Massachusetts Statutes

Section 224. If a weigher or deputy weigher uses, or has in his possession with intent to use, for the purposes provided in sections two hundred and nineteen to two hundred and twenty-two, inclusive, any false weight, scale, balance or other instrument for weighing, or colludes w…

Section 236. If a town or the city council of a city accepts this section or has accepted corresponding provisions of earlier laws, the mayor or selectmen may from time to time appoint, for a term not exceeding one year, and may at any time remove, weighers of hay, who shall be s…

Section 237. Except as otherwise provided in chapter ninety-nine, all contracts for the sale and delivery of timothy or herdsgrass seed shall be made by avoirdupois weight. Whoever violates this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than twenty dollars.

Section 238. The mayor or selectmen shall annually appoint, and may remove, weighers of coal, one of whom at least shall not be engaged in the business of selling coal, who shall be sworn to the faithful performance of their duty, and by whom all coal shall be weighed. No person …

Section 239A. The director of standards shall from time to time by rule or regulation establish standard sizes for anthracite coal offered for sale within the commonwealth, with variances or tolerances not to exceed five per cent determined by weight.

Section 240. Coal shall be sold by weight, and, except when sold by cargo, two thousand pounds avoirdupois shall be the standard for the ton. Coke and charcoal in any quantities shall be sold only by weight or measure.

Section 241. Coal in quantities of one hundred pounds or less shall be sold by weight, and coke and charcoal in quantities of one hundred pounds or less shall be sold by weight or measure, in bags, sacks or baskets, and until delivered shall be kept in the same bags, sacks or bas…

Section 242. Baskets or similar receptacles used in selling coke, charcoal or unpacked kindling wood by measure shall be of one bushel or multiple thereof, Massachusetts standard dry measure, shall have their capacity plainly marked thereon, shall be sealed by a sealer of weights…

Section 243. Paper bags or sacks used or intended to be used in the sale of coke, charcoal or kindling wood by measure shall be not less than twenty-five inches in height, not less than thirteen and one half inches in width, and the bottoms shall not be less than four and three q…

Section 244. Whoever, except as provided in section two hundred and forty-one, sells coke, charcoal or coal by weight, or whoever sells material for road construction by weight, shall without cost to the purchaser cause the goods or material to be weighed by a sworn weigher of th…

Section 245. The director of standards or any inspector of standards in any town, or a sealer of weights and measures within his town, wherein any quantity of coke, charcoal or coal or material for road construction in the course of delivery is found may direct the person in char…

Section 246. Each sealer of weights and measures of a town and each sworn weigher shall keep in a book used by him solely for that purpose a record of all baskets sealed by him as aforesaid, and of all weighings and determinations of quantities of coke, charcoal or coal or materi…

Section 247. Edgings or kindling wood shall not be sold in bundles unless the same are closely packed and are not less than twenty-seven inches in circumference. Kindling wood may be sold in bulk by the load; but if unpacked shall not be sold unless by measure and, if exceeding s…

Section 248. Whoever violates any provision of sections two hundred and forty to two hundred and forty-seven, inclusive, if no other penalty is provided therein, or of a rule or regulation made under section two hundred and thirty-nine A, or fails to comply with any request for i…

Section 249. A vendor of coal, coke, charcoal or kindling wood, who has in his possession a basket, bag, sack or other measure which does not conform in every particular to the requirements respecting such measure, with intent to use or permit it to be used in measuring coal, cok…

Section 249A. The department of public health, local boards of health, the director of standards and local sealers of weights and measures, by themselves or by their authorized agents, may enter each place where coal is stored or kept for sale and each railroad train or car or an…

Section 249B. Any person who hinders, obstructs or interferes with the department of public health, local boards of health, the director of standards, local sealers of weights and measures, or their authorized agents, in the performance of their duties under section two hundred a…

Section 249C. Whoever, by himself, or by his servant, agent or employee, sells, exposes or offers for sale, or has in his custody or possession with intent to sell, coal condemned under the provisions of section two hundred and forty-nine A shall be punished by a fine of not less…

Section 249D. Whoever, by himself, or by his servant, agent or employee, sells, exposes or offers for sale, or has in his custody or possession with intent to sell, coal unfit for ordinary use shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment fo…

Section 249E. Whoever, by himself, or by his servant, agent or employee, in placing or packing coal in any basket, bag, sack or other receptacle, places or causes to be placed therein any foreign substance, or sells, or exposes or offers for sale, or has in his custody or possess…

Section 249F. The department of public health, local boards of health, the director of standards and local sealers of weights and measures shall cause sections two hundred and forty-nine A to two hundred and forty-nine E1/2, inclusive, to be enforced.

