Massachusetts Statutes

Section 8. Marijuana sold pursuant to this chapter shall not be taxed under chapter 64H, 64I, 64K or 64N.

Section 1. The mayor of a city or the selectmen of a town, upon the request of two or more voters thereof, shall annually appoint one or more measurers of leather who have been certified by the director of standards as fit persons for such appointment, and who shall be sworn to t…

Section 2. A measurer of leather for one town may measure leather in any other town.

Section 3. Each measurer, upon request, shall go to any place within the town for which he is appointed and there ascertain the area of each skin or side or other portion of leather submitted to him. For this purpose, he shall use only such racks, measures or mechanical devices a…

Section 4. Whoever sells or offers leather for sale by measure shall cause the same to be measured by a sworn measurer unless such leather has previously been measured by a sworn measurer of a town in the commonwealth, or by some person lawfully appointed therefor in any other st…

Section 5. Whoever counterfeits or causes to be counterfeited, or, not being a sworn measurer, alters or defaces with intent to deceive, a measurer's marks on a skin or side or other portion of leather shall be punished by a fine of twenty-five dollars.

Section 10. A seller or purchaser of lumber who induces or attempts to induce a measurer to make a false measurement shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars.

Section 11. Whoever without authority represents himself to be an official measurer of lumber of any city or town shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars.

Section 11A. The international log rule, based upon one fourth inch saw kerf, as expressed in the formula (D2|m~0.22)–0.71D)|m~0.904762 for four foot sections (D represents top diameter of log in inches; taper allowance, one half inch per four feet lineal), shall be the standard …

Section 7. Towns may annually elect one or more measurers of lumber, who shall be sworn to the faithful performance of their duties, and cities may by ordinance provide for the annual appointment of such measurers.

Section 8. A measurer of lumber in any town may apply to the selectmen of an adjoining town for a license to measure lumber therein, and if the selectmen are of the opinion that it will be for the public convenience they may, upon payment of a fee not exceeding one dollar, grant …

Section 9. A measurer of lumber for any city or town who is guilty of or connives at a fraud or deceit in measuring, marking or numbering the contents of any kind of wood or lumber, or who, when lawfully requested, refuses without good reason to measure lumber, shall be punished …

Section 1. The posts or pillars erected pursuant to chapter two hundred and eighty-six of the acts of eighteen hundred and seventy to indicate the true meridian lines shall remain the property of the respective counties in which they are situated, under the care of the county com…

Section 10. The plane rectangular coordinates of a point on the earth's surface, shall be used in expressing the position or location of such point in the appropriate zone of said system, and shall consist of two distances, either expressed in meters and decimals of meters or in …

Section 11. Nothing contained in this chapter shall prohibit the conversion of the coordinates on the metric system to the United States Survey Foot nor shall the use of distances in feet and decimals of a foot be prohibited from any map, report of survey, deed, or other document…

Section 12. For the purpose of more precisely defining said system: 1. The Massachusetts Coordinate System, NAD, 1983, Mainland Zone, Federal Zone Code M2001, is a Lambert conformal conic projection of the North American Datum of 1983, having standard parallels at north latitudes…

Section 13. The use of the term ''Massachusetts Coordinate System'' on any map, report of survey, or deed or other document, shall be limited to coordinates based on the Massachusetts State Plane Coordinate System as defined in sections eight to thirteen, inclusive.

Section 14. The coordinate system based upon the North American Datum of 1927 which prior to the enactment of this statute was defined as the Massachusetts Coordinate System shall be now designated the Coordinate System, North American Datum of 1927, (NAD 1927), and can continue …

Section 15. The plane rectangular coordinates of a point on the earth's surface, to be used in expressing the position or location of such point in the appropriate zone of said system, shall consist of two distances, expressed in feet and decimals of a foot. One of these distance…

Section 16. The Coordinate System, North American Datum of 1927, Mainland Zone, consists of a Lambert conformal projection of the Clarke spheroid of eighteen hundred and sixty-six, having the standard parallels at north latitude 41° (degrees) 43′ (minutes) and 42° (degrees) 41′ (…

Section 17. For the purpose of describing the location of any survey station or land boundary point in the commonwealth it shall be a complete, legal and satisfactory description of such location to give the position of said survey station or land boundary point on the Massachuse…

Section 2. Every land surveyor shall, at least once in every year, adjust and verify his compass by the meridian line so established in the county in which his surveys are to be made, insert in his field notes both the true and the magnetic bearings of the lines of his surveys an…

Section 3. Every land surveyor shall use only tapes or other types of measuring devices which have been approved for use under regulations promulgated by the board of registration of professional engineers and land surveyors as authorized by sections eighty-one D to eighty-one T,…

Section 7. A surveyor who violates the provisions of section two, if he has used his compass to measure an angle in surveying within the year preceding, shall be punished by a fine of ten dollars, to be divided between the complainant and the county.

