2006 Massachusetts Code - CHAPTER 266. — CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY.

• Section 1. Dwelling houses; burning or aiding in burning.
• Section 2. Meeting house; burning or aiding in burning.
• Section 3 — 4. Repealed, 1932, 192, Sec. 3.
• Section 5. Wood and other property; burning or aiding in burning.
• Section 5A. Attempts.
• Section 6. Repealed — 1932, 192, Sec. 3.
• Section 7. Woods; wanton or reckless injury or destruction by fire.
• Section 8. Injury by fire; negligent use.
• Section 9. Injury by fire; negligent use in town; damages.
• Section 10. Insured property; burning with intent to defraud.
• Section 11. Fire alarm — engine or apparatus; injury before fire.
• Section 12. Fire alarm — engine or apparatus; injury during fire to prevent alarm orextinction of fire.
• Section 13. Fire engines; wanton or malicious injury.
• Section 13A. Duty of hotel manager — etc., to notify fire department and sound alarm;penalty.
• Section 14. Burglary; armed; assault on occupants.
• Section 15. Burglary; unarmed.
• Section 16. Breaking and entering at night.
• Section 16A. Building — vessel or vehicle; breaking and entering with intent to commitmisdemeanor.
• Section 17. Entering without breaking at night; breaking and entering in day time.
• Section 18. Dwelling house; entry at night; breaking and entering in day time.
• Section 19. Railroad car; breaking and entering.
• Section 20. Stealing in building — ship or railroad car.
• Section 20A. Breaking and entering of trucks — tractors, trailers or freight containers.
• Section 20B. Stealing in trucks — tractors, trailers or freight containers.
• Section 21. Stolen property; refusal to surrender.
• Section 22. Poultry thieves; detention by owner; penalty.
• Section 23. Embezzlement of property at fire; effect.
• Section 24. Stealing at a fire; punishment.
• Section 25. Larceny by stealing; punishment; victim sixty-five or older; minimumsentence for repeat offenders.
• Section 26. Repealed — 1945, 282, Sec. 1.
• Section 27. Tools of contractors — builders or mechanics; stealing; penalty.
• Section 27A. Motor vehicle or trailer; removal or concealment to defraud insurer.
• Section 28. Motor vehicle or trailer; theft — malicious damage or concealment.
• Section 29. Statement concerning theft; recovery of vehicles; restitution.
• Section 29A. Repealed — 1980, 463, Sec. 4.
• Section 29B. Burning motor vehicle; owner's statement to fire department.
• Section 30. Larceny; general provisions and penalties.
• Section 30A. Shoplifting; penalty; arrest without warrant.
• Section 31. Signature; obtaining under false pretenses.
• Section 32. Fraudulent conversion of property by captain of vessel.
• Section 33. Larceny; false pretences relating to contracts — banking transactions orcredit.
• Section 33A. Intent to defraud commercial computer service; penalties.
• Section 34. Larceny; inducement to part with property.
• Section 35. Non-applicability of secs. 30 — 31 and 34.
• Section 36. Repealed — 1945, 282, Sec. 1.
• Section 37. Fraudulent checks — etc.; drawing or uttering.
• Section 37A. Misuse of credit cards; definitions.
• Section 37B. Misuse of credit cards; penalties; multiple possession — presumption; arrest.
• Section 37C. Fraudulent use of credit cards to obtain money — goods or services; falseembossment of credit cards, multiple possession, presumption; arrest.
• Section 37D. Publishing credit card numbering or coding systems.
• Chapter 266: Section 37E. Use of personal identification of another; identity fraud; penalty; restitution
• Section 38. Larceny; wrongful detention of money by carriers.
• Section 38A. Construction loan; misapplication.
• Section 39. Wills; destruction or concealment.
• Section 40. Common and notorious thief.
• Section 41. Larceny of bicycles; second conviction.
• Section 42. Larceny of paper designated for bank bills.
• Section 43. Paper designated for bank bills; retention by printer with intent to pass.
• Section 44--46. Repealed — 1945, 282, Sec. 1.
• Section 47. Dogs; wrongful removal of collar; poisoning; penalty.
• Section 48. Stolen goods; duty of arresting officers to secure.
• Section 49. Burglarious instruments; making; possession; use.
• Section 50. State treasury; fraud or embezzlement by employee.
• Section 51. City — town or county officers; fraud or embezzlement.
• Section 52. Bank officers and employees; fraud or embezzlement.
• Section 53. Bank officers or employees; prosecution for fraud or embezzlement; evidence.
• Section 53A. Bank officers and employees; misconduct; penalty.
