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Section 1 - Definitions; Rules of Construction - Section 1. In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires,...
Section 1a - Division of Fisheries and Wildlife; Board; Members - Section 1A. The division of fisheries and wildlife shall be...
Section 1b - Removal of Board Members - Section 1B. Board members may be removed by the governor,...
Section 1c - Conflicts of Interest - Section 1C. No board member shall hold any other position...
Section 1d - Reimbursement - Section 1D. The board members shall serve without compensation, but...
Section 1e - Meetings - Section 1E. The members of the board shall meet in...
Section 1f - Director - Section 1F. The director of the division of fisheries and...
Section 1g - Director; Powers and Duties - Section 1G. The director shall, under the control of the...
Section 1h - Bureau of Wildlife Research and Management - Section 1H. There shall be in the division of fisheries...
Section 1i - Damage by Moose or Deer - Section 1I. It shall be the responsibility of the division...
Section 2a - Wildland Acquisition Account - Section 2A. There is hereby established within the Inland Fisheries...
Section 2b - Deposit of Revenues; Interest - Section 2B. The state treasurer shall receive and deposit all...
Section 2c - George L. Darey Inland Fisheries and Game Fund; Funding Sources; Appropriations - Section 2C. Monies received by the commonwealth from license fees,...
Section 3 - Disposition of Fines, Penalties and Forfeitures - Section 3. All fines, penalties and forfeitures recovered in prosecutions...
Section 4 - Powers of Director - Section 4. The director may: (1) destroy from time to...
Section 5 - Open Seasons; Rules and Regulations - Section 5. The director shall declare an open season on...
Section 5b - Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program; Administration; Advisory Committee - Section 5B. The director shall administer the natural heritage and...
Section 5c - Obstruction or Interference With Lawful Taking of Fish or Wildlife; Remedies - Section 5C. No person shall obstruct, interfere with or otherwise...
Section 6 - Acquisition of Rights, Privileges, Lands and Properties - Section 6. The director, with the approval of the fisheries...
Section 7 - Wildlife Sanctuaries; Trusts - Section 7. For the purpose of protecting any species of...
Section 8 - Use of Wildlife Sanctuaries and Preserves; Rules and Regulations - Section 8. In respect to any territory mentioned in section...
Section 9 - Publication of Order Establishing Wildlife Sanctuary; Posting - Section 9. If an order is made by the director...
Section 10 - Hunting or Trapping Within Wildlife Sanctuary - Section 10. Whenever such wildlife sanctuary has been established by...
Section 10a - Nature Preserves; Designation - Section 10A. The executive office of environmental affairs, the department...
Section 10b - Nature Preserve Council - Section 10B. A nature preserve council, hereinafter referred to as...
Section 10c - Release of Nature Preserves - Section 10C. A nature preserve established pursuant to section ten...
Section 10d - Consultation; Rules and Regulations - Section 10D. The division shall consult with the nature preserve...
Section 11 - Licenses; Requirements; Fees; Trapper Training Courses - Section 11. A person shall not fish in any inland...
Section 12 - Licenses; Issuance; Form; Display - Section 12. Upon the application of any person entitled to...
Section 13 - Construction of Licensing Laws; Archery or Primitive Firearm Season on Deer; Migratory Waterfowl Season; Certificates for Veterans Hospitals and Schools for Mentally-Retarded - Section 13. Nothing in section four or sections eleven to...
Section 13a - Wildlands Conservation Stamps - Section 13A. Except as hereinafter provided, no person shall fish,...
Section 14 - Hunter Education Programs; Issuance of Licenses to Minors; Target Practice; Confiscation of Firearms - Section 14. It shall be unlawful for any resident or...
Section 15 - Issuance of Special Complimentary Certificate to Officials of Other States - Section 15. An executive or administrative public official of any...
Section 16 - Loss or Destruction of License; Duplicates - Section 16. Whoever loses or by mistake or accident destroys...
