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Assent Language - Massachusetts
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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 wildland conservation stamps, the portion of the fees for sporting, fishing, trapping and…
Definition of Hunting - Massachusetts
(Definitions)
The verb “to hunt”, in all of its moods and tenses, includes pursuing, shooting, killing and capturing mammals and birds and all lesser acts such as disturbing, harrying or worrying, or placing, setting, drawing or using any device commonly used to…
Definition of Trapping - Massachusetts
(Definitions)
The verb “to trap”, in all of its moods and tenses, includes any act of staking out, setting, using, tending, placing, maintaining or picking up a trap where furbearing mammals or birds might be found.
Endangered Species - Definitions - Massachusetts
(Protected Species)
The following words shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly requires otherwise:-- “Animal”, any member of the animal kingdom including, but not limited to, any mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish, mollusk, crustacean,…
Endangered Species - Enforcement and Penalties - Massachusetts
(Protected Species)
Possession, transfer, sale or exchange of scrimshaw, curios, collectibles, antiques or artifacts of endangered species, mounted or unmounted, which items can be reasonably determined to pre-date January first, nineteen hundred and seventy-three,…
Endangered Species - Funding Provisions - Massachusetts
(Protected Species)
(e) All fines and assessments received on account of litigation or settlement thereof for a violation of this chapter or the regulations promulgated thereunder shall be paid to the commonwealth and shall be deposited into the Natural Heritage…
Endangered Species - Habitat Provisions - Massachusetts
(Protected Species)
Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, no person may alter significant habitat.; A landowner may construct a single family house covering no more than three thousand square feet of ground and install any necessary utilities to service said…
Endangered Species - Listing Authority and Process - Massachusetts
(Protected Species)
The director shall conduct investigations and consult with the natural heritage and endangered species advisory committee established pursuant to section five B of chapter one hundred and thirty-one in order to determine whether any species of plant…
Endangered Species - Permitting Process - Massachusetts
(Protected Species)
The director may permit the taking, possession, purchase, sale, transportation, exportation or shipment of any species appearing on the list of endangered or threatened species or species of special concern developed by the director pursuant to…
Endangered Species - Protections and Prohibited Actions - Massachusetts
(Protected Species)
Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, no person may take, possess, transport, export, process, sell or offer for sale, buy or offer to buy, nor shall a common or contract carrier knowingly transport or receive for shipment, any plant or…
Free Fishing - Massachusetts
(Hunting, Fishing, and Trapping)
(f) The director may designate not more than 2 days in each year as free recreational saltwater fishing days...
Invertebrates - Crustaceans - Massachusetts
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No person, either as principal, agent or employee, shall at any time catch lobsters or edible crabs in, or take them from, the coastal waters or place, set, keep, maintain, supervise, lift, raise or draw in or from the said waters, or cause to be…
Invertebrates - Crustaceans - Massachusetts
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No person, either as principal, agent or employee, shall at any time catch lobsters or edible crabs in, or take them from, the coastal waters or place, set, keep, maintain, supervise, lift, raise or draw in or from the said waters, or cause to be…
Invertebrates - Included in Definitions - Massachusetts
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“Nongame wildlife”, any nondomesticated animal not regulated by the division as a game species and any plant, native to the commonwealth, which is not classified as domesticated.
Invertebrates - Included in Definitions? - Massachusetts
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“Nongame wildlife”, any nondomesticated animal not regulated by the division as a game species and any plant, native to the commonwealth, which is not classified as domesticated...
Jurisdiction for Swine - Authorized Removal - Massachusetts
(Invasive Species)
Every field driver shall take up horses, mules, asses, neat cattle, sheep, goats or swine going at large in the public ways, or on common and unimproved land within his town and not under the care of a keeper(,)...
Massachusetts - Agency Mandate
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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. He shall carry out the policies promulgated from time to time by the board, shall prepare the…
Massachusetts - Agency Rule Making Authority
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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 make rules and regulations relating to the time and length of such open season, bag limits,…
Massachusetts - Creation of Agency
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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 and shall be under the supervision and control of the fisheries and…
Massachusetts - Directors and Commissioners
(Public Trust and Agencies)
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 wildlife and the position of director shall not be subject to the provisions of chapter thirty-one.
Massachusetts - Harassment Statutes
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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 taking place. It shall be a violation of this section for a person to intentionally (1) drive or…
Massachusetts - Hunter Education
(Education)
Currentness 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 a hunter education course as prescribed by this section, or unless such person has held…
Massachusetts - Hunter Education
(Education)
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 this chapter, and the furnishing of an affidavit by any non-resident desiring to be classified…
Massachusetts - Jurisdiction for Cats
(Invasive Species)
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 and regulations of the division.
