Chapter 140 - LICENSES

Section 140:1 - "Licensing authorities" defined
Section 140:2 - Innholders and common victuallers; issuance of license; signing; refusal; fee; record; penalty
Section 140:3 - Content of innholders' licenses; governing statutes
Section 140:4 - Contents generally; coverage; term
Section 140:5 - Food and accommodations; availability
Section 140:6 - Conditions precedent; proposed plans; cost estimates; license as victualler or innholder
Section 140:6B - Food allergy awareness; posting requirements
Section 140:7 - Refusing to provide for travelers
Section 140:9 - Suspension; revocation; forfeiture
Section 140:9A - Keeping of premises open throughout year
Section 140:10 - Liability for loss of property
Section 140:11 - Fire or overwhelming force; liability
Section 140:12 - Fraudulently procuring food, accommodations or credit; removal of property covered by lien; evidence
Section 140:12A - "Hotel'' defined for secs. 12B-12D
Section 140:12B - Removal of guest from hotel
Section 140:12C - Refusal of accommodation in hotel to persons acting in disorderly manner; damage deposits
Section 140:12D - Persons negligently or intentionally causing damage to hotel; liability
Section 140:13 - Posting of statutory provisions
Section 140:14 - Sale of guest's property; notice
Section 140:15 - Disposition of proceeds
Section 140:16 - Sale proceeds; payment to owner by state treasurer
Section 140:17 - Loss by guest; negligence and violation of regulations as defense
Section 140:18 - Signs; penalty for failure to have sign
Section 140:19 - Summary of laws for authorities and licensees
Section 140:20 - Unlicensed innholders or victuallers
Section 140:21 - Third convictions
Section 140:21A - Non-intoxicating beverages; city and town licenses; retail sales
Section 140:21B - Contents; coverage; expiration; fee; suspension; revocation
Section 140:21C - Unlicensed business; penalties
Section 140:21D - Inapplicability of statute to certain persons
Section 140:21E - Organizations dispensing food or beverages to members and guests; grant of license; governing statutes; fee; names of officers and members; suspension; revocation; excepted organizations
Section 140:21F - Unlicensed organization; officer or employee dispensing food or beverage
Section 140:22 - Lodging houses; definition
Section 140:22A - Cooking facilities
Section 140:22B - Microwave ovens
Section 140:23 - Term; fee
Section 140:24 - Unlicensed keepers; injunction
Section 140:25 - Inspection of premises
Section 140:26 - Permitting immoral conduct; defense; evidence
Section 140:27 - Register; entry of names; condition precedent to occupancy; retention; inspection; penalty
Section 140:28 - Register; order to keep
Section 140:29 - Register; true or used name; failure to register; penalty
Section 140:30 - Revocation and suspension of license; investigation; hearing; notice; appeal
Section 140:31 - Posting of notice of statutes
Section 140:32 - Convictions; transmission of copy of record to licensing authorities
Section 140:32A - Recreational camps, etc.; necessity of license; motel defined
Section 140:32B - Grant, suspension or revocation of license; expiration; renewal; application fees; inspection; reinstatement
Section 140:32C - Examination of licensed camps and cabins; unsanitary conditions
Section 140:32D - Rules and regulations; posting
Section 140:32E - Operating business without license
Section 140:32F - Manufactured housing community; definition; license requirement; copy sent to city or town clerk; exceptions
Section 140:32G - Monthly fees; collection; deposit; lists; payment to treasurers; exemption from taxes; penalties; revocation of license
Section 140:32H - Unequipped park; plans; cost estimate; conditional license; suspension or revocation
Section 140:32I - Register; retention; inspection; penalty
Section 140:32J - Summary process to recover possession; termination of tenancy or lease
Section 140:32K - Appeals; reinstatement; reissuance
Section 140:32L - Requirements and restrictions applicable to manufactured housing communities
Section 140:32M - Sale or proposed sale of manufactured home located in licensed park; refusal of entrance to purchaser prohibited; unfair trade practice
