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- Massachusetts General Laws - Director of the division of forests and parks; duties - Chapter 132, Section 1
The director of the division of forests and parks, in this chapter called the forester, in the department of environmental management, in this chapter called...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Chief superintendent of the bureau of shade tree management and pest control; powers and duties - Chapter 132, Section 1A
The chief superintendent of the bureau of shade tree management and pest control shall act for the commonwealth in suppressing the pests declared in section...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bequests and gifts; forestry trust - Chapter 132, Section 2
The commissioner of environmental management, in this chapter called the commissioner, with the approval of the governor and council, may accept on behalf of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Payment of forest wardens for investigations; conventions of forest wardens - Chapter 132, Section 3
The forester shall from the money appropriated annually for the expenses of his office recompense the forest wardens for the time spent by them in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Annual report of commissioner of natural resources - Chapter 132, Section 4
The commissioner shall make annual reports of the acts of the forester and of the acts of the chief superintendent, which latter report shall include...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1932, 180, Sec. 27 - Chapter 132, Section 5
Chapter 132: Section 5. Repealed, 1932, 180, Sec. 27
- Massachusetts General Laws - Demonstrations in proper forestry practices; distribution of trees; co-operation with federal government; federal funds; employment of technical foresters - Chapter 132, Section 6
The forester may demonstrate to owners of woodland, at a fee not to exceed the actual cost of the service, the proper methods of planting,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Labor on state forests - Chapter 132, Section 7
The forester, in the reforestation, maintenance and development of lands purchased under section thirty or thirty-three, shall, so far as practicable, obtain the labor necessary...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Entry upon land to control and suppress public nuisances - Chapter 132, Section 8
The chief superintendent, district supervisors, district superintendents and other employees and authorized agents of the bureau of shade tree management and pest control may enter...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment and maintenance of nurseries for propagation of forest tree seedlings; distribution of seeds and seedlings - Chapter 132, Section 9
The forester may establish and maintain nurseries for the propagation of forest tree seedlings upon such lands of the commonwealth at any state institution as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1931, 126, Sec. 4 - Chapter 132, Section 10
Chapter 132: Section 10. Repealed, 1931, 126, Sec. 4
- Massachusetts General Laws - Suppression of moths, caterpillars, worms and beetles; rules and regulations; contracts; studies for control of public nuisances; annual recommendations - Chapter 132, Section 11
[ First paragraph effective until January 13, 2009. For text effective January 13, 2009, see below.]The chief superintendent may, subject to the approval of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1985, 765, Sec. 7 - Chapter 132, Section 11A
Chapter 132: Section 11A. Repealed, 1985, 765, Sec. 7
- Massachusetts General Laws - Interfering with work of suppressing public nuisances - Chapter 132, Section 12
[ Text of section effective until January 13, 2009. For text effective January 13, 2009, see below.]Whoever wilfully resists or obstructs the chief superintendent, any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Suppression of public nuisances on land under control of commonwealth - Chapter 132, Section 12A
All persons in charge of land under the control of the commonwealth shall take measures on lands within their charge to suppress the public nuisances...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Local superintendents of shade tree management and pest control; appointment; notice; assistants - Chapter 132, Section 13
The city manager and the town manager in cities and towns having such a manager, otherwise the mayor in cities and the selectmen in towns,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Reimbursement of cities and towns by commonwealth for suppression of public nuisances; determination of financial liability; accounts and vouchers - Chapter 132, Section 14
The financial liability, referred to in section eleven, of each city and town for the suppression of public nuisances named in section eleven shall be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certified itemized statements of expenditures - Chapter 132, Section 15
Each local superintendent shall render to the chief superintendent not later than the twenty-fifth day of each month a certified itemized statement of his expenditures...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Partial reimbursement of expenditures for management of public shade trees; applications; limitation of assistance - Chapter 132, Section 16
Any city or town, which has a public shade tree inventory, not more than five years old, a public shade tree management plan approved by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1985, 765, Sec. 10 - Chapter 132, Section 17
Chapter 132: Section 17. Repealed, 1985, 765, Sec. 10
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1956, 657, Sec. 12 - Chapter 132, Section 18-24
Chapter 132: Section 18 to 24. Repealed, 1956, 657, Sec. 12
- Massachusetts General Laws - Suppression of foliage-destroying pests within city and town limits - Chapter 132, Section 25
The local superintendent in each city and town having charge of the suppression of the public nuisances referred to in section eleven shall have like...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1956, 657, Sec. 14 - Chapter 132, Section 26
Chapter 132: Section 26. Repealed, 1956, 657, Sec. 14
- Massachusetts General Laws - Removal and destruction of trees infected with Dutch elm disease - Chapter 132, Section 26A
If the chief superintendent or the local superintendent or their employees or authorized agents shall find on public or private property elm trees or parts...
- Massachusetts General Laws - 26C. Repealed, 1956, 657, Sec. 16 - Chapter 132, Section 26B
Chapter 132: Section 26B, 26C. Repealed, 1956, 657, Sec. 16
- Massachusetts General Laws - County aid to cities or towns in suppression of public nuisances; certification of chief superintendent - Chapter 132, Section 26D
The county commissioners, subject to appropriation therefor, may grant to any city or town sums of money to aid in the suppression of the pests...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of positive diagnosis of Dutch elm disease; condemnation of tree - Chapter 132, Section 26E
Notice of positive diagnosis received by the chief superintendent or a local superintendent shall imply necessary condemnation of said elm tree and complete removal of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Positive diagnosis of Dutch elm disease on trees on privately owned land; notice; order of removal and destruction; spraying; appeal - Chapter 132, Section 26F
When notice of positive diagnosis is received by a local superintendent affecting elm trees or parts thereof on privately owned land within five hundred feet...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Removal and destruction of infected trees by local superintendent; cost; suit; apportionment of costs; abatement of costs - Chapter 132, Section 26G
If an order issued under section twenty-six F is not complied with within the time prescribed or if the trees or parts thereof are not...
