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GENERAL LAWS OF MASSACHUSETTS
Part I - ADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENTTitle XX - PUBLIC SAFETY AND GOOD ORDER
Chapter 147 - STATE AND OTHER POLICE, AND CERTAIN POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE OFFICE OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND INSPECTIONS OF THE DIVISION OF OCCUPATIONAL LICENSURE
Section 147:20 - Arrest and detention of women at police stations; expense of removal; deprivation of court of jurisdiction

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 147 § 20

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Current through Chapters 1 to 249 and Chapters 253 to 255 of the 2024 Legislative Session
Section 147:20 - Arrest and detention of women at police stations; expense of removal; deprivation of court of jurisdiction

If a female is arrested and taken to a police station to which a matron is attached or, if not under arrest, is detained or lodged therein, the police officer there in command shall cause the matron to be summoned forthwith; and if in a city in which a police matron has been appointed, or in Boston, a female is arrested and taken to a station to which no matron is attached, or is received therein for the purpose of detention or lodging, such officer shall cause her to be removed as soon as possible to the nearest station to which a matron is attached, or in Boston, to the house of detention, and the city treasurer shall pay the reasonable expense of such removal upon the requisition of the head of the police department. Such removal of a female shall not deprive any court of any jurisdiction which it would otherwise have had.

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 147, § 20