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Chapter 128 - Agriculture
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...
Chapter 128a - Horse and Dog Racing Meetings
Section 1 - Definitions - [ Text of section effective until July 31, 2022. Repealed...
Section 2 - Application for License; Filing; Supplementary Application - [ Text of section effective until July 31, 2022. Repealed...
Section 3 - Issuance of License; Contents; Conditions; Bond; Recording - [ Text of section effective until July 31, 2022. Repealed...
Section 4 - Fees; Refund - [ Text of section effective until July 31, 2022. Repealed...
Section 5 - Pari-Mutuel or Certificate System of Wagering; Licensee's Duties - [ Text of section effective until July 31, 2022. Repealed...
Section 5a - Recovery of Winnings Upon Wagers; Actions; Unclaimed Winnings - [ Text of section effective until July 31, 2022. Repealed...
Section 5b - Assessment for Operation of Commission; Refund - [Text of section effective until July 31, 2021. Repealed by...
Section 5c - Account Wagering System; Betting Accounts; Licensee's Duties; Penalties - [ Text of section effective until July 31, 2022. Repealed...
Section 6 - Records and Books of Wagers; Access; Financial Statements; Statements of Wagers - [ Text of section effective until July 31, 2022. Repealed...
Section 7 - Stewards to Conduct Racing Meetings; Representatives; Access; Authority; Reports; Violations - [ Text of section effective until July 31, 2022. Repealed...
Section 8 - Assignment of Police Officers at Racing Meetings; Approval; Cost; Employment of Veterinarians, Chemists and Laboratory Technicians - [ Text of section effective until July 31, 2022. Repealed...
Section 8a - Periodic Inspections of Installations and Facilities Operated by Licensees; Supervision of Stewards, Judges and Starters - [ Text of section effective until July 31, 2022. Repealed...
Section 9 - Power of Commission to Make Rules and Regulations - [ Text of section effective until July 31, 2022. Repealed...
Section 9a - Licensing and Registering of Agents, Veterinarians, Blacksmiths, Owners, Trainers, Jockeys and Stable Employees; Badges; Suspension and Revocation; Criminal Records - [ Text of section effective until July 31, 2022. Repealed...
Section 9b - Rules and Regulations of the Commission; Emergency Rules and Regulations - [ Text of section effective until July 31, 2022. Repealed...
Section 10 - Wagering at Racing Meetings by Minors; Citizenship Requirement for Employees of Licensees - [ Text of section effective until July 31, 2022. Repealed...
Section 10a - Exclusion of Certain Persons - [ Text of section effective until July 31, 2022. Repealed...
Section 10b - Falsely Making, Altering, Forging, Uttering or Publishing Pari-Mutuel Betting Tickets - [ Text of section effective until July 31, 2022. Repealed...
Section 11 - Refusal to Grant, Suspension or Revocation of License - [ Text of section effective until July 31, 2022. Repealed...
Section 11c - Sale of Ten per Cent or More of Stock; Notice; Approval - [ Text of section effective until July 31, 2022. Repealed...
Section 12 - Compliance With Chapter - [ Text of section effective until July 31, 2022. Repealed...
Section 13 - Penalties for Wagering or Betting at Race Track Except as Permitted by Chapter - [ Text of section effective until July 31, 2022. Repealed...
Section 13a - Application of Laws to Race Tracks or Racing Meetings; Exception; Approval of Locations - [ Text of section effective until July 31, 2022. Repealed...
Section 13b - Use of Drugs to Affect Speed of Dogs or Horses - [ Text of section effective until July 31, 2022. Repealed...
Section 13c - Influencing Owner, Trainer, Jockey or Agent to Affect Result of Race - [ Text of section effective until July 31, 2022. Repealed...
Section 14 - Granting Licenses; Petitions; Ballots; Vote of County - [ Text of section effective until July 31, 2022. Repealed...
Section 14b - Additional Question on Ballots in Berkshire County - [ Text of section effective until July 31, 2022. Repealed...
