General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 140 Licenses

• Massachusetts General Laws - “Licensing authorities” defined - Chapter 140, Section 1
  “Licensing authorities”, as used in this chapter, unless a contrary meaning is required by the context, shall mean the boards in Boston and other cities...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Issuance of license to be innholders or common victuallers; signing; refusal; fee; record; penalty - Chapter 140, Section 2
  Licensing authorities may grant licenses to persons to be innholders or common victuallers. Such license shall not be issued or be valid until it has...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Content of innholders’ licenses; governing statutes - Chapter 140, Section 3
  All innholders’ licenses shall be expressed to be subject to sections twenty-two to thirty-two, inclusive, of this chapter and sections twenty-five to twenty-seven, inclusive, of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Contents generally; coverage; term - Chapter 140, Section 4
  Every license of an innholder or common victualler shall specify the street and number, if any, of the building where the business is to be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Food and accommodations; availability - Chapter 140, Section 5
  Every innholder and every common victualler shall at all times be provided with suitable food for strangers and travelers. Every innholder shall also have upon...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Conditions precedent; proposed plans; cost estimates; license as victualler or innholder - Chapter 140, Section 6
  A common victualler’s or innholder’s license may be issued to an applicant therefor if at the time of his application he has upon his premises...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1941, 439, Sec. 2 - Chapter 140, Section 6A
  Repealed, 1941, 439, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Food allergy awareness - Chapter 140, Section 6B
  (a) As used in this section, the word “department” shall mean the department of public health. (b) A person licensed as an innholder or common...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Refusing to provide for travelers - Chapter 140, Section 7
  An innholder who, upon request, refuses to receive and make suitable provision for a stranger or traveler shall be punished by a fine of nor...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1975, 256, Sec. 1 - Chapter 140, Section 8
  Repealed, 1975, 256, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Suspension; revocation; forfeiture - Chapter 140, Section 9
  If, in the opinion of the licensing authorities, a licensee as an innholder or a common victualler ceases to be engaged in the business he...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Keeping of premises open throughout year - Chapter 140, Section 9A
  Nothing in sections two to nine, inclusive, shall be construed to require a common victualler to keep his premises open for business throughout the entire
• Massachusetts General Laws - Liability for loss of property - Chapter 140, Section 10
  An innholder shall not be liable for losses sustained by a guest except of wearing apparel, articles worn or carried on the person, personal baggage...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fire or overwhelming force; liability - Chapter 140, Section 11
  In case of loss by fire or overwhelming force, innholders shall be answerable to their guests only for ordinary and reasonable care in the custody...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fraudulently procuring food, accommodations or credit; removal of property covered by lien; evidence - Chapter 140, Section 12
  Whoever puts up at a hotel, motel, inn, lodging house or boarding house and, without having an express agreement for credit, procures food, entertainment or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - “Hotel” defined for Secs. 12B to 12D - Chapter 140, Section 12A
  For the purpose of sections 12B to 12D, inclusive, the word “hotel” shall mean a hotel, motel, resort, boarding house, or inn, which is kept,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Removal of guest from hotel - Chapter 140, Section 12B
  An innkeeper may remove or cause to be removed from a hotel a guest or other person who: refuses or is unable to pay for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Refusal of accommodation in hotel to persons acting in disorderly manner; damage deposits - Chapter 140, Section 12C
  (a) An innkeeper may refuse to admit or refuse service or accommodation in the hotel to a person who: while on the premises of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Persons negligently or intentionally causing damage to hotel; liability - Chapter 140, Section 12D
  (a) A person who negligently or intentionally causes damage to the hotel or any furniture or furnishings within the hotel, shall be liable for damages...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Posting of statutory provisions - Chapter 140, Section 13
  Innholders shall post a printed copy of this and the three preceding sections in a conspicuous place in each room of their inns. Boarding house...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of guest’s property; notice - Chapter 140, Section 14
  An innholder, after retaining for six months from the time of departure of a guest from his inn any trunks, bags, valises, parcels, clothing, goods...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Disposition of proceeds - Chapter 140, Section 15
  The proceeds of such sale, after deducting reasonable charges and expenses incurred in the storage and sale of such property, shall be applied to the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale proceeds; payment to owner by state treasurer - Chapter 140, Section 16
  If, within three years after such sale, the owner of any such property claims it and proves his ownership thereof, the said proceeds, after deducting...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Loss by guest; negligence and violation of regulations as defense - Chapter 140, Section 17
  An innholder against whom a claim is made for loss sustained by a guest may show that such loss is attributable to the negligence of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Signs; penalty for failure to have sign - Chapter 140, Section 18
  Every innholder and common victualler shall at all times have a board or sign affixed to his house, shop, cellar or store, or in a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Summary of laws for authorities and licensees - Chapter 140, Section 19
  The state secretary shall cause a condensed summary of all laws relative to innholders and common victuallers to be printed, and shall supply copies thereof...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unlicensed innholders or victuallers - Chapter 140, Section 20
  Whoever assumes to be an innholder or common victualler without being licensed as such under this chapter shall forfeit one hundred dollars.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Third convictions - Chapter 140, Section 21
  Whoever is convicted a third time of a violation of any provision of the preceding sections, except those contained in sections seven and eight, shall,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - City and town licenses for sale of certain non-intoxicating beverages; retail sales - Chapter 140, Section 21A
  Cities and towns may provide by ordinance or by-law for the licensing of persons to keep open their places of business for the retail sale...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Contents; coverage; expiration; fee; suspension; revocation - Chapter 140, Section 21B
  Licenses granted as aforesaid shall specify the street or place and the number if there be any, and if there is no number, then the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unlicensed business; penalties - Chapter 140, Section 21C
  Whoever not being licensed as aforesaid keeps open his place of business for the retail sale of any such beverage shall be punished by a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inapplicability of statute to certain persons - Chapter 140, Section 21D
  The provisions of the three preceding sections shall not apply to innholders, common victuallers, druggists, nor to dealers whose principal business is the sale of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Grant of license to dispense food and beverages consumed on premises; governing statutes; fee; names of officers and members; suspension; revocation; excepted organizations - Chapter 140, Section 21E
  Licensing authorities may grant a license to any club, society, association or other organization, whether incorporated or unincorporated, authorizing it to dispense food and beverages...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unlicensed organization; officer or employee dispensing food or beverage - Chapter 140, Section 21F
  Any officer or employee of any such organization who dispenses or causes to be dispensed any food or beverage on its premises, unless such organization...
