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- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271, § 17B · Use of electronic communications records in ongoing criminal investigations; subpoena of records
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271, § 18 · Policy lotteries or shops; production, sale or possession of lottery tickets or tokens
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271, § 19 · Production, advertisement or delivery of tickets; receipt of money; prima facie evidence
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271, § 20 · Tickets, memoranda, books and sheets; nuisance; possession; concealment
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271, § 21 · Words, figures or characters referring to game or contest; prima facie evidence; proof
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271, § 22 · Delivery to or from a person engaged in a lottery or other illegal gaming
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271, § 22A · Whist or bridge for charitable and similar purposes
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271, § 22B · Beano; sale of lottery tickets
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271, § 23 · Oath and warrant to enter gaming or lottery place, arrest persons and seize implements and materials; disposal of articles
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271, § 24 · Race tracks; owners, proprietors of, or persons present
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271, § 25 · Obstructions barring access to gaming places; removal; lien of expenses
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271, § 26 · Subsequent obstructions; removal; punishment; lien
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271, § 27 · Judicial notice of methods and character of lotteries, policy games, pools and betting; prima facie evidence
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271, § 28 · Lotteries or illegal gaming; complaints and indictments
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271, § 29 · Sale, exchange or disposition of property; misrepresentation
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271, § 30 · Trading stamps or similar devices; sale or delivery
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271, § 31 · Racing horses for bets or stakes
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271, § 31A · Racing results or information; transmission for unlawful purposes
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271, § 32 · Horse racing; fraud
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271, § 33 · Race grounds in towns
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271, § 34 · Race grounds as nuisance; abatement
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271, § 35 · Definition of words and phrases used in Secs. 35 to 38
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271, § 36 · Bucketing contracts; keeper of shop; domestic and foreign corporations
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271, § 37 · Prohibited contracts; price quotations
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271, § 38 · Purchases and sales of securities or commodities; written statement
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271, § 39 · Gifts to influence business affairs; threats
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271, § 39A · Gifts to influence action of participants in, and others connected with, a game or contest
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271, § 40 · Appointment, reinstatement or discharge of employee of public service corporation or racing licensee on recommendation of public officer, officer elect or candidate
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271, § 41 · Offices not public offices under Sec. 40
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271, § 42 · Boxing matches or exhibitions; betting or selling pools
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271, § 43 · Solicitation, disclosure, receipt or use of information concerning public assistance
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271, § 44 · Hospital or sanitarium patient; settlement, release or statement; admissibility
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271, § 45 · Repealed, 1982, 21, Sec. 2
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271, § 46 · Discarded containers originally used for refrigerative purposes; removal of doors
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271, § 47 · Telephones; gambling convictions; approval for installation; notices of convictions and removals
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271, § 48 · Civil service preparatory courses; advertisement
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271, § 49 · Criminal usury
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271, § 50 · Sale of research papers, etc.; taking of examinations for another at educational institutions
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271, § 51 · Photos taken outside of first responder's official duties; penalties
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271A, § 1 · Definitions
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271A, § 2 · Enterprise crime; penalties
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271A, § 3 · Seizure and forfeiture of proceeds or property obtained as result of violation of chapter
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 1 · Enticing away person under 16 for marriage
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 2 · Enticing away person for prostitution or sexual intercourse
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 3 · Drugging persons for sexual intercourse
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 4 · Inducing person under eighteen to have sexual intercourse
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 4A · Inducing minor into prostitution
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 4B · Living off or sharing earnings of minor prostitute
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 5 · Repealed, 1987, 522, Sec. 22
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 6 · Owner of place inducing or suffering person to resort in such place for sexual intercourse
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 7 · Support from, or sharing, earnings of prostitute
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 8 · Soliciting for prostitute
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 9 · Oath and warrant to enter place for prostitution; detention of person in control and prostitute; recognizance to appear as witness
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 10 · Arrest without warrant
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 11 · Corroboration of one witness; limitations
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 12 · Procuring person to practice, or enter a place for, prostitution; employment office procuring person
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 13 · Detaining, or drugging to detain, person in place for prostitution
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 14 · Repealed, 2018, 155, Sec. 2
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 15 · Polygamy
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 16 · Open and gross lewdness and lascivious behavior
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 17 · Incestuous marriage or sexual activities
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 18to21 · Repealed, 2018, 155, Sec. 2
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 21A · Furnishing drugs, articles or information for prevention of pregnancy or conception
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 21B · Privately controlled hospital or health facility; abortion or sterilization procedures; contraceptive devices and family planning services
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 22 · Concealment of death of child born out of wedlock
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 23 · Joinder of charges of murder and offense under Sec. 22
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 24 · Keeping house of ill fame
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 25 · Obstructing view of restaurant or tavern patrons; barricaded entrances
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 26 · Resorting to restaurants or taverns for immoral purposes
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 27 · Record of convictions under Sec. 25 or Sec. 26 sent to licensing officers
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 28 · Matter harmful to minors, dissemination; possession; defenses
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 28A, 28B · Repealed, 1974, 430, Sec. 2
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 28C · Information or petition against obscene books; order of notice to show cause; notice of order; interlocutory adjudication; defense
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 28D · Answer to notice; right to jury trial
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 28E · Order of default; adjudication
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 28F · Hearing; evidence; adjudication
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 28G · Objection that mere judgment sought and no relief claimed on issue of knowledge
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 28H · Proceeding under Sec. 28C as evidence in trial under Sec. 29; presumptions as to knowledge
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 28I · Certain procedures as condition precedent to institution of proceedings for dissemination of obscene books
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 29 · Dissemination or possession of obscene matter; punishment; defense
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 29A · Posing or exhibiting child in state of nudity or sexual conduct; punishment
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 29B · Dissemination of visual material of child in state of nudity or sexual conduct; punishment
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 29C · Knowing purchase or possession of visual material of child depicted in sexual conduct; punishment
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 29D · Possession, purchase or dissemination by minor of visual material of child in state of nudity or depicted in sexual conduct; punishment
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 30 · Injunctive relief against dissemination of obscene matter; jurisdiction; procedures; appeal
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 30A to 30C · Repealed, 1974, 430, Sec. 11
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 30D · Dissemination of visual material of child in state of nudity or sexual conduct; injunction; jurisdiction
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 31 · Definitions
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 32 · Motion picture theater managers or operators; applicability of Secs. 28, 29 and 29A
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 33 · Exhibition of deformities
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 34 · Crime against nature
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 35 · Unnatural and lascivious acts
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 35A · Unnatural and lascivious acts with child under 16
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 36 · Blasphemy
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 36A · Sporting events; penalty for abuse of participants and officials
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 37 · Repealed, 1962, 285, Sec. 4
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 38 · Disturbance of assembly for worship
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 39 · Selling goods and provisions, caring for horses, illegal gaming, horse racing or exhibits near camp meetings
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 40 · Disturbance of assemblies; conduct of students on school grounds or in the course of school-related events
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 40A · Alcoholic beverages; gift, sale, delivery or possession on public school premises