General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 94 Inspection and Sale of Food, Drugs and Various Articles

• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 94, Section 1
  The following words as used in this section and the other sections of this chapter to which their definition is hereinafter respectively limited, unless the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Cleanliness and sanitary condition of bakery and equipment; shipping baskets - Chapter 94, Section 2
  The floors, walls and ceilings of each bakery, the equipment used in the handling or preparation of bakery products or the ingredients thereof, and the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Storage, handling and transportation of bakery products - Chapter 94, Section 3
  All bakery products and ingredients thereof shall be stored, handled, transported and kept so as to protect them from spoilage, contamination, disease and unwholesomeness. Boxes...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Preparation of bakery products; labelling - Chapter 94, Section 4
  There shall not be used in bakery products or in the ingredients thereof any ingredient or material, including water, which is spoiled or contaminated or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Return of bakery products; movement of bakery products to consumer; exceptions - Chapter 94, Section 5
  Except as provided in section six, no bakery products shall be returned from any consumer or other purchaser to the dealer or baker, nor from...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment and enforcement of rules relative to exemptions, standards and requirements - Chapter 94, Section 6
  The department of public health may, by rule, establish such exemptions as may be necessary to facilitate the sale of any accumulated or unsold stocks...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Weight of loaves - Chapter 94, Section 7
  Except as provided in section eight, bread shall not be manufactured for sale, sold, or offered or exposed for sale otherwise than by weight, and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Special provisions as to rolls and certain bread; unit weights; inspection - Chapter 94, Section 8
  Unit weights, as defined in the preceding section, shall not apply to rolls or to fancy bread weighing less than four ounces, nor to loaves...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement of rules and regulations; seizures; notice; hearing before director; appeals - Chapter 94, Section 9
  The director of standards shall prescribe such rules and regulations as are necessary to enforce the two preceding sections, including reasonable tolerances or variations within...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Construction of bakery rooms; furniture and utensils - Chapter 94, Section 9A
  Every room used for the manufacture of flour or meal food products shall, if required by the board of health, have an impermeable floor constructed...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sleeping places - Chapter 94, Section 9B
  The sleeping places for persons employed in a bakery shall be separate from the rooms where flour or meal food products are manufactured or stored.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notice requiring alterations - Chapter 94, Section 9C
  The owner, agent or lessee of any property affected by section nine A shall, within sixty days after service of written notice requiring any alterations...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Regulations of boards of health; posting - Chapter 94, Section 9D
  Except as provided in section nine F, boards of health may make such further regulations as the public health may require, and shall cause such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties for violation of Secs. 9A to 9C - Chapter 94, Section 9E
  Whoever violates any provision of sections nine A to nine C, inclusive, or refuses to comply with any requirement of the board of health authorized...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations of department of public health - Chapter 94, Section 9F
  The department of public health may make rules and regulations to carry out sections nine G to nine M, inclusive. Said sections and the rules...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sanitary requirements of bakeries - Chapter 94, Section 9G
  Every bakery shall be constructed, drained, lighted, ventilated and maintained in a clean and sanitary condition, and when and where necessary screened against flies; shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dressing rooms - Chapter 94, Section 9H
  In connection with every bakery suitable rooms shall be provided for the changing and hanging of the wearing apparel of the workers or employees, which...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sitting or lounging on tables and other equipment; animals or fowls - Chapter 94, Section 9I
  No person shall sit, lie or lounge or be permitted to sit, lie or lounge upon any of the tables, shelves, boxes or other equipment...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sanitary regulations for bakery employees; facilities - Chapter 94, Section 9J
  Before beginning the work of preparing, mixing or handling any ingredients used in the production of bakery products, every person engaged in such work shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inspection of bakeries; notice to owner, etc., of failure to comply with law; remedy - Chapter 94, Section 9K
  If, after inspection, it is found that a bakery is not constructed, maintained, operated or the distribution of its products not conducted in accordance with...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Closing of bakery; hearing; appeal - Chapter 94, Section 9L
  If a bakery is unfit for the production or handling of food or dangerous to the health of its employees, the department of public health...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Approval of building plans and equipment; permits - Chapter 94, Section 9M
  No new bakeries shall be established unless the building plans and equipment proposed to be used have been approved by the local board of health....
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalty - Chapter 94, Section 10
  Whoever violates any provision of sections two to nine, inclusive, or sections nine F to nine M, inclusive, or of any rule or regulation adopted...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Permit to manufacture, bottle, sell, deliver, etc. - Chapter 94, Section 10A
  No person shall engage within the commonwealth in the business of manufacturing or bottling carbonated non-alcoholic beverages or water, both carbonated and noncarbonated, for human...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Granting permits; expiration; renewals; fees - Chapter 94, Section 10B
  Local boards of health may grant permits to engage within their respective municipalities in the business of manufacturing or bottling of beverages specified in the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Examination of licensed premises; revocation of permits - Chapter 94, Section 10C
  The premises of any person granted a permit under section ten B shall, from time to time, be examined by the state department of public...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Storage, handling and transportation of ingredients - Chapter 94, Section 10D
  All materials used in the manufacture of beverages specified in section ten A shall be stored, handled, transported and kept in such a manner as...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Laboratory testing of water contained in bottled product - Chapter 94, Section 10D1/2
  All persons permitted to manufacture, bottle or sell water intended for human consumption under section ten A or ten B shall, at least annually, cause...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations - Chapter 94, Section 10E
  The state department of public health and the local boards of health may make rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of sections ten...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Water standards and labeling requirements - Chapter 94, Section 10E1/2
  The state department of public health shall establish rules and regulations for water standards and labeling requirements for finished bottled water products which meet, at...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties - Chapter 94, Section 10F
  Whoever violates any provision of sections ten A to ten E1/2, inclusive, or of any rule or regulation made thereunder, shall be punished for a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application of Secs. 10A to 10F - Chapter 94, Section 10G
  The provisions of sections ten A to ten F, inclusive, shall not apply to persons registered under sections thirty-seven to forty, inclusive, of chapter one...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enriched bread and flour; manufacture and sale; purchase of unenriched flour - Chapter 94, Section 10H
  No person shall manufacture, bake or compound for the purposes of sale, or sell, offer for sale or have in possession with intent to sell...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Powers of department of public health; enforcement of rules and regulations; examinations and investigations - Chapter 94, Section 10I
  The department of public health shall enforce the provisions of sections ten H and ten K, inclusive, and shall from time to time make, amend...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Labeling; application - Chapter 94, Section 10J
  No person shall sell or offer for sale or have in possession with intent to sell in this commonwealth for human consumption any flour or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties - Chapter 94, Section 10K
  Whoever violates any provision of sections ten H to ten J, inclusive, or any rule or regulation of the department of public health promulgated thereunder...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Labeling regulated; penalty - Chapter 94, Section 11
  Whoever manufactures for sale or offers or exposes for sale or sells any baking powder or mixture or compound intended for use as a baking...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Milk and cream, definitions, standards; rules - Chapter 94, Section 12
  The term “milk” shall mean the lacteal secretion, practically free from colostrum, obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy cows or goats....
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1977, 940, Sec. 4 - Chapter 94, Section 12A 12B
  Repealed, 1977, 940, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules for milk and raw milk products - Chapter 94, Section 13
  The commissioner shall, subject to the provisions of chapter thirty A, adopt and promulgate rules and regulations governing the production, transportation, receiving, handling, storage, processing,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1965, 104, Sec. 2 - Chapter 94, Section 13A
  Repealed, 1965, 104, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - State in which milk produced; statement on package - Chapter 94, Section 13B
  Any person selling milk graded as described in the rules and regulations adopted and approved under section twelve, or amended from time to time under...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of other than established grades of milk; penalty - Chapter 94, Section 13C
  Except as otherwise provided in section thirteen D, whoever sells or offers for sale any milk of any grade other than one established under authority...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of milk not conforming to standard grade; penalty - Chapter 94, Section 13D
  Whoever himself or by his servant or agent sells, offers for sale, exchanges or delivers or has in his custody or possession with intent to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Bacterial standards; milk and cream sales and deliveries - Chapter 94, Section 13E
  Boards of health of cities and towns may adopt bacterial standards for milk which are numerically less but not greater than such standards as may...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1933, 263 - Chapter 94, Section 14 to 15
  Repealed, 1933,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dairy farm; cream - Chapter 94, Section 16
  For the purposes of sections sixteen to sixteen K, inclusive, the term “dairy farm” shall mean a place or premises where more than two cows...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of registration required for sale of milk - Chapter 94, Section 16A
  Except as provided in section sixteen H, no person shall sell or offer or expose for sale milk produced on a dairy farm, for use...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Applications for registration of dairy farms - Chapter 94, Section 16B
  Applications for the registration of dairy farms under section sixteen C shall be made upon blanks furnished by the commissioner and shall contain, in addition...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Issuance and renewal of certificates; inspection - Chapter 94, Section 16C
  The commissioner may issue a certificate of registration for a dairy farm which, upon inspection made by him within thirty days prior to the date...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Refusal, revocation or suspension of certificate - Chapter 94, Section 16D
  A certificate of registration for any dairy farm may be refused, or, if issued, may be suspended or revoked by the commissioner for failure to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Monthly statements - Chapter 94, Section 16E
  Producers of milk whose dairy farms are registered hereunder shall submit upon a form furnished by the commissioner at such other times as he may...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Registration of dealers - Chapter 94, Section 16F
  Each person, not a producer of milk, whose principal business is the sale at wholesale or retail of milk, shall, before commencing to transact such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Temporary certificates - Chapter 94, Section 16G
  The commissioner may issue a temporary certificate of registration, plainly stamped:—“Temporary”, for any dairy farm already registered under section sixteen C, pending an inspection within...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Temporary receipt of milk from unregistered dairy farms - Chapter 94, Section 16H
  Whenever the quantity of fresh milk available from registered dairy farms is, for each of three consecutive months, less than one hundred and thirty per...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties - Chapter 94, Section 16I
  Any person violating any provision of sections sixteen to sixteen F, inclusive, shall for the first offence be punished by a fine of not more...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules for handling and sale of milk - Chapter 94, Section 16J
  Boards of health of cities and towns may establish, amend or repeal rules and regulations for the handling and sale of milk within said cities...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inspection and approval of milk plants and receiving stations, etc.; permits; expiration - Chapter 94, Section 16K
  The commissioner may inspect milk plants and receiving stations, wherever located, and pasteurization plants outside the commonwealth, shipping milk into or within the commonwealth and,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of milk from plant or station not inspected and approved or to which permit not issued - Chapter 94, Section 16L
  Whoever sells, exchanges or delivers, or has in his possession with intent to sell, exchange or deliver, milk shipped into the commonwealth from a milk...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1977, 940, Sec. 20 - Chapter 94, Section 17
  Repealed, 1977, 940, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Combinations of fats or oils with milk, cream or skimmed milk; penalty - Chapter 94, Section 17A
  No person himself or by his servant or agent shall, for the purposes of sale or exchange, add any fat or oil other than milk...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of milk of less fat content than stated on label, etc.; penalty - Chapter 94, Section 18
  Whoever himself or by his servant or agent sells, exposes for sale, or has in his custody or possession with intent to sell, milk labelled...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1977, 940, Sec. 20 - Chapter 94, Section 19
  Repealed, 1977, 940, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of below standard milk; penalty - Chapter 94, Section 20
  Whoever himself or by his servant or agent sells, exchanges or delivers, or has in his custody or possession with intent so to do, milk...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1977, 940, Sec. 20 - Chapter 94, Section 21 to 24
  Repealed, 1977, 940, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Accuracy of measuring utensils or devices used in determining component content of milk or cream for inspection or payment; prior testing and verification; fee - Chapter 94, Section 25
  No person shall use any bottle, pipette, graduate or any other measuring utensil or device in the determination, by any testing method approved under section...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Annual inspection of testing equipment; seal; fee; condemnation; additional inspection cost - Chapter 94, Section 26
  Mechanical or other equipment intended for use in any testing method approved under section twenty-seven for the determination of milk-fat or other component content of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Testing method and equipment; approval; certificate of competency for operators; requirements; fee - Chapter 94, Section 27
  No testing method shall be used for the determination of milk-fat or other component content of milk or cream for the purpose of inspection or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Persons receiving raw milk at dairy farms; determining basis for payment; necessity of certificate of competency; requirements; fee - Chapter 94, Section 27A
  Except as provided in section twenty-eight A with respect to emergency licensing, no person in determining the basis for payment in buying or selling shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - License to operate; issuance to persons certified under Sec. 27; revocation or suspension; reinstatement; fees - Chapter 94, Section 28
  Said chief of the bureau of milk marketing or his agent shall, upon application on a form provided by him, issue a license to operate...
