Chapter 266 - CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY
- Section 266:1 - Dwelling houses; burning or aiding in burning
- Section 266:2 - Meeting house; burning or aiding in burning
- Section 266:5 - Wood and other property; burning or aiding in burning
- Section 266:5A - Attempts
- Section 266:7 - Woods; wanton or reckless injury or destruction by fire
- Section 266:8 - Injury by fire; negligent use
- Section 266:9 - Injury by fire; negligent use in town; damages
- Section 266:10 - Insured property; burning with intent to defraud
- Section 266:11 - Fire alarm, engine or apparatus; injury before fire
- Section 266:12 - Fire alarm, engine or apparatus; injury during fire to prevent alarm or extinction of fire
- Section 266:13 - Fire engines; wanton or malicious injury
- Section 266:13A - Duty of hotel manager, etc., to notify fire department and sound alarm; penalty
- Section 266:14 - [Effective Until 10/23/2024] Burglary; armed; assault on occupants; weapons; punishment
- Section 266:14 - [Effective 10/23/2024] Burglary; armed; assault on occupants; weapons; punishment
- Section 266:15 - Burglary; unarmed
- Section 266:16 - Breaking and entering at night
- Section 266:16A - Building, vessel or vehicle; breaking and entering with intent to commit misdemeanor
- Section 266:17 - [Effective Until 10/23/2024] Entering without breaking at night; breaking and entering in day time; weapons; punishment
- Section 266:17 - [Effective 10/23/2024] Entering without breaking at night; breaking and entering in day time; weapons; punishment
- Section 266:18 - [Effective Until 10/23/2024] Dwelling house; entry at night; breaking and entering in day time; weapons; punishment
- Section 266:18 - [Effective 10/23/2024] Dwelling house; entry at night; breaking and entering in day time; weapons; punishment
- Section 266:18A - Entering dwelling house by false pretenses; intent to commit felony; larceny; punishment
- Section 266:19 - Railroad car; breaking and entering
- Section 266:20 - Stealing in building, ship or railroad car
- Section 266:20A - Breaking and entering of trucks, tractors, trailers or freight containers
- Section 266:20B - Stealing in trucks, tractors, trailers or freight containers
- Section 266:21 - Stolen property; refusal to surrender
- Section 266:22 - Poultry thieves; detention by owner; penalty
- Section 266:23 - Embezzlement of property at fire; effect
- Section 266:24 - Stealing at a fire; punishment
- Section 266:25 - Larceny by stealing; punishment; victim 65 or older; minimum sentence for repeat offenders
- Section 266:27 - Tools of contractors, builders or mechanics; stealing; penalty
- Section 266:27A - Motor vehicle or trailer; removal or concealment to defraud insurer
- Section 266:28 - Motor vehicle or trailer; theft, malicious damage or concealment
- Section 266:29 - Statement concerning theft; recovery of vehicles; restitution
- Section 266:29B - Burning motor vehicle; owner's statement to fire department
- Section 266:30 - Larceny; general provisions and penalties
- Section 266:30A - Shoplifting; penalty; arrest without warrant
- Section 266:30B - Unlawful distribution or possession of theft detection shielding device or theft detection device deactivator or remover; penalties
- Section 266:30C - Possession, use, utterance, etc., of retail sales or return receipts with intent to defraud; penalties
- Section 266:30D - Organized retail crime; penalties
- Section 266:31 - Signature; obtaining under false pretenses
- Section 266:32 - Fraudulent conversion of property by captain of vessel
- Section 266:33 - Larceny; false pretences relating to contracts, banking transactions or credit
- Section 266:33A - Intent to defraud commercial computer service; penalties
- Section 266:34 - Larceny; inducement to part with property
- Section 266:35 - Non-applicability of secs. 30, 31 and 34
- Section 266:35A - Intentional false statements during mortgage lending process; sentencing factors upon conviction
- Section 266:37 - [See note] Fraudulent checks, etc.; drawing or uttering
- Section 266:37A - Misuse of credit cards; definitions
- Section 266:37B - Misuse of credit cards; penalties; multiple possession, presumption; arrest
- Section 266:37C - Fraudulent use of credit cards to obtain money, goods or services; false embossment of credit cards, multiple possession, presumption; arrest
- Section 266:37D - Publishing credit card numbering or coding systems
- Section 266:37E - Identity fraud; definitions; punishment; warrantless arrest
- Section 266:38 - Larceny; wrongful detention of money by carriers
- Section 266:38A - Construction loan; misapplication
- Section 266:39 - Wills; destruction or concealment
- Section 266:40 - Common and notorious thief
- Section 266:41 - Larceny of bicycles; second conviction
- Section 266:42 - Larceny of paper designated for bank bills
- Section 266:43 - Paper designated for bank bills; retention by printer with intent to pass
- Section 266:47 - Dogs; wrongful removal of collar; poisoning; penalty
- Section 266:48 - Stolen goods; duty of arresting officers to secure
- Section 266:49 - Burglarious instruments; making; possession; use
- Section 266:50 - State treasury; fraud or embezzlement by employee
- Section 266:51 - City, town or county officers; fraud or embezzlement
- Section 266:52 - Bank officers and employees; fraud or embezzlement
- Section 266:53 - Bank officers or employees; prosecution for fraud or embezzlement; evidence
- Section 266:53A - Bank officers and employees; misconduct; penalty
- Section 266:54 - Receipt of deposits by insolvent banks; penalty
- Section 266:55 - Liquidating agent or receiver; embezzlement
- Section 266:56 - Brokers or agents; embezzlement
- Section 266:57 - Fiduciaries; embezzlement
- Section 266:58 - Larceny; embezzlement from voluntary association
- Section 266:59 - Simple larceny; embezzlement from voluntary association
- Section 266:60 - Stolen goods; buying or receiving; penalties
- Section 266:60A - Stolen trade secrets; buying or selling
- Section 266:60B - Crimes committed in different counties or territorial jurisdiction; joining for trial
- Section 266:61 - Stolen property; restitution; effect
- Section 266:62 - Stolen goods; common receiver
- Section 266:63 - Unlawful taking or use of transportation media
- Section 266:64 - Fraudulent hiring of media of transportation
- Section 266:65 - Stock; unauthorized issue
- Section 266:66 - Stock; fraudulent issue or transfer
- Section 266:67 - Corporate books; false entries with intent to defraud
- Section 266:67A - Departments, agencies and public instrumentalities; dishonesty in procurement of supplies; penalty
- Section 266:67B - Presentation of false claims
- Section 266:67C - Capital facility construction projects, etc.; false entries in records; penalties
- Section 266:68 - Corporate books as evidence
- Section 266:69 - Insignia of societies; unlawful use
- Section 266:69A - Fraudulent use of labor union seal, trademark or insignia
- Section 266:70 - Insignia of veteran organizations; unlawful use
- Section 266:71 - Signature, money or membership; obtaining under false pretences
- Section 266:71A - Individuals and corporations; false use of names of benevolent organizations
- Section 266:72 - Fraternal names; use in publication
- Section 266:73 - Obtaining goods under false pretences
- Section 266:74 - Corporate credit; fraudulent use
- Section 266:75 - Obtaining property by trick
- Section 266:75A - Gambling devices and vending machines; fraudulent use
- Section 266:75B - Slugs; manufacture and sale
- Section 266:75C - Gift certificates
- Section 266:75D - Prohibited gift certificate fees; penalty
- Section 266:75E - Notice to consumer of gift certificate fees; penalty
- Section 266:75F - Deduction of gratuity from gift certificate; penalty
- Section 266:76 - Gross fraud or cheat at common law; punishment
- Section 266:77 - Sterling and coin silver; contents; sale; penalty
- Section 266:78 - Articles made of gold; false marking; prohibition
- Section 266:79 - Imitation of furs; false representation; prohibition
- Section 266:80 - Encumbered land; conveyance without notice
- Section 266:81 - Attached land; conveyance without notice
- Section 266:82 - Concealment of mortgaged personalty; use of rented personalty as container for illegal sale of liquor
- Section 266:83 - Personalty; sale by mortgagor without consent
- Section 266:84 - Personalty; sale by hirer without consent
