Massachusetts CHAPTER 271. — CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC POLICY.
- Section 1. Gaming or betting; forfeiture; limitations.
- Section 1A. "House" — "building" and "place" including ship or vessel.
- Section 2. Gaming or betting in public conveyance or place or while trespassing inprivate place; arrest without warrant.
- Section 3. Innholders and others keeping or suffering implements to be used forgaming or suffering a person to game; recognizance for good behavior.
- Section 4. Gaming in inns and other occupied places; use of billiard table — bowlingalley or other implement for gaming.
- Section 5. Keeping — or playing or presence in, common gaming, lottery, pool orbetting houses; keeping tables or apparatus for gaming.
- Section 5A. Gambling devices; forfeiture; antique slot machines.
- Section 6. Gaming relative to cattle shows — military muster or public gathering;arrest without warrant.
- Section 6A. Plans under which purchasers agree to obtain more purchasers; injunction;receivers.
- Section 6B. Skilo and similar games.
- Section 6C. Repealed — 1998, 1.
- Section 7. Lotteries; disposal of property by chance.
- Section 7A. Raffles and bazaars; conduct by certain organizations; permit; reports; tax.
- Section 8. Permitting lotteries — raffles and games of chance in buildings.
- Section 9. Selling — exchanging or possessing lottery tickets or tokens or a share ina lottery.
- Section 10. Conviction on subsequent offenses within five years.
- Section 10A. Arrest without warrant.
- Section 11. Advertising lottery tickets or tokens — inviting purchases or indicatingwhere obtainable.
- Section 12. Making — sale and possession of, or receipt of money for, false lotterytickets, tokens or share in lottery.
- Section 13. Lottery tickets — tokens or shares deemed false.
- Section 14. Forfeiture of money — prizes, or shares of lotteries and other propertydisposed of by chance; recovery.
- Section 15. Aiding in setting up a lottery for money drawn out of commonwealth.
- Section 16. Sale or possession of ticket of lottery described in sec. 15.
- Section 16A. Organizing or promoting gambling facilities or services.
- Section 17. Keeping of — presence in, or permitting, a place for registering bets ordealing in pools; custodian or depository.
- Section 17A. Telephones; use for gaming purposes; penalty.
- Section 17B. Use of communications for unlawful purposes; demand of telephone companyrecords by attorney general.
- Section 18. Policy lotteries or shops; making — delivering or possessing a lotteryticket or token; receipt of money or thing of value.
- Section 19. Making — advertising or delivering ticket or receipt of money or thing ofvalue as prima facie evidence.
- Section 20. Tickets — memoranda, books and sheets as nuisance; possession unlawful;possession and concealment as evidence.
- Section 21. Words — figures or characters referring to horse, jockey or contest, orodds or bets as prima facie evidence; proof by copy or description.
- Section 22. Delivery to or from a person engaged in a lottery or other gaming.
- Section 22A. Whist or bridge for charitable and similar purposes.
- Section 22B. Beano; sale of lottery tickets.
- Section 23. Oath and warrant to enter a gaming or lottery place — arrest persons andseize implements and materials; disposal of articles.
- Section 24. Owners — proprietors of, or persons present at, race tracks.
- Section 25. Removal of obstructions barring access to gaming places; lien of expense.
- Section 26. Subsequent obstructions; removal; punishment; lien.
- Section 27. Judicial notice of methods and character of lotteries — policy games, poolsand betting; tickets and other articles prima facie evidence.
- Section 28. Complaints and indictments relative to lotteries or gaming; misnomer;sufficiency; variance.
- Section 29. Representation that a thing other than subject of sale is to be delivered;stamps and other devices entitling purchaser to other property.
- Section 30. Sale or delivery of trading stamps or similar devices.
- Section 31. Racing horses for bets or stakes.
- Section 31A. Racing results or information; transmission for unlawful purposes; penalty.
- Section 32. Competing with horse disguised or different from one purported to be;horse in improper class.
- Section 33. Race grounds in towns; consent; regulations; discontinuance; unlawful use.
- Section 34. Race grounds as nuisance; abatement; punishment.
- Section 35. Definition of words and phrases used in secs. 35[38.
- Section 36. Making contracts of bucketing; keeper of shop; dissolution of corporation;restraint from doing business.
- Section 37. Quotations of prices for prohibited contracts.
- Section 38. Written statements relative to purchases and sales of securities orcommodities; refusal as prima facie evidence of bucketing.
- Section 39. Gifts to influence business affairs; threats; penalty.
- Section 39A. Gifts to influence action of participants in — and others connected with, agame or contest.
- Section 40. Appointment — retention or discharge of employee of public servicecorporation or racing licensee on recommendation of public officer,officer elect or candidate.
- Section 41. Offices not public offices under sec. 40.
- Section 42. Betting or selling pools on boxing matches or exhibitions.
- Section 43. Soliciting — disclosing, receiving or making use of information concerningpublic assistance.
- Section 44. Settlement — release or statement by person in hospital; admissibility;reference to at trial; validity.
- Section 45. Repealed — 1982, 21, Sec. 2.
- Section 46. Removal of doors from discarded containers originally used forrefrigerative purposes.
- Section 47. Telephones; gambling; reinstallation; notices of convictions and removals.
- Section 48. Schools or persons offering civil service preparatory courses;advertisement.
- Section 49. Criminal usury.
- Section 50. Sale of research papers — etc. and taking of examinations for another ateducational institutions.