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Section 1 - Definitions - Section 1. The following words as used in this chapter...
Section 1a - Farming, Agriculture, Farmer; Definitions - Section 1A. ''Farming'' or ''agriculture'' shall include farming in all...
Section 2 - Powers and Duties of the Department - Section 2. The department through its proper divisions shall have...
Section 2a - Horse Riding Instructors; Licenses; Fees; Validity of License; Duplicate Licenses; Rules and Regulations - Section 2A. No person shall hold himself out to be...
Section 2b - Riding Schools or Stables; License; Fee; Rules and Regulations; Penalties - Section 2B. Every person engaged in the business of operating...
Section 2c - Horses Participating in Contests at Agricultural Fairs; Administering of Drugs Prohibited; Testing, Prima Facie Evidence; Eligibility Restricted; Rules and Regulations - Section 2C. No person shall administer or cause to be...
Section 2d - Liability of Persons Involved in Equine Activities - Section 2D. (a) For the purposes of this section, the...
Section 2e - Agricultural Harvesting or ''pick-Your-Own'' Farming Operations; Liability of Owners or Operators - Section 2E. No owner, operator, or employee of a farm...
Section 3 - Collection and Circulation of Information Regarding Development of Agricultural Resources - Section 3. The department may collect all necessary information in...
Section 4 - Trust Funds, Gifts or Bequests - Section 4. The department may take, and hold in trust,...
Section 5 - Annual Report - Section 5. The department shall make an annual report, including...
Section 6 - Lectures and Publications - Section 6. The commissioner may arrange for lectures before the...
Section 7 - Posters Containing Extracts of Laws; Preparation and Distribution - Section 7. The commissioner shall cause to be printed on...
Section 7a - Definitions - Section 7A. As used in this chapter the following words...
Section 7b - Use of Public Lands; Application; Indemnification - Section 7B. Any person may make application to the bureau...
Section 7c - Priority in Allotment of Public Lands - Section 7C. Priority in the allotment of vacant public land...
Section 7d - Bureau Contracts for Use of Public Lands - Section 7D. The bureau shall, with the cooperation of other...
Section 7e - Making Land Available to Bureau - Section 7E. Owners of land may make available to the...
Section 7f - Adoption of Rules and Regulations - Section 7F. The commissioner after a public hearing shall adopt...
Section 8a - Destruction or Control of Foxes and Rodents; Investigations; Cooperative Arrangements With United States - Section 8A. In order to protect the food supplies, agricultural...
Section 8b - Supervision of Mink Ranches; Listing; Fee; Certificate; Penalty - Section 8B. Mink that have been propagated in captivity for...
Section 9 - Establishment of Demonstration Sheep Farms - Section 9. The department may establish demonstration sheep farms in...
Section 10 - Maintenance of Flock of Sheep on Demonstration Farm - Section 10. Each person conducting a demonstration sheep farm shall...
Section 11 - Compensation From Commonwealth for Use of Farm as a Demonstration Sheep Farm - Section 11. The owner of every such farm shall receive...
Section 12 - Powers and Duties of Division of Regulatory Services - Section 12. The division of regulatory services shall investigate all...
Section 13 - Report of Unsanitary Condition - Section 13. The bureau of dairying in the division of...
Section 13a - Reimbursement Following Dealer's Milk Payment Default - Section 13A. The Milk Producers Security Fund, established by section...
Section 13b - Dealer Payments Into Milk Producers Security Fund - Section 13B. (a) The dealer of milk in the commonwealth...
Section 14 - Access by Department to Places or Vehicles Used in Manufacture, Storage or Sale of Dairy Products; Enforcement of Laws; Hindrance of Officer - Section 14. The department and its employees shall have access...
Section 15 - Duties of Employees of Department - Section 15. Employees of the department shall visit towns to...
Section 16 - Entry Upon Public or Private Grounds for Purposes of Abating Serious Plant Diseases; Contracts - Section 16. The director of regulatory services and his assistants...
Section 17 - Inspection of Nurseries; Certificate; Suppression of Pests - Section 17. The said director, either personally or through his...