- Section 266:85 - Collateral security; sale before debt due
- Section 266:86 - Hired property; buying or receiving with intent to defraud
- Section 266:87 - Larceny of leased or rented property
- Section 266:87A - Stolen leased or rented motor vehicles; report; dissemination of information by police
- Section 266:88 - Consignee or factor; fraudulent deposit or pledge of property
- Section 266:89 - Degrees; pretending to hold or conferring without authority; use of designation "university" or "college"
- Section 266:90 - Endorsement or approval; penalty for false claim
- Section 266:91 - Untrue and misleading advertisements; prohibitions
- Section 266:91A - Merchandise, commodities and service; advertisement regulated; penalty
- Section 266:91B - Deceptive advertising of merchandise for sale; injunction
- Section 266:92 - False or exaggerated statements; making or publishing; prohibition
- Section 266:92A - Motor vehicles; sale in certain condition; written disclosure on bill of sale; penalty
- Section 266:93 - Animals; obtaining or giving false pedigree
- Section 266:94 - Boundary monuments and miscellaneous markers; malicious destruction
- Section 266:95 - Historical monuments; malicious destruction or injury
- Section 266:96 - State building; defacement or injury
- Section 266:97 - County buildings; defacement
- Section 266:98 - Schoolhouse or church; defacement or injury
- Section 266:98A - Public park or playground equipment; destruction, defacement or injury
- Section 266:99 - Libraries; definitions
- Section 266:99A - Libraries; theft of materials or property; destruction of records
- Section 266:100 - Libraries; mutilation or destruction of materials or property
- Section 266:101 - Definitions
- Section 266:102 - Possession or control of material to make destructive or incendiary device or chemical, biological or nuclear weapon; hoaxes; penalty
- Section 266:102A - Secretion, throwing, launching or otherwise placing an explosive or destructive or incendiary device or substance; penalty
- Section 266:102A 1/2 - Possession, transportation, use or placement of hoax devices; penalty; law enforcement or public safety officer exemption
- Section 266:102B - Willful discharge or ignition of destructive or incendiary device or substance; penalty
- Section 266:102C - Development, production, stockpiling, acquisition, transportation, possession, or controls of biological, chemical or nuclear weapons or delivery system; penalty
- Section 266:102D - Notice of seizure to fire marshal; restitution for damages
- Section 266:103 - Oil of vitriol, or other substances; throwing into building or vessel
- Section 266:104 - Buildings; destruction or injury
- Section 266:104A - Goal posts; penalty for destruction
- Section 266:104B - Research animals; unauthorized removal
- Section 266:105 - Stone walls or fences; unauthorized removal
- Section 266:106 - Ice ponds; injury
- Section 266:107 - Bridge or canal; injury
- Section 266:108 - Vessel; destruction to injure or defraud owner or insurer; punishment; restitution
- Section 266:109 - Vessel; fitting out with intent to destroy
- Section 266:110 - False invoice of cargo; intent to defraud insurer
- Section 266:111 - False affidavit or protest; penalty for making
- Section 266:111A - Insurance policies; penalty for fraudulent claims
- Section 266:111B - Motor vehicle insurance policies; penalty for fraudulent claims
- Section 266:111C - Penalty for acting as runner
- Section 266:112 - Domestic animals; malicious killing or injury
- Section 266:113 - Timber, wood and shrubs; wilful cutting and destruction on land of another
- Section 266:114 - Trees and fences; malicious injury
- Section 266:115 - Trespass in orchards and gardens
- Section 266:116A - Protection of certain flowers
- Section 266:117 - Orchards and gardens; entry with intent to injure or destroy
- Section 266:118 - Domestic animals; trespass on land
- Section 266:119 - Pests; bringing into state; penalty; exception
- Section 266:120 - Entry upon private property after being forbidden as trespass; prima facie evidence; penalties; arrest; tenants or occupants excepted
- Section 266:120A - Motor vehicle; parking on private way; prosecution; evidence
- Section 266:120B - Entry on land by abutting property owners not constituting trespass