Section 14c - Additional Question on Ballots in Hampshire County - [ Text of section effective until July 31, 2022. Repealed...
Section 14d - Granting Licenses; Election Results; Copy - [ Text of section effective until July 31, 2022. Repealed...
Section 14e - Dog Racing Prohibited; Penalty - [ Text of section effective until July 31, 2022. Repealed...
Chapter 128b - Conservation of Soil and Soil Resources and Prevention and Control of Erosion - [Repealed, 1963, 664, Sec. 4.]
Chapter 128c - Simulcast Wagering of Horse and Dog Racing
Section 2 - Simulcast Wagering by Racing Meeting Licensees; Restrictions - [ Text of section effective until July 31, 2022. Repealed...
Section 2a - Simulcasts of Pari-Mutuel Races in Connection With State or County Fairs; Restrictions - [ Text of section effective until July 31, 2022. Repealed...
Section 3 - Commingling of Pari-Mutuel Pools; Rules - [ Text of section effective until July 31, 2022. Repealed...
Section 3a - Unclaimed Simulcast Wagers; Separate Account Under Commission's Control - [ Text of section effective until July 31, 2022. Repealed...
Section 4 - Simulcast Wagering at Guest Track for Running Horse Races From Host Track; Payments to Winning Patrons, Commission, Host Track and Running Horse Capital Improvements Trust Fund - [ Text of section effective until July 31, 2022. Repealed...
Section 5 - Simulcast Wagering at Guest Track for Harness Horse Races From Host Track; Payments to Winning Patrons, Commission, Host Track and Harness Horse Capital Improvements Trust Fund - [ Text of section effective until July 31, 2022. Repealed...
Section 5a - Limitation on Actions to Recover Winnings - [ Text of section effective until July 31, 2022. Repealed...
Section 6 - Simulcast Wagering at Guest Track for Greyhound Races From Host Track; Payments to Winning Patrons, Commission and Greyhound Promotional Trust Fund - [ Text of section effective until July 31, 2022. Repealed...
Section 7 - Humane Disposition of Greyhounds - [ Text of section effective until July 31, 2022. Repealed...
Section 7a - Records Regarding Injuries Incurred by Racing Greyhounds; Penalties - [ Text of section effective until July 31, 2022. Repealed...
Section 7b - Regulations Governing Humane Care, Treatment and Transportation of Racing Greyhounds; License Suspension or Revocation - [ Text of section effective until July 31, 2022. Repealed...
Section 8 - Rules and Regulations - [ Text of section effective until July 31, 2022. Repealed...
Chapter 129 - Livestock Disease Control
Section 1 - Definitions - Section 1. The following words as used in this chapter,...
Section 2 - Powers and Duties of Director; Orders - Section 2. The director may make and enforce reasonable orders,...
Section 3 - Records of Inspectors; Forms - Section 3. The director shall make and prescribe forms for...
Section 4 - Certification of Documents by Clerk - Section 4. The director may designate an employee of the...
Section 5 - Entry of Orders, Rules and Regulations on Records; Publication - Section 5. All orders, rules and regulations made by the...
Section 6 - Aid to Director and Inspectors by Sheriffs, Constables and Police Officers - Section 6. Sheriffs, constables and police officers shall upon request...
Section 7 - Entry on Premises - Section 7. For the purpose of inspecting or examining animals...
Section 8 - Hospitals and Quarantine Stations - Section 8. The director may establish hospitals or quarantine stations,...
Section 9 - Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; Animal Rescue League of Boston; Agents; Powers and Duties - Section 9. The agents of the Massachusetts Society for the...
Section 10 - Examination of Persons Under Oath; Mandatory Attendance and Testimony of Witnesses - Section 10. The director may examine on oath all persons...
Section 11 - Isolation or Destruction of Diseased Animals; Post Mortem Examination - Section 11. If the director, or one of his agents,...
Section 13a - Destruction of Animals Affected With Scrapie; Partial Compensation - Section 13A. All sheep and other domestic animals which are...
