Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 148 § 54

Current through Chapter 89 of the 2024 Legislative Session

Section 148:54 - Lighted cigarettes and other things likely to cause fire, dropped or thrown from vehicles or placed on forest land

Whoever drops or throws from any vehicle while the same is upon a public or private way running along or near forest land or open fields, or, except as permitted by law, drops, throws, deposits or otherwise places in or upon forest land, any lighted cigarette, cigar, match, live ashes or other flaming or glowing substance, or any substance or thing which in and of itself is likely to cause a fire, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days.

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 148, § 54