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Section 1Gaming or betting; forfeiture
Section 1A“House”, “building” and “place” including ship or vessel
Section 2Gaming or betting in public conveyance or place or while trespassing in private place; arrest without warrant
Section 3Innholders and others keeping or suffering implements to be used for gaming
Section 4Gaming in inns and other occupied places; use of billiard table, bowling alley or other implement for gaming
Section 5Gaming, lottery, pool or betting houses; tables or apparatus for gaming
Section 5AGambling devices; forfeiture; antique slot machines
Section 5BUnlawful possession of electronic machine or device for conducting or promoting sweepstakes through entertaining display; lawful exceptions; penalty
Section 6Gaming relative to cattle shows, military muster or public gathering; arrest without warrant
Section 6APlans under which purchasers agree to obtain more purchasers; injunction; receivers
Section 6BSkilo and similar games
Section 6CRepealed, 1998, 1
Section 7Lotteries; disposal of property by chance
Section 7ARaffles and bazaars; conduct by certain organizations
Section 8Permitting lotteries, raffles and games of chance in buildings
Section 9Lottery tickets; sale, or possession
Section 10Subsequent offenses within five years of conviction
Section 10AArrest without warrant
Section 11Lottery tickets; advertising
Section 12False lottery tickets; creation, sale, or possession
Section 13Lottery tickets, tokens or shares deemed false
Section 14Forfeiture of money, prizes, or other property disposed of by chance; recovery
Section 15Lottery for money drawn out of commonwealth; aiding or promoting
Section 16Tickets of lottery described in Sec. 15; sale or possession
Section 16AOrganizing or promoting gambling facilities or services
Section 17Place for registering bets or dealing in pools; owner or occupant; custodian or depository
Section 17ATelephones; use for gaming purposes
Section 17BUse of electronic communications records in ongoing criminal investigations; subpoena of records
Section 18Policy lotteries or shops; production, sale or possession of lottery tickets or tokens
Section 19Production, advertisement or delivery of tickets; receipt of money; prima facie evidence
Section 20Tickets, memoranda, books and sheets; nuisance; possession; concealment
Section 21Words, figures or characters referring to game or contest; prima facie evidence; proof
Section 22Delivery to or from a person engaged in a lottery or other gaming
Section 22AWhist or bridge for charitable and similar purposes
Section 22BBeano; sale of lottery tickets
Section 23Oath and warrant to enter gaming or lottery place, arrest persons and seize implements and materials; disposal of articles
Section 24Race tracks; owners, proprietors of, or persons present
Section 25Obstructions barring access to gaming places; removal; lien of expenses
Section 26Subsequent obstructions; removal; punishment; lien
Section 27Judicial notice of methods and character of lotteries, policy games, pools and betting; prima facie evidence
Section 28Lotteries or gaming; complaints and indictments
Section 29Sale, exchange or disposition of property; misrepresentation
Section 30Trading stamps or similar devices; sale or delivery
Section 31Racing horses for bets or stakes
Section 31ARacing results or information; transmission for unlawful purposes
Section 32Horse racing; fraud
Section 33Race grounds in towns
Section 34Race grounds as nuisance; abatement
Section 35Definition of words and phrases used in Secs. 35 to 38
Section 36Bucketing contracts; keeper of shop; domestic and foreign corporations
Section 37Prohibited contracts; price quotations
Section 38Purchases and sales of securities or commodities; written statement
Section 39Gifts to influence business affairs; threats
Section 39AGifts to influence action of participants in, and others connected with, a game or contest
Section 40Appointment, reinstatement or discharge of employee of public service corporation or racing licensee on recommendation of public officer, officer elect or candidate
Section 41Offices not public offices under Sec. 40
Section 42Boxing matches or exhibitions; betting or selling pools
Section 43Solicitation, disclosure, receipt or use of information concerning public assistance
Section 44Hospital or sanitarium patient; settlement, release or statement; admissibility
Section 45Repealed, 1982, 21, Sec. 2
Section 46Discarded containers originally used for refrigerative purposes; removal of doors
Section 47Telephones; gambling convictions; approval for installation; notices of convictions and removals
Section 48Civil service preparatory courses; advertisement
Section 49Criminal usury
Section 50Sale of research papers, etc.; taking of examinations for another at educational institutions