Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 140, § 32A: Necessity of license; motel defined

Section 32A. No person shall conduct, control, manage or operate, directly or indirectly, any recreational camp, overnight camp or cabin, motel or manufactured housing community unless he is the holder of a license granted under the following section. The term ''motel'', as used in section twenty-seven, in this section, and in sections thirty-two B to thirty-two E, inclusive, shall be construed to mean any building or group of buildings which provide sleeping accommodations for transient motorists and which is not licensed as an inn.