Massachusetts Statutes
§ 36 — Closing portions of streams flowing into coastal waters during spawning season
Massachusetts § 36
JurisdictionMassachusetts
Part IADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT
Title XIXAGRICULTURE AND CONSERVATION
Ch. 130MARINE FISH AND FISHERIES
This text of Massachusetts § 36 (Closing portions of streams flowing into coastal waters during spawning season) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Massachusetts primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Bluebook
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 130, § 36 (2026).
Text
Section 36. For the purpose of protecting smelt and their spawn the director may close such portions of streams flowing into the coastal waters during the spawning season of such fish as he may deem necessary and may forbid the entrance into such portions of said streams by posting on or near such closed areas notices of such closing, giving the bounds thereof; provided however, that such closing and such prohibition of entrance shall not be for a period longer than sixty days in any one year. No person shall molest or disturb smelt or their spawn within such closed areas.
Free access — add to your briefcase to read the full text and ask questions with AI
Cite This Page — Counsel Stack
Bluebook (online)
Massachusetts § 36, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/statute/ma/130/36.