MASSACHUSETTS
Chapter 272: Section 53. Penalty for certain offenses.
Section 53. Common night walkers, common street walkers, both male and female, common railers and brawlers, persons who with
offensive and disorderly acts or language accost or annoy persons of the opposite sex, lewd, wanton and lascivious persons in speech or behavior, idle and disorderly persons, disturbers of the peace, keepers
of noisy and disorderly houses, and persons guilty of indecent exposure may be punished by imprisonment in a jail or house of correction for not more than six months, or by a fine of not more than
two hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
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U.S. FEDERAL LAW
Specific to Cape Cod National Seashore
[Code of Federal Regulations] [Title 36, Volume 1] [Revised as of July 1, 2001] From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 36CFR7.67] page 117-118
TITLE 36–PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC PROPERTY CHAPTER I
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
PART 7
–SPECIAL REGULATIONS, AREAS OF THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM
Sec. 7.67 Cape Cod National Seashore.
(13) (e) Public nudity. Public nudity, including public nude bathing, by any person on Federal land or water within the boundaries of Cape Cod National
Seashore is prohibited. Public nudity is a person’s intentional failure to cover with a fully opaque covering that person’s own genitals, pubic areas, rectal area, or female breast below a point immediately above the top of the
areola when in a public place. Public place is any area of Federal land or water within the Seashore, except the enclosed portions of bathhouses, restrooms, public showers, or other public structures designed for similar
purposes or private structures permitted within the Seashore, such as trailers or tents. This regulation shall not apply to a person under 10 years of age.
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