Massachusetts General Laws
Title I - Crimes and Punishments
Chapter 266 - Crimes Against Property

Section 12 - Fire Alarm, Engine or Apparatus; Injury During Fire to Prevent Alarm or Extinction of Fire - Section 12. Whoever, during the burning of a building or...

Section 13 - Fire Engines; Wanton or Malicious Injury - Section 13. Whoever wantonly or maliciously injures a fire engine...

Section 13a - Duty of Hotel Manager to Notify Fire Department and Sound Alarm; Penalty - Section 13A. The manager of a hotel or family hotel...

Section 14 - Burglary; Armed; Assault on Occupants; Weapons; Punishment - Section 14. Whoever breaks and enters a dwelling house in...

Section 15 - Burglary; Unarmed - Section 15. Whoever breaks and enters a dwelling house in...

Section 16 - Breaking and Entering at Night - Section 16. Whoever, in the night time, breaks and enters...

Section 16a - Building, Vessel or Vehicle; Breaking and Entering With Intent to Commit Misdemeanor - Section 16A. Whoever in the nighttime or daytime breaks and...

Section 17 - Entering Without Breaking at Night; Breaking and Entering in Day Time; Weapons; Punishment - Section 17. Whoever, in the night time, enters without breaking,...

Section 18 - Dwelling House; Entry at Night; Breaking and Entering in Day Time; Weapons; Punishment - Section 18. Whoever, in the night time, enters a dwelling...

Section 18a - Entering Dwelling House by False Pretenses; Intent to Commit Felony; Larceny; Punishment - Section 18A. Whoever enters a dwelling house by false pretenses,...

Section 19 - Railroad Car; Breaking and Entering - Section 19. Whoever breaks and enters, or enters in the...

Section 20 - Stealing in Building, Ship or Railroad Car - Section 20. Whoever steals in a building, ship, vessel or...

Section 20a - Breaking and Entering of Trucks, Tractors, Trailers or Freight Containers - Section 20A. Whoever breaks and enters, or enters without breaking,...

Section 20b - Stealing in Trucks, Tractors, Trailers or Freight Containers - Section 20B. Whoever steals in a truck, tractor/trailer unit, trailer,...

Section 21 - Stolen Property; Refusal to Surrender - Section 21. Whoever, having been convicted, either as principal or...

Section 22 - Poultry Thieves; Detention by Owner; Penalty - Section 22. Whoever, with intent to commit larceny, breaks or...

Section 23 - Embezzlement of Property at Fire; Effect - Section 23. Whoever steals, conveys away or conceals any furniture,...

Section 24 - Stealing at a Fire; Punishment - Section 24. Whoever steals in a building which is on...

Section 25 - Larceny by Stealing; Punishment; Victim Sixty-Five or Older; Minimum Sentence for Repeat Offenders - Section 25. (a) Whoever commits larceny by stealing from the...

Section 27 - Tools of Contractors, Builders or Mechanics; Stealing; Penalty - Section 27. Whoever steals any tool belonging to any contractor,...

Section 27a - Motor Vehicle or Trailer; Removal or Concealment to Defraud Insurer - Section 27A. Whoever, with intent to defraud the insurer, removes...

Section 28 - Motor Vehicle or Trailer; Theft or Concealment; Operation Without Owner's Consent After Revocation of License; Penalty - Section 28. (a) Whoever steals a motor vehicle or trailer,...

Section 29 - Statement Concerning Theft; Recovery of Vehicles; Restitution - Section 29. Whenever a motor vehicle is stolen or misappropriated,...

Section 29b - Burning Motor Vehicle; Owner's Statement to Fire Department - Section 29B. Whenever a motor vehicle is burned, the owner...

Section 30 - Larceny; General Provisions and Penalties - Section 30. (1) Whoever steals, or with intent to defraud...

Section 30a - Shoplifting; Penalty; Arrest Without Warrant - Section 30A. Any person who intentionally takes possession of, carries...

Section 30b - Unlawful Distribution, Possession, or Deactivation or Removal of Theft Detection Shielding Device; Unlawful Distribution or Possession of Theft Detection Device Deactivator or Remover; Penalty - Section 30B. (a) A person shall be guilty of unlawful...

