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2022 Massachusetts General Laws
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
- 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- Section 26, 27 - Repealed, 1985, 276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 Applicable to Secs. 40a to 40e
- 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
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