Section 17 - Retention of Part of License Fee by Issuing Officer or Person - Section 17. Any city or town clerk or any person...
Section 17a - Municipal Processing Fee for Sale of Licenses - Section 17A. Any city or town clerk issuing any license...
Section 17b - Notice of Intent Not to Sell Licenses - Section 17B. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special...
Section 18 - License Record Books; Payment of Monies by Issuing Officer to Director; Surety Bonds - Section 18. The director, each city or town clerk and...
Section 19 - License to Put Fish or Spawn Into Inland Waters; Permit to Import Live Fish or Viable Eggs, Certification, Inspection for Disease, and Disposition - Section 19. A person shall not put into any of...
Section 19a - Permit to Import Live Birds or Mammals; Rules and Regulations; Inspection and Testing for Disease; Certification; Disposition - Section 19A. A person shall not bring or cause to...
Section 19b - Transporting Mammals for Purpose of Euthanasia; Putting Animal to Death by Drowning Prohibited - Section 19B. Any person authorized under section 4 to take...
Section 20 - Field Trials for Retriever or Bird Dogs - Section 20. Upon application to the director by an incorporated...
Section 21 - Training of Hunting Dogs; Field Trials - Section 21. Except as provided in sections 21A, 70, 81...
Section 21a - Unfair Hunting Practices Prohibited - Section 21A. It shall be unlawful to pursue or hunt...
Section 22 - Sale of Fish and Game - Section 22. A person, except as provided in sections twenty-three...
Section 22a - Disposition of Deer; Rules and Regulations; Permits; Fees - Section 22A. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections twenty-two, twenty-three and...
Section 23 - Propagation, Dealing, etc., in Fish, Birds, Mammals, Reptiles or Amphibians; Rules and Regulations; Licenses; Fees - Section 23. Except as otherwise provided by this section or...
Section 24 - Dealers' Licenses; Sale for Food Purposes - Section 24. The director, upon written application to him, may...
Section 25 - Possession of Live Birds, Mammals, Reptiles or Amphibians; Sale; Tags; Labels; Accounts - Section 25. Except as provided in sections four and twenty-three,...
Section 25a - Quarantine of Diseased Fish, Birds, Mammals, etc.; Order or Notice; Procedures; Liability for Expenses - Section 25A. If the director, upon examination of any fish,...
Section 25b - Quarantined Animals; Destruction and Disposal - Section 25B. If the director, by examination of a case...
Section 25c - Quarantined Animals; Prohibited Acts; Penalties - Section 25C. Any fish, bird, mammal, reptile or amphibian which...
Section 26 - Importation of Fish, Birds, Mammals, Reptiles or Amphibians; Shipments; Tags; Violations; Seizure and Disposition - Section 26. Any fish, birds, mammals, reptiles or amphibians lawfully...
Section 27 - Taxidermists' Licenses; Permits; Accounts; Shipments - Section 27. The director is hereby authorized to issue a...
Section 28 - Fur Buyers' Licenses; Shipments; Accounts - Section 28. A person shall not purchase or receive the...
Section 29 - Natural History Associations and Museums, Zoos - Section 29. Sections nineteen, nineteen A and twenty-two to twenty-eight,...
Section 30 - Permits for Netting of Carp and Suckers - Section 30. Notwithstanding the provisions of section fifty or of...
Section 31 - Commercial Shooting Preserves; Permits; Licenses - Section 31. The director is authorized to issue permits for...
Section 32 - Licenses; Expiration; Loan or Transfer; Production for Examination; Suspension or Revocation - Section 32. Unless otherwise specified, all licenses, permits and certificates...
Section 33 - Prohibited Acts; Licenses, Permits, Applications, Certificates, Tags or Seals - Section 33. A person shall not alter, forge or counterfeit...
Section 34 - Conviction for Violations; Surrender of License, Permit or Certificate - Section 34. A license, permit, or certificate issued under a...
