{"data":{"id":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-266-131","jurisdiction":"us-ma","citation":"Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 266, § 131","heading":"Sunday trespassers; arrest and detention without warrant","body":"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.","path":["Part IV","Title I","Chapter 266"],"source_url":"https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartIV/TitleI/Chapter266/Section131","current_through":"amendments passed before May 31, 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T05:25:12Z","sha256":"8e98fcfe96931a30bf6793d9794e0034d0c580bdd7d0cee6aca8c54fad2a9127","source_id":"us-ma","stale":false,"prev":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-266-130","next":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-266-132"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}