• Massachusetts General Laws - License to receive raw milk at dairy farms; issuance to persons certified under Sec. 27A; temporary or emergency license; revocation or suspension; reinstatement; fees - Chapter 94, Section 28A
  Said chief of the bureau of milk marketing or his agent shall, upon application on a form provided by him, issue a license to receive...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Continued supervision of licensed and certified persons; dissemination of technical information; additional evidence of competency; inspection; report of violations; amendment of rules and regulations - Chapter 94, Section 29
  The director shall be responsible for timely dissemination of information to all persons licensed by him under prior provisions of earlier law or certified by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations governing tests for determining component content of milk or cream and procedures for receiving raw milk at dairy farms - Chapter 94, Section 29A
  Said chief of the bureau of milk marketing shall, after reasonable notice to all interested parties and a hearing, prescribe, and may from time to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement of Secs. 25 to 31; inspection; violations; prosecutions; application to educational and informational service to dairy farmers - Chapter 94, Section 30
  The said chief of the bureau of milk marketing and his agents shall enforce sections twenty-five through thirty-one, inclusive, and the rules and regulations made...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Interference with director, chief or agents; violations of Secs. 25 to 30 or rules and regulations; penalty - Chapter 94, Section 31
  Whoever hinders or obstructs the director or the said chief of the bureau of milk marketing, or any agent of either said person, in the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Milk stations - Chapter 94, Section 32
  The board of health of a city, and of a town of ten thousand or more inhabitants, when it deems it advisable for the public...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inspectors of milk and collectors of samples of milk - Chapter 94, Section 33
  The board of health of a city shall, and the board of health or the selectmen acting as such board of a town may, appoint...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Employment of board members as collectors of milk samples - Chapter 94, Section 34
  Any board mentioned in the preceding section may designate and employ any member of the board or any agent or employee thereof as a collector...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Powers of inspectors and collectors; appointment; removal - Chapter 94, Section 35
  Each inspector of milk shall enforce in his town the laws as to the milk supply, and shall make complaint for a violation of any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Results of analysis sent to owner - Chapter 94, Section 36
  An officer of the department of public health or of the division of regulatory services of the department of food and agriculture, an inspector of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Liability of producer of milk - Chapter 94, Section 37
  No producer of milk shall be liable to prosecution for the reason that the milk produced by him is not of good standard quality unless...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Connivance by or interference with inspector - Chapter 94, Section 38
  An inspector of milk or a collector of samples of milk who wilfully connives at or assists in a violation of sections nineteen, twenty, twenty-three,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Use of imitation or counterfeit seal - Chapter 94, Section 39
  Whoever makes, causes to be made, uses or has in his possession, an imitation or counterfeit of a seal used by an inspector of milk,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - License to sell milk; contents; display - Chapter 94, Section 40
  No person, except a producer or dealer selling milk to other than consumers, or selling not more than twenty quarts per day to consumers, shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - License; fee; term, suspension or revocation; appeal; reinstatement; notice; list of dealers - Chapter 94, Section 41
  An inspector of milk in any town, for the purposes mentioned in the preceding section and subject to the regulations established by the board of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dealers selling to other than consumers; license - Chapter 94, Section 41A
  No dealer selling to other than consumers, except a dealer licensed under the provisions of sections forty and forty-one, shall deliver, exchange, expose for sale...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Selling milk without license; penalty - Chapter 94, Section 42
  Whoever violates any provision of section forty shall be punished for the first offence by a fine of not less than ten nor more than...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions applicable to this section and Secs. 42B to 42J; licensing of buyers; application; bond or other security; fee - Chapter 94, Section 42A
  The following words, as used in this section and in sections forty-two B to forty-two J, inclusive, shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Bond; amount; form; condition; note, cash or collateral in lieu of bond - Chapter 94, Section 42B
  The bond required by the preceding section shall be payable to the commissioner and shall be in a sum fixed by him. Said sum shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Default by licensee; notices; action on bond; payment of claims - Chapter 94, Section 42C
  Each producer shall notify the commissioner in writing of any default in the timely payment for milk on the part of a licensee, such notification...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Insufficient bond or other security; notice to commissioner; statement of assets, liabilities and disbursements; additional security - Chapter 94, Section 42D
  If the business operation of any licensee is such that the total value of milk received by him from producers in any pay period exceeds...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Exemption from filing bond or security - Chapter 94, Section 42E
  If a licensee, or an applicant for a license, under section forty-two A is himself a producer and, in addition to his own production, receives...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Records of transactions - Chapter 94, Section 42F
  To the extent and in such form as the commissioner may require, each person licensed under section forty-two A shall keep a record of his...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Investigation of financial standing and business conduct of applicant or licensee; information disclosed confidential - Chapter 94, Section 42G
  The commissioner or his duly authorized assistant may at any time investigate the financial standing and past business conduct of any person applying for or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Grounds for refusal to grant license or revocation - Chapter 94, Section 42H
  The commissioner may refuse to grant a license under section forty-two A, or may revoke such a license already granted, when he is satisfied of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notice and hearing before revocation; order; decision final - Chapter 94, Section 42I
  Before revoking any license issued under section forty-two A, the commissioner shall give the licensee ten days’ notice, by delivery in hand or by mail,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unlicensed receiving of milk from producers; penalty - Chapter 94, Section 42J
  Except as provided in section forty-two E, any person who receives milk from producers without having a license under section forty-two A in full force...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1970, 690, Sec. 2 - Chapter 94, Section 42K
  Repealed, 1970, 690, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1967, 356 - Chapter 94, Section 43
  Repealed, 1967,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fees for inspection or tests prohibited; penalty - Chapter 94, Section 44
  No fee for making any inspection or test of live stock, or any inspection of any dairy, barn or stable, under authority of law, for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Milk containers; names on caps or labels; fees; penalty - Chapter 94, Section 45
  No licensed milk dealer shall sell, or have in his possession with intent to sell, milk not contained in clean vessels on which, or on...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1977, 940, Sec. 20 - Chapter 94, Section 46 47
  Repealed, 1977, 940, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Placing of offal, swill, etc., in dairy product containers; penalty - Chapter 94, Section 48
  Whoever himself or by his servant or agent having custody of any vessel used as a container for milk intended for sale, places or causes...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licensing of pasteurization establishments; penalty - Chapter 94, Section 48A
  No person shall maintain an establishment for the pasteurization of milk without a license from the board of health of the town where the establishment...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Use by certain institutions of milk produced, processed or packaged in commonwealth - Chapter 94, Section 48B
  No institution supported in whole or in part by funds of the commonwealth shall use for its daily needs, milk produced, processed or packaged elsewhere...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1977, 940, Sec. 20 - Chapter 94, Section 48C
  Repealed, 1977, 940, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Blending milk and cream for sale - Chapter 94, Section 48D
  No person shall blend milk and cream for sale, nor have any such blend in his custody or possession with intent to sell the same,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1977, 940, Sec. 22 - Chapter 94, Section 48E
  Repealed, 1977, 940, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Oleomargarine; sale; labeling; marking - Chapter 94, Section 49
  Whoever himself or by his agent sells, exposes for sale or has in his possession with intent to sell oleomargarine shall have the word “oleomargarine”,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Imitation cheese; labeling - Chapter 94, Section 50
  Whoever himself or by his agent sells, exposes for sale or has in his possession with intent to sell, any article, substance or compound, made...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unlawful sale or advertising of imitation butter and cheese; penalty - Chapter 94, Section 51
  Whoever sells, exposes for sale or has in his possession with intent to sell, any article, substance or compound made in imitation or semblance of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1954, 262 - Chapter 94, Section 52
  Repealed, 1954,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1974, 246 - Chapter 94, Section 53
  Repealed, 1974,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Manufacture, sale and advertising of certain imitation butter; penalty; application of section - Chapter 94, Section 54
  Whoever himself or by his agent or servant renders, manufactures, sells, offers for sale, exposes for sale, takes orders for the future delivery of, has...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fraud in sale of oleomargarine - Chapter 94, Section 55
  Whoever exposes for sale oleomargarine which is not marked and distinguished by all the marks, words and stamps required by section forty-nine, or whoever does...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1954, 262 - Chapter 94, Section 56 57
  Repealed, 1954,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Serving oleomargarine at hotels, restaurants, etc.; notice; penalty - Chapter 94, Section 58
  Whoever furnishes oleomargarine or causes it to be furnished, instead of butter, in any hotel, restaurant or boarding house or at any lunch counter, to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Process or renovated butter; sale; labeling - Chapter 94, Section 59
  Whoever himself or by his agent sells, exposes for sale or has in his custody or possession with intent to sell, an article or compound...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Complaints for violations of sections relative to oleomargarine, butter and cheese - Chapter 94, Section 60
  Each inspector of milk shall institute complaints for the violation of any provision of sections forty-nine to fifty-eight, inclusive, sixty-two or sixty-five G to sixty-five...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Lard; sale; advertising; labeling - Chapter 94, Section 61
  No person shall sell, deliver, prepare, put up, expose or offer for sale any lard, or any article intended for use as lard, which contains...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Cheddar or American cheese - Chapter 94, Section 61A