• Massachusetts General Laws - “Lodging house” defined - Chapter 140, Section 22
  “Lodging house”, as used in sections twenty-two to thirty-one, inclusive, shall mean a house where lodgings are let to four or more persons not within...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Cooking facilities - Chapter 140, Section 22A
  Notwithstanding any provision of law or any regulation, ordinance or by-law to the contrary, a lodging house where lodgings are let to more than five...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Microwave ovens - Chapter 140, Section 22B
  Notwithstanding the provision of law or any regulation, ordinance or by-law to the contrary, a lodging house may furnish individual microwave ovens.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Term; fee - Chapter 140, Section 23
  Licensing authorities may grant licenses for lodging houses which shall be for the period provided in section four, and shall charge for each license such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unlicensed keepers; injunction - Chapter 140, Section 24
  Whoever conducts a lodging house without a license shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inspection of premises - Chapter 140, Section 25
  Premises occupied, used or controlled by a licensee under sections twenty-two to thirty-one, inclusive, or under an innholder’s license shall be subject to inspection by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Permitting immoral conduct; defense; evidence - Chapter 140, Section 26
  Whoever, being licensed as a lodging house keeper under sections twenty-two to thirty-one, inclusive, or as an innholder, or, being licensed under sections thirty-two A...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Register; entry of names; condition precedent to occupancy; retention; inspection; penalty - Chapter 140, Section 27
  Every innholder, and every lodging house keeper required so to do under section twenty-eight, and every person who shall conduct, control, manage or operate, directly...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Register; order to keep - Chapter 140, Section 28
  Every person conducting a lodging house shall within twenty-four hours after he is ordered to do so by the licensing authorities keep a register. The...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Register; true or used name; failure to register; penalty - Chapter 140, Section 29
  No person shall write or cause to be written, or if in charge of a register knowingly permit to be written, in any register in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Revocation and suspension of license; investigation; hearing; notice; appeal - Chapter 140, Section 30
  A license issued under sections twenty-two to thirty-one, inclusive, or an innholder’s license, shall be revoked if at any time the licensing authorities are satisfied...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Posting of notice of statutes - Chapter 140, Section 31
  All innholders, and all lodging house keepers who have been ordered to keep a register, shall post in a conspicuous place near the register a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Convictions; transmission of copy of record to licensing authorities - Chapter 140, Section 32
  The clerk of a court where any person is convicted of a violation of any provision of sections twenty-two to thirty-one, inclusive, shall forthwith send...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Necessity of license; motel defined - Chapter 140, Section 32A
  No person shall conduct, control, manage or operate, directly or indirectly, any recreational camp, overnight camp or cabin, motel or manufactured housing community unless he...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Grant, suspension or revocation of license; expiration; renewal; application fees; inspection; reinstatement - Chapter 140, Section 32B
  The board of health of any city or town, in each instance after a hearing, reasonable notice of which shall have been published once in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Examination of licensed camps and cabins; unsanitary conditions - Chapter 140, Section 32C
  Every board of health shall, from time to time, examine all camps, motels, manufactured housing communities and cabins licensed by it under authority of section...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations; posting - Chapter 140, Section 32D
  Whoever conducts, controls, manages or operates any camp, motel, manufactured housing community or cabin licensed under section thirty-two B shall post, in a conspicuous place...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Operating business without license - Chapter 140, Section 32E
  Whoever conducts, controls, manages or operates any camp, motel or cabin subject to section thirty-two A to thirty-two C, inclusive, which is not licensed under...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definition; license requirement for manufactured housing community; copy sent to city or town clerk; exceptions - Chapter 140, Section 32F
  Any lot or tract of land upon which three or more manufactured homes occupied for dwelling purposes are located, including any buildings, structures, fixtures and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Monthly fees for manufactured housing community owner or operator; collection; deposit; lists; payment to treasurers; exemption from taxes; penalties; revocation of license - Chapter 140, Section 32G
  In addition to the license fee provided for under section thirty-two B, each manufactured housing community owner or operator licensed under said section shall, except...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unequipped communities; plans; cost estimates; conditional licenses; suspension or revocation - Chapter 140, Section 32H
  An applicant for a license under section thirty-two B for a manufactured housing community which has not been equipped with the buildings, structures, fixtures and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Register; retention; inspection; penalty - Chapter 140, Section 32I
  Every holder of a license for a manufactured housing community shall keep or cause to be kept, in permanent form, a register in which shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Summary process to recover possession; termination of tenancy or lease - Chapter 140, Section 32J
  If the manufactured home owner or person holding under him holds possession of a manufactured home site in a manufactured housing community without right, after...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appeals; reinstatement; reissuance - Chapter 140, Section 32K
  Any person aggrieved by any act, rule, order or decision of the licensing board may appeal to the superior court. After suspension or revocation, the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Requirements and restrictions applicable to manufactured housing communities - Chapter 140, Section 32L
  The following requirements and restrictions shall apply to all manufactured housing communities: (1) A manufactured housing community licensee may promulgate rules governing the rental or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale or proposed sale of manufactured home located in licensed community - Chapter 140, Section 32M
  Upon the sale or proposed sale of a manufactured home located on a lot in a manufactured housing community and which is not owned by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reprisals for report of violations - Chapter 140, Section 32N
  Any manufactured housing community licensee or his agent who threatens to or takes reprisals against any manufactured housing community resident or group of residents for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Actions to enforce Secs. 32L or 32M; mailing copies of orders - Chapter 140, Section 32O
  In any action to enforce the provisions of section thirty-two L or section thirty-two M, the clerk of the court shall mail copies of any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Terms and conditions of occupancy; disclosure in writing; required notice - Chapter 140, Section 32P
  All terms and conditions of occupancy must be fully disclosed in writing by the manufactured housing community owner to any prospective manufactured housing community resident...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Manufactured home defined - Chapter 140, Section 32Q
  As used in sections thirty-two A to thirty-two P, inclusive, the words “manufactured home” shall mean a structure, built in conformance to the National Manufactured...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale or lease of manufactured housing community; home owners’ association; notice; right of first refusal - Chapter 140, Section 32R
  (a) A manufactured housing community owner shall give notice to each resident of the manufactured housing community of any intention to sell or lease all...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations - Chapter 140, Section 32S
  The attorney general from time to time shall promulgate such rules and regulations as he deems necessary for the interpretation, implementation, administration and enforcement of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Public lodging house; definition; cubicle plan - Chapter 140, Section 33
  In cities of over fifty thousand inhabitants every building not licensed as an inn, in which ten or more persons are lodged free or for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licensing authority; revocation; fee; expiration; contents; coverage - Chapter 140, Section 34
  The officer or board having charge of the police in any such city may license persons to keep public lodging houses therein, and shall immediately...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certification; compliance with statutes; fire alarms, extinguishers, and means of escape; alterations; additional appliances - Chapter 140, Section 35
  No such license shall be granted in any such city until the inspector of buildings thereof, or the other officer or board having authority to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certification; water closets, urinals and ventilation; cleaning and disinfecting by licensee - Chapter 140, Section 36
  No such license shall be granted in any such city until the board of health thereof has certified that the building is provided with a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Register; inspection - Chapter 140, Section 37
  In every public lodging house a register shall be kept in which shall be entered the name and address of each lodger, together with the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Free access to officers - Chapter 140, Section 38
  The keeper of every public lodging house shall at all times, when so required by any officer of the building department, of the health department,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Keeping of house without license - Chapter 140, Section 39
  Whoever keeps or holds himself out as keeping a public lodging house without being duly licensed as hereinbefore provided, and whoever is concerned or financially...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violation of statutes - Chapter 140, Section 40
  Any keeper of a public lodging house who violates any provision of sections thirty-five to thirty-eight, inclusive, shall be punished by a fine of one...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1969, 59, Sec. 1 - Chapter 140, Section 41 to 46
  Repealed, 1969, 59, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 140, Section 46A
  As used in this section and in sections forty-six B to forty-six R, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meanings:— “Commissioner”, the commissioner...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licensing of employment agency; necessity; posting; governing provisions - Chapter 140, Section 46B
