Massachusetts Statutes

Section 27. Every person licensed as a hawker or pedler shall endorse his usual signature upon his license. The deputy director shall, at the expense of the licensee, provide a means for displaying such license which must be worn in a visible and conspicuous manner on his outer c…

Section 28. No license issued to a hawker or pedler shall defeat or bar a prosecution against the licensee, if it is proved that he sold or bartered, carried for sale or barter or exposed therefor, any articles, except such as are permitted without a license by section seventeen,…

Section 29. No hawker or pedler, holding an auctioneer's license, shall sell or expose for sale by public auction any goods, wares or merchandise in any town other than that from whose authorities such license was obtained, nor in any place in such town not expressly described th…

Section 3. Every person before commencing business in the commonwealth as a transient vendor, whether as principal or agent, shall make written application, under oath, for a state license to the deputy director stating the names and residences of the owners or parties in whose i…

Section 30. Any license granted by the deputy director under this chapter may be revoked by him upon conviction of the licensee of any crime which in the judgment of the deputy director warrants such revocation, or upon the submission to the deputy director of evidence satisfacto…

Section 31. Whoever counterfeits or forges a license, or a certificate of registration issued pursuant to section thirty-four, or has a counterfeited or forged license or certificate in his possession with intent to utter or use the same as true, knowing it to be false or counter…

Section 32. The deputy director, inspectors of standards and, within their respective jurisdictions, sealers or deputy sealers of weights and measures, constables and police officers shall arrest and prosecute every hawker and peddler, and transient vendor, who they may have reas…

Section 33. The selectmen in a town or in a city such board or officer as may be designated by ordinance may, under such conditions as they may deem proper, grant to any organization engaged exclusively in charitable work, or to a post of any incorporated organization of veterans…

Section 34. (a) As used in this section the following terms shall have the following meanings:— ''Sales agent'', a person under eighteen years of age who is recruited or retained by, or who represents, or is in any manner associated with, whether as an employee or an independent …

Section 3A. (a) Each business or person, before commencing business as a promoter, shall make a written application, under oath, for a license to the deputy director stating the names and residences of the owners or parties in whose interest the business is to be conducted. Upon …

Section 4. The deputy director shall keep on file all applications for such licenses and a record of all licenses issued thereon. All files and records of the deputy director and of the respective town clerks shall be in convenient form and open to public inspection.

Section 5. Every transient vendor, before making any sales of goods, wares or merchandise in a town, shall make application to the aldermen or selectmen or other board authorized to issue such licenses and, unless the fee therefor is fixed as hereinafter provided, shall file with…

Section 6. Any transient vendor who neglects or refuses to file the statement described in the preceding section, if required by the aldermen, selectmen or other like board, or makes a false or fraudulent representation therein, shall be punished by a fine of not less than five n…

Section 6A. Every application under sections three to five, inclusive, for a transient vendor's license shall contain an irrevocable power of attorney, in such form as the deputy director may prescribe, constituting and appointing, in case the license applied for is issued, the d…

Section 7. No transient vendor shall advertise, represent or hold forth any sale as an insurance, bankrupt, insolvent, assignee's, trustee's, executor's, administrator's, receiver's, wholesale, manufacturers' wholesale or closing out sale, or as a sale of any goods damaged by smo…

Section 8. No transient vendor shall sell or expose for sale, at public or private sale, any goods, wares or merchandise without state and local licenses therefor, properly endorsed, nor shall any person, either principal or agent, advertise by circular, handbill, newspaper or in…

Section 9. Violations of section seven or eight shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars or by imprisonment for not more than two months, or both.

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, New Bedford and Fairhaven or Gloucester, before such vessel has been made fast to the wharf, without the previous permission of t…

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 marks or while a weigher is employed in weighing or marking, unless in case of absolute necessity, shall forfeit not more than twenty d…

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 certify the same accordingly; otherwise he shall keep such certificates, which shall be admitted in evidence in any prosecut…

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 dollars for furnishing marks, nails and other necessary articles, fastening the same and giving the certificate.

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 marks or alters his certificate, and every weigher who places any mark contrary to this chapter, or gives a false certificate,…

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; the inspection and weighing of such ballast; and the appointment and compensation of weighers, m…

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 or any other substance, tending to injure the navigation or to shoal the depth thereof, or throws …

Section 18. No warp or line shall be passed across a channel or dock so as to obstruct vessels passing along the same.

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 all harbors that have been improved by the expenditure of money by the commonwealth shall, appoint a harbor master and assistan…

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 or town where a harbor is located shall satisfactorily complete an initial prescribed course of study for harbormasters wh…

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 or person in charge thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars. This section shall not apply to a perso…

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 on mesne process on account of a debt to a landlord or boarding house keeper; nor shall a landlord or boarding house keeper detain or have…

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, and be subject to all the duties required of, harbor masters by law.

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 harbor master, and shall move to such place as he directs. The master of a towboat having a vessel in tow and a pilot having a ves…

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 permit, designating where such lumber may be rafted.

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 lower yards, brace the topsail yards fore and aft and rig in the jib-boom.

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 is not moved when directed by him, and upon the neglect or refusal of such master or owners on demand to pay such expense, he may recover …

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 wharfinger thereof or his agent, to remove his vessel from such berth within such time as the harbor master adjudges reasonable, or if the mast…

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 not fairly and actually employed in receiving or discharging their cargoes, to make room for such others as require to be more immed…

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 respective harbors, and of all shipwrecks in the tide waters of their respective harbors and of any obstructions …

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 resists him in the execution of his duties, shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars, and shall be liable in …

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 municipal court of the city of Boston; if in Salem or Salem harbor, in the first district court of Essex; if in Fall River or Fall…

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 Outer Graves and thence to Nahant Head, and said harbor shall include the shores of Chelsea; the outer limits of Salem harbor shall be th…

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 shall annually, in March or April, appoint one or more sworn weighers of vessels.

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, nearly level with the bend of the vessel, with stationary marks or bar iron, not less than six inches long and two and a half inche…

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 with the preceding section. The weigher shall keep in a book provided for the purpose a correct account of the dis…

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 under water after such vessel has discharged its cargo.

Section 1. For the purposes of this chapter the shore line of the commonwealth shall be divided into four districts. District one shall be the harbor of Boston and shall include all places or landings accessible to vessels from the sea within the limits of Egg Rock, now or former…

Section 15. A surety upon the bond of a pilot desiring to be discharged from liability thereon shall give notice thereof to the commissioners, and shall also give written notice to such pilot, which may be served by a constable, and shall, with the return of the constable thereon…