Massachusetts General Laws
Part I - Administration of the Government
Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation

Section 4 - Determination of Endangered, Threatened or Special Concern Status - Section 4. The director shall conduct investigations and consult with...

Section 5 - Habitat Alteration Permits - Section 5. (a) Before any person alters a significant habitat,...

Section 6 - Penalties; Disposition of Fines Received - Section 6. (a) Any person who violates the provisions of...

Section 7 - Fees - Section 7. The director may establish fees for environmental review...

Chapter 132 - Forestry

Section 1 - Director of the Division of Forests and Parks; Duties - Section 1. The director of the division of forests and...

Section 1a - Chief Superintendent of the Bureau of Shade Tree Management and Pest Control; Powers and Duties - Section 1A. The chief superintendent of the bureau of shade...

Section 2 - Bequests and Gifts; Forestry Trust - Section 2. The commissioner of environmental management, in this chapter...

Section 3 - Forest Wardens; Payment for Investigations; Conventions - Section 3. The forester shall from the money appropriated annually...

Section 4 - Annual Report of Commissioner of Natural Resources - Section 4. The commissioner shall make annual reports of the...

Section 6 - Demonstrations in Proper Forestry Practices; Distribution of Trees; Co-Operation With Federal Government; Federal Funds; Employment of Technical Foresters - Section 6. The forester may demonstrate to owners of woodland,...

Section 7 - Labor on State Forests - Section 7. The forester, in the reforestation, maintenance and development...

Section 8 - Entry Upon Land to Control and Suppress Public Nuisances - Section 8. The chief superintendent, district supervisors, district superintendents and...

Section 9 - Establishment and Maintenance of Nurseries for Propagation of Forest Tree Seedlings; Distribution of Seeds and Seedlings - Section 9. The forester may establish and maintain nurseries for...

Section 11 - Suppression of Moths, Caterpillars, Worms and Beetles and Any Invasive Plant or Animal Species; Rules and Regulations; Contracts; Studies for Control of Public Nuisances; Annual Recommendations - Section 11. The chief superintendent may, subject to the approval...

Section 12 - Interference With Suppression or Eradication of Asian Longhorned Beetle, Oak Wilt or Any Public Nuisance; Penalties; Injunctive Relief - Section 12. Whoever knowingly resists or obstructs the commissioner, any...

Section 12a - Suppression of Public Nuisances on Land Under Control of Commonwealth - Section 12A. All persons in charge of land under the...

Section 13 - Local Superintendents of Shade Tree Management and Pest Control; Appointment; Notice; Assistants - Section 13. The city manager and the town manager in...

Section 14 - Reimbursement of Cities and Towns by Commonwealth for Suppression of Public Nuisances; Financial Liability; Accounts and Vouchers - Section 14. The financial liability, referred to in section eleven,...

Section 15 - Certified Itemized Statements of Expenditures - Section 15. Each local superintendent shall render to the chief...

Section 16 - Partial Reimbursement of Expenditures for Management of Public Shade Trees; Applications; Limitation of Assistance - Section 16. Any city or town, which has a public...

Section 25 - Suppression of Foliage-Destroying Pests Within City and Town Limits - Section 25. The local superintendent in each city and town...

Section 26a - Removal and Destruction of Trees Infected With Dutch Elm Disease - Section 26A. If the chief superintendent or the local superintendent...

Section 26d - County Aid to Cities or Towns in Suppression of Public Nuisances; Certification of Chief Superintendent - Section 26D. The county commissioners, subject to appropriation therefor, may...

Section 26e - Notice of Positive Diagnosis of Dutch Elm Disease; Condemnation of Tree - Section 26E. Notice of positive diagnosis received by the chief...

Section 26f - Positive Diagnosis of Dutch Elm Disease on Trees on Privately Owned Land; Notice; Order of Removal and Destruction; Spraying; Appeal - Section 26F. When notice of positive diagnosis is received by...

Section 26g - Removal and Destruction of Infected Trees by Local Superintendent; Cost; Suit; Apportionment of Costs; Abatement of Costs - Section 26G. If an order issued under section twenty-six F...

Section 30 - Forest Fire Observation Towers; Erection and Operation - Section 30. The commissioner, with the approval of the stewardship...

