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- Massachusetts General Laws - Gaming or betting; forfeiture; limitations - Chapter 271, Section 1
Whoever, on a prosecution commenced within eighteen months after the commission of the crime, is convicted of winning at one time or sitting, by gaming...
- Massachusetts General Laws - "House", "building" and "place" including ship or vessel - Chapter 271, Section 1A
The words “house”, “building” and “place” used severally or together in this chapter shall mean and include a ship or vessel when it is within...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Gaming or betting in public conveyance or place or while trespassing in private place; arrest without warrant - Chapter 271, Section 2
Whoever, in a public conveyance or public place, or in a private place upon which he is trespassing, plays at cards, dice or any other...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Innholders and others keeping or suffering implements to be used for gaming or suffering a person to game; recognizance for good behavior - Chapter 271, Section 3
Every innholder, common victualler or person keeping or suffering to be kept in any place occupied by him implements such as are used in gaming,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Gaming in inns and other occupied places; use of billiard table, bowling alley or other implement for gaming - Chapter 271, Section 4
Whoever, in any place mentioned in the preceding section, for the purpose of gaming for money or other property, uses or takes part in using...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Keeping, or playing or presence in, common gaming, lottery, pool or betting houses; keeping tables or apparatus for gaming - Chapter 271, Section 5
Whoever keeps or assists in keeping a common gaming house, or building or place occupied, used or kept for the purposes described in section twenty-three,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Gambling devices; forfeiture; antique slot machines - Chapter 271, Section 5A
Whoever manufactures, transports, sells, offers for sale, stores, displays, repairs, reconditions, possesses or uses any gambling device or parts for use therein shall be punished...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Gaming relative to cattle shows, military muster or public gathering; arrest without warrant - Chapter 271, Section 6
Whoever, during or within twelve hours of the time of holding a cattle show, military muster or public gathering, within one mile of the place...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Plans under which purchasers agree to obtain more purchasers; injunction; receivers - Chapter 271, Section 6A
Whoever sets up or promotes a plan by which goods or anything of value is sold to a person for a consideration and upon the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Skilo and similar games - Chapter 271, Section 6B
Whoever, except as provided in section twenty-two B, sets up or promotes the game commonly known as skilo or any similar game regardless of name,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1998, 1 - Chapter 271, Section 6C
Chapter 271: Section 6C. Repealed, 1998, 1
- Massachusetts General Laws - Lotteries; disposal of property by chance - Chapter 271, Section 7
Whoever sets up or promotes a lottery for money or other property of value, or by way of lottery disposes of any property of value,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Raffles and bazaars; conduct by certain organizations; permit; reports; tax - Chapter 271, Section 7A
In this section the following words shall have the following meanings: “Raffle”, an arrangement for raising money by the sale of tickets, certain among which,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Permitting lotteries, raffles and games of chance in buildings - Chapter 271, Section 8
Whoever, in a house, shop or building owned or occupied by him or under his control, knowingly permits the setting up, managing or drawing of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Selling, exchanging or possessing lottery tickets or tokens or a share in a lottery - Chapter 271, Section 9
Whoever, for himself or for another, sells or offers for sale or has in his possession with intent to sell or offer for sale, or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Conviction on subsequent offenses within five years - Chapter 271, Section 10
Whoever, within five years after being convicted of any offence mentioned in section five, seven, eight, nine, eleven, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen or seventeen A, commits...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Arrest without warrant - Chapter 271, Section 10A
Any person who is discovered by a police officer in the act of violating section seven, eight, nine, twelve, sixteen, seventeen, seventeen A, eighteen or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Advertising lottery tickets or tokens, inviting purchases or indicating where obtainable - Chapter 271, Section 11
Whoever, himself or by another, advertises a lottery ticket or a share in such ticket for sale, or sets up or exhibits, or devises or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Making, sale and possession of, or receipt of money for, false lottery tickets, tokens or share in lottery - Chapter 271, Section 12
Whoever makes or sells, or has in his possession with intent to sell, exchange or negotiate, or by printing, writing or otherwise assists in making...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Lottery tickets, tokens or shares deemed false - Chapter 271, Section 13
Upon the trial of a person charged with any of the crimes mentioned in the preceding section, a ticket or share of a ticket, or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Forfeiture of money, prizes, or shares of lotteries and other property disposed of by chance; recovery - Chapter 271, Section 14
Money or other thing of value drawn as a prize or share thereof in a lottery, and all property disposed of or offered to be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Aiding in setting up a lottery for money drawn out of commonwealth - Chapter 271, Section 15
Whoever, except as provided in section five of chapter one hundred and twenty-eight A, aids, either by printing or writing, or is in any way...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sale or possession of ticket of lottery described in sec. 15 - Chapter 271, Section 16
