Whoever keeps or holds himself out as keeping a public lodging house without being duly licensed as hereinbefore provided, and whoever is concerned or financially interested in any public lodging house, the keeper of which is not so licensed, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 140, § 39
Keeping of house without license
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