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Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266Legal Research Home > Massachusetts Lawyer > Crimes Against Property > Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266 Sponsored LinksMassachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 1 Dwelling houses; burning or aiding in burning . Section 1. Whoever wilfully and maliciously sets fire to, burns, or causes to be burned, or whoever ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 2 Meeting house; burning or aiding in burning . Section 2. Whoever wilfully and maliciously sets fire to, burns, or causes to be burned, or whoever ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 5 Wood and other property; burning or aiding in burning . Section 5. Whoever wilfully and maliciously sets fire to, or burns or otherwise destroys or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 5A Attempts . Section 5A. Whoever wilfully and maliciously attempts to set fire to, or attempts to burn, or aids, counsels or assists in such an ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 6 Repealed, 1932, 192, Sec. 3 . ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 7 Woods; wanton or reckless injury or destruction by fire . Section 7. Whoever by wantonly or recklessly setting fire to any material, or by increasing ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 8 Injury by fire; negligent use . Section 8. Whoever, not being a tenant thereof, sets or increases a fire upon land of another whereby the ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 9 Injury by fire; negligent use in town; damages . Section 9. Whoever, in a town which accepts this section or has accepted corresponding provisions of ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 10 Insured property; burning with intent to defraud . Section 10. Whoever, wilfully and with intent to defraud or injure the insurer, sets fire to, or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 11 Fire alarm, engine or apparatus; injury before fire . Section 11. Whoever, within twenty-four hours prior to the burning of a building or other property, ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 12 Fire alarm, engine or apparatus; injury during fire to prevent alarm or extinction of fire . Section 12. Whoever, during the burning of a building ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 13 Fire engines; wanton or malicious injury . Section 13. Whoever wantonly or maliciously injures a fire engine or other fire apparatus shall be punished by ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 13A Duty of hotel manager to notify fire department and sound alarm; penalty . Section 13A. The manager of a hotel or family hotel or such ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 14 Burglary; armed; assault on occupants; weapons; punishment . Section 14. Whoever breaks and enters a dwelling house in the night time, with intent to commit ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 15 Burglary; unarmed . Section 15. Whoever breaks and enters a dwelling house in the night time, with the intent mentioned in the preceding section, or, ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 16 Breaking and entering at night . Section 16. Whoever, in the night time, breaks and enters a building, ship, vessel or vehicle, with intent to ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 16A Building, vessel or vehicle; breaking and entering with intent to commit misdemeanor . Section 16A. Whoever in the nighttime or daytime breaks and enters a ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 17 Entering without breaking at night; breaking and entering in day time; weapons; punishment . Section 17. Whoever, in the night time, enters without breaking, or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 18 Dwelling house; entry at night; breaking and entering in day time; weapons; punishment . Section 18. Whoever, in the night time, enters a dwelling house ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 19 Railroad car; breaking and entering . Section 19. Whoever breaks and enters, or enters in the night time without breaking, a railroad car, with intent ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 20 Stealing in building, ship or railroad car . Section 20. Whoever steals in a building, ship, vessel or railroad car shall be punished by imprisonment ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 20A Breaking and entering of trucks, tractors, trailers or freight containers . Section 20A. Whoever breaks and enters, or enters without breaking, a truck, tractor/trailer unit, ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 20B Stealing in trucks, tractors, trailers or freight containers . Section 20B. Whoever steals in a truck, tractor/trailer unit, trailer, semi-trailer or freight container shall be ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 21 Stolen property; refusal to surrender . Section 21. Whoever, having been convicted, either as principal or accessory, of burglary or robbery, or of any of ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 22 Poultry thieves; detention by owner; penalty . Section 22. Whoever, with intent to commit larceny, breaks or enters or enters in the night without breaking ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 23 Embezzlement of property at fire; effect . Section 23. Whoever steals, conveys away or conceals any furniture, goods, chattels, merchandise or effects of persons whose ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 24 Stealing at a fire; punishment . Section 24. Whoever steals in a building which is on fire, or steals property which has been removed in ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 25 Larceny by stealing; punishment; victim sixty-five or older; minimum sentence for repeat offenders . Section 25. (a) Whoever commits larceny by stealing from the person ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 26 Repealed, 1945, 282, Sec. 1 . ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 27 Tools of contractors, builders or mechanics; stealing; penalty . Section 27. Whoever steals any tool belonging to any contractor, builder or mechanic from any building ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 27A Motor vehicle or trailer; removal or concealment to defraud insurer . Section 27A. Whoever, with intent to defraud the insurer, removes or conceals a motor ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 28 Motor vehicle or trailer; theft or concealment; operation without owner’s consent after revocation of license; penalty . Section 28. (a) Whoever steals a motor vehicle ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 29 Statement concerning theft; recovery of vehicles; restitution . Section 29. Whenever a motor vehicle is stolen or misappropriated, the owner of record shall sign and ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 29A Repealed, 1980, 463, Sec. 4 . ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 29B Burning motor vehicle; owner’s statement to fire department . Section 29B. Whenever a motor vehicle is burned, the owner of record of such vehicle shall ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 30 Larceny; general provisions and penalties . Section 30. (1) Whoever steals, or with intent to defraud obtains by a false pretence, or whoever unlawfully, and ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 30A Shoplifting; penalty; arrest without warrant . Section 30A. Any person who intentionally takes possession of, carries away, transfers or causes to be carried away or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 31 Signature; obtaining under false pretenses . Section 31. Whoever by a false pretence, with intent to defraud, obtains the signature of a person to a ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 32 Fraudulent conversion of property by captain of vessel . Section 32. Whoever, being a captain of a vessel, embezzles or fraudulently converts or appropriates money, ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 33 Larceny; false pretences relating to contracts, banking transactions or credit . Section 33. (1) Whoever, with intent to defraud, obtains by a false pretence the ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 33A Obtaining computer services by fraud or misrepresentation; penalties . Section 33A. Whoever, with intent to defraud, obtains, or attempts to obtain, or aids or abets ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 34 Larceny; inducement to part with property . Section 34. Whoever, with intent to defraud and by a false pretence, induces another to part with property ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 35 Non-applicability of Secs. 30, 31 and 34 . Section 35. Sections thirty, thirty-one and thirty-four shall not apply to a purchase of property by means ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 36 Repealed, 1945, 282, Sec. 1 . ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 37 Fraudulent checks, etc.; drawing or uttering . Section 37. Whoever, with intent to defraud, makes, draws, utters or delivers any check, draft or order for ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 37A Misuse of credit cards; definitions . Section 37A. As used in sections thirty-seven A to thirty-seven C, inclusive, the following words shall have the following ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 37B Misuse of credit cards; penalties; multiple possession, presumption; arrest . Section 37B. Whoever, with intent to defraud, (a) makes or causes to be made, either ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 37C Fraudulent use of credit cards to obtain money, goods or services; false embossment of credit cards, multiple possession, presumption; arrest . Section 37C. Whoever, with ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 37D Publishing credit card numbering or coding systems . Section 37D. Whoever publishes or causes to be published the number or code of an existing, canceled, ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 37E Use of personal identification of another; identity fraud; penalty; restitution . Section 37E. (a) For purposes of this section, the following words shall have the ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 38 Larceny; wrongful detention of money by carriers . Section 38. Whoever, being engaged in the business of transporting merchandise, parcels or other property for hire, ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 38A Construction loan; misapplication . Section 38A. Whoever obtains a building or construction loan, secured by a mortgage of real estate, for the payment for labor ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 39 Wills; destruction or concealment . Section 39. Whoever steals or for any fraudulent purpose destroys, mutilates or conceals a will, codicil or other testamentary instrument ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 40 Common and notorious thief . Section 40. Whoever, having been convicted, upon indictment, of larceny or of being accessory to larceny before the fact, afterward ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 41 Larceny of bicycles; second conviction . Section 41. Whoever is convicted of a second offence of the larceny of a bicycle shall, if the value ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 42 Larceny of paper designated for bank bills . Section 42. Whoever commits larceny of a printed piece of paper or blank designed for issue by ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 43 Paper designated for bank bills; retention by printer with intent to pass . Section 43. Whoever, having been employed to print or having assisted in ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 44 to 46 Repealed, 1945, 282, Sec. 1 . ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 47 Dogs; wrongful removal of collar; penalty . Section 47. Whoever wrongfully removes the collar from a dog which is licensed and collared as provided in ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 48 Stolen goods; duty of arresting officers to secure . Section 48. An officer who arrests a person charged as principal or accessory in a robbery ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 49 Burglarious instruments; making; possession; use . Section 49. Whoever makes or mends, or begins to make or mend, or knowingly has in his possession, an ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 50 State treasury; fraud or embezzlement by employee . Section 50. A person employed in the treasury of the commonwealth who commits a fraud or embezzlement ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 51 City, town or county officers; fraud or embezzlement . Section 51. A county, city or town officer who embezzles or fraudulently converts, or who fraudulently ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 52 Bank officers and employees; fraud or embezzlement . Section 52. An officer, director, trustee, agent or employee of a bank, as defined in section one ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 53 Bank officers or employees; prosecution for fraud or embezzlement; evidence . Section 53. In prosecutions for such crimes, the fraudulent taking or receiving by any ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 53A Bank officers and employees; misconduct; penalty . Section 53A. An officer, director, trustee, agent or employee of a bank, as defined in section one of ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 54 Receipt of deposits by insolvent banks; penalty . Section 54. Any officer or employee of a bank, as defined in section one of chapter one ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 55 Liquidating agent or receiver; embezzlement . Section 55. An agent appointed by the commissioner of banks for the purposes of liquidating the affairs of a ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 56 Brokers or agents; embezzlement . Section 56. A broker, or officer, manager or agent of a corporation doing the business of brokers, who, having been ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 57 Fiduciaries; embezzlement . Section 57. A trustee under an express trust created by a deed, will or other instrument in writing, or a guardian, conservator, ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 58 Larceny; embezzlement from voluntary association . Section 58. Whoever, being an officer, agent, clerk or servant of a voluntary association or society, embezzles or fraudulently ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 59 Simple larceny; embezzlement from voluntary association . Section 59. Whoever embezzles or fraudulently converts, or secretes with intent to embezzle or fraudulently convert, money, goods ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 60 Stolen goods; buying or receiving . Section 60. Whoever buys, receives or aids in the concealment of stolen or embezzled property, knowing it to have ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 60A Stolen trade secrets; buying or selling . Section 60A. Whoever buys, receives, conceals, stores, barters, sells or disposes of any trade secret, or pledges or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 61 Stolen property; restitution; effect . Section 61. If, upon a first conviction under the preceding section, it is shown that the act of stealing the ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 62 Stolen goods; common receiver . Section 62. Whoever is convicted of buying, receiving or aiding in the concealment of stolen or embezzled property, knowing it ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 63 Unlawful taking or use of transportation media . Section 63. Whoever wilfully, mischievously and without right takes or uses a boat or vehicle, other than ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 64 Fraudulent hiring of media of transportation . Section 64. Whoever hires a horse, carriage or other vehicle, and, with intent to cheat or defraud the ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 65 Stock; unauthorized issue . Section 65. An officer, agent, clerk or servant of a corporation, or any other person, who issues or signs with intent ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 66 Stock; fraudulent issue or transfer . Section 66. An officer, agent, clerk or servant of a corporation, or any other person, who fraudulently issues or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 67 Corporate books; false entries with intent to defraud . Section 67. An officer of a corporation or an agent, clerk or servant of a person, ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 67A Departments, agencies and public instrumentalities; false statements, etc. in procurement of supplies; penalty . Section 67A. Whoever, in any matter, relative to procurement of supplies, ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 67B Presentation of false claims . Section 67B. Whoever makes or presents to any employee, department, agency or public instrumentality of the commonwealth, or of any ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 67C Capital facility construction projects, etc.; false entries in records; penalties . Section 67C. Any person who knowingly and wilfully, directly or indirectly makes, or knowingly ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 68 Corporate books as evidence . Section 68. Upon the trial of a person for a crime under the three preceding sections, the books of any ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 69 Insignia of societies; unlawful use . Section 69. Whoever, not being a member of a society, association or labor union, for the purpose of representing ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 69A Fraudulent use of labor union seal, trademark or insignia . Section 69A. Whoever knowingly and fraudulently displays or otherwise uses, in any manner whatsoever, the ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 70 Insignia of veteran organizations; unlawful use . Section 70. Whoever, not being a member and without authority of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 71 Signature, money or membership; obtaining under false pretences . Section 71. Whoever wilfully, by color or aid of any false token or writing, or other ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 71A Individuals and corporations; false use of names of benevolent organizations . Section 71A. No person, society, association or corporation shall knowingly assume, adopt or use ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 72 Fraternal names; use in publication . Section 72. Whoever, in a newspaper or other publication, or in any written or printed letter, notice, matter or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 73 Obtaining goods under false pretences . Section 73. Whoever, with intent to defraud, by a false pretence of carrying on business and dealing in the ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 74 Corporate credit; fraudulent use . Section 74. An officer, agent, clerk or servant of a corporation organized or doing business in the commonwealth, who wilfully ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 75 Obtaining property by trick . Section 75. Whoever, by a game, device, sleight of hand, pretended fortune telling or by any trick or other means ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 75A Gambling devices and vending machines; fraudulent use . Section 75A. Whoever operates or causes to be operated, or attempts to operate or to cause to ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 75B Slugs; manufacture and sale . Section 75B. Whoever manufactures for sale, advertises for sale, sells, offers for sale, or gives away any slug, device or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 75C Gift certificates; expiration dates; failure to redeem . Section 75C. Whoever sells or offers to sell a gift certificate as defined in section 1 of ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 76 Gross fraud or cheat at common law; punishment . Section 76. Whoever is convicted of any gross fraud or cheat at common law shall be ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 77 Sterling and coin silver; contents; sale; penalty . Section 77. Whoever makes or sells, or offers to sell or dispose of, or has in his ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 78 Articles made of gold; false marking; prohibition . Section 78. Whoever makes or sells, or offers for sale or disposes of, or has in his ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 79 Imitation of furs; false representation; prohibition . Section 79. Whoever, himself, or by his agent or servant, or as the agent or servant of another ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 80 Encumbered land; conveyance without notice . Section 80. Whoever conveys land, knowing that an encumbrance exists thereon, without informing the grantee, before the consideration is ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 81 Attached land; conveyance without notice . Section 81. Whoever, knowing that his land is attached on mesne process, sells and conveys it without giving notice ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 82 Concealment of mortgaged personalty; use of rented personalty for illegal sale of liquor . Section 82. Whoever, with a fraudulent intent to place personal property ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 83 Personalty; sale by mortgagor without consent . Section 83. A mortgagor of personal property who sells or conveys the same or any part thereof without ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 84 Personalty; sale by hirer without consent . Section 84. A hirer or lessee of personal property who sells or conveys the same or any part ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 85 Collateral security; sale before debt due . Section 85. Whoever, holding collateral security deposited with him for the payment of a debt which may be ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 86 Hired property; buying or receiving with intent to defraud . Section 86. Whoever, with intent to defraud, buys, receives or aids in concealing personal property, ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 87 Larceny of leased or rented property . Section 87. Any person leasing or renting personal property who, with the intent to place such property beyond ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 87A Stolen leased or rented motor vehicles; report; dissemination of information by police . Section 87A. The owner or lessee of a leased or rented motor ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 88 Consignee or factor; fraudulent deposit or pledge of property . Section 88. A consignee or factor who, in violation of good faith and with intent ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 89 Degrees; pretending to hold or conferring without authority; use of designation “university” or “college” . Section 89. Whoever, in a book, pamphlet, circular, advertisement or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 90 Endorsement or approval; penalty for false claim . Section 90. Whoever, in a book, pamphlet, circular, advertisement or advertising sign, or otherwise in writing, makes ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 91 Untrue and misleading advertisements; prohibitions . Section 91. Any person who, with intent to sell or in any way dispose of merchandise, securities, service, or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 91A Merchandise, commodities and service; advertisement; penalty . Section 91A. Any person who offers for sale merchandise, commodities or service by making, publishing, disseminating, circulating or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 91B Deceptive advertising of merchandise for sale; injunction . Section 91B. Any person offering for sale merchandise, commodities or service by making, publishing, disseminating, circulating or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 92 False or exaggerated statements; making or publishing; prohibition . Section 92. Whoever wilfully and with intent to defraud makes or publishes, or causes or permits ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 92A Motor vehicles; sale in certain condition; written disclosure on bill of sale; penalty . Section 92A. Whoever sells a motor vehicle knowing that its engine ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 93 Animals; obtaining or giving false pedigree . Section 93. Whoever, by a false pretence, obtains from any club, association, society or company for improving the ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 94 Boundary monuments and miscellaneous markers; malicious destruction . Section 94. Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right breaks down, injures, removes or destroys a monument erected ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 95 Historical monuments; malicious destruction or injury . Section 95. Whoever wilfully or maliciously removes, displaces, destroys, defaces, mars or injures any monument, tablet or other ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 96 State building; defacement or injury . Section 96. Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right defaces, mars or injures the walls, wainscoting or any other part ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 97 County buildings; defacement . Section 97. Whoever wilfully mars or injures the walls, wainscoting or any other part of a court house, jail or house ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 98 Schoolhouse or church; defacement or injury . Section 98. Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right, or wantonly and without cause, destroys, defaces, mars or injures ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 98A Public park or playground equipment; destruction, defacement or injury . Section 98A. Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right, or wantonly and without cause destroys, defaces, ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 99 Libraries; definitions . Section 99. As used in sections ninety-nine A and one hundred, the following words shall have the following meanings:— ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 99A Libraries; theft of materials or property; destruction of records . Section 99A. Whoever willfully conceals on his person or among his belongings any library materials ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 100 Libraries; mutilation or destruction of materials or property . Section 100. Whoever willfully, maliciously or wantonly writes upon, injures, defaces, tears, cuts, mutilates or destroys ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 101 Malicious explosion . Section 101. Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right, by the explosion of gunpowder or of any other explosive, unlawfully damages or destroys ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 102 Wilful throwing or placing of explosives at or near persons or property; unlawful possession; punishment . Section 102. Whoever wilfully and intentionally throws at or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 102A Infernal machine; possession; definition; notice of seizure . Section 102A. Whoever, other than a police or other law enforcement officer acting in the discharge of ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 102B Bottle or other containers; possession; ignition; penalty . Section 102B. Whoever makes, sells, uses or has in his possession or under his control a bottle ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 103 Oil of vitriol, or other substances; throwing into building or vessel . Section 103. Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right throws into, against or upon ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 104 Buildings; destruction or injury . Section 104. Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right destroys, injures, defaces or mars a dwelling house or other building, whether ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 104A Goal posts; penalty for destruction . Section 104A. Whoever wilfully and without right destroys, injures or removes a goal post on a football field shall ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 104B Research animals; unauthorized removal . Section 104B. Whoever enters any premises in which animals are being housed or used in research by a research institution ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 105 Stone walls or fences; unauthorized removal . Section 105. Whoever wilfully and without right pulls down or removes any portion of a stone wall or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 106 Ice ponds; injury . Section 106. Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right or license, cuts, injures, mars or otherwise damages or destroys ice upon waters ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 107 Bridge or canal; injury . Section 107. Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right breaks down, injures, removes or destroys a public bridge, or a lock, ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 108 Vessel; destruction to injure or defraud owner or insurer; punishment; restitution . Section 108. Whoever casts away, burns, sinks or otherwise destroys a ship or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 109 Vessel; fitting out with intent to destroy . Section 109. Whoever lades, equips or fits out, or assists in lading, equipping or fitting out, a ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 110 False invoice of cargo; intent to defraud insurer . Section 110. An owner of a ship or vessel, or of property laden or pretended to ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 111 False affidavit or protest; penalty . Section 111. A master, officer or mariner of a ship or vessel who makes or causes to be made ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 111A Insurance policies; penalty for fraudulent claims . Section 111A. Whoever, in connection with or in support of any claim under any policy of insurance issued ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 111B Motor vehicle insurance policies; penalty for fraudulent claims . Section 111B. Whoever, in connection with or in support of any application for or