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2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 267 - Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency › Section 1 - False or Forged Records, Certificates, Returns, Attestations and Other Writings

Section 1. Whoever, with intent to injure or defraud, falsely makes, alters, forges or counterfeits a public record, or a certificate, return or attestation of a clerk or register of a court, public register, notary public, justice of the peace, town clerk or any other public officer, in relation to a matter wherein such certificate, return or attestation may be received as legal proof; or a charter, deed, will, testament, bond or writing obligatory, power of attorney, policy of insurance, bill of lading, bill of exchange or promissory note; or an order, acquittance or discharge for money or other property or a credit card or an instrument described as a United States Dollar Traveller's Check or Cheque, purchased from a bank or other financially responsible institution, the purpose of which is a source of ready money on cashing the instrument without identification other than the signature of the purchaser; or an acceptance of a bill of exchange, or an endorsement or assignment of a bill of exchange or promissory note for the payment of money; or an accountable receipt for money, goods or other property; or a stock certificate, or any evidence or muniment of title to property; or a certificate of title, duplicate certificate of title, certificate issued in place of a duplicate certificate, the registration book, entry book, or any indexes provided for by chapter one hundred and eighty-five, or the docket of the recorder; shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than ten years or in jail for not more than two years.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 267 - Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency › Section 2 - Railroad or Admission Tickets, Passes or Badges

Section 2. Whoever, with intent to injure or defraud, falsely makes, alters, forges or counterfeits a railroad ticket, railroad mileage book or railroad pass, or a ticket, badge, pass or any written or printed license purporting to entitle the holder or owner thereof to admission to any exhibition, entertainment, performance, match or contest of any kind, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than three years or in jail for not more than two years, or by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 267 - Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency › Section 3 - Seal of Land Court; Stamping Documents Without Authority

Section 3. Whoever forges, procures to be forged or assists in forging, the seal of the land court, or, without lawful authority, stamps or procures to be stamped, or assists in stamping, any document with such forged seal or with the genuine seal of said court, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than ten years or in jail for not more than two years.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 267 - Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency › Section 4 - Railroad Company Stamp; Forging or Using Without Authority

Section 4. Whoever forges, procures to be forged or assists in forging, the stamp of any railroad company or of any railroad ticket agent, or, without lawful authority, stamps or procures to be stamped, or assists in stamping, any railroad ticket or railroad mileage book with such forged stamp, or with a genuine stamp of any railroad company or railroad ticket agent, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than three years or in jail for not more than two years, or by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 267 - Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency › Section 5 - Uttering False or Forged Records, Deeds or Other Writings

Section 5. Whoever, with intent to injure or defraud, utters and publishes as true a false, forged or altered record, deed, instrument or other writing mentioned in the four preceding sections, knowing the same to be false, forged or altered, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than ten years or in jail for not more than two years.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 267 - Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency › Section 6 - Uttering a Forged Railroad or Admission Ticket, Pass or Badge

Section 6. Whoever, with intent to injure or defraud, utters and publishes as true a false, forged or altered railroad ticket, railroad mileage book or railroad pass, or a ticket, badge, pass or any written or printed license purporting to entitle the holder or owner thereof to admission to any exhibition, entertainment, performance, match or contest of any kind mentioned in section two, knowing the same to be false, altered or forged, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than three years or in jail for not more than two years, or by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 267 - Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency › Section 7 - False or Forged Note, Certificate or Other Bill of Credit Issued for Debt of Commonwealth

Section 7. Whoever, with intent to injure or defraud, falsely makes, alters, forges or counterfeits a note, certificate or other bill of credit issued by the state treasurer, or by any commissioner or other officer authorized to issue the same for a debt of this commonwealth, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for life or for any term of years.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 267 - Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency › Section 8 - False, Forged or Counterfeited Bank Bill, Note or Traveller's Check

Section 8. Whoever, with intent to injure or defraud, falsely makes, alters, forges or counterfeits a bank bill or promissory note payable to the bearer thereof or to the order of any person, issued by any incorporated banking company or an instrument described as a United States Dollar Traveller's Check or Cheque, purchased from a bank or other financially responsible institution, the purpose of which is a source of ready money on cashing the instrument without identification other than the signature of the purchaser, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for life or for any term of years.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 267 - Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency › Section 9 - Possession of Ten or More of False, Forged or Counterfeited Notes or Bills

