Massachusetts Statutes

Section 183C. Any person described in section one hundred and eighty-three A who engages in a business required to be licensed by said section unless authorized so to do by a license in full force and effect, and any holder of such a license who violates any condition thereof, sh…

Section 183D. No innholder, common victualler or person owning, managing or controlling a cafe, restaurant, or other eating or drinking establishment shall require any person to pay a minimum charge or cover charge unless a sign is conspicuously posted at every entrance to any di…

Section 184. Whoever offers to view, sets up, sets on foot, maintains or carries on a theatrical exhibition, public show, concert or dance hall exhibition, of any description, at which alcoholic beverages, as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and thirty-eight, are sol…

Section 185A. (a) No person shall engage in the business of selling tickets or the business of reselling or facilitating a mechanism for 2 or more parties to participate in the resale of any ticket of admission to any theatrical exhibition, public show or public amusement or exhi…

Section 185B. (a) The fee for each license granted under section 185A and for each annual renewal thereof shall be determined annually by the secretary of administration and finance under section 3B of chapter 7 for the filing thereof. (b) If any licensee demonstrates that their …

Section 185C. (a) For the purpose of this section, ''ticket purchasing software'' shall mean any machine, device, computer program or computer software that, on its own or with human assistance, bypasses security measures or access control systems on a retail ticket purchasing pl…

Section 185D. (a) For the purpose of this section, ''service charges'' shall mean costs incurred by a licensee related solely to the procuring and selling of tickets to any theatrical exhibition, public show or public amusement or exhibition and not related to the general busines…

Section 185E. The commissioner shall establish and may from time to time alter rules and regulations relative to the granting of licenses and the business carried on by persons licensed under section one hundred and eighty-five A. He shall, either personally or by such subordinat…

Section 185F. Whoever violates any provision of section one hundred and eight-five A to section one hundred and eighty-five G, inclusive, or any rule or regulation of the commissioner made under section one hundred and eighty-five E, shall be punished by a fine of not more than f…

Section 185G. The provisions of section one hundred and eighty-two A and the six preceding sections shall not apply to tickets or other evidences of entry to theatrical exhibitions, public shows or public amusements or exhibitions, all the proceeds of the sale or resale of which …

Section 185H. In Boston, and in any other city or town which accepts the provisions of this section, the mayor or selectmen thereof may grant upon such terms and conditions as he or they may deem reasonable licenses for dancing schools, so called, to be conducted on week days onl…

Section 185I. No person shall tell fortunes for money unless a license therefor has been issued by the local licensing authority. Said license shall be granted only to applicants who have resided continuously in the city or town in which the license is sought for at least twelve …

Section 186. The license commission of Lowell, the mayor of any other city, and the selectmen of any town, may grant a license to any person to establish, keep open and maintain staking rinks to be used for roller skating, carousels, inclined railways, Ferris wheels and outdoor e…

Section 187. Whoever, without such license, establishes, keeps open or maintains a skating rink to be used for the amusement of roller skating or any other amusement referred to in the preceding section shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars.

Section 188. In a city or town which accepts the provisions of this and the two following sections or has accepted corresponding provisions of earlier laws, the aldermen, except in Boston and Lowell, or the selectmen may grant a license to any person to establish, let, keep open …

Section 189. Whoever, without such license, establishes, lets, keeps open or maintains, himself or by another, a grove to be used for picnics or other amusements for hire, gain or reward shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars.

Section 19. The state secretary shall cause a condensed summary of all laws relative to innholders and common victuallers to be printed, and shall supply copies thereof to licensing authorities, who shall at the time of granting each license provide the licensee with a copy of su…

Section 190. Whoever, not having his residence or regular place of business within one half mile of a grove licensed under section one hundred and eighty-eight, during the time of holding a picnic or other lawful gathering in such licensed grove and within one half mile thereof h…

Section 191. The aldermen or selectmen may license any person to run a steamboat or other boat propelled by power other than muscular power for the conveyance for hire of passengers on lakes, ponds or waters not within the maritime jurisdiction of the United States.

Section 192. Such licenses shall be granted for a term of not more than one year, and shall be recorded by the clerk of the city or town where they are granted, who shall receive a fee of one dollar for recording each license, unless a different fee is otherwise established in a …

Section 193. Whoever runs a steamboat or other boat propelled by power other than muscular power for the conveyance of passengers for hire on such waters without first obtaining such license from the aldermen of every city and the selectmen of every town within which such steambo…

Section 194. Cities and towns which accept this and the two following sections or have accepted corresponding provisions of earlier laws by a vote of the city council or of the town at a town meeting called for the purpose may prohibit any person from carrying on the business of …

Section 195. The aldermen of such cities and the selectmen of such towns shall cause to be posted in the immediate vicinity of such ponds notices stating that sections one hundred and ninety-four to one hundred and ninety-six, inclusive, have been accepted by the city or town.

