General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 266 Crimes Against Property

• Massachusetts General Laws - Dwelling houses; burning or aiding in burning - Chapter 266, Section 1
  Whoever wilfully and maliciously sets fire to, burns, or causes to be burned, or whoever aids, counsels or procures the burning of, a dwelling house,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Meeting house; burning or aiding in burning - Chapter 266, Section 2
  Whoever wilfully and maliciously sets fire to, burns, or causes to be burned, or whoever aids, counsels or procures the burning of, a meeting house,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1932, 192, Sec. 3 - Chapter 266, Section 3 4
  Repealed, 1932, 192, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Wood and other property; burning or aiding in burning - Chapter 266, Section 5
  Whoever wilfully and maliciously sets fire to, or burns or otherwise destroys or injures by burning, or causes to be burned or otherwise so destroyed...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Attempts - Chapter 266, Section 5A
  Whoever wilfully and maliciously attempts to set fire to, or attempts to burn, or aids, counsels or assists in such an attempt to set fire...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1932, 192, Sec. 3 - Chapter 266, Section 6
  Repealed, 1932, 192, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Woods; wanton or reckless injury or destruction by fire - Chapter 266, Section 7
  Whoever by wantonly or recklessly setting fire to any material, or by increasing a fire already set, causes injury to, or the destruction of, any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Injury by fire; negligent use - Chapter 266, Section 8
  Whoever, not being a tenant thereof, sets or increases a fire upon land of another whereby the property of another is injured, or whoever negligently...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Injury by fire; negligent use in town; damages - Chapter 266, Section 9
  Whoever, in a town which accepts this section or has accepted corresponding provisions of earlier laws, sets a fire on land which is not owned...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Insured property; burning with intent to defraud - Chapter 266, Section 10
  Whoever, wilfully and with intent to defraud or injure the insurer, sets fire to, or attempts to set fire to, or whoever causes to be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fire alarm, engine or apparatus; injury before fire - Chapter 266, Section 11
  Whoever, within twenty-four hours prior to the burning of a building or other property, wilfully, intentionally and without right cuts or removes a bell rope...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fire alarm, engine or apparatus; injury during fire to prevent alarm or extinction of fire - Chapter 266, Section 12
  Whoever, during the burning of a building or other property, wilfully and maliciously cuts or removes a bell rope or a wire or conduit connected...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fire engines; wanton or malicious injury - Chapter 266, Section 13
  Whoever wantonly or maliciously injures a fire engine or other fire apparatus shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Duty of hotel manager to notify fire department and sound alarm; penalty - Chapter 266, Section 13A
  The manager of a hotel or family hotel or such other person as may be in charge of the premises in the absence of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Burglary; armed; assault on occupants; weapons; punishment - Chapter 266, Section 14
  Whoever breaks and enters a dwelling house in the night time, with intent to commit a felony, or whoever, after having entered with such intent,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Burglary; unarmed - Chapter 266, Section 15
  Whoever breaks and enters a dwelling house in the night time, with the intent mentioned in the preceding section, or, having entered with such intent,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Breaking and entering at night - Chapter 266, Section 16
  Whoever, in the night time, breaks and enters a building, ship, vessel or vehicle, with intent to commit a felony, or who attempts to or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Building, vessel or vehicle; breaking and entering with intent to commit misdemeanor - Chapter 266, Section 16A
  Whoever in the nighttime or daytime breaks and enters a building, ship, vessel or vehicle with intent to commit a misdemeanor shall be punished by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Entering without breaking at night; breaking and entering in day time; weapons; punishment - Chapter 266, Section 17
  Whoever, in the night time, enters without breaking, or breaks and enters in the day time, a building, ship, vessel, or vehicle, with intent to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dwelling house; entry at night; breaking and entering in day time; weapons; punishment - Chapter 266, Section 18
  Whoever, in the night time, enters a dwelling house without breaking, or breaks and enters in the day time a building, ship or motor vehicle...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Entering dwelling house by false pretenses; intent to commit felony; larceny; punishment - Chapter 266, Section 18A
  Whoever enters a dwelling house by false pretenses, without breaking and with the intent to commit a felony, no person lawfully therein being put in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Railroad car; breaking and entering - Chapter 266, Section 19
  Whoever breaks and enters, or enters in the night time without breaking, a railroad car, with intent to commit a felony, shall be punished by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Stealing in building, ship or railroad car - Chapter 266, Section 20
  Whoever steals in a building, ship, vessel or railroad car shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than five years...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Breaking and entering of trucks, tractors, trailers or freight containers - Chapter 266, Section 20A
  Whoever breaks and enters, or enters without breaking, a truck, tractor/trailer unit, trailer, semi-trailer or freight container with intent to commit a felony, shall be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Stealing in trucks, tractors, trailers or freight containers - Chapter 266, Section 20B
  Whoever steals in a truck, tractor/trailer unit, trailer, semi-trailer or freight container shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Stolen property; refusal to surrender - Chapter 266, Section 21
  Whoever, having been convicted, either as principal or accessory, of burglary or robbery, or of any of the crimes described in sections seventeen to twenty,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Poultry thieves; detention by owner; penalty - Chapter 266, Section 22
  Whoever, with intent to commit larceny, breaks or enters or enters in the night without breaking any building or enclosure wherein is kept or confined...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Embezzlement of property at fire; effect - Chapter 266, Section 23
  Whoever steals, conveys away or conceals any furniture, goods, chattels, merchandise or effects of persons whose houses or buildings are on fire or are endangered...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Stealing at a fire; punishment - Chapter 266, Section 24
