01- 670 C.M.R. ch. 3, § II
The Director of the Bureau of Parks and Lands may make rules for the uniform marking of the water areas of this State not otherwise regulated, through the placement of aids to navigation and regulatory markers. No city, county or person shall mark the waters of this State in any manner conflicting with the marking system prescribed by the Director of the Bureau of Parks and Lands.
Whoever violates any of the rules and regulations or any notices posted by the Bureau of Parks and Lands at public boat launch facilities, or who willfully mutilates, defaces or destroys any notice, monument or marker lawfully erected within or adjoining the borders of these public facilities shall be guilty of a Class E Crime.
Whoever marks waters contrary to the rules established by the Director of the Bureau of Parks and Lands shall be guilty of a Class E crime.
Whoever moors a watercraft to any buoy, beacon or permanent structure placed by the State or any organization authorized to place markers by permit in waters of this State, or in any manner makes fast thereto, shall be guilty of a Class E crime.
Whoever intentionally destroys, defaces, damages, moves off station or sinks any buoy, beacon or marking device either floating on the waters of the State or permanently fixed to the land or structures adjacent to the water areas of the State, placed by the State, or any organization authorized to place markers by permit, shall be guilty of a Class E crime.
The District Court and the Superior Court shall have concurrent jurisdiction in all prosecutions under any provision of this chapter. Any person arrested as a violator of said chapter may be taken before the District Court in the division where the offense was committed, or in any adjoining division. Jurisdiction in such cases is granted to the District Court to be exercised in the same manner as if the offense had been committed in that division.
01- 670 C.M.R. ch. 3, § II