Massachusetts Code — 271
Browse 64 sections in division 271 of the Massachusetts code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
Sections (showing up to 300)
- § 1. Gaming or betting; forfeiture
- § 1A. ''House'', ''building'' and ''place'' including ship or vessel
- § 2. Gaming or betting in public conveyance or place or while trespassing in private place; arrest without warrant
- § 3. Innholders and others keeping or suffering implements to be used for gaming
- § 4. Gaming in inns and other occupied places; use of billiard table, bowling alley or other implement for gaming
- § 5. Gaming, lottery, pool or betting houses; tables or apparatus for gaming
- § 5A. Gambling devices; forfeiture; antique slot machines
- § 5B. Unlawful possession of electronic machine or device for conducting or promoting sweepstakes through entertaining display; lawful exceptions; penalty
- § 6. Gaming relative to cattle shows, military muster or public gathering; arrest without warrant
- § 6A. Plans under which purchasers agree to obtain more purchasers; injunction; receivers
- § 6B. Skilo and similar games
- § 7. Lotteries; disposal of property by chance
- § 7A. Raffles and bazaars; conduct by certain organizations
- § 8. Permitting lotteries, raffles and games of chance in buildings
- § 9. Lottery tickets; sale, or possession
- § 10. Subsequent offenses within five years of conviction
- § 10A. Arrest without warrant
- § 11. Lottery tickets; advertising
- § 12. False lottery tickets; creation, sale, or possession
- § 13. Lottery tickets, tokens or shares deemed false
- § 14. Forfeiture of money, prizes, or other property disposed of by chance; recovery
- § 15. Lottery for money drawn out of commonwealth; aiding or promoting
- § 16. Tickets of lottery described in Sec. 15; sale or possession
- § 16A. Organizing or promoting gambling facilities or services
- § 17. Place for registering bets or dealing in pools; owner or occupant; custodian or depository
- § 17A. Telephones, internet or other communications technology; use for gaming
- § 17B. Use of electronic communications records in ongoing criminal investigations; subpoena of records
- § 18. Policy lotteries or shops; production, sale or possession of lottery tickets or tokens
- § 19. Production, advertisement or delivery of tickets; receipt of money; prima facie evidence
- § 20. Tickets, memoranda, books and sheets; nuisance; possession; concealment
- § 21. Words, figures or characters referring to game or contest; prima facie evidence; proof
- § 22. Delivery to or from a person engaged in a lottery or other illegal gaming
- § 22A. Whist or bridge for charitable and similar purposes
- § 22B. Beano; sale of lottery tickets
- § 23. Oath and warrant to enter gaming or lottery place, arrest persons and seize implements and materials; disposal of articles
- § 24. Race tracks; owners, proprietors of, or persons present
- § 25. Obstructions barring access to gaming places; removal; lien of expenses
- § 26. Subsequent obstructions; removal; punishment; lien
- § 27. Judicial notice of methods and character of lotteries, policy games, pools and betting; prima facie evidence
- § 28. Lotteries or illegal gaming; complaints and indictments
- § 29. Sale, exchange or disposition of property; misrepresentation
- § 30. Trading stamps or similar devices; sale or delivery
- § 31. Racing horses for bets or stakes
- § 31A. Racing results or information; transmission for unlawful purposes
- § 32. Horse racing; fraud
- § 33. Race grounds in towns
- § 34. Race grounds as nuisance; abatement
- § 35. Definition of words and phrases used in Secs. 35 to 38
- § 36. Bucketing contracts; keeper of shop; domestic and foreign corporations
- § 37. Prohibited contracts; price quotations
- § 38. Purchases and sales of securities or commodities; written statement
- § 39. Gifts to influence business affairs; threats
- § 39A. Gifts to influence action of participants in, and others connected with, a game or contest
- § 40. Appointment, reinstatement or discharge of employee of public service corporation or racing licensee on recommendation of public officer, officer elect or candidate
- § 41. Offices not public offices under Sec. 40
- § 42. Boxing matches or exhibitions; betting or selling pools
- § 43. Solicitation, disclosure, receipt or use of information concerning public assistance
- § 44. Hospital or sanitarium patient; settlement, release or statement; admissibility
- § 46. Discarded containers originally used for refrigerative purposes; removal of doors
- § 47. Telephones; gambling convictions; approval for installation; notices of convictions and removals
- § 48. Civil service preparatory courses; advertisement
- § 49. Criminal usury
- § 50. Sale of research papers, etc.; taking of examinations for another at educational institutions
- § 51. Photos taken outside of first responder's official duties; penalties