Massachusetts General Laws

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 233, § 75 (2026)

Admissibility of printed copies of acts of legislative and administrative bodies

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Section 75. The printed copies of all statutes, acts and resolves of the commonwealth, public or private, which are published under its authority, and copies of the ordinances of a city, the by-laws of a town or of the rules and regulations of a board of aldermen, if attested by the clerk of such city or town, shall be admitted as sufficient evidence thereof in all courts of law and on all occasions. Printed copies of rules and regulations purporting to be issued by authority of any department, commission, board or officer of the commonwealth or of any city or town having authority to adopt them, or printed copies of any city ordinances or town by-laws or printed copies of the United States Code Annotated or the United States Code Service and all federal regulations, and the the titles, chapter, subchapters, parts and sections thereof, shall be admitted without certification or attestation, but, if their genuineness is questioned, the court shall require such certification or attestation thereof as it deems necessary.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 8 cases, 1960–2018 · leading case: Purity Supreme, Inc. v. Attorney Gen., 407 N.E.2d 297 (Mass. 1980).

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Purity Supreme, Inc. v. Attorney Gen., 407 N.E.2d 297 (Mass. 1980). “See also G. L. c. 233, § 75 (simplifying proof of administrative regulations but making them ad *773 missible in evidence).”

Rice v. James Hanrahan & Sons, 482 N.E.2d 833 (Mass. App. Ct. 1985). “8 *705 The plaintiffs argue the admissibility of the regulations pursuant to G. L. c. 233, § 75. 9 Under § 75, printed copies of rules and regulations promulgated by a department of the Commonwealth are admissible in evidence without attestation unless their genuineness is…”

Posner v. Minsky, 234 N.E.2d 287 (Mass. 1968). · cites it 2× “” He argues that the provisions of G. L. c. 233, § 75, as amended through St.”

Passanessi v. C. J. Maney Co., 165 N.E.2d 590 (Mass. 1960). · cites it 2× “The proof of printed regulations has been made easy by statute (see G. L. c. 233, § 75); the printed regulation should be put in evidence, unless shown to be unavailable, which is not the case here.”

Commonwealth v. Bones, 106 N.E.3d 1135 (Mass. App. Ct. 2018). “2d 903 (1968), citing G. L. c. 233, § 75. At least one noted authority on the law of evidence has observed "that as these materials become more accessible, the tendency is toward permitting the judges to do what perhaps they should have done in the beginning, that is, to rely on…”

Mariano v. Bldg. Inspector of Marlborough, 233 N.E.2d 903 (Mass. 1968). “Under G. L. c. 233, § 75, such copies of the ordinance were admissible “as sufficient evidence thereof.”

Fahey v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., 4 Mass. L. Rptr. 27 (Mass. Super. Ct. 1995). · cites it 5× “Plaintiffs cite G.L.c. 233, §§75 and 79B as well as Torre v.”

Barnes v. DePasquale, 15 Mass. L. Rptr. 459 (Mass. Super. Ct. 2002). “See G.L.c. 233, §75; Rice v. James Hanrahan & Sons, 20 Mass.”

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