Section 18 - Licensing of Nursery Agents; Application; Revocation - Section 18. Each agent or other person, except a grower,...
Section 19 - Sale of Nursery Stock; Grower's Certificate - Section 19. No person shall sell, exchange, give, deliver or...
Section 20 - Importation of Nursery Stock; Certificate of Inspection - Section 20. No nursery stock shall be brought into the...
Section 20a - Spread or Growth of Plants of Water Chestnut ≪i>(trapa Natans) - Section 20A. No person shall knowingly plant, transport, transplant or...
Section 21 - Inspection of Nursery Stock, Fruits and Plants at Points of Destination; Destruction; Notice to Director - Section 21. The director, either personally or through his assistants,...
Section 23 - Compensation for Destruction of Cultivated Berry-Bearing Shrubbery; Notice; Investigation; Arbitration; Award; Certification - Section 23. The owner of any cultivated berry-bearing shrubbery destroyed...
Section 24 - Inspection of Orchards, Etc. for Noxious Weeds, Insect Pests or Plant Diseases; Notice to Landowners, Et al.; Abatement; Cost of Treatment - Section 24. The director, either personally or through his assistants,...
Section 25 - Appeal From Proposed Action - Section 25. In case of objection to the proposed action...
Section 26 - Proceedings After Appeal; Notice - Section 26. When the commissioner has heard an appeal and...
Section 27 - Prohibition on Delivery Within the Commonwealth of Infested Nursery Stock, Fruit and Plants - Section 27. The director, with the approval of the commissioner,...
Section 28 - Exemption of Gypsy and Brown Tail Moths - Section 28. Sections sixteen to twenty-seven, inclusive, twenty-nine and thirty,...
Section 29 - Penalties for Violation of Secs. 16 to 27 - Section 29. Whoever violates any provision of sections sixteen to...
Section 30 - Prosecutions - Section 30. All prosecutions under sections sixteen to twenty-seven, inclusive,...
Section 31 - European Corn Borer Infestation; Hearing; Order; Publication - Section 31. Whenever the director finds that any town or...
Section 31a - Disposition of Corn Stubble; Destruction; Postponement - Section 31A. In any town or part thereof in which...
Section 32 - Inspection and Control of Bees; Chief Apiary Inspector; Duties; Preparation and Distribution of Literature on Bee Culture - Section 32. There shall be within the department a full-time...
Section 33 - Maintenance of Colony of Honey Bees in Hives in Which Brood Combs Are Fastened to Container; Diseased Bees - Section 33. No persons shall knowingly maintain a colony or...
Section 34 - Instructions as to Treatment of Diseased and Miskept Colonies; Destruction - Section 34. The inspector or his assistants, upon the discovery...
Section 35 - Transportation of Bees and Bee Equipment; Certificate; Inspection; Fees - Section 35. No colony of bees nor any used bee...
Section 36 - Access by Inspector to Places Where Bees, Bee Supplies, Appliances or Equipment Are Kept; Inspection Cards - Section 36. The inspector or his assistants upon presentation of...
Section 36a - Records of Number and Locations of Colonies; Reports - Section 36A. The inspector shall keep a detailed record of...
Section 36b - Labeling and Sale of Honey; Restrictions - Section 36B. No person shall package, label, sell, keep for...
Section 36c - Maple Syrup and Maple Syrup Food Products; Labelling - Section 36C. No person shall manufacture, label, package, sell, keep...
Section 38 - Penalties for Violation of Secs. 33, 35, 36b and 36c - [ Text of section effective until July 1, 2021. For...
Section 38a - Establishment and Holding of Fairs - Section 38A. The director of the division of fairs shall...
Section 38b - Massachusetts State Exposition Building Maintenance Fund - [ Subsection (a) effective until July 1, 2021. For text...
Section 38c - Agricultural Fairs; Facilities and Land Resources; Preservation and Rehabilitation - Section 38C. The commissioner may develop a program to assist...
Section 40 - Trustees for County Cooperative Extension Service; Accounts; Director of Accounts; Annual Report - Section 40. In each county, except counties maintaining vocational agricultural...
