HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 94951        FILED ON: 7/29/2010

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 4951

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Ten

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An Act improving lobster 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 1: Chapter 130 of the Massachusetts General Laws is hereby amended by deleting both the following lines from Section 38:

“, which shall be burned or cut into the surface thereof”

“Before any buoy, pot, trap or lobster car is transferred, sold or given away the owner shall burn or cut the letter ‘T’ into the buoy, pot, trap or lobster car, after his number, to indicate that the buoy, pot, trap or lobster car has been transferred and the new owner shall burn or cut his number into the buoy, pot, trap or lobster car.”