Whoever sells, for himself or another, or offers for sale or has in his possession with intent so to do or to exchange or negotiate,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Organizing or promoting gambling facilities or services - Chapter 271, Section 16A
Whoever knowingly organizes, supervises, manages or finances at least four persons so that such persons may provide facilities or services or assist in the provision...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Keeping of, presence in, or permitting, a place for registering bets or dealing in pools; custodian or depository - Chapter 271, Section 17
Whoever keeps a building or room, or any part thereof, or occupies, or is found in, any place, way, public or private, park or parkway,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Telephones; use for gaming purposes; penalty - Chapter 271, Section 17A
[ Text of section effective until December 31, 2009. See 2001, 139, Sec. 45 as amended by 2005, 176, Sec. 13; 2006, 54, Sec. 12;...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Use of communications for unlawful purposes; demand of telephone company records by attorney general - Chapter 271, Section 17B
[ Text of section effective until April 10, 2007. For text effective April 10, 2007, see below.]Whenever the attorney general or a district attorney has...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Policy lotteries or shops; making, delivering or possessing a lottery ticket or token; receipt of money or thing of value - Chapter 271, Section 18
Whoever keeps, sets up, promotes or is concerned as owner, agent, clerk or in any other manner, in managing a policy lottery or policy shop,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Making, advertising or delivering ticket or receipt of money or thing of value as prima facie evidence - Chapter 271, Section 19
The printing, writing, advertising, issuing or delivery of any ticket, paper, document or other article or material representing or purporting to represent the existence of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Tickets, memoranda, books and sheets as nuisance; possession unlawful; possession and concealment as evidence - Chapter 271, Section 20
All lottery, policy or pool tickets, slips or checks, memoranda of any combination or other bet, manifold or other policy or pool books or sheets,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Words, figures or characters referring to horse, jockey or contest, or odds or bets as prima facie evidence; proof by copy or description - Chapter 271, Section 21
In a prosecution or proceeding relative to lotteries, policy lotteries or policy, buying and selling pools or registered bets, any words, figures or characters, written,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Delivery to or from a person engaged in a lottery or other gaming - Chapter 271, Section 22
Whoever receives a letter, package or parcel for delivery to or transportation from a person, or delivers or transports the same to or from a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Whist or bridge for charitable and similar purposes - Chapter 271, Section 22A
Nothing in this chapter shall authorize the prosecution, arrest or conviction of any person for conducting or promoting, or for allowing to be conducted or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Beano; sale of lottery tickets - Chapter 271, Section 22B
Nothing in this chapter shall authorize the prosecution, arrest or conviction of any person for promoting or playing, or for allowing to be conducted, promoted...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Oath and warrant to enter a gaming or lottery place, arrest persons and seize implements and materials; disposal of articles - Chapter 271, Section 23
If a person makes oath before a district court or justice of the peace authorized to issue warrants in criminal cases that he suspects or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Owners, proprietors of, or persons present at, race tracks - Chapter 271, Section 24
This chapter shall not authorize the arrest or conviction of the owner or proprietor of a race track or trotting course for the reason that...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Removal of obstructions barring access to gaming places; lien of expense - Chapter 271, Section 25
If a captain of police in Boston or marshal or chief of police in any other city or town in the commonwealth finds that access...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Subsequent obstructions; removal; punishment; lien - Chapter 271, Section 26
If, within one year after removal of said obstruction, the premises are again obstructed as above defined, the captain of police or marshal or chief...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Judicial notice of methods and character of lotteries, policy games, pools and betting; tickets and other articles prima facie evidence - Chapter 271, Section 27
Any court or magistrate having criminal jurisdiction may take judicial notice of the general methods and character of lotteries, policy lotteries or the game called...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Complaints and indictments relative to lotteries or gaming; misnomer; sufficiency; variance - Chapter 271, Section 28
No plea of misnomer shall be received to a complaint or indictment for violation of any law relative to lotteries, policy lotteries or policy, the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Representation that a thing other than subject of sale is to be delivered; stamps and other devices entitling purchaser to other property - Chapter 271, Section 29
Whoever sells, exchanges or disposes of any property, or offers or attempts so to do, upon a representation, advertisement, notice or inducement that anything other...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sale or delivery of trading stamps or similar devices - Chapter 271, Section 30
Whoever, in connection with the sale of any article or any merchandise whatsoever, sells, gives or delivers any trading stamps, checks, coupons or similar devices...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Racing horses for bets or stakes - Chapter 271, Section 31