Section 35 - Failure to Carry License and Wear It Visibly; Exception Under Automated Licensing System - Section 35. The provisions of section thirty-four, except as hereinafter...
Section 36 - Fishing, Hunting, or Trapping on Private, Posted Land - Section 36. A person shall not fish, hunt or trap...
Section 37 - Killing of Game by Owner or Tenant of Land; Reports - Section 37. An owner or tenant of land or, if...
Section 38 - Farmers; Permit to Trap and Kill Birds - Section 38. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director...
Section 39a - Berkshire County; Watershed Resources; Natural Scenic Qualities - Section 39A. A city or town in the county of...
Section 40 - Removal, Fill, Dredging or Altering of Land Bordering Waters - Section 40. No person shall remove, fill, dredge or alter...
Section 40a - Orders Protecting Inland Wetlands - Section 40A. The commissioner of environmental protection shall from time...
Section 40b - Farmland Advisory Board; Meetings; Advisory Duties - Section 40B. The farmland advisory board established in section forty...
Section 41 - Protection of Fisheries From Discharge of Waste Materials Into Inland Waters - Section 41. If the director determines that any fisheries in...
Section 42 - Protection of Fish in Inland Waters; Pollution; Alteration of Flows or Water Levels; Application of Section; Damages - Section 42. A person shall not put, throw, discharge or...
Section 43 - Poisons - Section 43. A person shall not place poison in any...
Section 44 - Deposit of Garbage or Trash on Property While Hunting, Fishing or Trapping - Section 44. A person while engaged in hunting, fishing or...
Section 45 - Great Ponds; Public Use; Rules and Regulations - Section 45. Except as otherwise provided in this section and...
Section 46 - Measurement of Ponds - Section 46. The department of environmental protection shall, upon the...
Section 47 - Riparian Proprietors; Enclosure of Waters - Section 47. No riparian proprietor of a natural pond other...
Section 48 - Draining of Pond, Reservoir or Other Body of Water - Section 48. A person shall not, except in case of...
Section 49 - Ponds on State Boundary; Fishing - Section 49. If, in the case of a pond situated...
Section 50 - Methods of Taking Fish; Angling, Nets and Seines, Pots, Spearing, Bow and Arrow - Section 50. A person shall not, except as otherwise permitted...
Section 51 - Taking of Trout in Coastal Waters - Section 51. Brook, brown and rainbow trout may be taken...
Section 52 - Taking of Certain Fish for Bait - Section 52. Shiners, minnows, killifish, sculpin, sticklebacks, and suckers may...
Section 52a - Commercial Taking of Eels in Inland Waters; Penalties - Section 52A. Eels may be taken commercially in inland waters...
Section 53 - Fishing With Floats; Toggle Fishing - Section 53. A person shall not fish with floats, otherwise...
Section 54 - Fish Traps, Nets and Seines, Hooks - Section 54. Except as otherwise permitted by law, a person...
Section 55 - Forfeiture of Net, Seine, or Other Device; Forfeiture of Fish - Section 55. Any net, seine, trawl, or other similar device...
Section 56 - Special Statutes Relating to Fisheries; Alewife Fisheries - Section 56. This chapter shall not be deemed to affect...
Section 57 - Sundays - Section 57. Every Sunday shall be a closed season. Except...
Section 58 - Shooting Upon or Across Highway; Hunting Near Dwelling - Section 58. A person shall not discharge any firearm or...
Section 59 - Reservations, Parks, Public Lands; Hunting; State Forests - Section 59. A person shall not hunt, or in any...
Section 60 - Weapons; Careless or Negligent Use Causing Injury or Death to Another; Report - Section 60. A person shall not use any firearm, bow...
Section 61 - Weapons; Careless or Negligent Use Causing Damage to Property or Livestock; Tort Liability - Section 61. A person shall not use any firearm, bow...
Section 62 - Weapons; Intoxicating Liquor or Drugs - Section 62. A person, while under the influence of intoxicating...
