Massachusetts Code — 129
Browse 75 sections in division 129 of the Massachusetts code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
Sections (showing up to 300)
- § 1. Definitions
- § 2. Powers and duties of director; orders
- § 3. Records of inspectors; forms
- § 4. Certification of documents by clerk
- § 5. Entry of orders, rules and regulations on records; publication
- § 6. Aid to director and inspectors by sheriffs, constables and police officers
- § 7. Entry on premises
- § 8. Hospitals and quarantine stations
- § 9. Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; Animal Rescue League of Boston; agents; powers and duties
- § 10. Examination of persons under oath; mandatory attendance and testimony of witnesses
- § 11. Isolation or destruction of diseased animals; post mortem examination
- § 13A. Destruction of animals affected with scrapie; partial compensation
- § 14. Destruction of animals affected with foot and mouth disease; disinfection or destruction of buildings
- § 14A. Quarantine or destruction of animals affected with vesicular stomatitis or vesicular exanthema
- § 14B. Feeding garbage to swine
- § 14C. Hog cholera; slaughtering of hogs; payment to owners
- § 14D. Hogs affected with brucellosis; quarantine and testing
- § 14E. Breeding, feeder or slaughter swine imported into commonwealth
- § 15. Inspector of animals; appointment
- § 16. Refusal or neglect of town to appoint inspector; appointment by director
- § 17. Oath of inspectors; compensation; reimbursement of towns
- § 18. Duties of inspectors; training; enforcement
- § 19. Inspections of domestic animals
- § 20. Certificate of healthy condition
- § 21. Quarantine of diseased animals; notice or order; records
- § 22. Service of notice or order of quarantine; return; evidence
- § 22A. Dogs owned by police departments or agencies
- § 23. Examination of buildings; report
- § 24. Notice of quarantine
- § 25. Records of inspectors of animals; returns
- § 26. Application of chapter to inspectors in Boston
- § 26A. Shipping cattle into commonwealth without inspection; certificate of health
- § 26B. Hatching eggs; baby chicks or live poultry; restriction on sale, transportation or importation
- § 27. Seizure, quarantine and destruction of imported diseased animals
- § 28. Notice of contagious disease to director
- § 29. Expense of quarantine
- § 30. Effect of quarantine; release; violation of quarantine; penalty
- § 31. Damages; arbitration; petition for assessment of damages
- § 31A. Shipping or delivering tuberculin within commonwealth; statement as to use; application to common carriers
- § 32. Use of tuberculin as diagnostic agent; tests
- § 33. Compensation for animals reacting to tuberculin test; appraisals
- § 33A. Identification of reacting bovine animals; removal of tag; disposition of tagged animals
- § 33B. Declaration of quarantine areas; tuberculin tests of bovine animals; modified accredited areas; violation of terms of quarantine
- § 33C. Declaration of quarantine area; tests for brucellosis of bovine animals; modified certified brucellosis free area; violation of terms of quarantine
- § 33D. Tests for detection of brucellosis; identification of animals; destruction
- § 34. Compensation to violators of regulations
- § 35. Driving certain cattle on public ways or roads
- § 36. Notice of contagious diseases
- § 36B. Vaccination of female calves; identification of positive reactors; transportation of unvaccinated bovine animals
- § 36D. Importation of vaccinated animals; conditions
- § 36E. Importation of unvaccinated female cattle over five months of age
- § 36F. Brucellosis, imported cattle, blood testing
- § 36G. Reimbursement of owners for slaughter of animals reacting positively to blood test for brucellosis; appraisal
- § 36H. Waiver of compliance with Secs. 36B, 36D to 36F
- § 37. Enforcement actions; jurisdiction of commissioner of agriculture, district and superior courts
- § 38. Annual report
- § 39. Licensing of persons dealing in bovine and porcine animals; fee
- § 39A. Pet shops; licensing operation; animal health inspections
- § 39B. Guard dog businesses; licenses
- § 39C. Hearing dog business; licenses
- § 39D. Hearing dog business; access to public facilities
- § 39E. Livestock auction business; licenses
- § 39F. Service dogs; trainer rights
- § 39G. Official health certificate requirement for dog or cat brought or shipped into commonwealth; purchase of animal for resale; vaccination record; devocalization prohibited
- § 40. License plates for vehicles used for transportation of bovine or porcine animals; fee; revocation
- § 40A. Hog cholera vaccine; prohibited use
- § 41. Bill of sale or memorandum signed by owner of persons transporting bovine animals; exhibition on demand
- § 42. Tagging bovine animal with identification tag
- § 43. Penalties for violation of Secs. 39 to 42
- § 44. Testing of imported equine animals for infectious anemia; certification
- § 44A. Destruction or quarantine of infected equine animals
- § 45. License to deal in or auction equine animals
- § 46. License plates for vehicles transporting equine animals
- § 47. Bill of sale or memorandum
- § 48. Violations, penalties