Massachusetts Code — 266
Browse 211 sections in division 266 of the Massachusetts code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 1. Dwelling houses; burning or aiding in burning
- § 2. Meeting house; burning or aiding in burning
- § 5. Wood and other property; burning or aiding in burning
- § 5A. Attempts
- § 7. Woods; wanton or reckless injury or destruction by fire
- § 8. Injury by fire; negligent use
- § 9. Injury by fire; negligent use in town; damages
- § 10. Insured property; burning with intent to defraud
- § 11. Fire alarm, engine or apparatus; injury before fire
- § 12. Fire alarm, engine or apparatus; injury during fire to prevent alarm or extinction of fire
- § 13. Fire engines; wanton or malicious injury
- § 13A. Duty of hotel manager to notify fire department and sound alarm; penalty
- § 14. Burglary; armed; assault on occupants; weapons; punishment
- § 15. Burglary; unarmed
- § 16. Breaking and entering at night
- § 16A. Building, vessel or vehicle; breaking and entering with intent to commit misdemeanor
- § 17. Entering without breaking at night; breaking and entering in day time; weapons; punishment
- § 18. Dwelling house; entry at night; breaking and entering in day time; firearms; punishment
- § 18A. Entering dwelling house by false pretenses; intent to commit felony; larceny; punishment
- § 19. Railroad car; breaking and entering
- § 20. Stealing in building, ship or railroad car
- § 20A. Breaking and entering of trucks, tractors, trailers or freight containers
- § 20B. Stealing in trucks, tractors, trailers or freight containers
- § 21. Stolen property; refusal to surrender
- § 22. Poultry thieves; detention by owner; penalty
- § 23. Embezzlement of property at fire; effect
- § 24. Stealing at a fire; punishment
- § 25. Larceny by stealing; punishment; victim sixty-five or older; minimum sentence for repeat offenders
- § 27. Tools of contractors, builders or mechanics; stealing; penalty
- § 27A. Motor vehicle or trailer; removal or concealment to defraud insurer
- § 28. Motor vehicle or trailer; theft or concealment; operation without owner's consent after revocation of license; penalty
- § 29. Statement concerning theft; recovery of vehicles; restitution
- § 29B. Burning motor vehicle; owner's statement to fire department
- § 30. Larceny; general provisions and penalties
- § 30A. Shoplifting; penalty; arrest without warrant
- § 30B. Unlawful distribution, possession, or deactivation or removal of theft detection shielding device; unlawful distribution or possession of theft detection device deactivator or remover; penalty
- § 30C. Possession, use, counterfeit, etc. of receipts, price ticket or universal product code label with intent to defraud; penalty
- § 30D. Organized retail crime; aggravated organized retail crime; leader of organized retail theft enterprise; penalty
- § 31. Signature; obtaining under false pretenses
- § 32. Fraudulent conversion of property by captain of vessel
- § 33. Larceny; false pretences relating to contracts, banking transactions or credit
- § 33A. Obtaining computer services by fraud or misrepresentation; penalties
- § 34. Larceny; inducement to part with property
- § 35. Non-applicability of Secs. 30, 31 and 34
- § 35A. False material statements or omissions during or in connection with mortgage lending process; penalties; mitigating factors with respect to sentencing
- § 37. Fraudulent checks, etc.; drawing or uttering
- § 37A. Misuse of credit cards; definitions
- § 37B. Misuse of credit cards; penalties; multiple possession, presumption; arrest
- § 37C. Fraudulent use of credit cards to obtain money, goods or services; false embossment of credit cards, multiple possession, presumption; arrest
- § 37D. Publishing credit card numbering or coding systems
- § 37E. Use of personal identification of another; identity fraud; penalty; restitution
- § 38. Larceny; wrongful detention of money by carriers
- § 38A. Construction loan; misapplication
- § 39. Wills; destruction or concealment
- § 40. Common and notorious thief
- § 41. Larceny of bicycles; second conviction
- § 42. Larceny of paper designated for bank bills
- § 43. Paper designated for bank bills; retention by printer with intent to pass
- § 47. Dogs; wrongful removal of collar; penalty
- § 48. Stolen goods; duty of arresting officers to secure
- § 49. Burglarious instruments; making; possession; use
- § 50. State treasury; fraud or embezzlement by employee
- § 51. City, town or county officers; fraud or embezzlement
- § 52. Bank officers and employees; fraud or embezzlement
- § 53. Bank officers or employees; prosecution for fraud or embezzlement; evidence
- § 53A. Bank officers and employees; misconduct; penalty
- § 54. Receipt of deposits by insolvent banks; penalty
- § 55. Liquidating agent or receiver; embezzlement
