Section 6 Human Rights

 Section 6: Business, trade, labor, or artwork on Sunday; trouble of operation of Sec. Five

Section 6. Section 5 shall no longer restrict the subsequent:

(1) Any manner of tough work, commercial enterprise or artwork not finished for material reimbursement; provided, no public nuisance is created thereby.

(2) The beginning of a shop or save and the sale at retail of foodstuffs therein; supplied, not extra than a whole of three people, alongside the proprietor, are hired therein at a person time on Sunday and within the week.

(3) The use or repair of any way or bridge, or the price and series of any toll incidental thereto.

(four) The conduct of any public provider the persevering operation of it's important for the renovation of lifestyles, such as, but not limited to, the operation of municipal water and sewage disposal structures, the operation of hospitals and clinics, or the important services of physicians, surgeons, dentists and so forth.

(5) The making of emergency upkeep for the functions of on-the-spot and important protection of women and men, or property which include realty, or the towing of any motor car or boat for such purpose.

(6) The manufacture, sale, or distribution of steam, power, gas, gasoline, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, acetylene, carbon dioxide, and the calcining of lime, production techniques which for technical reasons require continuous operation, and the processing of checks, objects, documents or information by a financial institution or believe employer.

(7) The operation of radio and television stations; the operation of smartphone and telegraph systems; or the training, printing, e-book, sale, and transport of newspapers, or the taking of pix.

(8) The beginning and operation of any secular administrative center no longer in any other case prohibited using the use of regulation if the herbal man or woman on top of things of the industrial employer carefully believes that the 7th day of the week, or the length which starts at sunset on Friday night time time and ends at sundown on Saturday night time, need to be observed because the Sabbath, and reasons all places of organization inside the commonwealth over which he has manipulated to stay closed for secular industrial corporation throughout the entire duration of twenty-four consecutive hours which he believes should be found because the Sabbath, and in fact refrains from carrying out the secular business enterprise and from laboring throughout that period.

(9) The displaying, sale, or condo of noncommercial actual belongings to be used for residential features.

(10) The starting of artwork galleries or the show and sale therein of paintings, gadgets of artwork, catalogs, and pix.

(eleven) The operation of libraries.

(12) The operation of public bathhouses.

(thirteen) The operation of boats for functions of non-commercial enterprise fishing and assignment, or the sale of bait for fishing.

(14) The catching or gathering of seafood and sparkling water fish is now not otherwise prohibited with the aid of regulation.

(15) The letting of horses, automobiles, boats, or planes for satisfaction.

(sixteen) The sale and condominium of carrying system and garb on premises wherein the sport for which the device or clothing to be bought or rented is carried on.

(17) The retail sale of fuel, fuel, and lubricating oil and the operation of a car issuer facility.

(18) The retail sale of tires, batteries, and automobile elements for emergency use.

(19) The operation of a pride automobile or the piloting of a plane.

(20) The sale at retail of developing plant life, trees or bushes, and articles incidental to the cultivation of such plants, trees, or timber; and the retail sale and shipping of lessened flora.

(21) The cultivation of land, the raising and harvesting of agricultural products and fruit, and the making of butter and cheese.

(22) The sale, for consumption off the premises, of food prepared by way of manner of a common victualler licensed under other provisions of the regulation to serve on Sunday.

(23) The promoting of kosher wine or the selling or transport of kosher meat or fish using the usage of any natural individual who observes Saturday as the Sabbath by way of the very last place of business from sundown Friday to sunset Saturday.

(24) The making and baking of bakery products and the sale thereof in a shop or hold.

(25) The retail sale of tobacco merchandise, smooth drinks, confectioneries, toddler substances, clean fruit and sparkling vegetables, dairy products, and eggs, and the retail sale of poultry via the person who increases the same.

(26) The sale and shipping of ice.

(27) The retail sale of medicine and medicines the retail sale or condo of mechanical home devices prescribed by way of physicians or surgeons, and the retail sale of personal fitness and sanitary elements.

(28) The retail sale of greeting cards and photographic movies and the processing of photographic films.

(29) The sale, at retail, of presents, souvenirs, antiques, secondhand furnishings, handcrafted items, and artwork items, in a popularity quo more frequently than not engaged inside the sale of such merchandise, or on the premises of a certified common victualler.

(30) The establishing of a store or saving more frequently than no longer engaged inside the retail sale of pets, and the sale therein of pets and articles vital for the retaining, care, and feeding of pets.

(31) The delivery or transport of merchandise in trade, or for interest, with the useful resource of a motor truck or trailer or unique approach, and the overall overall performance of all sports incidental thereto, inclusive of the operation of all centers and warehousing, critical to put together, stage, and impact such delivery or transport; or the loading or unloading of identical and the general overall performance of hard work, organization and artwork immediately or not at once related thereto.

(32) The transport of products with the resource of rail, water, or air; or the loading or unloading of the identical.

(33) The shipping of individuals through licensed vendors and all subjects incidental thereto, which consist of the operation of all facilities incidental thereto.

(34) The transport or processing of fresh meat, clean fowl, sparkling fish, clean seafood, easy dairy products, sparkling bakery products, glowing stop end result or easy greens, or ice, bees, or Irish moss, whilst events require that such paintings be completed on Sunday; or all pass returned trips necessitated thereby.

(35) The shipping of livestock, farm commodities, and farming machines for participation in and go back from fairs, expositions, or wearing sports.

(36) The operation of a lodging location, collectively with the letting of rooms and all services vital and incidental to the letting of rooms.

(37) The carrying on of the employer of Bootblack earlier than 11 o'clock in the morning, supplied that such business enterprise can be carried on at any time at public airports.

(38) The employment for the interest of musicians in parades with the resource of any put up or camp of an included organization of veterans of any conflict wherein the United States of America became engaged, or with the aid of any included civic, spiritual or fraternal enterprise organization, or by using any company or affiliation of policemen or firemen.

(39) The important training for, and the behavior of, occasions licensed under segment 4, or sports activities as to which, below the provisions of paragraph (7) of phase 4, sections two, 3, and 4 do now not follow.

(40) Any exertions, commercial enterprise, or paintings essential to the overall performance of or incidental to any spiritual sports activities, together with funerals and burials, the execution of wills or codicils, the coaching of contracts, the execution of federal, us of a or municipal tax returns or reviews, the arrangements for trials via lawyers or each different hobby not prohibited nor required to be certified on Sunday.

(41) Work lawfully completed with the resource of human beings working below permits granted under phase seven.

(forty-two) The behavior of the employer of an innholder or common victualler.

(40 3) The conduct of any commercial corporation certified below bankruptcy one hundred and thirty-eight which can be finished on Sunday by the provisions of stated financial disaster.

(44) The operation of an automobile-washing employer between 8 o'clock in the forenoon and one o'clock in the afternoon, provided that such industrial agency can be carried on at any time if now not more than a total of humans are hired therein at everybody time on Sunday and at a few degrees within the week.

(forty-five) The activity of a coin-labored self-management clothing.

(forty-six) The operation of a coin-operated vehicle-washing business employer.

(47) The sale of tickets or stocks for the dominion lottery.

(48) The operation of a self-provider automobile restores the middle.

(forty 9) The delivery of enjoyment devices, which includes carousels, Ferris wheels, inclined railways, and different similar gadgets, concessions stands, and tents from one location to the next between eight O'clock inside the forenoon and one PM.

(50) The keeping open of a store or store and the sale at retail of products therein, but now not which encompass the retail sale of goods situation to financial ruin 138, and the overall performance of challenging work, employer, and work right away associated therewith on Sunday. This exemption shall no longer observe any prison holiday as defined in clause eighteenth of section 7 of chapter four, but this exemption shall comply with the day following Christmas Day at the same time as Christmas takes place on a Sunday. In any year wherein Christmas Day happens on a Sunday, this exemption shall not be practiced on that Sunday.

[Second section of the statement (50) powerful until January 1, 2022. For text viable January 1, 2022, see below.]

Any keep or save which qualifies for exemption below this clause or beneath clause (25) or clause (27) and which employs more than an entire of 7 people, along with the owner, on Sunday or any day at some point of the week, shall compensate all employees engaged in the paintings achieved on Sunday under the provisions of this clause, or clause (25) or clause (27), excepting those bona fide executive or administrative or professional people incomes extra than hundred dollars every week, at a fee now not tons less than one and -tenths times the employee's regular fee. No employee engaged in paintings subject to the provisions of this clause will be required to carry out such work, and refusal to artwork for any retail installed order on Sunday shall not be grounds for discrimination, dismissal, discharge, discount in hours, or some other penalty. The provisions of this paragraph shall be enforced by way of the use of the place of job of the lawyer general. The provisions of section 100 and eighty A of chapter one hundred and forty-nine shall look at any violation of this paragraph.

[Second passage of provision (50) as corrected by 2018, 121, Sec. 8 powerful January 1, 2022 until January 1, 2023. See 2018, 121, Sec. 35. For text powerful until January 1, 2022, see above. For text powerful January 1, 2023, see below.]