Section 30c - Possession, Use, Counterfeit, Etc. of Receipts, Price Ticket or Universal Product Code Label With Intent to Defraud; Penalty - Section 30C. A person who, with intent to cheat or...

Section 30d - Organized Retail Crime; Aggravated Organized Retail Crime; Leader of Organized Retail Theft Enterprise; Penalty - Section 30D. (a) For purposes of this section, ''retail merchandise''...

Section 31 - Signature; Obtaining Under False Pretenses - Section 31. Whoever by a false pretence, with intent to...

Section 32 - Fraudulent Conversion of Property by Captain of Vessel - Section 32. Whoever, being a captain of a vessel, embezzles...

Section 33 - Larceny; False Pretences Relating to Contracts, Banking Transactions or Credit - Section 33. (1) Whoever, with intent to defraud, obtains by...

Section 33a - Obtaining Computer Services by Fraud or Misrepresentation; Penalties - Section 33A. Whoever, with intent to defraud, obtains, or attempts...

Section 34 - Larceny; Inducement to Part With Property - Section 34. Whoever, with intent to defraud and by a...

Section 35 - Non-Applicability of Secs. 30, 31 and 34 - Section 35. Sections thirty, thirty-one and thirty-four shall not apply...

Section 35a - False Material Statements or Omissions During or in Connection With Mortgage Lending Process; Penalties; Mitigating Factors With Respect to Sentencing - Section 35A. (a) As used in this section, the following...

Section 37 - Fraudulent Checks, etc.; Drawing or Uttering - Section 37. Whoever, with intent to defraud, makes, draws, utters...

Section 37a - Misuse of Credit Cards; Definitions - Section 37A. As used in sections thirty-seven A to thirty-seven...

Section 37b - Misuse of Credit Cards; Penalties; Multiple Possession, Presumption; Arrest - Section 37B. Whoever, with intent to defraud, (a) makes or...

Section 37c - Fraudulent Use of Credit Cards to Obtain Money, Goods or Services; False Embossment of Credit Cards, Multiple Possession, Presumption; Arrest - Section 37C. Whoever, with intent to defraud, (a) obtains control...

Section 37d - Publishing Credit Card Numbering or Coding Systems - Section 37D. Whoever publishes or causes to be published the...

Section 37e - Use of Personal Identification of Another; Identity Fraud; Penalty; Restitution - Section 37E. (a) For purposes of this section, the following...

Section 38 - Larceny; Wrongful Detention of Money by Carriers - Section 38. Whoever, being engaged in the business of transporting...

Section 38a - Construction Loan; Misapplication - Section 38A. Whoever obtains a building or construction loan, secured...

Section 39 - Wills; Destruction or Concealment - Section 39. Whoever steals or for any fraudulent purpose destroys,...

Section 40 - Common and Notorious Thief - Section 40. Whoever, having been convicted, upon indictment, of larceny...

Section 41 - Larceny of Bicycles; Second Conviction - Section 41. Whoever is convicted of a second offence of...

Section 42 - Larceny of Paper Designated for Bank Bills - Section 42. Whoever commits larceny of a printed piece of...

Section 43 - Paper Designated for Bank Bills; Retention by Printer With Intent to Pass - Section 43. Whoever, having been employed to print or having...

Section 47 - Dogs; Wrongful Removal of Collar; Penalty - Section 47. Whoever wrongfully removes the collar from a dog...

Section 48 - Stolen Goods; Duty of Arresting Officers to Secure - Section 48. An officer who arrests a person charged as...

Section 49 - Burglarious Instruments; Making; Possession; Use - Section 49. Whoever makes or mends, or begins to make...

Section 50 - State Treasury; Fraud or Embezzlement by Employee - Section 50. A person employed in the treasury of the...

Section 51 - City, Town or County Officers; Fraud or Embezzlement - Section 51. A county, city or town officer who embezzles...

Section 52 - Bank Officers and Employees; Fraud or Embezzlement - Section 52. An officer, director, trustee, agent or employee of...

