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Code · Massachusetts · Part III — COURTS, JUDICIAL OFFICERS AND PROCEEDINGS IN CIVIL CASES · Title IV — CERTAIN WRITS AND PROCEEDINGS IN SPECIAL CASES · Chapter 248

Section 26: Refusal of officer to deliver copy of warrant; penalty

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Section 26. An officer who refuses or neglects for six hours to deliver a printed copy of the warrant contained in the warrant management system or process by which he detains a prisoner to any person who demands such copy and tenders the fees therefor shall forfeit two hundred dollars to such prisoner.
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