  Notwithstanding the other provisions of this chapter no person shall open, keep, maintain, carry on, or advertise any employment agency unless he has been issued...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application for license - Chapter 140, Section 46C
  Any person desiring to obtain a license to establish, conduct or keep an employment agency shall make application for such license to the commissioner. Such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Investigation of applicants; hearing; grant or denial of license; duration of license; prohibited locations - Chapter 140, Section 46D
  Upon the receipt of an application for such license, the commissioner shall cause the name and address of the applicant, the name under which the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Assignment or transfer of license; locations; number of licenses - Chapter 140, Section 46E
  A license issued under section forty-six D shall not be assigned or transferred without the prior written approval of the commissioner. Application for such approval...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fees; bond - Chapter 140, Section 46F
  Each person licensed under section forty-six D to carry on the business of an employment agency shall before such license issues pay to the commissioner...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Claims or suits against licensee - Chapter 140, Section 46G
  All claims or suits brought in any court against a licensee may be brought in the name of the person damaged upon the bond deposited...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Register; contents; record of receipts and income; charges; monthly reports to commissioner - Chapter 140, Section 46H
  Each licensee shall keep a register or other record-keeping device approved by the commissioner, in which shall be entered under the penalties of perjury the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Information furnished to applicant for employment; copy of contract; receipt for charges - Chapter 140, Section 46I
  Each employment agency shall furnish in writing each applicant for employment: (1) information as to the name and address of the person for whom the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - List of emigrant agents; necessity of license; transportation of applicants for employment; lodging and meals; statement to prospective employee - Chapter 140, Section 46J
  Each recruiting domestic agency which directly or indirectly engages or uses the services of an emigrant agent, shall furnish the commissioner a list containing the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Prohibited activities or conduct - Chapter 140, Section 46K
  An employment agency shall not engage in any of the following activities or conduct: (1) Publish or cause to be published any false, fraudulent or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fees; restrictions on charge or acceptance - Chapter 140, Section 46L
  (A) An employment agency shall not charge to or accept from an applicant a fee or other consideration unless in accordance with the terms of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Receipt of fees or payments contrary to Sec. 46L; return - Chapter 140, Section 46M
  Any employment agency which collects, receives or retains a fee, deposit or other payment contrary to or in excess of the provisions of section forty-six...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Contract between prospective employee and agency - Chapter 140, Section 46N
  An employment agency other than one recruiting domestic employees shall contract in writing with the applicant (employee) for services in securing employment for the payment...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Refunds by employment agencies; conditions; reduction of fees; restriction on deductions from wages - Chapter 140, Section 46O
  Refunds shall be made by employment agencies under the following conditions: (a) If an applicant furnished employment is discharged within one month after the time...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Posting of copy of Secs. 46A to 46O - Chapter 140, Section 46P
  Each employment agency shall post in a conspicuous place in such agency a copy of sections forty-six A to forty-six O, inclusive, which shall be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inspection of premises and books; rules and regulations; procedure upon complaint against licensee; suspension or revocation of licenses - Chapter 140, Section 46Q
  The commissioner, or any duly authorized agent or inspector designated by him, shall have authority to inspect the premises, registers, contract forms, receipt books, application...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties - Chapter 140, Section 46R
  Whoever violates any provision of sections forty-six B, forty-six C, forty-six E, forty-six F, forty-six J, forty-six K, forty-six L, forty-six M, forty-six N and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Coffee and tea houses - Chapter 140, Section 47
  No coffee house, so called, or tea house or place of resort for refreshment where the principal business is or purports to be the sale...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1937, 342, Sec. 2 - Chapter 140, Section 48
  Repealed, 1937, 342, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Lunch carts - Chapter 140, Section 49
  The street commissioners and the police commissioner of Boston, the aldermen of any other city, or the selectmen of any town may, if in their...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Lunch carts; fee of highway not owned by town - Chapter 140, Section 50
  No license as aforesaid shall be granted to use any part of a highway the fee in which is not owned by the town unless...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1931, 173 - Chapter 140, Section 50A
  Repealed, 1931,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Facial and scalp massage; bath houses - Chapter 140, Section 51
  (a) No person shall practice massage therapy unless licensed in accordance with sections 227 to 236, inclusive, of chapter 112, except that a person registered...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Massage or baths; inspection - Chapter 140, Section 52
  Members of the police department of any town may enter and inspect any premises in that town used for massage or the giving of vapor
• Massachusetts General Laws - Massage or baths; penalty - Chapter 140, Section 53
  Whoever violates any provision of section fifty-one, or any rule or regulation made under authority thereof, or prevents or hinders any member of a police...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Junk dealers - Chapter 140, Section 54
  Cities and towns by ordinance or by-law may provide for the licensing, by the police commissioner in Boston, by the license commission in Lowell, by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Automobile graveyards - Chapter 140, Section 54A
  No license shall be granted under section fifty-four for an automobile graveyard, as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and forty B, unless...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Junk dealers; penalty; exceptions - Chapter 140, Section 55
  Whoever acts as a collector of, dealer in or keeper of a shop for the purchase, sale or barter of junk, old metals or second...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Junk collector defined - Chapter 140, Section 56
  A junk collector shall be deemed to be any person who by going from place to place collects by purchase or otherwise junk, old metals...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Shooting galleries - Chapter 140, Section 56A
  The licensing authorities of any city or town may grant and may suspend or revoke at pleasure a license to conduct a shooting gallery upon...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of second hand vehicles; necessity of license; exceptions; auctions; reports - Chapter 140, Section 57
  No person, except one whose principal business is the manufacture and sale of new motor vehicles but who incidentally acquires and sells second hand vehicles,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Classes - Chapter 140, Section 58
  (a) Licenses granted under sections 59 and 59A shall be classified in accordance with subsections (b) to (d), inclusive. (b) Class 1. Any person who...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licensing authorities; expiration; fees; application; prerequisites; premises; ordinance regulations; revocation; notice - Chapter 140, Section 59
  The police commissioner in Boston and the licensing authorities in other cities and towns may grant licenses under this section which shall expire on January...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Motor vehicle junkyards; requirements - Chapter 140, Section 59A
  No license shall be granted under section fifty-nine to a person within Class 3 as defined in section fifty-eight, for a motor vehicle junkyard, unless...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Registrar’s rules and regulations - Chapter 140, Section 60
  The registrar may from time to time make rules and regulations consistent with sections fifty-seven to sixty-nine, inclusive, relative to the purchase, sale or exchange...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1996, 429 - Chapter 140, Section 61
  Repealed, 1996,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Record book; contents - Chapter 140, Section 62
  Every licensee shall keep a book on the licensed premises, in such form as shall be approved by the registrar, in which, at the time...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1977, 553 - Chapter 140, Section 63
  Repealed, 1977,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1996, 429 - Chapter 140, Section 64
  Repealed, 1996,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1961, 45, Sec. 2 - Chapter 140, Section 65
  Repealed, 1961, 45, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Entering premises; investigation; examination of vehicles; parts, books, papers and inventories - Chapter 140, Section 66
  The colonel of state police, the attorney general or such persons as he may designate, the police commissioner in Boston, the chief of police of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Obstruction of entrance or examination by officers; refusal to exhibit items demanded - Chapter 140, Section 67
  A licensee under section fifty-nine, or a clerk, agent or other person in charge of the licensed premises, who refuses to admit thereto an officer...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Junked motor vehicles, registration and identification plates; removal and forwarding to registrar; penalty - Chapter 140, Section 67A
  Any person licensed under section 54 or 59 shall comply with subsection (a) of section 20E of chapter 90D. The registrar may notify the licensing...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unlicensed business - Chapter 140, Section 68
  Whoever, not being licensed, carries on the business for which a license is required by section fifty-seven, or is concerned therein, or, being licensed, carries...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violation of statutes, rules or regulations - Chapter 140, Section 69
  Whoever violates any provision of sections fifty-seven to sixty-eight, inclusive, or any rule or regulation made by the registrar under section sixty, unless a penalty...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licensing of pawnbrokers; governing statutes; revocation - Chapter 140, Section 70
