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2006 Massachusetts Code - CHAPTER 272. — CRIMES AGAINST CHASTITY, MORALITY,DECENCY AND GOOD ORDER.
- Section 1. Enticing away a person under 16 for marriage.
- Section 2. Enticing away a person for prostitution or sexual intercourse.
- Section 3. Drugging persons for sexual intercourse.
- Section 4. Inducing person under 18 to have sexual intercourse.
- Section 4A. Inducing minor into prostitution; penalties.
- Section 4B. Living off or sharing earnings of minor prostitute; penalties.
- Section 5. Repealed — 1987, 522, Sec. 22.
- Section 6. One controlling a place — inducing or suffering a person to resort therefor sexual intercourse.
- Section 7. Support from — or sharing, earnings of prostitute.
- Section 8. Soliciting for prostitute.
- Section 9. Oath and warrant to enter place for prostitution; detention of person incontrol and prostitute; recognizance to appear as witness.
- Section 10. Arrest without warrant.
- Section 11. Corroboration of one witness; limitations.
- Section 12. Procuring person to practice — or enter a place for, prostitution;employment office procuring person.
- Section 13. Detaining — or drugging to detain, person in place for prostitution.
- Section 14. Adultery.
- Section 15. Polygamy.
- Section 16. Open and gross lewdness and lascivious behavior.
- Section 17. Incestuous marriage or intercourse.
- Section 18. Fornication.
- Section 19. Procuring miscarriage.
- Section 20. Advertising relative to miscarriage or prevention of pregnancy.
- Section 21. Instruments or other articles for self-abuse — prevention of conception orabortion, in general.
- Section 21A. Furnishing drugs — articles or information for prevention of pregnancy orconception.
- Section 21B. Privately controlled hospital or health facility not required to performabortion or sterilization procedures — or to furnish contraceptive devicesor information or family planning services.
- Section 22. Concealment of death of child born out of wedlock.
- Section 23. Joinder of charges of murder and offense under sec. 22.
- Section 24. Keeping house of ill fame.
- Section 25. Enclosures in restaurants or taverns closed by devices obstructing view ofpatrons; barricaded entrances impeding access by officers.
- Section 26. Resorting to restaurants or taverns for immoral purposes; engaging in suchacts therein.
- Section 27. Copy of record of convictions under secs. 25 and 26 sent to licensingofficers.
- Section 28. Matter harmful to minors — dissemination; possession; defenses.
- Section 28A — 28B. Repealed, 1974, 430, Sec. 2.
- Section 28C. Information or petition against obscene books; order of notice to showcause; notice of order; interlocutory adjudication; defense.
- Section 28D. Answer to notice; right to jury trial.
- Section 28E. Order of default; adjudication.
- Section 28F. Hearing; evidence; adjudication.
- Section 28G. Objection that mere judgment sought and no relief claimed on issue ofknowledge.
- Section 28H. Proceeding under sec. 28C as evidence in trial under sec. 28B;presumptions as to knowledge.
- Section 28I. Certain procedures as condition precedent to institution of proceedingsfor dissemination of obscene books.
- Section 29. Dissemination or possession of obscene matter; punishment; defense.
- Section 29A. Posing or exhibiting child in state of nudity or sexual conduct; punishment.
- Section 29B. Dissemination of visual material of child in state of nudity or sexualconduct; punishment.
- Section 29C. Knowing purchase or possession of visual material of childdepicted in sexual conduct; punishment.
- Section 30. Injunctive relief against dissemination of obscene matter; jurisdiction;procedures; appeal.
- Section 30A--30C. Repealed — 1974, 430, Sec. 11.
- Section 30D. Jurisdiction to enjoin dissemination of visual material of child in stateof nudity or sexual conduct.
- Section 31. Definitions applicable to secs. 28 — 28C, 28D, 28E, 29, 29A, 29B, 30 and30D.
- Section 32. Motion picture theater managers or operators; applicability of secs.28 — 29 and 29A.
- Section 33. Exhibition of deformities.
- Section 34. Crime against nature.
- Section 35. Unnatural and lascivious acts.
- Section 35A. Unnatural and lascivious acts with child under 16.
- Section 36. Blasphemy.
- Section 36A. Sporting events; penalty for abuse of participants and officials.
- Section 37. Repealed — 1962, 285, Sec. 4.
- Section 38. Disturbance of assembly for worship.
- Section 39. Selling goods and provisions — caring for horses, gaming, horse racing orexhibits near camp meetings.
- Section 40. Disturbance of schools or assemblies.
- Section 40A. Alcoholic beverages; gift — sale, delivery or possession on public schoolpremises.
- Section 41. Disturbance of libraries.
- Section 42. Disturbance of funerals.
- Section 42A. Disturbance of funeral services.
- Section 43. Disorderliness in public conveyances; disturbance of travelers.
- Section 43A. Smoking in public conveyances and transportation terminals.
- Section 44--50. Repealed — 1971, 1076, Sec. 11.
- Section 51 — 52. Repealed, 1957, 660, Sec. 2.
- Section 53. Penalty for certain offenses.
- Section 53A. Engaging in sexual conduct for a fee; penalty.
- Section 54. Apprehension for offences mentioned in sec. 53 — without warrant; custody.
- Section 55. Repealed — 1928, 155, Sec. 58.
- Section 56. Commission of subsequent offence as breach of recognizance on appeal.
- Section 57. Discharge upon recognizance and paying expenses of prosecutions undersections 53 — 66 and 68.
