GENERAL LAWS OF MASSACHUSETTS

Chapter 266: Section 131. Sunday trespassers; arrest and detention without warrant.

Section 131. Whoever is discovered in the act of wilfully injuring a fruit or forest tree or of committing any kind of malicious mischief on Sunday may be arrested without a warrant by a sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, police officer or other person, and detained in jail or otherwise until a complaint can be made against him for the offence, and he be taken upon a warrant issued upon such complaint; but such detention without warrant shall not continue beyond the following day.

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Commentary:

The law shouldn't be effected by what day of the week it is! Should we make it illegal to gamble on Tuesdays only? How about giving out the death penalty for petty theft, if the crime is committed on a Thursday? Repeal it!

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