Section 53 - Bank Officers or Employees; Prosecution for Fraud or Embezzlement; Evidence - Section 53. In prosecutions for such crimes, the fraudulent taking...

Section 53a - Bank Officers and Employees; Misconduct; Penalty - Section 53A. An officer, director, trustee, agent or employee of...

Section 54 - Receipt of Deposits by Insolvent Banks; Penalty - Section 54. Any officer or employee of a bank, as...

Section 55 - Liquidating Agent or Receiver; Embezzlement - Section 55. An agent appointed by the commissioner of banks...

Section 56 - Brokers or Agents; Embezzlement - Section 56. A broker, or officer, manager or agent of...

Section 57 - Fiduciaries; Embezzlement - Section 57. A trustee under an express trust created by...

Section 58 - Larceny; Embezzlement From Voluntary Association - Section 58. Whoever, being an officer, agent, clerk or servant...

Section 59 - Simple Larceny; Embezzlement From Voluntary Association - Section 59. Whoever embezzles or fraudulently converts, or secretes with...

Section 60 - Stolen Goods; Buying, Receiving or Aiding in Concealment; Penalty - Section 60. Whoever buys, receives or aids in the concealment...

Section 60a - Stolen Trade Secrets; Buying or Selling - Section 60A. Whoever buys, receives, conceals, stores, barters, sells or...

Section 60b - Venue for Charge and Prosecution of Crimes Committed in Different Counties or Territorial Jurisdiction of Different Courts - Section 60B. Crimes committed in different counties or the territorial...

Section 61 - Stolen Property; Restitution; Effect - Section 61. If, upon a first conviction under the preceding...

Section 62 - Stolen Goods; Common Receiver - Section 62. Whoever is convicted of buying, receiving or aiding...

Section 63 - Unlawful Taking or Use of Transportation Media - Section 63. Whoever wilfully, mischievously and without right takes or...

Section 64 - Fraudulent Hiring of Media of Transportation - Section 64. Whoever hires a horse, carriage or other vehicle,...

Section 65 - Stock; Unauthorized Issue - Section 65. An officer, agent, clerk or servant of a...

Section 66 - Stock; Fraudulent Issue or Transfer - Section 66. An officer, agent, clerk or servant of a...

Section 67 - Corporate Books; False Entries With Intent to Defraud - Section 67. An officer of a corporation or an agent,...

Section 67a - Departments, Agencies and Public Instrumentalities; False Statements, Etc. in Procurement of Supplies; Penalty - Section 67A. Whoever, in any matter, relative to procurement of...

Section 67b - Presentation of False Claims - Section 67B. Whoever makes or presents to any employee, department,...

Section 67c - Capital Facility Construction Projects, etc.; False Entries in Records; Penalties - Section 67C. Any person who knowingly and wilfully, directly or...

Section 68 - Corporate Books as Evidence - Section 68. Upon the trial of a person for a...

Section 69 - Insignia of Societies; Unlawful Use - Section 69. Whoever, not being a member of a society,...

Section 69a - Fraudulent Use of Labor Union Seal, Trademark or Insignia - Section 69A. Whoever knowingly and fraudulently displays or otherwise uses,...

Section 70 - Insignia of Veteran Organizations; Unlawful Use - Section 70. Whoever, not being a member and without authority...

Section 71 - Signature, Money or Membership; Obtaining Under False Pretences - Section 71. Whoever wilfully, by color or aid of any...

Section 71a - Individuals and Corporations; False Use of Names of Benevolent Organizations - Section 71A. No person, society, association or corporation shall knowingly...

Section 72 - Fraternal Names; Use in Publication - Section 72. Whoever, in a newspaper or other publication, or...

Section 73 - Obtaining Goods Under False Pretences - Section 73. Whoever, with intent to defraud, by a false...

Section 74 - Corporate Credit; Fraudulent Use - Section 74. An officer, agent, clerk or servant of a...

Section 75 - Obtaining Property by Trick - Section 75. Whoever, by a game, device, sleight of hand,...

Section 75a - Gambling Devices and Vending Machines; Fraudulent Use - Section 75A. Whoever operates or causes to be operated, or...

