Massachusetts Statutes

Section 280. If a cask, package or quantity of wrought, cut or wire nails or brads, manufactured in the commonwealth or elsewhere and not branded or marked as provided in the preceding section, is offered or exposed for sale within the commonwealth or put on board a vessel or veh…

Section 281. Whoever counterfeits a brand used or intended to be used for the purpose of marking a cask of nails or brads, or destroys or alters a mark or impression made by another's brand on a cask of wrought, cut or wire nails or brads, and causes a different impression by suc…

Section 282. All forfeitures recovered under the two preceding sections shall be divided equally between the informer and the commonwealth.

Section 283. No person shall maintain any slot machines or other automatic device, except gas meters, electric meters and telephones, which, upon the deposit therein of any coin or other article of value, furnishes music, or other entertainment, exhibits pictures, provides facili…

Section 284. Whoever installs or maintains a machine or device mentioned in the preceding section which is of a type not approved as therein provided shall, if such machine or device fails properly to respond to the insertion or deposit therein of a coin or other article of value…

Section 285. It shall be unlawful to keep for the purpose of sale, offer or expose for sale, or sell any sewing, basting, mending, darning, crochet, tatting, hand-knitting or embroidery thread, put up or packaged in advance of sale in or on any form of unit, for either wholesale …

Section 286. The marking as required in section two hundred and eighty-five shall in all cases be in combination with the name and place of business of the manufacturer or distributor of the thread, or a trade mark, symbol, brand or other mark which positively identifies such man…

Section 287. An average of not less than ten units of thread of the same type and put-up, selected at random from such units referred to in section two hundred and eighty-five, kept for the purpose of sale, offered or exposed for sale, or sold, shall not weigh or measure more tha…

Section 288. A manufacturer, merchant, jobber, or trader who keeps for the purpose of sale, offers or exposes for sale, or sells any such units of thread which either are not marked or do not weigh or measure as provided in sections two hundred and eighty-five to two hundred and …

Section 289. No person shall manufacture, mix for sale, dispose of, offer or expose for sale, have in possession with intent to sell or dispose of, or sell under the name of turpentine, or spirits of turpentine, or under any name or phrase of which the word turpentine forms a par…

Section 28A. Said chief of the bureau of milk marketing or his agent shall, upon application on a form provided by him, issue a license to receive raw milk at dairy farms to any person holding a certificate of competency obtained as provided in section twenty-seven A and dated wi…

Section 29. The director shall be responsible for timely dissemination of information to all persons licensed by him under prior provisions of earlier law or certified by him under the provisions of either section twenty-seven or section twenty-seven A with respect to technical d…

Section 290. The state police and all local police authorities shall enforce the preceding section.

Section 291. No person shall sell, offer or expose for sale, or dispose of, or have in possession with intent to sell or dispose of, any paint or linseed oil which is labelled or marked in such manner as to deceive, or to tend to deceive, any person as to its nature or compositio…

Section 292. The having in possession, by any person dealing in such articles, of any article or substance designated in section two hundred and eighty-nine or two hundred and ninety-one, and marked or labelled contrary to said sections, shall be prima facie evidence that the sam…

Section 293. Upon the written complaint of any person aggrieved by any violation of section two hundred and eighty-nine or two hundred and ninety-one, the state police and their agents may enter any place of business, store or building where the sale of paint, turpentine or linse…

Section 294. Whoever hinders, obstructs or in any way interferes with any inspector, analyst or other officer appointed or acting under the preceding section while in the performance of his official duty shall be punished for the first offence by a fine of not more than fifty dol…

Section 295. Whoever violates any provision of section two hundred and ninety-one shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than two months.

Section 295A. When used in sections two hundred and ninety-five A to two hundred and ninety-five W, inclusive:— (1) The term ''retail dealer'' shall mean any person operating a service station, filling station, store, garage or other place of business for the retail sale of motor…

Section 295B. No retail dealer shall engage in the business of selling motor fuel or automotive lubricating oil at retail without first procuring from the division a license for each station, store, garage or other establishment at which his said business is to be conducted. Lice…

Section 295C. A retail dealer of motor fuel shall publicly display and maintain on each pump or other dispensing device from which motor fuel is sold by him, at least 1 sign, clearly visible, stating the price per gallon of each grade of motor fuel sold from the pump or device. A…

Section 295CC. Every licensed retail motor fuel dealer who offers for sale from both full-service and self-service motor fuel pumps or other dispensing devices from which motor fuel is sold at the same location, shall dispense motor fuel from the self-service pump or device for a…

Section 295D. Any advertisement of motor fuel other than those required in section 295C shall display the total price including all taxes.

