Section 131v - Extreme Risk Protection Orders; Filing Materially False Information in Petition or Filing Petition With Intent to Harass; Penalty

MA Gen L ch 140 § 131v (2019) (N/A)
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Section 131V. (a) A person who files a petition for an extreme risk protection order, knowing the information in the petition to be materially false or with an intent to harass the respondent, shall be punished by a fine of not less than $2,500 and not more than $5,000 or by imprisonment for not more than 2 1/2 years in the house of correction or by both such fine and imprisonment.

[There is no subsection (b).]