Section 75b - Slugs; Manufacture and Sale - Section 75B. Whoever manufactures for sale, advertises for sale, sells,...

Section 75c - Gift Certificates; Expiration Dates; Failure to Redeem - Section 75C. Whoever sells or offers to sell a gift...

Section 75d - Imposition of Certain Fees Reducing Total Value Amount of Gift Certificate; Penalty - Section 75D. Whoever sells or offers to sell a gift...

Section 75e - Printed Notice Required for Certain Fees Associated With Gift Certificates; Penalty for Violation - Section 75E. Whoever sells or offers to sell a gift...

Section 75f - Deduction of Gratuity From Gift Certificate Without Consent; Penalty - Section 75F. Whoever redeems a gift certificate, as defined in...

Section 76 - Gross Fraud or Cheat at Common Law; Punishment - Section 76. Whoever is convicted of any gross fraud or...

Section 77 - Sterling and Coin Silver; Contents; Sale; Penalty - Section 77. Whoever makes or sells, or offers to sell...

Section 78 - Articles Made of Gold; False Marking; Prohibition - Section 78. Whoever makes or sells, or offers for sale...

Section 79 - Imitation of Furs; False Representation; Prohibition - Section 79. Whoever, himself, or by his agent or servant,...

Section 80 - Encumbered Land; Conveyance Without Notice - Section 80. Whoever conveys land, knowing that an encumbrance exists...

Section 81 - Attached Land; Conveyance Without Notice - Section 81. Whoever, knowing that his land is attached on...

Section 82 - Concealment of Mortgaged Personalty; Use of Rented Personalty for Illegal Sale of Liquor - Section 82. Whoever, with a fraudulent intent to place personal...

Section 83 - Personalty; Sale by Mortgagor Without Consent - Section 83. A mortgagor of personal property who sells or...

Section 84 - Personalty; Sale by Hirer Without Consent - Section 84. A hirer or lessee of personal property who...

Section 85 - Collateral Security; Sale Before Debt Due - Section 85. Whoever, holding collateral security deposited with him for...

Section 86 - Hired Property; Buying or Receiving With Intent to Defraud - Section 86. Whoever, with intent to defraud, buys, receives or...

Section 87 - Larceny of Leased or Rented Property - Section 87. Any person leasing or renting personal property who,...

Section 87a - Stolen Leased or Rented Motor Vehicles; Report; Dissemination of Information by Police - Section 87A. The owner or lessee of a leased or...

Section 88 - Consignee or Factor; Fraudulent Deposit or Pledge of Property - Section 88. A consignee or factor who, in violation of...

Section 89 - Degrees; Pretending to Hold or Conferring Without Authority; Use of Designation ''university'' or ''college'' - Section 89. Whoever, in a book, pamphlet, circular, advertisement or...

Section 90 - Endorsement or Approval; Penalty for False Claim - Section 90. Whoever, in a book, pamphlet, circular, advertisement or...

Section 91 - Untrue and Misleading Advertisements; Prohibitions - Section 91. Any person who, with intent to sell or...

Section 91a - Merchandise, Commodities and Service; Advertisement; Penalty - Section 91A. Any person who offers for sale merchandise, commodities...

Section 91b - Deceptive Advertising of Merchandise for Sale; Injunction - Section 91B. Any person offering for sale merchandise, commodities or...

Section 92 - False or Exaggerated Statements; Making or Publishing; Prohibition - Section 92. Whoever wilfully and with intent to defraud makes...

Section 92a - Motor Vehicles; Sale in Certain Condition; Written Disclosure on Bill of Sale; Penalty - Section 92A. Whoever sells a motor vehicle knowing that its...

Section 93 - Animals; Obtaining or Giving False Pedigree - Section 93. Whoever, by a false pretence, obtains from any...

Section 94 - Boundary Monuments and Miscellaneous Markers; Malicious Destruction - Section 94. Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right breaks down,...

Section 95 - Historical Monuments; Malicious Destruction or Injury - Section 95. Whoever wilfully or maliciously removes, displaces, destroys, defaces,...

