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2006 Massachusetts Code - CHAPTER 91. — WATERWAYS.
- Section 1. Definitions.
- Section 2. Duties of public works department relative to commonwealth lands andcertain islands.
- Section 2A. Powers as to property acquired — built or improved in Plymouth by Pilgrimtercentenary commission.
- Section 3. Powers as to Boston harbor.
- Section 4. Improvement of Boston harbor; access to piers — railroads, etc..
- Section 5. Power to take or purchase real property and to build thereon.
- Section 5A. Repealed — 1966, 621, Sec. 1.
- Section 6. Power to lease piers — etc.; port of Boston fund.
- Section 7. Equipment of piers — etc.; rules and regulations.
- Section 8. Acquisition of Apple Island and shore lands by department.
- Section 9. Plans for utilization of acquired property.
- Section 9A. Construction or reconstruction of piers and waterfront terminalfacilities; written contracts.
- Section 10. Powers and duties relative to harbors — etc.
- Section 10A. Temporary moorings of floats or rafts; permits — issuance or refusal;review; public nuisances.
- Section 10A½. Harbors and inland waters maintenance fund.
- Section 10B. Repealed — 1977, 363A, Sec. 64.
- Section 10C. Docking of commercial vessels; permits; applications; appeal.
- Section 10D. Scuba divers and skin divers; access to commonwealth tidelands.
- Section 11. Improvement and preservation of rivers — streams, harbors, etc..
- Section 11A. Resource protection — navigational safety and developmentprojects; work agreements with local authorities.
- Section 12. License for structures in Connecticut — Westfield and Merrimack rivers.
- Section 12A. License for structures in streams with respect to which expenditures forchannel improvement and flood control have been made.
- Section 13. Licenses for booms in Connecticut river and great ponds.
- Section 14. License for wharf — pier, dam, sea wall, etc. in or over tide water;conduits or cables under tide water.
- Section 15. Revocation and expiration of authority or license; exception; mortgageableinterest.
- Section 16. Cessation — determination of authority for non-use.
- Section 17. Construction of licenses; approval.
- Section 18. Licenses; notice; hearings; records.
- Section 18A. Public access to great ponds; petition.
- Section 19. Restriction on structures in great ponds.
- Section 19A. Lowering waters of great ponds; penalty.
- Section 20. Supervision by department of erections under legislativegrants.
- Section 21. Compensation for displacement of tidewater.
- Section 22. Compensation when title to land is in commonwealth.
- Section 23. Unauthorized work in public waters; public nuisances.
- Section 24. Money paid into general fund.
- Section 25. Powers and duties relative to province lands.
- Section 26. Exemption of portion of province lands from certain provisions of law.
- Section 27. Bounds of province lands; regulations.
- Section 28. Unlawful existing structures; legality.
- Section 29. Improvement of tidal and non-tidal waters by counties or towns; assumptionof liability for improvements.
- Section 29A. Protection of private property along shores; construction of structures bycities or towns.
- Section 30. Removal of gravel — sand, stones, etc. from beaches; notice; penalty.
- Section 30A. Removal of natural barriers preventing erosion by sea; jurisdiction ofsuperior court; penalty.
- Section 31. Surveys and improvements for preservation of harbors.
- Section 32. Survey of Connecticut river.
- Section 33. Improvement of topographical survey of commonwealth; sale of maps.
- Section 34. Establishment of harbor lines.
- Section 35. Great ponds; definition.
- Section 36. Applications to congress for appropriations for harbors.
- Section 37. Enforcement of stipulations in deeds from commonwealth.
- Section 38. Removal of wrecks — etc., on shores or in waters.
- Section 39. Removal of wrecks in tide waters.
- Section 40. Notice to owner of vessel causing obstruction.
- Section 41. Removal after notice.
- Section 42. Liability for expense of removals.
- Section 43. Sale of vessel or other obstruction.
- Section 44. Liability of insurer.
- Section 45. Application to United States for reimbursement.
- Section 46. License for breaking up and disposing of floating structures.
- Section 46A. Penalty for violation of sec. 46.
- Section 47. Application for license; issuance; conditions; bond.
- Section 48. Completion of work by department; failure to comply with terms of contract.
- Section 49. Penalty for grounding floating structure within harbor; sinkingby accident.
- Section 49A. Removal of whales — etc., from tidewaters.
- Section 49B. Removal of dilapidated wharves or piers; notice; revocation of license;liability for cost; lien.
- Section 50. Foreign corporations engaged in business of wrecking or salvaging;license; bond; penalty.
- Section 51. Impairment of right — etc., derived from federal government.
- Section 52. Supervision of transportation and dumping of dredged material intidewaters; payment of cost; burning and towing of rubbish.
- Section 53. Terms of license.
- Section 54. Dumping; notice; inspector; cost of supervision.
- Section 55. Penalty for violations.
- Section 56. Application of secs. 52—55 to United States — etc..
- Section 57. Jurisdiction of supreme judicial court.
- Section 58. Arrest without warrant.
- Section 59. Discharge of petroleum products — refuse or other matter into or on lakes,rivers or tidal waters; penalty; exception; enforcement.
- Section 59A. Tort liability for discharge or deposit of crude petroleum orproducts;double damages.
- Section 59B. Marinas; licensing by division of water pollution control; restrictions;term; renewal; fees.
- Section 60--62. Repealed — 1968, 501, Sec. 2.
- Section 63. Salvage — recovery, etc. of underwater archaeological resources; permits;restrictions; disposition of resources; enforcement; violations;penalties; jurisdiction and venue.
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