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2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 14 - Access by Department to Places or Vehicles Used in Manufacture, Storage or Sale of Dairy Products; Enforcement of Laws; Hindrance of Officer

Section 14. The department and its employees shall have access to each place or vehicle used in the manufacture, storage, transportation or sale of dairy products or imitations thereof, and to each vessel and can used in such manufacture, storage, transportation and sale, and shall have the authority given to the department of public health or its officers, or to inspectors of milk, to enforce and prosecute violations of all laws relating to dairy products or imitations thereof. Whoever hinders, obstructs, or in any way interferes with an officer or duly authorized agent of the department in the performance of his duty shall be punished for a first offence by a fine of one hundred dollars and for a subsequent offence by a fine of two hundred dollars, to the use of the commonwealth.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 15 - Duties of Employees of Department

Section 15. Employees of the department shall visit towns to inquire into the methods and needs of practical husbandry, ascertain the adaptation of agricultural products to soil, climate and markets, encourage the establishment of farmers' clubs, agricultural libraries and reading rooms, disseminate useful information in agriculture by lectures or otherwise, and annually in October make detailed reports to the commissioner.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 16 - Entry Upon Public or Private Grounds for Purposes of Abating Serious Plant Diseases; Contracts

Section 16. The director of regulatory services and his assistants may at all times enter any public or private grounds in the performance of duties required by section seventeen to thirty-one, inclusive, for the purpose of abating any serious plant diseases. Said director may, subject to appropriations, make contracts on behalf of the commonwealth.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 17 - Inspection of Nurseries; Certificate; Suppression of Pests

Section 17. The said director, either personally or through his assistants, shall inspect at least once each year each nursery or place where nursery stock is grown, and if no dangerous insects or fungous pests are found therein, he shall give a certificate to that effect. If such pests are found therein the owner of the stock shall take such measures to suppress the same as the director shall prescribe, and no certificate shall be given until he has satisfied himself by a subsequent inspection that all such pests have been suppressed. He shall determine the season for inspecting nurseries and the form of certificates to be given but in no case shall he issue a certificate to continue in force after July first next following the date of inspection.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 18 - Licensing of Nursery Agents; Application; Revocation

Section 18. Each agent or other person, except a grower, who sells nursery stock shall make application to the director for an agent's license, and shall file with him the names and addresses of all persons or nurseries from which he purchases his stock. On receipt of such application, the director shall issue an agent's license, valid for one year, in such form and with such provisions as the department prescribes. The license may be revoked at any time for failure to report the names and addresses of persons or nurseries from which stock is purchased, or for such other cause as may be deemed sufficient by the director and the commissioner. Each person except a grower who sells, or who takes or solicits orders for, nursery stock shall be regarded as a nursery agent for the purposes of sections eighteen to thirty-one, inclusive.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 19 - Sale of Nursery Stock; Grower's Certificate

Section 19. No person shall sell, exchange, give, deliver or ship within the commonwealth any tree, shrub or plant commonly known as nursery stock unless such person holds a grower's certificate under section seventeen or an agent's license under the preceding section, and unless a copy of such certificate or license, or such other evidence as the department prescribes, shall accompany each car, box, bundle or package sold, exchanged, given, delivered or shipped, and unless such certificate or license is dated within twelve months of the date of such delivery or shipment; but this section shall not prohibit the selling, giving or exchanging of trees, plants or shrubs by any person who is not a grower of, dealer in, or agent for nursery stock.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 20 - Importation of Nursery Stock; Certificate of Inspection

Section 20. No nursery stock shall be brought into the commonwealth unless it bears an unexpired certificate of inspection. Each person bringing into the commonwealth, or receiving for transportation to a point within the commonwealth from outside thereof, any car, box, bundle, package or consignment in any form, of living trees, shrubs or plants commonly known as nursery stock, shall immediately notify the director of the fact that such consignment has been received by him and give the name and address of the consignee, together with such further report as may be lawfully required by the director.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 20a - Spread or Growth of Plants of Water Chestnut ≪i>(trapa Natans)</i>