Section 14 - Destruction of Animals Affected With Foot and Mouth Disease; Disinfection or Destruction of Buildings - Section 14. All neat cattle and other domestic animals, which...
Section 14a - Quarantine or Destruction of Animals Affected With Vesicular Stomatitis or Vesicular Exanthema - Section 14A. All domestic animals which are affected with vesicular...
Section 14b - Feeding Garbage to Swine - Section 14B. The word ''garbage'' means any meat waste, or...
Section 14c - Hog Cholera; Slaughtering of Hogs; Payment to Owners - Section 14C. All hogs which are affected with, or have...
Section 14d - Hogs Affected With Brucellosis; Quarantine and Testing - Section 14D. All hogs which are affected with, or have...
Section 14e - Breeding, Feeder or Slaughter Swine Imported Into Commonwealth - Section 14E. All breeding swine imported into the commonwealth shall...
Section 15 - Inspector of Animals; Appointment - Section 15. The city manager in cities having a plan...
Section 16 - Refusal or Neglect of Town to Appoint Inspector; Appointment by Director - Section 16. A town shall, for each refusal or neglect...
Section 17 - Oath of Inspectors; Compensation; Reimbursement of Towns - Section 17. Each inspector shall be sworn to the faithful...
Section 18 - Duties of Inspectors; Training; Enforcement - Section 18. (a) Each inspector shall comply with and enforce...
Section 19 - Inspections of Domestic Animals - Section 19. Inspectors shall make regular and thorough inspections of...
Section 20 - Certificate of Healthy Condition - Section 20. An inspector who is satisfied, upon an examination...
Section 21 - Quarantine of Diseased Animals; Notice or Order; Records - Section 21. An inspector who, upon an examination of a...
Section 22 - Service of Notice or Order of Quarantine; Return; Evidence - Section 22. Such notice or order may be served by...
Section 22a - Dogs Owned by Police Departments or Agencies - Section 22A. The provisions of sections twenty-one and twenty-two shall...
Section 23 - Examination of Buildings; Report - Section 23. Inspectors shall, in addition to their inspections of...
Section 24 - Notice of Quarantine - Section 24. An inspector who has caused a domestic animal...
Section 25 - Records of Inspectors of Animals; Returns - Section 25. Each inspector shall keep a record of all...
Section 26 - Application of Chapter to Inspectors in Boston - Section 26. The provisions of this chapter relative to the...
Section 26a - Shipping Cattle Into Commonwealth Without Inspection; Certificate of Health - Section 26A. Whoever ships, drives or transports into the commonwealth...
Section 26b - Hatching Eggs; Baby Chicks or Live Poultry; Restriction on Sale, Transportation or Importation - Section 26B. No person shall buy, sell or transport within...
Section 27 - Seizure, Quarantine and Destruction of Imported Diseased Animals - Section 27. Animals brought into this commonwealth from places which...
Section 28 - Notice of Contagious Disease to Director - Section 28. The board of health of a town, any...
Section 29 - Expense of Quarantine - Section 29. If animals have been quarantined, collected or isolated...
Section 30 - Effect of Quarantine; Release; Violation of Quarantine; Penalty - Section 30. An animal which has been quarantined or isolated...
Section 31 - Damages; Arbitration; Petition for Assessment of Damages - Section 31. If an owner is entitled to compensation for...
Section 31a - Shipping or Delivering Tuberculin Within Commonwealth; Statement as to Use; Application to Common Carriers - Section 31A. Every person who, himself or by his servant...
Section 32 - Use of Tuberculin as Diagnostic Agent; Tests - Section 32. Tuberculin as a diagnostic agent for the detection...
Section 33 - Compensation for Animals Reacting to Tuberculin Test; Appraisals - Section 33. Except as otherwise provided, a person who has...
Section 33a - Identification of Reacting Bovine Animals; Removal of Tag; Disposition of Tagged Animals - Section 33A. Any bovine animal which reacts to a tuberculin...