  The police commissioner of Boston, the license commission of Lowell, the aldermen of any other city, or the selectmen of any town, if ordinances or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Retention of articles; sale; disposition of proceeds; notice; other disposition; personal apparel - Chapter 140, Section 71
  Articles deposited in pawn with a licensed pawnbroker shall, unless redeemed, be retained by him on the premises occupied by him for his business for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Interest rate; penalty - Chapter 140, Section 72
  The authorities which issue such licenses may fix the rate of interest which such pawnbrokers may receive on loans, and may fix different rates which...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Entry upon premises; investigation; examination of articles, books and inventories - Chapter 140, Section 73
  The chief of police of a city, the selectmen of a town, any officer authorized by either of them, or a state police officer may...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Obstruction of entrance or examination by officer; failure to exhibit items demanded - Chapter 140, Section 74
  A licensed pawnbroker, clerk, agent or other person in charge of such premises who refuses to admit thereto an officer authorized to enter the same,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unlicensed business - Chapter 140, Section 75
  Whoever, not being licensed, carries on such business or is concerned therein within such town, or, being licensed, carries on such business or is concerned...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Loans on personal property; purchases on condition of reselling; exceptions - Chapter 140, Section 76
  No person shall, in any city or in any town of ten thousand or more inhabitants, engage in or carry on the business of loaning...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fee; bond - Chapter 140, Section 77
  The fee for a license as a pawnbroker or renewal thereof shall be established in a town by town meeting action and in a city...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Regulations; interest rate - Chapter 140, Section 78
  The authorities who grant licenses to pawnbrokers shall establish regulations, to the satisfaction of the commissioner of banks, relative to the business carried on and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Record book; information furnished to authorities - Chapter 140, Section 79
  Every pawnbroker shall keep a book in which, at the time of making a loan, shall be legibly written in the English language an account...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Memorandum for pawner; charge - Chapter 140, Section 80
  Every such pawnbroker shall, at the time of making such loan, deliver to the person who pawns any article a memorandum or note signed by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inspection of books - Chapter 140, Section 81
  Said book shall at all reasonable times be open to the inspection of the mayor, of the members of the board of police, of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalty - Chapter 140, Section 82
  Whoever violates any provision of the six preceding sections shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than three hundred...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violations of Sec. 79; liability of pawnbroker - Chapter 140, Section 82A
  Any pawnbroker who violates the provisions of section seventy-nine in reference to articles pawned which are found to be stolen articles shall be liable for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Tools; purchase or pawn; record book; signature of seller or pawner - Chapter 140, Section 83
  When a licensed pawnbroker buys or takes in pawn any tool such as is used by contractors, builders or mechanics, he shall enter in a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Wrong name or address of seller or pawner - Chapter 140, Section 84
  Any person thus offering any tool for pawn or for sale who signs a wrong name or address shall be punished by a fine of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Statutes not applicable - Chapter 140, Section 85
  The provisions of sections eighty-six to one hundred and twelve, inclusive, shall not apply to licensed pawnbrokers.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Household, personal use or ornament articles as security or purchased on condition of reselling or redemption; record book; memorandum for borrower - Chapter 140, Section 86
  Every person who is engaged in the business of making loans on collateral security represented by household goods, wearing apparel, watches, diamonds, jewelry or other...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inspection of record book; exhibition of property - Chapter 140, Section 87
  Said book shall at all times be open to the inspection of the police commissioner and of the superintendent and chief inspector of police of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Stolen articles; detention; producing in court - Chapter 140, Section 88
  If it appears to any of the officers mentioned in the preceding section that any articles which have been pledged under section eighty-six have been...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Obstruction of inspection or examination; violation of statutes - Chapter 140, Section 89
  Every person engaged in the business mentioned in section eighty-six, his agent or other person in charge thereof, who fails or refuses to allow the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Less than $1000; statute not affected; waiver or release - Chapter 140, Section 90
  A loan of less than one thousand dollars made at a rate of more than six per cent per annum shall be discharged upon payment...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Home mortgages; interest rates; definitions; application - Chapter 140, Section 90A
  No person shall directly or indirectly charge, take or receive for a loan of more than fifteen hundred dollars secured wholly or partially by a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Home mortgages; application of consumer credit cost disclosure provisions; prerequisites to foreclosure - Chapter 140, Section 90B
  A transaction subject to the provisions of section ninety A shall also be subject to the provisions of chapter one hundred and forty D. A...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Home mortgages; receipt for payment; penalty - Chapter 140, Section 90C
  Upon payment of any money by the borrower, the lender shall at the request of the borrower give him a receipt stating the date of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Loans in violation of Sec. 90A; discharge; jurisdiction - Chapter 140, Section 90D
  Any loan made in violation of section ninety A by any person shall be discharged upon payment or tender by the debtor or any person...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalty - Chapter 140, Section 90E
  Whoever directly or indirectly charges, takes or receives for any loan which is subject to the provisions of section ninety A a greater rate of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Less than $1000; mortgage or pledge - Chapter 140, Section 91
  If a loan of less than one thousand dollars is secured by a mortgage or pledge of personal property, the mortgagee or pledgee shall discharge...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1957, 765, Sec. 2 - Chapter 140, Section 92 93
  Repealed, 1957, 765, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Return of evidence of loan, discharge of mortgage, restoration of property; refusal or neglect - Chapter 140, Section 94
  Whoever refuses or neglects, after request, to return a note or other evidence of a loan which is discharged or entitled to be discharged under...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Applicability of Secs. 90 to 94; effect on statutes - Chapter 140, Section 95
  Sections ninety to ninety-four, inclusive, shall not apply to any loan of fifteen hundred dollars or less made by a person who holds a license...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Small loan business - Chapter 140, Section 96
  No person shall directly or indirectly engage in the business of making loans of six thousand dollars or less, if the amount to be paid...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Securities; public sale; permit, necessity, revocation - Chapter 140, Section 96A
  No security, as defined in clause (k) of section four hundred and one of chapter one hundred and ten A, issued by a person licensed...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Regulations; preservation of records relating to compliance - Chapter 140, Section 97
  The commissioner may prescribe from time to time such rules and regulations as he deems necessary and proper for carrying out the provisions of sections...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Annual report; failure to file, amend; fine - Chapter 140, Section 98
  Each person required by sections ninety-six to one hundred and fourteen, inclusive, to be under the supervision of the commissioner shall annually, on or before...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Examinations by commissioner; penalty - Chapter 140, Section 99
  The commissioner may summon said licensees, companies or associations, or any of their agents or employees, and such other witnesses as he deems necessary, and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - “Licensee” defined; investigations by regulatory board; charges; prepayments; establishment of rates; effective date of order; more than one contract - Chapter 140, Section 100
  As used in this section the term “licensee” shall mean all persons licensed under sections ninety-six to one hundred and thirteen, inclusive. The small loans...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1975, 401, Sec. 2 - Chapter 140, Section 100A
  Repealed, 1975, 401, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Term of license; contents; posting - Chapter 140, Section 101
  Licenses granted by the commissioner shall be for a period of one year from October first. Each license shall plainly state the name of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fees; more than one business; multi-state licensing system - Chapter 140, Section 102
  Each application for a license shall be accompanied by an investigation fee, the amount of which shall be determined annually by the commissioner of administration...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties; voidable loans - Chapter 140, Section 103
  Whoever, being duly licensed as provided in section ninety-six, violates any provision of sections ninety-seven, ninety-eight, one hundred and one, one hundred and two, one...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Applicant’s statement; power of attorney; changes in names, addresses or personnel; revocation of license - Chapter 140, Section 104
  A license under section ninety-six shall not be granted until the applicant has filed with the commissioner a statement on oath, which in the case...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1969, 221 - Chapter 140, Section 105
  Repealed, 1969,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Illegal interest; order of commissioner; recovery in action or suit; costs - Chapter 140, Section 106
  If a greater rate of interest or amount for expenses than is allowed under sections ninety-six to one hundred and eleven, inclusive, has been paid...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Security interest, pledge or wage assignment; discharge by payment or tender; future advances; damages for neglect or refusal - Chapter 140, Section 107
  If a loan to which sections ninety-six to one hundred and eleven, inclusive, apply is secured by a security interest or pledge of personal property...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Assignment or order for wages or salary; validity; requisites - Chapter 140, Section 108