- § 56. Brokers or agents; embezzlement
- § 57. Fiduciaries; embezzlement
- § 58. Larceny; embezzlement from voluntary association
- § 59. Simple larceny; embezzlement from voluntary association
- § 60. Stolen goods; buying, receiving or aiding in concealment; penalty
- § 60A. Stolen trade secrets; buying or selling
- § 60B. Venue for charge and prosecution of crimes committed in different counties or territorial jurisdiction of different courts
- § 61. Stolen property; restitution; effect
- § 62. Stolen goods; common receiver
- § 63. Unlawful taking or use of transportation media
- § 64. Fraudulent hiring of media of transportation
- § 65. Stock; unauthorized issue
- § 66. Stock; fraudulent issue or transfer
- § 67. Corporate books; false entries with intent to defraud
- § 67A. Departments, agencies and public instrumentalities; false statements, etc. in procurement of supplies; penalty
- § 67B. Presentation of false claims
- § 67C. Capital facility construction projects, etc.; false entries in records; penalties
- § 68. Corporate books as evidence
- § 69. Insignia of societies; unlawful use
- § 69A. Fraudulent use of labor union seal, trademark or insignia
- § 70. Insignia of veteran organizations; unlawful use
- § 71. Signature, money or membership; obtaining under false pretences
- § 71A. Individuals and corporations; false use of names of benevolent organizations
- § 72. Fraternal names; use in publication
- § 73. Obtaining goods under false pretences
- § 74. Corporate credit; fraudulent use
- § 75. Obtaining property by trick
- § 75A. Gambling devices and vending machines; fraudulent use
- § 75B. Slugs; manufacture and sale
- § 75C. Gift certificates; expiration dates; failure to redeem
- § 75D. Imposition of certain fees reducing total value amount of gift certificate; penalty
- § 75E. Printed notice required for certain fees associated with gift certificates; penalty for violation
- § 75F. Deduction of gratuity from gift certificate without consent; penalty
- § 76. Gross fraud or cheat at common law; punishment
- § 77. Sterling and coin silver; contents; sale; penalty
- § 78. Articles made of gold; false marking; prohibition
- § 79. Imitation of furs; false representation; prohibition
- § 80. Encumbered land; conveyance without notice
- § 81. Attached land; conveyance without notice
- § 82. Concealment of mortgaged personalty; use of rented personalty for illegal sale of liquor
- § 83. Personalty; sale by mortgagor without consent
- § 84. Personalty; sale by hirer without consent
- § 85. Collateral security; sale before debt due
- § 86. Hired property; buying or receiving with intent to defraud
- § 87. Larceny of leased or rented property
- § 87A. Stolen leased or rented motor vehicles; report; dissemination of information by police
- § 88. Consignee or factor; fraudulent deposit or pledge of property
- § 89. Degrees; pretending to hold or conferring without authority; use of designation ''university'' or ''college''
- § 90. Endorsement or approval; penalty for false claim
- § 91. Untrue and misleading advertisements; prohibitions
- § 91A. Merchandise, commodities and service; advertisement; penalty
- § 91B. Deceptive advertising of merchandise for sale; injunction
- § 92. False or exaggerated statements; making or publishing; prohibition
- § 92A. Motor vehicles; sale in certain condition; written disclosure on bill of sale; penalty
- § 93. Animals; obtaining or giving false pedigree
- § 94. Boundary monuments and miscellaneous markers; malicious destruction
- § 95. Historical monuments; malicious destruction or injury
- § 96. State building; defacement or injury
- § 97. County buildings; defacement
- § 98. Schoolhouse or church; defacement or injury
- § 98A. Public park or playground equipment; destruction, defacement or injury
- § 99. Libraries; definitions
- § 99A. Libraries; theft of materials or property; destruction of records
- § 100. Libraries; mutilation or destruction of materials or property
- § 101. Definitions applicable to Secs. 101 to 102D
- § 102. Possession or control of incendiary device or material; possession of hoax device or material; penalty
- § 102A. Throwing, secreting, launching or placing of incendiary device; intent; punishment
- § 102B. Malicious explosion
- § 102C. Biological, chemical, or nuclear weapon or delivery system; possession; punishment
- § 102D. Notice of seizure of explosive or incendiary device resulting from a violation of Secs. 102 to 102C; restitution
- § 103. Oil of vitriol, or other substances; throwing into building or vessel
- § 104. Buildings; destruction or injury
- § 104A. Goal posts; penalty for destruction
- § 104B. Research animals; unauthorized removal
- § 105. Stone walls or fences; unauthorized removal
- § 106. Ice ponds; injury