Section 33b - Declaration of Quarantine Areas; Tuberculin Tests of Bovine Animals; Modified Accredited Areas; Violation of Terms of Quarantine - Section 33B. The director may, upon application to him by...
Section 33c - Declaration of Quarantine Area; Tests for Brucellosis of Bovine Animals; Modified Certified Brucellosis Free Area; Violation of Terms of Quarantine - Section 33C. The director may upon application to him by...
Section 33d - Tests for Detection of Brucellosis; Identification of Animals; Destruction - Section 33D. Prior to the first day of January, nineteen...
Section 34 - Compensation to Violators of Regulations - Section 34. No compensation shall be allowed by the commonwealth...
Section 35 - Driving Certain Cattle on Public Ways or Roads - Section 35. Texan, Mexican, Cherokee, Indian or other cattle, which...
Section 36 - Notice of Contagious Diseases - Section 36. Whoever kills an animal or causes it to...
Section 36b - Vaccination of Female Calves; Identification of Positive Reactors; Transportation of Unvaccinated Bovine Animals - Section 36B. The director shall cause all female calves to...
Section 36d - Importation of Vaccinated Animals; Conditions - Section 36D. Vaccinated animals which are over eighteen months of...
Section 36e - Importation of Unvaccinated Female Cattle Over Five Months of Age - Section 36E. Subject to rules promulgated by the commissioner of...
Section 36f - Brucellosis, Imported Cattle, Blood Testing - Section 36F. The director, his authorized agent or a duly...
Section 36g - Reimbursement of Owners for Slaughter of Animals Reacting Positively to Blood Test for Brucellosis; Appraisal - Section 36G. If any animal tested by an approved licensed...
Section 36h - Waiver of Compliance With Secs. 36b, 36d to 36f - Section 36H. The director may after a hearing grant, in...
Section 37 - Enforcement Actions; Jurisdiction of Commissioner of Agriculture, District and Superior Courts - Section 37. As used in this section, the word ''commissioner''...
Section 38 - Annual Report - Section 38. The commissioner of food and agriculture shall make...
Section 39 - Licensing of Persons Dealing in Bovine and Porcine Animals; Fee - Section 39. Every person engaging in the business of dealing...
Section 39a - Pet Shops; Licensing Operation; Animal Health Inspections - Section 39A. Every person engaged in the business of operating...
Section 39b - Guard Dog Businesses; Licenses - Section 39B. Every person engaged in operating a guard dog...
Section 39c - Hearing Dog Business; Licenses - Section 39C. Every person engaged in the hearing dog business...
Section 39d - Hearing Dog Business; Access to Public Facilities - Section 39D. A person engaged in the hearing dog business,...
Section 39e - Livestock Auction Business; Licenses - Section 39E. As used in the section, the word ''livestock''...
Section 39f - Service Dogs; Trainer Rights - Section 39F. A person accompanied by and engaged in the...
Section 39g - Official Health Certificate Requirement for Dog or Cat Brought or Shipped Into Commonwealth; Purchase of Animal for Resale; Vaccination Record; Devocalization Prohibited - Section 39G. (a) A dog or cat brought or shipped...
Section 40 - License Plates for Vehicles Used for Transportation of Bovine or Porcine Animals; Fee; Revocation - Section 40. Each vehicle used for the transportation of bovine...
Section 40a - Hog Cholera Vaccine; Prohibited Use - Section 40A. No person shall use, sell, expose for sale,...
Section 41 - Bill of Sale or Memorandum Signed by Owner of Persons Transporting Bovine Animals; Exhibition on Demand - Section 41. All persons who transport bovine animals upon any...
Section 42 - Tagging Bovine Animal With Identification Tag - Section 42. No person, other than a licensed veterinarian or...
Section 43 - Penalties for Violation of Secs. 39 to 42 - Section 43. Whoever violates any provisions of sections thirty-nine to...
