GENERAL LAWS OF MASSACHUSETTS

CHAPTER 271. CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC POLICY.

Chapter 271, Section 1. Gaming or betting; forfeiture; limitations.

Chapter 271, Section 1A. "House", "building" and "place" including ship or vessel.

Chapter 271, Section 2. Gaming or betting in public conveyance or place or while trespassing in private place; arrest without warrant.

Chapter 271, Section 3. Innholders and others keeping or suffering implements to be used for gaming or suffering a person to game; recognizance for good behavior.

Chapter 271, Section 4. Gaming in inns and other occupied places; use of billiard table, bowling alley or other implement for gaming.

Chapter 271, Section 5. Keeping, or playing or presence in, common gaming, lottery, pool or betting houses; keeping tables or apparatus for gaming.

Chapter 271, Section 5A. Gambling devices; forfeiture; antique slot machines.

Chapter 271, Section 6. Gaming relative to cattle shows, military muster or public gathering; arrest without warrant.

Chapter 271, Section 6A. Plans under which purchasers agree to obtain more purchasers; injunction; receivers.

Chapter 271, Section 6B. Skilo and similar games.

Chapter 271, Section 6C. Repealed, 1998, 1.

Chapter 271, Section 7. Lotteries; disposal of property by chance.

Chapter 271, Section 7A. Raffles and bazaars; conduct by certain organizations; permit; reports; tax.

Chapter 271, Section 8. Permitting lotteries, raffles and games of chance in buildings.

Chapter 271, Section 9. Selling, exchanging or possessing lottery tickets or tokens or a share in a lottery.

Chapter 271, Section 10. Conviction on subsequent offenses within five years.

Chapter 271, Section 10A. Arrest without warrant.

Chapter 271, Section 11. Advertising lottery tickets or tokens, inviting purchases or indicating where obtainable.

Chapter 271, Section 12. Making, sale and possession of, or receipt of money for, false lottery tickets, tokens or share in lottery.

Chapter 271, Section 13. Lottery tickets, tokens or shares deemed false.

Chapter 271, Section 14. Forfeiture of money, prizes, or shares of lotteries and other property disposed of by chance; recovery.

Chapter 271, Section 15. Aiding in setting up a lottery for money drawn out of commonwealth.

Chapter 271, Section 16. Sale or possession of ticket of lottery described in sec. 15.

Chapter 271, Section 16A. Organizing or promoting gambling facilities or services.

Chapter 271, Section 17. Keeping of, presence in, or permitting, a place for registering bets or dealing in pools; custodian or depository.

Chapter 271, Section 17A. Telephones; use for gaming purposes; penalty.

Chapter 271, Section 17B. Use of communications for unlawful purposes; demand of telephone company records by attorney general.

Chapter 271, Section 18. Policy lotteries or shops; making, delivering or possessing a lottery ticket or token; receipt of money or thing of value.

Chapter 271, Section 19. Making, advertising or delivering ticket or receipt of money or thing of value as prima facie evidence.

Chapter 271, Section 20. Tickets, memoranda, books and sheets as nuisance; possession unlawful; possession and concealment as evidence.

Chapter 271, Section 21. Words, figures or characters referring to horse, jockey or contest, or odds or bets as prima facie evidence; proof by copy or description.

Chapter 271, Section 22. Delivery to or from a person engaged in a lottery or other gaming.

Chapter 271, Section 22A. Whist or bridge for charitable and similar purposes.

Chapter 271, Section 22B. Beano; sale of lottery tickets.

Chapter 271, Section 23. Oath and warrant to enter a gaming or lottery place, arrest persons and seize implements and materials; disposal of articles.

Chapter 271, Section 24. Owners, proprietors of, or persons present at, race tracks.

Chapter 271, Section 25. Removal of obstructions barring access to gaming places; lien of expense.

Chapter 271, Section 26. Subsequent obstructions; removal; punishment; lien.

Chapter 271, Section 27. Judicial notice of methods and character of lotteries, policy games, pools and betting; tickets and other articles prima facie evidence.

Chapter 271, Section 28. Complaints and indictments relative to lotteries or gaming; misnomer; sufficiency; variance.

Chapter 271, Section 29. Representation that a thing other than subject of sale is to be delivered; stamps and other devices entitling purchaser to other property.

Chapter 271, Section 30. Sale or delivery of trading stamps or similar devices.

Chapter 271, Section 31. Racing horses for bets or stakes.

Chapter 271, Section 31A. Racing results or information; transmission for unlawful purposes; penalty.

Chapter 271, Section 32. Competing with horse disguised or different from one purported to be; horse in improper class.

Chapter 271, Section 33. Race grounds in towns; consent; regulations; discontinuance; unlawful use.

Chapter 271, Section 34. Race grounds as nuisance; abatement; punishment.

Chapter 271, Section 35. Definition of words and phrases used in secs. 35[38.

Chapter 271, Section 36. Making contracts of bucketing; keeper of shop; dissolution of corporation; restraint from doing business.

Chapter 271, Section 37. Quotations of prices for prohibited contracts.

Chapter 271, Section 38. Written statements relative to purchases and sales of securities or commodities; refusal as prima facie evidence of bucketing.

Chapter 271, Section 39. Gifts to influence business affairs; threats; penalty.

Chapter 271, Section 39A. Gifts to influence action of participants in, and others connected with, a game or contest.

Chapter 271, Section 40. Appointment, retention or discharge of employee of public service corporation or racing licensee on recommendation of public officer, officer elect or candidate.

Chapter 271, Section 41. Offices not public offices under sec. 40.

Chapter 271, Section 42. Betting or selling pools on boxing matches or exhibitions.

Chapter 271, Section 43. Soliciting, disclosing, receiving or making use of information concerning public assistance.

Chapter 271, Section 44. Settlement, release or statement by person in hospital; admissibility; reference to at trial; validity.

Chapter 271, Section 45. Repealed, 1982, 21, Sec. 2.

Chapter 271, Section 46. Removal of doors from discarded containers originally used for refrigerative purposes.

Chapter 271, Section 47. Telephones; gambling; reinstallation; notices of convictions and removals.

Chapter 271, Section 48. Schools or persons offering civil service preparatory courses; advertisement.

Chapter 271, Section 49. Criminal usury.

Chapter 271, Section 50. Sale of research papers, etc. and taking of examinations for another at educational institutions.


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