Section 20A. No person shall knowingly plant, transport, transplant or traffic in plants of water chestnut (
Trapa natans
) or in seeds or nuts thereof nor in any manner cause the spread or growth of such plants.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 21 - Inspection of Nursery Stock, Fruits and Plants at Points of Destination; Destruction; Notice to Director

Section 21. The director, either personally or through his assistants, may inspect at its point of destination all nursery stock coming into the commonwealth, and if such stock is found to be infested with injurious insects or plant disease he may cause it to be destroyed, treated or returned to the consignor at the consignor's expense. He may, either personally or through his assistants, inspect all fruits, plants and parts thereof brought into the commonwealth from outside thereof which also grow out of doors in this commonwealth, and, if such fruits, plants and parts thereof are found to be infested with injurious insects or plant disease likely to become established herein, he may cause the same to be destroyed, treated or returned to the consignor at the consignor's expense.
Each person, except a common carrier, who receives, brings or causes to be brought into this commonwealth any such fruits, plants and parts thereof from such states, provinces or countries as may be designated by the commissioner, shall immediately after the arrival thereof notify the director of such arrival, and hold them until they have been duly inspected.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 23 - Compensation for Destruction of Cultivated Berry-Bearing Shrubbery; Notice; Investigation; Arbitration; Award; Certification

Section 23. The owner of any cultivated berry-bearing shrubbery destroyed by the director or his assistants under sections twenty-one and twenty-two shall receive compensation therefor from the commonwealth, provided that he has given written notice thereof to the director within thirty days after the accrual of his claim to compensation. The director or an assistant shall thereupon investigate the same, and if the director does not agree with the claimant as to the validity of his claim or as to the amount thereof, the question at issue shall be determined by three arbitrators who shall be the commissioner, the director of the division of forests and parks in the department of environmental management, and an assistant attorney general to be designated by the attorney general. Any award of damages made by said arbitrators, together with the cost of the appraisal, shall be certified to the comptroller, and shall thereupon be paid by the commonwealth in the same manner as other claims.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 24 - Inspection of Orchards, Etc. for Noxious Weeds, Insect Pests or Plant Diseases; Notice to Landowners, Et al.; Abatement; Cost of Treatment

Section 24. The director, either personally or through his assistants, may inspect any orchard, field garden, roadside or other place where trees, shrubs or other plants exist, whether on public or private property, which he may know or have reason to suspect is overgrown with noxious weeds or infested with the San Jose scale or any serious insect pests or plant disease, when in his judgment such pests, disease or weeds are likely to cause loss to adjoining owners, and may serve upon the owner, occupant or person in charge of the land on which such noxious weeds, trees, shrubs or other plants are present, written notice of the presence of such weeds, pests or plant disease, with a statement that they constitute a public nuisance, together with directions to abate the same, giving the methods of treatment for the abatement thereof, and stating a time within which the nuisance must be abated in accordance with the methods given therein. If the person no notified refuses or neglects so to treat or destroy such weeds, trees, shrubs or other plants within the time prescribed, the director may cause such property to be so treated or destroyed, and may employ all necessary assistants for this purpose, who may enter upon any public or private property, if such entry is necessary for this purpose. Upon the completion of said treatment the director shall certify in writing to the owner or person in charge of the treated property the amount of the cost of such treatment, and if this be not paid to the commissioner within ninety days thereafter, the same may be recovered by suit, together with the cost of the suit.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 25 - Appeal From Proposed Action

Section 25. In case of objection to the proposed action of the director or his assistants in executing any provision of sections sixteen to thirty-one, inclusive, an appeal in writing may be taken within ten days to the commissioner, and the appeal shall operate as a stay of proceedings until it has been heard and decided by the commissioner, whose decision shall be final.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 26 - Proceedings After Appeal; Notice

