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Code · Massachusetts · Part IV — CRIMES, PUNISHMENTS AND PROCEEDINGS IN CRIMINAL CASES · Title I — THE GENERAL LAWS, AND EXPRESS REPEAL OF CERTAIN ACTS AND RESOLVES · Chapter 271

Section 19: Production, advertisement or delivery of tickets; receipt of money; prima facie evidence

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Section 19. The printing, writing, advertising, issuing or delivery of any ticket, paper, document or other article or material representing or purporting to represent the existence of or any chance or interest in any lottery, policy lottery or policy game, pool or pools, registered or other bet or other game or hazard, whether drawn or determined, or remaining to be drawn or determined, or the receiving of money or other thing of value for such article or chance, shall be prima facie evidence of the existence, location and drawing of such lottery, policy lottery or policy game, and of the act or event upon which such pool or pools, bet, game or hazard depends or may depend, and of the unlawful character of such lottery, policy lottery, pool, bet, game or hazard, and the issuing or delivery of such ticket, paper, document or other article or material shall be prima facie evidence of value received therefor by the person, company or corporation issuing or delivering the same, or aiding or abetting therein, and that such person, company or corporation is concerned in keeping, managing or promoting such lottery, pool, bet, game or hazard.
This section shall not apply to advertising of gaming conducted pursuant to chapter 23K and shall not apply to advertising of sports wagering conducted pursuant to chapter 23N.
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