Whoever, except in trials of speed of horses for premiums offered by legally constituted agricultural societies, or by corporations authorized thereto by section fourteen of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Racing results or information; transmission for unlawful purposes; penalty - Chapter 271, Section 31A
Whoever transmits the results of a race, or information as to the progress of a race during the running thereof, in a racing meeting as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Competing with horse disguised or different from one purported to be; horse in improper class - Chapter 271, Section 32
Whoever, for the purpose of competing for a purse or premium offered by an agricultural society, or by a person or association in the commonwealth,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Race grounds in towns; consent; regulations; discontinuance; unlawful use - Chapter 271, Section 33
No land within a town shall be laid out or used as a race ground or trotting park without the previous consent of and location...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Race grounds as nuisance; abatement; punishment - Chapter 271, Section 34
Every race ground or trotting park established, laid out, used or continued in use contrary to this chapter is declared a common nuisance and may...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definition of words and phrases used in secs. 35[38 - Chapter 271, Section 35
The following words and phrases used in this and the three following sections of this chapter shall, unless a different meaning is required by the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Making contracts of bucketing; keeper of shop; dissolution of corporation; restraint from doing business - Chapter 271, Section 36
Whoever makes, or offers to make, any contract of bucketing or bucket-shopping, or who is the keeper of any bucket shop, shall be punished by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Quotations of prices for prohibited contracts - Chapter 271, Section 37
Whoever shall communicate, receive, exhibit or display in any manner any statement of quotations of prices of any securities or commodities with an intent to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Written statements relative to purchases and sales of securities or commodities; refusal as prima facie evidence of bucketing - Chapter 271, Section 38
Every person shall furnish, upon demand, to any customer or principal for whom such person has executed any order for the actual purchase or sale...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Gifts to influence business affairs; threats; penalty - Chapter 271, Section 39
(a) Whoever, in relation to any transaction or matter concerning the business affairs of an employer, principal or beneficiary (1) offers, gives or agrees to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Gifts to influence action of participants in, and others connected with, a game or contest - Chapter 271, Section 39A
Whoever gives, promises or offers to any professional or amateur baseball, football, hockey, polo, tennis or basketball player or any boxer or any player who...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Appointment, retention or discharge of employee of public service corporation or racing licensee on recommendation of public officer, officer elect or candidate - Chapter 271, Section 40
No railroad, street railway, electric light, gas, telegraph, telephone, water or steamboat company, and no licensee conducting a horse or dog racing meeting under chapter...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Offices not public offices under sec. 40 - Chapter 271, Section 41
The offices of probation officer, notary public, justice of the peace, prison officer, agent of the commissioner of correction and agent of the department of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Betting or selling pools on boxing matches or exhibitions - Chapter 271, Section 42
Whoever bets or wagers or sells pools on any boxing or sparring match or exhibition shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than three...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Soliciting, disclosing, receiving or making use of information concerning public assistance - Chapter 271, Section 43
Any person who, except for purposes directly connected with the administration of general public assistance, old age assistance, aid to the blind, or aid to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Settlement, release or statement by person in hospital; admissibility; reference to at trial; validity - Chapter 271, Section 44
Except as provided below, no settlement or general release or statement in writing signed by any person confined in a hospital or sanitarium as a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1982, 21, Sec. 2 - Chapter 271, Section 45
Chapter 271: Section 45. Repealed, 1982, 21, Sec. 2
- Massachusetts General Laws - Removal of doors from discarded containers originally used for refrigerative purposes - Chapter 271, Section 46
Whoever fails to remove the door or doors from a container originally used for refrigerative purposes before discarding it, or setting it aside for failure...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Telephones; gambling; reinstallation; notices of convictions and removals - Chapter 271, Section 47
A telephone shall not be installed for a person convicted of an illegal gaming activity under this chapter without the approval in writing of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Schools or persons offering civil service preparatory courses; advertisement - Chapter 271, Section 48
Any school or person offering courses in preparation for civil service examinations shall cause to be printed in bold type on all its advertisements and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Criminal usury - Chapter 271, Section 49
(a) Whoever in exchange for either a loan of money or other property knowingly contracts for, charges, takes or receives, directly or indirectly, interest and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of research papers, etc. and taking of examinations for another at educational institutions - Chapter 271, Section 50
Whoever, alone or in concert with others, sells to another, or arranges for or assists in such sale for another, a theme, term paper, thesis...
Last modified: March 17, 2010
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