claim under ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 112 Domestic animals; malicious killing or injury . Section 112. Whoever wilfully and maliciously kills, maims or disfigures any horse, cattle or other animal of another ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 113 Timber, wood and shrubs; wilful cutting and destruction on land of another . Section 113. Whoever wilfully cuts down or destroys timber or wood standing ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 114 Trees and fences; malicious injury . Section 114. Whoever wilfully and maliciously or wantonly breaks glass in a building which is not his own, or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 115 Trespass in orchards and gardens . Section 115. Whoever wilfully and maliciously enters an orchard, nursery, garden or cranberry meadow, and takes away, mutilates or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 116 Repealed, 1962, 172 . ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 116A Protection of certain flowers . Section 116A. No person shall pull up or dig up the plant of a wild azalea, wild orchid or cardinal ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 117 Orchards and gardens; entry with intent to injure or destroy . Section 117. Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right enters upon the orchard, garden or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 118 Domestic animals; trespass on land . Section 118. Whoever, having the charge or custody of sheep, goats, cattle, horses, swine or fowl, wilfully suffers or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 119 Pests; bringing into state; penalty; exception . Section 119. Whoever knowingly brings into the commonwealth, or transports from one town to another therein, any pest ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 120 Entry upon private property after being forbidden as trespass; prima facie evidence; penalties; arrest; tenants or occupants excepted . Section 120. Whoever, without right enters ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 120A Motor vehicle; parking on private way; prosecution; evidence . Section 120A. In any prosecution for committing the crime of trespass by parking a motor vehicle ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 120B Entry on land by abutting property owners not constituting trespass . Section 120B. Whoever, being the owner of land abutting that of another, the building ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 120C Entry upon adjoining lands by surveyors not constituting trespass . Section 120C. Whenever a land surveyor registered under chapter one hundred and twelve deems it ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 120D Removal of motor vehicles from private ways or property; penalties; liability for removal and storage charges; release of vehicle . Section 120D. No person shall ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 120E Obstructing entry to or departure from medical facilities; penalties; injunctive relief . Section 120E. As used in this section, the following words shall have the ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 120F Unauthorized access to computer system; penalties . Section 120F. Whoever, without authorization, knowingly accesses a computer system by any means, or after gaining access to ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 121 Entry on land with firearms . Section 121. Whoever, without right, enters upon the land of another with firearms, with intent to fire or discharge ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 121A Trespasses involving motor vehicles and other powered devices . Section 121A. Whoever, without right, enters upon the private land of another, whether or not such ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 122 Notice against trespassers; defacement; penalty . Section 122. Whoever wilfully tears down, removes or defaces any notice posted on land, or other property described in ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 123 State land; public institutions; trespass; penalty . Section 123. Whoever willfully trespasses upon land or premises belonging to the commonwealth, or to any authority established ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 124 Legal notice; penalty for malicious injury . Section 124. Whoever wilfully and maliciously, or wantonly and without cause, tears down, removes or defaces a warrant ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 125 Show bill or advertisement; penalty for malicious injury . Section 125. Whoever wilfully and maliciously removes, destroys or mutilates a show bill, placard, program or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 126 Natural scenery; penalty for defacement . Section 126. Whoever paints, or puts upon, or in any manner affixes to, any fence, structure, pole, rock or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 126A Defacement of real or personal property; penalties; suspension of driver’s license . Section 126A. Whoever intentionally, willfully and maliciously or wantonly, paints, marks, scratches, etches ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 126B Tagging; penalties; suspension of driver’s license . Section 126B. Whoever sprays or applies paint or places a sticker upon a building, wall, fence, sign, tablet, ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 127 Personal property; malicious or wanton injuries . Section 127. Whoever destroys or injures the personal property, dwelling house or building of another in any manner ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 127A Destruction of place of worship, etc.; threats; punishment . Section 127A. Whoever willfully, intentionally and without right, or wantonly and without cause, destroys, defaces, mars, ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 127B Actions for civil rights violations; liability . Section 127B. Any person incurring injury to his person or damage or loss to his property as a ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 128 Milk cans; defacement . Section 128. Whoever, without the consent of the owner thereof, knowingly and wilfully effaces, alters or covers over, or procures to ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 129 Correctional institutions; injury to property . Section 129. An inmate of a correctional institution of the commonwealth who wilfully and maliciously destroys or injures the ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 130 Penal institutions; injury to property . Section 130. Whoever, being a prisoner at a jail or house of correction, wilfully and maliciously injures or destroys ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 131 Sunday trespassers; arrest and detention without warrant . Section 131. Whoever is discovered in the act of wilfully injuring a fruit or forest tree or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 132 Pigeons; killing or frightening . Section 132. Whoever wilfully kills pigeons upon, or frightens them from, beds which have been made for the purpose of ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 133 Humane society; injury to property . Section 133. Whoever unlawfully enters a house, boat house or hut which is the property of the Humane Society ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 134 Repealed, 1962, 285, Sec. 3 . ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 135 Vessels; mooring the buoy, beacon or floating guide; penalty . Section 135. Whoever moors or in any manner makes fast a vessel, scow, boat or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 136 Repealed, 1962, 285, Sec. 3 . ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 137 Injury to mill by raising water . Section 137. Whoever, by erecting or maintaining a dam, either within or without the commonwealth, knowingly causes the ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 138 Dams or reservoirs; malicious injury . Section 138. Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right breaks down, injures, removes or destroys a dam, reservoir, canal or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 138A Irrigation equipment; malicious injury . Section 138A. Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right damages or renders unusable machinery or equipment used in the transmission of ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 139 Motor vehicles or trailers; defacement, etc., of identifying numbers; penalties; arrests . Section 139. (a) Whoever intentionally and maliciously removes, defaces, alters, changes, destroys, obliterates ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 139A Machines, electrical or mechanical devices; alteration or obliteration of identifying numbers; possession; sale; punishment . Section 139A. Whoever removes, defaces, alters, changes, destroys, obliterates or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 140 Sale or offer for sale of master keys; penalty . Section 140. Whoever sells or offers to sell or solicits offers to purchase a master ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 141 Tampering with odometer of motor vehicle; intent to defraud; civil remedy; treble damages; costs and fees; unfair competition; repair or replacement excepted . Section 141. ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 141A Misrepresentation of mileage of motor vehicle by turning back or readjusting speedometer or odometer; criminal penalty . Section 141A. Whoever, with the intent to misrepresent ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 142 Record of purchases by dealers in scrap copper wire; inspection; penalty . Section 142. Whoever is in the business of purchasing copper line wire or ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 142A Gold, silver and platinum dealers; records; penalty . Section 142A. Whoever is in the business of purchasing gold, silver or platinum shall enter in a ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 143 Definitions applicable to Secs. 143A to 143H . Section 143. As used in sections 143A to 143H, inclusive, the following words shall have the following ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 143A Unauthorized reproduction and transfer of sound recordings . Section 143A. Whoever directly or indirectly by any means, knowingly transfers or causes to be transferred any ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 143B Unauthorized reproduction and sale of live performances . Section 143B. Whoever for commercial advantage or private financial gain records or causes to be recorded a ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 143C Manufacture, rental, or sale of recorded devices in packaging not bearing reproducer’s name and address . Section 143C. Whoever for commercial advantage or private financial ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 143D Application of Secs. 143 to 143C; exceptions . Section 143D. (a) Nothing in sections 143A to 143C, inclusive, shall be construed to apply to any ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 143E Violations of Secs. 143A to 143C; punishment . Section 143E. Whoever violates any provision of section 143A to section 143C, inclusive, shall be punished: ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 144 Carrying away or conversion of certain milk containers without permission of owners . Section 144. Whoever, without permission of the owner, carries away or converts ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 145 Theft of public records . Section 145. Any person who intentionally conceals upon his person or otherwise any record of the commonwealth or a political ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 146 Disposal of solid waste in commercial disposal container of another without consent of owner; penalties . Section 146. For purposes of this section “solid waste” ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Property - Chapter 266, Section 147 Items or services bearing or identified by counterfeit mark; sales; penalties . Section 147. (a) For purposes of this section, the following words shall have ...
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