Section 44 - Testing of Imported Equine Animals for Infectious Anemia; Certification - Section 44. No person shall import into the commonwealth any...
Section 44a - Destruction or Quarantine of Infected Equine Animals - Section 44A. Any equine animal positive to a test approved...
Section 45 - License to Deal in or Auction Equine Animals - Section 45. Every person engaging in the business of dealing...
Section 46 - License Plates for Vehicles Transporting Equine Animals - Section 46. Each vehicle used for the transportation of equine...
Section 47 - Bill of Sale or Memorandum - Section 47. A person who transports equine animals for immediate...
Section 48 - Violations, Penalties - Section 48. Whoever violates any provisions of section forty-five to...
Chapter 129a - Marine Fish and Fisheries, Inland Fish and Fisheries, Birds and Mammals. General Provisions - [Repealed, 1941, 599, Sec. 1.]
Chapter 130 - Marine Fish and Fisheries
Section 1 - Definitions; Rules of Construction - Section 1. In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires,...
Section 1a - Division of Marine Fisheries - Section 1A. The division of marine fisheries shall be within...
Section 1b - Marine Fisheries Advisory Commission - Section 1B. There shall be in the division of marine...
Section 2 - Transferability of Licenses, Permits and Certificates of Registration; Suspension or Voidance for Violation of Marine Laws; Surrender; Impounding Fishing Gear - Section 2. Licenses, permits and certificates of registration issued by...
Section 3 - Duplicate License, Permit, or Certificate - Section 3. Whoever loses or by mistake or accident destroys...
Section 4 - Record of Licenses, Permits or Certificates; Inspection; Endorsement of Date of Sale on License, Permits and Certificates - Section 4. The director or his agent shall make a...
Section 4a - Administrative Inspections - Section 4A. The director, his assistants, an environmental police officer...
Section 5 - Jurisdictional Boundaries - Section 5. The director and the director of the division...
Section 8a - Powers of Police Officers - Section 8A. In a city or town bordering on coastal...
Section 9 - Searches, Seizures and Arrests Without Warrant - Section 9. The director, the deputy directors of enforcement, chiefs...
Section 10 - Issuance of Search Warrant - Section 10. A court or official authorized to issue warrants...
Section 12 - Seizure and Forfeiture of Fish Unlawfully Taken, Boats and Apparatus; Sale; Proceeds - Section 12. All fish unlawfully taken, held, possessed or dealt...
Section 13 - Display of Fish Upon Demand; Violations - Section 13. The director, the deputy directors of enforcement, chiefs...
Section 14 - Limitation of Actions and Prosecutions - Section 14. Actions and prosecutions under the laws relative to...
Section 15a - Reciprocal Enforcement of Laws Relating to Marine Fisheries - Section 15A. Any game protector, fish and game warden, coastal...
Section 16 - Occupation of Tide Waters or Work Done Therein Subject to Chapter 91 - Section 16. Any occupation under this chapter of tide waters...
Section 17 - Powers of Director - Section 17. The director may (1) Destroy from time to...
Section 17a - Management of Marine Fisheries - Section 17A. Upon petition signed by any interested party or...
Section 17b - Aquacultural Enterprises; Permits - Section 17B. Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter, the director...
Section 17c - Recreational Saltwater Fishing Permit Program; Finfishing; For-Hire Fishing; Categories; Marine Recreational Fisheries Development Panel - Section 17C. (a) The director shall establish a state recreational...
Section 17d - Penalties for Violation of Sec. 17c - Section 17D. Whoever violates section 17C, or any rule or...
Section 18 - Illegal Entry on Property Maintained for Experiments, Protection or Propagation of Fish - Section 18. No person shall, without right, enter in or...
Section 19 - Providing Passage for Salt Water Fish Into Fresh Water to Spawn; Refusal or Neglect to Repair or Construct Fishway; Operation and Maintenance of Fishways - Section 19. For the purpose of providing suitable passage for...
