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MA Gen L ch 138 § 30 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 138 - Alcoholic Liquors|Section 30 - Issuance of Certificate of Fitness to Registered Pharmacist; Fee; Revocation

Section 30. The board of registration in pharmacy may issue to a registered pharmacist who desires to exercise the authority conferred by section twenty-nine, a certificate of fitness, stating that in the judgment of said board he is a proper person to be intrusted with such authority and that the public good will be promoted by the granting thereof. The board or the local licensing authorities may, after giving a hearing to the parties interested, revoke or suspend such certificate for any cause which they may deem proper, and such revocation or suspension shall revoke or suspend all authority conferred by section twenty-nine. Said certificate of fitness shall expire on December thirty-first of each uneven numbered year, following the date of its issue, and the fee therefor shall be twenty-five dollars for two years, or any part thereof.
MA Gen L ch 138 § 30a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 138 - Alcoholic Liquors|Section 30a - Registered Pharmacists' Licenses to Sell Alcoholic Beverages Without Prescription; Hours of Sales

Section 30A. A registered pharmacist in a city or town wherein the granting of licenses to sell all alcoholic beverages is authorized may be licensed by the local licensing authorities to sell alcoholic beverages for medicinal, mechanical or chemical purposes without a physician's prescription subject to the limitations contained in section thirty-three, the said sales to be recorded in the manner prescribed in section thirty E. Sales of alcoholic beverages hereunder shall be made only in the original sealed packages and such beverages shall not be permitted to be drunk on the premises. Sales of such beverages by a licensee hereunder shall be permitted only during such hours as sales thereof may be made by a licensee under section fifteen.
MA Gen L ch 138 § 30b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 138 - Alcoholic Liquors|Section 30b - Kinds of Licenses Issued to Druggists Under Sec. 30a; Transfers

Section 30B. One or more licenses may be granted annually under the provisions of section thirty A by the licensing authorities of a city or town to retail druggists who are registered pharmacists actively engaged in business on their own account, or on the account of the widow, executor or administrator of a deceased registered pharmacist, or of the wife of one who has become incapacitated, upon presentation to said authorities of the certificate prescribed by section thirty, if it appears that the applicant is a proper person to receive such license. A registered pharmacist who owns stock of the actual value of at least five hundred dollars in a corporation which has been incorporated for the purpose of carrying on the drug business, and who conducts in person the business of a store of such corporation, shall be considered as actively engaged in business on his own account and as qualified to receive a license for such store. The licensing authorities may refuse to grant any and all such licenses.  A license granted under section thirty A may be transferred to a registered pharmacist, qualified to receive such a license in the first instance, if the licensing authorities determine that the interests in the ownership of the store in which the license was granted to be exercised remain substantially unchanged.
MA Gen L ch 138 § 30c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 138 - Alcoholic Liquors|Section 30c - Termination of Druggist's License Upon Cessation of Business

Section 30C. A license issued under section thirty A shall become null and void without any process or decree, if the registered pharmacist to whom it has been granted ceases to conduct his business in person and on his own account, or upon the revocation of his certificate of registration as a pharmacist, unless the registered pharmacist has been unable to so conduct his business or has died, and his business is continued by his wife, widow, executor or administrator under another registered pharmacist.
MA Gen L ch 138 § 30d (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 138 - Alcoholic Liquors|Section 30d - Certificate of Purchaser; Sales of Alcoholic Beverages by Retail Pharmacists Licensed Under Sec. 30a

Section 30D. Retail pharmacists licensed under section thirty A shall not sell alcoholic beverages of any kind for medicinal, mechanical or chemical purposes except upon the certificate of the purchaser, which shall state the use for which it is wanted, and which shall be immediately cancelled at the time of sale in such manner as to show the date of cancellation.
MA Gen L ch 138 § 30e (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 138 - Alcoholic Liquors|Section 30e - Record Book of Registered Pharmacists of Sales of Alcoholic Beverages; Form of Certificate

Section 30E. Every retail pharmacist licensed under section thirty A shall keep a book in which he shall enter, at the time of every such sale, the date thereof, the name of the purchaser, the kind, quantity and price of said beverage, the purpose for which it was sold, and the residence by street and number if any, of said purchaser. If such sale is made upon the prescription of a physician, the book shall also contain the name of the physician and shall state the use for which said beverage is prescribed and the quantity to be used for such purpose, and the prescription shall be cancelled in the manner provided in the preceding section with reference to certificates. Said book shall be in form substantially as follows:  The certificate mentioned in the preceding section shall be a part of said book and shall not be detached therefrom, and shall be in form substantially as follows:  CERTIFICATE  I wish to purchase . . . . . . . and I certify that I am not a person under age twenty-one and that the same is to be used for *Mechanical *Chemical *Medicinal purpose.  (*Draw a line through the words which do not indicate the purpose of the purchase.)  Signature  Cancelled
MA Gen L ch 138 § 30f (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 138 - Alcoholic Liquors|Section 30f - Inspection of Books, Certificates and Prescriptions

Section 30F. The book, certificates and prescriptions provided for in the two preceding sections shall at all times be kept on the licensed premises and be open to the inspection of the board of registration in pharmacy, the licensing authorities or their agents, the aldermen, the selectmen when not constituting the local licensing authorities, sheriffs, constables, police officers and justices of the peace.
MA Gen L ch 138 § 30g (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 138 - Alcoholic Liquors|Section 30g - Illegal Sale of Alcoholic Beverages in Name of Registered Pharmacist

Section 30G. A person, not a registered pharmacist, who procures a license for the sale of alcoholic beverages under section thirty A in the name of a registered pharmacist who is dead, or in the name of a registered pharmacist by borrowing, hiring or purchasing the use of his certificate, and, being himself the owner or manager of the place, personally or by his servants sells alcoholic beverages, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars and by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than six months. Section eleven of chapter two hundred and seventy-nine shall not apply to a conviction under this section.
MA Gen L ch 138 § 30h (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 138 - Alcoholic Liquors|Section 30h - Possession or Transportation of Alcoholic Beverages Not Authorized to Be Sold as Prima Facie Evidence of Violation of Chapter

Section 30H. Possession on the licensed premises by any licensee under this chapter of any alcoholic beverages or alcohol not authorized to be sold or used under the terms of his license shall be prima facie evidence that such beverage or alcohol is kept for sale in violation of this chapter. Transportation of any alcoholic beverage or alcohol in any vehicle covered by a transportation permit issued to a licensee under this chapter or his employee shall, if such alcoholic beverage or alcohol is not authorized to be sold or used under the terms of the license issued to such licensee, be prima facie evidence that such alcoholic beverage or alcohol is being transported in violation of this chapter.
MA Gen L ch 138 § 32 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 138 - Alcoholic Liquors|Section 32 - Hawking or Peddling of Alcoholic Beverages

Section 32. No holder of a license or permit under this chapter shall himself or through an agent or employee go from town to town or from place to place in the same town selling, bartering, hawking or peddling, or exposing or carrying for sale, barter, hawking or peddling, any alcoholic beverages from a vehicle. All sales of such beverages under section fifteen and all sales thereof by a licensee under section eighteen, nineteen, nineteen B or nineteen C where transportation and delivery are required, shall be made only upon orders actually received at the licensed place of business prior to the shipment thereof. Violation of this section shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than six months, or both.
MA Gen L ch 138 § 33a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 138 - Alcoholic Liquors|Section 33a - Sales of Alcoholic Beverages by On-Premise Licensees on Sundays and Certain Legal Holidays; Sales Between 1:00 a.m. and 2:00 a.m.

Section 33A. The local licensing authority of any city or town which accepts this section may authorize licensees under section twelve to sell alcoholic beverages between the hours of one o'clock ante meridian and two o'clock ante meridian on Sundays, the last Monday in May and on Christmas day or on the day following when said day occurs on Sunday.
MA Gen L ch 138 § 33b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 138 - Alcoholic Liquors|Section 33b - Sales of Alcoholic Beverages by On-Premise Licensees on Sundays and Certain Legal Holidays; Sales Between 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 Noon

Section 33B. The local licensing authority of any city or town which accepts this section may authorize licensees under section twelve to sell alcoholic beverages between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon on Sundays, the last Monday in May and on Christmas day or on the day following when said day occurs on Sunday.
MA Gen L ch 138 § 34 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 138 - Alcoholic Liquors|Section 34 - Sale, Delivery or Furnishing Alcoholic Beverages to Persons Under Twenty-One Years of Age; Employment of Persons Under Eighteen Years of Age

Section 34. No person shall receive a license or permit under this chapter who is under 21 years of age. Whoever makes a sale or delivery of any alcoholic beverage or alcohol to any person under 21 years of age, either for his own use or for the use of his parent or any other person, or whoever, being a patron of an establishment licensed under section 12 or 15, delivers or procures to be delivered in any public room or area of such establishment if licensed under section 12, 15, 19B, 19C or 19D or in any area of such establishment if licensed under said section 15, 19B, 19C or 19D any such beverages or alcohol to or for use by a person who he knows or has reason to believe is under 21 years of age or whoever procures any such beverage or alcohol for a person under 21 years of age in any establishment licensed under section 12 or procures any such beverage or alcohol for a person under 21 years of age who is not his child, ward or spouse in any establishment licensed under said section 15, 19B, 19C or 19D or whoever furnishes any such beverage or alcohol for a person under 21 years of age shall be punished by a fine of not more than $2,000 or by imprisonment for not more than one year or both. For the purpose of this section the word ''furnish'' shall mean to knowingly or intentionally supply, give, or provide to or allow a person under 21 years of age except for the children and grandchildren of the person being charged to possess alcoholic beverages on premises or property owned or controlled by the person charged. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit any person licensed under this chapter from employing any person 18 years of age or older for the direct handling or selling of alcoholic beverages or alcohol.  Notwithstanding the provisions of clause (14) of section 62 of chapter 149, a licensee under this chapter may employ a person under the age of 18 who does not directly handle, sell, mix or serve alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
MA Gen L ch 138 § 34a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 138 - Alcoholic Liquors|Section 34a - Persons Under Twenty-One Years; Purchase or Attempt to Purchase Alcoholic Beverages

Section 34A. Any person under twenty-one years of age who purchases or attempts to purchase alcoholic beverages or alcohol, or makes arrangements with any person to purchase or in any way procure such beverages, or who willfully misrepresents his age, or in any way alters, defaces or otherwise falsifies his identification offered as proof of age, with the intent of purchasing alcoholic beverages, either for his own use or for the use of any other person shall be punished by a fine of three hundred dollars and whoever knowingly makes a false statement as to the age of a person who is under twenty-one years of age in order to procure a sale or delivery of such beverages or alcohol to such person under twenty-one years of age, either for the use of the person under twenty-one years of age or for the use of some other person, and whoever induces a person under twenty-one years of age to make a false statement as to his age in order to procure a sale or delivery of such beverages or alcohol to such person under twenty-one years of age, shall be punished by a fine of three hundred dollars. A conviction of a violation of this section shall be reported forthwith to the registrar of motor vehicles by the court. Upon receipt of such notice the registrar shall thereupon suspend for 180 days the defendant's license or right to operate a motor vehicle.  The commission shall prepare and distribute to business establishments which sell, serve or otherwise dispense alcohol or alcoholic beverages to the general public, posters to be displayed therein in a conspicuous place. Said posters shall contain a summary and explanation of this section.
MA Gen L ch 138 § 34c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 138 - Alcoholic Liquors|Section 34c - Minors; Operation of Motor Vehicle Containing Alcoholic Beverage; Suspension of Driver's License

Section 34C. Whoever, being under twenty-one years of age and not accompanied by a parent or legal guardian, knowingly possesses, transports or carries on his person, any alcohol or alcoholic beverages, shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars for the first offense and not more than one hundred and fifty dollars for a second or subsequent offense; provided, however, that this section shall not apply to a person between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one who knowingly possesses, transports or carries on his person, alcohol or alcoholic beverages in the course of his employment. A police officer may arrest without a warrant any person who violates this section. A conviction of a violation of this section shall be reported forthwith to the registrar of motor vehicles by the court, and said registrar shall thereupon suspend for a period of ninety days the license of such person to operate a motor vehicle.
MA Gen L ch 138 § 34d (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 138 - Alcoholic Liquors|Section 34d - Posting Notices of Penalties for Driving While Under Influence and Driving While Drinking From Open Container of Alcohol