Section 9. Whoever has in his possession at the same time ten or more similar false, altered, forged or counterfeit notes, bills of credit, bank bills or notes, such as are mentioned in any of the preceding sections, payable to the bearer thereof or to the order of any person, knowing the same to be false, altered, forged or counterfeit, with intent to utter or pass the same as true, and thereby to injure or defraud, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for life or for any term of years.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 267 - Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency › Section 10 - Uttering, Passing or Tendering False, Forged or Counterfeited Note, Certificate, Bill or Traveller's Check

Section 10. Whoever utters or passes or tenders in payment as true any such false, altered, forged or counterfeit note, certificate or bill of credit for any debt of the commonwealth, or a bank bill or promissory note payable to the bearer thereof or to the order of any person, issued as aforesaid, or an instrument described as a United States Dollar Traveller's Check or Cheque, purchased from a bank or other financially responsible institution, the purpose of which is a source of ready money on cashing the instrument without identification other than the signature of the purchaser, knowing the same to be false, altered, forged or counterfeit, with intent to injure or defraud, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than five years, or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars and imprisonment in jail for not more than one year.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 267 - Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency › Section 11 - Common Utterers of Counterfeit Bills

Section 11. Whoever, having been convicted of the crime mentioned in the preceding section, is again convicted of the like crime committed after the former conviction, and whoever is at the same sitting of the court convicted upon three distinct charges of such crime, shall be adjudged a common utterer of counterfeit bills, and be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than ten years.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 267 - Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency › Section 12 - Possession of False, Forged or Counterfeit Bills, Notes or Traveller's Checks

Section 12. Whoever brings into this commonwealth or has in his possession a false, forged or counterfeit bill or note, in the similitude of the bills or notes, payable to the bearer thereof or to the order of any person, issued by or for any bank or banking company, or an instrument described as a United States Dollar Traveller's Check or Cheque, purchased from a bank or other financially responsible institution, the purpose of which is a source of ready money on cashing the instrument without identification other than the signature of the purchaser, with intent to utter or pass the same or to render the same current as true, knowing the same to be false, forged or counterfeit, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than five years, or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars and imprisonment in jail for not more than one year.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 267 - Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency › Section 13 - Tools or Material for Making False, Forged or Counterfeited Notes, Certificates, Bills or Traveller's Checks

Section 13. Whoever engraves, makes or mends, or begins to engrave, make or mend, a plate, block, press or other tool, instrument or implement, or makes or provides paper or other material adapted to and designed for the forging or making of a false and counterfeit note, certificate or other bill of credit, purporting to be issued by lawful authority for a debt of the commonwealth, or a false and counterfeit note or bill in the similitude of the notes or bills issued by any bank or banking company, or an instrument described as a United States Dollar Traveller's Check or Cheque, purchased from a bank or other financially responsible institution, the purpose of which is a source of ready money on cashing the instrument without identification other than the signature of the purchaser, and whoever has in his possession such a plate or block engraved in any part, or a press or other tool, instrument or implement, or paper or other material, adapted and designed as aforesaid, with intent to use the same or to cause or permit the same to be used in forging or making such false and counterfeit certificates, bills or notes, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than ten years, or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars and imprisonment in jail for not more than two years.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 267 - Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency › Section 14 - Evidence Relative to Forged or Counterfeited Bank or Institution Bills or Notes

Section 14. In prosecutions for forging or counterfeiting notes or bills of the banks or institutions before mentioned, or for uttering, publishing or tendering in payment as true forged or counterfeit bank bills or notes, or for being possessed thereof with intent to utter and pass the same as true, the testimony of the president and cashier of any such bank may be dispensed with, if their place of residence is out of the commonwealth or more than forty miles from the place of trial; and the testimony of any person acquainted with the signature of such president or cashier, or who has knowledge of the difference in the appearance of the true and the counterfeit bills or notes of such banks, may be admitted to prove that such bills or notes are counterfeit.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 267 - Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency › Section 15 - Certificates of Certain Officials of the United States, a State or Territory, as Evidence