  The kind of cheese known as Cheddar cheese, American cheese or American Cheddar cheese, may be sold under the designation “cheese”, without qualification, and, unless...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Interference with inspector of milk, etc.; penalty - Chapter 94, Section 62
  Whoever hinders, obstructs or in any way interferes with an inspector of milk or collector of samples of milk in the performance of his duties...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Disposition of fines - Chapter 94, Section 63
  All fines recovered under sections fifty-five to fifty-eight, inclusive, shall be paid to the commonwealth.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1934, 373, Sec. 1 - Chapter 94, Section 64 to 65B
  Repealed, 1934, 373, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1928, 229, Sec. 2 - Chapter 94, Section 65C 65D
  Repealed, 1928, 229, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1934, 373, Sec. 1 - Chapter 94, Section 65E 65F
  Repealed, 1934, 373, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 94, Section 65G
  For the purposes of sections sixty-five G to sixty-five U, inclusive, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings:— “Department”, the department of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application for licenses and permits; suspension; revocation; inspection - Chapter 94, Section 65H
  Every person manufacturing within the commonwealth frozen desserts and frozen dessert mix, or either, in this paragraph called products, shall, during the month of February...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Issuance of licenses or permits - Chapter 94, Section 65I
  The local board of health, if satisfied after inspection that the plant referred to in an application for a license or a permit, as the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Revocation or suspension of licenses or permits - Chapter 94, Section 65J
  Any license may be revoked by the local board of health which issued it, and any permit may be revoked by the department, after notice...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certiorari to correct errors of law - Chapter 94, Section 65K
  Any person aggrieved by a decision of a local board of health or of the department in refusing to grant or to reinstate, or in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certain sales or exchanges prohibited - Chapter 94, Section 65L
  (a) No person shall sell or exchange, deliver, advertise, or offer or expose for sale or exchange, or attempt to deliver, or have in his...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Pasteurization - Chapter 94, Section 65M
  All milk, cream and milk products used in the manufacture of frozen desserts, or frozen dessert mix, or the entire mix with or without flavor...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale after manufacture in unclean, etc., places or manner - Chapter 94, Section 65N
  No person shall sell or exchange, or offer or expose for sale or exchange, or deliver, or attempt to deliver, or have in possession with...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Adulteration - Chapter 94, Section 65O
  Frozen desserts and/or frozen dessert mix shall be deemed to be adulterated: First. If containing any preservative, mineral or other substance or compound deleterious to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - False labeling - Chapter 94, Section 65P
  (a) No person shall sell or exchange, or offer or expose for sale or exchange, or deliver or attempt to deliver, frozen desserts in any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement of Secs. 65G to 65U; rules and regulations - Chapter 94, Section 65Q
  The department, and the local boards of health within their respective jurisdictions, shall enforce sections sixty-five G to sixty-five U, inclusive. The department shall from...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties - Chapter 94, Section 65R
  Whoever violates any provision of sections sixty-five G to sixty-five Q, inclusive, or of any rule or regulation made under authority thereof, shall for the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fees for licenses and permits - Chapter 94, Section 65S
  The fees for licenses and permits shall be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Frozen dietary dairy desserts; rules and regulations - Chapter 94, Section 65T
  The department shall promulgate regulations establishing standards of identity for frozen dietary dairy desserts. The department may also establish regulations pertaining to the manufacture and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Standards of identity and labeling; regulations establishing - Chapter 94, Section 65U
  The department shall adopt regulations establishing standards of identity and labeling requirements for frozen desserts and frozen dessert mixes, and shall adopt regulations for the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licensing of cold storage warehouses; report of articles in cold storage - Chapter 94, Section 66
  No person shall maintain a cold storage or refrigerating warehouse without a license issued by the department of public health. Any person desiring such a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application of Secs. 66, 70 and 71 to food in lockers; locker defined - Chapter 94, Section 66A
  Neither the provisions of section sixty-six which require licensees maintaining cold storage or refrigerating warehouses to make reports to the department of public health nor...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inspection and supervision; rules and regulations - Chapter 94, Section 67
  Boards of health of towns within their towns shall inspect, and the department of public health shall inspect and supervise all cold storage or refrigerating...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Access to cold storage or refrigerating warehouses by department, etc. - Chapter 94, Section 68
  The department of public health and local boards of health, their agents, inspectors or employees shall be permitted access to each establishment mentioned in the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Regulation of cold storage - Chapter 94, Section 69
  No article of food intended for human consumption shall be placed or retained in cold storage if deemed by the department of public health to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Time limit for holding food in cold storage; extension - Chapter 94, Section 70
  No person shall hold any article of food in cold storage which has been in cold storage longer than twelve calendar months, except with the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Date of receipt of food in cold storage; marking on containers - Chapter 94, Section 71
  The date of receipt into cold storage shall be plainly marked either upon the containers in which any articles of food deposited in such storage...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of goods formerly held in cold storage; displaying sign - Chapter 94, Section 72
  Except as provided in sections seventy-eight and ninety-one, no person shall sell or offer or expose for sale articles of food which have been held...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties - Chapter 94, Section 73
  Whoever violates any provision of sections sixty-six to seventy-two, inclusive, and ninety-two, shall for the first offence be punished by a fine of not more...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Storing and transporting frozen food - Chapter 94, Section 73A
  No person engaged in the business of storing frozen food or transporting such food shall store or transport such food within the commonwealth unless it...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1941, 598, Sec. 2 - Chapter 94, Section 74 74A
  Repealed, 1941, 598, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1933, 329, Sec. 7 - Chapter 94, Section 75 76
  Repealed, 1933, 329, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1941, 598, Sec. 2 - Chapter 94, Section 77
  Repealed, 1941, 598, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Classification of fish; definition - Chapter 94, Section 77A
  All fresh food fish before being offered for sale, placed in cold storage, salted or smoked shall be graded as follows:— “Prime”, fish in extra...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Marking containers deposited in cold storage with date of receipt - Chapter 94, Section 77B
  Food fish, unless deposited in bulk, when deposited in cold storage except in private freezing plants, shall be plainly marked with the date of receipt...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale or representing for sale of frozen fish - Chapter 94, Section 77C
  No person shall sell, or represent for the purpose of sale, otherwise than as frozen, fish which have been frozen.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Importation of fresh swordfish - Chapter 94, Section 77D
  No person shall import, or cause to be imported into this commonwealth for purposes of sale, any fresh swordfish unless properly packed in ice so...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Marking of imported fish formerly in cold storage - Chapter 94, Section 77E
  No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited in cold storage for a period exceeding six months fish received from any other state or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of food fish by weight - Chapter 94, Section 77F
  All food fish, except soft-shelled clams and oysters sold at wholesale, shall be sold by weight. Whoever violates this section shall be punished by a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Use of dead lobsters for food purposes; rapid freezing of live lobsters - Chapter 94, Section 77G
  Whoever cooks, buys, sells, offers or exposes for sale, gives away, or knowingly delivers, transports, ships, or receives for food purposes any lobster, or similar...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Purchase, sale, transportation, etc. of lobster or crab meat taken from shell - Chapter 94, Section 77H
  No person shall buy, sell, expose for sale, give away, deliver, transport, ship, carry or have in his possession any lobster meat or crab meat...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 94, Section 77I
  As used in sections seventy-seven A to seventy-seven H, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meanings unless a contrary intention appears:— “Canned lobster...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1941, 598, Sec. 2 - Chapter 94, Section 78 78A
  Repealed, 1941, 598, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1933, 329, Sec. 7 - Chapter 94, Section 79
  Repealed, 1933, 329, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1941, 598, Sec. 2 - Chapter 94, Section 80 to 83
  Repealed, 1941, 598, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Quintal weight of fish - Chapter 94, Section 84
  If fish are sold by the quintal, it shall mean a quintal of one hundred pounds avoirdupois, and all contracts relative to fish thus sold...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Clam bait; contents of barrel - Chapter 94, Section 85
  If clam bait is sold by the barrel, “barrel” shall mean a fish barrel of not less than twenty-eight nor more than twenty-nine gallons, and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Weighing, sorting and culling fish; certificate of weight; rules and regulations - Chapter 94, Section 86
  All fish when landed from a vessel or boat shall be weighed by a public weigher of fish or his deputy, when so requested or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Record of weight, etc. - Chapter 94, Section 87
  Each deputy shall report to such weigher the weight of fish weighed by him, and the weigher shall keep a complete record of such weight...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fees for weighing - Chapter 94, Section 88
  The fees for weighing fish shall be twenty cents per one thousand pounds, but in no case less than one dollar, and shall be paid...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1941, 598, Sec. 2 - Chapter 94, Section 88A
  Repealed, 1941, 598, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of shucked scallops or quahaugs in shell by weight - Chapter 94, Section 88B
  No shucked scallops or quahaugs in the shell shall be sold except by weight. Whoever himself or by his servant or agent violates any provision...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations - Chapter 94, Section 88C
  The commissioner of public health shall adopt rules and regulations relative to the sanitary conditions required for establishments, and persons operating such establishments, for which...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inspection of fish offered for sale - Chapter 94, Section 88D
  The commissioner, his agents or inspectors may inspect all fish offered or exposed for sale or kept with intent to sell, and for such purpose...
