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Home » US Law » 2022 Massachusetts General Laws » Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases » Title I - Crimes and Punishments » Chapter 272 - Crimes Against Chastity, Morality, Decency and Good Order

Section 28 – Matter Harmful to Minors, Dissemination; Possession; Defenses

Section 28. Whoever purposefully disseminates to a person he knows or believes to be a minor any matter harmful to minors, as defined in section 31, knowing it to be harmful to minors, or has in his possession any such matter with the intent to disseminate the same to a person he knows or believes […]

Section 28d – Answer to Notice; Right to Jury Trial

Section 28D. Any person interested in the dissemination of said book may appear and file an answer on or before the return day named in said notice or within such further time as the court may allow, and may claim a right to trial by jury on the issue whether said book is obscene.

Section 28e – Order of Default; Adjudication

Section 28E. If no person appears and answers within the time allowed, the court may at once upon motion of the petitioner, or of its own motion, no reason to the contrary appearing, order a general default and if the court finds that the book is obscene, may make an adjudication against the book that […]

Section 28f – Hearing; Evidence; Adjudication

Section 28F. If an appearance is entered and answer filed, the case shall be set down for speedy hearing, but a default and order shall first be entered against all persons who have not appeared and answered, in the manner provided in section twenty-eight E. Such hearing shall be conducted in accordance with the usual […]

Section 3 – Drugging Persons for Sexual Intercourse

Section 3. Whoever applies, administers to or causes to be taken by a person any drug, matter or thing with intent to stupefy or overpower such person so as to thereby enable any person to have sexual intercourse or unnatural sexual intercourse with such person shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for […]

Section 31 – Definitions

Section 31. As used in sections twenty-eight, twenty-eight C, twenty-eight D, twenty-eight E, twenty-nine, twenty-nine A, twenty-nine B, thirty and thirty D, the following words shall, unless the context requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— ”Disseminate”, to import, publish, produce, print, manufacture, distribute, sell, lease, exhibit or display. ”Harmful to minors”, matter is harmful to […]

Section 33 – Exhibition of Deformities

Section 33. Whoever exhibits for hire an albino person, a minor or mentally ill person who is deformed or a person who has an appearance of deformity produced by artificial means shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars.

Section 34 – Crime Against Nature

Section 34. Whoever commits the abominable and detestable crime against nature, either with mankind or with a beast, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than twenty years.