Section 8. The system of plane rectangular coordinates shall be the North American Datum of 1983 as established by the National Ocean Services/National Geodetic Survey (NOS/NGS), or its successors for defining and stating the geographic positions or locations of points on the sur…

Section 9. As established for use in the mainland zone, said system shall be named, and in any land description in which it is used it shall be designated, the ''Massachusetts Coordinate System, NAD 1983, Mainland Zone''. As established for use in the island zone, said system sha…

Section 1. In this chapter the following words, unless a different meaning is required by the context or is specifically prescribed, shall have the following meanings: ''Deputy'', deputy sealer of weights and measures certified by the director. ''Deputy director'', deputy directo…

Section 10. The commonwealth shall also supply additional clinical standard thermometers necessary to carry out sections nine to fourteen, inclusive, to be known as office clinical standards. Such thermometers shall be verified by the deputy director upon their receipt and at lea…

Section 11. The deputy director shall promulgate tolerances and specifications for clinical thermometers. A correct clinical thermometer shall be one conforming to the standard established as provided in section nine and to specifications promulgated under this section, within su…

Section 12. The deputy director may at any time inspect and test any clinical thermometer in the possession of any manufacturer or dealer in this commonwealth and for this purpose may remove the same to such place as he may deem most convenient. Whenever he inspects and tests suc…

Section 13. The deputy director shall prescribe rules and regulations governing the manufacture and sale of clinical thermometers and may require representative samples of any clinical thermometer to be submitted by the manufacturer to the deputy director and approved by him. Cli…

Section 14. Whoever, himself or by his servant or agent, or as the servant or agent of another person, keeps for the purpose of sale, offers or exposes for sale, or sells any clinical thermometer not sealed, marked or certified as correct by the deputy director, or by the manufac…

Section 14A. Glass bottles or jars intended to be used in the sale of lubricating oil shall be made of clear, uncolored glass and shall be manufactured only in the following capacities: one gallon, two quarts, one quart, or one pint, Massachusetts standard liquid measure. Each bo…

Section 15. Glass bottles or jars used for the sale of milk or cream to the consumer shall be of the capacity of one gallon, a multiple of the gallon, or a binary submultiple of the gallon. Dealers in milk or cream using glass bottles or jars for the distribution of milk or cream…

Section 16. Paper or fibre bottles and jars used for the distribution of milk or cream to consumers, and holding, when filled to a level with the bottom of the cap or stopple, not less than eight, sixteen, thirty-two, forty-eight or sixty-four ounces, shall be sealed as measures …

Section 17. Whoever re-uses any such paper or fibre bottle or jar for distributing milk, cream or other liquid used for food after such bottle or jar has been once used therefor, shall be punished by a fine of not more than twenty-five dollars.

Section 18. All cans or containers sold for use in the purchase or sale of milk or cream at wholesale shall have their capacity plainly, conspicuously and indelibly marked thereon in terms of liquid quarts. They shall be sealed by the manufacturer thereof, as hereinafter provided…

Section 19. Whoever, by himself or by his servant or agent, or as the servantor agent of another person, sells any can or container to be used in the purchase or sale of milk or cream at wholesale that is not marked and sealed as required by the preceding section, shall be punish…

Section 2. The avoirdupois pound shall bear to the troy pound the relation of seven thousand to five thousand seven hundred and sixty. The hundredweight shall contain one hundred avoirdupois pounds, and the ton twenty hundredweight.

Section 20. All cans, moulds or other containers used in the sale of ice cream or other frozen desserts and/or frozen dessert mix by measure shall be of the capacity of Massachusetts standard liquid measure. Such cans, moulds or other containers shall be sealed, as hereinafter pr…

Section 21. Sealers shall inspect at least semiannually all cans, moulds or other containers sealed in accordance with the preceding section, and shall make a record of such inspection. If a container has once been sealed as aforesaid, it shall not be necessary to have it sealed …

Section 22. Paper or fibre cartons which are used for the sale by measure of viscous or semi-solid commodities or mixtures of solids and liquids shall contain and shall be sold as containing one gill, one half pint, one pint, one quart, two quarts, one gallon, two and one half ga…

Section 23. A sealer or deputy of any city or town or the deputy director or an inspector may, if he so desires, and shall, upon complaint, test the capacity of any container which is used or intended to be used as a measure under sections twenty to twenty-four, inclusive; and if…

Section 24. Whoever violates any provision of sections twenty to twenty-three, inclusive, and whoever marks a container or other measure, or procures the same to be marked or has printed thereon or procures to have marked or printed thereon, a mark, number or designation without …

Section 25. All weighing or measuring devices which cannot be made to conform to the standard shall be stamped, marked or labelled ''Condemned'' or ''CD'' by the sealer. Weighing or measuring devices in possession of a merchant or vendor not used for buying or selling, or for wei…

Section 26. Whoever uses, or has in possession with intent to use, a false or condemned weighing or measuring device for weighing or measuring any commodity bought, sold or exchanged, or for hire or reward, shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars or shall be su…