Section 20 - Increase in Supply of Shellfish; Co-Operation With Coastal Cities and Towns; Treatment or Purification of Shellfish - Section 20. The director shall assist and co-operate with coastal...
Section 20a - Propagation of Shellfish; Co-Operation With Coastal Cities and Towns - Section 20A. The director shall assist and cooperate with coastal...
Section 21 - Compilation of Statistical Information Useful to Marine Fish Industries; Confidentiality; False Reports; Refusal or Failure - Section 21. The director shall devise a system of statistical...
Section 23 - Discharge of Oil or Other Poisonous Substances Into Coastal Waters; Use of Explosives; Penalty - Section 23. Except in the case of emergency imperiling life...
Section 24 - Violation of Sec. 23; Tort Liability - Section 24. Whoever, contrary to any provision of section twenty-three,...
Section 25 - Discharge of Sewage or Other Substance Injurious to Public Health Into Coastal Waters; Approved Drainage - Section 25. The entrance or discharge into the coastal waters,...
Section 26 - Jurisdiction and Proceedings to Enforce Secs. 23 to 25 - Section 26. The supreme judicial court or any justice thereof,...
Section 27 - Criminal and Tort Liability for Discharge of Sewage or Other Substance Injurious to Public Health Into Coastal Waters - Section 27. Whoever, contrary to any provision of section twenty-five,...
Section 28 - Exclusive Right of Ownership and Control of Fish of Riparian Owners of Ponds; Cultivation Rights - Section 28. The proprietors of lands upon which a pond...
Section 29 - Construction of Weir, Pound Net or Fish Trap - Section 29. The aldermen or city council of a city...
Section 30 - Marking of Weir, Pound Net or Fish Trap With Number of Approval - Section 30. Any person who constructs or maintains any weir,...
Section 31 - Destruction or Injury to Weir, Pound Net or Fish Trap - Section 31. No person shall, without the consent of the...
Section 32 - Fishing Gear Swept Ashore by Natural Causes; Recovery - Section 32. The owner of any fishing gear mentioned in...
Section 33 - Reports of Owners of Boats and Fishing Gear; Marking of Fish Cars - Section 33. The owner of every boat, and the owner...
Section 34 - Catching, Buying and Selling Smelt Between March 15 and June 15; Wholesale or Retail Dealers - Section 34. Between March 15 and June 15, inclusive, no...
Section 35 - Taking Smelt Except by Angling; Inadvertent Taking by Net; Possession of Net, Seine or Trap as Prima Facie Evidence - Section 35. No person shall take or attempt to take...
Section 36 - Closing Portions of Streams Flowing Into Coastal Waters During Spawning Season - Section 36. For the purpose of protecting smelt and their...
Section 37 - Lobsters and Crabs; Licenses - Section 37. No person, either as principal, agent or employee,...
Section 37a - Green Crabs - Section 37A. Any person may take green crabs, more specifically...
Section 38 - Licenses; Application; Fee; Eligibility; Markings of Buoys; Exhibition of License - Section 38. A person shall not fish for or take...
Section 38a - Display of License Number and Buoy Colors - Section 38A. No person or persons shall take or attempt...
Section 38b - Commercial Licenses; Catch Data; Transfers - Section 38B. All applicants issued a commercial fishermen permit for...
Section 39 - Hours for Tending, Lifting or Drawing Lobster or Crab Pots or Traps - Section 39. No person shall tend, lift, raise or draw...
Section 41 - Taking or Selling Female Lobsters Bearing Eggs - Section 41. Any person who takes, sells or has in...
Section 41a - Taking of Female Egg-Bearing Lobsters While Fishing or Landing - Section 41A. Any person who takes, sells or has in...
Section 42 - Plants for Propagation of Lobsters; Establishment and Maintenance - Section 42. The director shall, to the extent of appropriation...
Section 43 - Conditions for Taking or Possession of Egg-Bearing Lobsters; Rearing and Liberating of Young; Disposition of Lobsters - Section 43. Between March first and October thirty-first, both dates...
