General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 268 Crimes Against Public Justice
- Massachusetts General Laws - Perjury - Chapter 268, Section 1
Whoever, being lawfully required to depose the truth in a judicial proceeding or in a proceeding in a course of justice, wilfully swears or affirms...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Statements containing declaration relative to penalties of perjury; verification; false statements - Chapter 268, Section 1A
No written statement required by law shall be required to be verified by oath or affirmation before a magistrate if it contains or is verified...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Subornation of perjury - Chapter 268, Section 2
Whoever is guilty of subornation of perjury, by procuring another person to commit perjury, shall be punished as for perjury.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Attempt to procure another to commit perjury - Chapter 268, Section 3
Whoever attempts to incite or procure another person to commit perjury, although no perjury is committed, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Testimony creating presumption of perjury; commitment; recognizance; witnesses bound over; notice - Chapter 268, Section 4
If it appears to a court of record that a party or a witness who has been legally sworn and examined, or has made an...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Presumption of perjury; papers, books and documents detained for prosecution - Chapter 268, Section 5
If perjury is reasonably presumed, as aforesaid, papers, books or documents which have been produced and are considered necessary to be used on a prosecution...
- Massachusetts General Laws - False reports or testimony before state departments, board or commissioner; false entries in company books or statements; aiders or abettors - Chapter 268, Section 6
Except as provided in sections forty-eight and forty-nine of chapter one hundred and fifty-five, whoever shall wilfully make false report to the department of public...
- Massachusetts General Laws - False written reports by public officers or employees - Chapter 268, Section 6A
Whoever, being an officer or employee of the commonwealth or of any political subdivision thereof or of any authority created by the general court, in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Process servers; false statements; penalty - Chapter 268, Section 6B
Any process server who returns to the court a writ or other official instrument of process on which he has willfully falsified either the fact...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1962, 779, Sec. 3 - Chapter 268, Section 7 to 8A
Repealed, 1962, 779, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Compulsion or coercion to refuse appointment or promotion - Chapter 268, Section 8B
Any appointing authority or appointing officer, both as defined in chapter thirty-one, who, by himself or by some other person acting on his behalf, compels,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1962, 779, Sec. 3 - Chapter 268, Section 9
Repealed, 1962, 779, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Public officers or employees; solicitations regarding testimonial dinners - Chapter 268, Section 9A
No person shall sell, offer for sale, or accept payment for, tickets or admissions to, nor solicit or accept contributions for, a testimonial dinner or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1962, 779, Sec. 3 - Chapter 268, Section 10 to 12
Repealed, 1962, 779, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Corrupting or attempting to corrupt masters, auditors, jurors, arbitrators, umpires or referees - Chapter 268, Section 13
Whoever corrupts or attempts to corrupt a master in chancery, master, auditor, juror, arbitrator, umpire or referee by giving, offering or promising any gift or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Picketing court, judge, juror, witness or court officer - Chapter 268, Section 13A
Whoever, with the intent of interfering with, obstructing, or impeding the administration of justice, or with the intent of influencing any judge, juror, witness, or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Intimidation of witnesses, jurors and persons furnishing information in connection with criminal proceedings - Chapter 268, Section 13B
(1) Whoever, directly or indirectly, willfully (a) threatens, or attempts or causes physical injury, emotional injury, economic injury or property damage to; (b) conveys a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Disruption of court proceedings - Chapter 268, Section 13C
Whoever causes or actively participates in the willful disruption of proceedings of any court of the commonwealth may be punished by a fine of not...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Distributing transcript or description of grand jury testimony with intent to interfere with criminal proceedings - Chapter 268, Section 13D
(a) Whoever knowingly distributes or possesses with intent to distribute any transcript of grand jury testimony or any substantially verbatim description of grand jury testimony...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Tampering with record, document or other object for use in an official proceeding - Chapter 268, Section 13E
(a) As used in this section the following word shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meaning:— “Official proceeding”, a proceeding before...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Receipt of gift by juror, arbitrator, umpire, referee, master or auditor - Chapter 268, Section 14
Whoever, being summoned as a juror or chosen or appointed as an arbitrator, umpire or referee, or, being a master in chancery, master or auditor,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Juror discharged from employment - Chapter 268, Section 14A
No person shall be discharged from or deprived of his employment because of his attendance or service as a grand or traverse juror in any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Witnesses in criminal actions; discharge, etc. from employment - Chapter 268, Section 14B
Any person who is a victim of a crime upon which an accusatory instrument is based, or is subpoenaed to attend a criminal action as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Aiding escape from a correctional institution or jail; rescue - Chapter 268, Section 15
Whoever conveys into a correctional institution of the commonwealth or into a jail, house of correction, house of reformation or like place of confinement, a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Escapes from jail - Chapter 268, Section 15A
Whoever, after lawfully being placed in custody in a jail of a city or town, escapes from any such jail shall be punished by imprisonment...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Escape or attempt to escape, or failure to return from temporary release or furlough - Chapter 268, Section 16
A prisoner of any penal institution including a prisoner who is held in custody for a court appearance or a person committed under the provisions...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1973, 1062, Sec. 2 - Chapter 268, Section 16A
Repealed, 1973, 1062, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Aiding escape from officer or person having custody - Chapter 268, Section 17
Whoever aids or assists a prisoner in escaping or attempting to escape from an officer or person who has the lawful custody of such prisoner...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Jailer or officer suffering prisoner to escape - Chapter 268, Section 18