Section 31 - Control and Management of State Forests; Regulations - Section 31. Lands acquired under section thirty or thirty-three shall...

Section 32 - Appropriations for Necessary Expenses - Section 32. The forester, subject to the approval of the...

Section 34 - Rules and Regulations Relative to Use of State Forests; Enforcement - Section 34. The commissioner may make rules and regulations relative...

Section 34a - Sale or Exchange of State Forest Land; Rights of Way or Locations Over or Across State Forests; Telephone, Telegraph, Electric Light and Power Transmission Lines and Pipe Lines for Natural Gas; Revocation of Location; Hearing; Appeal - Section 34A. The commissioner, with the approval of the governor...

Section 35 - Acquisition of Land for Forestation by Towns - Section 35. Towns may acquire by purchase, gift or bequest...

Section 37 - Duties of Local Forest Wardens - Section 37. Every local forest warden, in addition to his...

Section 38 - Laying Out, Construction and Maintenance of Trails or Paths in State Forests; Use by Owners of Adjoining Land - Section 38. The commissioner may lay out, construct and maintain...

Section 38a - Construction and Maintenance of Trails for Certain Uses; Voluntary Services; Payment of Expenses - Section 38A. The department of environmental management shall construct and...

Section 39 - Contributions by Cities or Towns - Section 39. The mayor, selectmen or road commissioners, or the...

Section 40 - Forest Cutting Practices; Declaration of Policy of Commonwealth - Section 40. It is hereby declared that the public welfare...

Section 41 - State Forestry Committee; Members; Forest Cutting Practices and Guidelines - Section 41. The governor shall appoint a state forestry committee,...

Section 42 - Notice of Proposed Cutting of Forest Products; Final Work Order; Report to Director; Appeals - Section 42. Every owner of land who proposes to cut...

Section 43 - Forest Cutting Practices; Failure to Give Notice - Section 43. Whoever, not being exempt from section forty-two and...

Section 44 - Forest Cutting Practices; Exempted Cuttings - Section 44. The provisions of sections forty-two and forty-three shall...

Section 45 - Forest Cutting Practices; Cooperation With Other Agencies; Passage Through or Over Private Property - Section 45. For the purpose of sections forty to forty-four,...

Section 46 - License to Harvest Forest Products - Section 46. No person, firm or corporation engaged in the...

Section 47 - Licensing of Foresters; Definitions Applicable to Secs. 47 to 50 - Section 47. As used in sections forty-seven to fifty, inclusive,...

Section 48 - Licensing of Foresters; Violations; Penalty - Section 48. No person shall hold himself out as a...

Section 49 - Licenses of Foresters; Revocation; Suspension; Fees - Section 49. The director of the division of forests and...

Section 50 - Forester Licensing Committee; Membership - Section 50. There is hereby established a forester licensing committee,...

Section 51 - Forest and Wood Products Institute; Advisory Board - Section 51. Mount Wachusett Community College may establish a Forest...

Chapter 132a - State Recreation Areas Outside of the Metropolitan Parks District

Section 1 - Bequests, Restitutions or Gifts; Conservation Trust - Section 1. The commissioner of the department of environmental management,...

Section 1b - Director of State Parks and Recreation - Section 1B. The division of state parks and recreation shall...

Section 1c - Bureau of Forest Fire Control; Bureau of Forestry; Bureau of Recreation; Chiefs - Section 1C. There shall be in the division of forests...

Section 1d - Duties of Bureau of Forest Fire Control - Section 1D. The bureau of forest fire control shall perform...

Section 1e - Duties of Bureau of Recreation; Expenses - Section 1E. The bureau of recreation shall perform such duties...

Section 1f - Duties of Bureau of Forestry - Section 1F. The bureau of forestry shall, under the supervision...

Section 1g - Absence or Disability of Chiefs - Section 1G. The director may designate any employee of the...

Section 1h - Duties of Director of the Division of State Parks and Recreation - Section 1H. The director of the division of state parks...

Section 2 - Assumption of Care and Maintenance of Park or Reservation Outside Urban Park District - Section 2. The commissioner, with like approval, on petition of...

