{"data":{"id":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-111-156","jurisdiction":"us-ma","citation":"Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 111, § 156","heading":"Stables in vicinity of churches","body":"Section 156. No person shall in a city occupy or use a building for a livery stable, or a stable for taking or keeping horses and carriages for hire or to let, within two hundred feet of a church or meeting house erected and used for the public worship of God, without the written consent of the religious society or parish worshipping therein; but this section shall not prevent such occupation and use if authorized by law on May seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, to the extent then authorized.","path":["Part I","Title XVI","Chapter 111"],"source_url":"https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXVI/Chapter111/Section156","current_through":"amendments passed before May 31, 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T05:22:42Z","sha256":"3f131dd98ca12ff4f499e1a6e59b4910074a83ea06bf70e13ada6c2522b39d61","source_id":"us-ma","stale":false,"prev":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-111-155","next":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-111-157"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}