General Laws of Massachusetts (Last Updated: January 16, 2020) |
PART I ADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT |
TITLE XIV. PUBLIC WAYS AND WORKS |
CHAPTER 82. THE LAYING OUT, ALTERATION, RELOCATION AND DISCONTINUANCE OF PUBLIC WAYS, AND SPECIFIC REPAIRS THEREON |
CHAPTER 82. THE LAYING OUT, ALTERATION, RELOCATION AND DISCONTINUANCE OF PUBLIC WAYS, AND SPECIFIC REPAIRS THEREON
SECTION 1. Jurisdiction; notice; hearings |
SECTION 2. Petition; recognizance |
SECTION 3. Notice of proposed taking and view or hearing; publication |
SECTION 4. View of premises; adjudication |
SECTION 5. Procedure on objections to proposal |
SECTION 6. Changes between termini; establishment of building lines |
SECTION 7. Taking land or easement by eminent domain; damages |
SECTION 8. Construction requirements; payment of expenses |
SECTION 9. Culverts and cattle passes |
SECTION 10. Specific repair of ways |
SECTION 11. Relocation |
SECTION 11A. Entry upon private lands for purpose of reconnaissances, surveys, soundings, inspections and examinations |
SECTION 12. Payment of damages and costs of construction |
SECTION 13. Payment of expenses of rejected petitions |
SECTION 14. Failure by municipalities to construct highways laid out by commissioners |
SECTION 15. Remedy against delinquent municipalities |
SECTION 16. Payment of county's share of expense |
SECTION 17. Jurisdiction |
SECTION 18. Notice to county commissioners of final action on petitions |
SECTION 19. Appeal to county commissioners |
SECTION 20. Applicability to railroad crossings |
SECTION 21. Authority to lay out ways |
SECTION 22. Notice of intention |
SECTION 23. Filing and acceptance of plan |
SECTION 24. Taking by eminent domain; damages |
SECTION 25. Sewers and pipes |
SECTION 26, 27. Repealed, 1985, 276 |
SECTION 28. Completion of way by county commissioners |
SECTION 29. Private ways; laying out, relocation or alteration by commissioners |
SECTION 30. Discontinuance by commissioners |
SECTION 31. Costs for hearing petitions; recognizance |
SECTION 32. Report of laid out, relocated or altered roads; recordation |
SECTION 32A. Abandonment of municipal ways |
SECTION 32B. Taking slope easement to protect ways |
SECTION 32C. Easements for erection of snow fences |
SECTION 33. Footways |
SECTION 34. Reserved spaces along ways; rights of pedestrians injured by streetcars |
SECTION 35. Bicycle paths |
SECTION 35A. Laws relative to public ways; definition |
SECTION 36. Penalty for misuse of bicycle paths |
SECTION 37. Building lines |
SECTION 38. Acquisition of land for road materials |
SECTION 39. Commencement of proceedings |
SECTION 40. Definitions |
SECTION 40A. Excavations; notice |
SECTION 40B. Designation of location of underground facilities |
SECTION 40C. Excavator's responsibility to maintain designation markings; damage caused by excavator |
SECTION 40D. Local laws requiring excavation permits; public ways |
SECTION 40E. Violations of Secs. 40A to 40E; punishment |
SECTION 41, 42. Repealed, 1980, 502, Sec. 2 |