Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 270 § 5

Current through Chapters 1 to 249 and Chapters 253 to 255 of the 2024 Legislative Session
Section 270:5 - Giving, selling or delivering alcoholic beverages or drugs to hospital patients; possession

Whoever, except under the direction of a physician, gives, sells or delivers alcoholic beverages, as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and thirty-eight, or a narcotic drug to a patient in any hospital who is suffering from inebriety or from the effect of inebriety, or from excessive use of narcotic drugs or from the effect of such use, and whoever has in his possession within the precincts of any hospital any such beverage or drug with intent to convey or deliver it to any such patient, except under direction as aforesaid, shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars or by imprisonment for not more than two months.

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 270, § 5