- Section 58. Employing or permitting employment of minor under 15 to beg.
- Section 59. Violation of regulations relating to streets — reservations, or parkways;alcoholic beverages; profanity; arrest without warrant.
- Section 60. Refusal to remove substance placed on public way in violation of townregulations; arrest without warrant until identity ascertained.
- Section 61. Conviction after discharge from sentence under sec. 53.
- Section 62. Third conviction of being a common nightwalker.
- Section 63. Tramps; begging or riding freight trains as prima facie evidence.
- Section 64. Punishment of tramps; entering buildings; injuries to or threats againstpersons or property; carrying weapons.
- Section 65. Arrest of tramps without warrant; making complaint.
- Section 66. Vagrants.
- Section 67. Arrest of vagrants without warrant; taking before court; making complaint.
- Section 68. Vagabonds.
- Section 69. Arresting vagabonds without warrant; taking before court; making complaint.
- Section 70. Taking dead body on process or execution.
- Section 71. Disinterring bodies.
- Section 72. Buying — selling or possessing dead bodies.
- Section 73. Tombs — graves, memorials, trees, plants; injuring, removing.
- Section 73A. Removal of gravestones and other memorials for repair or reproduction.
- Section 74. Desecrating place of burial; use and occupation as evidence of title.
- Section 75. Removal of flowers — flags or memorial tokens from burial lot.
- Section 76. Ways — railroads, canals or public easements through burial grounds.
- Section 77. Cruelty to animals.
- Section 77A. Willfully injuring police dogs and horses.
- Section 77B. Exhibition of wild animals.
- Section 78. Selling — leading, or using horses not fit for work; forfeiture ofauctioneer's license.
- Section 78A. Sale of foals under five months; penalty.
- Section 79. Corporation's responsibility under secs. 77 and 78.
- Section 79A. Cutting bones or muscles to dock or set tail of horse; wound as evidence.
- Section 79B. Exhibiting horse with tail cut under sec. 79A; affidavit as to cuttingin state where not prohibited; inspection.
- Section 80. Repealed — 1934, 234, Sec. 1.
- Section 80A. Cropping or cutting off ear of dog; wound as prima facie evidence.
- Section 80B. Exhibiting dogs with ears cropped or cut off.
- Section 80C. Taking cat — dog or bird to exhibit it, subject it to experimentation ormutilation, or to sell it for such purposes; application of law.
- Section 80D. Sale — etc. of living rabbits, baby chickens, ducklings or other fowl.
- Section 80E. Use of decompression chambers for putting animals to death.
- Section 80F. Giving away live animals as prize or award.
- Section 80G. Experiments on vertebrates; vivisection — dissection of animals; care.
- Section 80H. Motor vehicles; striking — injuring or killing dogs or cats.
- Section 81. Rest — water and feed for transported animals; lien; liability for detention.
- Section 82. Arrest without warrant for violation of sec. 77 or 81; notice to owner;care of animals; lien.
- Section 83. Complaint — warrant and search relative to cruelty to animals.
- Section 84. Prosecutions under secs. 7781.
- Section 85. Repealed — 1951, 34, Sec. 2.
- Section 85A. Injuring — taking away or harboring domesticated animals or birds; removalof dog license tag, collar or harness; imitation tag.
- Section 86. Stabling horses or mules on second or higher floors — in places other thancities.
- Section 86A. Stabling horses and mules above first floor or exceeding six in cities;use of exits.
- Section 86B. Stabling horses or mules exceeding fifteen.
- Section 86C. Smoking in buildings used for stabling horses or mules.
- Section 86D. Pails of water and sand in buildings used for stables.
- Section 86E. Entry upon premises to enforce secs. 86A86D; ordering conditionsremedied; service.
- Section 86F. Punishment for violation of secs. 8686D or for neglect to complywith orders under sec. 86E.
- Section 87. Keeping or using birds to be shot at; shooting them; permitting premisesto be used for shooting.
- Section 88. Complaints and warrants relative to fighting animals; searches; arrests.
- Section 89. Entering without warrant place for exhibition of fighting animals;arrests; seizure of animals.
- Section 90. Custody of arrested persons; taking before court; proceedings.
- Section 91. Application for decree of forfeiture; notice; hearing; adjudication;returning or killing animals; claimant.
- Section 92. Appeal; recognizance; custody and disposition of animals.
- Section 92A. Advertisement — book, notice or sign relative to discrimination; definitionof place of public accommodation, resort or amusement.
- Section 93. Expenses of care and destruction of fighting animals.
- Section 94. Owning — possessing or training fighting animals; establishing or promotingexhibition.
- Section 95. Aiding or being present at exhibition of fighting animals.
- Section 96. False notice of birth — marriage or death.
- Section 97. Repealed — 1962, 285, Sec. 4.
- Section 97A. Demands — notices or other documents resembling court process; complaint;order to discontinue.
- Section 98. Discrimination in admission to — or treatment in, place ofpublic accommodation; punishment; forfeiture; civil right.
- Section 98A. Accommodations and privileges of physically handicapped persons with a dogguide; charges or fares; liability.
- Section 98B. Discrimination in employment on public works or in public reliefor transitional assistance.
- Section 98C. Libel relative to groups of persons; punishment; prosecutions; defenses.
- Section 99. Interception of wire and oral communications.
- Section 99A. Overhearing deliberations of jury by using devices.
- Section 100--102. Repealed — 1968, 738, Secs. 4--6.
- Section 103. Repealed — 1993, 279.
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