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 Repealed, 1998, 1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