  An assignment of or order for wages or salary to which sections ninety-six to one hundred and fourteen A, inclusive, apply, shall not be valid...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Receipt; part payment - Chapter 140, Section 109
  If a payment is made on account of a loan to which sections ninety-six to one hundred and eleven, inclusive, apply, the person who receives...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Business without license; penalty; validity of transactions; evidence - Chapter 140, Section 110
  Whoever, not being duly licensed as provided in section ninety-six on his own account or on account of any other person not so licensed, engages...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rate of interest in absence of agreement - Chapter 140, Section 111
  Sections ninety-six to one hundred and eleven, inclusive, shall not affect so much of section three of chapter one hundred and seven as provides that,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Duties of police - Chapter 140, Section 112
  The state police and the police of the cities or towns shall carry out the directions of the commissioner in enforcing sections ninety-six to one...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Disposal of returns made to commissioner - Chapter 140, Section 113
  Returns made to the commissioner under section ninety-eight may be destroyed or disposed of by his order after the lapse of three years from the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Companies, associations and societies; necessity of license - Chapter 140, Section 114
  Loan companies and loan associations established by special charter, and fraternal mutual benefit societies the membership of which is limited to the employees of any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Exceptions; restrictions; voidable loans; composite rates; determination of maximum rate - Chapter 140, Section 114A
  Trust companies, savings banks, co-operative banks, savings and loan associations, credit unions, national banking associations, federal savings banks and federal savings and loan associations or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Finance charges on open end credit accounts; maximum rates; computation - Chapter 140, Section 114B
  Notwithstanding the provisions of sections ninety A, one hundred, and one hundred and fourteen A, a creditor may charge a daily, monthly or other periodic...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Annual fee; notice; cancellation of agreement; reports - Chapter 140, Section 114C
  A card issuer as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and forty D, whether located within or without the commonwealth, may assess an...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Necessity of license for furnaces or steam engines; contents; application; hearing; notice; fee - Chapter 140, Section 115
  A furnace for melting iron or making glass, or a stationary steam engine for use in a mill for planing or sawing boards or turning...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dangerous engines or furnaces; nuisance; building regulations; service of process - Chapter 140, Section 116
  In a town which accepts this section or has accepted corresponding provisions of earlier laws, the aldermen or the selectmen, after due notice in writing...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appeal; injunction - Chapter 140, Section 117
  An owner of a steam engine or furnace who is aggrieved by such order may have the remedy prescribed by section two of chapter one...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Stationary engines; distance from buildings - Chapter 140, Section 118
  In a town which accepts this section or has accepted corresponding provisions of earlier laws, a stationary engine, propelled by steam or other motive power,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nuisance; removal - Chapter 140, Section 119
  An engine or furnace erected or used contrary to section one hundred and fifteen, one hundred and sixteen or one hundred and eighteen shall be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1930, 399, Sec. 3 - Chapter 140, Section 120
  Repealed, 1930, 399, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Firearms sales; definitions; antique firearms; application of law; exceptions - Chapter 140, Section 121
  As used in sections 122 to 131P, inclusive, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:- “Ammunition”, cartridges or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Identification of firearms; certificate by ballistics expert as prima facie evidence - Chapter 140, Section 121A
  A certificate by a ballistics expert of the department of the state police or of the city of Boston of the result of an examination...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licenses; contents; fingerprints of applicants; procedure on refusal of license; fees; punishment for improper issuance - Chapter 140, Section 122
  The chief of police or the board or officer having control of the police in a city or town, or persons authorized by them, may,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Record of licenses; notice to department of criminal justice information services; sales record books - Chapter 140, Section 122A
  The licensing authority, under section one hundred and twenty-two, shall record all issued licenses in books, forms or electronic files kept for that purpose, and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of ammunition; license; fees; rules and regulations; refusal, suspension or revocation of license; judicial review; penalties - Chapter 140, Section 122B
  No person shall sell ammunition in the commonwealth unless duly licensed. The chief of police or the board or officer having control of the police...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Conditions of licenses - Chapter 140, Section 123
  A license granted under section one hundred and twenty-two shall be expressed to be and shall be subject to the following conditions:— First, That the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Term of licenses - Chapter 140, Section 124
  Licenses issued under sections one hundred and twenty-two and one hundred and twenty-two B shall expire three years from the date of issuance.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Forfeiture or suspension of licenses; notice - Chapter 140, Section 125
  The officials authorized to issue a license under section one hundred and twenty-two, after due notice to the licensee and reasonable opportunity for him to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Placards, signs or advertisements; prima facie evidence - Chapter 140, Section 126
  If there is exposed from, maintained in or permitted to remain on any vehicle or premises any placard, sign or advertisement purporting or designed to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Transfer of licenses - Chapter 140, Section 127
  The officials authorized to issue a license under section one hundred and twenty-two may transfer licenses from one location to another within the city or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalty for violation of statute on selling, renting or leasing weapons; evidence on sale of machine gun - Chapter 140, Section 128
  Any licensee under a license described in section one hundred and twenty-three, and any employee or agent of such a licensee, who violates any provision...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application of Sec. 128 - Chapter 140, Section 128A
  The provisions of section one hundred and twenty-eight shall not apply to any person who, without being licensed as provided in section one hundred and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unauthorized purchase of firearms; report to commissioner; penalties - Chapter 140, Section 128B
  Any resident of the commonwealth who purchases or obtains a firearm, rifle or shotgun or machine gun from any source within or without the commonwealth,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fictitious name or address and other false information; penalties - Chapter 140, Section 129
  Whoever in purchasing, renting or hiring a firearm, rifle, shotgun or machine gun, or in making application for any form of license or permit issued...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1945, 254 - Chapter 140, Section 129A
  Repealed, 1945,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Firearm identification cards; conditions and restrictions - Chapter 140, Section 129B
  A firearm identification card shall be issued and possessed subject to the following conditions and restrictions: (1) Any person residing or having a place of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application of Sec. 129B; ownership or possession of firearms or ammunition; transfers; report to commissioner; exemptions; exhibiting license to carry, etc. on demand - Chapter 140, Section 129C
  No person, other than a licensed dealer or one who has been issued a license to carry a pistol or revolver or an exempt person...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Surrender of firearms and ammunition to licensing authority upon denial of application for, or revocation of, identification card or license; right to transfer; sale by colonel of state police; rules and regulations - Chapter 140, Section 129D
  Upon revocation, suspension or denial of an application for a firearm identification card pursuant to the conditions of section one hundred and twenty-nine B, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale or furnishing weapons or ammunition to aliens or minors; penalty; exceptions - Chapter 140, Section 130
  Whoever sells or furnishes a rifle, shotgun or ammunition to any alien eighteen years of age or older who does not hold a permit card...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1957, 688, Sec. 14 - Chapter 140, Section 130A
  Repealed, 1957, 688, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Firearm licensing review board; members; license applicants; hearings - Chapter 140, Section 130B
  (a) There shall be a firearm licensing review board, established within the department of criminal justice information services, in this section called the board, comprised...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licenses to carry firearms; Class A and B; conditions and restrictions - Chapter 140, Section 131
  All licenses to carry firearms shall be designated Class A or Class B, and the issuance and possession of any such license shall be subject...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Gun control advisory board - Chapter 140, Section 1311/2
  The governor shall appoint a gun control advisory board, hereinafter referred to as the board. The board shall consist of seven individuals, one of whom...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Roster of large capacity rifles, shotguns, firearms, and feeding devices - Chapter 140, Section 1313/4
  The secretary of public safety shall, with the advice of the gun control advisory board established pursuant to the provisions of section 1311/2, compile and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Permits to purchase, rent or lease firearms, or to purchase ammunition; fee; penalties - Chapter 140, Section 131A
  A licensing authority under section one hundred and thirty-one, upon the application of a person qualified to be granted a license thereunder by such authority,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalty for loan of money secured by weapons - Chapter 140, Section 131B
  Whoever loans money secured by mortgage, deposit or pledge of a firearm, rifle, shotgun or machine gun shall be punished by a fine of not...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Carrying of firearms in a vehicle - Chapter 140, Section 131C