Section 15. In prosecutions for forging or counterfeiting a note, certificate, bill of credit or other security issued on behalf of the United States, or on behalf of any state or territory, or for uttering, publishing or tendering in payment as true such forged or counterfeit note, certificate, bill of credit or security, or for being possessed thereof with intent to utter or pass the same as true, the certificate under oath of the secretary of the treasury, or of the treasurer of the United States, or of the secretary or treasurer of any state or territory, on whose behalf such note, certificate, bill of credit or security purports to have been issued, shall be admitted as evidence for the purpose of proving the same to be forged or counterfeit.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 267 - Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency › Section 16 - Fictitious Signatures of Corporate Officers or Agents

Section 16. If a fictitious or pretended signature, purporting to be the signature of an officer or agent of a corporation, is fraudulently affixed to an instrument or writing purporting to be a note, draft or other evidence of debt issued by such corporation, with intent to pass the same as true, it shall be a forgery, although no such person may ever have been an officer or agent of such corporation, or ever have existed.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 267 - Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency › Section 17 - Counterfeiting Coin; Possession of Ten or More Pieces of False Money

Section 17. Whoever counterfeits any gold or silver coin current by law or usage within the commonwealth, or has in his possession at the same time ten or more pieces of false money, or coin counterfeited in the similitude of any gold or silver coin current as aforesaid, knowing the same to be false and counterfeit, and with intent to utter or pass the same as true, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for life or for any term of years.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 267 - Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency › Section 18 - Possession of Less Than Ten Pieces of Counterfeit Coin; Uttering, Passing or Tendering in Payment

Section 18. Whoever has in his possession less than ten pieces of the counterfeit coin mentioned in the preceding section, knowing the same to be counterfeit, with intent to utter or pass the same as true, or utters, passes or tenders in payment as true any such counterfeit coin, knowing the same to be false and counterfeit, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than ten years or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars and imprisonment in jail for not more than two years.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 267 - Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency › Section 19 - Common Utterers of Counterfeit Coin

Section 19. Whoever, having been convicted of any of the crimes mentioned in the preceding section, is again convicted of the same crimes committed after the former conviction, and whoever is at the same sitting of the court convicted upon three distinct charges of said crimes, shall be adjudged a common utterer of counterfeit coin, and punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than twenty years.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 267 - Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency › Section 20 - Tools for Making Counterfeit Coin

Section 20. Whoever casts, stamps, engraves, makes or mends, or knowingly has in his possession a mould, pattern, die, puncheon, engine, press or other tool or instrument, adapted to and designed for coining or making counterfeit coin, in the similitude of any gold or silver coin current by law or usage in the commonwealth, with intent to use or employ the same or to cause or permit the same to be used or employed in coining or making any such false and counterfeit coin as aforesaid, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than ten years or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars and imprisonment in jail for not more than two years.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 267 - Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency › Section 21 - Notes, Bills, Orders or Checks as Currency

Section 21. Whoever issues or passes a note, bill, order or check, other than foreign bills of exchange, the notes or bills of a bank incorporated by the laws of this commonwealth, of the United States, of some one of the United States or of any of the British provinces of North America, with the intent that the same shall be circulated as currency, shall be punished by a fine of fifty dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 267 - Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency › Section 22 - Notes, Bills, Orders or Checks for Less Than Five Dollars, as Currency

Section 22. Whoever issues or passes a note, bill, order or check, other than the notes or bills of a bank incorporated under the authority of this commonwealth, of the United States or of some one of the United States, for an amount less than five dollars, or whereon a less amount than five dollars is due at the time of such issuing or passing thereof, with intent that the same shall be circulated as currency, shall be punished by a fine of fifty dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 267 - Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency › Section 23 - Bank Notes or Bills for a Fraction of a Dollar

Section 23. Whoever receives or puts in circulation as currency a bank note or bill which is, or a part of which is, for any fractional part of a dollar shall be punished by a fine of twenty-five dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 267 - Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency › Section 24 - Connecting Parts of Instruments

Section 24. Whoever fraudulently connects different parts of several bank notes or other genuine instruments in such manner as to produce one additional note or instrument, with intent to pass all of them as genuine, shall be guilty of forgery, in like manner as if each of them had been falsely made or forged.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 267 - Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency › Section 25 - Damaging or Impairing Bank Bills or Notes