• Massachusetts General Laws - License to break and can eggs - Chapter 94, Section 89
  Application for the carrying on of an establishment for the breaking and canning of eggs shall be made by the proprietor thereof to, and may...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Breaking or canning eggs without license - Chapter 94, Section 90
  Whoever carries on an establishment for the breaking or canning of eggs without a license as provided in the preceding section shall be punished by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of eggs regulated; eggs with treated shells - Chapter 94, Section 90A
  Except as hereinafter otherwise provided, no person shall sell, or offer, expose or advertise for sale, eggs as “fresh eggs”, “strictly fresh eggs”, “nearby eggs”...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sizes of eggs offered for sale, etc. - Chapter 94, Section 90B
  No person shall sell, or offer or expose for sale, eggs unless the carton or other container thereof contains or bears a proper designation or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Grades; establishment - Chapter 94, Section 90C
  The commissioner of food and agriculture shall establish official grades of eggs sold, offered for sale, exposed or advertised for sale, at retail, within the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Grades; criterion; marking; enforcement of section; rules and regulations - Chapter 94, Section 90D
  The grades so established shall include grades closely correlated to the United States consumer standards for shell eggs. The standards of quality for the Massachusetts...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalty for violation of Sec. 90D - Chapter 94, Section 90E
  Whoever, himself or by his servant or agent, misbrands eggs and sells, distributes, or offers or exposes for sale such misbranded eggs shall be punished...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of eggs taken from cold storage; markings; penalty - Chapter 94, Section 91
  Whenever eggs which have been in cold storage are sold at wholesale or retail, or offered or exposed for sale, the basket, box or other...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Denaturing and marking of broken eggs in cold storage - Chapter 94, Section 92
  Broken eggs packed in cans, if not intended for food, shall be denatured when deposited in cold storage, and shall be marked by the owner,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of decayed or decomposed eggs; regulations; penalty - Chapter 94, Section 92A
  No person shall sell or offer or expose for sale for food purposes, or have in possession with intent to sell for such purposes, eggs...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Meats, poultry and fish; sales at retail; weight; penalty - Chapter 94, Section 92B
  All meats, poultry and edible fish, except soft shell clams and oysters, shall be sold at retail only by weight and, except when sold in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1928, 362 - Chapter 94, Section 93 to 95
  Repealed, 1928,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fruits, vegetables and nuts; sale by dry measure or numerical count; “original standard container” defined; penalty - Chapter 94, Section 96
  Except as otherwise provided in sections ninety-eight and ninety-nine and in chapter ninety-nine, or except when sold in the original standard container, all fruits, nuts,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1922, 355, Sec. 8 - Chapter 94, Section 97
  Repealed, 1922, 355, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Capacity of baskets, etc., used in sale of berries; test of capacity - Chapter 94, Section 98
  Baskets or other receptacles holding one quart or less which are used or intended to be used in the sale of strawberries, blackberries, cherries, currants,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Strike or level measure; exception - Chapter 94, Section 99
  Berries, except cranberries, when sold shall, subject to the preceding section, be measured by the strike or level measure.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Standard box for farm produce; standard half box; lug; specifications; markings - Chapter 94, Section 99A
  The Massachusetts standard box for farm produce sold at wholesale, except as otherwise provided, shall contain two thousand one hundred fifty and forty-two one-hundredths cubic...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of fruit, vegetables or turkeys; designation as “native”; penalty - Chapter 94, Section 99B
  No person shall sell or offer to sell or pack for sale or distribution in the commonwealth fruit, vegetables or turkeys in containers bearing the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1959, 528, Sec. 2 - Chapter 94, Section 100
  Repealed, 1959, 528, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Official grades; establishment; modification; notice; hearing - Chapter 94, Section 101
  The commissioner of food and agriculture shall establish and promulgate official grades of apples packed or repacked within the commonwealth, and may from time to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Marking or branding - Chapter 94, Section 102
  The person possessing the apples at any time shall be deemed responsible for the proper marking of the apples. Each package of apples packed or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Advertisement - Chapter 94, Section 103
  Open bulk display signs, printed sales statements and all advertisements by radio, television, newspaper or other media shall state the variety, official grade designation and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Misleading packing - Chapter 94, Section 104
  No person shall sell or offer for sale, or transport for sale, in either open or closed packages, apples packed in such a manner that...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Misbranding - Chapter 94, Section 105
  For the purpose of section one hundred and one to one hundred and nine, inclusive, apples packed in closed or open packages or apples in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations; access to packing places and storehouses; samples - Chapter 94, Section 106
  The commissioner of food and agriculture shall make and may modify rules and regulations for enforcing sections one hundred and one to one hundred and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement of Secs. 99B, 101 to 105, 109; prosecutions; notice - Chapter 94, Section 107
  The commissioner of food and agriculture and his duly authorized assistants shall have authority to enforce section ninety-nine B, sections one hundred and one to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties - Chapter 94, Section 108
  Whoever, himself or by his servant or agent misbrands apples within the meaning of section one hundred and five or advertises apples for sale in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Storage; conditions; storage records - Chapter 94, Section 109
  No person shall sell or exchange or offer or expose for sale or exchange or transport for sale any apples represented as having been exposed...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1931, 194 - Chapter 94, Section 110 to 114
  Repealed, 1931,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Legal and standard barrel and crate for cranberries - Chapter 94, Section 115
  The legal and standard barrel for cranberries shall measure not less than twenty-five and one fourth inches between the heads, inside; the length of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Barrels and crates; one half crates; one quarter crates; markings - Chapter 94, Section 116
  Each barrel, crate, one half crate or one quarter crate used for the sale or delivery of cranberries shall be of the standard measure prescribed...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of cranberries in packages - Chapter 94, Section 117
  It shall be lawful to use for the sale and delivery of cranberries packages containing one, two or four pounds of cranberries, net weight; provided,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Official grades and standards for farm products; use of brands or labels - Chapter 94, Section 117A
  The commissioner of food and agriculture, in this and the five following sections called the commissioner, may establish and promulgate official grades and standards for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment of grades or standards and determination of brands or labels; notice; publication - Chapter 94, Section 117B
  Upon the establishment of such grades or standards and upon the proper determination of brands or labels, all in accordance with the provisions of section...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unlawful use of brands or labels; obstruction of commissioner - Chapter 94, Section 117C
  After notice of the establishment of grades and standards and the determination of brands or labels as provided in the two preceding sections, it shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inspection of farm products; certification of quality and condition - Chapter 94, Section 117D
  The commissioner may employ inspectors to inspect such farm products marked, branded or labelled in accordance with official grades or standards established and promulgated by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations - Chapter 94, Section 117E
  The commissioner may prescribe rules and regulations for carrying out the purposes of sections one hundred and seventeen A to one hundred and seventeen F,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Powers of commissioner of agriculture - Chapter 94, Section 117F
  The commissioner, in person or by deputy, shall have free access at all reasonable hours to any building or other place wherein it is reasonably...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 94, Section 117G
  As used in sections one hundred and seventeen G to one hundred and seventeen L, inclusive, the following words and phrases shall have the following...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Marking of container of potatoes; display of grade; application of section - Chapter 94, Section 117H
  Every container in which potatoes are packed, sold, distributed, offered or exposed for sale or distribution in the commonwealth shall be plainly and conspicuously marked...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Official grades of potatoes; modification; notice; hearing; United States grades - Chapter 94, Section 117I
  The commissioner of food and agriculture, in this section and in sections one hundred and seventeen J and one hundred and seventeen K called the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Powers of commissioner; rules and regulations - Chapter 94, Section 117J
  The commissioner shall enforce the provisions of sections one hundred and seventeen G to one hundred and seventeen K, inclusive. He or a duly authorized...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violations; notice; hearing - Chapter 94, Section 117K
  When the commissioner learns of any violation of any of the provisions of sections one hundred and seventeen G to one hundred and seventeen J,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties - Chapter 94, Section 117L
  Any person violating any of the provisions of sections one hundred and seventeen G to one hundred and seventeen J, inclusive, shall be punished by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions for Secs. 118 to 131, inclusive - Chapter 94, Section 118
  The following words as used in sections one hundred and eighteen to one hundred and thirty-one, inclusive, unless a different meaning is required by the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Supervision and inspection; rules and regulations; suspension of license and closure - Chapter 94, Section 119
  An official establishment or a person engaged in the business of slaughtering livestock or poultry or in the business of the preparation of such products...
• Massachusetts General Laws - License; acting without; application; fee - Chapter 94, Section 120
  No person shall engage in the slaughter of livestock or poultry unless he has obtained a license from the department. No person shall process or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Suspension or revocation of license; hearing - Chapter 94, Section 121
  Any license issued pursuant to section one hundred and twenty may be suspended or revoked if the licensee is in violation of any provision of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1996, 58, Sec. 24 - Chapter 94, Section 122
  Repealed, 1996, 58, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1996, 58, Sec. 25 - Chapter 94, Section 123
  Repealed, 1996, 58, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inspection of livestock and poultry; seizure and destruction; reports; publication - Chapter 94, Section 124
  An inspector may inspect livestock and poultry, the carcasses of all slaughtered animals and all meat and poultry or the products thereof, offered or exposed...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inspections; quarantine; segregation, marking and labeling products; prohibiting products; sanitation regulations; required records - Chapter 94, Section 125
  The department shall:—(a) require ante mortem and post mortem inspections, quarantine, segregation, and reinspections with respect to the slaughter of livestock and poultry and the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Duties of commissioner - Chapter 94, Section 126
  (a) The commissioner shall:— (1) remove inspectors from any establishment that fails to destroy condemned products as required; (2) refuse to provide inspection service under...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Prohibited acts - Chapter 94, Section 127
  (a) No person shall, with respect to any livestock or poultry or any livestock products or poultry products: (1) slaughter any such animals or prepare...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Failure to testify or to produce evidence; falsification of reports; penalties - Chapter 94, Section 128
  (a) Any person who neglects or refuses to attend and testify or to answer any lawful inquiry, or to produce documentary evidence, if in his...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violations; penalties; jurisdiction - Chapter 94, Section 129
  Any person who violates any provision of sections one hundred and eighteen to one hundred and twenty-eight, inclusive, or any regulation or order issued under...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Exempt operations - Chapter 94, Section 130
  The commissioner may exempt the following types of operations from any provisions of sections one hundred and eighteen to one hundred and thirty-one, inclusive; (1)...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inspection, establishments under official United States inspection - Chapter 94, Section 131
  Nothing in sections one hundred and eighteen to one hundred and thirty, inclusive, shall be construed so as to require or prohibit inspection by the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Severability of provisions - Chapter 94, Section 132
  If any provision of sections one hundred and eighteen to one hundred and thirty-one, inclusive, is declared void or the applicability thereof to any person...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1970, 891, Sec. 1 - Chapter 94, Section 133 to 139A
  Repealed, 1970, 891, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of dressed poultry slaughtered without commonwealth; inspection - Chapter 94, Section 139B
  All dressed poultry, including chickens, fowl, ducks, geese, pheasants and turkeys, slaughtered without the commonwealth shall, unless it has been inspected for wholesomeness by the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 94, Section 139C
  As used in this section and sections one hundred and thirty-nine D to one hundred and thirty-nine G, inclusive, the following words shall have the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Prohibited methods - Chapter 94, Section 139D
