Massachusetts General Laws
Title I - Crimes and Punishments
Chapter 269 - Crimes Against Public Peace

Section 1 - Dispensing and Suppressing Unlawful Assembly; Arresting Persons - Section 1. If five or more persons, being armed with...

Section 2 - Refusing or Neglecting to Depart or to Assist in Suppressing Assembly or in Arresting Persons - Section 2. Whoever, being present and being so commanded to...

Section 3 - Neglect or Refusal to Exercise Authority to Suppress Assembly - Section 3. A mayor, alderman, selectman, justice of the peace,...

Section 4 - Requiring Aid; Dispersing and Suppressing Assembly; Seizure of Persons - Section 4. If any persons who are so riotously or...

Section 5 - Armed Forces Obeying Orders for Suppressing Riot and Dispersing and Arresting Persons - Section 5. When an armed force, called out under chapter...

Section 6 - Person Killed or Wounded as Result of an Assembly; Guilt and Responsibility - Section 6. If, by reason of the efforts made by...

Section 7 - Injury to Building or Vessel by Persons Unlawfully Assembled - Section 7. If any of the persons so unlawfully assembled...

Section 8 - Destruction of or Damage to Property by Persons Riotously Assembled; Liability of Town - Section 8. If property of the value of fifty dollars...

Section 10 - Carrying Dangerous Weapons; Possession of Machine Gun or Sawed-Off Shotguns; Possession of Large Capacity Weapon or Large Capacity Feeding Device; Punishment - Section 10. (a) Whoever, except as provided or exempted by...

Section 10a - Selling, Giving or Using Silencers; Confiscation and Destruction - Section 10A. Any person, other than a federally licensed firearms...

Section 10c - Tear Gas; Use in Commission of Crimes - Section 10C. Whoever uses tear gas cartridges, or any device...

Section 10d - Body Armor; Use in Commission of Crime - Section 10D. Whoever, while in the commission or attempted commission...

Section 10e - Firearms Sales, Distributions or Transfers; Penalties; Eligibility for Probation, Parole, Furlough or Work Release - Section 10E. Whoever, except as provided by law, in a...

Section 10f - Illegal Sale, Gifts or Transfer of Large Capacity Weapons or Large Capacity Feeding Devices; Punishment - Section 10F. (a) Any person who sells, keeps for sale,...

Section 10g - Violations of Sec. 10 by Persons Previously Convicted of Violent Crimes or Serious Drug Offenses; Punishment - Section 10G. (a) Whoever, having been previously convicted of a...

Section 10h - Carrying Loaded Firearm While Under Influence of Liquor, Marijuana, Narcotic Drugs, Depressants, Stimulant or Toxic Vapor Substances; Punishment - Section 10H. Whoever, having in effect a license to carry...

Section 10i - Transporting Firearm, Rifle, Shotgun, Machine Gun or Sawed-Off Shotgun Into Commonwealth for Use in Commission of Criminal Activity or to Unlawfully Distribute, Sell or Transfer Possession to Prohibited Person; Penalty - Section 10I. (a) Whoever transports a firearm, rifle, shotgun, machine...

Section 10j - Breaking and Entering Building, Ship, Vessel or Vehicle to Steal Firearm; Penalty - Section 10J. (a) Whoever in the nighttime or the daytime...

Section 10k - Breaking and Entering Building in Which Firearm Retailer, Wholesaler or Manufacturer Conducts Business; Unlawfully Obtaining or Distributing Firearm, Rifle, Shotgun, Machine Gun or Ammunition; Punishment - Section 10K. (a) Whoever in the nighttime or the daytime...

Section 11 - Printing Statutes for Posters; Display - Section 11. The state secretary shall, annually, cause to be...

Section 11a - Definitions - Section 11A. For the purposes of this section and sections...

Section 11b - Possession or Control of Firearm With Serial or Identification Number Removed or Mutilated, While Committing or Attempting a Felony; Destruction - Section 11B. Whoever, while in the commission or attempted commission...

Section 11c - Removal or Mutilation of Serial or Identification Numbers of Firearms; Receiving Such Firearm; Destruction - Section 11C. Whoever, by himself or another, removes, defaces, alters,...

Section 11e - Serial Identification Numbers on Firearms - Section 11E. All firearms, rifles and shotguns of new manufacture,...

Section 12 - Manufacturing and Selling Knives, Slung Shots, Swords, Bludgeons and Similar Weapons - Section 12. Whoever manufactures or causes to be manufactured, or...

Section 12a - Air Rifles; Sale to Minors - Section 12A. Whoever sells to a minor under the age...

Section 12b - Air Rifles; Possession by Minors; Shooting - Section 12B. No minor under the age of eighteen shall...

Section 12d - Rifle or Shotgun Loaded With Shells or Cartridges; Unloaded Rifle or Shotgun; Carrying on Public Way Prohibited; Exceptions; Punishment - Section 12D. (a) Except as exempted or provided by law,...

Section 12e - Discharge of a Firearm Within 500 Feet of a Dwelling or Other Building in Use; Exceptions - Section 12E. Whoever discharges a firearm as defined in section...

Section 12f - Airport Secure Areas; Possession or Placement of a Cutting Device or Prohibited Weapon; Punishment - Section 12F. (a) For the purposes of this section, the...

Section 13 - False Alarms of Fire - Section 13. Whoever, without reasonable cause, by outcry or the...

Section 13a - False Reports to Police Officers - Section 13A. Whoever intentionally and knowingly makes or causes to...

Section 14 - Deadly Weapons, Explosives, Chemical or Biological Agents, or Other Deadly Device or Substance; Threatened Use or Presence; Threat to Hijack; Disruption of School, Public Building or Transport; Punishment; Restitution - Section 14. (a) For the purposes of this section, the...

Section 14a - Annoying Telephone Calls or Electronic Communication - Section 14A. Whoever telephones another person or contacts another person...

Section 14b - Willful and Malicious Communication of False Information to Public Safety Answering Points; Penalty; Restitution - Section 14B. As used in this section, the following words...

Section 15 - Stink Bombs; Sale - Section 15. Whoever sells or offers for sale a stink...

Section 16 - Arrowheads Used for Hunting; Sale - Section 16. Whoever sells or offers for sale devices known...

Section 17 - Hazing; Organizing or Participating; Hazing Defined - Section 17. Whoever is a principal organizer or participant in...

Section 18 - Failure to Report Hazing - Section 18. Whoever knows that another person is the victim...

Section 19 - Copy of Secs. 17 to 19; Issuance to Students and Student Groups, Teams and Organizations; Report - Section 19. Each institution of secondary education and each public...