  Whoever steals in a building which is on fire, or steals property which has been removed in consequence of an alarm caused by fire, shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Larceny by stealing; punishment; victim sixty-five or older; minimum sentence for repeat offenders - Chapter 266, Section 25
  (a) Whoever commits larceny by stealing from the person of a person sixty-five years or older shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1945, 282, Sec. 1 - Chapter 266, Section 26
  Repealed, 1945, 282, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Tools of contractors, builders or mechanics; stealing; penalty - Chapter 266, Section 27
  Whoever steals any tool belonging to any contractor, builder or mechanic from any building during the course of its construction, completion, alteration or repair, shall,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Motor vehicle or trailer; removal or concealment to defraud insurer - Chapter 266, Section 27A
  Whoever, with intent to defraud the insurer, removes or conceals a motor vehicle or trailer belonging to himself or another which is at the time...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Motor vehicle or trailer; theft or concealment; operation without owner’s consent after revocation of license; penalty - Chapter 266, Section 28
  (a) Whoever steals a motor vehicle or trailer, whoever maliciously damages a motor vehicle or trailer, whoever buys, receives, possesses, conceals, or obtains control of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Statement concerning theft; recovery of vehicles; restitution - Chapter 266, Section 29
  Whenever a motor vehicle is stolen or misappropriated, the owner of record shall sign and submit to the appropriate police authority a statement under the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1980, 463, Sec. 4 - Chapter 266, Section 29A
  Repealed, 1980, 463, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Burning motor vehicle; owner’s statement to fire department - Chapter 266, Section 29B
  Whenever a motor vehicle is burned, the owner of record of such vehicle shall submit to the appropriate fire department a statement signed under the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Larceny; general provisions and penalties - Chapter 266, Section 30
  (1) Whoever steals, or with intent to defraud obtains by a false pretence, or whoever unlawfully, and with intent to steal or embezzle, converts, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Shoplifting; penalty; arrest without warrant - Chapter 266, Section 30A
  Any person who intentionally takes possession of, carries away, transfers or causes to be carried away or transferred, any merchandise displayed, held, stored or offered...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Signature; obtaining under false pretenses - Chapter 266, Section 31
  Whoever by a false pretence, with intent to defraud, obtains the signature of a person to a written instrument, the false making whereof would be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fraudulent conversion of property by captain of vessel - Chapter 266, Section 32
  Whoever, being a captain of a vessel, embezzles or fraudulently converts or appropriates money, goods or property, held or possessed by or delivered to him,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Larceny; false pretences relating to contracts, banking transactions or credit - Chapter 266, Section 33
  (1) Whoever, with intent to defraud, obtains by a false pretence the making, acceptance or endorsement of a bill of exchange or promissory note, the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Obtaining computer services by fraud or misrepresentation; penalties - Chapter 266, Section 33A
  Whoever, with intent to defraud, obtains, or attempts to obtain, or aids or abets another in obtaining, any commercial computer service by false representation, false...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Larceny; inducement to part with property - Chapter 266, Section 34
  Whoever, with intent to defraud and by a false pretence, induces another to part with property of any kind or with any of the benefits...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Non-applicability of Secs. 30, 31 and 34 - Chapter 266, Section 35
  Sections thirty, thirty-one and thirty-four shall not apply to a purchase of property by means of a false pretence relative to the purchaser’s means or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - False material statements or omissions during or in connection with mortgage lending process; penalties; mitigating factors with respect to sentencing - Chapter 266, Section 35A
  (a) As used in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly otherwise requires:— “Funds”, shall include, but not...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1945, 282, Sec. 1 - Chapter 266, Section 36
  Repealed, 1945, 282, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fraudulent checks, etc.; drawing or uttering - Chapter 266, Section 37
  Whoever, with intent to defraud, makes, draws, utters or delivers any check, draft or order for the payment of money upon any bank or other...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Misuse of credit cards; definitions - Chapter 266, Section 37A
  As used in sections thirty-seven A to thirty-seven C, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meanings, unless the context otherwise requires: “Cardholder”, the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Misuse of credit cards; penalties; multiple possession, presumption; arrest - Chapter 266, Section 37B
  Whoever, with intent to defraud, (a) makes or causes to be made, either directly or indirectly, any false statement as to a material fact in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fraudulent use of credit cards to obtain money, goods or services; false embossment of credit cards, multiple possession, presumption; arrest - Chapter 266, Section 37C
  Whoever, with intent to defraud, (a) obtains control over a credit card as security for debt, or (b) receives a credit card which he knows...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Publishing credit card numbering or coding systems - Chapter 266, Section 37D
  Whoever publishes or causes to be published the number or code of an existing, canceled, revoked, expired, or nonexistent credit card issued by a public...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Use of personal identification of another; identity fraud; penalty; restitution - Chapter 266, Section 37E
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following words shall have the following meanings:— “Harass”, willfully and maliciously engage in an act directed at a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Larceny; wrongful detention of money by carriers - Chapter 266, Section 38
  Whoever, being engaged in the business of transporting merchandise, parcels or other property for hire, accepts from a consignor or his agent or from a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Construction loan; misapplication - Chapter 266, Section 38A
  Whoever obtains a building or construction loan, secured by a mortgage of real estate, for the payment for labor furnished or to be furnished and/or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Wills; destruction or concealment - Chapter 266, Section 39
  Whoever steals or for any fraudulent purpose destroys, mutilates or conceals a will, codicil or other testamentary instrument shall be punished by imprisonment in the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Common and notorious thief - Chapter 266, Section 40
