GENERAL LAWS OF MASSACHUSETTS

CHAPTER 269. CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC PEACE.

Chapter 269, Section 1. Dispensing and suppressing unlawful assembly; arresting persons.

Chapter 269, Section 2. Refusing or neglecting to depart or to assist in suppressing assembly or in arresting persons.

Chapter 269, Section 3. Neglect or refusal to exercise authority to suppress assembly.

Chapter 269, Section 4. Requiring aid; dispersing and suppressing assembly; seizure of persons.

Chapter 269, Section 5. Armed forces obeying orders for suppressing riot and dispersing and arresting persons.

Chapter 269, Section 6. Person killed or wounded as result of an assembly; guilt and responsibility.

Chapter 269, Section 7. Injury to building or vessel by persons unlawfully assembled; punishment; liability.

Chapter 269, Section 8. Destruction of or damage to property by persons riotously assembled; liability of town; recovery.

Chapter 269, Section 9. Repealed, 1923, 248, Sec. 2.

Chapter 269, Section 10. Carrying dangerous weapons; possession of machine gun or sawed-off shotguns.

Chapter 269, Section 10A. Selling, giving or using silencers; penalty; confiscation and destruction.

Chapter 269, Section 10B. Repealed, 1957, 688, Sec. 25.

Chapter 269, Section 10C. Use of tear gas, etc., in commission of crime; penalty.

Chapter 269, Section 10D. Use or wearing of body armor in commission of crime.

Chapter 269, Section 10E. Firearms sales; penalties; eligibility for probation, parole, furlough or work release.

Chapter 269, Section 11. Printing statutes for posters; sending copies to clerks and superintendents of schools in cities and towns; duties; costs.

Chapter 269, Section 11A. Definitions.

Chapter 269, Section 11B. Possession or control of firearm with serial or identification number removed or mutilated, while committing or attempting a felony; destruction.

Chapter 269, Section 11C. Removal or mutilation of serial or identification numbers of firearms; receiving such firearm; possession or control as evidence; destruction.

Chapter 269, Section 11D. Repealed, 1957, 688, Sec. 29.

Chapter 269, Section 11E. Serial identification numbers on firearms; penalty.

Chapter 269, Section 12. Manufacturing and selling knives, slung shots, swords, bludgeons and similar weapons; punishment.

Chapter 269, Section 12A. Selling or furnishing air rifle to minor.

Chapter 269, Section 12B. Possession of air rifle by minor under eighteen; shooting air rifle; disposition on conviction for violation.

Chapter 269, Section 12C. Repealed, 1957, 688, Sec. 32.

Chapter 269, Section 12D. Rifle or shotgun loaded with shells or cartridges; carrying on public way prohibited; exceptions; punishment for violation.

Chapter 269, Section 12E. Discharge of a firearm within 500 feet of a dwelling or other building in use; exceptions.

Chapter 269, Section 13. False alarms of fire.

Chapter 269, Section 13A. False reports to police officers.

Chapter 269, Section 14. Explosives or other dangerous substance or contrivance; false reports as to location; punishment.

Chapter 269, Section 14A. Annoying telephone calls.

Chapter 269, Section 15. Sale of stink bombs.

Chapter 269, Section 16. Sale of broadheads, razorheads, or other hunting arrowheads.

Chapter 269, Section 17. Hazing; organizing or participating; hazing defined.

Chapter 269, Section 18. Failure to report hazing.

Chapter 269, Section 19. Copy of secs. 17—19; issuance to students and student groups, teams and organizations; report.

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