General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 139 Common Nuisances
- Massachusetts General Laws - Orders adjudging buildings, structures or vacant land to be nuisances; notice, hearing and service of copy of order - Chapter 139, Section 1
The aldermen or selectmen in any city or town may, after written notice to the owner of a burnt, dilapidated or dangerous building or other...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Appeal to superior court; trial by jury; costs - Chapter 139, Section 2
A person aggrieved by such order may appeal to the superior court for the county where such building or other structure is situated, if, within...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Abatement or removal of nuisance by aldermen or selectmen - Chapter 139, Section 3
The aldermen or selectmen shall have the same power to abate and remove any such nuisance as is given to the board of health of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Demolition or removal of building or structure or securing of vacant land; owner’s liability - Chapter 139, Section 3A
If the owner or his authorized agent fails to comply with an order issued pursuant to section three and the city or town demolishes or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Disbursement of insurance proceeds for loss, damage or destruction of building or structure; notice; lien - Chapter 139, Section 3B
No insurer shall pay any claims (1) covering the loss, damage, or destruction to a building or other structure, amounting to one thousand dollars or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Buildings used for prostitution, assignation or lewdness; nuisance - Chapter 139, Section 4
Every building, part of a building, tenement or place used for prostitution, assignation or lewdness, and every place within or upon which acts of prostitution,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Penalty - Chapter 139, Section 5
Whoever keeps or maintains such a nuisance shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Enjoining nuisance - Chapter 139, Section 6
Whenever there is reason to believe that such a nuisance is kept or maintained or exists in any town, either the district attorney for the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Complaint; filing; verification - Chapter 139, Section 7
The complaint shall join the owner of record of the premises as a party defendant and shall be filed in the superior court for the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Temporary injunction restraining nuisance; removal of furniture and other property - Chapter 139, Section 8
If upon a hearing, after at least two days’ notice to the respondents of the time and place assigned therefor, the existence of such a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Decree for permanent injunction; sale of furniture; order closing building - Chapter 139, Section 9
If upon subsequent hearing the existence of the nuisance shall be established, the court shall enter a decree permanently enjoining the maintenance thereof, including in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Fee for removal and sale of movable property; application of proceeds of sale - Chapter 139, Section 10
For removing and selling the movable property in accordance with the decree of the court the officer shall be entitled to the same fees as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Modification of order of abatement; bond - Chapter 139, Section 11
If the owner of any such premises shall pay all costs of the proceedings, and file with the court a bond with sureties approved by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Dismissal of action; costs - Chapter 139, Section 12
No action commenced under section six shall be dismissed, except upon a sworn statement made and filed by the plaintiff and by his attorney setting...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Appearance as witnesses of persons found in premises used for prostitution - Chapter 139, Section 13
All persons found in or upon premises used for prostitution, assignation or lewdness may be required by a justice of a court of record to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Buildings resorted to for illegal gaming or used for illegal keeping or sale of alcoholic beverages; nuisance - Chapter 139, Section 14
Every building, place or tenement which is resorted to for illegal gaming, or which is used for the illegal keeping or sale of alcoholic beverages,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Penalty - Chapter 139, Section 15
Whoever keeps or maintains such common nuisance shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Abatement of common nuisances - Chapter 139, Section 16
Upon an information filed by the district attorney for the district, or upon the petition of the board or officer having control of the police...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Enjoining maintenance of nuisance; order closing building; judgment for permanent injunction; posting of order - Chapter 139, Section 16A
Upon a civil action brought in the name of the commonwealth by the attorney general, or district attorney for the district, or the chief of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1934, 328, Sec. 13 - Chapter 139, Section 17
Repealed, 1934, 328, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Removal of booths used for sale of liquors or for illegal gaming from places of public gathering - Chapter 139, Section 18
The aldermen or the selectmen, upon complaint made to them under oath that the complainant has reason to believe and does believe that a booth,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Voiding of lease of tenant using premises for common nuisance - Chapter 139, Section 19
If a tenant or occupant of a building or tenement, under a lawful title, uses such premises or any part thereof for the purposes of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Aiding or permitting nuisance - Chapter 139, Section 20
Whoever knowingly lets premises owned by him, or under his control, for the purposes of prostitution, assignation, lewdness, illegal gaming, or the illegal keeping or...
Last modified: September 11, 2015