HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1219        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 738

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act to further regulate cutting practices..

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. Notwithstanding any special or general law to the contrary, the Director of the Division of State Parks & Recreation, Department of Conservation and Recreation with authority under Massachusetts General Law, Chapter 132 (the Forest Cutting Law), sections 47-50, is hereby directed to promulgate new regulations that would require that only Massachusetts Licensed Foresters be able to prepare and file any and all Forest Cutting Plans.