Section 44 - Sale or Possession of Short Lobsters; Mutilation of Short Lobsters; Prima Facie Evidence - Section 44. Whoever sells, or offers for sale, or has...
Section 44a - V–notched Lobster - Section 44A. The director may, by regulation approved by the...
Section 44b - Limits on Sales of Lobsters Taken by Methods Other Than Pots or Traps - Section 44B. No commercial fishing vessel landing lobsters taken by...
Section 47 - Marking Barrels, Boxes or Containers of Lobsters or Lobster Meat - Section 47. All barrels, boxes or other containers containing lobsters,...
Section 48 - Disposal of Lobsters or Lobster Meat Seized in Unmarked Containers - Section 48. In case of seizure by any duly authorized...
Section 49 - Liability of Carrier of Unmarked Containers of Lobsters or Lobster Meat - Section 49. No carrier shall knowingly receive or carry from...
Section 50 - Forfeiture or Liberation of Seized Lobsters or Lobster Meat - Section 50. When any lobster or lobster meat is seized...
Section 51 - Sale of Native Lobsters; Representations for Purposes of Sale - Section 51. No person shall sell, or represent for the...
Section 51a - Sale of Crabmeat; Representations for Purposes of Sale - Section 51A. No retail establishment or person shall sell or...
Section 52 - Taking of Eels, Shellfish and Sea Worms; Areas in Which Commercial Taking Prohibited - Section 52. The selectmen of a town bordering upon coastal...
Section 53 - Form of Permits; Record of Issuance - Section 53. All permits issued under section fifty-two shall be...
Section 54 - Cultivation, Propagation and Protection of Shellfish; Appropriations by Cities and Towns; Close Seasons - Section 54. Cities by a vote of the board of...
Section 55 - Aliens; Shellfish Taken for Commercial Purposes; Permits - Section 55. No permit for the taking of shellfish for...
Section 56 - Joint Control by Municipalities of Marine Fisheries - Section 56. Whenever under the authority of any law two...
Section 57 - Shellfish Aquaculture Licenses - Section 57. The city council or mayor of any city,...
Section 58 - Transfer or Renewal of Licenses - Section 58. Any license granted under section fifty-seven or corresponding...
Section 59 - Application for License; Request for Survey and Plan - Section 59. Any person, firm or corporation qualified as provided...
Section 60 - Hearing on Issuance of License; Notice; Publication - Section 60. No license referred to in section fifty-seven shall...
Section 61 - Marking of Territory Covered by License; Maintenance of Markings - Section 61. The licensee upon receiving his license shall cause...
Section 62 - Records of Licensed Areas, Licenses Granted, Transfers and Renewals - Section 62. The aldermen, city council or selectmen shall keep...
Section 63 - Exclusive Rights of Licensees or Transferees; Trespass on Licensed Area; Treble Damages - Section 63. The licensee or transferee, or his legal representatives,...
Section 64 - Annual Fee for License - Section 64. Every such licensee or transferee shall pay to...
Section 65 - Annual Report of Shellfish Planted, Produced and Marketed; Estimate of Growing Shellfish; Forfeiture for Deficiency - Section 65. Every licensee or transferee of a license referred...
Section 66 - Destruction or Removal of Marks or Bounds; Double Damages - Section 66. No person shall willfully injure, deface, destroy or...
Section 67 - Taking or Disturbing Shellfish From Licensed Grounds or Beds Without Consent - Section 67. No person shall, without the consent of the...
Section 68 - Digging, Taking or Carrying Away Shellfish From Licensed Waters, Flats or Creeks at Night - Section 68. No person shall dig, take or carry away...
Section 69 - Seed Quahaugs, Clams or Oysters; Taking or Possession - Section 69. Whoever takes or has in his possession quahaugs...
Section 70 - Taking and Sale of Scallops; Adult and Seed Scallops; Culling - Section 70. No person shall take from the flats or...
Section 71 - Close Season on Scallops - Section 71. Except as provided in sections seventy and seventy-three,...
