General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 132A State Recreation Areas Outside of the Metropolitan Parks District
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bequests, restitutions or gifts; Conservation Trust - Chapter 132A, Section 1
The commissioner of the department of environmental management, hereinafter referred to in this chapter as the commissioner, may receive and hold in trust on behalf...
- Massachusetts General Laws - [There is no 132A:1A.] - Chapter 132A, Section 1A
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- Massachusetts General Laws - Director of state parks and recreation - Chapter 132A, Section 1B
The division of state parks and recreation shall be under the administrative supervision of a director, who shall be called the director of state parks...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bureau of forest fire control; bureau of forestry; bureau of recreation; chiefs - Chapter 132A, Section 1C
There shall be in the division of forests and parks a bureau of forest fire control under the direction and control of a chief fire...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Duties of bureau of forest fire control - Chapter 132A, Section 1D
The bureau of forest fire control shall perform such duties as the director, with the approval of the commissioner, may require, in addition to such...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Duties of bureau of recreation; expenses - Chapter 132A, Section 1E
The bureau of recreation shall perform such duties as the director, with the approval of the commissioner, may require, and shall be responsible for such...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Duties of bureau of forestry - Chapter 132A, Section 1F
The bureau of forestry shall, under the supervision of the director, with the approval of the commissioner perform such duties as respects forest management practices,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Absence or disability of chiefs - Chapter 132A, Section 1G
The director may designate any employee of the division to supervise any of the bureaus during the absence or disability of the chief thereof, and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Duties of director of the division of state parks and recreation - Chapter 132A, Section 1H
The director of the division of state parks and recreation shall devote his whole time during business hours to the work of the division and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Assumption of care and maintenance of park or reservation outside urban park district - Chapter 132A, Section 2
The commissioner, with like approval, on petition of any board or commission charged with the care and maintenance of any park or reservation owned by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Long-term programs; powers of commissioner - Chapter 132A, Section 2A
The commissioner is hereby authorized and directed to establish a long-term program of state parks, state forest recreation areas and state reservations, and for such...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Nature of use of acquired lands - Chapter 132A, Section 2B
It is hereby declared to be the policy of the commonwealth that all such sites acquired or developed by the commissioner shall in so far...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Planning, construction and maintenance - Chapter 132A, Section 2C
The planning, construction, operation and maintenance of the facilities acquired or developed under section two A shall be under the jurisdiction of the commissioner. In...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Development and improvement; powers of commissioner - Chapter 132A, Section 2D
In the development and improvement of state parks, state forest recreation areas and state reservations, the commissioner is hereby authorized and empowered:—(1) To acquire, plan,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Purchase or lease of land lying outside of urban parks district; recreational facilities - Chapter 132A, Section 3
The commissioner may, from time to time within the limits of appropriations made therefor, acquire for the commonwealth, by eminent domain under chapter seventy-nine or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Eminent domain; exercise of power - Chapter 132A, Section 3A
The exercise of the power of eminent domain under the provisions of section three shall be subject to the approval of the stewardship council, and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Acquisition of rights by prescription or adverse possession - Chapter 132A, Section 3B
A person shall not acquire any rights by prescription or adverse possession in any lands or rights in lands of the commonwealth under the control...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1985, 200, Sec. 6 - Chapter 132A, Section 4 to 6
Repealed, 1985, 200, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations; concessions; powers and duties of forest supervisors, park superintendents and laborers - Chapter 132A, Section 7
The commissioner, in consultation with the director of the division, may make rules and regulations for the government and use of all property under the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Chief park ranger; park rangers; violations of environmental regulations; non-criminal disposition - Chapter 132A, Section 7A
There is established within the department of environmental management, division of forest and parks, the position titles of chief park ranger and park ranger, provisions...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Stolen, lost, or abandoned property - Chapter 132A, Section 7B
If money, goods or other property which has been stolen, lost, abandoned or taken from a person under arrest comes into the possession of an...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sale by public auction - Chapter 132A, Section 7C
If no person proves ownership of such money, goods or other property within 6 months, the division may cause the goods or other property excepting...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of sale - Chapter 132A, Section 7D
Notice of the time and place of the sale, with a description of the property, shall be given by publishing the same once in a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of property, if perishable or liable to deteriorate - Chapter 132A, Section 7E
The property, if perishable or liable to deteriorate greatly in value by keeping, or the value of which will probably be less than the expense...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Proceeds of sale - Chapter 132A, Section 7F