Section 25. Whoever wilfully and maliciously tears, cuts or in any manner damages and impairs the usefulness for circulation of a bank bill or note of a bank in this commonwealth shall be punished by a fine of not more than ten dollars; but the possession or uttering of a bill so injured shall not be evidence against a party charged, unless connected with other circumstances tending to prove that the bill or note was injured by him.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 267 - Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency › Section 26 - Gathering or Retaining Bank Bills or Notes

Section 26. Whoever maliciously gathers up or retains or maliciously aids in gathering up or retaining bills or notes of a bank or banking company, current by law or usage in the commonwealth, for the purpose of injuring or impeding the circulation or business of such bank or banking company, or of compelling it to do any act out of the usual course of its business, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than two years; and in the prosecution of any such crime it shall not be necessary to set out and describe each bill, but it shall be sufficient to aver and prove any amount of the bills of any bank which have been so gathered up or retained.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 267 - Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency › Section 27 - Possession of Worthless Bank Bills or Notes

Section 27. Whoever has in his possession at the same time five or more bank bills or notes not current which are worthless as bank bills or notes, knowing the same to be worthless as aforesaid, or has papers not bank bills or notes, but made in the similitude thereof, or papers purporting to be the bills or notes of a bank which has never existed, knowing the character of such papers, with intent to pass, utter or circulate the same, or to procure any other person so to do, for the purpose of injuring or defrauding, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than five years, or by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars and imprisonment in the house of correction for not more than two and one half years.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 267 - Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency › Section 28 - Uttering, Passing or Tendering Worthless Bank Bills or Notes

Section 28. Whoever utters or passes or tenders in payment as true any such worthless bank bill or note not current, or any paper not a bank bill or note but made in the similitude thereof, or any paper purporting to be the bill or note of a bank which has never existed, knowing the same to be worthless and not current, as aforesaid, with intent to injure and defraud, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than five years, or by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars and imprisonment in the house of correction for not more than two and one half years.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 267 - Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency › Section 29 - Shop Bills or Advertisements Similar to Bank Bills or Treasury Notes or Other United States Securities

Section 29. Whoever engraves, prints, issues, utters or circulates a shop bill or advertisement, in similitude, form and appearance like a bank bill, on paper similar to paper used for bank bills, and with vignettes, figures or decorations used on bank bills, or having the general appearance of a bank bill, or in similitude, form and appearance, like a treasury note, note, certificate, bill of credit or other security issued by or on behalf of the United States, on paper similar to paper used for the same, respectively, and with vignettes, figures or decorations used thereon, or having the general appearance of a treasury note, note, certificate, bill of credit or other security issued by or on behalf of the United States, shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars or by imprisonment in jail for not more than three months.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 267 - Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency › Section 30 - Seizure of False, Forged or Counterfeit Bills, Notes or Bonds or Counterfeiter's Tools; Destruction; Return

Section 30. When false, forged or counterfeit bank bills or notes, or forged or counterfeit notes or bonds of any state or corporation, or plates, dies or other tools, instruments or implements used by counterfeiters, or designed for the forging or making of false or counterfeit notes, coin or bills, or worthless bank bills or notes not current described in sections twenty-seven and twenty-eight, come to the knowledge of a sheriff, constable, police officer or other officer of justice, he shall immediately seize and take possession of and deliver them into the custody of the superior court, which shall cause them to be destroyed by an officer of the court, who shall make return to the court of his doings in the premises.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 267 - Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency › Section 31 - Compensation to Prosecutors and Officers

Section 31. Upon a conviction of any crime mentioned in sections seven, eight, seventeen, eighteen, twenty or twenty-eight or upon forfeiture by persons prosecuted for any such crime of any recognizance for their appearance to answer to the same, the superior court may order compensation to the prosecutor and to the officer who has secured and kept the evidence of the crime, not exceeding their actual expenses, with a reasonable allowance for their time and trouble, which shall be paid by the county.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 267a - Money Laundering › Section 2 - Money Laundering; Penalties

