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Massachusetts General Laws > Part IV > Title I > Chapter 271 - Crimes Against Public Policy

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§ 1	Gaming or betting; forfeiture; limitations
§ 1A	"House", "building" and "place" including ship or vessel
§ 2	Gaming or betting in public conveyance or place or while trespassing in private place; arrest without warrant
§ 3	Innholders and others keeping or suffering implements to be used for gaming or suffering a person to game; recognizance for good behavior
§ 4	Gaming in inns and other occupied places; use of billiard table, bowling alley or other implement for gaming
§ 5	Keeping, or playing or presence in, common gaming, lottery, pool or betting houses; keeping tables or apparatus for gaming
§ 5A	Gambling devices; forfeiture; antique slot machines
§ 6	Gaming relative to cattle shows, military muster or public gathering; arrest without warrant
§ 6A	Plans under which purchasers agree to obtain more purchasers; injunction; receivers
§ 6B	Skilo and similar games
§ 7	Lotteries; disposal of property by chance
§ 7A	Raffles and bazaars; conduct by certain organizations; permit; reports; tax
§ 8	Permitting lotteries, raffles and games of chance in buildings
§ 9	Selling, exchanging or possessing lottery tickets or tokens or a share in a lottery
§ 10	Conviction on subsequent offenses within five years
§ 10A	Arrest without warrant
§ 11	Advertising lottery tickets or tokens, inviting purchases or indicating where obtainable
§ 12	Making, sale and possession of, or receipt of money for, false lottery tickets, tokens or share in lottery
§ 13	Lottery tickets, tokens or shares deemed false
§ 14	Forfeiture of money, prizes, or shares of lotteries and other property disposed of by chance; recovery
§ 15	Aiding in setting up a lottery for money drawn out of commonwealth
§ 16	Sale or possession of ticket of lottery described in sec. 15
§ 16A	Organizing or promoting gambling facilities or services
§ 17	Keeping of, presence in, or permitting, a place for registering bets or dealing in pools; custodian or depository
§ 17A	Telephones; use for gaming purposes; penalty
§ 17B	Use of communications for unlawful purposes; demand of telephone company records by attorney general
§ 18	Policy lotteries or shops; making, delivering or possessing a lottery ticket or token; receipt of money or thing of value
§ 19	Making, advertising or delivering ticket or receipt of money or thing of value as prima facie evidence
§ 20	Tickets, memoranda, books and sheets as nuisance; possession unlawful; possession and concealment as evidence
§ 21	Words, figures or characters referring to horse, jockey or contest, or odds or bets as prima facie evidence; proof by copy or description
§ 22	Delivery to or from a person engaged in a lottery or other gaming
§ 22A	Whist or bridge for charitable and similar purposes
§ 22B	Beano; sale of lottery tickets
§ 23	Oath and warrant to enter a gaming or lottery place, arrest persons and seize implements and materials; disposal of articles
§ 24	Owners, proprietors of, or persons present at, race tracks
§ 25	Removal of obstructions barring access to gaming places; lien of expense
§ 26	Subsequent obstructions; removal; punishment; lien
§ 27	Judicial notice of methods and character of lotteries, policy games, pools and betting; tickets and other articles prima facie evidence
§ 28	Complaints and indictments relative to lotteries or gaming; misnomer; sufficiency; variance
§ 29	Representation that a thing other than subject of sale is to be delivered; stamps and other devices entitling purchaser to other property
§ 30	Sale or delivery of trading stamps or similar devices
§ 31	Racing horses for bets or stakes
§ 31A	Racing results or information; transmission for unlawful purposes; penalty
§ 32	Competing with horse disguised or different from one purported to be; horse in improper class
§ 33	Race grounds in towns; consent; regulations; discontinuance; unlawful use
§ 34	Race grounds as nuisance; abatement; punishment
§ 35	Definition of words and phrases used in secs. 35[38
§ 36	Making contracts of bucketing; keeper of shop; dissolution of corporation; restraint from doing business
§ 37	Quotations of prices for prohibited contracts
§ 38	Written statements relative to purchases and sales of securities or commodities; refusal as prima facie evidence of bucketing
§ 39	Gifts to influence business affairs; threats; penalty
§ 39A	Gifts to influence action of participants in, and others connected with, a game or contest
§ 40	Appointment, retention or discharge of employee of public service corporation or racing licensee on recommendation of public officer, officer elect or candidate
§ 41	Offices not public offices under sec. 40
§ 42	Betting or selling pools on boxing matches or exhibitions
§ 43	Soliciting, disclosing, receiving or making use of information concerning public assistance
§ 44	Settlement, release or statement by person in hospital; admissibility; reference to at trial; validity
§ 46	Removal of doors from discarded containers originally used for refrigerative purposes
§ 47	Telephones; gambling; reinstallation; notices of convictions and removals
§ 48	Schools or persons offering civil service preparatory courses; advertisement
§ 49	Criminal usury
§ 50	Sale of research papers, etc. and taking of examinations for another at educational institutions

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