Section 72 - Limitation on Catch of Scallops - Section 72. No person shall for any purpose take more...
Section 73 - Granting Modification in Respect to Close Season and Number of Scallops That May Be Taken; Petition; Investigation - Section 73. The provisions of sections seventy-one and seventy-two in...
Section 74 - Determination of Contaminated Areas; Notice of Results - Section 74. The division of marine fisheries shall examine from...
Section 74a - Emergency Designation of Contaminated Shellfish Areas; Enforcement; Notice to Local Authorities - Section 74A. Both the department of public health and the...
Section 75 - Shellfish From Contaminated Areas, Permits, Purification; Shellfish Conservation - Section 75. The director may grant, and may revoke, written...
Section 76 - Construction and Operation of Shellfish Purification Plants; Powers of Commissioner - Section 76. The director of the division of marine fisheries...
Section 77 - Cost of Operation - Section 77. For the purpose of partially defraying the costs...
Section 80 - Commercial Permits and Certificates; Issuance; Transfers; Wholesale Dealer Permit; Regulated Marine Fishery Permit; Rules and Regulations; Cancellation; Revocation; Penalties - Section 80. Except as permitted in sections thirty-eight and seventy-five,...
Section 81 - Importation of Shellfish for Consumption; Certification; Labeling of Containers - Section 81. No person shall transport, or cause to be...
Section 82 - Source of Supply of Shellfish; Tags or Labels; Contents; Record of Markings on Tags or Labels; Inspection - Section 82. No wholesale or retail dealer in shellfish, and...
Section 83 - Permit Fees; Types of Permits - Section 83. For the purposes of defraying the costs of...
Section 92 - Sale of Scallops; Soaked Scallops; Scallops Not in Shell; Marking of Containers; Common Carriers - Section 92. No person shall sell, exchange, transport or deliver...
Section 93 - Opening Ditches or Canals for Fisheries for Propagation of Herring, Alewives and Other Food Fish; Acquisition of Land and Waters; Regulation and Leasing of Fisheries - Section 93. A town may open ditches, sluiceways or canals...
Section 94 - Petition by City and Town to Control and Regulate Public Fisheries for Alewives; Regulation and Lease of Fisheries - Section 94. The board of aldermen or the city council...
Section 95 - Taking Fish From Fisheries Without Permission - Section 95. No person shall take, kill, haul onshore, disturb,...
Section 96 - Impairment of Private Property Rights; Contracts; Leasing at Public Auction - Section 96. Sections ninety-three, ninety-four and ninety-five shall not impair...
Section 98 - Shellfish Constables; Appointment; Powers and Duties; Notice of Appointment - Section 98. In each city and town bordering on coastal...
Section 100a - Striped Bass; Regulations - Section 100A. The director, with the approval of the marine...
Section 100b - Taking Striped Bass; Methods; Traps - Section 100B. No person shall take, or attempt to take,...
Section 100c - Shad; Methods of Taking - Section 100C. No person shall take, or attempt to take,...
Section 100d - Eels; Methods of Taking - Section 100D. No person shall take or attempt to take...
Section 101a - Gray Seal; Protection - Section 101A. No person shall wilfully detain, hunt, kill or...
Section 102 - Marine Plants; Regulation of Taking - Section 102. No person shall harvest for sale or engage...
Section 104 - Effect on Special Statutes Relating to Fisheries in Particular Places - Section 104. This chapter shall not be deemed to affect...
Section 105 - Protection of Coastal Wetlands - Section 105. The commissioner of environmental protection may from time...
Section 106 - Possessing, Selling, Offering for Sale, Trading or Distributing of Shark Fins Prohibited; Exceptions; Penalty for Violation - Section 106. (a) Except as provided in this section, no...
Section 1c - Division of Marine Fisheries Shellfish Advisory Panel - [ Text of section added by 2021, 24, Sec. 52...
Chapter 131 - Inland Fisheries and Game and Other Natural Resources
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...