Section 2. Whoever knowingly:
(1) transports or possesses a monetary instrument or other property that was derived from criminal activity with the intent to promote, carry on or facilitate criminal activity;
(2) engages in a transaction involving a monetary instrument or other property known to be derived from criminal activity:
(i) with the intent to promote, carry on or facilitate criminal activity; or
(ii) knowing that the transaction is designed in whole or in part either to: (A) conceal or disguise the nature, location, source, ownership or control of the property derived from criminal activity; or (B) avoid a transaction reporting requirement of this chapter, of the United States, or of any other state; or
(3) directs, organizes, finances, plans, manages, supervises or controls the transportation of, or transactions in, monetary instruments or other property known to be derived from criminal activity or which a reasonable person would believe to be derived from criminal activity shall be guilty of the crime of money laundering and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 6 years or by a fine of not more than $250,000 or twice the value of the property transacted, whichever is greater, or by both such imprisonment and fine. Whoever commits a second or subsequent such offense shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not less than 2 years, but not more than 8 years or by a fine of not more than $500,000 or 3 times the value of the property transacted, whichever is greater, or by both such imprisonment and fine.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 267a - Money Laundering › Section 3 - Filing by Financial Institutions of Reports Required by the Currency and Foreign Transactions Act; Liability for Making, Filing or Use of Reports Provided Pursuant to Section; Disclosure of Reports

Section 3. (a) If the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the United States Department of the Treasury at any time no longer permits a law enforcement agency including, but not limited to, the attorney general, from entering into a memorandum of understanding to obtain reports required by the Currency and Foreign Transactions Act, set forth in 31 U.S.C. § 5311 to 5315, 31 C.F.R. chapter X, on a case-by-case basis, a financial institution, upon the request of the attorney general, shall file with the attorney general reports required by said Currency and Foreign Transactions Act, set forth in 31 U.S.C. § 5311 to 5315, 31 CFR chapter X.
(b) A financial institution, or an officer, employee or agent of a financial institution that provides any reports or information under this section shall not be liable to its customer, to a state or local agency or to any person for any loss or damage caused in whole or in part by the making, filing or governmental use of the report, or any information contained in the report. Nothing in this chapter shall give rise to a private cause of action for relief or damages. Nothing in this subsection shall preclude a financial institution, in its discretion, from instituting contact with, and then communicating with and disclosing customer financial records to appropriate federal, state or local law enforcement agencies if the financial institution has reason to suspect that the records or information demonstrate that the customer has violated this chapter.
(c) Any report, record or information obtained by the attorney general under this section shall not be a public record under clause Twenty-sixth of section 7 of chapter 4 or section 10 of chapter 66 and shall not be subject to disclosure, except to other state and federal law enforcement agencies.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 267a - Money Laundering › Section 4 - Forfeiture of Monetary Instruments or Other Property Obtained in Violation of Sec. 2

Section 4. All monetary instruments or other property, real, intellectual or personal, obtained directly as a result of a violation of section 2, shall be subject to forfeiture to the commonwealth. Forfeiture proceedings shall be conducted as provided in subsections (b) to (j), inclusive, of section 47 of chapter 94C. For the purposes of subsection (d) of said section 47 of said chapter 94C, the investigations and enforcement bureau of the Massachusetts gaming commission established in chapter 23K shall be considered a police department and shall be entitled to a police department's distribution of forfeiture proceedings.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 268 - Crimes Against Public Justice › Section 1 - Perjury

Section 1. Whoever, being lawfully required to depose the truth in a judicial proceeding or in a proceeding in a course of justice, wilfully swears or affirms falsely in a matter material to the issue or point in question, or whoever, being required by law to take an oath or affirmation, wilfully swears or affirms falsely in a matter relative to which such oath or affirmation is required, shall be guilty of perjury. Whoever commits perjury on the trial of an indictment for a capital crime shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for life or for any term of years, and whoever commits perjury in any other case shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than twenty years or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment in jail for not more than two and one half years, or by both such fine and imprisonment in jail.
An indictment or complaint for violation of this section alleging that, in any proceedings before or ancillary to any court or grand jury proceedings relating to an indictment or complaint for the commission of a violent crime, as defined in section 121 of chapter 140, the defendant under oath has knowingly made 2 or more declarations, which are inconsistent to the degree that 1 of them is necessarily false, need not specify which declaration is false if: (1) each declaration was material to the point in question and (2) each declaration was made within the period of the statue of limitations for the offense charged under this section. In any prosecution under this section, the falsity of a declaration set forth in the indictment or complaint shall be established sufficient for conviction by proof that the defendant, while under oath, made irreconcilably contradictory declarations material to the point in question. If, in the same continuous court or grand jury proceeding in which a declaration is made, the person making the declaration admits to such declaration to be false, such admission shall bar prosecution under this section if, at the time the admission is made, the declaration has not substantially affected the proceeding, or it has not become manifest that such falsity has been or will be exposed. It shall be a defense to an indictment or complaint made pursuant to this section that the defendant, at the time he made each declaration, believed each such declaration to be true or its falsity was the result of a good faith mistake or error.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 268 - Crimes Against Public Justice › Section 1a - Statements Containing Declaration Relative to Penalties of Perjury; Verification; False Statements