  (a) No person carrying a loaded firearm under a Class A license issued under section 131 or 131F shall carry the same in a vehicle...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1954, 672, Sec. 7 - Chapter 140, Section 131D
  Repealed, 1954, 672, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Purchase by residents; licenses; firearm identification cards; purchase for use of another; penalties; revocation of licenses or cards; reissuance - Chapter 140, Section 131E
  Any resident of the commonwealth may purchase firearms, rifles, shotguns and ammunition feeding devices from any dealer licensed under section 122, or from such person...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nonresidents or aliens; temporary license to carry firearms or ammunition - Chapter 140, Section 131F
  A Class A or Class B temporary license to carry firearms or feeding devices or ammunition therefor, within the commonwealth, may be issued by the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Theatrical productions; carrying firearms and blank ammunition - Chapter 140, Section 131F1/2
  Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of section ten of chapter two hundred and sixty-nine of the General Laws or any other law to the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Carrying of firearms by non-residents; conditions - Chapter 140, Section 131G
  Any person who is not a resident of the commonwealth may carry a pistol or revolver in or through the commonwealth for the purpose of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Ownership or possession of firearms by aliens; penalties; seizure and disposition - Chapter 140, Section 131H
  No alien shall own or have in his possession or under his control a firearm except as provided in section one hundred and thirty-one F...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Falsifying firearm license or identification card; penalty - Chapter 140, Section 131I
  Whoever falsely makes, alters, forges or counterfeits or procures or assists another to falsely make, alter, forge or counterfeit a license to carry a firearm...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale or possession of electrical weapons; penalties - Chapter 140, Section 131J
  No person shall possess a portable device or weapon from which an electrical current, impulse, wave or beam may be directed, which current, impulse, wave...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Firearms or large capacity weapons without safety devices; liability - Chapter 140, Section 131K
  Any firearm or large capacity weapon, both as defined in section 121, sold within the commonwealth without a safety device designed to prevent the discharge...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Weapons stored or kept by owner; inoperable by any person other than owner or lawfully authorized user; punishment - Chapter 140, Section 131L
  (a) It shall be unlawful to store or keep any firearm, rifle or shotgun including, but not limited to, large capacity weapons, or machine gun...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Assault weapon or large capacity feeding device not lawfully possessed on September 13, 1994; sale, transfer or possession; punishment - Chapter 140, Section 131M
  No person shall sell, offer for sale, transfer or possess an assault weapon or a large capacity feeding device that was not otherwise lawfully possessed...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Covert weapons; sale, transfer or possession; punishment - Chapter 140, Section 131N
  No person shall sell, offer for sale, transfer or possess any weapon, capable of discharging a bullet or shot, that is: (i) constructed in a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Colonel of state police; statewide firearms surrender program - Chapter 140, Section 131O
  Notwithstanding any general or special law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the colonel of state police, in conjunction with the secretary of the executive...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Basic firearms safety certificate; instructors - Chapter 140, Section 131P
  (a) Any person making application for the issuance of a firearms identification card under section 129B, a Class A or Class B license to carry...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1954, 672, Sec. 7 - Chapter 140, Section 132 to 136
  Repealed, 1954, 672, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions applicable to Secs. 137 to 174E - Chapter 140, Section 136A
  The following words as used in sections 137 to 174E, inclusive, shall have the following meanings unless the context requires otherwise: “Adoption”, the delivery of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Registration and licensing of dogs - Chapter 140, Section 137
  (a) The owner or keeper of a dog over the age of 6 months shall obtain a license for the dog. The registering, numbering, describing...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Kennel licenses - Chapter 140, Section 137A
  (a) A person maintaining a kennel shall obtain a kennel license. An owner or keeper of less than 4 dogs, 3 months old or older,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale or other delivery of unlicensed dog by kennel licensee - Chapter 140, Section 137B
  Every holder of a kennel license, on delivering an unlicensed dog to a purchaser or to any other person, shall attach to such dog a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inspection of kennels; revocation, suspension and reinstatement of license; nuisance - Chapter 140, Section 137C
  The mayor of a city, the selectmen of a town, the police commissioner in the city of Boston, a chief of police or an animal...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Surrender of license or tag for offenses against animals - Chapter 140, Section 137D
  Unless otherwise specifically provided by law, every license and tag issued under the provisions of sections one hundred and thirty-seven and one hundred and thirty-seven...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Change of owner or keeper of licensed dog; dog brought into commonwealth - Chapter 140, Section 138
  A person who during any license period becomes the owner or keeper of a dog which is duly licensed in the town or city where...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2012, 193, Sec. 10 - Chapter 140, Section 138A
  Repealed, 2012, 193, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fees; certificate or statement that dog has been spayed; service dogs defined by Americans with Disabilities Act; dogs owned by persons aged 70 or over; refunds - Chapter 140, Section 139
  (a) The fee for a license shall, except as otherwise provided, be determined by a city or town; provided, however, that no fee shall be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Shelters; sale or gift of dog or cat not spayed or neutered - Chapter 140, Section 139A
  No shelter shall sell or give away any dog or cat that has not been spayed or neutered, unless a written agreement is entered into...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1934, 320, Sec. 6 - Chapter 140, Section 140
  Repealed, 1934, 320, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violation of statutes - Chapter 140, Section 141
  Whoever violates section 137, 137A, 137B or 138 shall be assessed a penalty of not less than $50, which shall be paid to the city...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application of law; exception - Chapter 140, Section 141A
  Sections one hundred and thirty-seven to one hundred and forty-one, inclusive, shall not apply to any institution licensed under the provisions of chapter forty-nine A.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application of law; licensed pet shops exempted - Chapter 140, Section 141B
  Sections one hundred and thirty-seven to one hundred and forty-one, inclusive, shall not apply to any pet shop the owner of which is licensed under...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1934, 320, Sec. 8 - Chapter 140, Section 142 to 144
  Repealed, 1934, 320, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Symptoms of rabies printed on license; description supplied by department of public health - Chapter 140, Section 145
  Every license issued to the owner of a dog shall have a description of the symptoms of rabies printed thereon. Such description shall be supplied...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Anti-rabic vaccine and treatment; rates of compensation - Chapter 140, Section 145A
  The board of health of a city or town shall, upon application, furnish free of charge to any uninsured resident thereof who has been exposed...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Vaccination against rabies; certificate; tag; proof of vaccination; exemption; penalty - Chapter 140, Section 145B
  (a) Each owner or keeper of a dog, cat or ferret that is 6 months of age or older shall cause such dog, cat or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - License valid throughout state; removal of dog into another town or city - Chapter 140, Section 146
  A license duly recorded shall be valid throughout the commonwealth, except that, in the case of the permanent removal of a dog into another town...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Issuance of licenses; disposition of fees; action on official bond - Chapter 140, Section 147
  The police commissioner of the city of Boston and the clerks of other cities and towns shall issue dog licenses and tags, receive the money...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2012, 193, Sec. 19 - Chapter 140, Section 147A
  Repealed, 2012, 193, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2012, 193, Sec. 20 - Chapter 140, Section 147B
  Repealed, 2012, 193, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1932, 289, Sec. 6 - Chapter 140, Section 148
  Repealed, 1932, 289, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Accounts of treasurers - Chapter 140, Section 149
  Each city or town treasurer shall keep an accurate and separate account of all money received and expended by the treasurer under this chapter relating...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Lists of dogs; refusal to answer person listing dogs; false answers - Chapter 140, Section 150
  Persons authorized or directed by section 4 of chapter 51 or by a special law, to make lists of residents 3 years of age or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Animal control officers; reimbursement of cities and towns for services; contracts with corporation to perform duties of officers; turning over or sale of animals; penalty - Chapter 140, Section 151
  (a) The mayor of each city and the board of selectmen of each town shall annually designate an animal control officer, who may be a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Issuance of warrant to officers; duties; confinement of dogs; allowance for care; records - Chapter 140, Section 151A
  (a) The mayor or board of selectmen, as the case may be, shall annually issue a warrant to the animal control officer directing the officer...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Emergency treatment of dogs or cats injured on ways; payment to veterinarians - Chapter 140, Section 151B
  A veterinarian registered under section 55 or 56A of chapter 112 who renders emergency care or treatment to, or who euthanizes, a dog or cat...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Animal control officer training course - Chapter 140, Section 151C
  The commissioner shall, from time to time and subject to the availability of funds from the Homeless Animal Prevention and Care Fund in section 35WW...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Returns by officers - Chapter 140, Section 152