Section 96 - State Building; Defacement or Injury - Section 96. Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right defaces, mars...

Section 97 - County Buildings; Defacement - Section 97. Whoever wilfully mars or injures the walls, wainscoting...

Section 98 - Schoolhouse or Church; Defacement or Injury - Section 98. Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right, or wantonly...

Section 98a - Public Park or Playground Equipment; Destruction, Defacement or Injury - Section 98A. Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right, or wantonly...

Section 99 - Libraries; Definitions - Section 99. As used in sections ninety-nine A and one...

Section 99a - Libraries; Theft of Materials or Property; Destruction of Records - Section 99A. Whoever willfully conceals on his person or among...

Section 100 - Libraries; Mutilation or Destruction of Materials or Property - Section 100. Whoever willfully, maliciously or wantonly writes upon, injures,...

Section 101 - Definitions Applicable to Secs. 101 to 102d - Section 101. For the purposes of sections 101 to 102D,...

Section 102 - Possession or Control of Incendiary Device or Material; Possession of Hoax Device or Material; Penalty - Section 102. (a) Whoever, without lawful authority, has in his...

Section 102a - Throwing, Secreting, Launching or Placing of Incendiary Device; Intent; Punishment - Section 102A. Whoever, without lawful authority, secretes, throws, launches or...

Section 102b - Malicious Explosion - Section 102B. Whoever, without lawful authority, willfully discharges, ignites or...

Section 102c - Biological, Chemical, or Nuclear Weapon or Delivery System; Possession; Punishment - Section 102C. Whoever, without lawful authority, knowingly develops, produces, stockpiles,...

Section 102d - Notice of Seizure of Explosive or Incendiary Device Resulting From a Violation of Secs. 102 to 102c; Restitution - Section 102D. (a) Notice of the seizure of an explosive,...

Section 103 - Oil of Vitriol, or Other Substances; Throwing Into Building or Vessel - Section 103. Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right throws into,...

Section 104 - Buildings; Destruction or Injury - Section 104. Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right destroys, injures,...

Section 104a - Goal Posts; Penalty for Destruction - Section 104A. Whoever wilfully and without right destroys, injures or...

Section 104b - Research Animals; Unauthorized Removal - Section 104B. Whoever enters any premises in which animals are...

Section 105 - Stone Walls or Fences; Unauthorized Removal - Section 105. Whoever wilfully and without right pulls down or...

Section 106 - Ice Ponds; Injury - Section 106. Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right or license,...

Section 107 - Bridge or Canal; Injury - Section 107. Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right breaks down,...

Section 108 - Vessel; Destruction to Injure or Defraud Owner or Insurer; Punishment; Restitution - Section 108. Whoever casts away, burns, sinks or otherwise destroys...

Section 109 - Vessel; Fitting Out With Intent to Destroy - Section 109. Whoever lades, equips or fits out, or assists...

Section 110 - False Invoice of Cargo; Intent to Defraud Insurer - Section 110. An owner of a ship or vessel, or...

Section 111 - False Affidavit or Protest; Penalty - Section 111. A master, officer or mariner of a ship...

Section 111a - Insurance Policies; Penalty for Fraudulent Claims - Section 111A. Whoever, in connection with or in support of...

Section 111b - Motor Vehicle Insurance Policies; Penalty for Fraudulent Claims - Section 111B. Whoever, in connection with or in support of...

Section 111c - Fraudulently Obtaining Benefits Under Insurance Contract; Runners; Punishment - Section 111C. (a) As used in this section, the following...

Section 112 - Domestic Animals; Malicious Killing or Injury - Section 112. Whoever wilfully and maliciously kills, maims or disfigures...

Section 113 - Timber, Wood and Shrubs; Wilful Cutting and Destruction on Land of Another - Section 113. Whoever wilfully cuts down or destroys timber or...

Section 114 - Trees and Fences; Malicious Injury - Section 114. Whoever wilfully and maliciously or wantonly breaks glass...

Section 115 - Trespass in Orchards and Gardens - Section 115. Whoever wilfully and maliciously enters an orchard, nursery,...

Section 116a - Protection of Certain Flowers - Section 116A. No person shall pull up or dig up...

