{"data":{"id":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-272-63","jurisdiction":"us-ma","citation":"Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 63","heading":"Tramps; begging or riding freight trains as prima facie evidence","body":"Section 63. Whoever, not being under seventeen, or a person asking charity within his own town, roves about from place to place begging, or living without labor or visible means of support, shall be deemed a tramp. An act of begging or soliciting alms, whether of money, food, lodging or clothing, by a person having no residence in the town within which the act is committed, or the riding upon a freight train of a railroad, whether within or without any car or part thereof, without a permit from the proper officers or employees of such railroad or train, shall be prima facie evidence that such person is a tramp.","path":["Part IV","Title I","Chapter 272"],"source_url":"https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartIV/TitleI/Chapter272/Section63","current_through":"amendments passed before May 31, 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T05:25:17Z","sha256":"477b08a350cfd45273f8d6d7988404db4ac84b9a7ae14a8f84befd28f6ddc191","source_id":"us-ma","stale":false,"prev":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-272-62","next":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-272-64"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}