Section 41 - Selection of Directors; Terms - Section 41. Choice of the directors mentioned in section forty...
Section 42 - Receipt of Grants; Expenditure of Money; Power of Trustees - Section 42. For purposes specified in sections forty to forty-five,...
Section 43 - Instructors in Agriculture, Homemaking and Country Life - Section 43. The trustees shall maintain one or more agents...
Section 44 - Preparation of Annual Budget - Section 44. The trustees, except in Suffolk county, shall annually...
Section 44a - Suffolk County Annual Budget and Report; Tax Assessment - Section 44A. The trustees in Suffolk county shall annually prepare...
Section 45 - Acquisition of Land by Towns for Demonstration Work in Agriculture and Homemaking - Section 45. Any town may acquire, by purchase or otherwise,...
Section 46 - Agricultural or Horticultural Societies; Exhibitions; Assignment of Police to Preserve Peace - Section 46. Upon the application of the president of an...
Section 47 - Receipt of Department Reports by Farmers' Clubs; Annual Returns; Reports - Section 47. Farmers' clubs which are organized and are holding...
Section 48 - Regulations for Preservation of Peace at Meetings or Exhibitions; Posting - Section 48. Each agricultural or horticultural society or farmers' club...
Section 49 - Vendors, Gaming Activities, Shows or Plays Near Cattle Show, Fair or Exhibition; Gaming - Section 49. No person, during the time of holding a...
Section 50 - Penalty for Violations of Sec. 49 or Regulations Established Under Sec. 48 - Section 50. Whoever violates any provisions of the preceding section,...
Section 51 - Definitions Applicable to Secs. 52 to 63 - Section 51. The following words as used in section fifty-two...
Section 52 - Commercial Feed; Registration; Application; Changes in Guarantees; Hearing; Fee - Section 52. Each commercial feed shall be registered before being...
Section 53 - Labels Affixed to Commercial Feed Containers or Accompanying Delivery in Bulk; Form and Content - Section 53. All commercial feed distributed in the commonwealth except...
Section 54 - Adulterated Feed, Defined - Section 54. A commercial feed shall be deemed to be...
Section 55 - Restrictions on Distribution of Feed - Section 55. No person shall distribute feed if (a) its...
Section 56 - Prohibited Acts or Omissions - Section 56. No person shall (a) manufacture or distribute any...
Section 57 - Enforcement of Secs. 52 to 60; Prosecution of Violations; Hearing; Notice - Section 57. The commissioner and his duly authorized assistants shall...
Section 58 - Inspection of Commercial Feed Facilities and Vehicles; Warrant; Obtaining of Official Samples for Analysis and Forwarding of Results - Section 58. The commissioner either in person or his assistants...
Section 59 - Methods for Collection and Delivery of Samples for Analysis - Section 59. Samples for analysis as stipulated in section fifty-eight...
Section 60 - Withdrawal of Commercial Feed From Sale; Release; Condemnation Proceedings; Seizure; Disposition - Section 60. When the commissioner or his deputy has reasonable...
Section 61 - Penalties; Certified Copy of Official Analysis as Prima Facie Evidence - Section 61. Whoever sells, offers or exposes for sale any...
Section 62 - Publication of Pertinent Information and Data Concerning Commercial Feed; Results of Analysis; Confidential Status - Section 62. The commissioner or his deputy may publish annually,...
Section 63 - Rules and Regulations Relative to Sale of Commercial Feed - Section 63. The commissioner may prescribe and enforce such rules...
Section 64 - Definitions Applicable to Secs. 65 to 83 - Section 64. As used in sections sixty-five to eighty-three, inclusive,...
Section 65 - Plant Nutrients or Beneficial Substances; Guarantees; Sources; Inspection and Analysis - Section 65. The total phosphoric acid and the degree of...
Section 65a - Limitation on the Purchase and Application of Phosphorus Containing Fertilizer; Additional Regulations for the Limitation of Non-Point Source Pollution From Plant Nutrients - Section 65A. (a) No person shall purchase and apply or...
