Chapter 136

Section 1. Sunday shall be a common day of rest. Sections one to eleven, inclusive, of this chapter may be cited as the Common Day of Rest Law.

Section 10. In addition to any criminal penalty herein provided the attorney general, a district attorney, a mayor or city manager and city council, or the board of selectmen of the town may petition the superior court in equity to enjoin any violation of this chapter. The superi…

Section 11. The provisions of sections one to ten, inclusive, shall not constitute a defense to an action for a tort or injury suffered by a person on Sunday.

Section 12. The public offices shall be closed on all legal holidays except March seventeenth, May twentieth, and June seventeenth; provided, however, in Suffolk county such offices shall be closed on March seventeenth and June seventeenth or the day following when either of said…

Section 13. The provisions of sections five to eleven, inclusive, shall, except as provided in section fourteen, apply to all legal holidays, except January first, the third Monday in January, the third Monday in February, March seventeenth, the third Monday in April, May twentie…

Section 14. Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter to the contrary, dancing or any game, sport, fair, exposition, play, entertainment or public diversion, including events authorized under chapter one hundred and twenty-eight A, may be conducted on any legal holiday and an…

Section 15. The persons or boards designated in section seven may, with respect to any legal holiday to which the provisions of sections five to eleven, inclusive, apply, grant for any such holiday any permit which could be granted under said section seven for the performance on …

Section 16. All stores and shops which sell goods at retail may be open at any time on Sundays and on Memorial Day, Juneteenth Independence Day, July Fourth and Labor Day, but no such stores and shops may be open on Christmas Day if Christmas occurs on a Sunday. The performance o…

Section 2. Whoever on Sunday is present at or engages in dancing, except folk or square dancing, or any game, sport, fair, exposition, play, entertainment or public diversion for which a charge in the form of the payment or collection of money or other valuable consideration is m…

Section 3. Whoever on Sunday offers to view, sets up, establishes or maintains, or attempts to set up, establish or maintain, or promotes or assists in such attempt, or promotes, or aids, abets or participates in offering to view, setting up, establishing or maintaining, or acts …

Section 4. (1) The mayor of a city or the selectmen of a town, upon written application describing the proposed dancing or game, sport, fair, exposition, play, entertainment or public diversion, except as provided in section one hundred and five of chapter one hundred and forty-n…

Section 5. Whoever on Sunday keeps open his shop, warehouse, factory or other place of business, or sells foodstuffs, goods, wares, merchandise or real estate, or does any manner of labor, business or work, except works of necessity and charity, shall be punished by a fine of not…

Section 6. Section five shall not prohibit the following: (1) Any manner of labor, business or work not performed for material compensation; provided, no public nuisance is created thereby. (2) The opening of a store or shop and the sale at retail of foodstuffs therein; provided,…

Section 7. The police commissioner of the city of Boston, or any member of the police department having a rank not lower than that of captain and designated by said commissioner, or the chief of police or the board or other officer in charge of the police department of any other …

Section 7A. In any city or town which accepts the provisions of this section when an application for a permit has been denied under the provisions of sections seven or fifteen such applicant may appeal such denial to the board of selectmen in a town or to the mayor of a city, as …

Section 8. Civil process shall not be served or executed on Sunday, and such service if made shall be void, and the person who serves or executes it shall be liable in damages to the person aggrieved in like manner as if he had no such process; provided, that this section shall n…

Section 9. Prosecution for violations of sections two, three or five shall be commenced within six months after the offense was committed.