Chapter 147

Section 39. Except as hereinafter provided, no contestant under 18 years of age or who has reached his thirty-fifth birthday shall be permitted to engage in a boxing, kickboxing, mixed martial arts or other unarmed combative sport event, sparring match or exhibition, except that …

Section 39A. No professional boxer, kickboxer, mixed martial arts contestant or other unarmed combative sport contestant licensed under section 35 who has been knocked out, technically or otherwise, or lost a contest by way of submission, 6 or more times in the preceding 12 month…

Section 39B. A person licensed under section 33 to conduct boxing, kickboxing, mixed martial arts or other unarmed combative sports events, sparring matches or exhibitions, except those persons to whom a special license may be granted thereunder without the requirement of a bond …

Section 40. Every licensee holding or conducting a boxing, kickboxing, mixed martial arts or other unarmed combative sporting event, sparring match or exhibition shall, before the commencement of the final feature bout of the event, pay to the commission a sum equal to 4 per cent…

Section 40A. Every licensee holding or conducting any boxing, kickboxing, mixed martial arts, or other unarmed combative sporting event or sparring match or exhibition shall, before the commencement of the feature bout of the event, pay to the state treasurer, in addition to the …

Section 41. No licensee under section thirty-three shall sell or cause to be sold or issued more tickets or invitations purporting to admit to any such match or exhibition, or otherwise admit to the same, more persons than are admissible according to the authorized capacity of th…

Section 42. Any license may be revoked or suspended by the commission for a violation of any provision of sections thirty-two to forty-seven, inclusive, or of any other law of the commonwealth or of any rule or regulation adopted by the commission or whenever the licensee has, in…

Section 43. No licensee under section thirty-three shall have, directly or indirectly, any financial interest in a boxer competing on premises owned or leased by the licensee, or in which the licensee is otherwise interested. No contestant in such a match or exhibition shall be p…

Section 44. The commission shall have the same authority to summon and require the attendance and testimony of witnesses as to all matters within its jurisdiction as is conferred upon city councils by section eight of chapter two hundred and thirty-three, and sections nine, ten a…

Section 45. The superior court shall have jurisdiction in equity upon any information filed by the commission, the attorney general, the district attorney for the district, the police authorities of the city or town where the match or exhibition is held or is announced to be held…

Section 46. The commission may make such rules and regulations for the administration and enforcement of sections 32 to 50A, inclusive, and to promote and regulate the sports of boxing, kickboxing, mixed martial arts and other unarmed combative sports, as deemed necessary, includ…

Section 47. The remainder of the sums received under section forty, after paying the expense to the commonwealth of administering sections thirty-two to forty-seven, inclusive, shall, annually on or before November first, be distributed by the state treasurer to the several towns…

Section 47A. The commission shall notify a municipality in writing of the issuance of a license for an event scheduled to take place therein within 24 hours of its issuance. At its option, a municipality may prohibit an event licensed by the commission under section 33. The prohi…

Section 50A. Courses of instruction in boxing, kickboxing, mixed martial arts and other unarmed combative sports, or sparring matches or exhibitions sponsored and conducted by recognized boys and girls clubs, youth organizations, private clubs and athletic associations, schools a…

Section 51. Sections nine to twelve, inclusive, of chapter two hundred and sixty-five and section twenty-eight of chapter one hundred and eighty shall not apply to any boxing, kickboxing, mixed martial arts or other unarmed combative sporting event or sparring match or exhibition…

Section 56. Every motor-driven implement or machine used for the purpose of cutting grass sold, offered for sale, or held with intent to sell in the commonwealth shall be equipped with a safety device designed and attached by the manufacturer in accordance with the specifications…

Section 57. The words ''security system'', as used in sections fifty-seven to sixty-one, inclusive, shall mean wires, conduits, apparatus, devices, fixtures, or other appliances installed and interconnected electrically or electronically to permit access control, proprietary sign…

Section 58. An application for a license to engage in the security systems business shall be filed with the commissioner on forms furnished by him, and statements of fact therein shall be under oath of the applicant. Such application shall include a certification by each of three…

Section 59. The commissioner may issue to an applicant complying with the provisions of section fifty-eight a license to engage in the security systems business; provided, however, that no such license shall be issued to any person who has been convicted in any state of the Unite…

Section 60. A person, firm or corporation licensed under the provisions of sections fifty-eight and fifty-nine may employ in his security systems business as many persons as he may deem necessary, but no person shall be employed by any licensee until he shall have executed and fu…

Section 61. The fee for the filing of an original security systems license and for the filing of a renewal of such license shall be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven. Said fees shall not exceed two hu…

Section 62. (a) The commissioner shall coordinate and adopt a uniform policy within the division to, upon presentation of satisfactory evidence by an applicant for certification or licensure under the authority of the division, accept education, training or service completed by a…

Section 63. (a) As used in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly requires otherwise: "Law enforcement agency of the commonwealth'', any state, municipal, college or university police department, sheriff's department, correc…

Section 8. County commissioners may appoint as police officers persons who are in the employment of the county, who shall, when on duty, wear in plain sight a metallic badge inscribed with the words ''County Police'' and the name of the county for which they are appointed. Such o…

Section 8A. A sheriff, any of his deputies, and any officer of any institution under the supervision of a sheriff if so authorized by him, the commissioner of correction, and the deputy commissioners and any other officer of the department of correction or of any institution unde…