  Each police officer, constable or animal control officer to whom such warrant is issued shall make returns, on or before October first, on or before...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Form of warrant to officers - Chapter 140, Section 153
  In the several cities and towns of the several counties, such warrant may be in the following form:— COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS (Seal) To     , ss. To     ,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1934, 320, Sec. 17 - Chapter 140, Section 154
  Repealed, 1934, 320, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Liability for damage caused by dog; minors; presumption and burden of proof - Chapter 140, Section 155
  If any dog shall do any damage to either the body or property of any person, the owner or keeper, or if the owner or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Indemnification of law enforcement officers; damages caused by dogs used in performance of official duties - Chapter 140, Section 155A
  If an action is brought against a law enforcement officer because of damage caused by a dog which said officer was caring for or maintaining...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Killing dogs under certain conditions; wounded dogs - Chapter 140, Section 156
  Any person may kill a dog which suddenly assaults him while he is peaceably standing, walking or riding outside the enclosure of its owner or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nuisance or dangerous dogs; orders for remedial action; appeal; violation of order - Chapter 140, Section 157
  (a) Any person may file a complaint in writing to the hearing authority that a dog owned or kept in the city or town is...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Non-compliance of dog owner or keeper with order; transferring ownership or selling of dangerous dog - Chapter 140, Section 157A
  (a) An owner or keeper of a dog who fails to comply with an order of a hearing authority or district court shall be punished,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Euthanizing unrestrained dogs or dogs in wild state - Chapter 140, Section 158
  A police officer, constable or animal control officer may capture, detain or, in the case of a threat to public safety, euthanize a dog in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Treble damages for injuries caused by dogs ordered to be restrained - Chapter 140, Section 159
  If a hearing authority or a district court has deemed a dog to be a dangerous dog and such dog wounds a person or worries,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Euthanizing dogs that have worried or killed stock or fowl; bond - Chapter 140, Section 160
  The mayor of a city, the selectmen of a town, or their agents who are authorized in writing, to act in such mayor or selectmen’s...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Damages caused by dogs and paid by city or town; compensation for appraisers - Chapter 140, Section 161
  Whoever suffers loss by the worrying, maiming or killing of such person’s livestock or fowl by a dog outside the premises of the owner or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Damages caused by dogs not reimbursable; amount of awards - Chapter 140, Section 161A
  No owner of live stock or fowls shall be reimbursed for damages inflicted by his own dog or dogs, nor shall he be reimbursed for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2012, 193, Sec. 33 - Chapter 140, Section 162
  Repealed, 2012, 193, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notice to euthanize dog which has caused damage - Chapter 140, Section 163
  If the mayor, aldermen or board of selectmen determines, after notice to parties interested and a hearing, the identity of the owner or keeper of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Failure to euthanize, confine or restrain dog after notice - Chapter 140, Section 164
  A person who owns or keeps a dog and who has received such notice under section 163 and does not, within 24 hours, euthanize the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Investigation of damages caused by dogs; settlement; action against owner or keeper; payments over to city or town treasurer - Chapter 140, Section 165
  A city or town may investigate any case of damage done by a dog of which the chair of the board of selectmen, mayor or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Election of remedy by person damaged - Chapter 140, Section 166
  The owner of live stock or fowls which have been worried, maimed or killed by dogs shall have his election to proceed under section one...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Ordering dogs to be restrained; euthanizing unrestrained dogs - Chapter 140, Section 167
  The mayor, aldermen or board of selectmen may order that all dogs shall be restrained from running at large during such times as shall be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Service of order to muzzle or restrain dogs; penalty - Chapter 140, Section 168
  The aldermen, board of selectmen or mayor may cause service of such order to be made upon the owner or keeper of the dog by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalty on officer; report of refusal or neglect of officer to perform duties - Chapter 140, Section 169
  A city or town officer who refuses or willfully neglects to perform the duties imposed upon the officer by this chapter relating to dogs shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2012, 193, Sec. 40 - Chapter 140, Section 170
  Repealed, 2012, 193, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Liability to city or town of owner or keeper of dog - Chapter 140, Section 171
  The owner or keeper of a dog which has done damage to livestock or fowl shall be liable in tort to the city or town...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2012, 193, Sec. 42 - Chapter 140, Section 172
  Repealed, 2012, 193, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Ordinances and by-laws relating to animals - Chapter 140, Section 173
  A city or town may make additional ordinances or by-laws relative to the licensing and control of animals not inconsistent with sections 136A to 174E,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violation of dog control laws; non-criminal disposition - Chapter 140, Section 173A
  Whenever a complaint is sought in a district court for a violation of an ordinance or by-law, made under the provisions of section one hundred...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Recovery of penalties - Chapter 140, Section 174
  All fines and penalties provided in the preceding sections relating to dogs may be recovered before a district court in the county where the offence...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Euthanizing of dogs or cats by barbiturates - Chapter 140, Section 174A
  A dog or cat whose killing is authorized under this chapter shall be euthanized only by the administration of barbiturates in a manner deemed acceptable...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Restraint of dogs in public highway rest areas; penalty - Chapter 140, Section 174B
  Whoever is the owner or keeper of a dog shall restrain said dog by a chain or leash when in an officially designated public highway...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1976, 299, Sec. 1 - Chapter 140, Section 174C
  Repealed, 1976, 299, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Research institutions; license to use dogs or cats; rules and regulations - Chapter 140, Section 174D
  (a) No research institution shall employ dogs or cats in scientific investigation, experiment or instruction or for the testing of drugs or medicines without having...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Chaining or tethering dog to stationary object; confinement; restrictions; penalty - Chapter 140, Section 174E
  (a) No person owning or keeping a dog shall chain or tether a dog to a stationary object including, but not limited to, a structure,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1945, 276, Sec. 2 - Chapter 140, Section 175
  Repealed, 1945, 276, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Registration of stallion for breeding purposes; certificate; penalty - Chapter 140, Section 176
  The owner or keeper of a stallion for breeding purposes shall, before advertising the service thereof, file a certificate of the name, color, age, size...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licensing for billiards, pool or sippio table or bowling alley; public hearing - Chapter 140, Section 177
  The licensing board of Boston, the license commission of Lowell, the aldermen of any other city, and the selectmen of any town may grant and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Amusement devices; license; definition; fee; view and inspection; gambling; nonapplicability of lottery statute - Chapter 140, Section 177A
  (1) The licensing authorities of any city or town may grant, and after written notice to the licensee, suspend or revoke a license to keep...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Business operated without license - Chapter 140, Section 178
  Whoever without such license keeps or suffers to be kept in a house, building, yard or dependency thereof, actually occupied or owned by him, a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Minors admitted to places of business - Chapter 140, Section 179
  The keeper of a billiard, pool or sippio room or table, or place in which pictures are displayed upon the deposit of money in a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Location of bowling alleys in places other than as ordered; restraint - Chapter 140, Section 180
  Whoever erects, occupies or uses a building for bowling alleys, except in such part of a town as the aldermen or selectmen order, shall forfeit...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 140, Section 180A
  The following words, as used in this section and in sections one hundred and eighty B to one hundred and eighty F, inclusive, shall, unless...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Necessity of license for booking agent, personal agent or actor’s manager; office of licensee; penalty - Chapter 140, Section 180B
  No person shall act as a booking agent, personal agent or actor’s manager, or engage, directly or indirectly, in the business of acting as an...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application; contents; notice; refusal; revocation; fees - Chapter 140, Section 180C
  Any person wishing to obtain such a license shall apply in writing to the commissioner and in the form prescribed by said commissioner; and shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Agency contracts - Chapter 140, Section 180D
  Every licensee who shall procure for, or offer to an actor, performer or entertainer, hereafter referred to as a client, a theatrical engagement, shall execute...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Bond - Chapter 140, Section 180E
  No license under section one hundred and eighty B shall be issued unless and until the applicant therefor deposits with the commissioner a bond for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Action on bond - Chapter 140, Section 180F
  Any person from whom any licensee under section one hundred and eighty B has withheld any sum in excess of the amount permitted under any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations - Chapter 140, Section 180G
  The commissioner of public safety shall make rules and regulations for the proper enforcement of sections one hundred and eighty A to one hundred and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Theatrical exhibitions, etc.; licenses; fees; applications; suspension or revocation; workers’ compensation coverage - Chapter 140, Section 181
