[Adopted by the Board of Selectmen (now Select Board) 3-4-2015[1]]
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Editor's Note: The Select Board approved the codification
of its regulations, as revised, 4-13-2022.
Town of Nantucket, MA
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2023-11-07
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Division 2 Town Regulations
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Chapter 260 Fishing and Shellfishing
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ARTICLE IV Shellfishing
- Ethics
- Ch ETH Ethics
- Bylaws
- Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 2 Administrative Procedures
- Ch 11 Committees
- Ch 12 Council for Human Services
- Ch 19 Finances
- Ch 21 (Reserved)
- Ch 25 Liability, Municipal
- Ch 26 False Private Alarms
- Ch 27 Buses
- Ch 33 Personnel
- Ch 34 Domestic Partnerships
- Ch 38 Select Board
- Ch 40 Town Collector and Town Treasurer
- Ch 41 Board of Sewer Commissioners
- Ch 42 Solid Waste Enterprise
- Ch 44 Town Meetings
- Ch 45 Elections
- Ch 46 Town Property, Conveyance of
- General Legislation
- Ch 53 Airport Approach Zone
- Ch 54 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 55 Animals
- Ch 56 Beaches, Regulation of Motor Vehicles on
- Ch 57 Bicycles and Mopeds
- Ch 58 Car Rental Agencies, Registration of
- Ch 64 Camping
- Ch 66 Coastal Areas and Open Spaces, Protection of
- Ch 67 Coastal Properties Owned by Town, Management of
- Ch 69 (Reserved)
- Ch 86 Health Regulations
- Ch 88 Junk, Metals and Secondhand Merchandise, Sale of
- Ch 91 (Reserved)
- Ch 94 Loitering
- Ch 95 Marijuana
- Ch 97 Merchandise and Wares, Display of
- Ch 98 Motorized Passenger Devices
- Ch 99 Nantucket and Madaket Harbor Watersheds
- Ch 100 Nantucket Housing Needs Covenant Program
- Ch 101 Noise
- Ch 102 Outdoor Lighting
- Ch 103 (Reserved)
- Ch 104 Abandoned Vehicles
- Ch 105 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 107 Peddlers, Solicitors and Transient Vendors
- Ch 108 Civil Fingerprinting
- Ch 113 Poles and Wires, Removal of
- Ch 114 Public Water Supply Use Restrictions
- Ch 117 Roofs, Noncombustible
- Ch 120 Sewers and Wastewater Facilities
- Ch 122 Shellfish, Taking of
- Ch 123 Short-Term Rentals
- Ch 124 Signs; Satellite Dishes; Rooflines
- Ch 124A (Reserved)
- Ch 125 Solid Waste Disposal
- Ch 125A Single-Use Plastics
- Ch 126 Street Numbers, Regulating
- Ch 127 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 128 Excavation and Trench Safety
- Ch 129 (Reserved)
- Ch 132 Trees and Shrubs
- Ch 135 Fuel Storage Tanks
- Ch 136 Wetlands
- Ch 137 Wharves and Waterways, Town
- Ch 139 Zoning
- Ch 140 Right to Farm
- Ch 141 Stretch Energy Code
- Town Regulations
- Ch 203 Airport Regulations
- Ch 207 Alcoholic Beverage Licensing and Regulation
- Ch 211 Animals
- Ch 216 Beaches
- Ch 220 Biodegradable Packaging
- Ch 223 Board of Health Administration
- Ch 225 Boats and Boating
- Ch 229 Body Art Establishments and Practitioners
- Ch 234 Cemeteries
- Ch 238 Comprehensive Permits
- Ch 252 Fertilizer
- Ch 256 Filming and Videotaping on Public Lands
- Ch 260 Fishing and Shellfishing
- Ch 260 Art IV Shellfishing
- Ch 260 Art IV Pt 1 Policy and Purpose
- § 260-4.1 Purpose and authority.
- § 260-4.2 Authority to restrict activities.
- § 260-4.3 Permits issued to residents only.
- Ch 260 Art IV Pt 2 General Regulations Applying to Recreational, Commercial and Aquaculture Licenses
- § 260-4.4 License or permit required.
- § 260-4.5 Permitted locations.
- § 260-4.6 Daily limits.
- § 260-4.7 Landing shellfish.
- § 260-4.8 Permitted hours of operation.
- § 260-4.9 Closures and red flag.
- § 260-4.10 Temperature restrictions.
- § 260-4.11 Habitat sensitive areas.
- § 260-4.12 Bay scallop strandings.
- § 260-4.13 Poaching.
- § 260-4.14 Disturbance of licensed or closed areas.
- § 260-4.15 Inspections.
- § 260-4.16 Possession of seed.
- § 260-4.17 Methods of taking.
- § 260-4.18 SCUBA diving and snorkeling.
- § 260-4.19 Transplanting.
- § 260-4.20 By-catch.
- § 260-4.21 Catch reports provided to Town.
