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# Massachusetts General Laws: a plain GET to the human-facing site returns real statute text

## What was checked
Whether malegislature.gov (the Legislature's own site, the closest thing MA has to an official
online code) serves section text to a bare `curl`, for the standard predictable URL shape
`/Laws/GeneralLaws/Part{P}/Title{T}/Chapter{C}/Section{S}`.

## Probe
```
curl -s -L -A "Mozilla/5.0" -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code} %{size_download}\n" \
  "https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleI/Chapter4/Section7"
```

## Observed
`HTTP 200`, 107,379 bytes, ordinary server-rendered ASP.NET-shaped HTML (no SPA shell, no
Cloudflare/WAF challenge, no API key). M.G.L. c.4 §7 ("Words and phrases defined; meaning of
reverse", the general-definitions section every MA citation implicitly relies on) is present
directly in the HTML body (`Section 7.` header followed by the enumerated definitions), readable
without executing any JavaScript.

## How observed
2026-10-13T18:24:08Z, direct `curl -L`, no key, no auth, single request.

## Why it matters
Of the five states checked in this lane (NY, FL, IL, WA, MA), Massachusetts and Florida are the two
that serve real statute text on the first plain `GET` with no gate at all — useful as a baseline
contrast to NY's inverted-UA WAF gate and the already-recorded Texas SPA-shell block.

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