  Whoever, having been convicted, upon indictment, of larceny or of being accessory to larceny before the fact, afterward commits a larceny or is accessory thereto...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Larceny of bicycles; second conviction - Chapter 266, Section 41
  Whoever is convicted of a second offence of the larceny of a bicycle shall, if the value of the bicycle stolen exceeds ten dollars, be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Larceny of paper designated for bank bills - Chapter 266, Section 42
  Whoever commits larceny of a printed piece of paper or blank designed for issue by any incorporated bank or banking company in the United States...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Paper designated for bank bills; retention by printer with intent to pass - Chapter 266, Section 43
  Whoever, having been employed to print or having assisted in printing a printed piece of paper or blank described in the preceding section, or having...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1945, 282, Sec. 1 - Chapter 266, Section 44 to 46
  Repealed, 1945, 282, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dogs; wrongful removal of collar; penalty - Chapter 266, Section 47
  Whoever wrongfully removes the collar from a dog which is licensed and collared as provided in chapter one hundred and forty shall be punished by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Stolen goods; duty of arresting officers to secure - Chapter 266, Section 48
  An officer who arrests a person charged as principal or accessory in a robbery or larceny shall secure the property which is alleged to have...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Burglarious instruments; making; possession; use - Chapter 266, Section 49
  Whoever makes or mends, or begins to make or mend, or knowingly has in his possession, an engine, machine, tool or implement adapted and designed...
• Massachusetts General Laws - State treasury; fraud or embezzlement by employee - Chapter 266, Section 50
  A person employed in the treasury of the commonwealth who commits a fraud or embezzlement therein shall be punished by a fine of not more...
• Massachusetts General Laws - City, town or county officers; fraud or embezzlement - Chapter 266, Section 51
  A county, city or town officer who embezzles or fraudulently converts, or who fraudulently takes or secretes with intent so to do, effects or property...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Bank officers and employees; fraud or embezzlement - Chapter 266, Section 52
  An officer, director, trustee, agent or employee of a bank, as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and sixty-seven, who fraudulently converts, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Bank officers or employees; prosecution for fraud or embezzlement; evidence - Chapter 266, Section 53
  In prosecutions for such crimes, the fraudulent taking or receiving by any person of bullion, money, notes, bills or other security for money which belongs...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Bank officers and employees; misconduct; penalty - Chapter 266, Section 53A
  An officer, director, trustee, agent or employee of a bank, as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and sixty-seven, who wilfully misapplies otherwise...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Receipt of deposits by insolvent banks; penalty - Chapter 266, Section 54
  Any officer or employee of a bank, as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and sixty-seven, who receives or permits the receipt of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Liquidating agent or receiver; embezzlement - Chapter 266, Section 55
  An agent appointed by the commissioner of banks for the purposes of liquidating the affairs of a bank, as defined in section one of chapter...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Brokers or agents; embezzlement - Chapter 266, Section 56
  A broker, or officer, manager or agent of a corporation doing the business of brokers, who, having been intrusted, solely or jointly, with money, stock...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fiduciaries; embezzlement - Chapter 266, Section 57
  A trustee under an express trust created by a deed, will or other instrument in writing, or a guardian, conservator, executor or administrator, or any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Larceny; embezzlement from voluntary association - Chapter 266, Section 58
  Whoever, being an officer, agent, clerk or servant of a voluntary association or society, embezzles or fraudulently converts, or fraudulently takes or secretes with intent...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Simple larceny; embezzlement from voluntary association - Chapter 266, Section 59
  Whoever embezzles or fraudulently converts, or secretes with intent to embezzle or fraudulently convert, money, goods or property or any part thereof which has been...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Stolen goods; buying or receiving - Chapter 266, Section 60
  Whoever buys, receives or aids in the concealment of stolen or embezzled property, knowing it to have been stolen or embezzled, or whoever with intent...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Stolen trade secrets; buying or selling - Chapter 266, Section 60A
  Whoever buys, receives, conceals, stores, barters, sells or disposes of any trade secret, or pledges or accepts as security for a loan any trade secret,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Stolen property; restitution; effect - Chapter 266, Section 61
  If, upon a first conviction under the preceding section, it is shown that the act of stealing the property was a simple larceny, and if...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Stolen goods; common receiver - Chapter 266, Section 62
  Whoever is convicted of buying, receiving or aiding in the concealment of stolen or embezzled property, knowing it to have been stolen or embezzled, having...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unlawful taking or use of transportation media - Chapter 266, Section 63
  Whoever wilfully, mischievously and without right takes or uses a boat or vehicle, other than a motor vehicle, or takes, drives, rides or uses any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fraudulent hiring of media of transportation - Chapter 266, Section 64
  Whoever hires a horse, carriage or other vehicle, and, with intent to cheat or defraud the owner thereof, makes to him or to his agent...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Stock; unauthorized issue - Chapter 266, Section 65
  An officer, agent, clerk or servant of a corporation, or any other person, who issues or signs with intent to issue a certificate of stock...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Stock; fraudulent issue or transfer - Chapter 266, Section 66
  An officer, agent, clerk or servant of a corporation, or any other person, who fraudulently issues or transfers a certificate of the stock of a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Corporate books; false entries with intent to defraud - Chapter 266, Section 67
  An officer of a corporation or an agent, clerk or servant of a person, firm or corporation who makes a false entry or omits to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Departments, agencies and public instrumentalities; false statements, etc. in procurement of supplies; penalty - Chapter 266, Section 67A
