Chapter 110

Section 1. The following words as used in this chapter, in addition to their ordinary meaning, shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the meanings respectively given herein: ''Beverage'', milk, cream, soda water, mineral or aerated water, ale, beer, ginger ale or simi…

Section 16. No person with knowledge or notice that a dramatic or musical composition is unpublished or undedicated shall, without the consent of the proprietor thereof, cause it to be publicly performed or represented or permit a public performance or representation of it, in an…

Section 17. A person engaged in manufacturing, bottling or selling beverages in vessels, with his name and the word ''registered'' branded, engraved, blown or otherwise produced thereon, or on boxes used by him, may have such vessels registered by filing in the office of the cler…

Section 18. No person, without the written consent of the registered owner thereof, shall fill with a beverage with intent to sell the same any vessel registered under the preceding section, or change in any way, or conceal any name or the word ''registered'' thereon, or buy, sel…

Section 19. The purchase, sale, traffic in, disposal or use of any such registered vessel by a person engaged in the manufacture, bottling or sale of beverages, without the written consent of the owner thereof, shall be prima facie evidence of a violation of the preceding section…

Section 20. Upon complaint of a person who has complied with section seventeen, or his agent, to a district court, that he has reason to believe and does believe that any of his registered vessels are being unlawfully used or filled by a person engaged in manufacturing, bottling …

Section 21. A person engaged in buying, selling or dealing in milk or cream in cans, or who uses cans, tubs or cabinets in the sale, transportation or storage of frozen desserts and/or frozen dessert mix, with his name and the word ''registered'' produced in a permanent manner in…

Section 22. No person shall without the consent of the owner take, detain, use, buy, sell, traffic in or otherwise dispose of any registered can, tub or cabinet. Possession of any such registered can, tub or cabinet by a person in the transaction of his business shall be prima fa…

Section 23. No person shall without the consent of an owner wilfully destroy, mutilate or deface any registered can, tub or cabinet bearing such owner's name, or wilfully erase, mar, cover or change any word or name branded, engraved, blown or otherwise produced in a permanent ma…

Section 24. Whoever puts an unclean or foul substance into any registered can, tub or cabinet shall for the first offence be punished by a fine of not less than fifty cents nor more than five dollars for each can, tub or cabinet with respect to which the violation occurs and for …

Section 25. Upon complaint of a person who has complied with section twenty-one, or his agent, to a district court that he has reason to believe and does believe that a person has wrongfully in his possession or is secreting any of his registered cans, tubs or cabinets, said cour…

Section 25A. A person engaged in the business of supplying or furnishing for hire or compensation on a rental or lease basis clean laundered garments, towels, aprons, bed linen or table linen who uses his name and the word ''registered'' on such articles or supplies may register …

Section 25B. No person shall without the written consent of the owner take, detain, use, sell, traffic in or otherwise dispose of, or use for any purpose other than that for which such article was intended, any registered towel, garment, apron, bed linen or table linen; provided,…

Section 25C. No person shall without the written consent of the owner wilfully destroy, mutilate or deface any registered towel, garment, apron, bed linen or table linen, or wilfully erase, mar, cover, remove or alter any word or name printed, branded, stamped or otherwise produc…

Section 26. Violations of any provisions of sections four A and four B shall be punished by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.

Section 27. Violations of section sixteen shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than six months, or both.

Section 28. Violation of any provision of section twenty-two or twenty-three shall be punished for the first offence by a fine of not more than five dollars or by imprisonment for not more than two months for each can, tub or cabinet in respect to which the violation occurs and f…

Section 29. Whoever violates any of the provisions of sections twenty-five A to twenty-five C, inclusive, shall be punished for the first offence by a fine of not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars, and for each subsequent offence shall be punished by a fine of not less th…

Section 4. A person who conducts business in the commonwealth shall not assume or continue to use in his business the name of a person formerly connected with him in partnership or the name of any other person, either alone or in connection with his own or with any other name or …

Section 4A. No individual, unincorporated association or partnership shall assume or use in the name or title under which his or its business is transacted the word ''corporation'' or ''incorporated'' or any abbreviated form thereof or any word or phrase which may lead the public…

Section 4B. No person, firm, corporation or association, other than an agency or instrumentality of the United States government, selling or offering for sale goods, wares or merchandise, shall use, or cause or permit to be used, in the corporate or trade name thereof, or in the …

Section 5. Any person conducting business in the commonwealth under any title other than the real name of the person conducting the business, whether individually or as a partnership, shall file in the office of the clerk of every city or town where an office of any such person o…

Section 6. The preceding section shall not apply to any corporation doing business under its true corporate name, nor to any partnership doing business under any title which includes the true surname of any partner; nor to any association which has complied with sections five and…