Massachusetts Statutes
§ 74 — Obstruction of entrance or examination by officer; failure to exhibit items demanded
Massachusetts § 74
JurisdictionMassachusetts
Part IADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT
Title XXPUBLIC SAFETY AND GOOD ORDER
Ch. 140LICENSES
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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 140, § 74 (2026).
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Section 74. A licensed pawnbroker, clerk, agent or other person in charge of such premises who refuses to admit thereto an officer authorized to enter the same, or who fails to exhibit to him on demand all such articles, books and inventories, and any person who wilfully hinders, obstructs or prevents such officer from entering the premises or from making the examination authorized in the preceding section, shall be punished by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.
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