Any keep or store which qualifies for exemption underneath this clause or underneath clause (25) or clause (27) and which employs greater than a total of seven human beings, which include the owner, on Sunday or any day at some point of the week, shall compensate all employees engaged inside the paintings finished on Sunday under the provisions of this clause, or clause (25) or clause (27), excepting the one's bona fide government or administrative or expert human beings earning more than hundred bucks consistent with week, at a fee no longer lots much less than one and one-10th times the worker's everyday charge. No worker engaged in work problems to the provisions of this clause shall be required to carry out such work, and refusal to paint for any retail reputation quo on Sunday shall not be grounds for discrimination, dismissal, discharge, discount in hours, or any other penalty. The provisions of this paragraph will be enforced through the office of the legal professional cutting-edge. The provisions of segment a hundred and 80 A of bankruptcy 100 and 40-nine shall follow any violation of this paragraph.

[Second passage of statement (50) as changed by 2018, 121, Sec. 9 successful January 1, 2023. See 2018, 121, Sec. 36. For text successful until January 1, 2023, see above.]

No employee engaged in paintings subject to the provisions of this clause might be required to carry out such paintings, and refusal to work for any retail fame quo on Sunday shall not be grounds for discrimination, dismissal, discharge, cut price in hours, or another penalty. The provisions of this paragraph shall be enforced by the workplace of the lawyer preferred. The provisions of section a hundred and 80 A of bankruptcy one hundred forty-nine shall follow any violation of this paragraph.

(fifty-one) The operation of a domestic video film rental commercial enterprise.

[Statement (52) compelling until January 1, 2022. For text successful January 1, 2022, see below.]

(fifty-two) The retail sale of alcoholic liquids not to be under the have an effect on of alcohol on the premises on Sundays using the use of retail institutions licensed below segment 15 of financial ruin 138; provided, but, that notwithstanding this bankruptcy, a municipality may additionally moreover restrict the retail sale of alcoholic drinks on Sundays through licensees beneath phase 15 by a vote of the town council or board of selectmen; provided further, that there might be no such sales previous to the hour of 10:00 a.M. Or on Christmas Day if Christmas takes place on a Sunday; and supplied in addition, that establishments jogging below this clause which lease extra than 7 people shall compensate all personnel for artwork completed on a Sunday at a price of not much less than one and -tenths of the employee's regular rate. No employee will be required to paint on a Sunday and refusal to work on a Sunday shall no longer be grounds for discrimination, dismissal, discharge, deduction of hours, or some other penalty.

[Clause (52) as amended by 2018, 121, Sec. 13 effective January 1, 2022, until January 1, 2023. See 2018, 121, Sec. 35. For textual content powerful until January 1, 2022, see above. For textual content powerful January 1, 2023, see beneath.]

(52) The retail sale of alcoholic liquids not to be beneath the effect of alcohol at the premises on Sundays thru retail institutions licensed under phase 15 of financial ruin 138; supplied, but, that but this chapter, a municipality may additionally moreover restrict the retail sale of alcoholic liquids on Sundays with the aid of the usage of licensees underneath section 15 using a vote of the metropolis council or board of selectmen; supplied in addition, that there shall be no such income previous to the hour of 10:00 a.M. Or on Christmas Day if Christmas takes region on a Sunday; and furnished in addition, that institutions going for walks under this clause which lease greater than 7 oldsters shall compensate all employees for work accomplished on a Sunday at a charge of no longer less than one and one-tenth of the worker's regular charge. No worker will be required to do artwork on a Sunday and refusal to do artwork on a Sunday shall now not be grounds for discrimination, dismissal, discharge, deduction of hours, or a few different penalties.

[Clause (52) as amended by 2018, 121, Sec. 14 effective January 1, 2023. See 2018, 121, Sec. 36. For textual content effective till January 1, 2023, see above.]

(52) The retail sale of alcoholic beverages not to be below the have an effect on of alcohol at the premises on Sundays by way of retail establishments certified under segment 15 of bankruptcy 138; furnished, however, that this financial disaster, a municipality might also additionally restrict the retail sale of alcoholic beverages on Sundays via the use of licensees under segment 15 through the way of a vote of the city council or board of selectmen; and provided in addition, that there will be no such income previous to the hour of 10:00 a.M. Or on Christmas Day if Christmas takes area on a Sunday. No worker will be required to do artwork on a Sunday and refusal to work on a Sunday shall no longer be grounds for discrimination, dismissal, discharge, deduction of hours, or some other penalty.

(fifty 3) The operation of enterprise automobile schools, in any other case known as driving pressure training.

(fifty-four) The slicing and styling of hair, manicuring, and the furnishing of associated cosmetological and splendor offerings.

(54. Five) The universal overall performance of rub-down remedy services with the useful resource of a rub-down therapist licensed under segment 228 of Financial Ruin 112.

(fifty-five) The behavior of banking operations via a monetary group as described in section taken into consideration one in all chapter one hundred and sixty-seven.