General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 102 Shipping and Seamen, Harbors and Harbor Masters
- Massachusetts General Laws - Boarding vessels without leave or authority - Chapter 102, Section 1
Whoever, not being a pilot or public officer, shall board or attempt to board a vessel arriving in the harbor of Boston, Salem, Fall River,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Boarding vessels without permission; penalty; exceptions - Chapter 102, Section 1A
Except as provided in section one, whoever, not being a pilot or public officer, boards a boat or vessel without the permission of the owner...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Exemption of seamen or mariners from arrest on debt; liens - Chapter 102, Section 2
A seaman or mariner who has shipped or entered into a contract for a voyage from a port in this commonwealth shall not be arrested...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Jurisdiction of courts; recovery of penalties - Chapter 102, Section 3
If any offence mentioned in sections one and two is committed in Boston or Boston harbor, the penalty may be recovered by complaint in the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Harbor limits - Chapter 102, Section 4
For the purposes of sections one, two and three, the outer limits of Boston harbor shall be a line drawn from Harding’s Rock to the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1974, 260, Sec. 3 - Chapter 102, Section 5
Repealed, 1974, 260, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Weighers of lighters or other vessels transporting stone; appointment - Chapter 102, Section 6
The mayor of a city and the selectmen of a town in which lighters or other vessels are employed in transporting stones, gravel or sand...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Marking of vessels transporting stone; specifications - Chapter 102, Section 7
Every lighter or other vessel employed in transporting stone sold by weight or gravel or sand shall be marked on the stem and stern post,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Duties of weighers - Chapter 102, Section 8
Each weigher, upon request, shall furnish the requisite marks and nails, and shall cause lighters and other vessels to be weighed and marked in conformity...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Tonnage of vessel; deduction - Chapter 102, Section 9
In taking the tonnage of every such vessel, a deduction may be made of one ton for every inch that the light water marks are...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Regulations on board during weighing - Chapter 102, Section 10
Every person on board such vessel, who does not keep within the bounds of the bulkhead and fore chains during the time of taking the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Annual examination of marks; certification - Chapter 102, Section 11
Such vessels shall have their marks examined annually in June by a sworn weigher; and if the marks agree with the former certificates, he shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Fees of weighers - Chapter 102, Section 12
Each weigher shall receive from the owner or master of a vessel weighed and marked twenty cents for every ton of such vessel, and four...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties - Chapter 102, Section 13
Every owner or master of any such vessel who neglects to have the same weighed, marked and examined according to this chapter, or removes any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Ordinances or by-laws regulating marking or weighing of lighters and other vessels - Chapter 102, Section 14
Towns may establish ordinances or by-laws regulating the marking and weighing of lighters and other vessels employed in transporting stones, gravel, sand or other ballast;...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1960, 275, Sec. 3 - Chapter 102, Section 15 to 16
Repealed, 1960, 275, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Illegal deposit of substances or things injuring or obstructing navigation - Chapter 102, Section 17
Whoever wilfully and without lawful authority or license therefor, deposits in a harbor or other navigable tide waters stones, gravel, mud, ballast, cinders, ashes, dirt...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Passing warp or line across channel or dock - Chapter 102, Section 18
No warp or line shall be passed across a channel or dock so as to obstruct vessels passing along the same.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Harbor masters; assistant harbor masters; appointment - Chapter 102, Section 19
The mayor of a city, except Boston, or the selectmen of a town where a harbor is situated, unless otherwise specially provided, may, and for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Initial course of study for harbormasters; in-service training - Chapter 102, Section 19A
(a) A person who receives an appointment as a harbormaster or as an assistant harbormaster on a full-time or permanent part-time basis in a city...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and duties of assistants - Chapter 102, Section 20
Such assistants shall be subject to the direction and control of the harbor master of their town, and shall have all the powers given to,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Powers of harbor masters - Chapter 102, Section 21
The master of a vessel within a harbor for which a harbor master is appointed shall anchor his vessel according to the regulations of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Permit to unload lumber in stream or channel - Chapter 102, Section 22
The master of a vessel, before unloading lumber in the stream or channel of a harbor having a harbor master, shall obtain from him a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Order to vessel to brace topsail yards, etc. - Chapter 102, Section 23
A vessel lying in a harbor or at a wharf or pier in a harbor shall, if so directed by the harbor master, cockbill the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Removal of vessel lying in harbor - Chapter 102, Section 24
A harbor master may, at the expense of the master or owners thereof, cause the removal of any vessel which lies in his harbor and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Removal of vessel lying at wharf - Chapter 102, Section 25
If the master or other person in charge of a vessel occupying a berth at a public wharf or pier fails, after notice from the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Stationing of vessels - Chapter 102, Section 26
A harbor master may regulate and station all vessels in the streams or channels of his harbor, and may remove such as he determines are...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Report of violations - Chapter 102, Section 27
Harbor masters shall report to the department of environmental management any violation of section seventeen or of any law relating to tide water in their...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties - Chapter 102, Section 28
Whoever violates any of the provisions of the ten preceding sections or refuses or neglects to obey the lawful orders of a harbor master, or...
Last modified: September 11, 2015