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- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 129, § 38 · Annual report
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 129, § 39 · Licensing of persons dealing in bovine and porcine animals; fee
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 129, § 39A · Pet shops; licensing operation; animal health inspections
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 129, § 39B · Guard dog businesses; licenses
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 129, § 39C · Hearing dog business; licenses
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 129, § 39D · Hearing dog business; access to public facilities
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 129, § 39E · Livestock auction business; licenses
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 129, § 39F · Service dogs; trainer rights
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 129, § 39G · Official health certificate requirement for dog or cat brought or shipped into commonwealth; purchase of animal for resale; vaccination record; devocalization prohibited
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 129, § 40 · License plates for vehicles used for transportation of bovine or porcine animals; fee; revocation
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 129, § 40A · Hog cholera vaccine; prohibited use
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 129, § 41 · Bill of sale or memorandum signed by owner of persons transporting bovine animals; exhibition on demand
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 129, § 42 · Tagging bovine animal with identification tag
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 129, § 43 · Penalties for violation of Secs. 39 to 42
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 129, § 44 · Testing of imported equine animals for infectious anemia; certification
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 129, § 44A · Destruction or quarantine of infected equine animals
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 129, § 45 · License to deal in or auction equine animals
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 129, § 46 · License plates for vehicles transporting equine animals
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 129, § 47 · Bill of sale or memorandum
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 129, § 48 · Violations, penalties
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 1 · Definitions; rules of construction
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 1A · Division of marine fisheries
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 1B · Marine fisheries advisory commission
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 1C · Division of marine fisheries shellfish advisory panel
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 2 · Transferability of licenses, permits and certificates of registration; suspension or voidance for violation of marine laws; surrender; impounding fishing gear
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 2A · Repealed, 1977, 363A, Sec. 66
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 2B · Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 381
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 3 · Duplicate license, permit, or certificate
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 4 · Record of licenses, permits or certificates; inspection; endorsement of date of sale on license, permits and certificates
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 4A · Administrative inspections
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 5 · Jurisdictional boundaries
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 6 to 8 · Repealed, 1964, 524, Sec. 6
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 8A · Powers of police officers
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 9 · Searches, seizures and arrests without warrant
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 10 · Issuance of search warrant
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 11 · Repealed, 1964, 524, Sec. 6
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 12 · Seizure and forfeiture of fish unlawfully taken, boats and apparatus; sale; proceeds
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 13 · Display of fish upon demand; violations
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 14 · Limitation of actions and prosecutions
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 15 · Repealed, 1963, 383, Sec. 2
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 15A · Reciprocal enforcement of laws relating to marine fisheries
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 16 · Occupation of tide waters or work done therein subject to chapter 91
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 17 · Powers of director
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 17A · Management of marine fisheries
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 17B · Aquacultural enterprises; permits
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 17C · Recreational saltwater fishing permit program; finfishing; for-hire fishing; categories; marine recreational fisheries development panel
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 17D · Penalties for violation of Sec. 17C
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 18 · Illegal entry on property maintained for experiments, protection or propagation of fish
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 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
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 20 · Increase in supply of shellfish; co-operation with coastal cities and towns; treatment or purification of shellfish
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 20A · Propagation of shellfish; co-operation with coastal cities and towns
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 21 · Compilation of statistical information useful to marine fish industries; confidentiality; false reports; refusal or failure
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 22 · Repealed, 1972, 789, Sec. 1
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 23 · Discharge of oil or other poisonous substances into coastal waters; use of explosives; penalty
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 24 · Violation of Sec. 23; tort liability
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 25 · Discharge of sewage or other substance injurious to public health into coastal waters; approved drainage
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 26 · Jurisdiction and proceedings to enforce Secs. 23 to 25
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 27 · Criminal and tort liability for discharge of sewage or other substance injurious to public health into coastal waters
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 27A · Repealed, 1972, 784, Sec. 2
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 28 · Exclusive right of ownership and control of fish of riparian owners of ponds; cultivation rights
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 29 · Construction of weir, pound net or fish trap
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 30 · Marking of weir, pound net or fish trap with number of approval
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 31 · Destruction or injury to fishing gear
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 32 · Repealed, 2024, 238, Sec. 238
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 33 · Reports of owners of boats and fishing gear; marking of fish cars
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 34 · Catching, buying and selling smelt between March 15 and June 15; wholesale or retail dealers
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 35 · Taking smelt except by angling; inadvertent taking by net; possession of net, seine or trap as prima facie evidence
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 36 · Closing portions of streams flowing into coastal waters during spawning season
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 37 · Lobsters and crabs; licenses
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 37A · Green crabs
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 38 · Licenses; application; fee; eligibility; markings of buoys; exhibition of license
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 38A · Display of license number and buoy colors
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 38B · Commercial licenses; catch data; transfers
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 39 · Hours for tending, lifting or drawing lobster or crab pots or traps
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 40 · Repealed, 2020, 227, Sec. 46
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 41 · Taking or selling female lobsters bearing eggs
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 41A · Taking of female egg-bearing lobsters while fishing or landing
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 42 · Plants for propagation of lobsters; establishment and maintenance
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 43 · Conditions for taking or possession of egg-bearing lobsters; rearing and liberating of young; disposition of lobsters
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 44 · Sale or possession of short lobsters; mutilation of short lobsters; prima facie evidence
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 44A · V–notched lobster
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 44B · Limits on sales of lobsters taken by methods other than pots or traps
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 45, 46 · Repealed, 1964, 524, Sec. 6
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 47 · Marking barrels, boxes or containers of lobsters or lobster meat
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 48 · Disposal of lobsters or lobster meat seized in unmarked containers
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 49 · Liability of carrier of unmarked containers of lobsters or lobster meat
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 50 · Forfeiture or liberation of seized lobsters or lobster meat
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 51 · Sale of native lobsters; representations for purposes of sale
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 51A · Sale of crabmeat; representations for purposes of sale
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 52 · Taking of eels, shellfish and sea worms; areas in which commercial taking prohibited
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 53 · Form of permits; record of issuance
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 54 · Cultivation, propagation and protection of shellfish; appropriations by cities and towns; close seasons
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 55 · Aliens; shellfish taken for commercial purposes; permits
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 56 · Joint control by municipalities of marine fisheries
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 57 · Shellfish aquaculture licenses
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 58 · Transfer or renewal of licenses
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 59 · Application for license; request for survey and plan
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 60 · Hearing on issuance of license; notice; publication
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 61 · Marking of territory covered by license; maintenance of markings
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 62 · Records of licensed areas, licenses granted, transfers and renewals