Massachusetts Code — 130
Browse 105 sections in division 130 of the Massachusetts code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 1. Definitions; rules of construction
- § 1A. Division of marine fisheries
- § 1B. Marine fisheries advisory commission
- § 1C. Division of marine fisheries shellfish advisory panel
- § 2. Transferability of licenses, permits and certificates of registration; suspension or voidance for violation of marine laws; surrender; impounding fishing gear
- § 3. Duplicate license, permit, or certificate
- § 4. Record of licenses, permits or certificates; inspection; endorsement of date of sale on license, permits and certificates
- § 4A. Administrative inspections
- § 5. Jurisdictional boundaries
- § 8A. Powers of police officers
- § 9. Searches, seizures and arrests without warrant
- § 10. Issuance of search warrant
- § 12. Seizure and forfeiture of fish unlawfully taken, boats and apparatus; sale; proceeds
- § 13. Display of fish upon demand; violations
- § 14. Limitation of actions and prosecutions
- § 15A. Reciprocal enforcement of laws relating to marine fisheries
- § 16. Occupation of tide waters or work done therein subject to chapter 91
- § 17. Powers of director
- § 17A. Management of marine fisheries
- § 17B. Aquacultural enterprises; permits
- § 17C. Recreational saltwater fishing permit program; finfishing; for-hire fishing; categories; marine recreational fisheries development panel
- § 17D. Penalties for violation of Sec. 17C
- § 18. Illegal entry on property maintained for experiments, protection or propagation of fish
- § 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
- § 20. Increase in supply of shellfish; co-operation with coastal cities and towns; treatment or purification of shellfish
- § 20A. Propagation of shellfish; co-operation with coastal cities and towns
- § 21. Compilation of statistical information useful to marine fish industries; confidentiality; false reports; refusal or failure
- § 23. Discharge of oil or other poisonous substances into coastal waters; use of explosives; penalty
- § 24. Violation of Sec. 23; tort liability
- § 25. Discharge of sewage or other substance injurious to public health into coastal waters; approved drainage
- § 26. Jurisdiction and proceedings to enforce Secs. 23 to 25
- § 27. Criminal and tort liability for discharge of sewage or other substance injurious to public health into coastal waters
- § 28. Exclusive right of ownership and control of fish of riparian owners of ponds; cultivation rights
- § 29. Construction of weir, pound net or fish trap
- § 30. Marking of weir, pound net or fish trap with number of approval
- § 31. Destruction or injury to fishing gear
- § 33. Reports of owners of boats and fishing gear; marking of fish cars
- § 34. Catching, buying and selling smelt between March 15 and June 15; wholesale or retail dealers
- § 35. Taking smelt except by angling; inadvertent taking by net; possession of net, seine or trap as prima facie evidence
- § 36. Closing portions of streams flowing into coastal waters during spawning season
- § 37. Lobsters and crabs; licenses
- § 37A. Green crabs
- § 38. Licenses; application; fee; eligibility; markings of buoys; exhibition of license
- § 38A. Display of license number and buoy colors
- § 38B. Commercial licenses; catch data; transfers
- § 39. Hours for tending, lifting or drawing lobster or crab pots or traps
- § 41. Taking or selling female lobsters bearing eggs
- § 41A. Taking of female egg-bearing lobsters while fishing or landing
- § 42. Plants for propagation of lobsters; establishment and maintenance
- § 43. Conditions for taking or possession of egg-bearing lobsters; rearing and liberating of young; disposition of lobsters
- § 44. Sale or possession of short lobsters; mutilation of short lobsters; prima facie evidence
- § 44A. V–notched lobster
- § 44B. Limits on sales of lobsters taken by methods other than pots or traps
- § 47. Marking barrels, boxes or containers of lobsters or lobster meat
- § 48. Disposal of lobsters or lobster meat seized in unmarked containers
- § 49. Liability of carrier of unmarked containers of lobsters or lobster meat
- § 50. Forfeiture or liberation of seized lobsters or lobster meat
- § 51. Sale of native lobsters; representations for purposes of sale
- § 51A. Sale of crabmeat; representations for purposes of sale
- § 52. Taking of eels, shellfish and sea worms; areas in which commercial taking prohibited
- § 53. Form of permits; record of issuance
- § 54. Cultivation, propagation and protection of shellfish; appropriations by cities and towns; close seasons
- § 55. Aliens; shellfish taken for commercial purposes; permits
- § 56. Joint control by municipalities of marine fisheries
- § 57. Shellfish aquaculture licenses
- § 58. Transfer or renewal of licenses
- § 59. Application for license; request for survey and plan
- § 60. Hearing on issuance of license; notice; publication
- § 61. Marking of territory covered by license; maintenance of markings
- § 62. Records of licensed areas, licenses granted, transfers and renewals
- § 63. Exclusive rights of licensees or transferees; trespass on licensed area; treble damages
- § 64. Annual fee for license
- § 65. Annual report of shellfish planted, produced and marketed; estimate of growing shellfish; forfeiture for deficiency
- § 66. Destruction or removal of marks or bounds; double damages
- § 67. Taking or disturbing shellfish from licensed grounds or beds without consent
- § 68. Digging, taking or carrying away shellfish from licensed waters, flats or creeks at night
- § 69. Seed quahaugs, clams or oysters; taking or possession
- § 70. Taking and sale of scallops; adult and seed scallops; culling
- § 71. Close season on scallops
- § 72. Limitation on catch of scallops
- § 73. Granting modification in respect to close season and number of scallops that may be taken; petition; investigation
- § 74. Determination of contaminated areas; notice of results
- § 74A. Emergency designation of contaminated shellfish areas; enforcement; notice to local authorities
- § 75. Shellfish from contaminated areas, permits, purification; shellfish conservation
- § 76. Construction and operation of shellfish purification plants; powers of commissioner
- § 77. Cost of operation
- § 80. Commercial permits and certificates; issuance; transfers; wholesale dealer permit; regulated marine fishery permit; rules and regulations; cancellation; revocation; penalties
- § 81. Importation of shellfish for consumption; certification; labeling of containers
- § 82. Source of supply of shellfish; tags or labels; contents; record of markings on tags or labels; inspection
- § 83. Permit fees; types of permits
- § 92. Sale of scallops; soaked scallops; scallops not in shell; marking of containers; common carriers
- § 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
- § 94. Petition by city and town to control and regulate public fisheries for alewives; regulation and lease of fisheries
- § 95. Taking fish from fisheries without permission
- § 96. Impairment of private property rights; contracts; leasing at public auction
- § 98. Shellfish constables; appointment; powers and duties; notice of appointment
- § 100A. Striped bass; regulations
- § 100B. Taking striped bass; methods; traps
- § 100C. Shad; methods of taking
- § 100D. Eels; methods of taking
- § 101A. Gray seal; protection
- § 102. Marine plants; regulation of taking
- § 104. Effect on special statutes relating to fisheries in particular places
- § 105. Protection of coastal wetlands
- § 106. Possessing, selling, offering for sale, trading or distributing of shark fins prohibited; exceptions; penalty for violation