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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 82 – The Laying Out, Alteration, Relocation and Discontinuance of Public Ways, and Specific Repairs Thereon | Midpage
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Massachusetts General Laws
Part I
Title XIV
Chapter 82
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 82
The Laying Out, Alteration, Relocation and Discontinuance of Public Ways, and Specific Repairs Thereon
1
Jurisdiction; notice; hearings
2
Petition; recognizance
3
Notice of proposed taking and view or hearing; publication
4
View of premises; adjudication
5
Procedure on objections to proposal
6
Changes between termini; establishment of building lines
7
Taking land or easement by eminent domain; damages
8
Construction requirements; payment of expenses
9
Culverts and cattle passes
10
Specific repair of ways
11
Relocation
11A
Entry upon private lands for purpose of reconnaissances, surveys, soundings, inspections and examinations
12
Payment of damages and costs of construction
13
Payment of expenses of rejected petitions
14
Failure by municipalities to construct highways laid out by commissioners
15
Remedy against delinquent municipalities
16
Payment of county's share of expense
17
Jurisdiction
18
Notice to county commissioners of final action on petitions
19
Appeal to county commissioners
20
Applicability to railroad crossings
21
Authority to lay out ways
22
Notice of intention
23
Filing and acceptance of plan
24
Taking by eminent domain; damages
25
Sewers and pipes
28
Completion of way by county commissioners
29
Private ways; laying out, relocation or alteration by commissioners
30
Discontinuance by commissioners
31
Costs for hearing petitions; recognizance
32
Report of laid out, relocated or altered roads; recordation
32A
Abandonment of municipal ways
32B
Taking slope easement to protect ways
32C
Easements for erection of snow fences
33
Footways
34
Reserved spaces along ways; rights of pedestrians injured by streetcars
35
Bicycle paths
35A
Laws relative to public ways; definition
36
Penalty for misuse of bicycle paths
37
Building lines
38
Acquisition of land for road materials
39
Commencement of proceedings
40
Definitions applicable to Secs. 40A to 40E
40A
Excavations; notice
40B
Designation of location of underground facilities
40C
Excavator's responsibility to maintain designation markings; damage caused by excavator
40D
Local laws requiring excavation permits; public ways
40E
Violations of Secs. 40A to 40E; punishment