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Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Chastity, Morality, Decency and Good Order - Chapter 272Legal Research Home > Massachusetts Lawyer > Crimes Against Chastity, Morality, Decency and Good Order > Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Chastity, Morality, Decency and Good Order - Chapter 272 Sponsored Links Enticing away person under 16 for marriage . Section 1. Whoever fraudulently and deceitfully entices or takes away an unmarried person under sixteen from the ...
Enticing away person for prostitution or sexual intercourse . Section 2. Whoever fraudulently and deceitfully entices or takes away a person from the house of ...
Drugging persons for sexual intercourse . Section 3. Whoever applies, administers to or causes to be taken by a person any drug, matter or thing ...
Inducing person under eighteen to have sexual intercourse . Section 4. Whoever induces any person under 18 years of age of chaste life to have ...
Inducing minor into prostitution . Section 4A. Whoever induces a minor to become a prostitute, or who knowingly aids and assists in such inducement, shall ...
Living off or sharing earnings of minor prostitute . Section 4B. Whoever lives or derives support or maintenance, in whole or in part, from the ...
Repealed, 1987, 522, Sec. 22 . ...
Owner of place inducing or suffering person to resort in such place for sexual intercourse . Section 6. Whoever, being the owner of a place ...
Support from, or sharing, earnings of prostitute . Section 7. Whoever, knowing a person to be a prostitute, shall live or derive support or maintenance, ...
Soliciting for prostitute . Section 8. Whoever shall solicit or receive compensation for soliciting for a prostitute shall be punished by imprisonment in the house ...
Oath and warrant to enter place for prostitution; detention of person in control and prostitute; recognizance to appear as witness . Section 9. If a ...
Arrest without warrant . Section 10. Nothing in the preceding section shall prevent the arrest and detention without a warrant of any person who, the ...
Corroboration of one witness; limitations . Section 11. A person shall not be convicted under sections 2, 4 and 6 upon the evidence of one ...
Procuring person to practice, or enter a place for, prostitution; employment office procuring person . Section 12. Whoever knowingly procures, entices, sends, or aids or ...
Detaining, or drugging to detain, person in place for prostitution . Section 13. Whoever, for any length of time, unlawfully detains or attempts to detain, ...
Adultery . Section 14. A married person who has sexual intercourse with a person not his spouse or an unmarried person who has sexual intercourse ...
Polygamy . Section 15. Whoever, having a former husband or wife living, marries another person or continues to cohabit with a second husband or wife ...
Open and gross lewdness and lascivious behavior . Section 16. A man or woman, married or unmarried, who is guilty of open and gross lewdness ...
Incestuous marriage or sexual activities . Section 17. Persons within degrees of consanguinity within which marriages are prohibited or declared by law to be incestuous ...
Fornication . Section 18. Whoever commits fornication shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than three months or by a fine of not more ...
Procuring miscarriage . Section 19. Whoever, with intent to procure the miscarriage of a woman, unlawfully administers to her, or advises or prescribes for her, ...
Advertising relative to miscarriage or prevention of pregnancy . Section 20. Except as provided in section twenty-one A, whoever knowingly advertises, prints, publishes, distributes or ...
Instruments or other articles for self-abuse, prevention of conception or abortion, in general . Section 21. Except as provided in section twenty-one A, whoever sells, ...
Furnishing drugs, articles or information for prevention of pregnancy or conception . Section 21A. A registered physician may administer to or prescribe for any married ...
Privately controlled hospital or health facility; abortion or sterilization procedures; contraceptive devices and family planning services . Section 21B. No privately controlled hospital or other ...
Concealment of death of child born out of wedlock . Section 22. A parent who conceals the death of the issue of such parent, which ...
Joinder of charges of murder and offense under Sec. 22 . Section 23. A parent indicted for murder of the infant child born out of ...
Keeping house of ill fame . Section 24. Whoever keeps a house of ill fame which is resorted to for prostitution or lewdness shall be ...
