{"data":{"id":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-262-18","jurisdiction":"us-ma","citation":"Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 262, § 18","heading":"Officers; duty to specify items of fees","body":"Section 18. An officer receiving fees for any official duty or service, who, upon request of the person paying them, refuses or neglects to make out in writing in his return a particular account of such fees, specifying for what they respectively accrued, shall forfeit to such person three times the amount so paid.","path":["Part III","Title VI","Chapter 262"],"source_url":"https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartIII/TitleVI/Chapter262/Section18","current_through":"amendments passed before May 31, 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T05:25:08Z","sha256":"751162f06a0ff9a5d1d224e5f05b760e5f1690a96b9c603cc63e50598a7c65c0","source_id":"us-ma","stale":false,"prev":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-262-17","next":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-262-19"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}