General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 131 Inland Fisheries and Game and Other Natural Resources

• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions; rules of construction - Chapter 131, Section 1
  In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the following words shall have the following meanings and the following rules of construction shall apply:— “Angling”,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Division of fisheries and wildlife; board; members - Chapter 131, Section 1A
  The division of fisheries and wildlife shall be within the department of fisheries, wildlife and environmental law enforcement in the executive office of environmental affairs...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Removal of board members - Chapter 131, Section 1B
  Board members may be removed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the council, after due notice and a hearing before the governor,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Conflicts of interest - Chapter 131, Section 1C
  No board member shall hold any other position in the department of fisheries, wildlife and environmental law enforcement while serving as such, nor for a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reimbursement - Chapter 131, Section 1D
  The board members shall serve without compensation, but shall be entitled to be reimbursed out of any funds available for the purpose, for their actual...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Meetings - Chapter 131, Section 1E
  The members of the board shall meet in the commonwealth, within thirty days after their appointment, and once a month thereafter at such times and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Director - Chapter 131, Section 1F
  The director of the division of fisheries and wildlife shall be appointed and may be removed by the board of the division of fisheries and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Director; powers and duties - Chapter 131, Section 1G
  The director shall, under the control of the board, have charge of, direct and supervise all matters relative to the division and the employees therein....
• Massachusetts General Laws - Bureau of wildlife research and management - Chapter 131, Section 1H
  There shall be in the division of fisheries and wildlife, under the control of a director, a bureau of wildlife research and management headed by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Damage by moose or deer - Chapter 131, Section 1I
  It shall be the responsibility of the division to provide technical assistance and advice regarding the control or elimination of damage by moose or deer...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 384 - Chapter 131, Section 2
  Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Wildland acquisition account - Chapter 131, Section 2A
  There is hereby established within the Inland Fisheries and Game Fund, a wildland acquisition account which shall be credited monies received from the sale of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Deposit of revenues; interest - Chapter 131, Section 2B
  The state treasurer shall receive and deposit all revenues transmitted to him under provisions of sections 2A and 2C in such a manner that will...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inland fisheries and Game Fund; funding sources; appropriations - Chapter 131, Section 2C
  Monies received by the commonwealth from license fees, permit fees and from any and all sources pertaining to inland fishing, hunting and trapping from permit...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Disposition of fines, penalties and forfeitures - Chapter 131, Section 3
  All fines, penalties and forfeitures recovered in prosecutions under the laws relative to fish, birds and mammals shall be equally divided between the county where...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Powers of director - Chapter 131, Section 4
  The director may: (1) destroy from time to time license books, stubs, licenses and license blanks after the same have been properly audited by the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Open seasons; rules and regulations - Chapter 131, Section 5
  The director shall declare an open season on fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians or mammals in any county where such open season seems advisable, and may...
• Massachusetts General Laws - [There is no 131:5A.] - Chapter 131, Section 5A
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• Massachusetts General Laws - Natural heritage and endangered species program; administration; advisory committee - Chapter 131, Section 5B
  The director shall administer the natural heritage and endangered species program in accordance with clauses (3) and (13A) of section four, and shall promulgate rules...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Obstruction or interference with lawful taking of fish or wildlife; remedies - Chapter 131, Section 5C
  No person shall obstruct, interfere with or otherwise prevent the lawful taking of fish or wildlife by another at the locale where such activity is...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Acquisition of rights, privileges, lands and properties - Chapter 131, Section 6
  The director, with the approval of the fisheries and wildlife board, may:— (1) for the purpose of providing public fishing grounds, acquire by gift, lease,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Wildlife sanctuaries; trusts - Chapter 131, Section 7
  For the purpose of protecting any species of useful fish, birds or mammals and for aiding the propagation thereof, the director may acquire in fee...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Use of wildlife sanctuaries and preserves; rules and regulations - Chapter 131, Section 8
  In respect to any territory mentioned in section seven or fifty-nine, the director, with the consent of the appropriate authorities may make use of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Publication of order establishing wildlife sanctuary; posting - Chapter 131, Section 9
  If an order is made by the director establishing a wildlife sanctuary, as provided in section seven, he shall cause a copy of the order...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Hunting or trapping within wildlife sanctuary - Chapter 131, Section 10
  Whenever such wildlife sanctuary has been established by an order as provided in section nine, no person, except as authorized by the director under clause...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nature preserves; designation - Chapter 131, Section 10A
  The executive office of environmental affairs, the department or any other division of the department within said executive office may designate as qualifying as a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nature preserve council - Chapter 131, Section 10B
  A nature preserve council, hereinafter referred to as the council, shall be established and shall consist of seven members who shall be appointed by the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Release of nature preserves - Chapter 131, Section 10C
  A nature preserve established pursuant to section ten A shall be released in a manner consistent with the provisions of the constitution of the commonwealth....
