Massachusetts § 156 Stables in vicinity of churches

Massachusetts Statutes

§ 156 — Stables in vicinity of churches

Massachusetts § 156

Part IADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT

Title XVIPUBLIC HEALTH

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Bluebook

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 111, § 156 (2026).

Text

Section 156. No person shall in a city occupy or use a building for a livery stable, or a stable for taking or keeping horses and carriages for hire or to let, within two hundred feet of a church or meeting house erected and used for the public worship of God, without the written consent of the religious society or parish worshipping therein; but this section shall not prevent such occupation and use if authorized by law on May seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, to the extent then authorized.

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Section 156. No person shall in a city occupy or use a building for a livery stable, or a stable for taking or keeping horses and carriages for hire or to let, within two hundred feet of a church or meeting house erected and used for the public worship of God, without the written consent of the religious society or parish worshipping therein; but this section shall not prevent such occupation and use if authorized by law on May seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, to the extent then authorized.