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Massachusetts · Through amendments passed before May 31, 2026

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 266, § 131: Sunday trespassers; arrest and detention without warrant

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  1. Part IV
  2. Title I
  3. Chapter 266

Section 131. Whoever is discovered in the act of wilfully injuring a fruit or forest tree or of committing any kind of malicious mischief on Sunday may be arrested without a warrant by a sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, police officer or other person, and detained in jail or otherwise until a complaint can be made against him for the offence, and he be taken upon a warrant issued upon such complaint; but such detention without warrant shall not continue beyond the following day.

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