• Massachusetts General Laws - Consultation; rules and regulations - Chapter 131, Section 10D
  The division shall consult with the nature preserve council in implementing and effectuating the nature preserve program established pursuant to sections ten A to ten...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licenses; requirements; fees; trapper training courses - Chapter 131, Section 11
  A person shall not fish in any inland waters of the commonwealth, unless he is a minor under fifteen years of age, nor hunt or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licenses; issuance; form; display - Chapter 131, Section 12
  Upon the application of any person entitled to receive a sporting, hunting, fishing or trapping license and upon payment of the fee specified therefor in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Construction of licensing laws; archery or primitive firearm season on deer; migratory waterfowl season; certificates for veterans hospitals and schools for mentally-retarded - Chapter 131, Section 13
  Nothing in section four or sections eleven to sixteen, inclusive, shall be construed as affecting in any way the general laws relating to trespass, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Wildlands conservation stamps - Chapter 131, Section 13A
  Except as hereinafter provided, no person shall fish, trap, or hunt in the commonwealth without first having obtained a wildlands conservation stamp, which shall be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Hunter education programs; issuance of licenses to minors; target practice; confiscation of firearms - Chapter 131, Section 14
  It shall be unlawful for any resident or non-resident to hunt for any bird or mammal in the commonwealth unless such person has successfully completed...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Issuance of special complimentary certificate to officials of other states - Chapter 131, Section 15
  An executive or administrative public official of any state granting similar privileges to such an officer of this commonwealth may hunt any bird or mammal...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Loss or destruction of license; duplicates - Chapter 131, Section 16
  Whoever loses or by mistake or accident destroys his license, permit, or certificate issued under this chapter may, upon application to the director, clerk of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Retention of part of license fee by issuing officer or person - Chapter 131, Section 17
  Any city or town clerk or any person duly authorized by the director to issue licenses at their place of business located outside the commonwealth,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Municipal processing fee for sale of licenses - Chapter 131, Section 17A
  Any city or town clerk issuing any license under the authority of any provision of this chapter shall, except as otherwise provided by law, charge...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of intent not to sell licenses - Chapter 131, Section 17B
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law, or rule or regulation to the contrary, no city or town clerk shall be required to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - License record books; payment of monies by issuing officer to director; surety bonds - Chapter 131, Section 18
  The director, each city or town clerk and each person duly authorized under the provisions of section twelve shall make a record in books kept...