  No slaughterer, packer or stockyard operator shall shackle, hoist, or otherwise bring livestock into position for slaughter by any method which shall cause injury or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Administration of act; rules and regulations - Chapter 94, Section 139E
  The commissioner shall administer the provisions of sections one hundred and thirty-nine C to one hundred and thirty-nine G, inclusive. He shall promulgate and may...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties - Chapter 94, Section 139F
  Any person who violates any provision of section one hundred and thirty-nine D or one hundred and thirty-nine E, shall be punished by a fine...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Ritual slaughter - Chapter 94, Section 139G
  Nothing in sections one hundred and thirty-nine C to one hundred and thirty-nine E, inclusive, shall prohibit, abridge, or in any way hinder the religious...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appointment; oath - Chapter 94, Section 140
  In each town where beef cattle are sold for the purpose of marketing or barrelling, the mayor or selectmen shall appoint one or more persons,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fees - Chapter 94, Section 141
  Fees for weighing cattle shall be paid by the vendor and, unless otherwise established in a town by town meeting action and in a city...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Adulteration of sausage or sausage meat - Chapter 94, Section 142
  For the purposes of this and the following section, sausage or sausage meat shall be deemed to be adulterated: First. If it contains any cereal...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale, etc., of sausages - Chapter 94, Section 143
  No person shall manufacture, sell, or offer or expose for sale, sausages or sausage meat containing any material or substance which would render the same...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of vegetable sausages - Chapter 94, Section 143A
  Nothing in this chapter shall prevent the sale or the offering or exposing for sale of vegetable sausages as such, if such sausages contain not...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1982, 216 - Chapter 94, Section 143B 143C
  Repealed, 1982,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1973, 383 - Chapter 94, Section 144 145
  Repealed, 1973,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inspection; fees; seizure and condemnation; appeal; market limits - Chapter 94, Section 146
  Each local board of health by themselves, their officers or agents, may inspect the carcasses of all slaughtered animals and all meat, fish, vegetables, produce,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Regulations for inspection of meat - Chapter 94, Section 147
  The department of public health may make regulations for the inspection of meat, which shall conform to the regulations of the United States bureau of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Regulations for inspection of game, poultry, etc. - Chapter 94, Section 147A
  The department of public health may make regulations for the inspection of game, poultry, and other meat except that of cattle, sheep or swine, intended...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties - Chapter 94, Section 148
  Whoever violates any rule or regulation of a local board of health which is approved by the department of public health shall be punished by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Interference with officers and agents of local boards of health - Chapter 94, Section 149
  Whoever prevents, obstructs or interferes with a local board of health, its officers or agents, in the performance of its duties as provided in section...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of unwholesome food - Chapter 94, Section 150
  Whoever, himself or by his agent, sells or offers for sale for food or drink any diseased animal or product thereof or any tainted, diseased,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Exposing unwholesome food for sale - Chapter 94, Section 150A
  Whoever knowingly exposes for sale or has in possession with intent to sell, for food or drink, anything described in the preceding section shall be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of veal of calf less than two weeks old - Chapter 94, Section 151
  Whoever kills or causes to be killed a calf when less than two weeks old, with intent to sell for food the veal thereof, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale and serving of horse meat regulated - Chapter 94, Section 151A
  Whoever, himself or by his agent, sells or exposes or offers for sale in a retail store horse meat which does not have attached thereto...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Publication of facts relating to condemnation of animal or property - Chapter 94, Section 152
  The board of health of the town where any animal or property has been condemned under section one hundred and forty-six may cause a description...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licensing business of buying, selling or transporting live poultry - Chapter 94, Section 152A
  No person or business entity shall engage in the business of buying, selling or transporting live poultry unless he shall have first obtained a license...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Transportation of live poultry; prohibited equipment; cleanings and disinfections; permits - Chapter 94, Section 152B
  The use of wooden crates, containers or coops in the transportation of live poultry to or from farms is hereby prohibited. No truck, cage, crate,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties for violations of Secs. 152A and 152B - Chapter 94, Section 152C
  Whoever violates any provision of section one hundred and fifty-two A or one hundred and fifty-two B shall be punished, for a first offence, by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1987, 703 - Chapter 94, Section 152D to 153
  Repealed, 1987,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties - Chapter 94, Section 153A
  Whoever himself or by his agent sells or offers for sale any meat or meat product to which has been added any sulphur dioxide or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Labeling of canned goods; grade; quality - Chapter 94, Section 154
  Canned articles of food shall not be offered for sale unless marked to indicate the grade or quality thereof and the name and address of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Marking of canned soaked goods and molasses - Chapter 94, Section 155
  All canned articles of food which have been prepared from dry products and have been soaked before canning shall be plainly marked by an adhesive...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Kosher food; labeling, sale and display; civil penalties - Chapter 94, Section 156
  (a) No person shall label, stamp, sell, advertise or expose for sale or permit such labeling, stamping, selling, advertising or exposing for sale any can,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of ice at retail - Chapter 94, Section 157
  Whoever, being engaged in the business of selling ice at retail, and not engaged in the delivery of the same under a contract, refuses to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Scales for vehicles used for retail delivery; list of current prices - Chapter 94, Section 158
  A dealer in ice, who refuses or neglects to provide scales for each vehicle used by him for the retail delivery of ice, or who...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Posting of prices on vehicles; weighing ice - Chapter 94, Section 159
  Whoever having charge of the retail delivery of ice from a vehicle neglects to keep conspicuously posted upon each side of the vehicle the current...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Impure ice - Chapter 94, Section 160
  The department of public health, upon written complaint of not less than twenty-five consumers of ice cut from any pond or stream and sold or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement of orders of department of public health - Chapter 94, Section 161
  Orders made under the preceding section shall be served upon any person selling or offering for sale impure ice, and may be enforced in equity...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appeal from order - Chapter 94, Section 162
  Whoever is aggrieved by any order made under section one hundred and sixty may appeal therefrom in the manner prescribed by section one hundred and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definition; adulteration - Chapter 94, Section 163
  Vinegar is hereby defined as being the result of alcoholic and subsequent acetous fermentation of natural fruit juices or vegetable products. Vinegar shall contain no...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Examination of vinegar; methods; publication - Chapter 94, Section 164
  The methods for the examination of vinegar shall be those adopted by the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists. When no such methods are applicable, such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Containers used for sale of vinegar; marking; labeling - Chapter 94, Section 165
  No manufacturer or producer of, or wholesale dealer in, vinegar shall, by himself or by his servant or agent, use a cask, barrel or other...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Collection of samples of vinegar; analysis - Chapter 94, Section 166
  The collection of samples of vinegar, as authorized by section three hundred and four, shall be made under the direction and supervision of the department...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Examination of samples; complaint for misbranding or adulteration; hearing - Chapter 94, Section 167
  Samples of vinegar taken under authority of law shall be examined by the department of public health or by boards of health of towns. If...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Imitation or counterfeit seal; possession; use; penalty - Chapter 94, Section 168
  Whoever makes, causes to be made, uses or has in his possession, an imitation or counterfeit of a seal used by an inspector or other...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement of penalties - Chapter 94, Section 169
  Each officer or person whose duty it is to enforce the laws relating to food and milk, shall enforce the laws relating to vinegar, and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Manufacture or sale of deleterious vinegar; penalty - Chapter 94, Section 170
  Each person who manufactures, offers or exposes for sale any vinegar found upon proper tests to contain any preparation of lead, copper, sulphuric acid or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale, etc., of adulterated vinegar; penalty - Chapter 94, Section 171
  Whoever himself or by his servant or agent sells, exchanges or delivers or has in his custody or possession with intent so to do, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Barrel and hogshead - Chapter 94, Section 172
  The barrel shall contain thirty-one and one half gallons and the hogshead two barrels, except that barrels containing malt beverages shall contain thirty-one gallons and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1922, 355, Sec. 8 - Chapter 94, Section 173
  Repealed, 1922, 355, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Cental - Chapter 94, Section 174
  A cental or hundredweight shall be one hundred pounds.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Standard weights of containers for grain products - Chapter 94, Section 174A
  No person shall pack for sale, sell, offer or expose for sale in this commonwealth, except in containers of net avoirdupois weights of five, ten,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1945, 92, Sec. 2 - Chapter 94, Section 175
  Repealed, 1945, 92, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Weight; definition; tolerances or variations - Chapter 94, Section 176
  “Weight” in a sale of commodities by weight shall mean the net weight of all commodities so sold; and contracts concerning such sales shall be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - False or insufficient weight or measure; misrepresentation of weight, quantity, or price; penalties - Chapter 94, Section 177
  Except as otherwise provided by section two hundred and forty-eight, whoever himself or by his servant or agent gives or attempts to give false or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules for weighing; certification; public weighers - Chapter 94, Section 178
  Each public weigher of goods or commodities shall weigh them according to section one hundred and seventy-six, and shall certify accordingly; and for each refusal...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1931, 426, Sec. 11 - Chapter 94, Section 179
  Repealed, 1931, 426, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Jurisdiction of court; complaints and prosecutions - Chapter 94, Section 180
  Complaints and prosecutions for violations of law relating to the use or giving of false or insufficient weight or measure may be commenced and prosecuted...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Net quantity of food packages; marking; application of section - Chapter 94, Section 181
  [ First paragraph effective until July 1, 2014. For text effective July 1, 2014, see below.] Subject to the variations, tolerances and exemptions provided for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Variations, tolerances and exceptions; rules and regulations - Chapter 94, Section 182
  The director of standards shall adopt the variations, tolerances and exemptions established, or hereafter established, by rules and regulations provided for by section three of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties - Chapter 94, Section 183
  Whoever violates any provision of section one hundred and eighty-one shall for the first offence be punished by a fine of not less than ten...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Hearing before prosecution; prosecution of guarantor - Chapter 94, Section 184
  Prosecutions under the preceding section shall not be commenced until the party concerned is notified and given an opportunity to be heard before the director...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Packages of proprietary or patent medicine or food containing drugs; labeling - Chapter 94, Section 184A
  Upon each package, bottle or other receptacle holding any proprietary or patent medicine, or proprietary or patent food preparation, containing alcohol, morphine, codeine, opium, heroin,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions applicable to Secs. 184B to 184E - Chapter 94, Section 184B
  As used in sections 184B to 184E, inclusive, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— “Advertised price”, the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Price disclosure and display on items offered for sale by food store or food department - Chapter 94, Section 184C
  (a) The correct price of an item offered for sale by a food store or a food department shall be disclosed to consumers in a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inspection of food stores and food departments for compliance with Secs. 184B to 184E; violations and fines; consumer complaint of noncompliance - Chapter 94, Section 184D
  (a) The deputy director or the deputy director's inspectors and sealers of weights and measures and those deputies, as defined in section 1 of chapter...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Conversion from individual item pricing system to consumer price scanner system; operation and inspection of consumer price scanner system - Chapter 94, Section 184E
  (a) A food store or food department seeking to convert from an individual item pricing system to a consumer price scanner system shall seek a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1921, 486, Sec. 26 - Chapter 94, Section 185
  Repealed, 1921, 486, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1937, 341, Sec. 4 - Chapter 94, Section 185A
  Repealed, 1937, 341, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Adulteration of drugs, foods, cosmetics and devices defined - Chapter 94, Section 186
  For the purposes of this chapter, an article shall be deemed to be adulterated:— In the case of a drug: First, if a drug sold...
