Revere, MA Environmental Rules: Boat Dock Permits (2026)
Key Facts
- Permit needed
- Harbormaster permit required before setting any mooring
- Who approves location
- Harbormaster approves the anchorage or mooring spot
- Records kept
- Owner name, address, phone, boat length and type on file
- Speed limit near moorings
- Six knots within 150 feet of a mooring area
- Maximum fine
- Up to $300 per offense, Section 1.16.010
- Continuing violation
- Each day unpermitted mooring stands is separate offense
Summary
Revere does not license dock construction, but anyone setting a mooring in city waters must get a harbormaster's permit first. The harbormaster approves the exact anchorage or mooring spot for each boat and keeps a detailed registry of every mooring's owner and vessel under Revere Municipal Code Chapter 2.33.
No master, or person acting as a master, owner, custodian or other person shall set a mooring within the limits of the waters of the city without first obtaining from the harbormaster a permit to moor such boat. The harbormaster shall approve the anchorage or a place of mooring of such boat. ... The harbormaster shall keep a detailed description of all moorings, their location and the owner's name, telephone number, home and business address, date mooring was set and name, length and type of boat to be attached thereto.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: rev 4804778; v14 updated 2026-05-04).
Full Breakdown
33 of the Revere Municipal Code puts moorings, not shoreside docks, under the harbormaster's control. 030 bars any master, owner, custodian or other person from setting a mooring within the limits of the city's waters without first obtaining a permit from the harbormaster, and it is the harbormaster, not the boat owner, who approves the specific anchorage or place of mooring assigned to that boat. 040 then requires the harbormaster to keep a detailed description of every mooring on file: its location, the owner's name, telephone number, home and business address, the date the mooring was set, and the name, length and type of the boat attached to it.
in addition to this city chapter. 050 caps boat speed at six knots and bars a disturbing wake within one hundred fifty feet of any mooring area or within one hundred fifty feet of the water's edge of any bathing beach, which covers Revere Beach itself. 16.
Violations & Fines
Mooring without a harbormaster permit, or in a location the harbormaster has not approved, is enforced as an ordinance violation under the citywide general penalty at Revere Municipal Code Section 1.16.010: a fine of not more than three hundred dollars for each offense, with each day the unpermitted mooring remains in place counting as a separate offense. The harbormaster's office handles enforcement and can require the mooring relocated or removed.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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