• Massachusetts General Laws - License to put fish or spawn into inland waters; permit to import live fish or viable eggs, certification, inspection for disease, and disposition - Chapter 131, Section 19
  A person shall not put into any of the inland waters of the commonwealth any species of fish or spawn thereof unless he possesses a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Permit to import live birds or mammals; rules and regulations; inspection and testing for disease; certification; disposition - Chapter 131, Section 19A
  A person shall not bring or cause to be brought into the commonwealth any live bird or mammal protected by this chapter, or any member...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Transporting mammals for purpose of euthanasia - Chapter 131, Section 19B
  Any person authorized under section 4 to take and possess mammals may transport them within the commonwealth for the purpose of euthanasia.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Field trials for retriever or bird dogs - Chapter 131, Section 20
  Upon application to the director by an incorporated or unincorporated club or organization having a membership of citizens who have been residents of the commonwealth...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Training of hunting dogs; field trials - Chapter 131, Section 21
  Except as provided in sections 21A, 70, 81 and 82, nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit the training of hunting dogs, so-called,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unfair hunting practices prohibited - Chapter 131, Section 21A
  It shall be unlawful to pursue or hunt bear or bobcat with the aid of a dog. It shall be unlawful to hunt bear by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of fish and game - Chapter 131, Section 22
  A person, except as provided in sections twenty-three to twenty-eight, inclusive, shall not buy, sell, barter, exchange, offer or expose for sale or have in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Disposition of deer; rules and regulations; permits; fees - Chapter 131, Section 22A
  Notwithstanding the provisions of sections twenty-two, twenty-three and twenty-four, the director, with the approval of the fisheries and wildlife board, may make, alter, amend and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Propagation, dealing, etc., in fish, birds, mammals, reptiles or amphibians; rules and regulations; licenses; fees - Chapter 131, Section 23
  Except as otherwise provided by this section or any rule or regulation made under the authority thereof, a person shall not engage in the propagation,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dealers’ licenses; sale for food purposes - Chapter 131, Section 24
  The director, upon written application to him, may issue to any person a dealer’s license under clause (6) of section twenty-three, authorizing the holder thereof...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Possession of live birds, mammals, reptiles or amphibians; sale; tags; labels; accounts - Chapter 131, Section 25
  Except as provided in sections four and twenty-three, a person shall not have in his possession at any time a live bird or mammal other...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Quarantine of diseased fish, birds, mammals, etc.; order or notice; procedures; liability for expenses - Chapter 131, Section 25A
  If the director, upon examination of any fish, bird, mammal, reptile or amphibian held in possession either by persons licensed or required to be licensed...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Quarantined animals; destruction and disposal - Chapter 131, Section 25B
  If the director, by examination of a case of contagious or infectious disease or parasite of any fish, bird, mammal, reptile or amphibian, has imposed...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Quarantined animals; prohibited acts; penalties - Chapter 131, Section 25C
  Any fish, bird, mammal, reptile or amphibian which has been quarantined or isolated by order or notice of the director as authorized by section twenty-five...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Importation of fish, birds, mammals, reptiles or amphibians; shipments; tags; violations; seizure and disposition - Chapter 131, Section 26
  Any fish, birds, mammals, reptiles or amphibians lawfully taken or lawfully propagated without the commonwealth may be purchased by any dealer licensed under section twenty-three;...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1990, 408, Sec. 2 - Chapter 131, Section 26A
  Repealed, 1990, 408, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Taxidermists’ licenses; permits; accounts; shipments - Chapter 131, Section 27
  The director is hereby authorized to issue a taxidermist’s license, upon payment of a fee, the amount of which shall be determined annually by the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fur buyers’ licenses; shipments; accounts - Chapter 131, Section 28
  A person shall not purchase or receive the skins or pelts of any fur-bearing mammals unless he has obtained a fur buyer’s license from the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Natural history associations and museums, zoos - Chapter 131, Section 29
  Sections nineteen, nineteen A and twenty-two to twenty-eight, inclusive, shall not apply to those zoos approved by the United States department of agriculture. Natural history...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Permits for netting of carp and suckers - Chapter 131, Section 30
  Notwithstanding the provisions of section fifty or of any other provision of this chapter, the director may issue permits upon the receipt of a fee,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Commercial shooting preserves; permits; licenses - Chapter 131, Section 31
  The director is authorized to issue permits for the operation of commercial shooting preserves. Any person desiring to operate a commercial shooting preserve shall make...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licenses; expiration; loan or transfer; production for examination; suspension or revocation - Chapter 131, Section 32