- Massachusetts General Laws - 28. Repealed, 1956, 657, Sec. 19 - Chapter 132, Section 27
Chapter 132: Section 27, 28. Repealed, 1956, 657, Sec. 19
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1948, 660, Sec. 23 - Chapter 132, Section 29
Chapter 132: Section 29. Repealed, 1948, 660, Sec. 23
- Massachusetts General Laws - Forest fire observation towers; erection and operation - Chapter 132, Section 30
The commissioner, with the approval of the stewardship council may acquire for the commonwealth, by purchase or otherwise, and hold, or, with the approval of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Control and management of state forests; regulations - Chapter 132, Section 31
Lands acquired under section thirty or thirty-three shall be known as state forests, and shall be under the control and management of the forester. Lands...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Appropriations for necessary expenses - Chapter 132, Section 32
The forester, subject to the approval of the commissioner, may expend such sums as are annually appropriated for the necessary expenses incurred under section thirty-one.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Additional lands for state forests; reclamation; employment of temporary assistants - Chapter 132, Section 33
Chapter 132: Section 33. Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 391
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations relative to use of state forests; enforcement - Chapter 132, Section 34
The commissioner may make rules and regulations relative to hunting and fishing or other uses of any such land, provided that such rules and regulations...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sale or exchange of state forest land; rights of way or locations over or across state forests; power transmission lines and pipe lines for natural gas; revocation of location; hearing; appeal - Chapter 132, Section 34A
[ First paragraph effective until April 15, 2009. For text effective April 15, 2009, see below.]The commissioner, with the approval of the governor and council,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Acquisition of land for forestation by towns - Chapter 132, Section 35
Towns may acquire by purchase, gift or bequest lands for the purpose of forestation and may reclaim and plant such lands. The said department may...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Appropriation - Chapter 132, Section 36
Chapter 132: Section 36, 36A. Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 391
- Massachusetts General Laws - Acquisition of rights by prescription or adverse possession - Chapter 132, Section 36A
- Massachusetts General Laws - Duties of local forest wardens - Chapter 132, Section 37
Every local forest warden, in addition to his duties prescribed by chapter forty-eight, shall investigate the values of forest lands, the character and extent of...
State Trails or Paths.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Laying out, construction and maintenance of trails or paths in state forests; use by owners of adjoining land - Chapter 132, Section 38
The commissioner may lay out, construct and maintain trails or paths through or over lands in state forests and in public reservations and trails or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Construction of trails for horseback riding, hiking, ski towing, snowmobiling, etc.; voluntary services; payment of expenses - Chapter 132, Section 38A
The department of environmental management shall construct and maintain trails for horseback riding, hiking, ski touring, snowmobiling and other uses on land within its control...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Contributions by cities or towns - Chapter 132, Section 39
The mayor, selectmen or road commissioners, or the board or officer having charge of the maintenance and care of highways, if so authorized by the...
Forest Cutting Practices.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Declaration of policy of commonwealth - Chapter 132, Section 40
It is hereby declared that the public welfare requires the rehabilitation, maintenance, and protection of forest lands for the purpose of conserving water, preventing floods...
- Massachusetts General Laws - State forestry committee; members; forest cutting practices and guidelines - Chapter 132, Section 41
The governor shall appoint a state forestry committee, to consist of eight members representing, respectively: forest land owners; primary woodusing industries; licensed timber harvesters; consulting...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of proposed cutting of forest products; final work order; report to director; appeal of decision of director - Chapter 132, Section 42
Every owner of land who proposes to cut forest products on land devoted to forest purposes, or to cause such products to be cut, except...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Failure to give notice - Chapter 132, Section 43
Whoever, not being exempt from section forty-two and forty-three under the provisions of section forty-four, fails to give notice and a written plan, to said...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Exempted cuttings - Chapter 132, Section 44
The provisions of sections forty-two and forty-three shall not apply to (1) cutting by an owner or tenant of any forest product for his own...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Cooperation with other agencies; passage through or over private property - Chapter 132, Section 45
For the purpose of sections forty to forty-four, inclusive, said director may cooperate with the University of Massachusetts, the United States Forest Service, and any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - License to harvest forest products - Chapter 132, Section 46
No person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of harvesting timber or other forest products for hire or profit shall cut such products on...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 132, Section 47
As used in sections forty-seven to fifty, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:— “Forestry”, the science,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - License requirement; penalties for violation - Chapter 132, Section 48
No person shall hold himself out as a forester and engage in the practice of forestry in the commonwealth unless he is licensed in accordance...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations; suspension of license; annual expiration; fees - Chapter 132, Section 49
The director of the division of forests and parks shall promulgate rules and regulations hereunder, and shall issue licenses to persons to engage in the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Forester licensing committee - Chapter 132, Section 50
There is hereby established a forester licensing committee, consisting of nine members, one of whom shall be the director of forests and parks, who shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Forest and wood products education and development center - Chapter 132, Section 51
Mount Wachusett Community College may establish a Forest and Wood Products Institute and establish experimental sites for the purpose of achieving its mission. The institute...
Last modified: March 17, 2010
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