• Section 54. Receipt of deposits by insolvent banks; penalty.
• Section 55. Liquidating agent or receiver; embezzlement.
• Section 56. Brokers or agents; embezzlement.
• Section 57. Fiduciaries; embezzlement.
• Section 58. Larceny; embezzlement from voluntary association.
• Section 59. Simple larceny; embezzlement from voluntary association.
• Section 60. Stolen goods; buying or receiving.
• Section 60A. Stolen trade secrets; buying or selling.
• Section 61. Stolen property; restitution; effect.
• Section 62. Stolen goods; common receiver.
• Section 63. Unlawful taking or use of transportation media.
• Section 64. Fraudulent hiring of media of transportation.
• Section 65. Stock; unauthorized issue.
• Section 66. Stock; fraudulent issue or transfer.
• Section 67. Corporate books; false entries with intent to defraud.
• Section 67A. Departments — agencies and public instrumentalities; fraud in procurementof supplies; penalty.
• Section 67B. Presentation of false claims.
• Section 67C. Capital facility construction projects — etc.; false entries in records;penalties.
• Section 68. Corporate books as evidence.
• Section 69. Insignia of societies; unlawful use.
• Section 69A. Fraudulent use of labor union seal — trademark or insignia.
• Section 70. Insignia of veteran organizations; unlawful use.
• Section 71. Signature — money or membership; obtaining under false pretences.
• Section 71A. Individuals and corporations; false use of names of benevolentorganizations.
• Section 72. Fraternal names; use in publication.
• Section 73. Obtaining goods under false pretences.
• Section 74. Corporate credit; fraudulent use.
• Section 75. Obtaining property by trick.
• Section 75A. Gambling devices and vending machines; fraudulent use.
• Section 75B. Slugs; manufacture and sale.
• Section 75C. Gift certificates; expiration dates; failure to redeem.
• Section 76. Gross fraud or cheat at common law; punishment.
• Section 77. Sterling and coin silver; contents; sale; penalty.
• Section 78. Articles made of gold; false marking; prohibition.
• Section 79. Imitation of furs; false representation; prohibition.
• Section 80. Encumbered land; conveyance without notice.
• Section 81. Attached land; conveyance without notice.
• Section 82. Concealment of mortgaged personalty; use of rented personalty as containerfor illegal sale of liquor.
• Section 83. Personalty; sale by mortgagor without consent.
• Section 84. Personalty; sale by hirer without consent.
• Section 85. Collateral security; sale before debt due.
• Section 86. Hired property; buying or receiving with intent to defraud.
• Section 87. Larceny of leased or rented property.
• Section 87A. Stolen leased or rented motor vehicles; report; dissemination ofinformation by police.
• Section 88. Consignee or factor; fraudulent deposit or pledge of property.
• Section 89. Degrees; pretending to hold or conferring without authority; use ofdesignation "university" or "college".
• Section 90. Endorsement or approval; penalty for false claim.
• Section 91. Untrue and misleading advertisements; prohibitions.
• Section 91A. Merchandise — commodities and service; advertisement regulated; penalty.
• Section 91B. Deceptive advertising of merchandise for sale; injunction.
• Section 92. False or exaggerated statements; making or publishing; prohibition.
• Section 92A. Motor vehicles; sale in certain condition; written disclosure on bill ofsale; penalty.
• Section 93. Animals; obtaining or giving false pedigree.
• Section 94. Boundary monuments and miscellaneous markers; maliciousdestruction.
• Section 95. Historical monuments; malicious destruction or injury.
• Section 96. State building; defacement or injury.
• Section 97. County buildings; defacement.
• Section 98. Schoolhouse or church; defacement or injury.
• Section 98A. Public park or playground equipment; destruction — defacement orinjury.
• Section 99. Libraries; definitions.
• Section 99A. Libraries; theft of materials or property; destruction of records.
• Section 100. Libraries; mutilation or destruction of materials or property.
• Section 101. Malicious explosion.
• Section 102. Wilful throwing or placing of explosives at or near persons or property;unlawful possession; punishment.
• Section 102A. Infernal machine; possession; definition; notice of seizure.
• Section 102B. Bottle or other containers; possession; ignition; penalty.
• Section 103. Oil of vitriol — or other substances; throwing into building or vessel.
• Section 104. Buildings; destruction or injury.
• Section 104A. Goal posts; penalty for destruction.
• Section 104B. Research animals; unauthorized removal.
• Section 105. Stone walls or fences; unauthorized removal.
• Section 106. Ice ponds; injury.
• Section 107. Bridge or canal; injury.