Section 26. When the commissioner has heard an appeal and has rendered a decision that the action of the director from which the appeal was taken is sustained, the director shall notify in writing the owner, occupant or person in charge of the trees, shrubs or other plants concerned, of the decision, and shall direct him to treat or destroy the trees, shrubs or other plants within a given time in accordance with a method prescribed in the notice. If the person so notified refuses or neglects so to treat or destroy such trees, shrubs or other plants within the time prescribed, the director may cause such property to be so treated or destroyed, and the cost thereof to be recovered as provided in section twenty-four.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 27 - Prohibition on Delivery Within the Commonwealth of Infested Nursery Stock, Fruit and Plants

Section 27. The director, with the approval of the commissioner, after a duly advertised public hearing with notice to interested parties, may prohibit, for such periods and under such conditions as he may impose, the delivery within the commonwealth of nursery stock, fruits, plants and parts thereof from outside the commonwealth when in his opinion they are likely to be infested with insect pests or disease or are likely to act as a carrier thereof. With the approval of the commissioner, he may make and issue such rules and regulations as may be needed to carry out sections sixteen to thirty-one, inclusive, and may in such rules and regulations establish fees for registration or inspection. He may also enter into reciprocal agreements with other states under which nursery stock owned by nurserymen and dealers of such states may be sold or delivered in this commonwealth without the payment of a registration or inspection fee; provided, that like privileges are accorded in such other states to nurserymen and dealers of this commonwealth. He may publish information about such insects and disease as come within his observation.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 28 - Exemption of Gypsy and Brown Tail Moths

Section 28. Sections sixteen to twenty-seven, inclusive, twenty-nine and thirty, shall not apply to gypsy or brown tail moths in any stage of development except upon places where nursery stock is grown and upon property adjoining the same.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 29 - Penalties for Violation of Secs. 16 to 27

Section 29. Whoever violates any provision of sections sixteen to twenty-seven, inclusive, or offers any hindrance to the carrying out of any part thereof, or after receipt of written request from the director or any of his assistants unreasonably refuses or neglects to comply with any order or regulation lawfully made under any of said sections, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars to the use of the commonwealth.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 31 - European Corn Borer Infestation; Hearing; Order; Publication

Section 31. Whenever the director finds that any town or part thereof is infested with the European corn borer or other insect pest, except the gypsy and brown tail moth, or with a plant disease which in his opinion is likely to spread to other parts of the commonwealth or to other states, he may, after a duly advertised public hearing, and with the approval of the commissioner, issue an order stating the insect pest or plant disease to be guarded against, and prohibiting, for such periods and under such conditions as he deems necessary, the transportation to or from such town or part thereof, of any specified trees, plants, shrubs or other vegetable growths or products, and any specified containers or other articles by means of which such an insect pest or plant disease is or is likely to be carried. The order aforesaid shall be advertised in a newspaper published in each town where it is to be effective or in a newspaper of general circulation in the county where the town is situated. Whoever violates any order issued under this section or whoever offers any hindrance to the carrying out of such order shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than three hundred dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 31a - Disposition of Corn Stubble; Destruction; Postponement

Section 31A. In any town or part thereof in which an order issued under section thirty-one in connection with the suppression of the European corn borer shall be in effect, every person in possession of land on which corn of any kind has been grown shall, except as hereinafter provided, not later than December first of the year of its growth, plow or cause to be plowed the field in which it was grown, so as to bury the stubble to a depth of at least six inches, or pull up said stubble or cause it to be pulled up and destroy it, or cause it to be destroyed, by burning, and every person having in his possession corn stalks shall, not later than April tenth of the year following that of their growth, completely dispose of such corn stalks by using them as fodder or by burning them. Whenever it shall be determined by the director that such plowing or burning would be detrimental to soil conservation or to the production of food or feed crops, he may issue an order or permit which shall authorize postponement of such plowing or burning, or shall authorize replanting without plowing, under such conditions not inconsistent with the purpose of this section as he may specify. Such an order or permit may be issued to apply to an individual field, to a farm, or to a geographical or political unit. Whoever violates any provision of this section or any order or permit issued hereunder shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than five hundred dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 32 - Inspection and Control of Bees; Chief Apiary Inspector; Duties; Preparation and Distribution of Literature on Bee Culture