Section 1A. No written statement required by law shall be required to be verified by oath or affirmation before a magistrate if it contains or is verified by a written declaration that it is made under the penalties of perjury. Whoever signs and issues such a written statement containing or verified by such a written declaration shall be guilty of perjury and subject to the penalties thereof if such statement is wilfully false in a material matter.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 268 - Crimes Against Public Justice › Section 3 - Attempt to Procure Another to Commit Perjury

Section 3. Whoever attempts to incite or procure another person to commit perjury, although no perjury is committed, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than five years or in jail for not more than one year.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 268 - Crimes Against Public Justice › Section 4 - Testimony Creating Presumption of Perjury; Commitment; Recognizance; Witnesses Bound Over; Notice

Section 4. If it appears to a court of record that a party or a witness who has been legally sworn and examined, or has made an affidavit, in any proceeding in a court or course of justice has so testified as to create a reasonable presumption that he has committed perjury therein, the court may forthwith commit him or may require him to recognize with sureties for his appearance to answer to an indictment for perjury; and thereupon the witnesses to establish such perjury may, if present, be bound over to the superior court, and notice of the proceedings shall forthwith be given to the district attorney.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 268 - Crimes Against Public Justice › Section 5 - Presumption of Perjury; Papers, Books and Documents Detained for Prosecution

Section 5. If perjury is reasonably presumed, as aforesaid, papers, books or documents which have been produced and are considered necessary to be used on a prosecution for such perjury may by order of the court be detained from the person who produces them so long as may be necessary for their use in such prosecution.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 268 - Crimes Against Public Justice › Section 6 - False Reports or Testimony Before State Departments, Board or Commissioner; False Entries in Company Books or Statements; Aiders or Abettors

Section 6. Except as provided in sections forty-eight and forty-nine of chapter one hundred and fifty-five, whoever shall wilfully make false report to the department of public utilities, the department of telecommunications and cable, the department of highways, the department of banking and insurance, the department of environmental protection, the board of registration of waste cleanup professionals, or the commissioner of revenue, or who before any such department, board or commissioner, shall testify or affirm falsely to any material fact in any matter wherein an oath or affirmation is required or authorized, or who shall make any false entry or memorandum upon any book, report, paper or statement of any company making report to any of the said departments or board or said commissioner, with intent to deceive the department or board or commissioner, or any agent appointed to examine the affairs of any such company, or to deceive the stockholders or any officer of any such company, or to injure or defraud any such company, and any persons who with like intent aids or abets another in any violation of this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both such fine and imprisonment.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 268 - Crimes Against Public Justice › Section 6a - False Written Reports by Public Officers or Employees

Section 6A. Whoever, being an officer or employee of the commonwealth or of any political subdivision thereof or of any authority created by the general court, in the course of his official duties executes, files or publishes any false written report, minutes or statement, knowing the same to be false in a material matter, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 268 - Crimes Against Public Justice › Section 6b - Process Servers; False Statements; Penalty

Section 6B. Any process server who returns to the court a writ or other official instrument of process on which he has willfully falsified either the fact that service has been made, or the fact that a particular kind of service has been made, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 268 - Crimes Against Public Justice › Section 8b - Compulsion or Coercion to Refuse Appointment or Promotion

Section 8B. Any appointing authority or appointing officer, both as defined in chapter thirty-one, who, by himself or by some other person acting on his behalf, compels, or induces by the use of threats or other form of coercion, any person on an eligible list, as defined in chapter thirty-one, to refuse an appointment or promotion by such authority or officer to any position in the classified civil service shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars or by imprisonment in a jail or house of correction for not more than two months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 268 - Crimes Against Public Justice › Section 9a - Public Officers or Employees; Solicitations Regarding Testimonial Dinners