Section 249H. The director of standards shall promulgate rules and regulations establishing standards for the various grades of heating oils, requiring manufacturers or distributors to furnish samples of the same, and providing for the entry and inspection of the premises of such…

Section 25. No person shall use any bottle, pipette, graduate or any other measuring utensil or device in the determination, by any testing method approved under section twenty-seven, of milk-fat or other component content of milk or cream for the purpose of inspection or as a ba…

Section 26. Mechanical or other equipment intended for use in any testing method approved under section twenty-seven for the determination of milk-fat or other component content of milk or cream for purposes of inspection or as a basis for payment in buying or selling shall be in…

Section 262. The mayor of a city or the selectmen of a town where lime is manufactured, or into which it is imported, may annually appoint one or more inspectors of lime, who shall be sworn to the faithful performance of their duty and shall inspect all lime manufactured in such …

Section 263. Each cask of lime so inspected shall be branded with the word ''inspected'', with the name of the inspector and with the name of the town where it is manufactured.

Section 264. An inspector of lime shall receive four cents for the inspection and branding of each cask of such manufactured lime, which shall be paid by the manufacturer or owner; and the same amount for the inspection of each cask of lime so imported or sold, which shall be pai…

Section 265. No stone lime manufactured within the commonwealth shall be sold or exposed for sale, or shipped on board a vessel in casks, unless it is well burnt and pure, in good and sufficient new casks containing either one hundred and eighty or two hundred and eighty pounds e…

Section 266. Whoever sells, exposes for sale, ships or receives on board a vessel in casks, any lime manufactured in the commonwealth, other than such as is contained in casks made according to the preceding section and marked or branded as provided in section two hundred and six…

Section 267. Whoever, after a cask containing lime has been branded as aforesaid, shifts the contents of such cask and puts therein other lime with intent to sell the same, shall be punished by a fine of one dollar and fifty cents for each cask of lime so shifted.

Section 268. A cask of lime which is sold, exposed for sale, or put on board a vessel, contrary to any provision of sections two hundred and sixty-two to two hundred and sixty-eight, inclusive, shall be forfeited, and may be seized and libelled by an inspector of lime.

Section 27. No testing method shall be used for the determination of milk-fat or other component content of milk or cream for the purpose of inspection or as a basis for payment in buying or selling unless it has been jointly approved by the director and the chief of the bureau o…

Section 270. The following words and phrases as used in this section and in sections two hundred and seventy-one to two hundred and seventy-seven, inclusive, which sections may be cited and referred to as the furniture and bedding inspection law, shall have the following meanings…

Section 271. Except as otherwise provided, any person who advertises, solicits or contracts to manufacture upholstered furniture, bedding or stuffed toys and who either does the work himself or has others do it for him, shall obtain the license required by this section for the pa…

Section 271A. Notwithstanding any general or special law or rule or regulation to the contrary, a mattress, box spring, studio couch or futon mattress which has been delivered to and used by a customer and which is later returned to the seller thereof shall be clearly and conspic…

Section 272. No person shall manufacture or sell at wholesale or retail or otherwise, directly or indirectly, make, repair, renovate or offer or expose for sale, or have in his possession with intent to sell, any stuffed toy or article of new or secondhand upholstered furniture o…

Section 273. No person shall engage in the business of sterilizing articles or filling materials referred to in sections two hundred and seventy to two hundred and seventy-six, inclusive, without first obtaining a license from the department. No sterilizer located outside the com…

Section 274. The department is authorized to establish and promulgate all rules and regulations, including those pertaining to labeling and sterilization, necessary to carry out the provisions of sections two hundred and seventy to two hundred and seventy-six, inclusive. The depa…

Section 275. The application for each license and annual license renewal shall be accompanied by a fee as determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven.

Section 276. The inspector shall have access to any premises in which is kept or stored any article of bedding, upholstered furniture, stuffed toy, or filling material regulated by this law. He may inspect on the premises any materials intended for the manufacture of upholstered …

Section 277. Whoever violates any provision of sections two hundred and seventy to two hundred and seventy-six, inclusive, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than six months, or both.…

Section 277A. All natural, dyed or imitation furs, and all articles made wholly or partly therefrom, sold at retail within the commonwealth, shall be plainly marked or labelled with an accurate statement of the material which they contain, together with the name and address of th…

Section 277B. No person shall sell, or offer or expose for sale any machinery, hardware, ladders, shoes or other footwear, fabrics, suits or other wearing apparel, sporting goods or equipment, radios or parts thereof, or scallops, which have been imported from a foreign country, …

Section 277C. No person shall sell, or offer or expose for sale, or have in his possession with intent to sell, any painting which is not an original painting unless it is plainly labelled ''not an original''. All labels required thereunder shall be securely attached to any such …