Section 196. Whoever in such a city or town, without obtaining a license under section one hundred and ninety-four, if one is required, engages in the business described in said section, shall be punished by a fine of not more than ten dollars.

Section 197. Whoever, himself or by his servant or agent, admits a child under fourteen to any licensed show or place of amusement unless such child is accompanied by a person who has attained the age of eighteen, shall, on complaint of a parent or guardian of the child or of any…

Section 198. No proprietor, lessee or manager and no employee of a proprietor, lessee or manager of any public hall or room in which dancing is practiced, and for admission to which money or other valuable thing is accepted, shall admit, while dancing is practiced therein between…

Section 199. A copy of sections one hundred and ninety-eight to two hundred, inclusive, shall be posted at the entrance of every public hall or room where roller skating or public dances are practiced.

Section 2. Licensing authorities may grant licenses to persons to be innholders or common victuallers. Such license shall not be issued or be valid until it has been signed by a majority of the aldermen in cities where the license is to be granted by the aldermen, by a majority o…

Section 20. Whoever assumes to be an innholder or common victualler without being licensed as such under this chapter shall forfeit one hundred dollars.

Section 200. Whoever violates any provision of the two preceding sections shall be punished by a fine of not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars or by the forfeiture of his license, or both.

Section 201. A sheriff, marshal or their deputies, a constable or police officer may at any time enter a billiard, pool or sippio room, bowling alley, skating rink, the licensed premises of a common victualler or room connected therewith, or a grove required to be licensed under …

Section 202. Licenses granted elsewhere than in Boston to dealers in junk, old metals and second hand articles, junk collectors, pawnbrokers and keepers of billiard saloons, pool or sippio rooms or tables, bowling alleys, roller skating rinks, carousels, inclined railways, Ferris…

Section 203. Such licenses may be granted in April, to take effect on May first following.

Section 204. A license issued as aforesaid shall not protect the holder thereof in a building or place other than that designated in the license unless consent to removal is granted by the licensing board or officer.

Section 205. Upon the revocation of such a license, such clerk shall note the revocation upon the face of the record thereof, and shall give written notice to the licensee by delivering it to him in person or by leaving it at the place of business designated in the license.

Section 205A. As used in this section, the words ''amusement device'' shall mean a mechanical ride or device constructed and designed to carry 1 or more persons for entertainment or amusement purposes and which is powered by means of internal combustion or electrical energy; prov…

Section 206. Every public and semipublic outdoor inground swimming pool shall be enclosed by a fence six feet in height and firmly secured at ground level provided that any board or stockade fence or structure shall be at least five feet in height, but if over five feet in height…

Section 21. Whoever is convicted a third time of a violation of any provision of the preceding sections, except those contained in sections seven and eight, shall, in addition to the penalties before provided, be punished by imprisonment for not more than three months.

Section 21A. Cities and towns may provide by ordinance or by-law for the licensing of persons to keep open their places of business for the retail sale of beverages derived wholly or in part from cereals or substitutes therefor and containing less than one-half of one per cent of…

Section 21B. Licenses granted as aforesaid shall specify the street or place and the number if there be any, and if there is no number, then the location of the place of business in which the license is to be exercised, and the license shall not be valid in any other place. Licen…

Section 21C. Whoever not being licensed as aforesaid keeps open his place of business for the retail sale of any such beverage shall be punished by a fine of fifty dollars for each day of violation, and whoever commits a second such offense shall be punished by a fine of one hund…

Section 21D. The provisions of the three preceding sections shall not apply to innholders, common victuallers, druggists, nor to dealers whose principal business is the sale of groceries and meats or either of said products, nor to the sale of any or all of such beverages when so…

Section 21E. Licensing authorities may grant a license to any club, society, association or other organization, whether incorporated or unincorporated, authorizing it to dispense food and beverages to be consumed on its premises, to its stockholders or members and their guests, b…

Section 21F. Any officer or employee of any such organization who dispenses or causes to be dispensed any food or beverage on its premises, unless such organization is then licensed under section twenty-one E, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars for t…

Section 22. ''Lodging house'', as used in sections twenty-two to thirty-one, inclusive, shall mean a house where lodgings are let to four or more persons not within second degree of kindred to the person conducting it, and shall include fraternity houses and dormitories of educat…

Section 22A. Notwithstanding any provision of law or any regulation, ordinance or by-law to the contrary, a lodging house where lodgings are let to more than five but less then twenty persons may furnish individual cooking facilities for the preparation, serving, eating and stora…