Section 9A. No person shall sell, offer for sale, or accept payment for, tickets or admissions to, nor solicit or accept contributions for, a testimonial dinner or function, or any affair, by whatever name it may be called, having a purpose similar to that of a testimonial dinner or function, for any person, other than a person holding elective public office, whose office or employment is in any law enforcement, regulatory or investigatory body or agency of the commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof.
Whoever violates any provision of this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 268 - Crimes Against Public Justice › Section 13 - Corrupting or Attempting to Corrupt Masters, Auditors, Jurors, Arbitrators, Umpires or Referees

Section 13. Whoever corrupts or attempts to corrupt a master in chancery, master, auditor, juror, arbitrator, umpire or referee by giving, offering or promising any gift or gratuity whatever, with intent to influence his opinion or decision, relative to a cause or matter pending in a court, or before an inquest, or for the decision of which he has been chosen or appointed, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than five years or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars and imprisonment in jail for not more than one year.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 268 - Crimes Against Public Justice › Section 13a - Picketing Court, Judge, Juror, Witness or Court Officer

Section 13A. Whoever, with the intent of interfering with, obstructing, or impeding the administration of justice, or with the intent of influencing any judge, juror, witness, or court officer, in the discharge of his duty, pickets or parades in or near a building housing a court of the commonwealth, or in or near a building or residence occupied or used by such judge, juror, witness, or court officer, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.
Nothing in this section shall interfere with or prevent the exercise by any court of the commonwealth of its power to punish for contempt.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 268 - Crimes Against Public Justice › Section 13c - Disruption of Court Proceedings

Section 13C. Whoever causes or actively participates in the willful disruption of proceedings of any court of the commonwealth may be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment in a jail or house of correction for not more than one year, or both. Nothing in this section shall interfere with or prevent the exercise by any court of the commonwealth of its power of contempt.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 268 - Crimes Against Public Justice › Section 13e - Tampering With Record, Document or Other Object for Use in an Official Proceeding

Section 13E. (a) As used in this section the following word shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meaning:—
''Official proceeding'', a proceeding before a court or grand jury, or a proceeding before a state agency or commission, which proceeding is authorized by law and relates to an alleged violation of a criminal statute or the laws and regulations enforced by the state ethics commission, the state secretary, the office of the inspector general, or the office of campaign and political finance, or an alleged violation for which the attorney general may issue a civil investigative demand.
(b) Whoever alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record, document, or other object, or attempts to do so, with the intent to impair the record, document or object's integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding, whether or not the proceeding is pending at that time, shall be punished, by (i) a fine of not more than $10,000, or by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 5 years, or in a jail or house of correction for not more than 2 1/2 years, or both, or (ii) if the official proceeding involves a violation of a criminal statute, by a fine of not more than $25,000, or by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 10 years, or in a jail or house of correction for not more than 2 1/2 years, or both.
(c) The record, document, or other object need not be admissible in evidence or free of a claim of privilege.
(d) A prosecution under this section may be brought in the county where the official proceeding was or would have been convened or where the alleged conduct constituting an offense occurred.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 268 - Crimes Against Public Justice › Section 14 - Receipt of Gift by Juror, Arbitrator, Umpire, Referee, Master or Auditor

Section 14. Whoever, being summoned as a juror or chosen or appointed as an arbitrator, umpire or referee, or, being a master in chancery, master or auditor, corruptly takes anything to give his verdict, award or report, or corruptly receives any gift or gratuity from a party to a suit, cause or proceeding for the trial or decision of which such juror has been summoned, or for the hearing or determination of which such master in chancery, master, auditor, arbitrator, umpire or referee has been chosen or appointed, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than five years or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars and imprisonment in jail for not more than one year.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases › Title I - Crimes and Punishments › Chapter 268 - Crimes Against Public Justice › Section 14a - Juror Discharged From Employment

Section 14A. No person shall be discharged from or deprived of his employment because of his attendance or service as a grand or traverse juror in any court. Violation of this section by an employer shall be a contempt of the court upon which such person is or has been in attendance or in which he is or has been serving as a grand or traverse juror, and such employer may be prosecuted upon complaint verified upon oath and be punished for such contempt.