Section 32. There shall be within the department a full-time chief apiary inspector to perform the duties of the department relative to a program for the inspection and control of bees, as provided in sections thirty-two through thirty-eight, inclusive. Subject to appropriation, the apiary inspector shall have a staff to perform said duties. With the approval of the commissioner, the inspector of apiaries shall prepare and distribute from time to time such literature upon the subject of bee culture as he deems advisable, shall make or cause to be made through his assistants such inspection of the bee colonies and beekeeping equipment throughout the commonwealth as is necessary to discover and suppress all bee diseases of a contagious or infectious nature inclusive of virus, fungus, bacterial or animal parasite and for this public purpose may require by regulation the registration of all bee colonies kept within the commonwealth and their location by the owners or caretakers thereof, the fee for which shall be determined by the secretary of administration and finance, which in no case shall exceed five dollars per registrant, regardless of the number of colonies so registered by him. The commissioner may make and issue reasonable regulations for carrying out this and sections thirty-three to thirty-eight, inclusive.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 33 - Maintenance of Colony of Honey Bees in Hives in Which Brood Combs Are Fastened to Container; Diseased Bees

Section 33. No persons shall knowingly maintain a colony or colonies of honey bees in hives, other receptacles, trees or other lodging places in which brood combs are fastened to the container of the colony or cross-built. No person shall neglect, expose, sell, barter, give or in any other way dispose of diseased bees or any colony container, comb, frame or other appliance used about the diseased bees in whole or in part in such manner as to cause the spread of the disease.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 34 - Instructions as to Treatment of Diseased and Miskept Colonies; Destruction

Section 34. The inspector or his assistants, upon the discovery of bee diseases or any comb cross-built or fastened to the container in any apiary or colony shall give instruction to the owner or caretaker thereof as to the treatment of the diseased and miskept colonies, infected combs and equipment and shall cause the diseased and miskept colonies and all infected combs, hives and equipment to be treated, disposed of or destroyed in such manner as to suppress the disease.
For the loss of colonies of bees and property destroyed by the inspector or his assistants the commonwealth shall pay to the owner two dollars per colony.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 35 - Transportation of Bees and Bee Equipment; Certificate; Inspection; Fees

Section 35. No colony of bees nor any used bee equipment shall be shipped or transported into or delivered in this commonwealth from any other state or country without a certificate, stating that the inspector of apiaries or other officer charged with similar duties in that state or country has inspected said colony or equipment within sixty days and that it is free from infectious or contagious disease. The department may by regulation establish a fee to be paid by any person or entity bringing hives, colonies or packages of bees into the commonwealth under this section, subject to approval by the secretary of administration and finance. Said fees shall not be assessed on the importation of five or fewer hives, colonies or packages so imported at one time, and shall be not less than five dollars for importation of from six to twenty hives, colonies or packages at one time, and shall be not less than twenty-five cents for each hive, colony or package in amounts over twenty imported at one time; provided, however, that in no event shall an individual or entity importing hives, colonies or packages of bees into the commonwealth be assessed any amount greater than two hundred and fifty dollars annually; provided, further, that no assessments shall be made for the importation of queen bees. No transportation company or common carrier shall be liable in damages for refusing to receive, transport or deliver any colony of bees or used equipment when unaccompanied by a certificate as above provided.
This section shall not prevent the transportation or delivery of queen or package bees from Canada or the United States of America when not accompanied by brood, honey or comb.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 36 - Access by Inspector to Places Where Bees, Bee Supplies, Appliances or Equipment Are Kept; Inspection Cards

Section 36. The inspector or his assistants upon presentation of proper credentials of the department shall have access to each place where bees, bee supplies, appliances or equipment are kept and to each place where bees have lodged.
No owner, renter, or keeper of beehives, used bee equipment, or places where bees have lodged, shall refuse or obstruct entry of the inspector or his assistants to any such place for inspection and for disease control purposes.
There shall be secured to each colony inspected a legible card showing the date of inspection, the health or disease of the colony, and the signature of the inspector.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 36a - Records of Number and Locations of Colonies; Reports

Section 36A. The inspector shall keep a detailed record of the number and location of all colonies inspected by him or his assistants, the number and location of all colonies found diseased, the treatment thereof, and expenditures incurred in the performance of the duties of his office. He shall report to the commissioner annually, and at such other times as the commissioner requests.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 36b - Labeling and Sale of Honey; Restrictions

Section 36B. No person shall package, label, sell, keep for sale, expose or offer for sale, any article or product in imitation or semblance of honey branded as ''honey'', ''liquid or extracted honey'', ''strained honey'', ''imitation honey'' or ''pure honey'' which is not pure honey made by honey bees. No person, firm, association, company or corporation, shall manufacture, sell, expose or offer for sale, any compound or mixture branded or labeled as ''honey'' which consists of honey mixed with any other substance or ingredient. There shall be printed on the package containing such compound or mixture a statement of the ingredients of which it is made and if honey is one of such ingredients it shall be so plainly stated in the same size type as are the other ingredients; provided, however, such compound shall not be packaged, sold, exposed for sale, or offered for sale as ''honey'' or ''imitation honey'' nor shall such compound or mixture be branded or labeled with the word ''honey'', other than as herein provided.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 36c - Maple Syrup and Maple Syrup Food Products; Labelling

Section 36C. No person shall manufacture, label, package, sell, keep for sale, expose or offer for sale any food article or food product branded as maple, maple syrup, maple candy, maple creams, maple butter, or maple sugar which is not made from pure maple syrup derived from the sap of the maple tree. Any compound or mixture branded or labelled as maple, maple syrup, maple candy, maple creams, maple butter or maple sugar, or branded as an imitation thereof, which consists of maple syrup mixed with any other substances or ingredients shall have printed on the package containing such compound or mixture a statement of the ingredients of which it is made, all said ingredients to be set forth in the same size type as the words ''maple syrup''.
The use of the words ''maple'' or ''maple syrup'', shall not be used in the labelling or branding of any food product which does not contain any maple syrup in its ingredients.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 38 - Penalties for Violation of Secs. 33, 35, 36b and 36c

Section 38. Whoever violates section 33 or 35 shall be subject to a civil administrative penalty of not more than: (i) $30 for a first violation; (ii) $75 for a second violation; and (iii) $150 for each subsequent violation.
Whoever violates section 36B or 36C shall be subject to a civil administrative penalty of not more than: (i) $2,000 for a first violation; (ii) $5,000 for a second violation; and (iii) $10,000 for each subsequent violation.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 38b - Massachusetts State Exposition Building Maintenance Fund

Section 38B. (a) There shall be established and set up on the books of the commonwealth a separate fund to be known as the Massachusetts State Exposition Building Maintenance Fund, the funds of which shall be expended solely for the purposes of upkeep, programming, promotion, maintenance and repairs of the Massachusetts State Exposition Building and the land thereon, described more fully as the Massachusetts Building at the Eastern States Exposition in the town of West Springfield.
(b) The Massachusetts State Exposition Building Maintenance Fund shall receive monies from (1) gifts, grants and donations from public or private sources; (2) federal reimbursements, grants-in-aid or other money credited or transferred from any other fund or source; (3) rental fees and expenses received from tenants of the Massachusetts Building; and (4) any interest earned from the Massachusetts State Exposition Building Maintenance Fund. Such funds shall be impressed with a trust and held for the Board of Massachusetts Trustees of the Eastern States Exposition for certain expenditures for upkeep, programming, promotion, maintenance and repairs, as needed. The state treasurer may receive, deposit and invest funds held for said Board of Massachusetts Trustees of the Eastern State Exposition in such a manner that will ensure the highest interest rate available consistent with the safety of the fund.
(c) The books and records of the Massachusetts State Exposition Building Maintenance Fund shall be subject to an audit by the state auditor, in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards, as often as the state auditor determines is necessary.
(d) The division of capital asset management and maintenance is hereby authorized to expend such funds as may be necessary to facilitate the upkeep, programming, promotion, maintenance and repairs of the Massachusetts state exposition building and the land thereon as more fully described herein. All such upkeep, programming, promotion, maintenance and repairs shall be made in a manner consistent with the provisions of chapter 579 of the acts of 1980 and all other applicable laws.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 38c - Agricultural Fairs; Facilities and Land Resources; Preservation and Rehabilitation

Section 38C. The commissioner may develop a program to assist in the preservation and rehabilitation of facilities and land resources of agricultural fairs in the commonwealth through short-term preservation covenants, grants, demonstration projects and other means. The commissioner may promulgate regulations relative thereto.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 40 - Trustees for County Cooperative Extension Service; Accounts; Director of Accounts; Annual Report

Section 40. In each county, except counties maintaining vocational agricultural schools, there shall be an unpaid board of nine trustees to be known as trustees for county cooperative extension service. The county commissioners of each such county except Suffolk, and the city council of the city of Boston in Suffolk county, shall annually appoint three trustees, qualified as hereinafter provided, to serve for three years from April first of the year of the appointment, and shall fill any vacancy in said board for the unexpired term. All of said trustees shall be residents of the county where they are appointed, one shall always be a county commissioner of said county or, in the county of Suffolk a member of the city council of Boston, and four so far as is possible shall be taken from the directors, chosen as provided in the following section, of such cities and towns as have appropriated funds toward carrying out sections forty to forty-five, inclusive. No trustee, except a county commissioner, shall serve more than two consecutive full terms. The accounts of the trustees in each county except Suffolk shall be audited by the director of accounts and in Suffolk county shall be audited by the auditor of the city of Boston in the manner in which other county accounts are audited under general law. The trustees shall annually submit to the county commissioners or the city council of the city of Boston as the case may be, a report for the previous year with a statement of receipts and expenditures in such form and at such time as is required by them, and they shall cause the said report to be printed as part of their regular annual report.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 41 - Selection of Directors; Terms

Section 41. Choice of the directors mentioned in section forty shall be made in such towns by the board of selectmen, and in such cities by the mayor, not later than fifteen days following the vote authorizing the appropriation specified in section forty. The directors shall serve for such terms as the mayor in cities and the town meeting in towns shall determine.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 42 - Receipt of Grants; Expenditure of Money; Power of Trustees

Section 42. For purposes specified in sections forty to forty-five, inclusive, the trustees may receive on behalf of the county money appropriated by any town or by the federal government, or grants made by any individual, trustee or trustees, association or corporation, and may expend the same together with any money appropriated by the general court for any county for county aid to agriculture, either solely or in conjunction with representatives or agents of the commonwealth or of the United States or of any department, commission, board or institution created under the statutes of this commonwealth or under any act of congress. The trustees may enter into any agreements, arrangements or undertakings with any such department, commission, board or institution relative to extension work with adults and with boys and girls in agriculture, homemaking and country life.
The trustees may expend each year an amount, not exceeding one per cent of the appropriation for county aid to agriculture, to pay the expenses, including the cost of meals, of unpaid volunteers at official meetings called for the purpose of furthering the organized educational projects or programs of the county extension service.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 43 - Instructors in Agriculture, Homemaking and Country Life

Section 43. The trustees shall maintain one or more agents or instructors in agriculture, homemaking and country life, who shall meet the residents of the county individually and in groups for the purpose of teaching and demonstrating better practice in agriculture and homemaking, the benefits to be derived from co-operative efforts, better methods of marketing farm products and the organization of communities to build up country life.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 44 - Preparation of Annual Budget

Section 44. The trustees, except in Suffolk county, shall annually prepare and submit to the county commissioners, not later than the first Wednesday in December, a budget containing detailed estimates of all sums required by them for carrying out sections forty to forty-five, inclusive, during the ensuing fiscal year, as defined in section sixteen of chapter thirty-five. The trustees, except in Suffolk county, in preparing their budget shall indicate estimated expenses for the agricultural, home economics, resource development and youth programs and shall record their expenditures in like manner in their annual report. The county commissioners shall include in their annual estimate of county expenses to be appropriated by the general court and raised by the annual county tax levy at least one half of such sums as they deem necessary to carry out said purposes.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 44a - Suffolk County Annual Budget and Report; Tax Assessment

Section 44A. The trustees in Suffolk county shall annually prepare and submit a budget containing detailed estimates of all sums required by them for carrying out sections forty to forty-five, inclusive, during the ensuing fiscal year. Said trustees in preparing their budget shall indicate estimated expenses for the agricultural, home economics, resource development and youth programs and shall record their expenditures in like manner in their annual report.
To meet the expenses incurred there shall annually be expended from the state treasury, subject to appropriation, sums equal, in the aggregate, to seven cents on each one thousand dollars of the equalized valuations of the town of Winthrop and the cities of Boston, Chelsea and Revere, as most recently reported by the state tax commission to the general court under the provisions of section ten C of chapter fifty-eight of the General Laws, and the state treasurer shall issue his warrant requiring the assessors of said town and cities to assess a tax to the amount of the sums so expended in proportion to their said valuations, and such amounts shall be collected and paid to the state treasury as provided by section twenty of chapter fifty-nine of the General Laws; provided, that such town or any city may in any year anticipate in whole or in part its assessment, and appropriate, raise and deposit the amount thereof with the state treasury, and any sum so deposited shall be credited against such assessment. There may also be expended for the purpose of this act voluntary contributions for such purposes deposited in the state treasury.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 45 - Acquisition of Land by Towns for Demonstration Work in Agriculture and Homemaking

Section 45. Any town may acquire, by purchase or otherwise, in the manner in which land may be acquired for school purposes, real estate for the purpose of carrying on, under the direction of the agents or instructors of said trustees, demonstration work in agriculture and homemaking, and may appropriate money to be expended by said trustees under sections forty to forty-three, inclusive, or for the purpose of enabling the trustees to acquire necessary real estate, or for the support of demonstration work, under the direction of the agents or instructors or of the trustees, on land owned by the town or by any resident thereof.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 46 - Agricultural or Horticultural Societies; Exhibitions; Assignment of Police to Preserve Peace

Section 46. Upon the application of the president of an incorporated agricultural or horticultural society to the authorities of a town where an exhibition of such society is to be held, such authorities shall assign for special service at such exhibition all police officers or constables necessary to preserve the peace and enforce the law thereat.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 47 - Receipt of Department Reports by Farmers' Clubs; Annual Returns; Reports

Section 47. Farmers' clubs which are organized and are holding regular meetings shall, upon application made annually in November to the commissioner, receive copies of the department's report and of its other publications, in proportion to the number of their members and to the applications so made. A club which receives such copies shall annually in October make returns to said commissioner of its agricultural experiments and of the reports of its committees.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 48 - Regulations for Preservation of Peace at Meetings or Exhibitions; Posting

Section 48. Each agricultural or horticultural society or farmers' club may establish such regulations, not inconsistent with law, as it considers necessary and expedient for the preservation of peace and good order or for the protection of its interests at its regular or annual meetings, shows, fairs or exhibitions, and shall cause at least five copies of such regulations to be posted in public places on its grounds not less than forty-eight hours before the time of holding each meeting, show, fair or exhibition.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 49 - Vendors, Gaming Activities, Shows or Plays Near Cattle Show, Fair or Exhibition; Gaming

Section 49. No person, during the time of holding a cattle show, fair or exhibition or meeting of a farmers' club and without the consent of the authorities having charge of the same, shall establish within one half mile of the place of holding such show, fair, exhibition or meeting a tent, booth or vehicle of any kind for the purpose of vending any goods, wares, merchandise, provisions or refreshments. No person shall engage in gaming or horse racing or exhibit a show or play during the regular or stated time of holding a cattle show, agricultural fair or meeting of a farmers' club, or engage in pool selling, at or within one half mile of the place of holding the same; but no person having his regular place of business within such limits shall be hereby required to suspend his business.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 51 - Definitions Applicable to Secs. 52 to 63

Section 51. The following words as used in section fifty-two to section sixty-three, inclusive, unless a different meaning is required by the context, or is specifically described, shall have the following meanings:—
''Brand name'', any word, name, symbol or device, or any combination thereof, identifying the commercial feed of a distributor or registrant and distinguishing it from that of others.
''Commercial feed'', all materials except unmixed seed, whole or processed, when not adulterated within the meaning of section fifty-four which are distributed for use as feed or for mixture in feed; provided, that the commissioner by regulation may exempt from this definition, or from specific provisions of this act, commodities such as hay, straw, stover, silage, cobs, husks, hulls, and individual chemical compounds or substances when such commodities, compounds or substances are not inter-mixed with other materials, and are not adulterated within the meaning of said section fifty-four.
''Contract feeder'', a person who is an independent contractor, feeds commercial feed to animals pursuant to a contract whereby such commercial feed is supplied, furnished, or otherwise provided to such person and whereby such person's remuneration is determined all or in part by feed consumption, mortality, profits, or amount, or quality of product.
''Customer-formula feed'', commercial feed which consists of a mixture of the commercial feeds, or feed ingredients, each batch of which is manufactured according to the specific instructions of the final purchaser.
''Drug'', any article intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in animals other than man, and articles other than feed intended to affect the structure or any function of the animal body.
''Mineral feed'', a commercial feed intended to supply primarily mineral elements or inorganic nutrients.
''Official sample'', a sample of feed taken by the commissioner or his agent in accordance with the provisions of section fifty-eight D.
''Per cent or percentage'', the per cent by weight.
''Pet food'', any commercial feed prepared and distributed for consumption by pets.
''Product name'', the name of the commercial feed which identifies it as to kind, class, or specific use.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 52 - Commercial Feed; Registration; Application; Changes in Guarantees; Hearing; Fee

Section 52. Each commercial feed shall be registered before being distributed in the commonwealth; provided, however, that customer-formula feeds are exempt from registration. The application for registration shall be submitted on forms furnished by the commissioner or his deputy and if the commissioner so requests, shall also be accompanied by a label or other printed matter describing the product. Upon approval by the commissioner or his deputy a copy of the registration shall be furnished to the applicant. All registrations shall expire on December thirty-one of each year. The application shall include the information required by section fifty-three.
A distributor shall not be required to register any brand of commercial feed which is already registered under the provisions of this section by another person.
Changes in the guarantee of either chemical or ingredient composition of a registered commercial feed may be permitted provided there is satisfactory evidence that such changes would not result in a lowering of the feeding value of the product for the purpose for which designed, and provided the commissioner or his deputy is notified of the change.
The commissioner or his deputy is empowered to refuse registration of any application not in compliance with the provisions of sections fifty-two to sixty, inclusive, and to cancel any registration subsequently found not to be in compliance with any provision thereof; provided, however, that no registration shall be refused or cancelled until the registrant shall have been given opportunity to be heard before the commissioner or his duly authorized assistant and to amend his application in order to comply with the law. The registration fee shall be twenty-five dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIX - Agriculture and Conservation › Chapter 128 - Agriculture › Section 55 - Restrictions on Distribution of Feed

Section 55. No person shall distribute feed if (a) its labeling is false or misleading in any particular manner;
(b) it is distributed under the name of another feed;
(c) it is not labeled as required in section fifty-three and in regulations promulgated by the commissioner;
(d) it purports to be or is represented as a commercial feed, or if it purports to contain or is represented as containing a commercial feed ingredient which does not conform to the definition, if any, prescribed by regulation of the commissioner or his deputy. In the absence of a prescribed definition by the commissioner, conformity to the commonly accepted definitions as those issued by the Association of American Feed Control Officials shall apply;
(e) any word, statement, or other information required by or under authority of sections fifty-one through sixty to appear on the label or labeling is not prominently placed thereon with such conspicuousness, as compared with other words, statements, designs, or devices, in the labeling, and in such terms as to render it likely to be read and understood by the ordinary individual under customary conditions of purchase and use.