Code of Massachusetts Regulations › 302 CMR - DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND RECREATION › Title 302 CMR 12.00 - Parks And Recreation Rules › Section 12.04 - Rules of Conduct on DCR Properties - Generally

Current through Register 1525, July 5, 2024
(1) Each person utilizing any DCR property
			 shall maintain and leave it in a clean and sanitary manner or
			 condition.
(2) All persons must
			 adhere to any and all reasonable requests or directions of DCR personnel or law
			 enforcement officials.
(3) Each
			 person on DCR property shall abide by all applicable local, Commonwealth of
			 Massachusetts and United States laws and regulations.
(4) No person may engage in disorderly
			 conduct including, without limitation, drunkenness, rough play, pushing,
			 shoving, breach of the peace or unnecessary noise offensive to the general
			 public, use of profanity, vulgar or obscene language, or other language that
			 may incite fighting or harm to DCR Personnel or to the public.
(5) No person shall have possession of or
			 discharge any firearm or pellet gun in violation of the laws and regulations of
			 the Commonwealth.
(6) No person
			 shall discharge any weapon that discharges projectiles including, but not
			 limited to, bow and arrow and crossbow, unless such items are being utilized
			 for hunting in compliance with laws and regulations governing such
			 activities.
(7) No person shall
			 have possession of a paint ball gun or paint ball gun ammunition.
(8) No person, unless authorized by law,
			 license, or permit, shall have possession of or discharge any fireworks or
			 other explosives.
(9) No person may
			 sell, distribute, advertise or display cigarettes or other tobacco related
			 products.
(10) No person may
			 possess marijuana, unless for duly authorized medical use, in accordance with
			 state law and regulation.
(11) No
			 person may engage in games or activities which, due to the location or nature
			 of the activity, may cause discomfort, fear or injury to a reasonable person or
			 damage to property.
(12) With the
			 exception of coastal and inland sandy beaches, no person may use or offer for
			 use metal detectors, except with permission from DCR personnel, for the
			 purposes of locating lost personal property.
(13) No person may deposit trash or any waste
			 not generated during a stay at a DCR property in, on or near trash or recycling
			 receptacles or in any other location on DCR property.
(14) No person may enter upon the frozen
			 water of the DCR for the purpose of ice skating, ice fishing, or for motorized
			 or non-motorized purposes, when a prohibition against such use has been posted.
			 A person utilizing said DCR bodies of frozen water engages in such activity at
			 his or her own risk, and DCR assumes no responsibility either implied or
			 express as to the safety of any persons who voluntarily engage in such a known,
			 obvious and inherent risk associated with such frozen water
			 activities.
(15) No person may be
			 naked or otherwise expose genitals, buttocks, or breasts, or change or allow
			 the changing of clothing or diapers except in an appropriate location such as a
			 bathhouse, locker room, bathroom stall, or other similar facility. 302 CMR
			 12.04(15) does not apply to breastfeeding.
(16) No person may smoke in or on any DCR
			 buildings, structures, camping structures, or in designated swimming, wading,
			 or spray pool areas, or where posted as prohibited.
(17) No person may use or operate a
			 kite-powered apparatus or hang glider on or over any DCR property, except at
			 times and in areas designated for such use.
(18) No person may dive, jump, swim from,
			 throw or launch themselves, or anyone or anything, from any DCR property such
			 as a bridge or overpass, unless such activity has been authorized by DCR and
			 appropriate posting or signage indicates such.
(19) No person shall distribute, erect or
			 affix any handbill, circular, pamphlet, placard, sign, notice, billboard,
			 poster, advertisement, memorial or any printed material on or in any DCR
			 property, except in designated areas, in accordance with posted guidelines, or
			 unless as otherwise duly authorized.
(20) Technical climbing, or mountaineering,
			 of sufficient difficulty to require the use of ropes or other forms of
			 specialized mountain climbing equipment to aid in ascent or descent, shall be
			 allowed only in areas designated for such activity by DCR.
(21) No person may damage, disturb or remove
			 any DCR property or resource, real, natural, personal, cultural or historic,
			 except through hunting, fishing, or trapping where permitted and carried out in
			 accordance with regulations issued by the Division of Fisheries and Wildlife,
			 or other written authorization by the Department.
(22) No person may conduct archaeological
			 investigation, unless permitted by the State Archaeologist in accordance with
			 M.G.L. c. 9, § 27C and approved by the Division Director.
(23) The unanticipated discovery of historic
			 artifacts or human remains shall be reported immediately to DCR.
(24) No tree or other vegetation shall be
			 planted or removed from DCR property, unless authorized by the Division
			 Director.
(25) No person shall
			 operate or use a chain saw on DCR property without written DCR authorization
			 such as a volunteer/stewardship agreement or memorandum of agreement.
(26) No memorial, plaque, obstruction or
			 structure shall be placed on, changed or removed from DCR property, unless
			 authorized by the Department.
(27)
			 No person shall solicit, sell, rent, advertise or offer to sell or rent, hawk,
			 peddle, display or distribute any goods, wares, tangible or intangible
			 property, merchandise, liquids, edibles, services for hire, render any services
			 for hire, or engage in or conduct any business, commercial or special activity
			 or event on DCR property without an approved permit from the Department prior
			 to engaging in such activities.
(28)
Special Use Permit
			 Required
. Unless authorized by a special use permit issued in
			 accordance with
			 302 CMR
			 12.17(2), no person may:
(a) Consume, possess, distribute, sell or
			 drink alcoholic beverages;
(b)
			 Engage in any lotteries, raffles, gambling and games of chance;
(c) Conduct any commercial use activity or
			 event;
(d) Possess machinery,
			 instruments or equipment of any kind for the use of conducting lotteries,
			 raffles, gambling and games of chance;
(e) Operate or use any audio device,
			 including radio, television, musical instruments, or other noise producing
			 devices, such as electrical generators, or equipment driven by motor or engine,
			 in a manner or at such times that may disturb others. 302 CMR 12.04(28)(e)
			 shall not apply to campgrounds; operation of these devices or equipment at
			 campgrounds shall be subject to the provisions in
			 302 CMR
			 12.08;
(f) Operate or use any public address system,
			 whether fixed, portable or vehicle mounted;
(g) Except in an emergency, bring, take off,
			 land or cause to descend on DCR property any airplane, helicopter, sea plane,
			 so-called ultra-light aircraft, or any other apparatus;
(h) Conduct research which may damage,
			 disturb or remove any DCR property or resource, real, natural, personal,
			 cultural or historic;
(i) Promote,
			 sponsor or engage in any race, rally or organized trial events on DCR
			 property;
(j) Conduct parades,
			 games, fairs, carnivals, circuses, bazaars or the like;
(k) Conduct activities for the purpose of
			 fundraising or otherwise soliciting funds;
(l) Use or operate any air propelled power
			 craft or hovercraft on or over any of the lands or waters of the DCR;
			 and
(m) Operate a watercraft for
			 livery or carrying passengers for hire.