Section 2a - Long-Term Programs; Powers of Commissioner - Section 2A. The commissioner is hereby authorized and directed to...

Section 2b - Nature of Use of Acquired Lands - Section 2B. It is hereby declared to be the policy...

Section 2c - Planning, Construction and Maintenance - Section 2C. The planning, construction, operation and maintenance of the...

Section 2d - Development and Improvement; Powers of Commissioner - Section 2D. In the development and improvement of state parks,...

Section 3 - Purchase or Lease of Land Lying Outside of Urban Parks District; Recreational Facilities - Section 3. The commissioner may, from time to time within...

Section 3a - Eminent Domain; Exercise of Power - Section 3A. The exercise of the power of eminent domain...

Section 3b - Acquisition of Rights by Prescription or Adverse Possession - Section 3B. A person shall not acquire any rights by...

Section 7 - Rules and Regulations; Concessions; Powers and Duties of Forest Supervisors, Park Superintendents and Laborers - Section 7. The commissioner, in consultation with the director of...

Section 7a - Chief Park Ranger; Park Rangers; Violations of Environmental Regulations; Non-Criminal Disposition - Section 7A. There is established within the department of environmental...

Section 7b - Stolen, Lost, or Abandoned Property - Section 7B. If money, goods or other property which has...

Section 7c - Sale by Public Auction - Section 7C. If no person proves ownership of such money,...

Section 7d - Notice of Sale - Section 7D. Notice of the time and place of the...

Section 7e - Sale of Property, if Perishable or Liable to Deteriorate - Section 7E. The property, if perishable or liable to deteriorate...

Section 7f - Proceeds of Sale - Section 7F. The proceeds of the sale, together with the...

Section 7g - Payment to Owner - Section 7G. If within 2 years after the sale the...

Section 8 - Assistance of Director to Boards and Commissions - Section 8. The director shall, in an advisory capacity, assist...

Section 9 - Annual Report - Section 9. The commissioner shall make an annual report of...

Section 11 - Conservation Program for Cities and Towns; Establishment - Section 11. The secretary of environmental affairs shall establish a...

Section 111/2 - Conservation Program for Nonprofit Corporations; Establishment - Section 111/2. The secretary of environmental affairs shall establish a...

Section 12 - Appalachian Trail - Section 12. The commissioner on behalf of the commonwealth may...

Section 12a - Massachusetts Ocean Sanctuaries Act - Section 12A. Sections 12B to 16J, inclusive and section 18...

Section 12b - Definitions - Section 12B. As used in sections twelve A to eighteen,...

Section 12c - Regulations; Integration of Act With Other Programs and Agencies - Section 12C. Unless otherwise specified in this chapter, the office...

Section 13 - Ocean and Bay Sanctuaries; Cape Cod, Cape Cod Bay, Cape and Islands, North Shore, South Essex; Landward Boundaries - Section 13. There are hereby established the following ocean sanctuaries:...

Section 14 - Care, Control, and Protection of Sanctuaries - Section 14. All ocean sanctuaries as described in section thirteen...

Section 15 - Prohibited Activities in Ocean Sanctuaries - Section 15. Except as otherwise provided in this section, the...

Section 16 - Permitted Activities in Ocean Sanctuaries - Section 16. Nothing in this act is intended to prohibit...

Section 16g - Publicly Owned Treatment Works; New or Modified Discharge Into Ocean Sanctuaries; Prerequisites - Section 16G. The department may approve a new or modified...

Section 16h - Discharges Within Estuaries or Coastal Embayments - Section 16H. Discharges may occur within estuaries or coastal embayments...

Section 16i - New or Modified Discharge Into Ocean Sanctuaries; Application Requirements - Section 16I. An application for a new or modified discharge...

Section 16j - New or Modified Discharge Into Ocean Sanctuaries; Notice; Hearing; Decision; Effective Date - Section 16J. Upon receipt of an application for a new...

Section 16k - New or Modified Discharge Conditions - Section 16K. Any condition adopted by the department in approving...

Section 17 - Squannacook and Nissitissit Rivers Sanctuary - Section 17. There is hereby established in the towns of...

