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Statutes > Massachusetts > PARTI > TITLEII > CHAPTER21 > Section16Section 16. No person shall engage in the business of digging or drilling wells within the commonwealth unless he is registered with the division. Each person intending to engage in said business shall register annually with said division and upon payment of a fee determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven shall be issued a certificate indicating that he is so registered. Each registration shall be in force, unless sooner cancelled, suspended or revoked for violation of this section or any of the rules and regulations established under section eleven, until July first following the year of its issuance. Said registration shall be sufficient authority for any said person to engage in the business of digging or drilling wells anywhere within the commonwealth and no further licensing or registration shall be required; provided, however, that nothing contained herein shall prohibit the appropriate local authority in any city or town from requiring any person engaged in the digging or drilling of private wells to obtain a site permit in accordance with terms and conditions which ensure health and safety and said city or town may charge said person a reasonable fee for said site permit as determined by the city or town.
Within thirty days after completion of any well by digging or drilling, the person engaged in the business of digging or drilling wells shall submit a report to the division setting forth such information as may be required under said rules and regulations.
Whoever engages in the business of digging or drilling wells without being registered or fails to submit a report upon the completion of a well shall be punished by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars.
