{"data":{"id":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-56-18","jurisdiction":"us-ma","citation":"Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 56, § 18","heading":"Failure to make and transmit election records","body":"Section 18. A city or town clerk or an election commissioner who fails to make a record of votes cast at an election and to make and transmit copies of any such record, as required by chapter fifty-four, shall be punished by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars; but if a copy of the records is deposited in the post office within the time fixed for transmission or delivery, postpaid and properly addressed, it shall be a bar to any complaint for delinquency.","path":["Part I","Title VIII","Chapter 56"],"source_url":"https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleVIII/Chapter56/Section18","current_through":"amendments passed before May 31, 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T05:20:51Z","sha256":"922d6c729f8adb8793dc2167aaa67c44bb35bf0d52a00787a34d82281928dd40","source_id":"us-ma","stale":false,"prev":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-56-17","next":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-56-19"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}