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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 140, § 24 (2026)

Unlicensed keepers; injunction

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Section 24. Whoever conducts a lodging house without a license shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than three months, or both. Upon the complaint of an aggrieved party, the licensing authority or an officer of a city or town wherein such unlicensed lodging house is conducted, a justice of the housing court division or the superior court division of the trial court, may enjoin the conducting of any unlicensed lodging house and may make such other orders as the court may deem equitable to enforce the provisions of sections twenty-two to thirty-one, inclusive.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases, 2011–2013 · leading case: City of Worcester v. Coll. Hill Props., LLC, 987 N.E.2d 1236 (Mass. 2013).
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City of Worcester v. Coll. Hill Props., LLC, 987 N.E.2d 1236 (Mass. 2013). · cites it 3× “See G. L. c. 140, § 24. This case presents the question whether such dwelling units as occupied constitute lodgings so as to render the subject properties lodging houses under the lodging house act.”
City of Worcester v. Coll. Hill Props., LLC, 956 N.E.2d 1222 (Mass. App. Ct. 2011). · cites it 2× “As authorized by G. L. c. 140, § 24, 3 the city commenced civil actions against the defendants to enforce its administrative orders and made application to a Housing Court judge for the issuance of preliminary injunctions restraining the defendants from conducting unlicensed…”
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