Massachusetts General Laws
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 270, § 15 (2026)
Arrest without warrant for spitting
✓ current as of July 2026
Find cases:
SyfertCases citing this section
MAmalegislature.gov (official)
JustiaChapter on Justia
CornellLII Search
CasesGoogle Scholar
Section 15. Any person detected in the act of violating the preceding section may, if his name is unknown to the officer, be arrested without a warrant by any officer authorized to serve criminal process in the place where the offence is committed and kept in custody until he can be taken before a court having jurisdiction of such offence.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1
case, 1997–1997 · leading case: Commonwealth v. Baez, 678 N.E.2d 1335 (Mass. App. Ct. 1997).
Commonwealth v. Baez, 678 N.E.2d 1335 (Mass. App. Ct. 1997). “) (sheriffs and deputies may arrest without a warrant “[w]hoever is discovered in the act of wilfully injuring a fruit or forest tree or committing any kind of malicious mischief on Sunday"); G. L. c. 270, § 15 (1994 ed.) (a person spitting in certain public areas may “be…”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the
Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and
treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.