Section 18 - Permits, Approvals, Certificates and Licenses; Ocean Development Mitigation Fee - Section 18. All departments, divisions, commissions, or units of the...

Chapter 132b - Massachusetts Pesticide Control Act

Section 1 - Title; Purpose - Section 1. This chapter shall be known and may be...

Section 2 - Definitions - Section 2. Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, when used...

Section 3 - Pesticide Board - Section 3. There shall be within the department of food...

Section 3a - Pesticide Board Subcommittee - Section 3A. A subcommittee of the pesticide board shall be...

Section 4 - Programs Director - Section 4. The pesticide regulatory functions conferred upon the department...

Section 5 - Powers and Duties of Department - Section 5. The department with the approval of the board...

Section 5a - Reduction of Pesticide Use; Annual Report - Section 5A. The department shall promote the use of biologic...

Section 6 - Prohibited Distributions, Etc. - Section 6. No person shall distribute a pesticide not registered...

Section 6a - Prohibited Activities - Section 6A. No person shall use a registered pesticide in...

Section 6b - Pesticide Use by Utilities; Notice; Development of Policies to Reduce Pesticide Use Along Roadways; Personal Protection Equipment and Clothing - Section 6B. (a) No gas, electric, telephone or other utility...

Section 6c - Pesticide Use at Schools, Child Care Centers or School Age Child Care Programs; Standard Written Notification - Section 6C. (a) Pesticides shall not be sprayed, released, deposited...

Section 6d - Posting of Standard Written Notification of Pesticide Use at Schools, Child Care Centers and School Age Child Care Programs - Section 6D. Each school administration, child care center operator, or...

Section 6e - Integrated Pest Management Plans - Section 6E. (a) On or before November 1, 2001, each...

Section 6f - Pesticide Products Eligible for Use Indoors at Schools, Child Care Centers and School Age Child Care Programs - Section 6F. Beginning November 1, 2001, pesticide products eligible for...

Section 6g - Pesticide Products Eligible for Outdoor Use at Schools, Child Care Centers and School Age Child Care Programs - Section 6G. Beginning November 1, 2001, pesticide products eligible for...

Section 6h - Emergency Situations at Schools, Child Care Centers and School Age Child Care Programs; Single-Use Waivers for Pesticides - Section 6H. (a) If a school official or an operator...

Section 6i - Written or Electronic Records of Pesticide Use at Schools, Child Care Centers and School Age Child Care Programs - Section 6I. A written or electronic record of any and...

Section 6j - Pesticide Use as Part of Supervised Training Programs at Vocational, Technical and Agricultural Schools - Section 6J. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, sections...

Section 6k - Review of Anti-Microbial Pesticides - Section 6K. The department shall conduct a review of anti-microbial...

Section 7 - Registration - Section 7. Pesticides, including pesticides that are federally registered may...

Section 7a - Pesticide Use Reporting System - Section 7A. (a) Subject to appropriation, the department shall establish...

Section 8 - Experimental Use Permits - Section 8. Any person may apply to the subcommittee for...

Section 9 - Dealers' Licenses - Section 9. A person may apply to the department to...

Section 10 - Certificates, Licenses and Permits; Issuance, Suspension and Revocation; Administrative or Civil Penalty - Section 10. (a) The department may issue certifications, licenses and...

Section 11 - Protection of Health and Environment; Regulations - Section 11. The department shall by regulation establish such restrictions...

Section 12 - Hazards; Adverse Environmental Effects; Departmental Orders; Violations - Section 12. Whenever it appears to the department that there...

Section 13 - Adjudicatory Hearings - Section 13. Any person aggrieved by a determination by the...

Section 14 - Violations; Penalties; Injunctions - Section 14. Any person who knowingly violates any provision of...

Section 14a - Civil Administrative Penalties; Adjudicatory Hearings - Section 14A. (a) Notwithstanding this chapter, the department may assess...

Section 15 - Departmental Personnel, Agents and Inspectors; Powers; Evidence; Confidential Information - Section 15. For the purpose of administering the provisions of...

Section 16 - Children and Families Protection Fund - Section 16. There shall be established and set up on...

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Massachusetts General Laws Part I - Administration of the Government Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation

Massachusetts General Laws
Part I - Administration of the Government
Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation