Massachusetts Statutes
§ 54 — Lighted cigarettes, etc. likely to cause fire; dropping or throwing from vehicles or placing on forest lands or fields
Massachusetts § 54
JurisdictionMassachusetts
Part IADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT
Title XXPUBLIC SAFETY AND GOOD ORDER
Ch. 148FIRE PREVENTION
This text of Massachusetts § 54 (Lighted cigarettes, etc. likely to cause fire; dropping or throwing from vehicles or placing on forest lands or fields) 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.
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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 148, § 54 (2026).
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Section 54. Whoever drops or throws from any vehicle while the same is upon a public or private way running along or near forest land or open fields, or, except as permitted by law, drops, throws, deposits or otherwise places in or upon forest land, any lighted cigarette, cigar, match, live ashes or other flaming or glowing substance, or any substance or thing which in and of itself is likely to cause a fire, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days.
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