STATE STATUTES & CODES

MASSACHUSETTS STATUTES AND CODES

CHAPTER 272 CRIMES AGAINST CHASTITY, MORALITY, DECENCY AND GOOD ORDER

• Section 1 Enticing away person under 16 for marriage
• Section 2 Enticing away person for prostitution or sexual intercourse
• Section 3 Drugging persons for sexual intercourse
• Section 4 Inducing person under eighteen to have sexual intercourse
• Section 4A Inducing minor into prostitution
• Section 4B Living off or sharing earnings of minor prostitute
• Section 5 Repealed, 1987, 522, Sec. 22
• Section 6 Owner of place inducing or suffering person to resort in such place for sexual intercourse
• Section 7 Support from, or sharing, earnings of prostitute
• Section 8 Soliciting for prostitute
• Section 9 Oath and warrant to enter place for prostitution; detention of person in control and prostitute; recognizance to appear as witness
• Section 10 Arrest without warrant
• Section 11 Corroboration of one witness; limitations
• Section 12 Procuring person to practice, or enter a place for, prostitution; employment office procuring person
• Section 13 Detaining, or drugging to detain, person in place for prostitution
• Section 14 Adultery
• Section 15 Polygamy
• Section 16 Open and gross lewdness and lascivious behavior
• Section 17 Incestuous marriage or sexual activities
• Section 18 Fornication
• Section 19 Procuring miscarriage
• Section 20 Advertising relative to miscarriage or prevention of pregnancy
• Section 21 Instruments or other articles for self-abuse, prevention of conception or abortion, in general
• Section 21A Furnishing drugs, articles or information for prevention of pregnancy or conception
• Section 21B Privately controlled hospital or health facility; abortion or sterilization procedures; contraceptive devices and family planning services
• Section 22 Concealment of death of child born out of wedlock
• Section 23 Joinder of charges of murder and offense under Sec. 22
• Section 24 Keeping house of ill fame
• Section 25 Obstructing view of restaurant or tavern patrons; barricaded entrances
• Section 26 Resorting to restaurants or taverns for immoral purposes
• Section 27 Record of convictions under Sec. 25 or Sec. 26 sent to licensing officers
• Section 28 Matter harmful to minors, dissemination; possession; defenses
• Section 28A, 28B Repealed, 1974, 430, Sec. 2
• Section 28C Information or petition against obscene books; order of notice to show cause; notice of order; interlocutory adjudication; defense
• Section 28D Answer to notice; right to jury trial
• Section 28E Order of default; adjudication
• Section 28F Hearing; evidence; adjudication
• Section 28G Objection that mere judgment sought and no relief claimed on issue of knowledge
• Section 28H Proceeding under Sec. 28C as evidence in trial under Sec. 29; presumptions as to knowledge
• Section 28I Certain procedures as condition precedent to institution of proceedings for dissemination of obscene books
• Section 29 Dissemination or possession of obscene matter; punishment; defense
• Section 29A Posing or exhibiting child in state of nudity or sexual conduct; punishment
• Section 29B Dissemination of visual material of child in state of nudity or sexual conduct; punishment
• Section 29C Knowing purchase or possession of visual material of child depicted in sexual conduct; punishment
• Section 30 Injunctive relief against dissemination of obscene matter; jurisdiction; procedures; appeal
• Section 30A to 30C Repealed, 1974, 430, Sec. 11
• Section 30D Dissemination of visual material of child in state of nudity or sexual conduct; injunction; jurisdiction
• Section 31 Definitions
• Section 32 Motion picture theater managers or operators; applicability of Secs. 28, 29 and 29A
• Section 33 Exhibition of deformities
• Section 34 Crime against nature
• Section 35 Unnatural and lascivious acts
• Section 35A Unnatural and lascivious acts with child under 16
• Section 36 Blasphemy
• Section 36A Sporting events; penalty for abuse of participants and officials
• Section 37 Repealed, 1962, 285, Sec. 4
• Section 38 Disturbance of assembly for worship
• Section 39 Selling goods and provisions, caring for horses, gaming, horse racing or exhibits near camp meetings
• Section 40 Disturbance of schools or assemblies
• Section 40A Alcoholic beverages; gift, sale, delivery or possession on public school premises
• Section 41 Disturbance of libraries
• Section 42 Disturbance of funerals
• Section 42A Disturbance of funeral services
• Section 43 Disorderliness in public conveyances; disturbance of travelers
• Section 43A Smoking in public conveyances and transportation terminals
• Section 44 to 50 Repealed, 1971, 1076, Sec. 11
• Section 51, 52 Repealed, 1957, 660, Sec. 2
• Section 53 Penalty for certain offenses
• Section 53A Engaging in sexual conduct for a fee; engaging in sexual conduct with child under age 14 for a fee; penalties
• Section 54 Apprehension for certain offences, without warrant; custody
• Section 55 Repealed, 1928, 155, Sec. 58
• Section 56 Subsequent offenses; breach of recognizance on appeal
• Section 57 Discharge upon recognizance; payment of expenses of prosecution
• Section 58 Employing or permitting employment of minor under 15 to beg
• Section 59 Ordinances or regulations relating to streets, reservations, or parkways; alcoholic beverages; profanity; arrest without warrant
• Section 60 Disposal of rubbish, etc.; refusal to remove; arrest without warrant
• Section 61 Conviction after discharge from sentence under Sec. 53
• Section 62 Third conviction of being a common nightwalker
• Section 63 Tramps; begging or riding freight trains as prima facie evidence
