Massachusetts Code — 272
Browse 137 sections in division 272 of the Massachusetts code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 1. Enticing away person under 16 for marriage
- § 2. Enticing away person for prostitution or sexual intercourse
- § 3. Drugging persons for sexual intercourse
- § 4. Inducing person under eighteen to have sexual intercourse
- § 4A. Inducing minor into prostitution
- § 4B. Living off or sharing earnings of minor prostitute
- § 6. Owner of place inducing or suffering person to resort in such place for sexual intercourse
- § 7. Support from, or sharing, earnings of prostitute
- § 8. Soliciting for prostitute
- § 9. Oath and warrant to enter place for prostitution; detention of person in control and prostitute; recognizance to appear as witness
- § 10. Arrest without warrant
- § 11. Corroboration of one witness; limitations
- § 12. Procuring person to practice, or enter a place for, prostitution; employment office procuring person
- § 13. Detaining, or drugging to detain, person in place for prostitution
- § 15. Polygamy
- § 16. Open and gross lewdness and lascivious behavior
- § 17. Incestuous marriage or sexual activities
- § 21A. Furnishing drugs, articles or information for prevention of pregnancy or conception
- § 21B. Privately controlled hospital or health facility; abortion or sterilization procedures; contraceptive devices and family planning services
- § 22. Concealment of death of child born out of wedlock
- § 23. Joinder of charges of murder and offense under Sec. 22
- § 24. Keeping house of ill fame
- § 25. Obstructing view of restaurant or tavern patrons; barricaded entrances
- § 26. Resorting to restaurants or taverns for immoral purposes
- § 27. Record of convictions under Sec. 25 or Sec. 26 sent to licensing officers
- § 28. Matter harmful to minors, dissemination; possession; defenses
- § 28C. Information or petition against obscene books; order of notice to show cause; notice of order; interlocutory adjudication; defense
- § 28D. Answer to notice; right to jury trial
- § 28E. Order of default; adjudication
- § 28F. Hearing; evidence; adjudication
- § 28G. Objection that mere judgment sought and no relief claimed on issue of knowledge
- § 28H. Proceeding under Sec. 28C as evidence in trial under Sec. 29; presumptions as to knowledge
- § 28I. Certain procedures as condition precedent to institution of proceedings for dissemination of obscene books
- § 29. Dissemination or possession of obscene matter; punishment; defense
- § 29A. Posing or exhibiting child in state of nudity or sexual conduct; punishment
- § 29B. Dissemination of visual material of child in state of nudity or sexual conduct; punishment
- § 29C. Knowing purchase or possession of visual material of child depicted in sexual conduct; punishment
- § 29D. Possession, purchase or dissemination by minor of visual material of child in state of nudity or depicted in sexual conduct; punishment
- § 30. Injunctive relief against dissemination of obscene matter; jurisdiction; procedures; appeal
- § 30D. Dissemination of visual material of child in state of nudity or sexual conduct; injunction; jurisdiction
- § 31. Definitions
- § 32. Motion picture theater managers or operators; applicability of Secs. 28, 29 and 29A
- § 33. Exhibition of deformities
- § 34. Crime against nature
- § 35. Unnatural and lascivious acts
- § 35A. Unnatural and lascivious acts with child under 16
- § 36. Blasphemy
- § 36A. Sporting events; penalty for abuse of participants and officials
- § 38. Disturbance of assembly for worship
- § 39. Selling goods and provisions, caring for horses, illegal gaming, horse racing or exhibits near camp meetings
- § 40. Disturbance of assemblies; conduct of students on school grounds or in the course of school-related events
- § 40A. Alcoholic beverages; gift, sale, delivery or possession on public school premises
- § 41. Disturbance of libraries
- § 42. Disturbance of funerals
- § 42A. Disturbance of funeral services
- § 42B. Disturbance of military funeral service; penalty
- § 43. Disorderliness in public conveyances; disturbance of travelers
- § 43A. Smoking or carrying open flame or lighted match, pipe or tobacco product in public conveyances and transportation terminals
- § 53. Penalty for certain offenses
- § 53A. Engaging in sexual conduct for a fee; engaging in sexual conduct with child under age 18 for a fee; penalties
- § 54. Apprehension for certain offences, without warrant; custody
- § 56. Subsequent offenses; breach of recognizance on appeal
- § 57. Discharge upon recognizance; payment of expenses of prosecution
- § 58. Employing or permitting employment of minor under 15 to beg
- § 59. Ordinances or regulations relating to streets, reservations, or parkways; alcoholic beverages; profanity; arrest without warrant
- § 60. Disposal of rubbish, etc.; refusal to remove; arrest without warrant
- § 61. Conviction after discharge from sentence under Sec. 53
- § 62. Third conviction of being a common nightwalker
- § 63. Tramps; begging or riding freight trains as prima facie evidence
- § 64. Tramps; punishment; entering buildings; injuries to or threats against persons or property; carrying weapons
- § 65. Arrest of tramps without warrant; making complaint
- § 66. Vagrants
- § 67. Vagrants; arrest without warrant; taking before court; complaint
