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- Massachusetts General Laws - Dispensing and suppressing unlawful assembly; arresting persons - Chapter 269, Section 1
If five or more persons, being armed with clubs or other dangerous weapons, or if ten or more persons, whether armed or not, are unlawfully,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Refusing or neglecting to depart or to assist in suppressing assembly or in arresting persons - Chapter 269, Section 2
Whoever, being present and being so commanded to assist in arresting such rioters or persons so unlawfully assembled, or in suppressing such riot or unlawful...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Neglect or refusal to exercise authority to suppress assembly - Chapter 269, Section 3
A mayor, alderman, selectman, justice of the peace, sheriff or deputy sheriff who, having notice of any such riotous or tumultuous and unlawful assembly in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Requiring aid; dispersing and suppressing assembly; seizure of persons - Chapter 269, Section 4
If any persons who are so riotously or unlawfully assembled, and who have been commanded to disperse, as before provided, refuse or neglect to disperse...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Armed forces obeying orders for suppressing riot and dispersing and arresting persons - Chapter 269, Section 5
When an armed force, called out under chapter thirty-three to suppress a tumult or riot, or to disperse a body of men acting together by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Person killed or wounded as result of an assembly; guilt and responsibility - Chapter 269, Section 6
If, by reason of the efforts made by any two or more of said magistrates or officers or by their direction to disperse such assembly,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Injury to building or vessel by persons unlawfully assembled; punishment; liability - Chapter 269, Section 7
If any of the persons so unlawfully assembled demolishes, pulls down or destroys, or begins to demolish, pull down or destroy, a dwelling house or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Destruction of or damage to property by persons riotously assembled; liability of town; recovery - Chapter 269, Section 8
If property of the value of fifty dollars or more is destroyed or if property is damaged to that amount or to a value in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1923, 248, Sec. 2 - Chapter 269, Section 9
Chapter 269: Section 9. Repealed, 1923, 248, Sec. 2
- Massachusetts General Laws - Carrying dangerous weapons; possession of machine gun or sawed-off shotguns - Chapter 269, Section 10
(a) Whoever, except as provided or exempted by statute, knowingly has in his possession; or knowingly has under his control in a vehicle; a firearm,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Selling, giving or using silencers; penalty; confiscation and destruction - Chapter 269, Section 10A
Any person, other than a federally licensed firearms manufacturer, an authorized agent of the municipal police training committee, or a duly authorized sworn law enforcement...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1957, 688, Sec. 25 - Chapter 269, Section 10B
Chapter 269: Section 10B. Repealed, 1957, 688, Sec. 25
- Massachusetts General Laws - Use of tear gas, etc., in commission of crime; penalty - Chapter 269, Section 10C
Whoever uses tear gas cartridges, or any device or instrument which contains a liquid, gas, powder, or any other substance designed to incapacitate for the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Use or wearing of body armor in commission of crime - Chapter 269, Section 10D
Whoever, while in the commission or attempted commission of a felony, uses or wears any body armor, so-called, or any protective covering for the body...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Firearms sales; penalties; eligibility for probation, parole, furlough or work release - Chapter 269, Section 10E
Whoever, except as provided by law, in a single transaction or occurrence or in a series of transactions within a twelve month period, knowingly or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Printing statutes for posters; sending copies to clerks and superintendents of schools in cities and towns; duties; costs - Chapter 269, Section 11
The state secretary shall, annually, cause to be printed, in English and in such other languages as he may deem necessary, and in large letters...
Tampering With Identifying Numbers of Certain Firearms.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 269, Section 11A
For the purposes of this section and sections eleven B, eleven C and eleven D, the following words shall have the following meanings:— “Firearm”, a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Possession or control of firearm with serial or identification number removed or mutilated, while committing or attempting a felony; destruction - Chapter 269, Section 11B
Whoever, while in the commission or attempted commission of a felony, has in his possession or under his control a firearm the serial number or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Removal or mutilation of serial or identification numbers of firearms; receiving such firearm; possession or control as evidence; destruction - Chapter 269, Section 11C
Whoever, by himself or another, removes, defaces, alters, obliterates or mutilates in any manner the serial number or identification number of a firearm, or in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1957, 688, Sec. 29 - Chapter 269, Section 11D
Chapter 269: Section 11D. Repealed, 1957, 688, Sec. 29
- Massachusetts General Laws - Serial identification numbers on firearms; penalty - Chapter 269, Section 11E
All firearms, rifles and shotguns of new manufacture, manufactured or delivered to any licensed dealer within the commonwealth shall bear serial numbers permanently inscribed on...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Manufacturing and selling knives, slung shots, swords, bludgeons and similar weapons; punishment - Chapter 269, Section 12
Whoever manufactures or causes to be manufactured, or sells or exposes for sale, an instrument or weapon of the kind usually known as a dirk...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Selling or furnishing air rifle to minor - Chapter 269, Section 12A
Whoever sells to a minor under the age of eighteen or whoever, not being the parent, guardian or adult teacher or instructor, furnishes to a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Possession of air rifle by minor under eighteen; shooting air rifle; disposition on conviction for violation - Chapter 269, Section 12B
No minor under the age of eighteen shall have an air rifle or so-called BB gun in his possession while in any place to which...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1957, 688, Sec. 32 - Chapter 269, Section 12C
Chapter 269: Section 12C. Repealed, 1957, 688, Sec. 32
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rifle or shotgun loaded with shells or cartridges; carrying on public way prohibited; exceptions; punishment for violation - Chapter 269, Section 12D
(a) Except as exempted or provided by law, no person shall carry on his person on any public way a loaded rifle or shotgun having...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Discharge of a firearm within 500 feet of a dwelling or other building in use; exceptions - Chapter 269, Section 12E
Whoever discharges a firearm as defined in section one hundred and twenty-one of chapter one hundred and forty, a rifle or shotgun within five hundred...
- Massachusetts General Laws - False alarms of fire - Chapter 269, Section 13
Whoever, without reasonable cause, by outcry or the ringing of bells, or otherwise, makes or circulates or causes to be made or circulated a false...
- Massachusetts General Laws - False reports to police officers - Chapter 269, Section 13A
Whoever intentionally and knowingly makes or causes to be made a false report of a crime to police officers shall be punished by a fine...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Explosives or other dangerous substance or contrivance; false reports as to location; punishment - Chapter 269, Section 14
(a) For the purposes of this section, the following words shall have the following meanings:— “Hijack”, to commandeer or to take control without authority. “School”,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Annoying telephone calls - Chapter 269, Section 14A
Whoever telephones another person, or causes any person to be telephoned, repeatedly, for the sole purpose of harassing, annoying or molesting such person or his...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of stink bombs - Chapter 269, Section 15
Whoever sells or offers for sale a stink bomb shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than two hundred...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of broadheads, razorheads, or other hunting arrowheads - Chapter 269, Section 16
Whoever sells or offers for sale devices known as broadheads, razorheads, or any other arrowhead used exclusively for hunting purposes to any person under fifteen...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Hazing; organizing or participating; hazing defined - Chapter 269, Section 17
Whoever is a principal organizer or participant in the crime of hazing, as defined herein, shall be punished by a fine of not more than...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Failure to report hazing - Chapter 269, Section 18
Whoever knows that another person is the victim of hazing as defined in section seventeen and is at the scene of such crime shall, to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Copy of secs. 17—19; issuance to students and student groups, teams and organizations; report - Chapter 269, Section 19
Each institution of secondary education and each public and private institution of post secondary education shall issue to every student group, student team or student...
Last modified: March 17, 2010
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