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2006 Massachusetts Code - CHAPTER 82. — THE LAYING OUT, ALTERATION, RELOCATION AND DISCONTINUANCE OF PUBLIC WAYS, AND SPECIFIC REPAIRS THEREON.
- Chapter 82 — Section 1. County commissioners; jurisdiction; notice; hearings.
- Chapter 82 — Section 2. Petition; recognizance.
- Chapter 82 — Section 3. Notice of proposed taking; publication.
- Chapter 82 — Section 4. View of premises; adjudication.
- Chapter 82 — Section 5. Procedure on objections to proposal.
- Chapter 82 — Section 6. Changes between termini; establishment of building lines.
- Chapter 82 — Section 7. Taking land or easement by eminent domain; damages.
- Chapter 82 — Section 8. Construction requirements; payment of expenses.
- Chapter 82 — Section 9. Culverts and cattle passes.
- Chapter 82 — Section 10. Specific repair of ways.
- Chapter 82 — Section 11. Relocation.
- Chapter 82 — Section 11A. Entry upon private lands for purpose of reconnaissances, surveys,soundings, inspections and examinations.
- Chapter 82 — Section 12. Payment of damages and costs of construction.
- Chapter 82 — Section 13. Payment of expenses of rejected petitions.
- Chapter 82 — Section 14. Procedure if municipalities fail to construct highway laid out bycommissioners.
- Chapter 82 — Section 15. Remedy against delinquent municipalities.
- Chapter 82 — Section 16. Payment of county's share of expense.
- Chapter 82 — Section 17. City and town officers; jurisdiction.
- Chapter 82 — Section 18. Notice to county commissioners of final action on petitions.
- Chapter 82 — Section 19. Appeal to county commissioners.
- Chapter 82 — Section 20. Applicability to railroad crossings.
- Chapter 82 — Section 21. Authority to lay out ways.
- Chapter 82 — Section 22. Notice of intention.
- Chapter 82 — Section 23. Filing and acceptance of plan.
- Chapter 82 — Section 24. Taking by eminent domain and damages.
- Chapter 82 — Section 25. Sewers and pipes.
- Chapter 82 — Section 26, 27. Repealed, 1985, 276.
- Chapter 82 — Section 28. Completion of way by county commissioners.
- Chapter 82 — Section 29. Private ways; laying out, etc., by commissioners.
- Chapter 82 — Section 30. Discontinuance by commissioners.
- Chapter 82 — Section 31. Costs for hearing petitions; recognizance.
- Chapter 82 — Section 32. Report of laid out or altered roads; recordation.
- Chapter 82 — Section 32A. Abandonment of municipal ways.
- Chapter 82 — Section 32B. Taking slope easement to protect ways.
- Chapter 82 — Section 32C. Easements for erection of snow fences.
- Chapter 82 — Section 33. Footways.
- Chapter 82 — Section 34. Reserved spaces along ways; rights of pedestrians injured by streetcars.
- Chapter 82 — Section 35. Bicycle paths.
- Chapter 82: Section 35A Laws relative to public ways; definition
- Chapter 82 — Section 36. Penalty for misuse of bicycle paths.
- Chapter 82 — Section 37. Building lines.
- Chapter 82 — Section 38. Acquisition of land for road materials.
- Chapter 82 — Section 39. Commencement of proceedings.
- Chapter 82 — Section 40. Excavations; notice; penalties.
- Chapter 82: Section 40A Excavations; notice
- Chapter 82: Section 40B Designation of location of underground facilities
- Chapter 82: Section 40C Excavator's responsibility to maintain designation markings; damage caused by excavator
- Chapter 82: Section 40D Local laws requiring excavation permits; public ways
- Chapter 82: Section 40E Violations of secs. 40A -- 40E; punishment
- Chapter 82 — Section 41, 42. Repealed, 1980, 502, Sec. 2
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