Section 140:32N - Violations of secs. 32L and 32M or building or health codes; reporting by park residents; reprisals by licensee; remedy; notice of termination of tenancy as presumption
Section 140:32O - Judgment, decree, etc., in action to enforce sec. 32L or 32M; copies to attorney general and local board of health
Section 140:32P - Terms and conditions of occupancy; disclosure in writing; required notice
Section 140:32Q - Definition of "manufactured home" applicable to secs. 32A to 32P
Section 140:32R - Sale or lease of manufactured housing community; home owners' association; notice; right of first refusal
Section 140:32S - Rules and regulations for enforcement, etc. of secs. 32A to 32S
Section 140:33 - Public lodging houses; definition; cubicle plan
Section 140:34 - Licensing authority; revocation; fee; expiration; contents; coverage
Section 140:35 - Certification; compliance with statutes; fire alarms, extinguishers, and means of escape; alterations; additional appliances
Section 140:36 - Certification; water closets, urinals and ventilation; cleaning and disinfecting by licensee
Section 140:37 - Register; inspection
Section 140:38 - Free access to officers
Section 140:39 - Keeping of house without license
Section 140:40 - Violation of statutes
Section 140:46A - Definitions
Section 140:46B - Employment agencies; license; necessity; posting; governing provisions
Section 140:46C - Application for license
Section 140:46D - Investigation of applicants; hearing; grant or denial of license; duration of license; prohibited locations
Section 140:46E - Assignment or transfer of license; locations; number of licenses
Section 140:46F - Fees; bond
Section 140:46G - Claims or suits against licensee
Section 140:46H - Register; contents; record of receipts and income; charges; monthly reports to commissioner
Section 140:46I - Information furnished to applicant for employment; copy of contract; receipt for charges
Section 140:46J - List of emigrant agents; necessity of license; transportation of applicants for employment; lodging and meals; statement to prospective employee
Section 140:46K - Prohibited activities or conduct
Section 140:46L - Fees; restrictions on charge or acceptance
Section 140:46M - Receipt of fees or payments contrary to sec. 46L; return
Section 140:46N - Contract between prospective employee and agency
Section 140:46O - Refunds by employment agencies; conditions; reduction of fees; restriction on deductions from wages
Section 140:46P - Posting of copy of secs. 46A to 46O
Section 140:46Q - Inspection of premises and books; rules and regulations; procedure upon complaint against licensee; suspension or revocation of licenses
Section 140:46R - Penalties
Section 140:47 - Coffee and tea houses
Section 140:49 - Lunch carts
Section 140:50 - Lunch carts; fee of highway not owned by town
Section 140:51 - Massage; baths
Section 140:52 - Massage or baths; inspection
Section 140:53 - Massage or baths; penalty
Section 140:54 - Junk dealers
Section 140:54A - Automobile graveyards
Section 140:55 - Junk dealers; penalty; exceptions
Section 140:56 - Junk collector defined
Section 140:56A - Shooting galleries
Section 140:57 - Used car sales; necessity; exceptions; auctions; reports
Section 140:58 - Classes
Section 140:59 - Licensing authorities; expiration; fees; application; prerequisites; premises; ordinance regulations; revocation; notice
Section 140:59A - Motor vehicle junkyards; requirements
Section 140:60 - Registrar's rules and regulations
Section 140:62 - Record book; contents
Section 140:66 - Entering premises; investigation; examination of vehicles; parts, books, papers and inventories
Section 140:67 - Obstruction of entrance or examination by officers; refusal to exhibit items demanded
Section 140:67A - Junked motor vehicles, registration and identification plates; removal and forwarding to registrar; penalty
Section 140:68 - Unlicensed business
Section 140:69 - Violation of statutes, rules or regulations
Section 140:70 - Pawnbrokers; licensing authorities; governing statutes; revocation
Section 140:71 - Retention of articles; sale; disposition of proceeds; notice; other disposition; personal apparel
