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Title:	Equine Notes Conference
Notice:	Topics List=4, Horses 4Sale/Wanted=150, Equip 4Sale/Wanted=151
Moderator:	MTADMS::COBURNIO

Created:	Tue Feb 11 1986
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	2080
Total number of notes:	22383

1951.0. "Help Organizing a Trail ride" by PCBUOA::LPIERCE (Do the watermelon crawl) Wed Feb 08 1995 15:57

I will be organizing a trail ride this June 17th in Berlin, MA - with
any luck!  I wanted to see if anyone in here has done this before.

I already know I can get permission from the landowner who owns the land
I want to use for the ride - and I have plenty of parking and poto-potty
and etc..

But what I need to know is; Do I have to notify the police or the town
or both?  Do I need permits?  The only time we will be off the land I
will be using is for about 1/4mi - we will be on a Berlin Street.

Little side note about Berlin:  It's a beautiful town and I love it, but
dealing with the town and especially the police is like a nightmare from
"you know where".  It seems that because there is nothing to do in that
town and just about no crime happens - anything that pops up - they like
to make it 10xs as hard. 

So, If I don't have to deal with the town officials - I rather not.

Any info would be greatly appreciated

Louisa

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1951.1		MROA::ROBINSON_S	you have HOW MANY cats??	`Thu Feb 09 1995 11:44`	10
	What about insurance? Is the land owner laible even if he's given you permission? You could contact Cindy Brown in Upton, she's set up rides for Mass Arab at Upton Forest. I also have the name of the Bay State Trail Riders president, if you need it, send me mail. Sherry
1951.2		PCBUOA::LPIERCE	Do the watermelon crawl	`Thu Feb 09 1995 13:14`	8
	Our club carries all the insurance - no landowner will be responsible for anything - like I said, we have permisson from the land owners - I just dont know if I have to tell the town/police - My club has allwasy had trail rides at stateparks - we never had to inolve anyone except the park. Lou
1951.3	Check local By-Laws.	A1VAX::GUNN	I couldn't possibly comment	`Thu Feb 09 1995 13:30`	9
	Some towns in Massachusetts have by-laws covering gatherings of N people or "public" events. This varies from town to town. These by-laws come about because the town has had some bad "experience" and found they were unable to regulate such activities without a specific by-law. The bad "experiences" are many and varied but I have never heard of a trail ride coming under such regulation. In the town where I live, Littleton, a lessee of a local stable building was holding bull fights on the property and the town could not do anything about them until a by-law was passed by Town Meeting.
1951.4	suggestion	FABSIX::T_ROCK		`Wed Feb 15 1995 12:13`	21
	Lou Contact Paul or Annett Rodier...they worked with Tanheath and help to set up the hunter paces that were always held in Berlin. I know now thatthe hunter paces are off in Berlin due to someone letting their horse go into the water for a drink and the MDC or who ever caught them doing this and went to the group and revoked the permission to use the area. But they could possibly tell you what they had to do to hold the rides in Berlin. You could also just call the town hall or police dept. and ask for help or who to contact and they will forward you on. It would probley be a good idea for the police to know and possibly be safer to have the police there at your road crossing...depending on how busy the road is you are having the horses on. good luck...will look forward to ridding your trail ride.... terry