Session Laws

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Section 16 of chapter 270 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 1984 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out the first sentence and inserting in place thereof the following sentence:- Whoever places, throws, deposits, discharges, or causes to be placed, thrown, deposited or discharged, any trash, bottles or cans, refuse, rubbish, garbage, debris, scrap, waste or any other material of any kind on a public highway or within twenty yards thereof, or on any other public land, or in or upon coastal or inland waters, as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and thirty-one, respectively, or within twenty yards of any such water, or on property of another, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars for the first offense and not more than ten thousand dollars for each subsequent offense, and the court may require, in addition thereto, that such person remove, at his own expense, such trash, refuse, rubbish, debris or materials.