  Whoever, in any matter, relative to procurement of supplies, services or construction, as defined in section one of chapter twelve A, within the jurisdiction of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Presentation of false claims - Chapter 266, Section 67B
  Whoever makes or presents to any employee, department, agency or public instrumentality of the commonwealth, or of any political subdivision thereof, any claim upon or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Capital facility construction projects, etc.; false entries in records; penalties - Chapter 266, Section 67C
  Any person who knowingly and wilfully, directly or indirectly makes, or knowingly and wilfully causes to be made, a false entry or omission of a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Corporate books as evidence - Chapter 266, Section 68
  Upon the trial of a person for a crime under the three preceding sections, the books of any person, firm or corporation to which he...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Insignia of societies; unlawful use - Chapter 266, Section 69
  Whoever, not being a member of a society, association or labor union, for the purpose of representing that he is a member thereof, wilfully wears...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fraudulent use of labor union seal, trademark or insignia - Chapter 266, Section 69A
  Whoever knowingly and fraudulently displays or otherwise uses, in any manner whatsoever, the seal, trademark or insignia of any labor organization as defined by subsection...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Insignia of veteran organizations; unlawful use - Chapter 266, Section 70
  Whoever, not being a member and without authority of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, the Grand Army of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Signature, money or membership; obtaining under false pretences - Chapter 266, Section 71
  Whoever wilfully, by color or aid of any false token or writing, or other false pretence or false statement, verbal or written, or without authority...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Individuals and corporations; false use of names of benevolent organizations - Chapter 266, Section 71A
  No person, society, association or corporation shall knowingly assume, adopt or use the name of a benevolent, humane, fraternal, charitable or labor organization, whether incorporated...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fraternal names; use in publication - Chapter 266, Section 72
  Whoever, in a newspaper or other publication, or in any written or printed letter, notice, matter or device, without authority of the grand or supreme...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Obtaining goods under false pretences - Chapter 266, Section 73
  Whoever, with intent to defraud, by a false pretence of carrying on business and dealing in the ordinary course of trade, obtains from any person...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Corporate credit; fraudulent use - Chapter 266, Section 74
  An officer, agent, clerk or servant of a corporation organized or doing business in the commonwealth, who wilfully uses the name of such corporation, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Obtaining property by trick - Chapter 266, Section 75
  Whoever, by a game, device, sleight of hand, pretended fortune telling or by any trick or other means by the use of cards or other...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Gambling devices and vending machines; fraudulent use - Chapter 266, Section 75A
  Whoever operates or causes to be operated, or attempts to operate or to cause to be operated, any automatic vending machine, slot machine, turnstile, coin-box...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Slugs; manufacture and sale - Chapter 266, Section 75B
  Whoever manufactures for sale, advertises for sale, sells, offers for sale, or gives away any slug, device or substance whatsoever, designed or calculated to be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Gift certificates; expiration dates; failure to redeem - Chapter 266, Section 75C
  Whoever sells or offers to sell a gift certificate as defined in section 1 of chapter 255D, which imposes a time limit of less than...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Imposition of certain fees reducing total value amount of gift certificate; penalty - Chapter 266, Section 75D
  Whoever sells or offers to sell a gift certificate, as defined in section 1 of chapter 255D, which imposes dormancy fees, latency fees, administrative fees,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Printed notice required for certain fees associated with gift certificates; penalty for violation - Chapter 266, Section 75E
  Whoever sells or offers to sell a gift certificate, as defined in section 1 of chapter 255D, which imposes any fees or charges including, but...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Deduction of gratuity from gift certificate without consent; penalty - Chapter 266, Section 75F
  Whoever redeems a gift certificate, as defined in section 1 of chapter 255D and deducts a gratuity therefrom without the consent of the holder of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Gross fraud or cheat at common law; punishment - Chapter 266, Section 76
  Whoever is convicted of any gross fraud or cheat at common law shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sterling and coin silver; contents; sale; penalty - Chapter 266, Section 77
  Whoever makes or sells, or offers to sell or dispose of, or has in his possession with intent so to do, any article of merchandise...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Articles made of gold; false marking; prohibition - Chapter 266, Section 78
  Whoever makes or sells, or offers for sale or disposes of, or has in his possession with intent so to do, any article constructed in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Imitation of furs; false representation; prohibition - Chapter 266, Section 79
  Whoever, himself, or by his agent or servant, or as the agent or servant of another person, sells or exchanges, or has in his custody...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Encumbered land; conveyance without notice - Chapter 266, Section 80
  Whoever conveys land, knowing that an encumbrance exists thereon, without informing the grantee, before the consideration is paid, of the existence and nature of such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Attached land; conveyance without notice - Chapter 266, Section 81
  Whoever, knowing that his land is attached on mesne process, sells and conveys it without giving notice of the attachment to the grantee, and with...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Concealment of mortgaged personalty; use of rented personalty for illegal sale of liquor - Chapter 266, Section 82
  Whoever, with a fraudulent intent to place personal property which is subject to a mortgage beyond the control of the mortgagee, removes or conceals or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Personalty; sale by mortgagor without consent - Chapter 266, Section 83
  A mortgagor of personal property who sells or conveys the same or any part thereof without the written consent of the mortgagee, and without informing...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Personalty; sale by hirer without consent - Chapter 266, Section 84