Section 66 - Licenses to Distribute Fertilizers; Registration of Specialty Fertilizers; Applications; Labels; Fees - Section 66. No person shall manufacture or distribute in the...
Section 67 - Labeling of Containers of Commercial Fertilizers, Soil Conditioners and Agricultural Liming Materials; Contents - Section 67. All commercial fertilizers, soil conditioners, and agricultural liming...
Section 68 - Registration and Inspection Fees for Commercial Fertilizers, Soil Conditioners and Agricultural Liming Materials - Section 68. There shall be paid to the commissioner for...
Section 69 - Statement of Tonnage Sold; Inspection Fee; Filing; Permit to Examine Books - Section 69. Each person who sells, offers or exposes for...
Section 70 - Analysis of Fertilizers; Inspection and Taking of Samples; Publication of Results - Section 70. Each commercial fertilizer and brand of commercial fertilizer...
Section 71 - Analysis Deficiencies; Penalties - Section 71. If the analysis shall show that a commercial...
Section 72 - Weight Deficiencies; Penalty - Section 72. If any commercial fertilizer, soil conditioner, or agricultural...
Section 73 - Determination and Publication of Values per Unit of Certain Nutrients in Fertilizers - Section 73. The commissioner shall determine and publish annually the...
Section 74 - False or Misleading Labeling of Commercial Fertilizers, Soil Conditioners and Agricultural Liming Materials; Deleterious or Harmful Ingredients - Section 74. No person shall sell, offer, or expose for...
Section 75 - Rules and Regulations; Effectiveness; Violations; Prosecution, Restriction - Section 75. The commissioner may prescribe and enforce such rules...
Section 76 - Misleading or Deceptive Practices; Violations; Refusal or Cancellation of Certificate - Section 76. The commissioner or his authorized deputy may refuse...
Section 77 - Analysis of Samples - Section 77. Samples for analysis as stipulated in section seventy...
Section 78 - Nonconforming Products; Violations; Withholding From Sale; Release; Condemnation; Seizure; Disposal - Section 78. When the commissioner or his deputy has reasonable...
Section 79 - Violations; Penalties; Official Analysis as Prima Facie Evidence - Section 79. Whoever sells, offers or exposes for sale any...
Section 80 - Publication of Information Concerning Fertilizers, Soil Conditioners and Agricultural Liming Materials - Section 80. The commissioner or his deputy may publish annually,...
Section 81 - Minor Violations; Reporting - Section 81. The commissioner or his representative shall not be...
Section 82 - Rules and Regulations Relative to the Sale of Commercial Fertilizers, Soil Conditioners and Agricultural Liming Materials - Section 82. The commissioner may prescribe and enforce such rules...
Section 83 - Exempt Transactions - Section 83. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to...
Section 84 - Definitions Applicable to Secs. 84 to 101 - Section 84. The following words, as used in sections eighty-four...
Section 85 - Sale of Seeds; Labeling or Tagging Containers; Required Information - Section 85. Except as otherwise provided in section ninety-two, each...
Section 86 - Sale of Seeds; Labeling or Tagging Containers; Variety or Cultivar Designation - Section 86. Each container of agricultural seeds, including lawn seeding...
Section 87 - Vegetable Seeds; Labeling or Tagging Containers; Required Information - Section 87. Containers of one pound or less for peas,...
Section 88 - Flower Seeds; Labeling Containers; Required Information - Section 88. For flower seeds the label shall include the...
Section 89 - Tree and Shrub Seeds; Labeling Containers; Required Information - Section 89. For tree and shrub seeds packaged in containers...
Section 90 - Sale of Seeds; Percentage of Germination; Labeling; False Advertisements; Noxious Weed Seeds - Section 90. No person shall sell, offer for sale or...
Section 91 - Defacing or Destroying Labels; False Advertising; Prohibited Sales - Section 91. No person within the commonwealth shall detach, alter,...
Section 92 - Application of Secs. 85 to 91 - Section 92. Sections eighty-five to ninety-one, inclusive, shall neither apply...
Section 93 - Exemption From Penalty of Sec. 100; Limitations - Section 93. No person shall be subject to the penalties...
