever intentionally, willfully and maliciously or wantonly, paints, marks, scratches, etches or otherwise marks, injures, mars, defaces or destroys the real or personal property of.
Massachusetts General Laws - Tagging; penalties; suspension of driver s license - Chapter 266, Section 126B
Whoever sprays or applies paint or places a sticker upon a building, wall, fence, sign, tablet, gravestone, monument or other object or thing on a.
Massachusetts General Laws - Personal property; malicious or wanton injuries - Chapter 266, Section 127
Whoever destroys or injures the personal property, dwelling house or building of another in any manner or by any means not particularly described or mentioned.
Massachusetts General Laws - Destruction of place of worship, etc.; threats; punishment - Chapter 266, Section 127A
Whoever willfully, intentionally and without right, or wantonly and without cause, destroys, defaces, mars, or injures a church, synagogue or other building, structure or place.
Massachusetts General Laws - Actions for civil rights violations; liability - Chapter 266, Section 127B
Any person incurring injury to his person or damage or loss to his property as a result of conduct in violation of section one hundred.
Massachusetts General Laws - Milk cans; defacement - Chapter 266, Section 128
Whoever, without the consent of the owner thereof, knowingly and wilfully effaces, alters or covers over, or procures to be effaced, altered or covered over.
Massachusetts General Laws - Correctional institutions; injury to property - Chapter 266, Section 129
An inmate of a correctional institution of the commonwealth who wilfully and maliciously destroys or injures the property of the commonwealth at such correctional institution.
Massachusetts General Laws - Penal institutions; injury to property - Chapter 266, Section 130
Whoever, being a prisoner at a jail or house of correction, wilfully and maliciously injures or destroys any public property or any materials furnished for.
Massachusetts General Laws - Sunday trespassers; arrest and detention without warrant - Chapter 266, Section 131
Whoever is discovered in the act of wilfully injuring a fruit or forest tree or of committing any kind of malicious mischief on Sunday may.
Massachusetts General Laws - Pigeons; killing or frightening - Chapter 266, Section 132
Whoever wilfully kills pigeons upon, or frightens them from, beds which have been made for the purpose of taking them in nets, by any method.
Massachusetts General Laws - Humane society; injury to property - Chapter 266, Section 133
Whoever unlawfully enters a house, boat house or hut which is the property of the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and wilfully injures.
Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1962, 285, Sec. 3 - Chapter 266, Section 134
Whoever moors or in any manner makes fast a vessel, scow, boat or raft to a buoy, beacon or floating guide placed by the government.
Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1962, 285, Sec. 3 - Chapter 266, Section 136
Whoever, by erecting or maintaining a dam, either within or without the commonwealth, knowingly causes the water of a river or stream so to be.
Massachusetts General Laws - Dams or reservoirs; malicious injury - Chapter 266, Section 138
Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right breaks down, injures, removes or destroys a dam, reservoir, canal or trench, or a gate, flume, flashboards or other.
Massachusetts General Laws - Irrigation equipment; malicious injury - Chapter 266, Section 138A
Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right damages or renders unusable machinery or equipment used in the transmission of water for agricultural purposes shall be punished.
Massachusetts General Laws - Motor vehicles or trailers; defacement, etc. of identifying numbers; penalties; arrests - Chapter 266, Section 139
Whoever removes, defaces, alters, changes, destroys, obliterates or mutilates or causes to be removed or destroyed or in any way defaced, altered, changed, obliterated or.
Massachusetts General Laws - Sale or offer for sale of master keys; penalty - Chapter 266, Section 140
Whoever, with the intent to misrepresent to a prospective or eventual purchaser the number of miles traveled by a motor vehicle, turns back or readjusts.
Massachusetts General Laws - Record of purchases by dealers in scrap copper wire; inspection; penalty - Chapter 266, Section 142
Whoever is in the business of purchasing copper line wire or scrap copper wire shall enter in a book kept for that purpose a description.
Massachusetts General Laws - Gold, silver and platinum dealers; records; penalty - Chapter 266, Section 142A
Whoever is in the business of purchasing gold, silver or platinum shall enter in a book kept for that purpose a description of the item.
Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions applicable to Secs. 143A to 143H - Chapter 266, Section 143
As used in sections 143A to 143H, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meanings: Article or recorded device , the tangible medium upon which.
Massachusetts General Laws - Unauthorized reproduction and transfer of sound recordings - Chapter 266, Section 143A
Whoever directly or indirectly by any means, knowingly transfers or causes to be transferred any sound recorded on a phonograph record, disc, wire, tape, film.
Massachusetts General Laws - Unauthorized reproduction and sale of live performances - Chapter 266, Section 143B
Whoever for commercial advantage or private financial gain knowingly manufactures, rents, sells, transports, or causes to be manufactured, rented, sold or transported, or possesses for.
Massachusetts General Laws - Application of Secs. 143 to 143C; exceptions - Chapter 266, Section 143D
(a) Nothing in sections 143A to 143C, inclusive, shall be construed to apply to any person lawfully entitled to use or who causes to be.
Massachusetts General Laws - Violations of Secs. 143A to 143C; punishment - Chapter 266, Section 143E
Whoever, without permission of the owner, carries away or converts to his own use a plastic or wire milk case or a plastic or wire.
Massachusetts General Laws - Theft of public records - Chapter 266, Section 145
For purposes of this section solid waste shall mean garbage, refuse, trash, rubbish, sludge, residue or by-products of processing or treatment of discarded material, and.
Massachusetts General Laws - Items or services bearing or identified by counterfeit mark; sales; penalties - Chapter 266, Section 147
(a) For purposes of this section, the following words shall have the following meanings: Counterfeit mark , any unauthorized reproduction or copy of intellectual property, or.
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