Obstructing view of restaurant or tavern patrons; barricaded entrances . Section 25. Any person owning, managing or controlling a restaurant, tavern or other place in ...
Resorting to restaurants or taverns for immoral purposes . Section 26. Whoever, for the purpose of immoral solicitation or immoral bargaining, shall resort to any ...
Record of convictions under Sec. 25 or Sec. 26 sent to licensing officers . Section 27. The clerk of the court in which any person ...
Matter harmful to minors, dissemination; possession; defenses . Section 28. Whoever disseminates to a minor any matter harmful to minors, as defined in section thirty-one, ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Chastity, Morality, Decency and Good Order - Chapter 272, Section 28A, 28B Repealed, 1974, 430, Sec. 2 . ...
Information or petition against obscene books; order of notice to show cause; notice of order; interlocutory adjudication; defense . Section 28C. Whenever there is reasonable ...
Answer to notice; right to jury trial . Section 28D. Any person interested in the dissemination of said book may appear and file an answer ...
Order of default; adjudication . Section 28E. If no person appears and answers within the time allowed, the court may at once upon motion of ...
Hearing; evidence; adjudication . Section 28F. If an appearance is entered and answer filed, the case shall be set down for speedy hearing, but a ...
Objection that mere judgment sought and no relief claimed on issue of knowledge . Section 28G. An information or petition in equity under the provisions ...
Proceeding under Sec. 28C as evidence in trial under Sec. 29; presumptions as to knowledge . Section 28H. In any trial under section twenty-nine on ...
Certain procedures as condition precedent to institution of proceedings for dissemination of obscene books . Section 28I. The procedures set forth in sections twenty-eight C, ...
Dissemination or possession of obscene matter; punishment; defense . Section 29. Whoever disseminates any matter which is obscene, knowing it to be obscene, or whoever ...
Posing or exhibiting child in state of nudity or sexual conduct; punishment . Section 29A. (a) Whoever, either with knowledge that a person is a ...
Dissemination of visual material of child in state of nudity or sexual conduct; punishment . Section 29B. (a) Whoever, with lascivious intent, disseminates any visual ...
Knowing purchase or possession of visual material of child depicted in sexual conduct; punishment . Section 29C. Whoever knowingly purchases or possesses a negative, slide, ...
Injunctive relief against dissemination of obscene matter; jurisdiction; procedures; appeal . Section 30. The superior court shall have jurisdiction to enjoin the dissemination of any ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Chastity, Morality, Decency and Good Order - Chapter 272, Section 30A to 30C Repealed, 1974, 430, Sec. 11 . ...
Dissemination of visual material of child in state of nudity or sexual conduct; injunction; jurisdiction . Section 30D. The superior court shall also have jurisdiction ...
Definitions . Section 31. As used in sections twenty-eight, twenty-eight C, twenty-eight D, twenty-eight E, twenty-nine, twenty-nine A, twenty-nine B, thirty and thirty D, the ...
Motion picture theater managers or operators; applicability of Sec. 28, 29 and 29A . Section 32. The provisions of sections twenty-eight, twenty-nine and twenty-nine A ...
Exhibition of deformities . Section 33. Whoever exhibits for hire an albino person, a minor or mentally ill person who is deformed or a person ...
Crime against nature . Section 34. Whoever commits the abominable and detestable crime against nature, either with mankind or with a beast, shall be punished ...
Unnatural and lascivious acts . Section 35. Whoever commits any unnatural and lascivious act with another person shall be punished by a fine of not ...
Unnatural and lascivious acts with child under 16 . Section 35A. Whoever commits any unnatural and lascivious act with a child under the age of ...
Blasphemy . Section 36. Whoever wilfully blasphemes the holy name of God by denying, cursing or contumeliously reproaching God, his creation, government or final judging ...
Sporting events; penalty for abuse of participants and officials . Section 36A. Whoever, having arrived at the age of sixteen years, directs any profane, obscene ...
Repealed, 1962, 285, Sec. 4 . ...