  A hirer or lessee of personal property who sells or conveys the same or any part thereof without the written consent of the owner or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Collateral security; sale before debt due - Chapter 266, Section 85
  Whoever, holding collateral security deposited with him for the payment of a debt which may be due to him, sells, pledges, lends or in any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Hired property; buying or receiving with intent to defraud - Chapter 266, Section 86
  Whoever, with intent to defraud, buys, receives or aids in concealing personal property, knowing it to be hired or leased or held as collateral security,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Larceny of leased or rented property - Chapter 266, Section 87
  Any person leasing or renting personal property who, with the intent to place such property beyond the control of the owner, conceals or aids or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Stolen leased or rented motor vehicles; report; dissemination of information by police - Chapter 266, Section 87A
  The owner or lessee of a leased or rented motor vehicle which has been stolen or placed beyond his control shall report the loss of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Consignee or factor; fraudulent deposit or pledge of property - Chapter 266, Section 88
  A consignee or factor who, in violation of good faith and with intent to defraud the owners thereof, deposits or pledges, as security for money...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Degrees; pretending to hold or conferring without authority; use of designation “university” or “college” - Chapter 266, Section 89
  Whoever, in a book, pamphlet, circular, advertisement or advertising sign, or by a pretended written certificate or diploma, or otherwise in writing, knowingly and falsely...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Endorsement or approval; penalty for false claim - Chapter 266, Section 90
  Whoever, in a book, pamphlet, circular, advertisement or advertising sign, or otherwise in writing, makes any false and fraudulent statement or assertion of endorsement, authority,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Untrue and misleading advertisements; prohibitions - Chapter 266, Section 91
  Any person who, with intent to sell or in any way dispose of merchandise, securities, service, or anything offered by such person, directly or indirectly,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Merchandise, commodities and service; advertisement; penalty - Chapter 266, Section 91A
  Any person who offers for sale merchandise, commodities or service by making, publishing, disseminating, circulating or placing before the public within the commonwealth, in a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Deceptive advertising of merchandise for sale; injunction - Chapter 266, Section 91B
  Any person offering for sale merchandise, commodities or service by making, publishing, disseminating, circulating or placing before the public within the commonwealth in any manner...
• Massachusetts General Laws - False or exaggerated statements; making or publishing; prohibition - Chapter 266, Section 92
  Whoever wilfully and with intent to defraud makes or publishes, or causes or permits to be made or published in any way whatever, any book,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Motor vehicles; sale in certain condition; written disclosure on bill of sale; penalty - Chapter 266, Section 92A
  Whoever sells a motor vehicle knowing that its engine or electrical parts have been submerged in water, or knowing that it has been used as...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Animals; obtaining or giving false pedigree - Chapter 266, Section 93
  Whoever, by a false pretence, obtains from any club, association, society or company for improving the breed of cattle, horses, sheep, swine or other domestic...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Boundary monuments and miscellaneous markers; malicious destruction - Chapter 266, Section 94
  Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right breaks down, injures, removes or destroys a monument erected for the purpose of designating the boundaries of a town...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Historical monuments; malicious destruction or injury - Chapter 266, Section 95
  Whoever wilfully or maliciously removes, displaces, destroys, defaces, mars or injures any monument, tablet or other device erected to mark an historic place or to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - State building; defacement or injury - Chapter 266, Section 96
  Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right defaces, mars or injures the walls, wainscoting or any other part of any building belonging to the commonwealth, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - County buildings; defacement - Chapter 266, Section 97
  Whoever wilfully mars or injures the walls, wainscoting or any other part of a court house, jail or house of correction, or of any other...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Schoolhouse or church; defacement or injury - Chapter 266, Section 98
  Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right, or wantonly and without cause, destroys, defaces, mars or injures a schoolhouse, church or other building erected or used...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Public park or playground equipment; destruction, defacement or injury - Chapter 266, Section 98A
  Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right, or wantonly and without cause destroys, defaces, mars or injures any playground apparatus or equipment located in a public...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Libraries; definitions - Chapter 266, Section 99
  As used in sections ninety-nine A and one hundred, the following words shall have the following meanings:— “Library materials and property”, any book, plate, picture,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Libraries; theft of materials or property; destruction of records - Chapter 266, Section 99A
  Whoever willfully conceals on his person or among his belongings any library materials or property and removes said library materials or property, if the value...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Libraries; mutilation or destruction of materials or property - Chapter 266, Section 100
  Whoever willfully, maliciously or wantonly writes upon, injures, defaces, tears, cuts, mutilates or destroys any library material or property, shall make restitution in full replacement...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions applicable to Secs. 101 to 102D - Chapter 266, Section 101
  For the purposes of sections 101 to 102D, inclusive, the following terms shall have the following meanings, unless otherwise clearly required:— “Ammunition”, cartridges or cartridge...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Possession or control of incendiary device or material; possession of hoax device or material; penalty - Chapter 266, Section 102
  (a) Whoever, without lawful authority, has in his possession or under his control: (i) any substance, material, article, explosive or ingredient which, alone or in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Throwing, secreting, launching or placing of incendiary device; intent; punishment - Chapter 266, Section 102A
  Whoever, without lawful authority, secretes, throws, launches or otherwise places an explosive or a destructive or incendiary device or substance with the intent: (i) to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2010, 160, Sec. 6 - Chapter 266, Section 102A1/2