A jailer or officer who, except as provided in the following section, voluntarily suffers a prisoner in his custody upon conviction or upon a charge...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Suffering or consenting to an escape from a penal institution - Chapter 268, Section 19
An officer or other person, who, being employed in any penal institution, voluntarily suffers a convict confined therein to escape, or in any way consents...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Negligently suffering prisoner to escape; refusal to receive prisoner - Chapter 268, Section 20
A jailer or officer who, through negligence, suffers a prisoner in his custody upon conviction or upon a charge of crime to escape, or wilfully...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Suffering convict to be at large, visited, relieved or comforted - Chapter 268, Section 21
An officer or person who, being employed in the state prison, suffers a convict under sentence of solitary imprisonment to be at large or out...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Officer or other employee of penal or correctional institution; sexual relations with inmate; punishment - Chapter 268, Section 21A
An officer or other person who is employed by or contracts with any penal or correctional institution in the commonwealth, and who, in the course...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Delay of service of warrants - Chapter 268, Section 22
An officer who wilfully delays service of a warrant of arrest or a search warrant committed to him for service shall be punished by a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Refusal or delay to execute process resulting in escape - Chapter 268, Section 23
An officer who, being authorized to serve process, wilfully and corruptly refuses to execute a lawful process directed to him and requiring him to apprehend...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Neglect or refusal to assist officer or watchman - Chapter 268, Section 24
Whoever, being required in the name of the commonwealth by a sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, police officer or watchman, neglects or refuses to assist him...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Refusal or neglect to obey order of justice of the peace to apprehend offender - Chapter 268, Section 25
Whoever, being required by a justice of the peace, upon view of a breach of the peace or of any other offence proper for his...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Delivering alcoholic beverages to prisoners; possession - Chapter 268, Section 26
Whoever gives, sells or delivers alcoholic beverages, as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and thirty-eight, to a person confined in any correctional...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Delivering alcoholic beverages to patients of public institutions; possession - Chapter 268, Section 27
Whoever gives, sells or delivers any alcoholic beverages, as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and thirty-eight, to any patient or inmate of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Delivering drugs or articles to prisoners in correctional institutions or jails; possession - Chapter 268, Section 28
Whoever gives or delivers to a prisoner in any correctional institution, or in any jail or house of correction, any drug or article whatever, or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Delivery, or permission of delivery, by officers, of alcoholic beverages, to prisoners; keeping together prisoners of different sexes or classes - Chapter 268, Section 29
A sheriff, jailer, superintendent of a house of correction or officer of a correctional institution who, under any pretence, gives, sells or delivers or knowingly...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Disturbing correctional institutions or jail; attracting attention of, or communicating with, inmates - Chapter 268, Section 30
Whoever wilfully disturbs any correctional institution of the commonwealth, the Lyman school, industrial school for boys, industrial school for girls, or a jail or house...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Delivery or receipt of articles to or from inmates - Chapter 268, Section 31
Whoever delivers or procures to be delivered, or has in his possession with intent to deliver, to an inmate confined in any penal institution, or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Interference or tampering with police or fire signal systems, or motorist highway emergency aid call boxes; false alarms or calls - Chapter 268, Section 32
Whoever opens a signal box connected with a police signal system for the purpose of giving, or causing to be given, a false alarm, or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Interference with fire fighting operations - Chapter 268, Section 32A
Whoever willfully obstructs, interferes with or hinders a fire fighter in the lawful performance of his duty, or whoever willfully obstructs, interferes with or hinders...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Resisting arrest - Chapter 268, Section 32B
(a) A person commits the crime of resisting arrest if he knowingly prevents or attempts to prevent a police officer, acting under color of his...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Falsely assuming to be justice of the peace or other officers - Chapter 268, Section 33
Whoever falsely assumes or pretends to be a justice of the peace, notary public, sheriff, deputy sheriff, medical examiner, associate medical examiner, constable, police officer,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Engaging in lead paint inspection without a license - Chapter 268, Section 33A
Whoever engages in or conducts a lead paint inspection without being licensed to do so, or holds himself out to the public as a licensed...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Disguises to obstruct execution of law, performance of duties, or exercise of rights - Chapter 268, Section 34
Whoever disguises himself with intent to obstruct the due execution of the law, or to intimidate, hinder or interrupt an officer or other person in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Furnishing false name or Social Security number to law enforcement officer or official; penalty; restitution - Chapter 268, Section 34A
Whoever knowingly and willfully furnishes a false name or Social Security number to a law enforcement officer or law enforcement official following an arrest shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Unauthorized use of town seal; making or possessing badge of town officer - Chapter 268, Section 35
Whoever, without being duly authorized thereto, prints, stamps, engraves or affixes, or causes to be printed, stamped, engraved or affixed to any paper or other...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Compounding or concealing felonies - Chapter 268, Section 36
Whoever, having knowledge of the commission of a felony, takes money, or a gratuity or reward, or an engagement therefor, upon an agreement or understanding,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1962, 779, Sec. 3 - Chapter 268, Section 37 38
Repealed, 1962, 779, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Perjury; statements alleging motor vehicle theft; penalty; subsequent offenses - Chapter 268, Section 39
Whoever knowingly makes a false written statement on a form bearing notice that false statements made therein are punishable under the penalty of perjury, to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Reports of crimes to law enforcement officials - Chapter 268, Section 40
Whoever knows that another person is a victim of aggravated rape, rape, murder, manslaughter or armed robbery and is at the scene of said crime...
Last modified: September 11, 2015