Disturbance of assembly for worship . Section 38. Whoever wilfully interrupts or disturbs an assembly of people met for worship of God shall be punished ...
Selling goods and provisions, caring for horses, gaming, horse racing or exhibits near camp meetings . Section 39. Whoever, during the time of holding a ...
Disturbance of schools or assemblies . Section 40. Whoever wilfully interrupts or disturbs a school or other assembly of people met for a lawful purpose ...
Alcoholic beverages; gift, sale, delivery or possession on public school premises . Section 40A. Whoever gives, sells, delivers or has in his possession any alcoholic ...
Disturbance of libraries . Section 41. Whoever wilfully disturbs persons assembled in a public library, or a reading room connected therewith, by making a noise ...
Disturbance of funerals . Section 42. Whoever wilfully interrupts or by fast driving or otherwise in any way disturbs a funeral assembly or procession shall ...
Disturbance of funeral services . Section 42A. Whoever pickets, loiters or otherwise creates a disturbance within five hundred feet of a funeral home, church or ...
Disorderliness in public conveyances; disturbance of travelers . Section 43. Whoever, in or upon a railroad carriage, steamboat or other public conveyance, is disorderly, or ...
Smoking in public conveyances and transportation terminals . Section 43A. Whoever, in or upon a railroad carriage, steamboat, or other public conveyance, or in a ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Chastity, Morality, Decency and Good Order - Chapter 272, Section 44 to 50 Repealed, 1971, 1076, Sec. 11 . ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Chastity, Morality, Decency and Good Order - Chapter 272, Section 51, 52 Repealed, 1957, 660, Sec. 2 . ...
Penalty for certain offenses . Section 53. Common night walkers, common street walkers, both male and female, common railers and brawlers, persons who with offensive ...
Engaging in sexual conduct for a fee; penalty . Section 53A. Any person who engages, agrees to engage, or offers to engage in sexual conduct ...
Apprehension for certain offences, without warrant; custody . Section 54. Whoever is found in a public way or other public place, committing any offence or ...
Repealed, 1928, 155, Sec. 58 . ...
Subsequent offenses; breach of recognizance on appeal . Section 56. If a person convicted under section fifty-three appeals from the sentence, the commission of any ...
Discharge upon recognizance; payment of expenses of prosecution . Section 57. When a person is brought before a magistrate upon a charge of any offence ...
Employing or permitting employment of minor under 15 to beg . Section 58. A parent or other person who employs a minor under fifteen in ...
Ordinances or regulations relating to streets, reservations, or parkways; alcoholic beverages; profanity; arrest without warrant . Section 59. Whoever remains in a street or elsewhere ...
Disposal of rubbish, etc.; refusal to remove; arrest without warrant . Section 60. Whoever commits a misdemeanor, as defined by a by-law, regulation or ordinance ...
Conviction after discharge from sentence under Sec. 53 . Section 61. Whoever, having been discharged under section one hundred and forty of chapter one hundred ...
Third conviction of being a common nightwalker . Section 62. If a complaint charges a person with being a common nightwalker, and it is proved ...
Tramps; begging or riding freight trains as prima facie evidence . Section 63. Whoever, not being under seventeen, or a person asking charity within his ...
Tramps; punishment; entering buildings; injuries to or threats against persons or property; carrying weapons . Section 64. A tramp shall be punished by imprisonment in ...
Arrest of tramps without warrant; making complaint . Section 65. A sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable or police officer, upon view or information of an offence ...
Vagrants . Section 66. Persons wandering abroad and begging, or who go about from door to door or in public or private ways, areas to ...
Vagrants; arrest without warrant; taking before court; complaint . Section 67. Sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, constables and police officers, acting on the request of any person ...
Vagabonds . Section 68. A person known to be a pickpocket, thief or burglar, if acting in a suspicious manner around any steamboat landing, railroad ...
Vagabonds; arrest without warrant; taking before court; complaint . Section 69. Sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, constables and police officers shall take any such vagabond into custody ...
Taking dead body on process or execution . Section 70. A sheriff, deputy sheriff or constable who takes the body of a deceased person on ...
Disinterring bodies . Section 71. Whoever, not being lawfully authorized by the proper authorities, wilfully digs up, disinters, removes or conveys away a human body, ...
Buying, selling or possessing dead bodies . Section 72. Whoever buys or sells, or has in his possession for the purpose of buying, selling or ...
Tombs, graves, memorials, trees, plants; injuring, removing . Section 73. Whoever wilfully destroys, mutilates, defaces, injures or removes a tomb, monument, gravestone, veteran’s grave marker ...
Removal of gravestones and other memorials for repair or reproduction . Section 73A. In any city or town which accepts this section, the provisions of ...
Desecrating place of burial; use and occupation as evidence of title . Section 74. Whoever wrongfully, and by any act not included in the preceding ...
Removal of flowers, flags or memorial tokens from burial lot . Section 75. Whoever, without authority, removes flowers, flags or memorial tokens from any grave, ...
Ways, railroads, canals or public easements through burial grounds . Section 76. Whoever lays out, opens, or makes a highway or town way, or constructs ...
Cruelty to animals . Section 77. Whoever overdrives, overloads, drives when overloaded, overworks, tortures, torments, deprives of necessary sustenance, cruelly beats, mutilates or kills an ...
Willfully injuring police dogs and horses . Section 77A. Whoever willfully tortures, torments, beats, kicks, strikes, mutilates, injures, disables or otherwise mistreats, a dog or ...
Exhibition of wild animals . Section 77B. No person shall exhibit or sponsor an exhibition of any wild animal for the purpose of attracting trade ...
Selling, leading, or using horses not fit for work; forfeiture of auctioneer’s license . Section 78. No person holding an auctioneer’s license shall receive or ...
Sale of foals under five months; penalty . Section 78A. No person shall sell, offer for sale or otherwise dispose of any foal under five ...
Corporation’s responsibility under Sec. 77 or Sec. 78 . Section 79. A corporation violating either of the two preceding sections shall be punished by a ...
Cutting bones or muscles to dock or set tail of horse; wound as evidence . Section 79A. Whoever cuts the bone of the tail of ...
Exhibiting horse with tail cut under Sec. 79A; affidavit as to cutting in state where not prohibited; inspection . Section 79B. Whoever shows or exhibits ...
Repealed, 1934, 234, Sec. 1 . ...
Cropping or cutting off ear of dog; wound as prima facie evidence . Section 80A. Whoever, not being a veterinarian duly registered under chapter one ...
Exhibiting dogs with ears cropped or cut off . Section 80B. Whoever shows or exhibits or procures to be shown or exhibited at any dog ...
Taking cat, dog or bird to exhibit it, subject it to experimentation or mutilation, or to sell it for such purposes; application of law . ...
Living rabbits, baby chickens, ducklings or other fowl; sale, barter or gift . Section 80D. No person shall sell, offer for sale, barter or give ...
Use of decompression chambers for putting animals to death . Section 80E. Whoever puts any animal to death by the use of a decompression chamber ...
Giving away live animals as prize or award . Section 80F. No person shall offer or give away any live animal as a prize or ...
Experiments on vertebrates; vivisection, dissection of animals; care . Section 80G. No school principal, administrator or teacher shall allow any live vertebrate to be used ...
Motor vehicles; striking, injuring or killing dogs or cats . Section 80H. The operator of a motor vehicle that strikes and injures or kills a ...
Rest, water and feed for transported animals; lien; liability for detention . Section 81. Railroad corporations shall not permit animals carried or transported by them ...
Arrest without warrant for violation of Sec. 77 or 81; notice; care of animals; lien . Section 82. A person found violating any provision of ...
Complaint, warrant and search relative to cruelty to animals . Section 83. If complaint is made to a court or magistrate authorized to issue warrants ...