  Repealed, 2010, 160, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Malicious explosion - Chapter 266, Section 102B
  Whoever, without lawful authority, willfully discharges, ignites or explodes any destructive or incendiary device or substance shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Biological, chemical, or nuclear weapon or delivery system; possession; punishment - Chapter 266, Section 102C
  Whoever, without lawful authority, knowingly develops, produces, stockpiles, acquires, transports, possesses, controls, places, secretes or uses any biological, chemical or nuclear weapon or delivery system,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of seizure of explosive or incendiary device resulting from a violation of Secs. 102 to 102C; restitution - Chapter 266, Section 102D
  (a) Notice of the seizure of an explosive, destructive or incendiary device or substance, any weapon or the component parts thereof, in violation of any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Oil of vitriol, or other substances; throwing into building or vessel - Chapter 266, Section 103
  Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right throws into, against or upon a dwelling house, office, shop or other building, or vessel, or puts or places...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Buildings; destruction or injury - Chapter 266, Section 104
  Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right destroys, injures, defaces or mars a dwelling house or other building, whether upon the inside or outside, shall be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Goal posts; penalty for destruction - Chapter 266, Section 104A
  Whoever wilfully and without right destroys, injures or removes a goal post on a football field shall be punished by a fine of not less...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Research animals; unauthorized removal - Chapter 266, Section 104B
  Whoever enters any premises in which animals are being housed or used in research by a research institution and, without authority, injures, damages, commits any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Stone walls or fences; unauthorized removal - Chapter 266, Section 105
  Whoever wilfully and without right pulls down or removes any portion of a stone wall or fence which is erected or maintained for the purpose...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Ice ponds; injury - Chapter 266, Section 106
  Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right or license, cuts, injures, mars or otherwise damages or destroys ice upon waters from which ice is or may...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Bridge or canal; injury - Chapter 266, Section 107
  Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right breaks down, injures, removes or destroys a public bridge, or a lock, culvert or embankment of a canal, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Vessel; destruction to injure or defraud owner or insurer; punishment; restitution - Chapter 266, Section 108
  Whoever casts away, burns, sinks or otherwise destroys a ship or vessel, with intent to injure or defraud an owner thereof, or of any property...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Vessel; fitting out with intent to destroy - Chapter 266, Section 109
  Whoever lades, equips or fits out, or assists in lading, equipping or fitting out, a ship or vessel, with intent that it shall be wilfully...
• Massachusetts General Laws - False invoice of cargo; intent to defraud insurer - Chapter 266, Section 110
  An owner of a ship or vessel, or of property laden or pretended to be laden on board the same, or any other person concerned...
• Massachusetts General Laws - False affidavit or protest; penalty - Chapter 266, Section 111
  A master, officer or mariner of a ship or vessel who makes or causes to be made or swears to a false affidavit or protest,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Insurance policies; penalty for fraudulent claims - Chapter 266, Section 111A
  Whoever, in connection with or in support of any claim under any policy of insurance issued by any company, as defined in section one of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Motor vehicle insurance policies; penalty for fraudulent claims - Chapter 266, Section 111B
  Whoever, in connection with or in support of any application for or claim under any motor vehicle, theft or comprehensive insurance policy issued by an...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fraudulently obtaining benefits under insurance contract; runners; punishment - Chapter 266, Section 111C
  (a) As used in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings:— “Provider”, an attorney, a health care professional licensed pursuant to chapter...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Domestic animals; malicious killing or injury - Chapter 266, Section 112
  Whoever wilfully and maliciously kills, maims or disfigures any horse, cattle or other animal of another person, or wilfully and maliciously administers or exposes poison...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Timber, wood and shrubs; wilful cutting and destruction on land of another - Chapter 266, Section 113
  Whoever wilfully cuts down or destroys timber or wood standing or growing on the land of another, or carries away any kind of timber or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Trees and fences; malicious injury - Chapter 266, Section 114
  Whoever wilfully and maliciously or wantonly breaks glass in a building which is not his own, or whoever wilfully and maliciously breaks down, injures, mars...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Trespass in orchards and gardens - Chapter 266, Section 115
  Whoever wilfully and maliciously enters an orchard, nursery, garden or cranberry meadow, and takes away, mutilates or destroys a tree, shrub or vine, or steals,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1962, 172 - Chapter 266, Section 116
  Repealed, 1962,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Protection of certain flowers - Chapter 266, Section 116A
  No person shall pull up or dig up the plant of a wild azalea, wild orchid or cardinal flower (lobelia cardinalis), or any part thereof,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Orchards and gardens; entry with intent to injure or destroy - Chapter 266, Section 117
  Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right enters upon the orchard, garden or other improved land of another, with intent to cut, take, carry away, destroy...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Domestic animals; trespass on land - Chapter 266, Section 118
  Whoever, having the charge or custody of sheep, goats, cattle, horses, swine or fowl, wilfully suffers or permits them to enter or remain on or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Pests; bringing into state; penalty; exception - Chapter 266, Section 119
  Whoever knowingly brings into the commonwealth, or transports from one town to another therein, any pest referred to in section eleven or twenty-five of chapter...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Entry upon private property after being forbidden as trespass; prima facie evidence; penalties; arrest; tenants or occupants excepted - Chapter 266, Section 120
  Whoever, without right enters or remains in or upon the dwelling house, buildings, boats or improved or enclosed land, wharf, or pier of another, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Motor vehicle; parking on private way; prosecution; evidence - Chapter 266, Section 120A