The proceeds of the sale, together with the unclaimed money, after deducting all reasonable charges and expenses incurred on account of the property, shall be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Payment to owner - Chapter 132A, Section 7G
If within 2 years after the sale the owner claims the property and proves ownership to the satisfaction of the division, the amount of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Assistance of director to boards and commissions - Chapter 132A, Section 8
The director shall, in an advisory capacity, assist boards and commissions charged with the care and maintenance of parks or reservations owned by the commonwealth...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Annual report - Chapter 132A, Section 9
The commissioner shall make an annual report of the acts of the division.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 407 - Chapter 132A, Section 10
Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Conservation program for cities and towns; establishment - Chapter 132A, Section 11
The secretary of environmental affairs shall establish a program to assist the cities and towns, which have established conservation commissions under section eight C of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Conservation program for nonprofit corporations; establishment - Chapter 132A, Section 111/2
The secretary of environmental affairs shall establish a grant program to assist nonprofit corporations, formed for 1 of the purposes described in section 4 of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 408 - Chapter 132A, Section 11A to 11D
Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Expired. See 1980, 578, Sec. 51 - Chapter 132A, Section 11E
Expired. See 1980, 578, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Appalachian Trail - Chapter 132A, Section 12
The commissioner on behalf of the commonwealth may acquire by purchase, gift, eminent domain or otherwise such land, including rights-of-way and easements for the purpose...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Massachusetts Ocean Sanctuaries Act - Chapter 132A, Section 12A
Sections twelve B to sixteen E, inclusive, and section eighteen shall be known and may be cited as the Massachusetts Ocean Sanctuaries Act.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 132A, Section 12B
As used in sections twelve A to eighteen, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meanings: “Act”, the Massachusetts Ocean Sanctuaries Act. “Adjudicatory hearing”,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Regulations; integration of act with other programs - Chapter 132A, Section 12C
The office shall promulgate such regulations as it deems necessary for the implementation, administration and enforcement of the act. The office shall integrate its implementation,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Ocean and bay sanctuaries; Cape Cod, Cape Cod Bay, Cape and Islands, North Shore, South Essex; landward boundaries - Chapter 132A, Section 13
There are hereby established the following ocean sanctuaries: (a) The Cape Cod Ocean Sanctuary is described as follows: Beginning at a point three miles west...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Care, control, and protection of sanctuaries - Chapter 132A, Section 14
All ocean sanctuaries as described in section thirteen shall be under the care, oversight and control of the office and shall be protected from any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Prohibited activities in ocean sanctuaries - Chapter 132A, Section 15
Except as otherwise provided in this section, the following activities shall be prohibited in an ocean sanctuary: (1) the building of any structure on the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Permitted activities in ocean sanctuaries - Chapter 132A, Section 16
Nothing in this act is intended to prohibit the following activities, uses or facilities: In all ocean sanctuaries except the Cape Cod Ocean Sanctuary the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Municipal wastes; discharge into ocean sanctuaries; variance - Chapter 132A, Section 16A
In cases where the prohibition in section fifteen against discharges of municipal wastes into the ocean sanctuaries may not further the purposes of the act,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Municipal wastes; discharge into ocean sanctuaries; variance; prerequisites - Chapter 132A, Section 16B
A variance under the provisions of section sixteen A may be granted only when the following prerequisites are met:— (1) The proposed discharge is the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Municipal wastes; discharge into estuaries, coastal embayments or land subject to tidal action; variance - Chapter 132A, Section 16C
No variance approved by the department of environmental protection may authorize a discharge into an estuary or coastal embayment or a discharge which will have...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Municipal wastes; discharge into ocean sanctuaries; variance; application requirements - Chapter 132A, Section 16D
An application for a variance shall satisfy the following minimum requirements: (1) The application shall include a final facilities plan approved by the division of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Variance applications; notice; hearings; decisions; effective date - Chapter 132A, Section 16E
Upon receipt of an application for a variance, the department of environmental protection shall provide public notice, an opportunity for comment, and shall hold a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Variance conditions - Chapter 132A, Section 16F
Any condition adopted by the department of environmental protection in approving a variance shall become a condition of the discharge permit issued by the division...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Squannacook and Nissitissit Rivers Sanctuary - Chapter 132A, Section 17
There is hereby established in the towns of Ashby, Groton, Pepperell, Shirley, Townsend and Lunenburg a protected area to be known as the Squannacook and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Permits and licenses; ocean development mitigation fee - Chapter 132A, Section 18
All departments, divisions, commissions, or units of the executive office of energy and environmental affairs and other affected agencies or departments of the commonwealth shall...
Last modified: September 11, 2015