Section 295E. The price posted on any pump or other dispensing device from which motor fuel is sold, as required by section two hundred and ninety-five C, shall remain posted thereon and continue in effect thereat for a period of not less than twenty-four consecutive hours. No re…

Section 295F. All above-ground equipment for storing or dispensing motor fuel or automotive lubricating oil operated by a retail dealer shall bear in a conspicuous place the brand name or trade-mark of the product stored therein or sold or dispensed therefrom. If the motor fuel o…

Section 295G. No person shall sell or offer to sell as gasoline any motor fuel or other substance which has an end point higher than four hundred and thirty-seven degrees Fahrenheit, when tested according to such standard methods as may, from time to time, be prescribed by order,…

Section 295H. The division and any representative authorized by the director of standards and any person authorized under section 34, 35 or 36 of chapter 98 shall administer and enforce sections two hundred and ninety-five A to two hundred and ninety-five O, inclusive. For said p…

Section 295I. The division may adopt, amend, alter or repeal, and shall enforce, all such reasonable orders, rules and regulations as may be necessary or suitable for the administration and enforcement of said sections two hundred and ninety-five A to two hundred and ninety-five …

Section 295J. Every retail dealer shall keep such records as may be prescribed by the orders, rules or regulations adopted by the division under section two hundred and ninety-five I, and all such records shall be safely preserved by such retail dealer for a period of one year, a…

Section 295K. Whoever, himself or by his agent or servant, violates any provision of sections two hundred and ninety-five A to two hundred and ninety-five J, inclusive, except section two hundred and ninety-five G, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than …

Section 295L. The superior court shall have jurisdiction in equity to enjoin the habitual, continued or repeated violation of any provision of sections two hundred and ninety-five A to two hundred and ninety-five J, inclusive, by any retail dealer. Petitions for such relief may b…

Section 295M. Whenever the application of any provision of any other law of this commonwealth conflicts with the application of any provision of sections two hundred and ninety-five A to two hundred and ninety-five O, inclusive, said sections shall prevail.

Section 295N. If any provision of said sections two hundred and ninety-five A to two hundred and ninety-five O, inclusive, or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance, shall be held invalid, the remainder of said sections, or the application of such provisi…

Section 295O. Sections two hundred and ninety-five A to two hundred and ninety-five O, inclusive, shall be known and may be cited as the ''Motor Fuel Sales Act.''

Section 295P. No retail dealer shall, with intent to injure competitors or destroy substantially or lessen competition, advertise, offer to sell, or sell at retail motor fuel at less than cost to such retail dealer.

Section 295Q. Where the retail dealers or any part thereof in a trading area have caused to be made by an independent agency a cost survey of doing retail business in such area in accordance with generally accepted methods of accounting in which survey all retail dealers in said …

Section 295R. The provisions of sections two hundred and ninety-five P to two hundred and ninety-five W, inclusive, shall not apply to sales at retail made:— (a) Where motor fuel is advertised or offered for sale or sold upon the final liquidation of the business of said retail d…

Section 295S. Any retail dealer who violates any of the provisions of section two hundred and ninety-five P shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars.

Section 295T. On complaint of any retail dealer the superior court shall have jurisdiction in equity to restrain and enjoin any act declared illegal by any provision of sections two hundred and ninety-five P to two hundred and ninety-five W, inclusive, and it shall be the duty of…

Section 295U. Whenever the application of the provisions of any other law of this commonwealth conflicts with the application of the provisions of sections two hundred and ninety-five P to two hundred and ninety-five W, said sections shall prevail.

Section 295V. If any provision of sections two hundred and ninety-five P to two hundred and ninety-five W, inclusive, or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance shall be held invalid, the remainder of said section or the application of such provision to pe…

Section 295W. Sections two hundred and ninety-five P to two hundred and ninety-five W, inclusive, shall be known and may be cited as the ''Unfair Sales Act for the Retail Sale of Motor Fuels''.

Section 296. A town and the city council of a city shall annually choose one or more measures of wood and bark, who shall be sworn to the faithful performance of their duties and shall hold office during the year and until others are chosen and qualified in their stead. A town, b…

Section 297. Such measurers may, in the manner prescribed for measurers of lumber in section eight of chapter ninety-six, be licensed to act in a town adjoining that for which they are elected or appointed.

Section 298. Cordwood sold or offered or exposed for sale shall be four feet in length. The term ''firewood'' shall be construed to mean and include wood cut to any lengths of less than four feet and more than eight inches. Cordwood and firewood shall be advertised, offered for s…