Section 117 - Orchards and Gardens; Entry With Intent to Injure or Destroy - Section 117. Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right enters upon...

Section 118 - Domestic Animals; Trespass on Land - Section 118. Whoever, having the charge or custody of sheep,...

Section 119 - Pests; Bringing Into State; Penalty; Exception - Section 119. Whoever knowingly brings into the commonwealth, or transports...

Section 120 - Entry Upon Private Property After Being Forbidden as Trespass; Prima Facie Evidence; Penalties; Arrest; Tenants or Occupants Excepted - Section 120. Whoever, without right enters or remains in or...

Section 120a - Motor Vehicle; Parking on Private Way; Prosecution; Evidence - Section 120A. In any prosecution for committing the crime of...

Section 120b - Entry on Land by Abutting Property Owners Not Constituting Trespass - Section 120B. Whoever, being the owner of land abutting that...

Section 120c - Entry Upon Adjoining Lands by Surveyors Not Constituting Trespass - Section 120C. Whenever a land surveyor registered under chapter one...

Section 120d - Removal of Motor Vehicles From Private Ways or Property; Penalties; Liability for Removal and Storage Charges; Release of Vehicle - Section 120D. No person shall remove a motor vehicle which...

Section 120e - Obstructing Entry to or Departure From Medical Facilities; Penalties; Injunctive Relief - Section 120E. As used in this section, the following words...

Section 120e1/2 - Reproductive Health Care Facilities; Withdrawal Orders for Individuals Impeding Access to or Departure From Facility; Intimidation; Penalty for Violations - Section 120E1/2. (a) As used in this section, the following...

Section 120f - Unauthorized Access to Computer System; Penalties - Section 120F. Whoever, without authorization, knowingly accesses a computer system...

Section 121 - Entry on Land With Firearms - Section 121. Whoever, without right, enters upon the land of...

Section 121a - Trespasses Involving Motor Vehicles and Other Powered Devices - Section 121A. Whoever, without right, enters upon the private land...

Section 122 - Notice Against Trespassers; Defacement; Penalty - Section 122. Whoever wilfully tears down, removes or defaces any...

Section 123 - State Land; Public Institutions; Trespass; Penalty - Section 123. Whoever willfully trespasses upon land or premises belonging...

Section 123a - Willful Trespass Upon Public Source of Water, Water Supply Facility or Land - Section 123A. (a) Whoever willfully trespasses upon any public source...

Section 124 - Legal Notice; Penalty for Malicious Injury - Section 124. Whoever wilfully and maliciously, or wantonly and without...

Section 125 - Show Bill or Advertisement; Penalty for Malicious Injury - Section 125. Whoever wilfully and maliciously removes, destroys or mutilates...

Section 126 - Natural Scenery; Penalty for Defacement - Section 126. Whoever paints, or puts upon, or in any...

Section 126a - Defacement of Real or Personal Property; Penalties - Section 126A. Whoever intentionally, willfully and maliciously or wantonly, paints,...

Section 126b - Tagging; Penalties; Suspension of Driver's License - Section 126B. Whoever sprays or applies paint or places a...

Section 127 - Willful, Malicious or Wanton Destruction or Injury to Personal Property, Dwelling House or Building of Another - Section 127. Whoever destroys or injures the personal property, dwelling...

Section 127a - Destruction of Place of Worship, etc.; Threats; Punishment - Section 127A. Whoever willfully, intentionally and without right, or wantonly...

Section 127b - Actions for Civil Rights Violations; Liability - Section 127B. Any person incurring injury to his person or...

Section 128 - Milk Cans; Defacement - Section 128. Whoever, without the consent of the owner thereof,...

Section 129 - Correctional Institutions; Injury to Property - Section 129. An inmate of a correctional institution of the...

Section 130 - Penal Institutions; Injury to Property - Section 130. Whoever, being a prisoner at a jail or...

Section 131 - Sunday Trespassers; Arrest and Detention Without Warrant - Section 131. Whoever is discovered in the act of wilfully...

Section 132 - Pigeons; Killing or Frightening - Section 132. Whoever wilfully kills pigeons upon, or frightens them...

