2006 Massachusetts Code - Chapter 56 — Section 41. Unsigned circulars and posters; posting or distributing.

[ Text of section effective until October 11, 2006. Repealed by 2006, 171.]

  Section 41. No candidate for nomination or election to public office or any other person shall write, print, post or distribute, or cause to be written, printed, posted or distributed, a circular or poster designed to aid or defeat any candidate for nomination or election to any public office, or designed to aid or defeat any question submitted to the voters, unless there appears upon such circular or poster in a conspicuous place either the names of the chairman and secretary, or of two officers, of the political or other organization issuing the same, or of some person eighteen years of age or older who is responsible therefor, with his name and residence, and the street and number thereof, if any.

  Violation of this section shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than six months.