• Massachusetts General Laws - “Misbranding” term defined when applied to drugs, foods, cosmetics and devices; when not to be deemed adulterated, etc. - Chapter 94, Section 187
  The term “misbranded” as used in this chapter shall apply to each drug, or article of food, or article which enters into the composition of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1971, 1071, Sec. 2 - Chapter 94, Section 187A to 187C
  Repealed, 1971, 1071, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Evasion of Secs. 186, 187 and 188 to 195; penalties - Chapter 94, Section 187D
  Whoever for the purpose of evading or assisting in the evasion of any provision of sections one hundred and eighty-six, one hundred and eighty-seven, one...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1971, 1071, Sec. 2 - Chapter 94, Section 187E to 187H
  Repealed, 1971, 1071, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Samples of food; collection; purchase - Chapter 94, Section 188
  The collection of samples under sections one hundred and eighty-six to one hundred and ninety-five, inclusive, and three hundred and four may be made by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Examination of samples, by whom made, etc.; complaints - Chapter 94, Section 189
  Examination of samples of food, drugs, cosmetics and devices, in order to determine by analysis or test whether such articles are adulterated or misbranded within...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Proceedings when food, drugs, cosmetics or devices suspected of being adulterated or misbranded; penalty - Chapter 94, Section 189A
  Whenever the commissioner of public health or his duly authorized agent finds or has probable cause to believe based upon inspection or chemical, bacteriological or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalty on manufacturer, etc. - Chapter 94, Section 190
  Whoever manufactures, delivers, or offers to deliver, any article of food or any drug, cosmetic or device which is adulterated or misbranded within the meaning...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1970, 891, Sec. 6 - Chapter 94, Section 191
  Repealed, 1970, 891, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations - Chapter 94, Section 192
  The department of public health shall enforce sections one hundred and eighty-six to one hundred and ninety-five, inclusive. Local boards of health shall enforce only...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Self-administered pregnancy kits; instructional brochures - Chapter 94, Section 192A
  The department of public health shall prescribe regulations requiring any pharmaceutical company which sells or delivers in the commonwealth self-administered pregnancy kits to include in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Prosecutions in certain cases forbidden; guaranty for protection; rules and regulations - Chapter 94, Section 193
  Except as provided in section one hundred and ninety-four, no dealer shall be prosecuted under sections one hundred and eighty-six to one hundred and ninety-five,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dealer establishing guaranty may be prosecuted, when - Chapter 94, Section 194
  After a sample of an article of food, drug, cosmetic or device, which is adulterated or misbranded has been taken from a person who establishes...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Adulterated shellfish; prosecution; defenses - Chapter 94, Section 194A
  In any prosecution in which it is alleged that the defendant for pay or otherwise delivered or offered to deliver to any person shellfish which...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Food fish products; labeling as “halibut”; penalty - Chapter 94, Section 194B
  Whoever labels or offers for sale any food fish product designated as “halibut”, with or without additional descriptive words, which is not of the species...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Construction and enforcement of Secs. 186 to 195 - Chapter 94, Section 195
  When construing and enforcing sections one hundred and eighty-six to one hundred and ninety-five, inclusive, the act, omission or failure of any officer, agent or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1948, 598, Sec. 8 - Chapter 94, Section 196
  Repealed, 1948, 598, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1971, 1071, Sec. 2 - Chapter 94, Section 197 to 217E
  Repealed, 1971, 1071, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1922, 355, Sec. 8 - Chapter 94, Section 218
  Repealed, 1922, 355, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Weighers of grain - Chapter 94, Section 219
  Mayors and selectmen shall annually appoint one or more weighers of grain, who shall be sworn to the faithful performance of their duty; and if...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1922, 355, Sec. 8 - Chapter 94, Section 220
  Repealed, 1922, 355, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fees of weighers - Chapter 94, Section 221
  The fees of weighers of grain and their deputies, if any are authorized, shall be prescribed by the aldermen or selectmen of the several towns...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of sale by cental - Chapter 94, Section 222
  If any wheat, corn, rye, oats, barley, buckwheat, cracked corn, ground corn or corn meal, ground rye or rye meal, or feed, or any other...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1922, 355, Sec. 8 - Chapter 94, Section 223
  Repealed, 1922, 355, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - False weights, scales, etc.; false and fraudulent certificate; collusion - Chapter 94, Section 224
  If a weigher or deputy weigher uses, or has in his possession with intent to use, for the purposes provided in sections two hundred and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1972, 365, Sec. 2 - Chapter 94, Section 225 to 235
  Repealed, 1972, 365, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Weighers of hay - Chapter 94, Section 236
  If a town or the city council of a city accepts this section or has accepted corresponding provisions of earlier laws, the mayor or selectmen...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale and delivery of seed; avoirdupois weight - Chapter 94, Section 237
  Except as otherwise provided in chapter ninety-nine, all contracts for the sale and delivery of timothy or herdsgrass seed shall be made by avoirdupois weight....
• Massachusetts General Laws - Weighers of coal - Chapter 94, Section 238
  The mayor or selectmen shall annually appoint, and may remove, weighers of coal, one of whom at least shall not be engaged in the business...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1931, 426, Sec. 12 - Chapter 94, Section 239
  Repealed, 1931, 426, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Standard sizes for anthracite coal; variances or tolerances - Chapter 94, Section 239A
  The director of standards shall from time to time by rule or regulation establish standard sizes for anthracite coal offered for sale within the commonwealth,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of coal, coke and charcoal by weight - Chapter 94, Section 240
  Coal shall be sold by weight, and, except when sold by cargo, two thousand pounds avoirdupois shall be the standard for the ton. Coke and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of coal, coke and charcoal in bags, sacks or baskets; marking - Chapter 94, Section 241
  Coal in quantities of one hundred pounds or less shall be sold by weight, and coke and charcoal in quantities of one hundred pounds or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of coal, coke and charcoal in baskets or receptacles; requisites - Chapter 94, Section 242
  Baskets or similar receptacles used in selling coke, charcoal or unpacked kindling wood by measure shall be of one bushel or multiple thereof, Massachusetts standard...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of coke and charcoal in paper bags or sacks; specifications; measure; marking - Chapter 94, Section 243
  Paper bags or sacks used or intended to be used in the sale of coke, charcoal or kindling wood by measure shall be not less...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of weight; contents; examination - Chapter 94, Section 244
  Whoever, except as provided in section two hundred and forty-one, sells coke, charcoal or coal by weight, or whoever sells material for road construction by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Direction that goods be weighed; powers of director of standards, etc., and sealer - Chapter 94, Section 245
  The director of standards or any inspector of standards in any town, or a sealer of weights and measures within his town, wherein any quantity...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Record of weights and measures; keeping - Chapter 94, Section 246
  Each sealer of weights and measures of a town and each sworn weigher shall keep in a book used by him solely for that purpose...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of edgings and kindling wood - Chapter 94, Section 247
  Edgings or kindling wood shall not be sold in bundles unless the same are closely packed and are not less than twenty-seven inches in circumference....
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties; enforcement of law - Chapter 94, Section 248
  Whoever violates any provision of sections two hundred and forty to two hundred and forty-seven, inclusive, if no other penalty is provided therein, or of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Possession of illegal measures; penalty - Chapter 94, Section 249
  A vendor of coal, coke, charcoal or kindling wood, who has in his possession a basket, bag, sack or other measure which does not conform...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inspection of coal; analysis of samples; condemnation - Chapter 94, Section 249A
  The department of public health, local boards of health, the director of standards and local sealers of weights and measures, by themselves or by their...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Interference with officials; penalty - Chapter 94, Section 249B
  Any person who hinders, obstructs or interferes with the department of public health, local boards of health, the director of standards, local sealers of weights...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of condemned coal - Chapter 94, Section 249C
  Whoever, by himself, or by his servant, agent or employee, sells, exposes or offers for sale, or has in his custody or possession with intent...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of unfit coal - Chapter 94, Section 249D
  Whoever, by himself, or by his servant, agent or employee, sells, exposes or offers for sale, or has in his custody or possession with intent...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Placing foreign substances in coal receptacles; sale - Chapter 94, Section 249E
  Whoever, by himself, or by his servant, agent or employee, in placing or packing coal in any basket, bag, sack or other receptacle, places or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Presumption of excessiveness of non-combustible residue - Chapter 94, Section 249E1/2
  It shall be presumed in a prosecution under section two hundred and forty-eight or section two hundred and forty-nine E that the noncombustible residue, including...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement of Secs. 249A to 249E1/2 - Chapter 94, Section 249F
  The department of public health, local boards of health, the director of standards and local sealers of weights and measures shall cause sections two hundred...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1941, 155, Sec. 3 - Chapter 94, Section 249G
  Repealed, 1941, 155, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Heating oil standards; rules and regulations; samples; entry and inspection; violations; penalties - Chapter 94, Section 249H
  The director of standards shall promulgate rules and regulations establishing standards for the various grades of heating oils, requiring manufacturers or distributors to furnish samples...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Classification as eligible petroleum distillate substitute fuel; minimum content requirements; application of percentage requirements on statewide average basis; inspection of samples; quality assurance; accreditation - Chapter 94, Section 249H1/2
  (1) As used in this section, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:- “BQ-9000”, the National Biodiesel Accreditation...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1973, 607, Sec. 4 - Chapter 94, Section 250 to 261
  Repealed, 1973, 607, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1975, 203, Sec. 1 - Chapter 94, Section 261A to 261L
  Repealed, 1975, 203, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inspectors of lime - Chapter 94, Section 262
  The mayor of a city or the selectmen of a town where lime is manufactured, or into which it is imported, may annually appoint one...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Branding casks of lime - Chapter 94, Section 263
  Each cask of lime so inspected shall be branded with the word “inspected”, with the name of the inspector and with the name of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fees of inspectors - Chapter 94, Section 264
  An inspector of lime shall receive four cents for the inspection and branding of each cask of such manufactured lime, which shall be paid by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Quality of lime and casks - Chapter 94, Section 265
  No stone lime manufactured within the commonwealth shall be sold or exposed for sale, or shipped on board a vessel in casks, unless it is...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of lime in unauthorized casks; penalty - Chapter 94, Section 266
  Whoever sells, exposes for sale, ships or receives on board a vessel in casks, any lime manufactured in the commonwealth, other than such as is...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Shifting contents of branded casks - Chapter 94, Section 267
  Whoever, after a cask containing lime has been branded as aforesaid, shifts the contents of such cask and puts therein other lime with intent to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Forfeiture of casks - Chapter 94, Section 268
  A cask of lime which is sold, exposed for sale, or put on board a vessel, contrary to any provision of sections two hundred and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1931, 426, Sec. 13 - Chapter 94, Section 269
  Repealed, 1931, 426, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 94, Section 270
  The following words and phrases as used in this section and in sections two hundred and seventy-one to two hundred and seventy-seven, inclusive, which sections...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1959, 611, Sec. 2 - Chapter 94, Section 270A to 270D
  Repealed, 1959, 611, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licensing; manufacturers and retailers; powers of director - Chapter 94, Section 271
  Except as otherwise provided, any person who advertises, solicits or contracts to manufacture upholstered furniture, bedding or stuffed toys and who either does the work...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Resale of mattress, box spring, studio couch or futon mattress; notice to consumer - Chapter 94, Section 271A
  Notwithstanding any general or special law or rule or regulation to the contrary, a mattress, box spring, studio couch or futon mattress which has been...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Labeling; manner; power of department; reciprocity; removal of labels - Chapter 94, Section 272
