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PRIVATE SHELLFISH GRANTS 130 § 57
<br /> P='o- *;, PRIVATE SHELLFISH GRANTS
<br /> urther, it,
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<br /> ter be § 57. Licenses granted by cities and towns; application; notice
<br /> Kt' and hearing; qualifications; forms
<br /> The city council of a city or the selectmen of any town may,
<br /> upon written application therefor and after public notice and hearing
<br /> thereon as provided in section sixty, grant to any person a license for
<br /> ses' a period not exceeding ten years to plant, grow, and take shellfish
<br /> and to plant cultch for the purpose of catching shellfish seed, in such
<br /> ores, city or town at all times of the year, in, upon or from a specific por-
<br /> en or tion of flats or land under coastal waters
<br /> provided the division of
<br /> unless marine fisheries shall, after inspection, certify that the license and
<br /> t pre- ; ; , operation thereunder would cause no substantial adverse effect on the
<br /> ent of
<br /> natural shellfish resources of the town, and provided further, no li-
<br /> next cense shall be issued for any area then or within two years prior
<br /> com- thereto, closed for municipal cultivation under the provisions of sec-
<br /> tion fifty-four. Licenses under this section shall be issued upon
<br /> c. 182. forms supplied by such cities and towns and upon such terms and
<br /> conditions and subject to such regulations as the city council or se-
<br /> lectmen issuing the same shall deem proper, but not so as to impair
<br /> f qua- the private _rights of any person or to materially obstruct navigable
<br /> "New waters, and they shall describe by metes and bounds the waters, flats
<br /> or creeks covered thereby.
<br /> ` . Nothing in this section shall be deemed to affect the validity,
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<br /> conditions, or term of any license granted under corresponding provi-
<br /> unici- = sions of earlier laws and in full force upon the effective date of this
<br /> any r{- section.
<br /> alder-
<br /> Added by St.1941, c. 598, § 1. Amended by St.1973,c. 931, § 2.
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<br /> sec- =:;' $t,1973, c. 931, $ 2, approved Oct. 17, stock of which is owned by such per-
<br /> or as y a 1973, in the first paragraph, deleted "al- sons, a license for a period not exceed-
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<br /> rivi-
<br /> dermen," preceding the words "city ing five years to plant, grow, dig and n ,:
<br /> council" in the second sentence, and re- take shellfish and to plant shells for the
<br /> this wrote the first sentence which read as purpose of catching shellfish seed, in
<br /> erty _ i added in 1941: "The aldermen or city such city or town at all times of the
<br /> r council of any city, or the selectmen of year, upon, in or from any waters, flats
<br /> eges,
<br /> any town when so authorized by their or creeks below mean high water mark
<br /> cil or ;' town may, upon written application within such city or town at any place
<br /> s the -herefor and after public notice and where, in the opinion of the aldermen,
<br /> hearing thereon as provided in section city council or selectmen, there is no
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<br /> stat grant to any person who for at substantial natural shellfish bed, and
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<br /> least one year immediately prior to his within the limits s
<br /> pecified in the II-
<br /> application has been a registered voter cense, except on areas then or within
<br /> in such cit or town, to a firm com- two
<br /> y years prior thereto closed for mu-
<br /> entirely of such persons thereof, nicipal cultivation under the provisions
<br /> "? or w a corporation the entire --apital of section fifty-four."
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