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FACE="BookmanITC Lt BT" > <A NAME="clubs"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></FONT></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="6" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="611" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#FFFFFF" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" BGCOLOR=#FFCCB2 > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="288"><div> <B>Club Details:</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="288"><div> <B>Regular Meetings:</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <B>Aviculturists of Greater Boston, Inc.</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="288"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="288" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 64 WIDTH="288"><div> <B>Boston Cockatiel Society</B></div> <div> 93 Woodcliff Rd.</div> <div> Chestnut Hill, MA 02167</div> <div> (617) 286-4756</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="288"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="64" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="288" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 64 ><NOBR><div> <B>Boston Society for Avicutlure</B></div> <div> 188 Highland St.</div> <div> Boston, MA 02119</div> <div> (617) 427-3773</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="288"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="64" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="288" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 64 ><NOBR><div> <B>Exotic Cage Bird Society of New England</B></div> <div> Box 537</div> <div> Auburn, MA 01501</div> <div> (508) 832-2375</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="288"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="64" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="288" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 33 WIDTH="288"><div> <B>Massachusetts Cage Bird Association, Inc.</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="288"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="33" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="288" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 48 ><NOBR><div> <B>Southeast Massachusetts Canary Club</B></div> <div> 1181 Victoria St.</div> <div> New Bedford, MA 02745</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="288"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="48" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="288" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" ><B>Massachusetts Laws</B></FONT> <A NAME="laws"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="610" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" BGCOLOR=#FFCCB2 > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 2603 WIDTH="146"><div> <B>Massachusetts</B></div> <div> <B>MASS. GEN. LAWS ANN. ch. 131, §77A - Propagation, dealing, etc. in fish, birds, mammals, reptiles or amphibians; rules and regulations; licenses; fees.</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="296"><div> Section 23. Except as otherwise provided by this section or any rule or regulation made under the authority thereof, a person shall not engage in the propagation, cultivation, or maintenance of, or the dealing in, fish, birds, mammals, reptiles, or amphibians, or parts thereof, as provided in section twenty-four, twenty-five or forty-seven, without first having obtained a propagator's license or dealer's license, as the case may be, authorizing him so to do. For the purpose of this section, birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians shall refer to undomesticated birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians that are wild by nature. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the propagation, disposition, sale, possession or maintenance of domesticated species.</div> <bR> <div> The director, after a public hearing, shall make and may alter, amend, or repeal, rules and regulations governing the possession, propagation, maintenance, disposition, purchase, exchange, sale or offering for sale of fish, birds, mammals, reptiles or amphibians, or parts thereof, protected by this chapter, and may issue licenses in accordance with such rules and regulations.</div> <bR> <div> The director shall draw up a special exemption list of fish, birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians. Animals to be thus listed shall meet the following criteria: </div> <div> (1) accidental release of the fish, bird, mammal, reptile or amphibian will not result in an adverse effect on the ecology of the commonwealth; </div> <div> (2) the animal in captivity, or escaped therefrom poses no substantial danger to man, by either injury or disease; </div> <div> (3) proper care of the animal is no more demanding in any major respect than proper care of common domestic animals; and </div> <div> (4) trade in the fish, bird, mammal, reptile or amphibian has no significant adverse effect on the wild population of such animal in any of its natural habitats.  No animal listed in any category of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources' Red Data Books shall be listed; no animal protected by either federal endangered species law or by section twenty-six A shall be listed. The special exemption list may be altered by the director after a public hearing. Any individual may possess as a pet, without a license, any animal on the special exemption list, and may continue to do so in case of subsequent removal of such animal from the list, for the lifetime of his animal, contingent upon evidence of acquisition of the animal while so listed.</div> <bR> <div> Each license issued by the director shall specify the degree to which fish, birds, mammals, reptiles or amphibians, or parts thereof, may be propagated, cultivated, maintained, disposed of, or dealt in, and the section of the law with respect to which such license is issued. For the granting of an individual license for an animal that is not on the special exemption list, the applicant shall satisfy the director that he can maintain in good health, properly confine and protect the animal; if, however, depletion of the wild population of the species is an issue, proposed acquisition of a captive-bred animal or acquisition by a person whose ownership is likely to benefit the species shall be given preference.