HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2997 FILED ON: 1/21/2011
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 2402
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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PRESENTED BY:
Kate Hogan
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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:
The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the passage of the accompanying:
An Act relative to the lawful use of shotguns.
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PETITION OF:
Name: | District/Address: |
Kate Hogan | 3rd Middlesex |
Carolyn C. Dykema | 8th Middlesex |
Todd M. Smola | 1st Hampden |
Marc T. Lombardo | 22nd Middlesex |
Randy Hunt | 5th Barnstable |
Donald F. Humason, Jr. | 4th Hampden |
Cory Atkins | 14th Middlesex |
Shaunna O'Connell | 3rd Bristol |
Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr. | 12th Hampden |
Cleon H. Turner | 1st Barnstable |
Elizabeth A. Poirier | 14th Bristol |
Kimberly N. Ferguson | 1st Worcester |
Bradford Hill | 4th Essex |
Paul K. Frost | 7th Worcester |
Jennifer E. Benson | 37th Middlesex |
Anne M. Gobi | 5th Worcester |
Viriato Manuel deMacedo | 1st Plymouth |
George T. Ross | 2nd Bristol |
Geraldo Alicea | 6th Worcester |
Bruce E. Tarr |
[District]
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Christine E. Canavan | 10th Plymouth |
George N. Peterson, Jr. | 9th Worcester |
HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2997 FILED ON: 1/21/2011
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 2402
By Ms. Hogan of Stow, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2402) of Kate Hogan and others relative to the lawful use of shotguns. Public Safety and Homeland Security. |
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
An Act relative to the lawful use of shotguns.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
Section 1. Section 66 of Chapter 131 is hereby amended by deleting it in its entirety and replacing it with the following:
Section 66: Except during the prescribed open season when deer or bear may be hunted lawfully with a shotgun, a person shall not have in his possession a shotgun shell loaded with a rifled slug, single ball, buckshot of any size, in any place where birds or mammals might be found. The director may promulgate rules and regulations regarding shotgun ammunition to be utilized while engaged in hunting.
Notwithstanding any special law or regulation to the contrary this section shall not apply to the use of shotguns of shotgun ammunition on a skeet, trap or other firing ranges.