Section 140:72 - Interest rate; penalty
Section 140:73 - Entry upon premises; investigation; examination of articles, books and inventories
Section 140:74 - Obstruction of entrance or examination by officer; failure to exhibit items demanded
Section 140:75 - Unlicensed business
Section 140:76 - Loans on personal property; purchases on condition of reselling; exceptions
Section 140:77 - Fee; bond
Section 140:78 - Regulations; interest rate
Section 140:79 - Record book; information furnished to authorities
Section 140:80 - Memorandum for pawner; charge
Section 140:81 - Inspection of books
Section 140:82 - Penalty
Section 140:82A - Violations of sec. 79; liability of pawnbroker
Section 140:83 - Tools; purchase or pawn; record book; signature of seller or pawner
Section 140:84 - Wrong name or address of seller or pawner
Section 140:85 - Statutes not applicable
Section 140:86 - Household, personal use or ornament articles as security or purchased on condition of reselling or redemption; record book; memorandum for borrower
Section 140:87 - Inspection of record book; exhibition of property
Section 140:88 - Stolen articles; detention; producing in court
Section 140:89 - Obstruction of inspection or examination; violation of statutes
Section 140:90 - Loan less than $1000; statute not affected; waiver or release
Section 140:90A - Home mortgages; interest rates; definitions; application
Section 140:90B - Home mortgages; application of consumer credit cost disclosure provisions; prerequisites to foreclosure
Section 140:90C - Home mortgages; receipt for payment; penalty
Section 140:90D - Loans in violation of sec. 90A; discharge; jurisdiction
Section 140:90E - Penalty
Section 140:91 - Loan less than $1000; mortgage or pledge
Section 140:94 - Return of evidence of loan, discharge of mortgage, restoration of property; refusal or neglect
Section 140:95 - Applicability of secs. 90 to 94; effect on statutes
Section 140:96 - Small loan business
Section 140:96A - Securities; public sale; permit, necessity, revocation
Section 140:97 - Regulations; preservation of records relating to compliance
Section 140:98 - Annual reports; failure to file; penalty
Section 140:99 - Examinations by commissioner; penalty
Section 140:100 - "Licensee" defined; investigations by regulatory board; charges; prepayments; establishment of rates; effective date of order; more than one contract
Section 140:101 - Term of license; contents; posting
Section 140:102 - Fees; more than one business; multi-state licensing system
Section 140:103 - Penalties; voidable loans
Section 140:104 - Applicant's statement; power of attorney; changes in names, addresses or personnel; revocation of license
Section 140:106 - Illegal interest; order of commissioner; recovery in action or suit; costs
Section 140:107 - Security interest, pledge or wage assignment; discharge by payment or tender; future advances; damages for neglect or refusal
Section 140:108 - Assignment or order for wages or salary; validity; requisites
Section 140:109 - Receipt; part payment
Section 140:110 - Business without license; penalty; validity of transactions; evidence; loans prior to effective date of act
Section 140:111 - Rate of interest in absence of agreement
Section 140:112 - Duties of police
Section 140:113 - Disposal of returns made to commissioner
Section 140:114 - Companies, associations and societies not required to procure a license
Section 140:114A - Exceptions; restriction on business; voidable loans; fine; construction; applicable provisions
Section 140:114B - Finance charges on open end credit accounts; maximum rates; computation
Section 140:114C - Annual fee; notification to cardholder; quarterly report to commissioner
Section 140:115 - Steam engines and furnaces; necessity of license; contents; application; hearing; notice; fee
Section 140:116 - Dangerous engines or furnaces; nuisance; building regulations and alterations; service of copy of order
Section 140:117 - Appeal; injunction
Section 140:118 - Stationary engines; distance from buildings
Section 140:119 - Nuisances; removal
Section 140:121 - Firearms sales; definitions; antique firearms; application of law; exceptions