- Ch 260 Art IV Pt 3 Recreational (Noncommercial) Shellfishing
- § 260-4.22 Permit required.
- § 260-4.23 Commercial harvesting prohibited.
- § 260-4.24 Harvest criteria by species.
- Ch 260 Art IV Pt 4 Commercial Shellfishing
- § 260-4.25 Eligibility for permits.
- § 260-4.26 Tagging of harvest.
- § 260-4.27 Application for and term of permit.
- § 260-4.28 Permit required for dragging/dredging.
- § 260-4.29 Bay scallops.
- § 260-4.30 Quahogs.
- § 260-4.31 Blue mussels.
- § 260-4.32 Conches and whelks.
- § 260-4.33 Other shellfish species.
- § 260-4.34 Permit fees.
- § 260-4.35 Commercial seasons, days, limits and size restrictions.
- Ch 260 Art IV Pt 5 Aquaculture
- § 260-4.36 Issuance of shellfish aquaculture licenses (grants) for areas surveyed and subdivided by Town.
- § 260-4.37 Previously established grants that become available.
- § 260-4.38 Annual license fee and due date.
- § 260-4.39 Location of areas licensed for aquaculture (grants).
- § 260-4.40 Conditions for use of licensed area.
- § 260-4.41 Approval of licenses.
- § 260-4.42 Moratorium on licenses.
- § 260-4.43 Issuance of licenses.
- § 260-4.44 Term and renewal of licenses.
- § 260-4.45 Working of grants by nonlicensees.
- § 260-4.46 Limit on size of grant.
- § 260-4.47 Rights of use and transfer.
- § 260-4.48 Inheritance of rights to use license.
- § 260-4.49 Liability of Town.
- § 260-4.50 Evidence of productivity.
- § 260-4.51 Minimum levels of production.
- § 260-4.52 Failure to meet production levels.
- § 260-4.53 Waiver of production requirements.
- § 260-4.54 Investment and production in extension of or addition to licensed area (grant).
- § 260-4.55 Annual reports.
- § 260-4.56 Penalty for false reports.
- § 260-4.57 Notification of failure to meet minimum requirements.
- § 260-4.58 Annual inspection of grant.
- § 260-4.59 State seed permit required.
- § 260-4.60 Predator control measures.
- § 260-4.61 Horseshoe crabs.
- § 260-4.62 Endangered species.
- § 260-4.63 Removal of bay scallop seed from licensed area.
- § 260-4.64 Grants to be marked.
- § 260-4.65 Marking of gear.
- § 260-4.66 Gear to be secured or disposed of.
- § 260-4.67 Retrieval of displaced gear.
- § 260-4.68 Winterizing of floating gear.
- § 260-4.69 Exception for ice in harbor.
- § 260-4.70 Fines for gear violations.
- § 260-4.71 Hydraulic harvesting of shellfish from grant areas.
- § 260-4.72 Extension of acreage without permission.
- § 260-4.73 Abandonment or default of lease.
- § 260-4.74 Adherence to state vibrio protocols.
- Ch 260 Art IV Pt 6 Scientific Research
- § 260-4.75 Research and propagation projects/plans involving Town waters (noncommercial).
- § 260-4.76 Research license.
- § 260-4.77 Dissemination of data and results.
- § 260-4.78 Excess research product (noncommercial).
- Ch 260 Art IV Pt 7 Enforcement
- § 260-4.79 Enforcement personnel.
- § 260-4.80 Penalties and appeals.
- § 260-4.81 Payment of penalties.
- § 260-4.82 Disposition of unlawful catch.
- § 260-4.83 Suspensions.
- § 260-4.84 Recreational violations.
- § 260-4.85 Commercial violations.
- Ch 260 Art IV Pt 8 Definitions
- § 260-4.86 Terms defined.
- Ch 265 Food Service Establishments
- Ch 272 Grills, Charcoal and Gas
- Ch 278 Harbors and Waterways
- Ch 283 Housing Standards
- Ch 288 Hummock Pond Watershed
- Ch 303 Madaket Harbor Watershed
- Ch 309 Nantucket Harbor Watershed
- Ch 316 Pedicabs
- Ch 327 Septic Systems
- Ch 332 Sewage Disposal and Treatment
- Ch 336 Sewers
- Ch 338 Short-Term Rental Property
- Ch 340 Signs
- Ch 345 Smoking and Tobacco Products
- Ch 349 Solid Waste
- Ch 354 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 358 Subdivisions
- Ch 361 Surface Water and Groundwater Protection
- Ch 363 Tanks, Underground
- Ch 367 Taxicabs, Charter, Limousine and Tour Vehicles
- Ch 371 Toxic and Hazardous Materials
- Ch 375 Traffic
- Ch 382 Wellhead Protection District
- Ch 386 Wells
- Ch 390 Wetlands Protection
- Ch DLR Town Regulations Disposition List
- Appendix
- Ch A300 General Law Acceptances
- Ch A301 Special Acts
- Ch A302 Charters
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