  Unless otherwise specified, all licenses, permits and certificates issued under any provision of this chapter shall expire at twelve midnight on December thirty-first next succeeding...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Prohibited acts; licenses, permits, applications, certificates, tags or seals - Chapter 131, Section 33
  A person shall not alter, forge or counterfeit any license, permit, permit application, certificate, tag or seal issued under any provisions of this chapter or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Conviction for violations; surrender of license, permit or certificate - Chapter 131, Section 34
  A license, permit, or certificate issued under a provision of this chapter, except a license issued under clauses (3), (4) or (6) of section twenty-three,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Failure to carry license and wear it visibly; exception under automated licensing system - Chapter 131, Section 35
  The provisions of section thirty-four, except as hereinafter provided, shall not apply to any holder of a sporting, hunting, fishing or trapping license who violates...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fishing, hunting, or trapping on private, posted land - Chapter 131, Section 36
  A person shall not fish, hunt or trap on private land without permission of the owner or tenant thereof, after such owner or tenant has...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Killing of game by owner or tenant of land; reports - Chapter 131, Section 37
  An owner or tenant of land or, if authorized by such owner or tenant, any member of his immediate family or his employee, as defined...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Farmers; permit to trap and kill birds - Chapter 131, Section 38
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director may, upon application of a farmer, as defined in section one A of chapter one hundred and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1995, 38, Sec. 143 - Chapter 131, Section 39
  Repealed, 1995, 38, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Berkshire county; watershed resources; natural scenic qualities - Chapter 131, Section 39A
  A city or town in the county of Berkshire which accepts the provisions of this section may designate its conservation commission, or if having none,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Removal, fill, dredging or altering of land bordering waters - Chapter 131, Section 40
  No person shall remove, fill, dredge or alter any bank, riverfront area, fresh water wetland, coastal wetland, beach, dune, flat, marsh, meadow or swamp bordering...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Orders protecting inland wetlands - Chapter 131, Section 40A
  The commissioner of environmental protection shall from time to time, for the purpose of preserving and promoting the public safety, private property, wildlife, fisheries, water...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Farmland advisory board; meetings; advisory duties - Chapter 131, Section 40B
  The farmland advisory board established in section forty shall meet quarterly and at the call of the commissioner or upon written request of any two...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Protection of fisheries from discharge of waste materials into inland waters - Chapter 131, Section 41
  If the director determines that any fisheries in the inland waters of the commonwealth are of sufficient value to warrant the prohibition or regulation of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Protection of fish in inland waters; pollution; alteration of flows or water levels; application of section; damages - Chapter 131, Section 42
  A person shall not put, throw, discharge or permit to be discharged or to escape into any inland waters of the commonwealth any waste or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Poisons - Chapter 131, Section 43
  A person shall not place poison in any form whatsoever for the purpose of killing any mammal or bird except pursuant to a permit issued...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Deposit of garbage or trash on property while hunting, fishing or trapping - Chapter 131, Section 44
  A person while engaged in hunting, fishing or trapping shall not deposit or cause to be deposited garbage, paper, refuse, bottles, cans, rubbish or trash...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Great ponds; public use; rules and regulations - Chapter 131, Section 45
  Except as otherwise provided in this section and elsewhere in this chapter, every great pond not actively being used as a source of water supply...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Measurement of ponds - Chapter 131, Section 46
  The department of environmental protection shall, upon the request and at the expense of any person claiming to be interested in a pond, cause a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Riparian proprietors; enclosure of waters - Chapter 131, Section 47
  No riparian proprietor of a natural pond other than a great pond, or of an artificial pond of any size, or of a nonnavigable stream,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Draining of pond, reservoir or other body of water - Chapter 131, Section 48
  A person shall not, except in case of emergency, drain any pond, reservoir or other body of water, except a body of water used for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Ponds on state boundary; fishing - Chapter 131, Section 49
  If, in the case of a pond situated partly in the commonwealth and partly in another state, the laws of such other state permit fishing...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Methods of taking fish; angling, nets and seines, pots, spearing, bow and arrow - Chapter 131, Section 50
  A person shall not, except as otherwise permitted by law, take or attempt to take any fish in inland waters, in any other manner than...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Taking of trout in coastal waters - Chapter 131, Section 51
  Brook, brown and rainbow trout may be taken in coastal waters of the commonwealth by angling only, subject to the rules and regulations promulgated under...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Taking of certain fish for bait - Chapter 131, Section 52