Section 140:121A - Identification of firearms; certificate by ballistics expert as prima facie evidence
Section 140:121B - Real time electronic firearms registration system
Section 140:121C - Serialization requirements
Section 140:121D - Use of 3-dimensional printer or computer numerical control milling machine to manufacture or assemble firearm
Section 140:121E - Data collection relating to use of firearms
Section 140:121F - Approval or denial of application for license, card, or permit
Section 140:122 - License or renewal of license to sell, rent, lease, purchase or transfer firearms and ammunition therefore, or to be in business as gunsmith
Section 140:122A - Record of licenses; notice to department of criminal justice information services; sales record books
Section 140:122B - License to sell or supply ammunition; possession or storage of large capacity firearms
Section 140:122C - Illegal sale of self-defense spray; penalty
Section 140:122D - Self-defense spray; who may not purchase; penalty
Section 140:123 - Duties of licensees
Section 140:124 - Term of licenses
Section 140:125 - [Effective Until 4/23/2026] Forfeiture or suspension of licenses; notice
Section 140:125 - [Effective 4/23/2026] Training seminars and programs
Section 140:126 - Placards, signs or advertisements; prima facie evidence that weapons are kept for sale
Section 140:127 - Transfer of licenses
Section 140:128 - Penalty for violation of statute on selling, renting or leasing weapons; evidence on sale of machine gun
Section 140:128A - Authority to sell or transfer
Section 140:128B - Registration of firearms
Section 140:129 - Fictitious name or address and other false information; penalties
Section 140:129B - Firearm identification cards; conditions; restrictions
Section 140:129C - Possession of firearm for particular purpose and limited time without license, permit or card
Section 140:129D - Surrender of firearms and ammunition to licensing authority upon denial of application for, or revocation of, identification card or license; right to transfer; sale; rules and regulations
Section 140:130 - [Repealed]
Section 140:130 1/2 - When lawful to furnish firearm to minors for hunting, recreation, instruction, etc.
Section 140:130B - Firearm licensing review board
Section 140:131 - Licenses to carry firearms; conditions and restrictions
Section 140:131 1/2 - Firearm control advisory board
Section 140:131 3/4 - Roster of certain types of firearms
Section 140:131A - Permits to purchase, rent or lease firearms, or to purchase ammunition; fee; penalties
Section 140:131B - Penalty for loan of money secured by weapons
Section 140:131C - Carrying of firearms in vehicle
Section 140:131E - [Repealed]
Section 140:131F - Nonresidents or aliens; temporary license to carry firearms or ammunition
Section 140:131F 1/2 - Theatrical productions; carrying firearms and blank ammunition
Section 140:131G - [Repealed]
Section 140:131H - [Repealed]
Section 140:131I - Falsifying firearm license or identification card; penalty
Section 140:131J - Restriction of access or use of stun guns
Section 140:131K - Firearms or large capacity weapons without safety devices; liability
Section 140:131L - Weapons stored or kept by owner; inoperable by any person other than owner or lawfully authorized user; punishment
Section 140:131M - Assault-style firearm or large capacity feeding device prohibited; exceptions
Section 140:131N - Covert weapons; sale, transfer or possession; punishment
Section 140:131O - Colonel of state police; statewide firearms surrender program
Section 140:131P - [Effective Until 4/23/2026] Basic firearms safety certificate; instructors
Section 140:131P - [Effective 4/23/2026] Basic firearms safety certificate; instructors
Section 140:131Q - Tracing of firearms used to carry out criminal activity; statistical data; reporting
Section 140:131R - Petition to court by petitioners who believe person holding license to carry firearm or firearm identification card to pose risk to self or others
Section 140:131S - Hearing on petition
Section 140:131T - Issuance of extreme risk protection order
Section 140:131U - Extreme risk protection order to be forwarded to licensing authority, commissioner of probation, etc.
Section 140:131V - Knowingly filing petition under false pretenses
Section 140:131W - Promulgation of rules, regulations and policies; development of instructions materials
Section 140:131X - Limitations
Section 140:131Y - Annual report on use of extreme risk protective orders
Section 140:136A - [Effective Until 12/19/2024] Definitions for Secs. 137 to 174E
Section 140:136A - [Effective 12/19/2024] Definitions for Secs. 137 to 174G
Section 140:137 - Dogs; registration and licenses
Section 140:137A - [Effective Until 12/19/2024] Kennel licenses
Section 140:137A - [Effective 12/19/2024] Kennel licenses
Section 140:137B - Sale or other delivery of unlicensed dog by kennel licensee
Section 140:137C - [Effective Until 12/19/2024] Inspection of kennels; revocation, suspension and reinstatement of license; nuisance
Section 140:137C - [Effective 12/19/2024] Inspection of kennels; revocation, suspension and reinstatement of license; nuisance
Section 140:137D - Surrender of license or tag for offenses against animals
Section 140:138 - Change of owner or keeper of licensed dog; dog brought into commonwealth
Section 140:138A - [Repealed]
Section 140:139 - Fees; certificate or statement that dog has been spayed; service dogs defined; dogs owned by persons age 70 or over; refunds
Section 140:139A - Shelters; sale or gift of dog or cat not spayed or neutered
Section 140:141 - Violation of statutes
Section 140:141A - Application of law; exception
Section 140:141B - Application of law; licensed pet shops exempted
Section 140:145 - Symptoms of rabies printed on license; description supplied by department of public health
Section 140:145A - Anti-rabic vaccine and treatment; reimbursement for cost
Section 140:145B - Vaccination against rabies; certificate; tag; proof of vaccination; penalty
Section 140:146 - License valid throughout state; removal of dog into another town or city
Section 140:147 - Issuance of licenses; disposition of fees; action on official bond
Section 140:147A - [Repealed]
Section 140:147B - [Repealed]
Section 140:149 - Accounts of treasurers
Section 140:150 - Lists of dogs; refusal to answer person listing dogs; false answers
Section 140:151 - Animal control officers; reimbursement of cities and towns for services; contracts with corporation to perform duties of officers; turning over or sale of animals; penalty
Section 140:151A - Issuance of warrant to officers; duties; confinement of dogs; allowance for care
Section 140:151B - Emergency treatment of dogs or cats injured on ways; payment to veterinarians
Section 140:151C - Training courses for animal control officers
Section 140:152 - Returns by officers
Section 140:153 - Form of warrant to officers
Section 140:155 - Liability for damage caused by dog; minors; presumption and burden of proof
Section 140:155A - Indemnification of law enforcement officers; damages caused by dogs used in performance of official duties
Section 140:156 - Killing dogs under certain conditions; wounded dogs
Section 140:157 - Nuisance or dangerous dogs; orders for remedial action; appeals; violations of order
Section 140:157A - Failure to comply with order; transfer of ownership or selling of dangerous dogs
Section 140:158 - Euthanizing of unrestrained dogs or dogs in wild state
Section 140:159 - Treble damages for injuries caused by dogs ordered to be restrained
Section 140:160 - Euthanizing dogs that have worried or killed stock or fowl; bond
Section 140:161 - Damages caused by dogs and paid by county; compensation for appraisers
Section 140:161A - Damages caused by dogs not reimbursable; amount of awards
Section 140:162 - [Repealed]
Section 140:163 - Notice to euthanize dog that has caused damage
Section 140:164 - Failure to euthanize, confine or restrain dog after notice
Section 140:165 - Investigation of damages caused by dogs; settlement; action against owner or keeper; payments over to county treasurer
Section 140:166 - Election of remedy by person damaged
Section 140:167 - Ordering dogs to be restrained; euthanizing unrestrained dogs
Section 140:168 - Service of order to restrain dogs; penalty
Section 140:169 - Penalty on officer; report of refusal or neglect of officer to perform duties
Section 140:170 - [Repealed]
Section 140:171 - Liability to county or town of owner or keeper of dog
Section 140:172 - [Repealed]
Section 140:173 - Ordinances and by-laws relating to dogs
Section 140:173A - Non-criminal disposition of complaints for violation of dog control laws
Section 140:174 - Recovery of penalties
Section 140:174A - Method of euthanizing dogs or cats
Section 140:174B - Restraint of dogs in public highway rest areas; penalty
Section 140:174D - Research institutions; license to use dogs or cats; rules and regulations
Section 140:174D 1/2 - Handling of dogs or cats after completion of research or testing
Section 140:174E - Chaining or tethering of dogs; confining of dogs outside; cruel and inhumane conditions; exceptions; violations; penalty
Section 140:174F - Confinement of animal in motor vehicle
Section 140:174G - [Effective 12/19/2024] Rules and regulations for commercial boarding or training kennels
Section 140:176 - Stallions; registration; certificate; penalty
Section 140:177 - Billiard tables and bowling alleys; licensing; public hearing
Section 140:177A - Amusement devices; license; definition; fee; view and inspection; gambling; nonapplicability of lottery statute
Section 140:178 - Business operated without license
Section 140:179 - Minors admitted to places of business
Section 140:180 - Location of bowling alleys in places other than as ordered; restraint
Section 140:180A - Definitions
Section 140:180B - Theatrical and other agents; necessity of license; office of licensee; penalty
Section 140:180C - Application; contents; notice; refusal; revocation; fees
Section 140:180D - Agency contracts
Section 140:180E - Bond
Section 140:180F - Action on bond
Section 140:180G - Rules and regulations
Section 140:181 - Theatrical exhibitions, etc.; licenses; fees; applications; suspension or revocation; workers' compensation coverage
Section 140:181A - Appearance under assumed name; statement filed; penalty
Section 140:181B - Schedule of prices for patrons posted; penalty
Section 140:182 - Entertainment without license; exceptions
Section 140:182A - Price to appear on ticket; penalty; transferability; license
Section 140:183 - Darkened dance hall and places connected therewith; degree of light; regulations and statute posted; penalty
Section 140:183A - Concerts, dances, exhibitions, public shows, etc.; license; application; suspension or revocation; rules and regulations
Section 140:183C - Violation of statute; report of conviction; revocation of charter of corporation
Section 140:183D - Minimum or cover charge
Section 140:184 - Entertainments at which alcoholic beverages are sold
Section 140:185A - Resale of tickets; licensure
Section 140:185B - Fees and bond for license; waiver of fees
Section 140:185C - Revocation or suspension of license
Section 140:185D - Resale; refunds; service charges
Section 140:185E - Recordkeeping
Section 140:185F - Violation of statutes and regulations relative to reselling of tickets
Section 140:185G - Nonapplicability of statutes to tickets for entertainment of nonprofit organizations
Section 140:185H - Dancing schools; grant, terms, revocation, suspension, contents coverage and expiration of license; fees; inspection and supervision; penalty
Section 140:185I - Fortune tellers; license
Section 140:186 - Grant of license for roller skating, carousels, inclined railways, Ferris wheels and exhibitions of fire fighting; terms, conditions and regulations
Section 140:187 - Maintenance of rink without license
Section 140:188 - Picnic groves; grant of license; terms, conditions and regulations
Section 140:189 - Maintenance of grove without license
Section 140:190 - Peddling, selling, gaming, horse racing or exhibitions near grove
Section 140:191 - Grant of license for power propelled boats
Section 140:192 - Term; record; fee; contents; posting; maximum number of passengers
Section 140:193 - Running of boats without license
Section 140:194 - Prohibition of business of renting of boats or bathing suits without a license
Section 140:195 - Posting of notices relative to statutes
Section 140:196 - Engagement in business without license
Section 140:197 - Admission of children to entertainments
Section 140:198 - Admission of young persons to dance halls
Section 140:199 - Dance halls and skating rinks; statutes posted at entrances
Section 140:200 - Violation of statutes
Section 140:201 - Right of officers to enter premises; obstruction of entrance
Section 140:202 - Signature on, record, contents and term of licenses; fees
Section 140:203 - Effective date of license
Section 140:204 - Coverage of license
Section 140:205 - Revocation of license; record; notice
Section 140:205A - Amusement devices
Section 140:206 - Public and semipublic outdoor inground swimming pools; enclosures; safety equipment; inspection; violations; penalty