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General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 45 Public Parks, Playgrounds and the Public Domain.
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Public Parks.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Board of park commissioners; membership; tenure; vacancies; removals - Chapter 45, Section 2
A town may elect a board of park commissioners, consisting of three or five persons and prescribe their terms of office, or the members of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Acquisition of property for parks - Chapter 45, Section 3
Any such board may locate public parks within its city or town and for that purpose may take in fee by eminent domain under chapter...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Connecting ways; extent of power of eminent domain - Chapter 45, Section 4
Such boards may connect any public park or way, under their control, with any part of the city or town for which they are appointed...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and duties of boards of park commissioners - Chapter 45, Section 5
Such boards may lay out and improve public parks, make rules for their use and government, appoint all necessary engineers, surveyors, clerks and other officers,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Leasing of concessions; bids - Chapter 45, Section 5A
Whenever the board or officer having charge of the public parks in a city or town having a population of more than fifty thousand determines...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Funds received for betterments; disposition - Chapter 45, Section 6
All amounts received for betterments which accrue by the laying out of parks under this chapter shall be applied to the payment of park loans.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Erection of buildings in parks - Chapter 45, Section 7
Land taken for or held as a park under this chapter shall be forever kept open and maintained as a public park, and no building...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Use of parks by military forces - Chapter 45, Section 8
Without the consent of such board no military organization shall camp, parade, review, or perform any military evolution or exercise in, or enter, any park...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Annual reports of park commissioners - Chapter 45, Section 9
Such boards shall make reports of their respective doings and detailed statements of all receipts, expenditures and liabilities for the preceding financial year, in towns...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1924, 209, Sec. 3 - Chapter 45, Section 10
Chapter 45: Section 10. Repealed, 1924, 209, Sec. 3
- Massachusetts General Laws - Restrictions on height of buildings on parkways - Chapter 45, Section 11
In a city which by a vote of its city council, or in a town which by vote of a town meeting, accepts this section,...
Improvement Associations.
Playgrounds.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Playgrounds; acquisition; use; management - Chapter 45, Section 14
Any city or town may acquire land and buildings within its limits by gift or purchase, or by eminent domain under chapter seventy-nine, or may...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Playgrounds for minors - Chapter 45, Section 15
Every town having a population of more than five thousand which accepts this section, and every city and town having such population which has accepted...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Procedure for accepting law requiring playgrounds for minors - Chapter 45, Section 16
In towns which have a population of more than five thousand and which have not already satisfied the provisions of the preceding section or corresponding...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Temporary playgrounds - Chapter 45, Section 17
If in a town in the metropolitan parks district, or in any city, tenement buildings are built about or contiguous to open spaces, the owners...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Use of streets for recreation or playground purposes - Chapter 45, Section 17A
For the purpose of promoting recreation, play or sport, the city of Boston, by written order of its commissioner of transportation promulgated upon written request...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Persons entitled to use playgrounds - Chapter 45, Section 18
This chapter shall not be construed to prohibit the use of any playgrounds or recreation centers by adults or children of special age groups at...
The Public Domain.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Acquisition of property; use - Chapter 45, Section 19
A town, by a two thirds vote at an annual town meeting, or a city, by a two thirds vote of the city council, may...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Method of acquisition - Chapter 45, Section 20
If a city or town has determined to take land for a public domain as provided by the preceding section, the aldermen or the selectmen...
- Massachusetts General Laws - City or town forests; management - Chapter 45, Section 21
The selectmen in the town and the mayor and the city council in a city shall appoint a special town forest committee to manage and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Buildings; erection; lease - Chapter 45, Section 22
Any city or town owning a public domain may lease any building thereon, and it may erect thereon any building for public instruction and recreation....
- Massachusetts General Laws - Limitation on use of funds - Chapter 45, Section 23
No land shall be taken or purchased for a public domain, no building erected thereon and no expenditures authorized or made or liability incurred therefor...
Shore Reservations in Towns.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Authorization - Chapter 45, Section 23A
A town bordering on tidewater may, at an annual town meeting, vote to instruct its selectmen to petition in writing the county commissioners of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Petition - Chapter 45, Section 23B
If the commissioners, after a public hearing upon the petition and after such further investigation as the commissioners consider desirable, determine that public necessity requires...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment; management - Chapter 45, Section 23C
After being authorized by the general court to establish any such reservation, the commissioners, on behalf of the county, may take by eminent domain under...
Penalty.
Ice Skating Facilities
Last modified: March 17, 2010
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