  No person shall manufacture or sell at wholesale or retail or otherwise, directly or indirectly, make, repair, renovate or offer or expose for sale, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licensing; establishments for sterilization; examination of establishments; sterilizations - Chapter 94, Section 273
  No person shall engage in the business of sterilizing articles or filling materials referred to in sections two hundred and seventy to two hundred and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations; advisory board - Chapter 94, Section 274
  The department is authorized to establish and promulgate all rules and regulations, including those pertaining to labeling and sterilization, necessary to carry out the provisions...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licenses; applications; fees - Chapter 94, Section 275
  The application for each license and annual license renewal shall be accompanied by a fee as determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inspector; powers and duties - Chapter 94, Section 276
  The inspector shall have access to any premises in which is kept or stored any article of bedding, upholstered furniture, stuffed toy, or filling material...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties - Chapter 94, Section 277
  Whoever violates any provision of sections two hundred and seventy to two hundred and seventy-six, inclusive, shall be punished by a fine of not less...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Marking or labelling of furs; misrepresentations - Chapter 94, Section 277A
  All natural, dyed or imitation furs, and all articles made wholly or partly therefrom, sold at retail within the commonwealth, shall be plainly marked or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Foreign goods or services; marking; advertisement; penalty - Chapter 94, Section 277B
  No person shall sell, or offer or expose for sale any machinery, hardware, ladders, shoes or other footwear, fabrics, suits or other wearing apparel, sporting...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Original paintings - Chapter 94, Section 277C
  No person shall sell, or offer or expose for sale, or have in his possession with intent to sell, any painting which is not an...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nails and brads; manufacture; packing - Chapter 94, Section 278
  Wrought, cut or wire nails and brads of all sizes manufactured in the commonwealth shall be well made, packed free from waste pieces of iron...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Marking or branding of casks - Chapter 94, Section 279
  Each cask of wrought, cut or wire nails or brads shall be marked or branded on the head by the manufacturer, in plain, legible letters...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of unbranded or unmarked casks of nails or brads - Chapter 94, Section 280
  If a cask, package or quantity of wrought, cut or wire nails or brads, manufactured in the commonwealth or elsewhere and not branded or marked...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Counterfeiting brand, etc.; penalty - Chapter 94, Section 281
  Whoever counterfeits a brand used or intended to be used for the purpose of marking a cask of nails or brads, or destroys or alters...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Disposition of forfeitures - Chapter 94, Section 282
  All forfeitures recovered under the two preceding sections shall be divided equally between the informer and the commonwealth.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Slot machines and other automatic devices; use regulated - Chapter 94, Section 283
  No person shall maintain any slot machines or other automatic device, except gas meters, electric meters and telephones, which, upon the deposit therein of any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalty - Chapter 94, Section 284
  Whoever installs or maintains a machine or device mentioned in the preceding section which is of a type not approved as therein provided shall, if...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sewing thread; sale; marking - Chapter 94, Section 285
  It shall be unlawful to keep for the purpose of sale, offer or expose for sale, or sell any sewing, basting, mending, darning, crochet, tatting,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sewing thread; identification of manufacturer or distributor - Chapter 94, Section 286
  The marking as required in section two hundred and eighty-five shall in all cases be in combination with the name and place of business of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Weight or measure variances - Chapter 94, Section 287
  An average of not less than ten units of thread of the same type and put-up, selected at random from such units referred to in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalty - Chapter 94, Section 288
  A manufacturer, merchant, jobber, or trader who keeps for the purpose of sale, offers or exposes for sale, or sells any such units of thread...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Turpentine; manufacture; sale; marking; adulteration - Chapter 94, Section 289
  No person shall manufacture, mix for sale, dispose of, offer or expose for sale, have in possession with intent to sell or dispose of, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement of Sec. 289 - Chapter 94, Section 290
  The state police and all local police authorities shall enforce the preceding section.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of paint or linseed oil - Chapter 94, Section 291
  No person shall sell, offer or expose for sale, or dispose of, or have in possession with intent to sell or dispose of, any paint...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Possession by dealer of incorrectly labeled turpentine, paint or linseed oil - Chapter 94, Section 292
  The having in possession, by any person dealing in such articles, of any article or substance designated in section two hundred and eighty-nine or two...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inspection of paint, etc.; complaint; appointment of inspectors; powers and duties - Chapter 94, Section 293
  Upon the written complaint of any person aggrieved by any violation of section two hundred and eighty-nine or two hundred and ninety-one, the state police...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Interference with inspector - Chapter 94, Section 294
  Whoever hinders, obstructs or in any way interferes with any inspector, analyst or other officer appointed or acting under the preceding section while in the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unlawful sale - Chapter 94, Section 295
  Whoever violates any provision of section two hundred and ninety-one shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than one...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 94, Section 295A
  When used in sections two hundred and ninety-five A to two hundred and ninety-five W, inclusive:— (1) The term “retail dealer” shall mean any person...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licensing of retail dealers - Chapter 94, Section 295B
  No retail dealer shall engage in the business of selling motor fuel or automotive lubricating oil at retail without first procuring from the division a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Display of price of motor fuel on dispensing devices - Chapter 94, Section 295C
  A retail dealer of motor fuel shall publicly display and maintain on each pump or other dispensing device from which motor fuel is sold by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Advertisement of motor fuel - Chapter 94, Section 295D
  Any advertisement of motor fuel by a retail dealer which states, refers to or relates to the price of motor fuel shall state the per...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Posting price on pump or other dispensing device; duration; selling price; rebates, premiums, etc.; restrictions; penalties; inapplicability to self-service pump dispensing - Chapter 94, Section 295E
  The price posted on any pump or other dispensing device from which motor fuel is sold, as required by section two hundred and ninety-five C,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Marking of brand name, etc., of product on above-ground storage or dispensing equipment - Chapter 94, Section 295F
  All above-ground equipment for storing or dispensing motor fuel or automotive lubricating oil operated by a retail dealer shall bear in a conspicuous place the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Standards for gasoline; adulteration or substitution of motor fuel or lubricating oil - Chapter 94, Section 295G
  No person shall sell or offer to sell as gasoline any motor fuel or other substance which has an end point higher than four hundred...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Classification as eligible diesel substitute fuel; minimum content requirements; application of percentage requirements on statewide average basis; inspection of samples; quality assurance; accreditation - Chapter 94, Section 295G1/2
  (1) As used in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings:- “BQ-9000”, the National Biodiesel Accreditation Program for producers and marketers of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Administration and enforcement of Secs. 295A to 295O - Chapter 94, Section 295H
  The division and any representative authorized by the director of standards and any person authorized under section 34, 35 or 36 of chapter 98 shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Orders, rules and regulations; adoption; amendment; repeal - Chapter 94, Section 295I
  The division may adopt, amend, alter or repeal, and shall enforce, all such reasonable orders, rules and regulations as may be necessary or suitable for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Records of retail dealer - Chapter 94, Section 295J
  Every retail dealer shall keep such records as may be prescribed by the orders, rules or regulations adopted by the division under section two hundred...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalty for violation of Secs. 295A to 295J - Chapter 94, Section 295K
  Whoever, himself or by his agent or servant, violates any provision of sections two hundred and ninety-five A to two hundred and ninety-five J, inclusive,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Jurisdiction of superior court; injunctions - Chapter 94, Section 295L
  The superior court shall have jurisdiction in equity to enjoin the habitual, continued or repeated violation of any provision of sections two hundred and ninety-five...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Conflicts with other laws - Chapter 94, Section 295M
  Whenever the application of any provision of any other law of this commonwealth conflicts with the application of any provision of sections two hundred and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Partial invalidity - Chapter 94, Section 295N
  If any provision of said sections two hundred and ninety-five A to two hundred and ninety-five O, inclusive, or the application of such provision to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Citation of Secs. 295A to 295O; Motor Fuel Sales Act - Chapter 94, Section 295O
  Sections two hundred and ninety-five A to two hundred and ninety-five O, inclusive, shall be known and may be cited as the “Motor Fuel Sales
• Massachusetts General Laws - Retail sale of motor fuel below cost - Chapter 94, Section 295P
  No retail dealer shall, with intent to injure competitors or destroy substantially or lessen competition, advertise, offer to sell, or sell at retail motor fuel...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Cost survey as evidence of cost - Chapter 94, Section 295Q
  Where the retail dealers or any part thereof in a trading area have caused to be made by an independent agency a cost survey of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application of Secs. 295P to 295W to retail sales - Chapter 94, Section 295R
  The provisions of sections two hundred and ninety-five P to two hundred and ninety-five W, inclusive, shall not apply to sales at retail made:— (a)...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalty for violating Sec. 295P - Chapter 94, Section 295S
  Any retail dealer who violates any of the provisions of section two hundred and ninety-five P shall be punished by a fine of not more...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Jurisdiction of superior court; injunctions; prosecutions by district attorneys - Chapter 94, Section 295T
  On complaint of any retail dealer the superior court shall have jurisdiction in equity to restrain and enjoin any act declared illegal by any provision...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Conflicts with other laws - Chapter 94, Section 295U
  Whenever the application of the provisions of any other law of this commonwealth conflicts with the application of the provisions of sections two hundred and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Partial invalidity - Chapter 94, Section 295V
  If any provision of sections two hundred and ninety-five P to two hundred and ninety-five W, inclusive, or the application of such provision to any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Citation of Secs. 295P to 295W; Unfair Sales Act for the Retail Sale of Motor Fuels - Chapter 94, Section 295W
  Sections two hundred and ninety-five P to two hundred and ninety-five W, inclusive, shall be known and may be cited as the “Unfair Sales Act...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1974, 7 - Chapter 94, Section 295X
  Repealed, 1974,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1973, 216 - Chapter 94, Section 295Y
  Repealed, 1973,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1979, 796, Sec. 12 - Chapter 94, Section 295Z to 295BB
  Repealed, 1979, 796, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Handicapped persons; motor fuel dispensing - Chapter 94, Section 295CC
  Every licensed retail motor fuel dealer who offers for sale from both full-service and self-service motor fuel pumps or other dispensing devices from which motor...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Measurers of wood and bark - Chapter 94, Section 296
  A town and the city council of a city shall annually choose one or more measures of wood and bark, who shall be sworn to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Acting in adjoining towns - Chapter 94, Section 297
  Such measurers may, in the manner prescribed for measurers of lumber in section eight of chapter ninety-six, be licensed to act in a town adjoining...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of cordwood; dimensions; standard units of measure defined - Chapter 94, Section 298
  Cordwood sold or offered or exposed for sale shall be four feet in length. The term “firewood” shall be construed to mean and include wood...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Delivery ticket or sales invoice - Chapter 94, Section 299
  Whoever, except as otherwise provided, sells cordwood or firewood, shall cause a delivery ticket or sales invoice to be issued and delivered to the purchaser...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fees of measurers - Chapter 94, Section 300
  Measurers of wood and bark shall be entitled to such fees for their services as the aldermen or selectmen shall establish; and the fees shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Measurement of water borne wood; fees - Chapter 94, Section 301
  Cord wood brought by water into a town for sale, and landed, shall be measured by a public measurer; and for that purpose the wood...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Tickets certifying quantity in load; application of Secs. 296 to 303 - Chapter 94, Section 302