- § 68. Vagabonds
- § 69. Vagabonds; arrest without warrant; taking before court; complaint
- § 70. Taking dead body on process or execution
- § 71. Disinterring bodies
- § 72. Buying, selling or possessing dead bodies
- § 73. Tombs, graves, memorials, trees, plants; injuring, removing
- § 73A. Removal of gravestones and other memorials for repair or reproduction
- § 73B. Sale of or attempt to sell stolen commemorative grave marker; receipt, retention or disposal of stolen commemorative grave marker
- § 74. Desecrating place of burial; use and occupation as evidence of title
- § 75. Removal of flowers, flags or memorial tokens from burial lot
- § 76. Ways, railroads, canals or public easements through burial grounds
- § 77. Cruelty to animals; prohibition from work involving contact with animals
- § 77A. Willfully injuring police dogs and horses
- § 77B. Exhibition of wild animals
- § 77C. Sexual contact with animal
- § 78. Selling, leading, or using horses not fit for work; forfeiture of auctioneer's license
- § 78A. Sale of foals under five months; penalty
- § 79. Violations by business entities of statutes relating to the treatment, care and protection of animals
- § 79A. Cutting bones or muscles to dock or set tail of horse; wound as evidence
- § 79B. Exhibiting horse with tail cut under Sec. 79A; affidavit as to cutting in state where not prohibited; inspection
- § 80A. Cropping or cutting off ear of dog; wound as prima facie evidence
- § 80B. Exhibiting dogs with ears cropped or cut off
- § 80C. Taking cat, dog or bird to exhibit it, subject it to experimentation or mutilation, or to sell it for such purposes; application of law
- § 80D. Living rabbits, baby chickens, ducklings or other fowl; sale, barter or gift
- § 80E. Putting animal to death by use of decompression chamber
- § 80F. Giving away live animals as prize or award
- § 80G. Experiments on vertebrates; vivisection, dissection of animals; care
- § 80H. Motor vehicles; striking, injuring or killing dogs or cats
- § 80I. Leasing or renting dogs; penalties
- § 81. Rest, water and feed for transported animals; lien; liability for detention
- § 82. Arrest without warrant for violation of Sec. 77 or 81; notice; care of animals; lien
- § 83. Complaint, warrant and search relative to cruelty to animals
- § 84. Prosecutions under Secs. 77 to 81
- § 85A. Injuring, taking away or harboring domesticated animals or birds; removal of dog license tag, collar or harness; imitation tag
- § 85B. Assistance animals stolen or attacked; actions for economic and non-economic damages
- § 86. Stabling horses or mules on second or higher floors, in places other than cities
- § 86A. Stabling horses and mules above first floor; exceeding six; fire exits
- § 86B. Stabling horses or mules exceeding fifteen
- § 86C. Smoking in buildings used for stabling horses or mules
- § 86D. Pails of water and sand in buildings used for stables
- § 86E. Entry upon premises to enforce Secs. 86A to 86D; orders
- § 86F. Violation of Secs. 86 to 86D; refusal or neglect to comply with Sec. 86E orders
- § 87. Keeping or using birds to be shot at; shooting them; permitting premises to be used for shooting
- § 88. Complaints and warrants relative to fighting animals; searches; arrests
- § 89. Exhibition place of fighting animals; entry without warrant; arrests; seizure of animals
- § 90. Custody of arrested persons; time limitation
- § 91. Forfeiture of animal or property used or employed in violation of Sec. 94; application; notice; hearing; adjudication; assessment of forfeited animal for suitability for adoption; transfer or other disposition of animal
- § 92. Appeal; recognizance; custody and disposition of animals
- § 92A. Advertisement, book, notice or sign relative to discrimination; definition of place of public accommodation, resort or amusement
- § 93. Expenses of care and destruction of fighting animals
- § 94. Owning, possessing or training fighting animals; establishing or promoting exhibition; loaning, selling or exporting fighting animals; owning or possessing animals for breeding fighting animals
- § 95. Aiding or being present at exhibition of fighting animals
- § 96. False notice of birth, marriage or death
- § 97A. Demands, notices or other documents resembling court process; complaint; order to discontinue
- § 98. Discrimination in admission to, or treatment in, place of public accommodation; punishment; forfeiture; civil right
- § 98A. Persons with physical disabilities with dog guides; public places or conveyances; charges or fares; penalties
- § 98B. Discrimination in employment on public works or in public relief or transitional assistance
- § 98C. Libel; groups of persons; defenses; punishment; prosecutions
- § 99. Interception of wire and oral communications
- § 99A. Jury deliberations; overhearing by use of devices
- § 104. Security for seizure and impoundment of animals relating to cruelty to animals or animal fighting
- § 105. Photographing, videotaping or electronically surveilling partially nude or nude person or the sexual or other intimate parts of a person around the person's clothing; exceptions; punishment
- § 106. Stolen valor; penalty
- § 107. Transmission of certain fines to state treasurer for deposit into Victims of Human Trafficking Trust Fund