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2021 Massachusetts General Laws
Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases
Title I - Crimes and Punishments
Chapter 271 - Crimes Against Public Policy
- Section 1 - Gaming or Betting; Forfeiture
- Section 1a - ''house'', ''building'' and ''place'' Including Ship or Vessel
- Section 2 - Gaming or Betting in Public Conveyance or Place or While Trespassing in Private Place; Arrest Without Warrant
- Section 3 - Innholders and Others Keeping or Suffering Implements to Be Used for Gaming
- Section 4 - Gaming in Inns and Other Occupied Places; Use of Billiard Table, Bowling Alley or Other Implement for Gaming
- Section 5 - Gaming, Lottery, Pool or Betting Houses; Tables or Apparatus for Gaming
- Section 5a - Gambling Devices; Forfeiture; Antique Slot Machines
- Section 5b - Unlawful Possession of Electronic Machine or Device for Conducting or Promoting Sweepstakes Through Entertaining Display; Lawful Exceptions; Penalty
- 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- Section 6c - Repealed, 1998, 1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
- Section 8 - Permitting Lotteries, Raffles and Games of Chance in Buildings
- Section 9 - Lottery Tickets; Sale, or Possession
- Section 10 - Subsequent Offenses Within Five Years of Conviction
- Section 10a - Arrest Without Warrant
- Section 11 - Lottery Tickets; Advertising
- Section 12 - False Lottery Tickets; Creation, Sale, or Possession
- Section 13 - Lottery Tickets, Tokens or Shares Deemed False
- Section 14 - Forfeiture of Money, Prizes, or Other Property Disposed of by Chance; Recovery
- Section 15 - Lottery for Money Drawn Out of Commonwealth; Aiding or Promoting
- Section 16 - Tickets of Lottery Described in Sec. 15; Sale or Possession
- Section 16a - Organizing or Promoting Gambling Facilities or Services
- Section 17 - Place for Registering Bets or Dealing in Pools; Owner or Occupant; Custodian or Depository
- Section 17a - Telephones; Use for Gaming Purposes
- Section 17b - Use of Electronic Communications Records in Ongoing Criminal Investigations; Subpoena of Records
- Section 18 - Policy Lotteries or Shops; Production, Sale or Possession of Lottery Tickets or Tokens
- Section 19 - Production, Advertisement or Delivery of Tickets; Receipt of Money; Prima Facie Evidence
- Section 20 - Tickets, Memoranda, Books and Sheets; Nuisance; Possession; Concealment
- Section 21 - Words, Figures or Characters Referring to Game or Contest; Prima Facie Evidence; Proof
- Section 22 - Delivery to or From a Person Engaged in a Lottery or Other Illegal 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 Gaming or Lottery Place, Arrest Persons and Seize Implements and Materials; Disposal of Articles
- Section 24 - Race Tracks; Owners, Proprietors Of, or Persons Present
- Section 25 - Obstructions Barring Access to Gaming Places; Removal; Lien of Expenses
- Section 26 - Subsequent Obstructions; Removal; Punishment; Lien
- Section 27 - Judicial Notice of Methods and Character of Lotteries, Policy Games, Pools and Betting; Prima Facie Evidence
- Section 28 - Lotteries or Illegal Gaming; Complaints and Indictments
- Section 29 - Sale, Exchange or Disposition of Property; Misrepresentation
- Section 30 - Trading Stamps or Similar Devices; Sale or Delivery
- Section 31 - Racing Horses for Bets or Stakes
- Section 31a - Racing Results or Information; Transmission for Unlawful Purposes
- Section 32 - Horse Racing; Fraud
- Section 33 - Race Grounds in Towns
- Section 34 - Race Grounds as Nuisance; Abatement
- Section 35 - Definition of Words and Phrases Used in Secs. 35 to 38
- Section 36 - Bucketing Contracts; Keeper of Shop; Domestic and Foreign Corporations
- Section 37 - Prohibited Contracts; Price Quotations
- Section 38 - Purchases and Sales of Securities or Commodities; Written Statement
- Section 39 - Gifts to Influence Business Affairs; Threats
- Section 39a - Gifts to Influence Action of Participants In, and Others Connected With, a Game or Contest
- Section 40 - Appointment, Reinstatement or Discharge of Employee of Public Service Corporation or Racing Licensee on Recommendation of Public Officer, Officer Elect or Candidate
- Section 41 - Offices Not Public Offices Under Sec. 40
- Section 42 - Boxing Matches or Exhibitions; Betting or Selling Pools
- Section 43 - Solicitation, Disclosure, Receipt or Use of Information Concerning Public Assistance
- Section 44 - Hospital or Sanitarium Patient; Settlement, Release or Statement; Admissibility
- Section 45 - Repealed, 1982, 21, Sec. 2
- Section 46 - Discarded Containers Originally Used for Refrigerative Purposes; Removal of Doors
- Section 47 - Telephones; Gambling Convictions; Approval for Installation; Notices of Convictions and Removals
- Section 48 - Civil Service Preparatory Courses; Advertisement
- Section 49 - Criminal Usury
- Section 50 - Sale of Research Papers, etc.; Taking of Examinations for Another at Educational Institutions
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