  The mayor or selectmen may, except as provided in section one hundred and five of chapter one hundred and forty-nine, grant and set the fee...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appearance under assumed name; statement filed; penalty - Chapter 140, Section 181A
  Whoever, for compensation, appears in a public exhibition, public show, public amusement or other public performance under an assumed name shall file with the commissioner...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Schedule of prices for patrons posted; penalty - Chapter 140, Section 181B
  The manager of every traveling circus, carnival or other entertainment which members of the general public are invited to attend and view shall cause a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Entertainment without license; exceptions - Chapter 140, Section 182
  Whoever offers to view, sets up, sets on foot, maintains, carries on, publishes or otherwise assists in or promotes any such exhibition, show or amusement...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Price to appear on ticket; penalty - Chapter 140, Section 182A
  Every ticket of admission or other evidence of right of entry to any theatrical exhibition, public show or public amusement or exhibition required to be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Darkened dance hall and places connected therewith; degree of light; regulations and statute posted; penalty - Chapter 140, Section 183
  No person shall darken in whole or in part the hall, room, piazza, roof garden or other place in which a public dance required to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Concerts, dances, exhibitions, public shows, etc.; license; application; suspension or revocation; rules and regulations - Chapter 140, Section 183A
  No inn holder, common victualler, keeper of a tavern, or person owning, managing, or controlling any club, restaurant or other establishment required to be licensed...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1936, 71, Sec. 2 - Chapter 140, Section 183B
  Repealed, 1936, 71, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violation of statute; report of conviction; revocation of charter of corporation - Chapter 140, Section 183C
  Any person described in section one hundred and eighty-three A who engages in a business required to be licensed by said section unless authorized so...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Minimum or cover charge - Chapter 140, Section 183D
  No innholder, common victualler or person owning, managing or controlling a cafe, restaurant, or other eating or drinking establishment shall require any person to pay...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Entertainments at which alcoholic beverages are sold - Chapter 140, Section 184
  Whoever offers to view, sets up, sets on foot, maintains or carries on a theatrical exhibition, public show, concert or dance hall exhibition, of any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1963, 195 - Chapter 140, Section 185
  Repealed, 1963,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Resale of tickets; necessity, term and transfer of license; information in application; definition of resale; restrictions - Chapter 140, Section 185A
  No person shall engage in the business of reselling any ticket or tickets of admission or other evidence of right of entry to any theatrical...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fees for, and for renewal of, licenses to resell tickets - Chapter 140, Section 185B
  The fee for each license granted under section one hundred and eighty-five A and for each annual renewal thereof shall be determined annually by the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Revocation or suspension of license - Chapter 140, Section 185C
  The commissioner, after notice to the licensee and reasonable opportunity for him to be heard, may revoke his license or may suspend the same for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Resale price - Chapter 140, Section 185D
  No licensee under section one hundred and eighty-five A shall resell any ticket or other evidence of right of entry to any theatrical exhibition, public...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations relative to reselling of tickets; investigations; record of licenses - Chapter 140, Section 185E
  The commissioner shall establish and may from time to time alter rules and regulations relative to the granting of licenses and the business carried on...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violation of statutes and regulations relative to reselling of tickets - Chapter 140, Section 185F
  Whoever violates any provision of section one hundred and eight-five A to section one hundred and eighty-five G, inclusive, or any rule or regulation of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nonapplicability of statutes to tickets for entertainment of nonprofit organizations - Chapter 140, Section 185G
  The provisions of section one hundred and eighty-two A and the six preceding sections shall not apply to tickets or other evidences of entry to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Grant, terms, revocation, suspension, contents coverage and expiration of license for dancing schools; fees; inspection and supervision; penalty - Chapter 140, Section 185H
  In Boston, and in any other city or town which accepts the provisions of this section, the mayor or selectmen thereof may grant upon such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fortune tellers; license - Chapter 140, Section 185I
  No person shall tell fortunes for money unless a license therefor has been issued by the local licensing authority. Said license shall be granted only...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Grant of license for roller skating, carousels, inclined railways, Ferris wheels and exhibitions of fire fighting; terms, conditions and regulations - Chapter 140, Section 186
  The license commission of Lowell, the mayor of any other city, and the selectmen of any town, may grant a license to any person to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Maintenance of rink without license - Chapter 140, Section 187
  Whoever, without such license, establishes, keeps open or maintains a skating rink to be used for the amusement of roller skating or any other amusement...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Grant of license for picnic grove; terms, conditions and regulations - Chapter 140, Section 188
  In a city or town which accepts the provisions of this and the two following sections or has accepted corresponding provisions of earlier laws, the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Maintenance of grove without license - Chapter 140, Section 189
  Whoever, without such license, establishes, lets, keeps open or maintains, himself or by another, a grove to be used for picnics or other amusements for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Peddling, selling, gaming, horse racing or exhibitions near grove - Chapter 140, Section 190
  Whoever, not having his residence or regular place of business within one half mile of a grove licensed under section one hundred and eighty-eight, during...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Grant of license for power propelled boats - Chapter 140, Section 191
  The aldermen or selectmen may license any person to run a steamboat or other boat propelled by power other than muscular power for the conveyance...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Term; record; fee; contents; posting; maximum number of passengers - Chapter 140, Section 192
  Such licenses shall be granted for a term of not more than one year, and shall be recorded by the clerk of the city or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Running of boats without license - Chapter 140, Section 193
  Whoever runs a steamboat or other boat propelled by power other than muscular power for the conveyance of passengers for hire on such waters without...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Prohibition of business of renting of boats or bathing suits without a license - Chapter 140, Section 194
  Cities and towns which accept this and the two following sections or have accepted corresponding provisions of earlier laws by a vote of the city...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Posting of notices relative to statutes - Chapter 140, Section 195
  The aldermen of such cities and the selectmen of such towns shall cause to be posted in the immediate vicinity of such ponds notices stating...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Engagement in business without license - Chapter 140, Section 196
  Whoever in such a city or town, without obtaining a license under section one hundred and ninety-four, if one is required, engages in the business...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Admission of children to entertainments - Chapter 140, Section 197
  Whoever, himself or by his servant or agent, admits a child under fourteen to any licensed show or place of amusement unless such child is...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Admission of young persons to dance halls - Chapter 140, Section 198
  No proprietor, lessee or manager and no employee of a proprietor, lessee or manager of any public hall or room in which dancing is practiced,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dance halls and skating rinks; statutes posted at entrances - Chapter 140, Section 199
  A copy of sections one hundred and ninety-eight to two hundred, inclusive, shall be posted at the entrance of every public hall or room where...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violation of statutes - Chapter 140, Section 200
  Whoever violates any provision of the two preceding sections shall be punished by a fine of not less than five nor more than one hundred...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Right of officers to enter premises; obstruction of entrance - Chapter 140, Section 201
  A sheriff, marshal or their deputies, a constable or police officer may at any time enter a billiard, pool or sippio room, bowling alley, skating...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Signature on, record, contents and term of licenses; fees - Chapter 140, Section 202
  Licenses granted elsewhere than in Boston to dealers in junk, old metals and second hand articles, junk collectors, pawnbrokers and keepers of billiard saloons, pool...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Effective date of license - Chapter 140, Section 203
  Such licenses may be granted in April, to take effect on May first following.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Coverage of license - Chapter 140, Section 204
  A license issued as aforesaid shall not protect the holder thereof in a building or place other than that designated in the license unless consent...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Revocation of license; record; notice - Chapter 140, Section 205
  Upon the revocation of such a license, such clerk shall note the revocation upon the face of the record thereof, and shall give written notice...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Amusement devices - Chapter 140, Section 205A
  As used in this section, the words “amusement device” shall mean a mechanical ride or device constructed and designed to carry 1 or more persons...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Public and semipublic outdoor inground swimming pools; enclosures; safety equipment; inspection; violations; penalty - Chapter 140, Section 206
  Every public and semipublic outdoor inground swimming pool shall be enclosed by a fence six feet in height and firmly secured at ground level provided...

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