• Section 108. Vessel; destruction to injure or defraud owner or insurer; punishment;restitution.
• Section 109. Vessel; fitting out with intent to destroy.
• Section 110. False invoice of cargo; intent to defraud insurer.
• Section 111. False affidavit or protest; penalty for making.
• Section 111A. Insurance policies; penalty for fraudulent claims.
• Section 111B. Motor vehicle insurance policies; penalty for fraudulent claims.
• Section 112. Domestic animals; malicious killing or injury.
• Section 113. Timber — wood and shrubs; wilful cutting and destruction on land of another.
• Section 114. Trees and fences; malicious injury.
• Section 115. Trespass in orchards and gardens.
• Section 116. Repealed — 1962, 172.
• Section 116A. Protection of certain flowers.
• Section 117. Orchards and gardens; entry with intent to injure or destroy.
• Section 118. Domestic animals; trespass on land.
• Section 119. Pests; bringing into state; penalty; exception.
• Section 120. Entry upon private property after being forbidden as trespass; prima facieevidence; penalties; arrest; tenants or occupants excepted.
• Section 120A. Motor vehicle; parking on private way; prosecution; evidence.
• Section 120B. Entry on land by abutting property owners not constituting trespass.
• Section 120C. Entry upon adjoining lands by surveyors not constituting trespass.
• Section 120D. Removal of motor vehicles from private ways or property; procedure;penalties; liability for removal and storage charges; release of vehicle.
• Section 120E. Obstruction of entry to or departure from medicalfacility; injunctive relief; damages.
• Section 120F. Unauthorized access to computer system; penalties.
• Section 121. Entry on land with firearms.
• Section 121A. Trespasses involving motor vehicles and other powered devices.
• Section 122. Notice against trespassers; penalty for defacement.
• Section 123. Land of state and county institutions; institutions of higher education;trespass.
• Section 124. Legal notice; penalty for malicious injury.
• Section 125. Show bill or advertisement; penalty for malicious injury.
• Section 126. Natural scenery; penalty for defacement.
• Section 126A. Walls — signs, gravestones, etc.; penalty for defacement.
• Section 126B. Walls — signs, gravestones, etc.; penalty for "tagging".
• Section 127. Personalty; malicious or wanton injuries.
• Section 127A. Destruction of place of worship — etc.; punishment.
• Section 127B. Actions for civil rights violations; liability.
• Section 128. Milk cans; defacement.
• Section 129. Correctional institutions; injury to property.
• Section 130. Penal institutions; injury to property.
• Section 131. Sunday trespassers; arrest and detention without warrant.
• Section 132. Pigeons; killing or frightening.
• Section 133. Humane society; injury to property.
• Section 134. Repealed — 1962, 285, Sec. 3.
• Section 135. Vessels; mooring the buoy — beacon or floating guide; penalty.
• Section 136. Repealed — 1962, 285, Sec. 3.
• Section 137. Injury to mill by raising water.
• Section 138. Dams or reservoirs; malicious injury.
• Section 138A. Irrigation equipment; malicious injury.
• Section 139. Motor vehicles or trailers; defacement — etc., of identifying numbers;penalties; arrests.
• Section 139A. Machines — or electrical or mechanical devices; alteration or obliterationof identifying numbers; possession as prima facie evidence; sale orattempt; punishment.
• Section 140. Sale or offer for sale of master keys; penalty.
• Section 141. Tampering with odometer of motor vehicle; prohibited acts; intent todefraud; civil remedy; treble damages; costs and fees; violation as unfaircompetition; definitions; repair or replacement excepted.
• Section 141A. Misrepresentation of mileage of motor vehicle by turning back orreadjusting speedometer or odometer; criminal penalty.
• Section 142. Record of purchases by dealers in scrap copper wire; inspection; penalty.
• Section 142A. Gold — silver and platinum dealers; records; penalty.
• Section 143. Definitions applicable to secs. 143A--143E.
• Section 143A. Unauthorized reproduction and transfer of sound recordings.
• Section 143B. Unauthorized reproduction and sale of live performances.
• Section 143C. Manufacture — rental, or sale of recorded devices inpackaging not bearing reproducer's name and address.
• Section 143D. Violations of secs. 143--143C; punishment.
• Section 143E. Forfeitures or destruction of unauthorized recordings upon conviction.
• Section 144. Carrying away or conversion of certain milk containers without permissionof owners.
• Section 145. Theft of public records.
• Section 146. Disposal of solid waste in commercial disposal container ofanother without consent of owner; penalties.
• Section 147. Items or services bearing or identified by counterfeit mark;sales; penalties.