  Each wharfinger, carter or driver who conveys firewood or bark from a wharf or landing place shall be furnished by the owner or seller with...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of prepared wood, bark, slabs and edgings for fuel; surveyors and inspectors - Chapter 94, Section 303
  The city counsel of a city may establish ordinances, with suitable penalties not exceeding five dollars for any one violation thereof, for the regulation of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licensing of manufacture, sale and transportation - Chapter 94, Section 303A
  No person other than a registered druggist shall engage in the business of manufacturing, buying, selling, transporting, importing, exporting or dealing in methyl alcohol, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fees for licenses; renewals; suspension; records - Chapter 94, Section 303B
  The board of health of a town may issue to properly qualified persons licenses to engage therein in the business described in section three hundred...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Marking containers - Chapter 94, Section 303C
  Every barrel, keg, bottle or other container containing methyl alcohol or wood alcohol, so called, or any drug or medicine intended for external use containing...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale by unlicensed person; sale to minors; sale for drinking purposes prohibited - Chapter 94, Section 303D
  The sale of methyl alcohol or wood alcohol, so called, or any preparation containing methyl alcohol as described in section three hundred and three A...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalty - Chapter 94, Section 303E
  Except as otherwise provided in section three hundred and three C, violation of any provision of sections three hundred and three A to three hundred...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fuel oils or propane; delivery tickets; contents; use of copies; inspections; evidence; penalties - Chapter 94, Section 303F
  Whoever sells or delivers fuel oils or propane in quantities of twenty gallons or over for heating or cooking purposes shall cause a delivery ticket,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 94, Section 303G
  As used in this section and sections three hundred and three H to three hundred and three L, inclusive, the following words shall, unless the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Minimum standards; adulteration - Chapter 94, Section 303H
  The division shall establish minimum standards of strength and quality for anti-freeze. An anti-freeze shall be deemed to be adulterated if it consists in whole...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Misbranded anti-freeze; labels for containers - Chapter 94, Section 303I
  An anti-freeze shall be deemed to be misbranded if its labeling is false or misleading in any particular; or if sold in a container which...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inspection of sample; issuance and cancellation of permits - Chapter 94, Section 303J
  No anti-freeze shall be sold, offered for sale, or held with intent to sell within the commonwealth unless a sample thereof has been inspected by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement; samples; inspection of premises, etc. - Chapter 94, Section 303K
  The division shall administer and enforce the provisions of sections three hundred and three G to three hundred and three J, inclusive, by inspections, chemical...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations - Chapter 94, Section 303L
  The division may promulgate such rules and regulations as are necessary to promptly and effectively enforce the provisions of sections three hundred and three G...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalty - Chapter 94, Section 303M
  Whoever violates any provision of section three hundred and three J shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of engine coolant or antifreeze not containing a bittering agent prohibited - Chapter 94, Section 303N
  Notwithstanding any general or special law, rule or regulation to the contrary, except as may be otherwise provided in this section, engine coolant or antifreeze...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Vendor to furnish sample for analysis; penalty - Chapter 94, Section 304
  Whoever offers or exposes for sale or delivers to a purchaser any drug, cosmetic or device, or article of food, shall, upon application of an...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fraud in packing commodities sold by weight; penalties - Chapter 94, Section 305
  Whoever, with intent to defraud or injure, in baling or in packing in any container any commodity sold by weight, including wool, leather, cotton, waste,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Improper manufacture, preparation, etc. of food; food defined; rules and regulations; penalties - Chapter 94, Section 305A
  Unless another penalty is provided under this chapter, whoever for the purpose of sale manufactures, prepares, packs, cans, bottles, keeps, exposes, stores, handles, serves, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Medical examination of persons handling food; rules and regulations; employment of persons afflicted with disease; food defined - Chapter 94, Section 305B
  The commissioner of public health, on his own initiative or at the request of a local board of health, may require any person working in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Food processor or distributor licensing; application of section - Chapter 94, Section 305C
  The department shall issue and may renew on an annual basis a license to every person engaged in the business of processing or distributing food...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Restaurants; devices or procedures to remove food lodged in persons’ throats; insurance; tort immunity - Chapter 94, Section 305D
  Each restaurant, having a seating capacity of twenty-five persons or more, shall have on its premises a device approved by the department of public health...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Transportation of bakery products; permit - Chapter 94, Section 305E
  No person shall transport or cause to be transported into the commonwealth any bakery product for the purpose of sale without having obtained a permit...
• Massachusetts General Laws - General penalty for counterfeit or wrongful branding or marking of articles - Chapter 94, Section 306
  Unless another penalty is provided in this chapter, whoever counterfeits any brand required by this chapter or whoever without authority marks or brands any article...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Tobacco products contaminated by fire, smoke or water; possession or sale; penalty - Chapter 94, Section 307
  No person shall deliver, sell, offer for sale or have in possession with intent to sell any cigarettes, cigars, tobacco, pipes or any other implement...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Single unpackaged cigarettes; sale or possession; penalty - Chapter 94, Section 307A
  No person shall sell, offer for sale or have in possession with intent to sell single unpackaged cigarettes. Whoever violates the provision of this section...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Manufacture of tobacco products; annual reports including added constituents and nicotine yield ratings; disclosure; exclusions - Chapter 94, Section 307B
  For the purpose of protecting the public health, any manufacturer of cigarettes, snuff or chewing tobacco sold in the commonwealth shall provide the department of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Tobacco products; sale or shipment to minors; prevention - Chapter 94, Section 307C
  The department of public health may, in consultation with the attorney general and the department of revenue, establish regulations for persons engaged in the sale...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 94, Section 308
  In this section and sections three hundred and nine to three hundred and twelve, inclusive, the following words shall, unless the context requires otherwise, have...
• Massachusetts General Laws - License; necessity; application; issuance; display; fees - Chapter 94, Section 309
  No person shall engage in the operation of a vending machine without a license issued by the commissioner. Any person desiring to operate a vending...
• Massachusetts General Laws - List of locations; inspection of premises - Chapter 94, Section 310
  Each licensee shall keep a list of all locations within the commonwealth wherein vending machines are operated by him and of all commissaries servicing such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Suspension or revocation of license; notice and hearing; reinstatement of license - Chapter 94, Section 311
  (a) A license to operate a vending machine may be suspended by the commissioner for violation of any provision of this chapter, or may be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Food, beverage and ingredients processed and prepared outside commonwealth; conditions for sale - Chapter 94, Section 312
  Food, beverage and ingredients processed and prepared in commissaries outside the commonwealth may be sold in a vending machine within the commonwealth, if such commissaries...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties - Chapter 94, Section 313
  Whoever violates any provision of sections three hundred and eight to three hundred and twelve, inclusive, or who continues to operate a vending machine after...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions applicable to Secs. 315 to 318 - Chapter 94, Section 314
  As used in sections three hundred and fifteen through three hundred and eighteen, inclusive, the following words and phrases shall, unless the context otherwise requires,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Display, offer for sale, or sale of certain appliances prohibited - Chapter 94, Section 315
  No person shall display for sale to consumers or for promotional purposes an appliance required by the director to be labelled under the provisions of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Labels required; regulations; information; form, etc. - Chapter 94, Section 316
  The director may, in accordance with the provisions of chapter thirty A, adopt and amend regulations which require that each appliance in a class or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Standardized computation and testing procedures; reports - Chapter 94, Section 317
  The director may, in accordance with the provisions of chapter thirty A, adopt regulations for standardized computation procedures to be used to determine the information...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties; violations of Secs. 315 and 317 - Chapter 94, Section 318
  Whoever knowingly violates the provisions of section three hundred and fifteen shall be punished for each offense by a fine of not more than five...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Construction of malt beverage or soft drink metal containers - Chapter 94, Section 319
  No person shall distribute, sell, or offer for sale any malt beverage or carbonated soft drink for consumption within the commonwealth in a metal can...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Ownership; transfer of title - Chapter 94, Section 320
  For the purposes of this section, the following words shall have the following meanings:— “Customer”, any individual or entity who causes a molder to fabricate,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 94, Section 321
  In sections three hundred and twenty-one to three hundred and twenty-seven, inclusive, the following definitions shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Refund value; exemption - Chapter 94, Section 322
  Every beverage container sold or offered for sale in the commonwealth shall have a refund value of not less than five cents. The provisions of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Return of container; refund; refusal to accept container - Chapter 94, Section 323
  (a) Every consumer shall deposit with the dealer the refund value of each beverage container purchased from that dealer. (b) Except as provided in paragraph...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Distribution or sale of plastic bottles or rigid plastic containers; labeling requirements - Chapter 94, Section 323A
  No person shall distribute, sell or offer for sale any plastic bottle or rigid plastic container, or any product in such a bottle or container,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reports - Chapter 94, Section 323B
  Every bottler or distributor shall report to the commissioner of revenue by the tenth day of each month, concerning transactions affecting its Deposit Transaction Fund...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Abandoned deposit amounts; determination - Chapter 94, Section 323C
  At the end of each month, any amounts that are or should be in a bottler’s or distributor’s Deposit Transaction Fund and that are in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Transfer of abandoned deposit amounts - Chapter 94, Section 323D
  By the tenth day of each month, each bottler or distributor shall turn over to the commissioner of revenue any deposit amounts deemed to be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reimbursements to bottlers or distributors - Chapter 94, Section 323E
  If in any month the authorized payments from the Deposit Transaction Fund by a bottler or distributor pursuant to paragraph (h) of section three hundred...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 296 - Chapter 94, Section 323F
  Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Holding or connecting devices; break down by bacteria or light - Chapter 94, Section 324
  No dealer shall sell or offer for sale in the commonwealth containers connected to each other by a separate holding device constructed of plastic rings...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Refund value; statement on container; vending machines - Chapter 94, Section 325
  (a) Every beverage container, except permanently labelled reusable glass containers, imported into, or offered for sale in the commonwealth by a bottler, distributor, or dealer...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Administration; rules and regulations - Chapter 94, Section 326
  The secretary of environmental affairs shall administer the provisions of sections three hundred and twenty-one, three hundred and twenty-two, paragraphs (a) to (f), inclusive, of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement; penalty; interest - Chapter 94, Section 327
  The attorney general and district attorneys shall enforce the provisions of sections three hundred and twenty-one to three hundred and twenty-seven, inclusive. Any bottler, distributor,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Food donations; distribution, service and preparation; civil liability - Chapter 94, Section 328
  No person who donates food, including open-dated food whose date has passed, to a nonprofit corporation for distribution or serving by such nonprofit corporation without...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Potluck events; exemption from regulation by department of public health or local board of health - Chapter 94, Section 328A
  [ Text of section added by 2014, 230 effective November 3, 2014.] For the purposes of this section, "potluck event'' shall mean an event that...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale, possession or use of lacquer sealer prohibited; penalties - Chapter 94, Section 329
  (a) As used in this section, the following words shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the following meanings:— “Commercial wood floor finishing operation”, the...

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