General Laws of Massachusetts (Last Updated: January 16, 2020) |
PART IV CRIMES, PUNISHMENTS AND PROCEEDINGSIN CRIMINAL CASES |
TITLE I. CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS |
CHAPTER 271. CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC POLICY |
SECTION 1. Gaming or betting; forfeiture |
SECTION 1A. ''House'', ''building'' and ''place'' including ship or vessel |
SECTION 2. Gaming or betting in public conveyance or place or while trespassing in private place; arrest without warrant |
SECTION 3. Innholders and others keeping or suffering implements to be used for gaming |
SECTION 4. Gaming in inns and other occupied places; use of billiard table, bowling alley or other implement for gaming |
SECTION 5. Gaming, lottery, pool or betting houses; tables or apparatus for gaming |
SECTION 5A. Gambling devices; forfeiture; antique slot machines |
SECTION 5B. Unlawful possession of electronic machine or device for conducting or promoting sweepstakes through entertaining display; lawful exceptions; penalty |
SECTION 6. Gaming relative to cattle shows, military muster or public gathering; arrest without warrant |
SECTION 6A. Plans under which purchasers agree to obtain more purchasers; injunction; receivers |
SECTION 6B. Skilo and similar games |
SECTION 6C. Repealed, 1998, 1 |
SECTION 7. Lotteries; disposal of property by chance |
SECTION 7A. Raffles and bazaars; conduct by certain organizations |
SECTION 8. Permitting lotteries, raffles and games of chance in buildings |
SECTION 9. Lottery tickets; sale, or possession |
SECTION 10. Subsequent offenses within five years of conviction |
SECTION 10A. Arrest without warrant |
SECTION 11. Lottery tickets; advertising |
SECTION 12. False lottery tickets; creation, sale, or possession |
SECTION 13. Lottery tickets, tokens or shares deemed false |
SECTION 14. Forfeiture of money, prizes, or other property disposed of by chance; recovery |
SECTION 15. Lottery for money drawn out of commonwealth; aiding or promoting |
SECTION 16. Tickets of lottery described in Sec. 15; sale or possession |
SECTION 16A. Organizing or promoting gambling facilities or services |
SECTION 17. Place for registering bets or dealing in pools; owner or occupant; custodian or depository |
SECTION 17A. Telephones; use for gaming purposes |
SECTION 17B. Use of electronic communications records in ongoing criminal investigations; subpoena of records |
SECTION 18. Policy lotteries or shops; production, sale or possession of lottery tickets or tokens |
SECTION 19. Production, advertisement or delivery of tickets; receipt of money; prima facie evidence |
SECTION 20. Tickets, memoranda, books and sheets; nuisance; possession; concealment |
SECTION 21. Words, figures or characters referring to game or contest; prima facie evidence; proof |
SECTION 22. Delivery to or from a person engaged in a lottery or other illegal gaming |
SECTION 22A. Whist or bridge for charitable and similar purposes |
SECTION 22B. Beano; sale of lottery tickets |
SECTION 23. Oath and warrant to enter gaming or lottery place, arrest persons and seize implements and materials; disposal of articles |
SECTION 24. Race tracks; owners, proprietors of, or persons present |
SECTION 25. Obstructions barring access to gaming places; removal; lien of expenses |
SECTION 26. Subsequent obstructions; removal; punishment; lien |
SECTION 27. Judicial notice of methods and character of lotteries, policy games, pools and betting; prima facie evidence |
SECTION 28. Lotteries or illegal gaming; complaints and indictments |
SECTION 29. Sale, exchange or disposition of property; misrepresentation |
SECTION 30. Trading stamps or similar devices; sale or delivery |
SECTION 31. Racing horses for bets or stakes |
SECTION 31A. Racing results or information; transmission for unlawful purposes |
SECTION 32. Horse racing; fraud |
SECTION 33. Race grounds in towns |
SECTION 34. Race grounds as nuisance; abatement |
SECTION 35. Definition of words and phrases used in Secs. 35 to 38 |
SECTION 36. Bucketing contracts; keeper of shop; domestic and foreign corporations |
SECTION 37. Prohibited contracts; price quotations |
SECTION 38. Purchases and sales of securities or commodities; written statement |
SECTION 39. Gifts to influence business affairs; threats |
SECTION 39A. Gifts to influence action of participants in, and others connected with, a game or contest |
SECTION 40. Appointment, reinstatement or discharge of employee of public service corporation or racing licensee on recommendation of public officer, officer elect or candidate |
SECTION 41. Offices not public offices under Sec. 40 |
SECTION 42. Boxing matches or exhibitions; betting or selling pools |
SECTION 43. Solicitation, disclosure, receipt or use of information concerning public assistance |
SECTION 44. Hospital or sanitarium patient; settlement, release or statement; admissibility |
SECTION 45. Repealed, 1982, 21, Sec. 2 |
SECTION 46. Discarded containers originally used for refrigerative purposes; removal of doors |
SECTION 47. Telephones; gambling convictions; approval for installation; notices of convictions and removals |
SECTION 48. Civil service preparatory courses; advertisement |
SECTION 49. Criminal usury |
SECTION 50. Sale of research papers, etc.; taking of examinations for another at educational institutions |