General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 132 Forestry
- 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 - Forest wardens; payment for investigations; conventions - 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- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1932, 180, Sec. 27 - Chapter 132, Section 5
Repealed, 1932, 180, Sec.
- 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
Repealed, 1931, 126, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Suppression of moths, caterpillars, worms and beetles and any invasive plant or animal species; rules and regulations; contracts; studies for control of public nuisances; annual recommendations - Chapter 132, Section 11
The chief superintendent may, subject to the approval of the commissioner, make rules and regulations governing all operations by cities and towns or persons for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1985, 765, Sec. 7 - Chapter 132, Section 11A
Repealed, 1985, 765, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Interference with suppression or eradication of Asian longhorned beetle, oak wilt or any public nuisance; penalties; injunctive relief - Chapter 132, Section 12
Whoever knowingly resists or obstructs the commissioner, any local superintendent or employee or authorized agent of any of them, while any of those persons is...
- 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; 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
Repealed, 1985, 765, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1956, 657, Sec. 12 - Chapter 132, Section 18 to 24
Repealed, 1956, 657, Sec.
- 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
Repealed, 1956, 657, Sec.
- 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 - Repealed, 1956, 657, Sec. 16 - Chapter 132, Section 26B 26C
Repealed, 1956, 657, Sec.
- 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 - Repealed, 1956, 657, Sec. 19 - Chapter 132, Section 27 28
Repealed, 1956, 657, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1948, 660, Sec. 23 - Chapter 132, Section 29
Repealed, 1948, 660, Sec.
- 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 - Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 391 - Chapter 132, Section 33
Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec.
- 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; telephone, telegraph, electric light and power transmission lines and pipe lines for natural gas; revocation of location; hearing; appeal - Chapter 132, Section 34A
The commissioner, with the approval of the governor and council, and after a public hearing, may sell or exchange any land acquired by the commonwealth...
- 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 - Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec. 391 - Chapter 132, Section 36 36A
Repealed, 2003, 26, Sec.
- 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...
- 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 and maintenance of trails for certain uses; 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...
- 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; appeals - 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 - Violations; penalty - 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 - Licenses; revocation; suspension; 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; membership - 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 Institute; advisory board - 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: September 11, 2015