Prosecutions under Secs. 77 to 81 . Section 84. Sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, constables and police officers shall prosecute all violations of sections seventy-seven to eighty-one, ...
Repealed, 1951, 34, Sec. 2 . ...
Injuring, taking away or harboring domesticated animals or birds; removal of dog license tag, collar or harness; imitation tag . Section 85A. Whoever with wrongful ...
Stabling horses or mules on second or higher floors, in places other than cities . Section 86. No person shall stable a horse or mule ...
Stabling horses and mules above first floor; exceeding six; fire exits . Section 86A. No person shall stable a horse or mule above the first ...
Stabling horses or mules exceeding fifteen . Section 86B. No person shall stable horses or mules exceeding fifteen in all at any one time in ...
Smoking in buildings used for stabling horses or mules . Section 86C. No person shall have a lighted cigarette, cigar or pipe in his possession ...
Pails of water and sand in buildings used for stables . Section 86D. On every floor of a building not equipped with an automatic sprinkler ...
Entry upon premises to enforce Secs. 86A to 86D; orders . Section 86E. The chief of the fire department or any person designated by him ...
Violation of Secs. 86 to 86D; refusal or neglect to comply with Sec. 86E orders . Section 86F. Whoever violates any provision of sections eighty-six ...
Keeping or using birds to be shot at; shooting them; permitting premises to be used for shooting . Section 87. Whoever keeps or uses any ...
Complaints and warrants relative to fighting animals; searches; arrests . Section 88. If complaint is made to a court or magistrate authorized to issue warrants ...
Exhibition place of fighting animals; entry without warrant; arrests; seizure of animals . Section 89. Any officer authorized to serve criminal process, or any special ...
Custody of arrested persons; time limitation . Section 90. Persons arrested under either of the two preceding sections shall be kept in jail or other ...
Application for decree of forfeiture; notice; hearing; adjudication; returning or killing of animals . Section 91. After such seizure and removal of such birds, dogs ...
Appeal; recognizance; custody and disposition of animals . Section 92. An owner or claimant aggrieved by such judgment may, within twenty-four hours after the entry ...
Advertisement, book, notice or sign relative to discrimination; definition of place of public accommodation, resort or amusement . Section 92A. No owner, lessee, proprietor, manager, ...
Expenses of care and destruction of fighting animals . Section 93. The necessary expenses incurred in the care and destruction of such birds, dogs and ...
Owning, possessing or training fighting animals; establishing or promoting exhibition . Section 94. Whoever owns, possesses, keeps or trains a bird, dog or other animal, ...
Aiding or being present at exhibition of fighting animals . Section 95. Whoever is present at any place, building or tenement where preparations are being ...
False notice of birth, marriage or death . Section 96. Whoever wilfully sends to the publisher of a newspaper for publication a false notice of ...
Repealed, 1962, 285, Sec. 4 . ...
Demands, notices or other documents resembling court process; complaint; order to discontinue . Section 97A. Forms of demands or notices or other documents drawn to ...
Discrimination in admission to, or treatment in, place of public accommodation; punishment; forfeiture; civil right . Section 98. Whoever makes any distinction, discrimination or restriction ...
Physically handicapped persons with dog guides; public places or conveyances; charges or fares; penalties . Section 98A. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any blind ...
Discrimination in employment on public works or in public relief or transitional assistance . Section 98B. Whoever, knowingly and wilfully, employs discriminatory practices in the ...
Libel; groups of persons; defenses; punishment; prosecutions . Section 98C. Whoever publishes any false written or printed material with intent to maliciously promote hatred of ...
Interception of wire and oral communications . Section 99. Interception of wire and oral communications.— A. Preamble. ...
Jury deliberations; overhearing by use of devices . Section 99A. Whoever secretly overhears, or attempts secretly to overhear or to have any other person overhear ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Crimes Against Chastity, Morality, Decency and Good Order - Chapter 272, Section 100 to 102 Repealed, 1968, 738, Secs. 4 to 6 . ...
Repealed, 1993, 279 . ...
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