• Section 64 Tramps; punishment; entering buildings; injuries to or threats against persons or property; carrying weapons
• Section 65 Arrest of tramps without warrant; making complaint
• Section 66 Vagrants
• Section 67 Vagrants; arrest without warrant; taking before court; complaint
• Section 68 Vagabonds
• Section 69 Vagabonds; arrest without warrant; taking before court; complaint
• Section 70 Taking dead body on process or execution
• Section 71 Disinterring bodies
• Section 72 Buying, selling or possessing dead bodies
• Section 73 Tombs, graves, memorials, trees, plants; injuring, removing
• Section 73A Removal of gravestones and other memorials for repair or reproduction
• Section 74 Desecrating place of burial; use and occupation as evidence of title
• Section 75 Removal of flowers, flags or memorial tokens from burial lot
• Section 76 Ways, railroads, canals or public easements through burial grounds
• Section 77 Cruelty to animals
• Section 77A Willfully injuring police dogs and horses
• Section 77B Exhibition of wild animals
• Section 78 Selling, leading, or using horses not fit for work; forfeiture of auctioneer’s license
• Section 78A Sale of foals under five months; penalty
• Section 79 Corporation’s responsibility under Sec. 77 or Sec. 78
• Section 79A Cutting bones or muscles to dock or set tail of horse; wound as evidence
• Section 79B Exhibiting horse with tail cut under Sec. 79A; affidavit as to cutting in state where not prohibited; inspection
• Section 80 Repealed, 1934, 234, Sec. 1
• Section 80.5 Devocalization of dogs or cats; definitions; penalty; exceptions; records
• Section 80A Cropping or cutting off ear of dog; wound as prima facie evidence
• Section 80B Exhibiting dogs with ears cropped or cut off
• Section 80C Taking cat, dog or bird to exhibit it, subject it to experimentation or mutilation, or to sell it for such purposes; application of law
• Section 80D Living rabbits, baby chickens, ducklings or other fowl; sale, barter or gift
• Section 80E Use of decompression chambers for putting animals to death
• Section 80F Giving away live animals as prize or award
• Section 80G Experiments on vertebrates; vivisection, dissection of animals; care
• Section 80H Motor vehicles; striking, injuring or killing dogs or cats
• Section 80I Leasing or renting dogs; penalties
• Section 81 Rest, water and feed for transported animals; lien; liability for detention
• Section 82 Arrest without warrant for violation of Sec. 77 or 81; notice; care of animals; lien
• Section 83 Complaint, warrant and search relative to cruelty to animals
• Section 84 Prosecutions under Secs. 77 to 81
• Section 85 Repealed, 1951, 34, Sec. 2
• Section 85A Injuring, taking away or harboring domesticated animals or birds; removal of dog license tag, collar or harness; imitation tag
• Section 85B Assistance animals stolen or attacked; actions for economic and non-economic damages
• Section 86 Stabling horses or mules on second or higher floors, in places other than cities
• Section 86A Stabling horses and mules above first floor; exceeding six; fire exits
• Section 86B Stabling horses or mules exceeding fifteen
• Section 86C Smoking in buildings used for stabling horses or mules
• Section 86D Pails of water and sand in buildings used for stables
• Section 86E Entry upon premises to enforce Secs. 86A to 86D; orders
• Section 86F Violation of Secs. 86 to 86D; refusal or neglect to comply with Sec. 86E orders
• Section 87 Keeping or using birds to be shot at; shooting them; permitting premises to be used for shooting
• Section 88 Complaints and warrants relative to fighting animals; searches; arrests
• Section 89 Exhibition place of fighting animals; entry without warrant; arrests; seizure of animals
• Section 90 Custody of arrested persons; time limitation
• Section 91 Application for decree of forfeiture; notice; hearing; adjudication; returning or killing of animals
• Section 92 Appeal; recognizance; custody and disposition of animals
• Section 92A Advertisement, book, notice or sign relative to discrimination; definition of place of public accommodation, resort or amusement
• Section 93 Expenses of care and destruction of fighting animals
• Section 94 Owning, possessing or training fighting animals; establishing or promoting exhibition; loaning, selling or exporting fighting animals; owning or possessing animals for breeding fighting an
• Section 95 Aiding or being present at exhibition of fighting animals
• Section 96 False notice of birth, marriage or death
• Section 97 Repealed, 1962, 285, Sec. 4
• Section 97A Demands, notices or other documents resembling court process; complaint; order to discontinue
• Section 98 Discrimination in admission to, or treatment in, place of public accommodation; punishment; forfeiture; civil right
• Section 98A Physically handicapped persons with dog guides; public places or conveyances; charges or fares; penalties
• Section 98B Discrimination in employment on public works or in public relief or transitional assistance
• Section 98C Libel; groups of persons; defenses; punishment; prosecutions
• Section 99 Interception of wire and oral communications
• Section 99A Jury deliberations; overhearing by use of devices
• Section 100 to 102 Repealed, 1968, 738, Secs. 4 to 6
• Section 103 Repealed, 1993, 279
• Section 104 Security for seizure and impoundment of animals relating to cruelty to animals or animal fighting
• Section 105 Photographing, videotaping or electronically surveilling partially nude or nude person; exceptions; punishment

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