Bill H.2402

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 adoption of the accompanying bill:

An Act relative to the lawful use of shotguns.

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PETITION OF:

Name:	District/Address:	Date Added:
Kate Hogan	3rd Middlesex	1/24/2011
Carolyn C. Dykema	8th Middlesex	2/3/2011
Todd M. Smola	1st Hampden	2/3/2011
Marc T. Lombardo	22nd Middlesex	2/3/2011
Randy Hunt	5th Barnstable	2/3/2011
Donald F. Humason, Jr.	4th Hampden	2/3/2011
Cory Atkins	14th Middlesex	2/3/2011
Shaunna O'Connell	3rd Bristol	2/4/2011
Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr.	12th Hampden	2/4/2011
Cleon H. Turner	1st Barnstable	2/4/2011
Elizabeth A. Poirier	14th Bristol	2/4/2011
Kimberly N. Ferguson	1st Worcester	2/4/2011
Bradford Hill	4th Essex	2/4/2011
Paul K. Frost	7th Worcester	2/4/2011
Jennifer E. Benson	37th Middlesex	1/31/2011
Anne M. Gobi	5th Worcester	2/1/2011
Viriato Manuel deMacedo	1st Plymouth	1/26/2011
George T. Ross	2nd Bristol	1/25/2011
Geraldo Alicea	6th Worcester	1/26/2011
Bruce E. Tarr		1/31/2011
Christine E. Canavan	10th Plymouth	1/31/2011
George N. Peterson, Jr.	9th Worcester	2/3/2011

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

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In the Year Two Thousand Eleven

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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.