</div> <bR> <div> A license to possess as a pet a bird, mammal, fish, reptile or amphibian owned prior to January first, nineteen hundred and seventy-four shall, provided that any potentially injurious animal is properly confined in a suitable facility, be granted at any time to any individual upon presentation of evidence of ownership of the animal in question prior to January first, nineteen hundred and seventy-four.</div> <bR> <div> A person, club or association operating under authority of a license issued as herein before provided shall not sell for food fish of a size prohibited by this chapter or by any rule or regulation made under authority thereof.</div> <bR> <div> The following classes of licenses may be issued under this section: -</div> <bR> <div> [(1) (2) (3) pertain to fish only ... ]</div> <bR> <div> (4) To any individual, a propagator's license to possess, maintain, buy, sell, offer for sale or have in possession for the purpose of sale, birds, mammals, reptiles or amphibians.</div> <bR> <div> (5) To any individual, club or association, a special propagator's license to possess birds or mammals to propagate for the purpose of liberation into covers open to public hunting, for which there shall be no fee.</div> <bR> <div> (6) To any individual, a dealer's license to possess, buy, sell, or offer for sale, fish, birds or mammals lawfully taken or lawfully propagated outside the commonwealth or lawfully propagated within the commonwealth.</div> <bR> <div> (7) To any individual, a license to possess but not to sell except under authority of a permit from the director, authority to issue such permits being hereby granted to the director, a bird or mammal as a pet, or for the purpose of training dogs, or a reptile or amphibian.</div> <bR> <div> (8) To any individual, a license to possess, liberate and recapture, but not to sell except under authority of a permit from the director, authority to issue such permit being hereby granted to the director, up to twenty-five quail for the purpose of training dogs.</div> <bR> <div> (9) To any person who successfully fulfills the license requirements as established by the director, a falconry license, for either an apprentice falconer, general or master falconer, depending upon the applicant's qualifications and testing, to keep, train and hunt with raptors in accordance with the rules and regulations established therefor, provided that when hunting, the licensee shall also possess a valid hunting or sporting license.</div> <bR> <div> (10) To any person fulfilling the requirements of this license as established by the director, a raptor breeding license to possess and propagate birds of the families Accipitridae, Falconidae, Tytonidae, and Strigidae in accordance with the rules and regulations established therefor. The sport of falconry shall be permitted under this license only for the purposes of conditioning and training propagated raptors prior to their release to the wild or transfer to a falconry permittee or other use as authorized by the director.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="146"><div> <A HREF="id67_m.htm" TITLE="Massachusetts"><U>-top of page-</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="6" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="614" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#FFFFFF" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" BGCOLOR=#FFCCB2 > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 1094 WIDTH="138"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1094" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="138" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="288"><div> (11) To any person fulfilling the requirements of this license as established by the director, a raptor salvage license to possess, transport, rehabilitate and release to the wild, transfer to a falconry permittee, or other use as authorized by the director, birds of the order Falconiformes, except species prohibited by federal regulations, in accordance with the rules and regulations established therefor. The sport of falconry shall be permitted under this license only for the purposes of conditioning and training rehabilitated raptors prior to their release to the wild, transfer to a falconry permittee or other use as authorized by the director.</div> <bR> <div> It shall be unlawful to purchase, sell, barter or offer for sale or barter, or to have in possession for the purpose of sale or barter, any raptors licensed under clauses (9), (10) and (11) unless otherwise authorized in writing by the director, except that no raptors taken from the wild in the commonwealth shall be purchased, sold, bartered or offered for sale or barter or held in possession for such purposes.</div> <div> The amounts of initial fees for licenses issued in accordance with this section and for each annual renewal thereof shall be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven for the filing thereof.</div> <bR> <div> Any fish, bird, mammal, reptile or amphibian possessed, propagated, cultivated, maintained, sold, or offered for sale in violation of this section or of any rule or regulation made under authority thereof may be seized and shall be disposed of by the director of law enforcement for the best interests of the commonwealth.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> (11) List of Birds.</div> <div> (a) The following groups of birds are prohibited without a permit: </div> <div> 1. Species categorically non-exempt pursuant to 321 CMR 9.01(3).</div> <div> 2. Migratory birds listed in the Code of Federal Regulations, 50 CFR 10.13.</div> <div> 3. Any other bird native to the United States and Canada.