Section 94 - Enforcement; Prosecutions - Section 94. The commissioner and his duly authorized assistants shall...
Section 95 - Access for Inspection; Taking Samples for Tests and Analyses; Cooperation With United States Department of Agriculture; Withholding Seeds From Sale - Section 95. The commissioner, either in person or his assistants,...
Section 96 - Seizure and Condemnation; Court Proceedings - Section 96. Any lot of agricultural, vegetable, flower or tree...
Section 97 - Tests and Analyses; Reports; Publication of Results - Section 97. The director shall cause such tests and analyses...
Section 98 - Seed Germination Standards; Enforcement - Section 98. The director, with the approval of the commissioner,...
Section 99 - Purity and Germination Tests; Fees; Disposition - Section 99. Any person residing or doing business in the...
Section 100 - Penalty - Section 100. Whoever sells, offers or exposes for sale any...
Section 101 - Sale of Seed Potatoes Restricted; Waiver; Penalty - Section 101. No person shall sell, offer to sell or...
Section 102 - Marketing and Promotion of Apples; Purpose and Policy - Section 102. It is hereby declared that the marketing of...
Section 103 - Definitions Applicable to Secs. 102 to 115 - Section 103. The following words as used in sections one...
Section 104 - Marketing Agreements; Approval - Section 104. Pursuant to section two of this chapter, and...
Section 105 - Marketing Orders; Issuance; Notice and Hearing; Amendment or Termination of Orders - Section 105. The commissioner may make and issue marketing orders,...
Section 106 - Budgets for Marketing Orders or Agreements; Cooperation With Other States and Federal Government - Section 106. With respect to any marketing order or marketing...
Section 107 - Collection of Assessments - Section 107. As part of any marketing order or agreement...
Section 108 - Marketing Agreements or Orders; Provisions - Section 108. Any marketing agreement or order issued by the...
Section 109 - Temporary Suspension of Marketing Orders or Agreements; Notice and Hearing - Section 109. The commissioner may temporarily suspend the operation of...
Section 110 - Economic Factors - Section 110. In carrying out the purposes of said sections...
Section 111 - Effect of Marketing Agreements or Marketing Orders; Execution or Issuance of One Without Other; Concurrent Hearings - Section 111. The execution of one or more marketing agreements...
Section 112 - Issuance, Amendment or Termination of Marketing Orders; Deposit to Defray Expenses; Reimbursement - Section 112. Prior to the issuance, amendment or termination of...
Section 113 - Assessments Held in Trust; Disbursements; Refunds; Reports - Section 113. Any assessments collected by the commissioner pursuant to...
Section 114 - Advisory Board Established With Marketing Order; Membership; Expenses; Duties - Section 114. Any marketing order issued pursuant to said sections...
Section 115 - Rules and Regulations; Promulgation; Actions to Enforce Compliance; Injunctions; Costs - Section 115. The commissioner may make and promulgate such rules...
Section 116 - Definitions Applicable to Secs. 117 to 123 - Section 116. As used in this section and sections 117...
Section 117 - Industrial Hemp; Regulation; Acquisition of Seed - Section 117. (a) Industrial hemp may be planted, grown, harvested,...
Section 118 - Purposes for Which Industrial Hemp May Be Planted, Grown, Harvested, Possessed, Processed or Sold; Registration and Licensure - Section 118. (a) No person, other than a person utilizing...
Section 119 - Annual License; Grounds for Denial of Application - Section 119. (a) After receipt, review and approval of an...
Section 120 - Suspension, Revocation or Refusal to Renew License - Section 120. The commissioner shall suspend, revoke or refuse to...
Section 121 - Rulemaking Authority - Section 121. (a) The department and the commissioner shall promulgate...
Section 122 - Inspection and Testing Program - Section 122. The department may inspect and have access to...
Section 123 - Fines; Appeals - Section 123. The department may establish civil administrative fines for...
Section 124 - Enforcement of Federal Standards Related to Growing, Harvesting, Packing and Holding of Produce for Human Consumption - Section 124. (a) As used in this section, the following...