Chapter 140

Section 46K. An employment agency shall not engage in any of the following activities or conduct: (1) Publish or cause to be published any false, fraudulent or misleading information, representation, promise, notice or advertisement; (2) Advertise in newspapers or otherwise, or u…

Section 46L. (A) An employment agency shall not charge to or accept from an applicant a fee or other consideration unless in accordance with the terms of a written contract with a job applicant and unless such agency has been responsible for referring such job applicant to an emp…

Section 46M. Any employment agency which collects, receives or retains a fee, deposit or other payment contrary to or in excess of the provisions of section forty-six L, shall return the excess portion thereof within seven days of the receipt of a demand therefor.

Section 46N. An employment agency other than one recruiting domestic employees shall contract in writing with the applicant (employee) for services in securing employment for the payment by the applicant of a service fee, in an amount mutually agreed upon between the applicant an…

Section 46O. Refunds shall be made by employment agencies under the following conditions: (a) If an applicant furnished employment is discharged within one month after the time of entering upon such employment and such discharge is not for just cause, the employment agency shall …

Section 46P. Each employment agency shall post in a conspicuous place in such agency a copy of sections forty-six A to forty-six O, inclusive, which shall be printed in large type in languages in which persons commonly doing business with such office can understand. Such poster s…

Section 46Q. The commissioner, or any duly authorized agent or inspector designated by him, shall have authority to inspect the premises, registers, contract forms, receipt books, application forms, referral forms, reference forms, reference reports, financial and other records o…

Section 46R. Whoever violates any provision of sections forty-six B, forty-six C, forty-six E, forty-six F, forty-six J, forty-six K, forty-six L, forty-six M, forty-six N and forty-six O, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in th…

Section 47. No coffee house, so called, or tea house or place of resort for refreshment where the principal business is or purports to be the sale of coffee or tea as a beverage shall be maintained in any town which accepts this section, or has accepted corresponding provisions o…

Section 49. The street commissioners and the police commissioner of Boston, the aldermen of any other city, or the selectmen of any town may, if in their opinion public convenience so requires, license any reputable person, upon the payment of an annual license fee, established i…

Section 5. Every innholder and every common victualler shall at all times be provided with suitable food for strangers and travelers. Every innholder shall also have upon his premises suitable rooms, with beds and bedding, for the lodging of his guests.

Section 50. No license as aforesaid shall be granted to use any part of a highway the fee in which is not owned by the town unless the owners of the land abutting on that part of the way consent in writing to the granting of the license.

Section 51. (a) No person shall practice massage therapy unless licensed in accordance with sections 227 to 236, inclusive, of chapter 112, except that a person registered as a barber or apprentice under section 87H or 87I of said chapter 112 or as a hairdresser, operator or stud…

Section 52. Members of the police department of any town may enter and inspect any premises in that town used for massage or the giving of vapor baths.

Section 53. Whoever violates any provision of section fifty-one, or any rule or regulation made under authority thereof, or prevents or hinders any member of a police force from exercising the authority conferred upon him by section fifty-two, shall be punished by a fine of not m…

Section 54. Cities and towns by ordinance or by-law may provide for the licensing, by the police commissioner in Boston, by the license commission in Lowell, by the aldermen in other cities and by the selectmen in towns, of suitable persons to be collectors of, dealers in or keep…

Section 54A. No license shall be granted under section fifty-four for an automobile graveyard, as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and forty B, unless such graveyard: (a) is to be operated and maintained entirely within a building; or (b) is to be operated and mainta…

Section 55. Whoever acts as a collector of, dealer in or keeper of a shop for the purchase, sale or barter of junk, old metals or second hand articles without a license, or in any other place or manner than that designated in his license or after notice to him that his license ha…

Section 56. A junk collector shall be deemed to be any person who by going from place to place collects by purchase or otherwise junk, old metals or second hand articles, whether or not by previous contract or arrangement.

Section 56A. The licensing authorities of any city or town may grant and may suspend or revoke at pleasure a license to conduct a shooting gallery upon such terms and conditions as they deem proper. Before the granting of a license hereunder, the applicant for the license shall f…

Section 57. No person, except one whose principal business is the manufacture and sale of new motor vehicles but who incidentally acquires and sells second hand vehicles, or a person whose principal business is financing the purchase of or insuring motor vehicles but who incident…

Section 58. (a) Licenses granted under sections 59 and 59A shall be classified in accordance with subsections (b) to (d), inclusive. (b) Class 1. Any person who is a recognized agent of a motor vehicle manufacturer or a seller of motor vehicles made by such manufacturer whose aut…

Section 59. The police commissioner in Boston and the licensing authorities in other cities and towns may grant licenses under this section which shall expire on January first following the date of issue unless sooner revoked. The fees for the licenses shall be fixed by the licen…

Section 59A. No license shall be granted under section fifty-nine to a person within Class 3 as defined in section fifty-eight, for a motor vehicle junkyard, unless such junkyard (a) is to be operated and maintained entirely within a building; or (b) is to be operated and maintai…

Section 6. A common victualler's or innholder's license may be issued to an applicant therefor if at the time of his application he has upon his premises the necessary implements and facilities for cooking, preparing and serving food for strangers and travelers, and, in the case …

Section 60. The registrar may from time to time make rules and regulations consistent with sections fifty-seven to sixty-nine, inclusive, relative to the purchase, sale or exchange of second hand motor vehicles or parts thereof.

Section 62. Every licensee shall keep a book on the licensed premises, in such form as shall be approved by the registrar, in which, at the time of the purchase, sale, exchange, or receipt for the purpose of sale, of any second hand motor vehicle or parts thereof, shall be legibl…

Section 66. The colonel of state police, the attorney general or such persons as he may designate, the police commissioner in Boston, the chief of police of any other city, the selectmen of a town or any police officer authorized by any of said officials may at any time enter upo…

Section 67. A licensee under section fifty-nine, or a clerk, agent or other person in charge of the licensed premises, who refuses to admit thereto an officer authorized to enter the same, or who fails to exhibit to him on demand all such motor vehicles, parts thereof, and books,…

Section 67A. Any person licensed under section 54 or 59 shall comply with subsection (a) of section 20E of chapter 90D. The registrar may notify the licensing authority which issued the license to any person who has failed to comply with the provisions of this section of such fai…

Section 68. Whoever, not being licensed, carries on the business for which a license is required by section fifty-seven, or is concerned therein, or, being licensed, carries on such business or is concerned therein in any other place or manner than that designated in his license,…

Section 69. Whoever violates any provision of sections fifty-seven to sixty-eight, inclusive, or any rule or regulation made by the registrar under section sixty, unless a penalty other than the revocation of a license is prescribed therefor elsewhere in said sections, shall be p…

Section 6B. (a) As used in this section, the word ''department'' shall mean the department of public health. (b) A person licensed as an innholder or common victualler, when serving food, shall: (1) prominently display in the staff area a poster approved by the department relativ…

Section 7. An innholder who, upon request, refuses to receive and make suitable provision for a stranger or traveler shall be punished by a fine of nor more than fifty dollars.

Section 70. The police commissioner of Boston, the license commission of Lowell, the aldermen of any other city, or the selectmen of any town, if ordinances or by-laws therefor have been adopted in such city or town, may license suitable persons to carry on the business of pawnbr…

Section 71. Articles deposited in pawn with a licensed pawnbroker shall, unless redeemed, be retained by him on the premises occupied by him for his business for at least four months after the date of deposit, if not of a perishable nature; and, if perishable, for at least one mo…

Section 72. The authorities which issue such licenses may fix the rate of interest which such pawnbrokers may receive on loans, and may fix different rates which may be received for different amounts of money lent; and no licensed pawnbroker shall charge or receive a greater rate…

Section 73. The chief of police of a city, the selectmen of a town, any officer authorized by either of them, or a state police officer may at any time enter upon any premises used by a licensed pawnbroker for the purposes of his business, ascertain how he conducts his business, …

Section 74. A licensed pawnbroker, clerk, agent or other person in charge of such premises who refuses to admit thereto an officer authorized to enter the same, or who fails to exhibit to him on demand all such articles, books and inventories, and any person who wilfully hinders,…

Section 75. Whoever, not being licensed, carries on such business or is concerned therein within such town, or, being licensed, carries on such business or is concerned therein in any other place or manner than that designated in his license or after notice to him that his licens…

Section 76. No person shall, in any city or in any town of ten thousand or more inhabitants, engage in or carry on the business of loaning money upon mortgages, deposits or pledges of wearing apparel, jewelry, ornaments, household goods or other personal property, or of purchasin…

Section 77. The fee for a license as a pawnbroker or renewal thereof shall be established in a town by town meeting action and in a city by city council action, and in a town with no town meeting by town council action, by adoption of appropriate by-laws and ordinances to set suc…

Section 78. The authorities who grant licenses to pawnbrokers shall establish regulations, to the satisfaction of the commissioner of banks, relative to the business carried on and the rate of interest to be charged by them, and a pawnbroker shall not charge or receive upon any l…

Section 79. Every pawnbroker shall keep a book in which, at the time of making a loan, shall be legibly written in the English language an account and description, including all distinguishing marks and numbers, of the articles pawned, the amount of money loaned thereon, the time…

Section 80. Every such pawnbroker shall, at the time of making such loan, deliver to the person who pawns any article a memorandum or note signed by him and containing the substance of the entry required by the preceding section. No charge shall be made or required by any pawnbro…

Section 81. Said book shall at all reasonable times be open to the inspection of the mayor, of the members of the board of police, of the superintendent of police and deputy superintendents, of the chief inspector of police, of any officer of the state police or of any person aut…