Section 34D. Any establishment which sells alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises, shall post a copy of the penalties set forth in subdivision (1) of section twenty-four of chapter ninety for driving under the influence. Any establishment which sells alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises shall post a copy of the penalties set forth in section twenty-four I of said chapter ninety for operating a motor vehicle while drinking from an open container of alcohol. Said copies shall be posted conspicuously by the owner or person in charge of the respective establishment, and whoever violates this provision shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars. Any person unlawfully removing a copy so posted shall be punished by a fine of fifty dollars. Said copies, printed in letters not less in size than eighteen point capitals, boldface, shall be prepared by the commission and distributed to business establishments which sell, serve or otherwise dispense alcohol or alcoholic beverages to the general public.
MA Gen L ch 138 § 34e (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 138 - Alcoholic Liquors|Section 34e - Immunity From Prosecution Under Secs. 34, 34a or 34c for Persons Seeking Medical Assistance for Alcohol-Related Incapacitation

Section 34E. (a) A person under 21 years of age who, in good faith, seeks medical assistance for someone experiencing alcohol-related incapacitation shall not be charged or prosecuted under sections 34, 34A or 34C if the evidence for the charge of purchase or possession of alcohol was gained as a result of seeking medical assistance.  (b) A person under 21 years of age who experiences alcohol-related incapacitation and is in need of medical assistance and, in good faith, seeks such medical assistance or is the subject of such a good faith request for medical assistance shall not be charged or prosecuted under sections 34, 34A or 34C if the evidence for the charge of purchase or possession of alcohol was gained as a result of seeking medical assistance.
MA Gen L ch 138 § 35 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 138 - Alcoholic Liquors|Section 35 - Sales of Alcoholic Beverages Outside Limits of Reservations or Boulevards

Section 35. No rule or regulation made by the commissioner of conservation and recreation for the government and use of the reservations or boulevards under its care within the urban parks district shall prohibit or restrict the sale of alcoholic beverages in any building or place outside the limits of said reservations or boulevards if a license for such sale has been granted hereunder.
MA Gen L ch 138 § 36 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 138 - Alcoholic Liquors|Section 36 - Analysis of Alcoholic Beverages by Department of State Police

Section 36. The analyst or assistant analyst of the department of state police shall upon request make, free of charge, an analysis of all alcoholic beverages sent to it by the licensing authorities or by police officers or other officers authorized by law to make seizures of alcoholic beverages, if the department is satisfied that the analysis requested is to be used in connection with the enforcement of the laws of the commonwealth. The said department shall return to such police or other officers, as soon as may be, a certificate, signed by the analyst or assistant analyst making such analysis, of the percentage of alcohol which such samples of beverages contain, and, if the commission so requests, of the composition and quality of such beverages as shown by the samples submitted. Such certificate shall be prima facie evidence of the composition and quality of the alcoholic beverages to which it relates, and the court may take judicial notice of the signature of the analyst or the assistant analyst, and of the fact that he is such.
MA Gen L ch 138 § 37 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 138 - Alcoholic Liquors|Section 37 - Certificate Accompanying Sample of Beverages to Be Analyzed; Contents

Section 37. A certificate shall accompany each sample of beverages sent for analysis by an officer to the department of state police stating from whom the beverages were seized, the date of the seizure and the name and residence of the officer who seized said beverages. Said department shall note upon said certificate the date of the receipt and the analysis of said alcoholic beverages and the percentage of the alcohol or the composition and quality of said beverages, as the case may be, as required by section thirty-six on a form prescribed by said department of state police.
MA Gen L ch 138 § 38 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 138 - Alcoholic Liquors|Section 38 - Forms of Commission

Section 38. The commission shall provide and cause officers of be supplied with a suitable number of the forms prescribed by section thirty-seven. The certificate of the department of state police, given substantially in the form hereinbefore set forth, shall be admitted as evidence on trials for the forfeiture of alcoholic beverages as to the composition and quality of the beverages to which it relates.
MA Gen L ch 138 § 39 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 138 - Alcoholic Liquors|Section 39 - Tampering With Samples of Alcoholic Beverages

Section 39. No person shall tamper with samples of alcoholic beverages taken as provided in section sixty-three or alter the statements made upon the forms or certificates aforesaid.
MA Gen L ch 138 § 40 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 138 - Alcoholic Liquors|Section 40 - Analysis of Alcoholic Beverages by Court Order; Fee

Section 40. Any court may cause alcoholic beverages which have been seized under this chapter to be analyzed by a competent chemist, and the reasonable expense thereof, including a fee of not more than five dollars for each analysis, shall be taxed, allowed and paid like other expenses in criminal cases.