- Section 266:120C - Entry upon adjoining lands by surveyors not constituting trespass
- Section 266:120D - Removal of motor vehicles from private ways or property; procedure; penalties; liability for removal and storage charges; release of vehicle
- Section 266:120E - Obstruction of entry to or departure from medical facility; injunctive relief; damages
- Section 266:120E 1/2 - Reproductive health care facilities; restrictions on approaching persons for purpose of handing out leaflets, handbills, etc.; intimidation; penalty
- Section 266:120F - Unauthorized access to computer system; penalties
- Section 266:121 - Entry on land with firearms
- Section 266:121A - Trespasses involving motor vehicles and other powered devices
- Section 266:122 - Notice against trespassers; penalty for defacement
- Section 266:123 - Land of state and county institutions; institutions of higher education; trespass
- Section 266:123A - Punishment for willfull trespass upon public source of water or public water supply facilities or land
- Section 266:124 - Legal notice; penalty for malicious injury
- Section 266:125 - Show bill or advertisement; penalty for malicious injury
- Section 266:126 - Natural scenery; penalty for defacement
- Section 266:126A - Walls, signs, gravestones, etc.; penalty for defacement
- Section 266:126B - Walls, signs, gravestones, etc.; penalty for "tagging"
- Section 266:127 - Personal property; malicious or wanton injuries
- Section 266:127A - Destruction of place of worship, etc.; punishment
- Section 266:127B - Actions for civil rights violations; liability
- Section 266:128 - Milk cans; defacement
- Section 266:129 - Correctional institutions; injury to property
- Section 266:130 - Penal institutions; injury to property
- Section 266:131 - Sunday trespassers; arrest and detention without warrant
- Section 266:132 - Pigeons; killing or frightening
- Section 266:133 - Humane society; injury to property
- Section 266:135 - Vessels; mooring the buoy, beacon or floating guide; penalty
- Section 266:137 - Injury to mill by raising water
- Section 266:138 - Dams or reservoirs; malicious injury
- Section 266:138A - Irrigation equipment; malicious injury
- Section 266:139 - Motor vehicles or trailers; defacement, etc., of identifying numbers; penalties; arrests
- Section 266:139A - Machines, or electrical or mechanical devices; alteration or obliteration of identifying numbers; possession as prima facie evidence; sale or attempt; punishment
- Section 266:140 - Sale or offer for sale of master keys; penalty
- Section 266:141 - Tampering with odometer of motor vehicle; prohibited acts; intent to defraud; civil remedy; treble damages; costs and fees; violation as unfair competition; definitions; repair or replacement excepted
- Section 266:141A - Misrepresentation of mileage of motor vehicle by turning back or readjusting speedometer or odometer; criminal penalty
- Section 266:142 - Record of purchases by dealers in scrap copper wire; inspection; penalty
- Section 266:142A - Gold, silver and platinum dealers; records; penalty
- Section 266:143 - Definitions applicable to secs. 143A to 143E
- Section 266:143A - Unauthorized reproduction and transfer of sound recordings
- Section 266:143B - Unauthorized reproduction and sale of live performances
- Section 266:143C - Manufacture, rental, or sale of recorded devices in packaging not bearing reproducer's name and address
- Section 266:143D - Violations of secs. 143 to 143C; punishment
- Section 266:143E - Forfeitures or destruction of unauthorized recordings upon conviction
- Section 266:143F - Unlawful recording of motion picture
- Section 266:143G - Action for false imprisonment or false arrest
- Section 266:143H - Disposition of unlawful recordings
- Section 266:144 - Carrying away or conversion of certain milk containers without permission of owners
- Section 266:145 - Theft of public records
- Section 266:146 - Disposal of solid waste in commercial disposal container of another without consent of owner; penalties
- Section 266:147 - Items or services bearing or identified by counterfeit mark; sales; penalties
- Section 266:148 - Catalytic converter transactions; proof of ownership necessary; records