Massachusetts

Learn These Massachusetts Statutes

• State Webpage
• Definitions – Chapter 19A, Section 14

Crime:

• Assault and battery upon an elderly – Chapter 265, Section 13K
• Assault with Dangerous Weapons, Victim sixty or older – Chapter 265, Section 15B
• Assault with Intent to Murder, Victim sixty or older – Chapter 265, Section 18
• Robbery by unarmed person, punishment when victim sixty or older

Reporting:

• Department of Elder Affairs
• Duty to report deaths, failure to report – Title IV, Chapter 38, Section 3
• Reporting
  • Report abuse
  • Immunity
  • Immunity for employees
  • Failure to report