Massachusetts - Trapper Education
(Education)
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 trap any bird or mammal except as otherwise provided in sections four, fourteen, fifteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-three…
Massachusetts - Trapper Education
(Education)
In accordance with the provisions of M.G.L. c. 131, § 11, as amended by Chapter 495, St. 1993, the following classes of hunting, fishing, sporting, and trapping licenses are hereby established: Fishing: F1 Resident Citizen/Alien Fishing, to be issued…
Massachusetts - Wildlife Rehabilitation
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(a) There shall be an Oil Spill Prevention and Response Trust Fund to provide emergency loans and to support the development, training and equipping of safety committees, response teams, rescue tugs dispatched under section 9 and other discreet units…
Public Ownership - Fish and Coastal Waters - Massachusetts
(Public Trust and Agencies)
The people shall have the right to clean air and water, freedom from excessive and unnecessary noise, and the natural, scenic, historic, and esthetic qualities of their environment; and the protection of the people in their right to the conservation,…
Reptiles & Amphibians - Authority/Jurisdiction - Michigan
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Sec. 48702. (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2), all fish, reptiles, amphibians, mollusks, and crustaceans found in this state are the property of the state and may only be taken at times and in a manner as provided in this part...
Reptiles & Amphibians - Definition - Michigan
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Sec. 301. Except as otherwise defined in this act, as used in this act: (a) “Commission” means the commission of natural resources...
Reptiles & Amphibians - Enforcement and Penalties - Michigan
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Sec. 4. A person who violates this act is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of $1,000.00, or imprisonment for not more than 90 days, or both, for each violation of this act.; Sec. 45502...
Reptiles & Amphibians - Prohibited Actions and Protections - Michigan
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Sec. 48705. (1) Reptiles, amphibians, mollusks, and crustaceans may only be taken in a manner and during those times prescribed by the department. Persons taking, trapping, catching, or fishing for turtles or frogs for their personal use shall have a…
Search and Seizure - Creatures Illegally Possessed - Massachusetts
(Law Enforcement)
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 fisheries and game, may be the subject of a search warrant as provided in chapter two hundred and…
Search and Seizure - Creatures Illegally Possessed - Massachusetts
(Law Enforcement)
(22) Seizure of Diseased Fish and Wildlife. Any fish, viable eggs thereof, amphibians, reptiles, birds, or mammals and including any parts thereof, which are brought into Massachusetts in violation of 321 CMR 2.15, or which are so brought in under…
Search and Seizure - Seizure of Mistreated Animals - Massachusetts
(Law Enforcement)
Any officer authorized to serve criminal process, or any special police officer duly appointed by the colonel of the state police at the request of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, or any municipal officer involved…
Search and Seizure - Special Officers - Massachusetts
(Law Enforcement)
The director, the deputy directors of enforcement, chiefs of enforcement, deputy chiefs of enforcement and all environmental police officers and deputy environmental police officers or a member of the state police may, without a warrant, search any…
Search and Seizure - Special Officers - Massachusetts
(Law Enforcement)
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, wardens and members of the state police in areas over…
Wildlife Diseases - Authority & Jurisdiction - Massachusetts
(Wildlife Disease and Rehab)
The office and its appropriate departments and divisions shall carry out the state environmental policy and in so doing they shall: . . . (12) provide for the control of insects, plant diseases, and pests, and regulate the use, and disposal of…
Wildlife Diseases - Enforcement and Penalties - Massachusetts
(Wildlife Disease and Rehab)
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 of the family sciuridae of the order rodentia or any member of the order lagomorpha or any other member of the…
Wildlife Diseases - Enforcement and Penalties - Massachusetts
(Wildlife Disease and Rehab)
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 of the family sciuridae of the order rodentia or any member of the order lagomorpha or any other member of the…
Wildlife Diseases - Permitting Provisions - Massachusetts
(Wildlife Disease and Rehab)
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 of the family sciuridae of the order rodentia or any member of the order lagomorpha or any other member of the…
Wildlife Diseases - Process of Inspection - Massachusetts
(Wildlife Disease and Rehab)
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 under the provisions of section twenty-three, except dealers licensed both under clause (4) of…
Wildlife Diseases - Prohibited Activities and Actions - Massachusetts
(Wildlife Disease and Rehab)
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 of the family sciuridae of the order rodentia or any member of the order lagomorpha or any other member of the…