</div> <div>  1. Blue or Button Quail (Coturnix chinensis)</div> <div>  2. Columbidae (pigeons and doves)</div> <div>  3. Estrildidae (Waxbills and allies)</div> <div>  4. Fringillidae (Finches and allies)</div> <div>  5. Ploceidae (Weaver Finches except the Red-billed, Black-fronted, and Sudan Diochs (Quelea quelea) which require a permit.</div> <div>  6. Psittacidae (parrots and their allies)</div> <div>  7. Ramphastidae (Toucans, Aracaris, and Toucanets)</div> <div>  8. Sturnidae (Starlings and Mynahs, except the Rose-colored Starling (Pink Starling or Rosy Pastor) (Sturnus roseus) which requires a permit.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="138"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1094" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="138" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="6" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="614" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#FFFFFF" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" BGCOLOR=#FFCCB2 > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 967 WIDTH="138"><div> MASS. REGS. CODE tit. 321, §2.12 - <U>Artificial Propagation and Maintenance of Birds and Mammals</U></div> <bR> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="288"><div> (1) Purpose and Scope. The purpose of 321 CMR 2.12 is to establish the procedural and substantive requirements for the licensing, possession, propagation, maintenance, and disposition of wild birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians. 321 CMR 2.12 is designed to protect wild animals from unnecessary or undesirable interference and from improper treatment. 321 CMR 2.12 is also necessary for the protection of the public health, welfare and safety when wild animals are possessed, maintained or propagated in Massachusetts. </div> <bR> <div> However, the Division recognizes that at the present time some wild animals are being possessed, maintained, propagated or cultivated unlawfully without a license in Massachusetts. A grace period is       provided to allow all persons unlawfully possessing wild animals 60 days from 6/30/95 during which licenses may be issued to possess such animals for purposes other than keeping as pets. Wild animals, regardless of whether or not they are born in captivity, often revert to their wild nature when sexually mature and can do considerable harm to persons. Furthermore, wild animals retained in captivity and dependent on humans for care may not be capable of surviving in the wild if problems arise and they are ejected by those who had attempted to care for them. The result is an animal that may suffer a lingering fate prior to death and may be a potential danger to the public. The purpose of 321 CMR 2.12 is to prevent not only the potential public menace, disease, personal injury and property damage which result when the animals are ejected, but to protect the animals from the potential for needless </div> <div> or unnecessary suffering as well. Thus, the scope of 321 CMR 2.12 is to regulate:</div> <div> (a) the importation, taking from the wild, possession, propagation, purchasing or receipt of protected animals intended to be kept by any person in Massachusetts;</div> <div> (b) to define specific categories for which licenses may be issued for the possession, maintenance, propagation or cultivation of </div> <div> protected wildlife;</div> <div> (c) to establish minimum requirements for the possession, maintenance and artificial propagation of protected animals;</div> <div> (d) to establish administrative procedures for the initial issuance and subsequent renewal of licenses, and</div> <div> (e) to otherwise implement the licensing provisions of M.G.L.c. 131, § 23.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="138"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="967" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="138" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="6" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="614" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#FFFFFF" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" BGCOLOR=#FFCCB2 > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 2750 WIDTH="138"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="2750" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="138" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="288"><div> 321 CMR 2.12 is promulgated and effective in addition to and in conjunction with 7 U.S.C. § 2132 et seq. as amended, commonly known as the federal Animal Welfare Act and the licensing program of the United States Department of Agriculture. Compliance with the requirements of the United States Department of Agriculture does not exempt an applicant from compliance with 321 CMR 2.12 or other laws of Massachusetts. Thus, the issuance of the so-called federal exhibitor's permit to any person other than a zoo does not exempt that person from compliance with 321 CMR 2.12 and its licensing provisions.</div> <div> 2) Definitions. For the purposes of 321 CMR 2.12, the following words have the following meanings:</div> <div> Animals means any undomesticated bird, mammal, reptile or </div> <div> amphibian, that is not the product of hybridization with a domestic form and not otherwise contained in the exemption list found at CMR 9.01.</div> <bR> <div> Class 4 - Class 8 Licenses means respectively licenses issued under authority of clauses 4 through 8, M.G.L.c. 131, § 23.</div> <div> Director means the Director of the Division of Fisheries and Wildlife or his agents, 100 Cambridge Street, Room 1902, Boston, MA 02202.</div> <div> Educational Use means a use or uses as contained in a course of training, of any extent or duration, and which pertains to the acquisition, development, or maintenance of a person's moral, </div> <div> intellectual, vocational, and physical faculties, insofar as such </div> <div> course of training shall relate to fisheries or wildlife, and the               habitats, ecological relationships, or the environment thereof.