  Shiners, minnows, killifish, sculpin, sticklebacks, and suckers may be taken for bait, but not for the purpose of sale, in any of the inland waters...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Commercial taking of eels in inland waters; penalties - Chapter 131, Section 52A
  Eels may be taken commercially in inland waters except ponds having a diked opening to the sea by a licensed fisherman possessing a license to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fishing with floats; toggle fishing - Chapter 131, Section 53
  A person shall not fish with floats, otherwise known as toggle fishing, in any inland water of the commonwealth. For the purposes of this section,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fish traps, nets and seines, hooks - Chapter 131, Section 54
  Except as otherwise permitted by law, a person shall not draw, set, stretch or use a fish trap, gill net, drag net, set net, purse...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Forfeiture of net, seine, or other device; forfeiture of fish - Chapter 131, Section 55
  Any net, seine, trawl, or other similar device used by any person in violation of any provision of this chapter, or of any rule or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Special statutes relating to fisheries; alewife fisheries - Chapter 131, Section 56
  This chapter shall not be deemed to affect any provision or penalty contained, or any privilege granted, in any special statute relating to fisheries in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sundays - Chapter 131, Section 57
  Every Sunday shall be a closed season. Except as otherwise provided in sections four, thirty-one and thirty-seven, a person, on Sunday, shall not hunt any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Shooting upon or across highway; hunting near dwelling - Chapter 131, Section 58
  A person shall not discharge any firearm or release any arrow upon or across any state or hard surfaced highway, or within one hundred and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reservations, parks, public lands; hunting; state forests - Chapter 131, Section 59
  A person shall not hunt, or in any manner molest or destroy, any bird or mammal within the boundaries of any reservation, park or common,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Weapons; careless or negligent use causing injury or death to another; report - Chapter 131, Section 60
  A person shall not use any firearm, bow and arrow or other weapon or article in a careless or negligent manner so as to cause...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Weapons; careless or negligent use causing damage to property or livestock; tort liability - Chapter 131, Section 61
  A person shall not use any firearm, bow and arrow or other weapon or article in a careless or negligent manner so as to cause...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Weapons; intoxicating liquor or drugs - Chapter 131, Section 62
  A person, while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or of drugs shall not hunt or carry a firearm, bow and arrow or other weapon...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Loaded shotgun or rifle in motor vehicle, aircraft or motorboat - Chapter 131, Section 63
  A person, other than the director of law enforcement, his deputy directors of enforcement, chiefs of enforcement, deputy chiefs of enforcement, environmental police officers, deputy...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Automatic firearms, machine guns or bows; use of tracer ammunition - Chapter 131, Section 64
  A person shall not use for hunting purposes any type of full automatic firearm, machine gun or submachine gun, or any crossbow, except as provided...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Hunting from motor vehicle, snowmobile, aircraft or watercraft - Chapter 131, Section 65
  Except as otherwise provided by law, a person shall not hunt any bird or mammal by the aid or use of any motor vehicle, including...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Online shooting or spearing - Chapter 131, Section 65A
  (a) For the purposes of this section, “online shooting or spearing” means the use of a computer or any other device, equipment, software or technology,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Shotgun shells, load - Chapter 131, Section 66
  A person shall not, except during the prescribed open season when deer may be hunted lawfully with a shotgun, have in his possession a shotgun...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rifles, revolvers and pistols; caliber - Chapter 131, Section 67
  A person shall not use or possess, where birds or mammals may be found, any rifle chambered to take larger than twenty-two long rifle ammunition,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Hunting with artificial light; swivel or pivot gun - Chapter 131, Section 68
  A person shall not hunt any bird or mammal except raccoon or opossum by the aid or use of any artificial light, or hunt any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Bows and arrows for hunting - Chapter 131, Section 69
  A person shall not carry or use a bow and arrow while hunting unless said bow and arrow meet such requirements as may be set...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Hunting with rifle, revolver or pistol, or by the aid of a dog; primitive firearms - Chapter 131, Section 70
  A person shall not, during the open season when deer may be hunted lawfully with a shotgun, hunt a bird or mammal with a rifle,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Orange clothing while hunting - Chapter 131, Section 71
  A person shall not, during the open season when deer may be hunted lawfully with a shotgun, hunt or enter the woodlands of the commonwealth...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Deer tags - Chapter 131, Section 72
  To each resident and nonresident hunting or sporting license shall be attached a deer tag in a form prescribed by the director. Such deer tag...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Hunting moose - Chapter 131, Section 73
  A person shall not hunt a moose.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Bird nests and eggs - Chapter 131, Section 74