Section 133 - Humane Society; Injury to Property - Section 133. Whoever unlawfully enters a house, boat house or...

Section 135 - Vessels; Mooring the Buoy, Beacon or Floating Guide; Penalty - Section 135. Whoever moors or in any manner makes fast...

Section 137 - Injury to Mill by Raising Water - Section 137. Whoever, by erecting or maintaining a dam, either...

Section 138 - Dams or Reservoirs; Malicious Injury - Section 138. Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right breaks down,...

Section 138a - Irrigation Equipment; Malicious Injury - Section 138A. Whoever wilfully, intentionally and without right damages or...

Section 139 - Motor Vehicles or Trailers; Defacement, etc., of Identifying Numbers; Penalties; Arrests - Section 139. (a) Whoever intentionally and maliciously removes, defaces, alters,...

Section 139a - Machines, Electrical or Mechanical Devices; Alteration or Obliteration of Identifying Numbers; Possession; Sale; Punishment - Section 139A. Whoever removes, defaces, alters, changes, destroys, obliterates or...

Section 140 - Sale or Offer for Sale of Master Keys; Penalty - Section 140. Whoever sells or offers to sell or solicits...

Section 141 - Tampering With Odometer of Motor Vehicle; Intent to Defraud; Civil Remedy; Treble Damages; Costs and Fees; Unfair Competition; Repair or Replacement Excepted - Section 141. Whoever advertises for sale, sells, uses, installs or...

Section 141a - Misrepresentation of Mileage of Motor Vehicle by Turning Back or Readjusting Speedometer or Odometer; Criminal Penalty - Section 141A. Whoever, with the intent to misrepresent to a...

Section 142 - Record of Purchases by Dealers in Scrap Copper Wire; Inspection; Penalty - Section 142. Whoever is in the business of purchasing copper...

Section 142a - Gold, Silver and Platinum Dealers; Records; Penalty - Section 142A. Whoever is in the business of purchasing gold,...

Section 143 - Definitions Applicable to Secs. 143a to 143h - Section 143. As used in sections 143A to 143H, inclusive,...

Section 143a - Unauthorized Reproduction and Transfer of Sound Recordings - Section 143A. Whoever directly or indirectly by any means, knowingly...

Section 143b - Unauthorized Reproduction and Sale of Live Performances - Section 143B. Whoever for commercial advantage or private financial gain...

Section 143c - Manufacture, Rental, or Sale of Recorded Devices in Packaging Not Bearing Reproducer's Name and Address - Section 143C. Whoever for commercial advantage or private financial gain...

Section 143d - Application of Secs. 143 to 143c; Exceptions - Section 143D. (a) Nothing in sections 143A to 143C, inclusive,...

Section 143e - Violations of Secs. 143a to 143c; Punishment - Section 143E. Whoever violates any provision of section 143A to...

Section 143f - Unlawful Recording of Motion Picture in Motion Picture Theater; Punishment - Section 143F. (a) Any person, in a motion picture theater...

Section 143g - Persons Detained for Possible Violation of Sec. 143f; Defense to False Imprisonment or False Arrest Action - Section 143G. In an action for false arrest or false...

Section 143h - Forfeiture of Recordings Upon Conviction for Violation of Secs. 143a to 143c or Sec. 143f - Section 143H. Upon conviction of a person for a violation...

Section 144 - Carrying Away or Conversion of Certain Milk Containers Without Permission of Owners - Section 144. Whoever, without permission of the owner, carries away...

Section 145 - Theft of Public Records - Section 145. Any person who intentionally conceals upon his person...

Section 146 - Disposal of Solid Waste in Commercial Disposal Container of Another Without Consent of Owner; Penalties - Section 146. For purposes of this section ''solid waste'' shall...

Section 147 - Items or Services Bearing or Identified by Counterfeit Mark; Sales; Penalties - Section 147. (a) For purposes of this section, the following...

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Massachusetts General Laws Title I - Crimes and Punishments Chapter 266 - Crimes Against Property

Massachusetts General Laws
Title I - Crimes and Punishments
Chapter 266 - Crimes Against Property