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2006 Massachusetts Code - CHAPTER 81. — STATE HIGHWAYS.
TITLE XIV. — PUBLIC WAYS AND WORKS.
- Chapter 81 — Section 1. Department of highways; powers and duties.
- Chapter 81 — Section 2. Road information; duties of local officials.
- Chapter 81 — Section 3. Purchase and maintenance of road machinery; storage quarters.
- Chapter 81 — Section 4. Petition to lay out state highways.
- Chapter 81 — Section 5. Filing of highway plan; right to abandon or discontinue; width of highway.
- Chapter 81 — Section 6. Alteration of location.
- Chapter 81 — Section 7. Acquisition of land outside limits of existing highway.
- Chapter 81 — Section 7A. Acquisition of land to alter ways connecting with state highways.
- Chapter 81 — Section 7B. Acquisition of slope easement to protect existing ways.
- Chapter 81 — Section 7C. Limited access ways; definition; acquisition of land; motorist servicefacilities.
- Chapter 81 — Section 7D. Public utility easements and cattle passes.
- Chapter 81 — Section 7E. Sale, transfer, lease or rental of excess lands.
- Chapter 81 — Section 7F. Entry on private land for purpose of surveys, soundings and drillings.
- Chapter 81 — Section 7G. Relocation of public utilities; purchase of lands and easements.
- Chapter 81 — Section 7H. Lease of lands for public parking facility.
- Chapter 81 — Section 7I. Agreements with railroads, transit authorities or other public authoritiesor municipalities regarding relocation or other work; advancement of funds.
- Chapter 81 — Section 7J. Relocation assistance; acquisition of real property; payments; compliancewith federal acts.
- Chapter 81 — Section 7K. Relocation of facilities of public utilities; entry upon lands.
- Chapter 81 — Section 7L. Lease of air rights over state highways.
- Chapter 81 — Section 7M. Acquisition of land for parks, historic sites, etc., to replace landrequired for federal highways.
- Chapter 81 — Section 8. Construction of state highways; advertising for proposals.
- Chapter 81 — Section 8A. Engineering survey services contracts; bids.
- Chapter 81 — Section 9. Repealed, 1931, 432.
- Chapter 81 — Section 10. Contributions by cities and towns.
- Chapter 81 — Section 11. Acquisition of land to supply road materials.
- Chapter 81 — Section 12. Discontinuance or abandonment.
- Chapter 81 — Section 13. Maintenance and repair; duties of department; definition of state highway.
- Chapter 81 — Section 13A. Highway landscaping; acceptance of gifts.
- Chapter 81 — Section 13B. Restoration, preservation and enhancement of scenic beauty and historic orarcheological sites.
- Chapter 81 — Section 14. Removal of trees and other obstructions near highways.
- Chapter 81 — Section 15. Contracts for maintenance and repair.
- Chapter 81 — Section 16, 17. Repealed, 1931, 349.
- Chapter 81 — Section 18. Defects in highways; liability.
- Chapter 81 — Section 19. Jurisdiction of local police; snow removal.
- Chapter 81 — Section 19A. Repealed, 1928, 357, Sec. 7.
- Chapter 81 — Section 20. Sidewalks.
- Chapter 81 — Section 20A. Illumination of highways.
- Chapter 81 — Section 21. Excavations or driveway openings on state highways;conditions; enforcement.
- Chapter 81 — Section 22. Prescriptive rights of adjoining owners.
- Chapter 81 — Section 23. Repealed, 1925, 288, Sec. 2.
- Chapter 81 — Section 24. Improvement of ways.
- Chapter 81 — Section 25. Maintenance.
- Chapter 81 — Section 26. Maintenance of ways in small towns.
- Chapter 81 — Section 26A. Maintenance of ways in small towns; contributions by county.
- Chapter 81 — Section 27. Maintenance costs; conditions of payment.
- Chapter 81 — Section 28. Maintenance of ways in small towns; performance of contract.
- Chapter 81 — Section 29. Maintenance of ways in small towns; determination of town's contribution.
- Chapter 81 — Section 29A. Laying out or altering ways; consent, acquisition, funds.
- Chapter 81 — Section 30. Use of federal aid for highways and rural post roads.
- Chapter 81 — Section 31. Apportionment of fund; equalizing grant; definitions: notifications ofamounts apportioned and to be incurred.
- Chapter 81 — Section 32. Definitions.
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