{"data":{"id":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-130-23","jurisdiction":"us-ma","citation":"Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 23","heading":"Discharge of oil or other poisonous substances into coastal waters; use of explosives; penalty","body":"Section 23. Except in the case of emergency imperiling life or property or an unavoidable accident or except in accordance with the terms of a permit issued pursuant to state or federal water pollution control laws, no person shall, from any source: (i) put, throw, discharge or suffer or permit to be discharged or permit the escape of any oil, poisonous or other injurious substance into any coastal waters; provided, however, that such substances shall include, but not limited to, sawdust, shavings, garbage, ashes, acids, sewage and dye-stuffs, whether simple, mixed or compound, or heated effluent, which directly or indirectly materially injures fish, fish spawn or seed therein; (ii) take any such fish by any such means; (iii) kill or destroy fish in any such waters by the use of dynamite or other explosives; (iv) take any such fish in such waters by such means; or (v) explode dynamite or other explosive in such waters.","path":["Part I","Title XIX","Chapter 130"],"source_url":"https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXIX/Chapter130/Section23","current_through":"amendments passed before May 31, 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T05:23:09Z","sha256":"29b4fb5982f943ccb3a30630f30c8144f327cc22a65ab81a80b12ca340832aa4","source_id":"us-ma","stale":false,"prev":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-130-22","next":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-130-24"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}