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Section 1. Whoever willfully and maliciously
sets fire to, burns, or causes to be burned,
or whoever aids, counsels
or procures the burning of,
a dwelling house,
or a building
adjoining or adjacent to a dwelling house,
or a building by
the burning whereof a dwelling house is burned,
whether such dwelling
house or other building is the property of himself or another and
whether the same is occupied or unoccupied,
shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for
not more
than twenty years,
or by imprisonment in a jail or house of
correction
for not more than two and one half years,
or by a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars,
or by both
such fine and imprisonment.
The words "dwelling house", as used in this section, shall
mean and include all buildings used as dwellings such as apartment
houses, tenement houses, hotels, boarding houses, dormitories,
hospitals, institutions, sanatoria, or other buildings where persons are
domiciled.
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