{"data":{"id":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-276-1a","jurisdiction":"us-ma","citation":"Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 276, § 1A","heading":"Search warrants for articles belonging to subversive organizations","body":"Section 1A. A justice of the superior court, upon application of the attorney general or a district attorney, and upon complaint on oath that the complainant believes that any of the property or articles hereinafter named are concealed in a particular house or place, if satisfied that there is a reasonable cause for such belief, may issue a warrant to search for the following property or articles: books, records, files, membership lists, funds, referred to in sections eighteen and twenty-one of chapter two hundred and sixty-four, or written or printed documents, paper or pictorial representations, referred to in section eleven of said chapter two hundred and sixty-four, belonging to a subversive organization as defined in said section eighteen, or used, provided for, or intended to be used for, the purposes specified in said section eleven.","path":["Part IV","Title II","Chapter 276"],"source_url":"https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartIV/TitleII/Chapter276/Section1A","current_through":"amendments passed before May 31, 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T05:25:18Z","sha256":"68acf28b418dba3a0eae27848748e9b9bcc8c5bd73ce803482730c86ec8d6926","source_id":"us-ma","stale":false,"prev":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-276-1","next":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-276-1b"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}