- § 107. Bridge or canal; injury
- § 108. Vessel; destruction to injure or defraud owner or insurer; punishment; restitution
- § 109. Vessel; fitting out with intent to destroy
- § 110. False invoice of cargo; intent to defraud insurer
- § 111. False affidavit or protest; penalty
- § 111A. Insurance policies; penalty for fraudulent claims
- § 111B. Motor vehicle insurance policies; penalty for fraudulent claims
- § 111C. Fraudulently obtaining benefits under insurance contract; runners; punishment
- § 112. Domestic animals; malicious killing or injury
- § 113. Timber, wood and shrubs; wilful cutting and destruction on land of another
- § 114. Trees and fences; malicious injury
- § 115. Trespass in orchards and gardens
- § 116A. Protection of certain flowers
- § 117. Orchards and gardens; entry with intent to injure or destroy
- § 118. Domestic animals; trespass on land
- § 119. Pests; bringing into state; penalty; exception
- § 120. Entry upon private property after being forbidden as trespass; prima facie evidence; penalties; arrest; tenants or occupants excepted
- § 120A. Motor vehicle; parking on private way; prosecution; evidence
- § 120B. Entry on land by abutting property owners not constituting trespass
- § 120C. Entry upon adjoining lands by surveyors not constituting trespass
- § 120D. Removal of motor vehicles from private ways or property; penalties; liability for removal and storage charges; release of vehicle
- § 120E. Obstructing entry to or departure from medical facilities; penalties; injunctive relief
- § 120F. Unauthorized access to computer system; penalties
- § 121. Entry on land with firearms
- § 121A. Trespasses involving motor vehicles and other powered devices
- § 122. Notice against trespassers; defacement; penalty
- § 123. State land; public institutions; trespass; penalty
- § 123A. Willful trespass upon public source of water, water supply facility or land
- § 124. Legal notice; penalty for malicious injury
- § 125. Show bill or advertisement; penalty for malicious injury
- § 126. Natural scenery; penalty for defacement
- § 126A. Defacement of real or personal property; penalties
- § 126B. Tagging; penalties; suspension of driver's license
- § 127. Willful, malicious or wanton destruction or injury to personal property, dwelling house or building of another
- § 127A. Destruction of place of worship, etc.; threats; punishment
- § 127B. Actions for civil rights violations; liability
- § 128. Milk cans; defacement
- § 129. Correctional institutions; injury to property
- § 130. Penal institutions; injury to property
- § 131. Sunday trespassers; arrest and detention without warrant
- § 132. Pigeons; killing or frightening
- § 133. Humane society; injury to property
- § 135. Vessels; mooring the buoy, beacon or floating guide; penalty
- § 137. Injury to mill by raising water
- § 138. Dams or reservoirs; malicious injury
- § 138A. Irrigation equipment; malicious injury
- § 139. Motor vehicles or trailers; defacement, etc., of identifying numbers; penalties; arrests
- § 139A. Machines, electrical or mechanical devices; alteration or obliteration of identifying numbers; possession; sale; punishment
- § 140. Sale or offer for sale of master keys; penalty
- § 141. Tampering with odometer of motor vehicle; intent to defraud; civil remedy; treble damages; costs and fees; unfair competition; repair or replacement excepted
- § 141A. Misrepresentation of mileage of motor vehicle by turning back or readjusting speedometer or odometer; criminal penalty
- § 142. Record of purchases by dealers in scrap copper wire; inspection; penalty
- § 142A. Gold, silver and platinum dealers; records; penalty
- § 143. Definitions applicable to Secs. 143A to 143H
- § 143A. Unauthorized reproduction and transfer of sound recordings
- § 143B. Unauthorized reproduction and sale of live performances
- § 143C. Manufacture, rental, or sale of recorded devices in packaging not bearing reproducer's name and address
- § 143D. Application of Secs. 143 to 143C; exceptions
- § 143E. Violations of Secs. 143A to 143C; punishment
- § 143F. Unlawful recording of motion picture in motion picture theater; punishment
- § 143G. Persons detained for possible violation of Sec. 143F; defense to false imprisonment or false arrest action
- § 143H. Forfeiture of recordings upon conviction for violation of Secs. 143A to 143C or Sec. 143F
- § 144. Carrying away or conversion of certain milk containers without permission of owners
- § 145. Theft of public records
- § 146. Disposal of solid waste in commercial disposal container of another without consent of owner; penalties
- § 147. Items or services bearing or identified by counterfeit mark; sales; penalties
- § 148. Catalytic converters; documentation and records required for purchase or acquisition; penalties