  A person shall not take, disturb or destroy a nest or eggs of any bird except an English sparrow, crow, jay or starling. A city,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Wild turkey - Chapter 131, Section 75
  Except as provided in section five, a person shall not hunt or have in his possession a wild turkey or take, molest, disturb, destroy or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Birds of prey - Chapter 131, Section 75A
  A person, unless he holds a special permit or license issued by the director, shall not hunt or have in his possession a bird of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Removal of mammal from hole, or from under ledge, stone or log - Chapter 131, Section 76
  Except as otherwise provided in sections four and thirty-seven, a person shall not remove or attempt to remove any mammal from any hole in a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Ferrets; possession and use - Chapter 131, Section 77
  A person may possess a ferret (mustela furo or mustela putorium furo) for the following purposes:— (1) As a household pet; provided, however, that such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Wild canid and felid hybrids - Chapter 131, Section 77A
  No person shall possess, sell, trade, breed, import, export or release a wild canid hybrid or wild felid hybrid, except as otherwise provided by rules...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Protection of property by owner or tenant; transportation of firearms to or from range - Chapter 131, Section 78
  Nothing in section sixty-six or sixty-seven shall be construed to prohibit an owner or tenant of land or his authorized agent, as provided in section...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Trap, net or snare; use restricted - Chapter 131, Section 79
  Except as provided in sections four, five, thirty-seven, thirty-eight and eighty-three, a person shall not erect, set, use, locate, repair, tend or maintain any trap,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Registration and identification of traps - Chapter 131, Section 80
  A person shall not place, set, maintain, possess, or tend on the land of another, any trap, unless the same is registered in accordance with...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Leghold traps and certain other devices restricted; punishment - Chapter 131, Section 80A
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a person shall not use, set, place, maintain, manufacture or possess any trap for the purpose of capturing...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Suspension of open seasons because of fire hazard - Chapter 131, Section 81
  Whenever it shall appear to the governor that by reason of extreme drought there is danger of fire resulting from hunting, trapping, fishing or other...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dogs, running at large; protection of deer - Chapter 131, Section 82
  A person owning, keeping or possessing a dog shall not allow, permit or consent to such dog chasing, hunting, molesting, attacking or killing a deer....
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sparrows and starlings - Chapter 131, Section 83
  Officers in charge of public buildings in cities and such officers as the selectmen designate and appoint in towns may take such reasonable means and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Pigeons - Chapter 131, Section 84
  A person, except the owner or his authorized agent, shall not detain, hunt, injure or in any way interfere with a homing or carrier pigeon,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Transportation of fish or other animals into or out of commonwealth - Chapter 131, Section 85
  Except as prohibited or limited by federal legislation or regulation, any person who holds a sporting, hunting, fishing or trapping license issued to him as...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Property used for scientific experiments or investigations or for propagation - Chapter 131, Section 86
  A person shall not without right enter in or upon any building or other structure, or any area of land, flats or water, set apart...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Arrest without warrant; seizures; forfeitures - Chapter 131, Section 87
  The director of law enforcement, his deputy directors of enforcement, chiefs of enforcement, deputy chiefs of enforcement, environmental police officers and deputy environmental police officers,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Display of fish, game, and equipment for inspection - Chapter 131, Section 88
  The director, his deputy directors of enforcement, chiefs of enforcement, deputy chiefs of enforcement, environmental police officers and deputy environmental police officers, wardens and members...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Search warrants; seizures and forfeitures - Chapter 131, Section 89
  Fish, birds or mammals unlawfully taken or held, or any equipment, the possession or use of which is prohibited by any law relating to inland...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties - Chapter 131, Section 90
  Whoever violates any provision of section five, ten, eleven, thirty, thirty-two, thirty-five, thirty-six, thirty-eight, forty-seven, forty-nine, fifty, fifty-one, fifty-three, fifty-four, fifty-seven, fifty-eight, fifty-nine, sixty-two, sixty-nine,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Suspended or revoked foreign licenses - Chapter 131, Section 90A
  Any person, whose privilege to hunt, trap, or fish has been suspended or revoked in any jurisdiction of the United States or Canada, shall not...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Limitation of actions and prosecutions - Chapter 131, Section 91
  Actions and prosecutions under this chapter shall, unless otherwise expressly provided, be commenced within two years after the time when the cause of action accrued...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Severability - Chapter 131, Section 92
  If any part, section or subdivision of this chapter, or the application thereof, shall be held invalid, unconstitutional or inoperative as to any particular person,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1967, 802, Sec. 1 - Chapter 131, Section 93 to 118
  Repealed, 1967, 802, Sec.

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