</div> <div> Environmental Police Officer means the Director of the Division of </div> <div> Law Enforcement, deputy directors of enforcement, chiefs of enforcement, deputy chiefs of enforcement, environmental police officers, and such other enforcement officers of the Division of Law Enforcement as may be appointed pursuant to M.G.L.c. 21, § 6.</div> <div> Person means an individual corporation, partnership, trust, </div> <div> association or other private entity or any officer, agent, department or instrumentality of the federal government or any state or its political subdivisions, including but not limited to any agency, department, board, commission or authority thereof.</div> <div> Scientific Use means a use or uses concerned with the classification, formulation verification, and documentation of various natural laws, principles, and events by induction, deduction, hypothesis, and experimentation, including, but not limited to, the collection, analysis, propounding, and display of data, whether written, recorded or otherwise, and of artifacts </div> <div> specimens, and similar physical samples, and shall further relate </div> <div> generally to the physical world and its associated phenomena, and </div> <div> specifically to those branches of systematized knowledge categorized as zoology, botany, ecology, wildlife management, fisheries management, medicine, and veterinary medicine, or such other skills and disciplines which shall require such use or uses.</div> <bR> <div> Wild Animal Farm means a person licensed pursuant to 321 CMR 2.12(10)(d).</div> <bR> <div> Zoo means a permanent site or a permanent location where a collection of living nondomesticated animals are maintained for </div> <div> regular exhibition to the public.</div> <div> 3) Licenses. Unless otherwise provided by law, it is unlawful for </div> <div> any person to possess maintain, propagate or cultivate, sell or </div> <div> offer to sell any animal without having a valid license issued to </div> <div> them by the Director in one of five classes.</div> <div> (a) A class 4 propagator's license authorizes a person to possess, </div> <div> maintain, propagate, buy, sell or otherwise lawfully dispose of </div> <div> specified birds, mammals, reptiles or amphibians. A Class 4 license may, in addition and as a condition of the license, allow the liberation and recapture of bobwhite quail or ring-necked pheasant for the sole purpose of training dogs.</div> <div> (b) A class 5 public stocking license (including a Class 5 special </div> <div> propagator's license) authorizes any individual, club or association to possess, maintain and propagate birds or mammals for the sole purpose of liberation into covers open for public hunting. A Class 5 public stocking license may be issued as a Letter Permit in accordance with M.G.L. c. 131, § 4(2) and 321 CMR 2.02 but shall otherwise conform to the requirements of 321 CMR 2.12.(c) A class 6 dealer's license authorizes a person to possess or maintain for food purposes, and to purchase, sell, offer to sell, barter, offer to barter, or conduct commercial transactions of any nature, fish, birds, or mammals which have been lawfully imported into Massachusetts or lawfully propagated within Massachusetts, provided that dealing in fish shall be in accordance with 321 CMR 4.09. A class 6 dealer's license issued for purposes other than human food shall be issued at the discretion of the director, and the director shall not issue such permit unless, in his discretion, such permit is in the public interest and is not detrimental to the fish and wildlife resources of Massachusetts or the populations of the fish and wildlife proposed for the license, wherever found. When a fish, bird, or mammal proposed for licensing closely resembles a fish, bird, or mammal not so proposed, or for which a license may not be issued, or which derives from a source not authorized pursuant to 321 CMR 2.12(16)(a), the director may consider such similarity of appearance as constituting an adverse or detrimental effect on such protected or non-licensed fish, birds, and mammals, or on the enforcement of laws relating to the conservation and management of the same, and may deny the license on such basis.</div> <div> d) A class 7 possessor's license authorizes a person to possess and maintain, but not to propagate, sell or barter, a non-exempt bird or mammal in accordance with 321 CMR 2.12(10)(l); or a non-exempt mammal for the sole purpose of training dogs, when such mammal was lawfully possessed and held under a Class 7 license prior to December 31, 1994; or for the possession of a non-exempt reptile or amphibian. After December 31, 1994, no initial Class 7 license may be issued for the purpose of possessing a non-exempt </div> <div> mammal for the purpose of training dogs. A Class 7 license may be </div> <div> issued as a Letter Permit in accordance with M.G.L. c. 131, § 4(2) and 321 CMR 2.02 but shall otherwise conform to the requirements of 321 CMR 2.12.</div> <bR> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="138"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="2750" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="138" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><B> </B><B>Massachusetts Addresses</B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="BookmanITC Lt BT" > <A NAME="addresses"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></FONT></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="6" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="608" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#FFFFFF" BORDERCOLORDARK="#000000" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" BGCOLOR=#FFCCB2 > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 33 WIDTH="588"><div> Disaster Resources from the University of Illinois Extension Service      http://www.ag.uiuc.edu/~disaster/disaster.html</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> Disaster Center Page Illinois    http://www.disastercenter.com/mass/mass.htm</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>