Massachusetts General Laws
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 111, § 119 (2026)
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Section 119. Hospital, dispensary, laboratory and morbidity reports and records pertaining to venereal diseases, as defined under section six, shall not be public records, and the contents thereof shall not be divulged by any person having charge of or access to the same, except upon proper judicial order or to a person whose official duties, in the opinion of the commissioner, entitle him to receive information contained therein. Violations of this section shall for the first offence be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars, and for a subsequent offence by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars.
Notes of Decisions
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case, 1989–1989 · leading case: Globe Newspaper Co. v. Chief Med. Exam'r, 533 N.E.2d 1356 (Mass. 1989).
Globe Newspaper Co. v. Chief Med. Exam'r, 533 N.E.2d 1356 (Mass. 1989). “111, § 70F; of records pertaining to venereal disease, G. L. c. 111, § 119; of records concerning Reyes Syndrome, G.”
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