  In any prosecution for committing the crime of trespass by parking a motor vehicle upon a private way or upon improved or enclosed land, proof...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Entry on land by abutting property owners not constituting trespass - Chapter 266, Section 120B
  Whoever, being the owner of land abutting that of another, the building or buildings on which are so close to the land of such other...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Entry upon adjoining lands by surveyors not constituting trespass - Chapter 266, Section 120C
  Whenever a land surveyor registered under chapter one hundred and twelve deems it reasonably necessary to enter upon adjoining lands to make surveys of any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Removal of motor vehicles from private ways or property; penalties; liability for removal and storage charges; release of vehicle - Chapter 266, Section 120D
  No person shall remove a motor vehicle which is parked or standing on a private way or upon improved or enclosed property unless the operator...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Obstructing entry to or departure from medical facilities; penalties; injunctive relief - Chapter 266, Section 120E
  As used in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings:— “Medical facility”, any medical office, medical clinic, medical laboratory, or hospital. “Notice”,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reproductive health care facilities - Chapter 266, Section 120E1/2
  (a) For the purposes of this section, “reproductive health care facility” means a place, other than within or upon the grounds of a hospital, where...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unauthorized access to computer system; penalties - Chapter 266, Section 120F
  Whoever, without authorization, knowingly accesses a computer system by any means, or after gaining access to a computer system by any means knows that such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Entry on land with firearms - Chapter 266, Section 121
  Whoever, without right, enters upon the land of another with firearms, with intent to fire or discharge them thereon, and, having been requested by the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Trespasses involving motor vehicles and other powered devices - Chapter 266, Section 121A
  Whoever, without right, enters upon the private land of another, whether or not such land be posted against trespass, and in so entering makes use...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notice against trespassers; defacement; penalty - Chapter 266, Section 122
  Whoever wilfully tears down, removes or defaces any notice posted on land, or other property described in section one hundred and twenty, by the owner,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - State land; public institutions; trespass; penalty - Chapter 266, Section 123
  Whoever willfully trespasses upon land or premises belonging to the commonwealth, or to any authority established by the general court for purposes incidental to higher...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Willful trespass upon public source of water, water supply facility or land - Chapter 266, Section 123A
  (a) Whoever willfully trespasses upon any public source of water or public water supply facilities or land after having been forbidden to do so by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Legal notice; penalty for malicious injury - Chapter 266, Section 124
  Whoever wilfully and maliciously, or wantonly and without cause, tears down, removes or defaces a warrant for a town meeting, list of jurors or other...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Show bill or advertisement; penalty for malicious injury - Chapter 266, Section 125
  Whoever wilfully and maliciously removes, destroys or mutilates a show bill, placard, program or other advertisement posted upon a wall, fence, billboard or structure not...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Natural scenery; penalty for defacement - Chapter 266, Section 126
  Whoever paints, or puts upon, or in any manner affixes to, any fence, structure, pole, rock or other object which is public property or the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Defacement of real or personal property; penalties; suspension of driver’s license - Chapter 266, Section 126A
  Whoever intentionally, willfully and maliciously or wantonly, paints, marks, scratches, etches or otherwise marks, injures, mars, defaces or destroys the real or personal property of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Tagging; penalties; suspension of driver’s license - Chapter 266, Section 126B
  Whoever sprays or applies paint or places a sticker upon a building, wall, fence, sign, tablet, gravestone, monument or other object or thing on a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Personal property; malicious or wanton injuries - Chapter 266, Section 127
  Whoever destroys or injures the personal property, dwelling house or building of another in any manner or by any means not particularly described or mentioned...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Destruction of place of worship, etc.; threats; punishment - Chapter 266, Section 127A
  Whoever willfully, intentionally and without right, or wantonly and without cause, destroys, defaces, mars, or injures a church, synagogue or other building, structure or place...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Actions for civil rights violations; liability - Chapter 266, Section 127B
  Any person incurring injury to his person or damage or loss to his property as a result of conduct in violation of section one hundred...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Milk cans; defacement - Chapter 266, Section 128
  Whoever, without the consent of the owner thereof, knowingly and wilfully effaces, alters or covers over, or procures to be effaced, altered or covered over,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Correctional institutions; injury to property - Chapter 266, Section 129
  An inmate of a correctional institution of the commonwealth who wilfully and maliciously destroys or injures the property of the commonwealth at such correctional institution,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penal institutions; injury to property - Chapter 266, Section 130
  Whoever, being a prisoner at a jail or house of correction, wilfully and maliciously injures or destroys any public property or any materials furnished for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sunday trespassers; arrest and detention without warrant - Chapter 266, Section 131
  Whoever is discovered in the act of wilfully injuring a fruit or forest tree or of committing any kind of malicious mischief on Sunday may...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Pigeons; killing or frightening - Chapter 266, Section 132
  Whoever wilfully kills pigeons upon, or frightens them from, beds which have been made for the purpose of taking them in nets, by any method,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Humane society; injury to property - Chapter 266, Section 133
  Whoever unlawfully enters a house, boat house or hut which is the property of the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and wilfully injures,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1962, 285, Sec. 3 - Chapter 266, Section 134
