Digest of Laws Relating to State Parks ...

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Page 65 - ... light, so constructed as to show an unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of twenty points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light ten points on each side of the vessel, namely, from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on either side, and of such a character as to be visible at a distance of at least five miles.
Page 109 - The conservation, development and utilization of the agricultural, mineral, forest, water and other natural resources of the commonwealth are public uses, and the general court shall have power to provide for the taking, upon payment of just compensation therefor, of lands and easements or interests therein, including water and mineral rights, for the purpose of securing and promoting the proper conservation, development, utilization and control thereof and to enact legislation necessary or expedient...
Page 88 - State-wide as distinguished from mere local concern or the location construction or authorization of which fall, according to law, within the province or jurisdiction of State bodies or State officials or which for any other reasons are appropriate subjects of or fall appropriately within the scope of a State, as distinguished from a mere local, program or plan...
Page 75 - The State shall never be a party in carrying on any works of internal improvement.
Page 89 - ... create conditions favorable to transportation, health, safety, civic activities and educational and cultural opportunities, reduce the wastes of financial and human resources which result from either excessive congestion or excessive scattering of population...
Page 88 - ... buildings and works which, by reason of their function, size, extent, location, legal status or other reason are of State-wide as distinguished from mere local concern...
Page 65 - A combined lantern in the fore part of the vessel and lower than the white light aft, showing green to starboard and red to port, so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on their respective sides.
Page 19 - States shall in no case be defeated because of rights of way, easements, and reservations which from their nature will in the opinion of the Secretary of Agriculture in no manner interfere with the use of the areas so encumbered for the purposes of this Act; but such rights of way, easements, and reservations retained by the grantor or lessor, from whom the United States receives title, shall be subject...
Page 132 - ... and that for the purpose of carrying out this principle logging of all such shores to a depth of four hundred feet from the natural water line is hereby forbidden, except as the Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture may see fit in particular instances to vary the distance for practical reasons...

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