Section 63 - Loaded Shotgun or Rifle in Motor Vehicle, Aircraft or Motorboat - Section 63. A person, other than the director of law...
Section 64 - Automatic Firearms, Machine Guns or Bows; Use of Tracer Ammunition - Section 64. A person shall not use for hunting purposes...
Section 65 - Hunting From Motor Vehicle, Snowmobile, Aircraft or Watercraft - Section 65. Except as otherwise provided by law, a person...
Section 65a - Online Shooting or Spearing - Section 65A. (a) For the purposes of this section, ''online...
Section 66 - Shotgun Shells, Load - Section 66. A person shall not, except during the prescribed...
Section 67 - Rifles, Revolvers and Pistols; Caliber - Section 67. A person shall not use or possess, where...
Section 68 - Hunting With Artificial Light; Swivel or Pivot Gun - Section 68. A person shall not hunt any bird or...
Section 69 - Bows and Arrows for Hunting - Section 69. A person shall not carry or use a...
Section 70 - Hunting With Rifle, Revolver or Pistol, or by the Aid of a Dog; Primitive Firearms - Section 70. A person shall not, during the open season...
Section 71 - Orange Clothing While Hunting - Section 71. A person shall not, during the open season...
Section 72 - Deer Tags - Section 72. To each resident and nonresident hunting or sporting...
Section 73 - Hunting Moose - Section 73. A person shall not hunt a moose.
Section 74 - Bird Nests and Eggs - Section 74. A person shall not take, disturb or destroy...
Section 75 - Wild Turkey - Section 75. Except as provided in section five, a person...
Section 75a - Birds of Prey - Section 75A. A person, unless he holds a special permit...
Section 76 - Removal of Mammal From Hole, or From Under Ledge, Stone or Log - Section 76. Except as otherwise provided in sections four and...
Section 77 - Ferrets; Possession and Use - Section 77. A person may possess a ferret (mustela furo...
Section 77a - Wild Canid and Felid Hybrids - Section 77A. No person shall possess, sell, trade, breed, import,...
Section 78 - Protection of Property by Owner or Tenant; Transportation of Firearms to or From Range - Section 78. Nothing in section sixty-six or sixty-seven shall be...
Section 79 - Trap, Net or Snare; Use Restricted - Section 79. Except as provided in sections four, five, thirty-seven,...
Section 80 - Registration and Identification of Traps - Section 80. A person shall not place, set, maintain, possess,...
Section 80a - Leghold Traps and Certain Other Devices Restricted; Punishment - Section 80A. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a...
Section 81 - Suspension of Open Seasons Because of Fire Hazard - Section 81. Whenever it shall appear to the governor that...
Section 82 - Dogs, Running at Large; Protection of Deer - Section 82. A person owning, keeping or possessing a dog...
Section 83 - Sparrows and Starlings - Section 83. Officers in charge of public buildings in cities...
Section 84 - Pigeons - Section 84. A person, except the owner or his authorized...
Section 85 - Transportation of Fish or Other Animals Into or Out of Commonwealth - Section 85. Except as prohibited or limited by federal legislation...
Section 86 - Property Used for Scientific Experiments or Investigations or for Propagation - Section 86. A person shall not without right enter in...
Section 87 - Arrest Without Warrant; Seizures; Forfeitures - Section 87. The director of law enforcement, his deputy directors...
Section 88 - Display of Fish, Game, and Equipment for Inspection - Section 88. The director, his deputy directors of enforcement, chiefs...
Section 89 - Search Warrants; Seizures and Forfeitures - Section 89. Fish, birds or mammals unlawfully taken or held,...
Section 90 - Penalties - Section 90. Whoever violates any provision of section five, ten,...
Section 90a - Suspended or Revoked Foreign Licenses - Section 90A. Any person, whose privilege to hunt, trap, or...
Section 91 - Limitation of Actions and Prosecutions - Section 91. Actions and prosecutions under this chapter shall, unless...
Section 92 - Severability - Section 92. If any part, section or subdivision of this...