  Repealed, 1962, 285, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Vessels; mooring the buoy, beacon or floating guide; penalty - Chapter 266, Section 135
  Whoever moors or in any manner makes fast a vessel, scow, boat or raft to a buoy, beacon or floating guide placed by the government...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1962, 285, Sec. 3 - Chapter 266, Section 136
  Repealed, 1962, 285, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Injury to mill by raising water - Chapter 266, Section 137
  Whoever, by erecting or maintaining a dam, either within or without the commonwealth, knowingly causes the water of a river or stream so to be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dams or reservoirs; malicious injury - Chapter 266, Section 138
  Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right breaks down, injures, removes or destroys a dam, reservoir, canal or trench, or a gate, flume, flashboards or other...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Irrigation equipment; malicious injury - Chapter 266, Section 138A
  Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right damages or renders unusable machinery or equipment used in the transmission of water for agricultural purposes shall be punished...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Motor vehicles or trailers; defacement, etc., of identifying numbers; penalties; arrests - Chapter 266, Section 139
  (a) Whoever intentionally and maliciously removes, defaces, alters, changes, destroys, obliterates or mutilates or causes to be removed or destroyed or in any way defaced,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Machines, electrical or mechanical devices; alteration or obliteration of identifying numbers; possession; sale; punishment - Chapter 266, Section 139A
  Whoever removes, defaces, alters, changes, destroys, obliterates or mutilates or causes to be removed or destroyed or in any way defaced, altered, changed, obliterated or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale or offer for sale of master keys; penalty - Chapter 266, Section 140
  Whoever sells or offers to sell or solicits offers to purchase a master key designed to fit more than one motor vehicle knowing, or having...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Tampering with odometer of motor vehicle; intent to defraud; civil remedy; treble damages; costs and fees; unfair competition; repair or replacement excepted - Chapter 266, Section 141
  Whoever advertises for sale, sells, uses, installs or has installed any device which causes an odometer to register any mileage other than the true mileage...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Misrepresentation of mileage of motor vehicle by turning back or readjusting speedometer or odometer; criminal penalty - Chapter 266, Section 141A
  Whoever, with the intent to misrepresent to a prospective or eventual purchaser the number of miles traveled by a motor vehicle, turns back or readjusts...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Record of purchases by dealers in scrap copper wire; inspection; penalty - Chapter 266, Section 142
  Whoever is in the business of purchasing copper line wire or scrap copper wire shall enter in a book kept for that purpose a description...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Gold, silver and platinum dealers; records; penalty - Chapter 266, Section 142A
  Whoever is in the business of purchasing gold, silver or platinum shall enter in a book kept for that purpose a description of the item,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions applicable to Secs. 143A to 143H - Chapter 266, Section 143
  As used in sections 143A to 143H, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meanings: “Article” or “recorded device”, the tangible medium upon which...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unauthorized reproduction and transfer of sound recordings - Chapter 266, Section 143A
  Whoever directly or indirectly by any means, knowingly transfers or causes to be transferred any sound recorded on a phonograph record, disc, wire, tape, film,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unauthorized reproduction and sale of live performances - Chapter 266, Section 143B
  Whoever for commercial advantage or private financial gain records or causes to be recorded a live performance with knowledge that such recording is without the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Manufacture, rental, or sale of recorded devices in packaging not bearing reproducer’s name and address - Chapter 266, Section 143C
  Whoever for commercial advantage or private financial gain knowingly manufactures, rents, sells, transports, or causes to be manufactured, rented, sold or transported, or possesses for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application of Secs. 143 to 143C; exceptions - Chapter 266, Section 143D
  (a) Nothing in sections 143A to 143C, inclusive, shall be construed to apply to any person lawfully entitled to use or who causes to be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violations of Secs. 143A to 143C; punishment - Chapter 266, Section 143E
  Whoever violates any provision of section 143A to section 143C, inclusive, shall be punished: (i) by imprisonment for not more than 1 year in the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unlawful recording of motion picture in motion picture theater; punishment - Chapter 266, Section 143F
  (a) Any person, in a motion picture theater while a motion picture is being exhibited, who knowingly operates an audiovisual recording function, with the intent...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Persons detained for possible violation of Sec. 143F; defense to false imprisonment or false arrest action - Chapter 266, Section 143G
  In an action for false arrest or false imprisonment brought by any person, by reason of having been detained for questioning or awaiting the arrival...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Forfeiture of recordings upon conviction for violation of Secs. 143A to 143C or Sec. 143F - Chapter 266, Section 143H
  Upon conviction of a person for a violation of sections 143A to 143C, inclusive, or section 143F, the court may order the forfeiture, destruction or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Carrying away or conversion of certain milk containers without permission of owners - Chapter 266, Section 144
  Whoever, without permission of the owner, carries away or converts to his own use a plastic or wire milk case or a plastic or wire...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Theft of public records - Chapter 266, Section 145
  Any person who intentionally conceals upon his person or otherwise any record of the commonwealth or a political subdivision thereof, as defined in section three...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Disposal of solid waste in commercial disposal container of another without consent of owner; penalties - Chapter 266, Section 146
  For purposes of this section “solid waste” shall mean garbage, refuse, trash, rubbish, sludge, residue or by-products of processing or treatment of discarded material, and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Items or services bearing or identified by counterfeit mark; sales; penalties - Chapter 266, Section 147
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following words shall have the following meanings:— “Counterfeit mark”, any unauthorized reproduction or copy of intellectual property, or...

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