hazing law acknowledgement form

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Boston Baptist College Standard

Hazing is against the law in the state of Massachusetts. Any act of an individual or organization associated with Boston Baptist College suspected of organizing or participating in any from of hazing will be [1.] investigated by a Judicial Committee (JC)which will recommend appropriate action. The Judicial Committee (JC) recommendation will be reviewed by the President and the Chairman of the Trustee Board who will determine the final action to be taken; and [2.] be refereed to the proper law enforcement agency for criminal prosecution if deemed appropriate upon review by the President and the Chairman of the Trustee Board.

tHE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL LAW (C.269, sS.17 &18)

Section 17. Whoever is a principal organizer or participant in the crime of hazing, as defined herein, shall be punished by a fine of not more than three thousands dollars or by imprisonment in a house of correction for not more than one year, or both such fine and imprisonment. The term “hazing” as used in this section and in sections eighteen and nineteen, shall mean any conduct or method of initiation into any student organization, whether on public or private property, which willfully or recklessly endangers the physical or mental health of any student or other person. Such conduct shall include whipping, beating, branding,forced calisthenics, exposure to the weather, forced consumption of any food, liquor, beverage, drug, or other substance, or any other brutal treatment or forced physical activity which is likely to adversely affect the physical health or safety of any such students or other person, or which subjects such student or other person to extreme mental stress, including extended deprivation of sleep or rest or extended isolation. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this section to the contrary, consent shall not be available as a defense to any prosecution under this action.

Section 18. Whoever know that another person is the victim of hazing as defined in section seventeen and is at the scene of such crime shall, to the extent that such person can do so without danger or peril to himself or others, report such crime to an appropriate law enforcement official as soon as reasonably practicable. Whoever fails to report such crime shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars.