Except as provided in sections four, five, thirty-seven, thirty-eight and eighty-three, a person shall not erect, set, use, locate, repair, tend or maintain any trap, net or snare for the purpose of taking or killing any bird or mammal, nor shall a person, except as provided above, take any bird or mammal by any such means.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 131, § 79
Trap, net or snare; use restricted
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