Order of taking; contents . Section 1. The taking of real estate or of any interest therein by right of eminent domain may be effected ...

Officials authorized to exercise eminent domain . Section 2. Where no other provision is made by law, a taking of land by eminent domain by ...

Recordation of taking order; procedure to acquire possession . Section 3. The board of officers by whom an order of taking has been adopted under ...

Taking registered land . Section 4. If land of a registered owner, or any right or interest therein, is taken by eminent domain, the board ...

Taking of land already in public use . Section 5. No portion of a state institution shall be taken for a public way, canal, railroad ...

Historical or archeological landmarks; ancient landmarks; taking . Section 5A. No historical or archeological landmark certified under the provisions of section twenty-seven of chapter nine ...

Agricultural land . Section 5B. No property used for agriculture or farming as defined in section one A of chapter one hundred and twenty-eight shall ...

Notice of intent prior to taking; exceptions . Section 5C. No property shall be taken without the consent of the owner thereof, nor shall an ...

Taking by public; award of damages; amendment of award; payment . Section 6. When a taking is made on behalf of a body politic or ...

Moving expenses; exemption from attachment or execution . Section 6A. Any person lawfully occupying real property who is displaced therefrom and caused to move as ...

Taking by private corporations; award of damages; time of payment . Section 7. When a taking is made on behalf of a railroad corporation, the ...

Appraisal as pre-requisite to payment of damages . Section 7A. An award of damages made pursuant to section six or section seven shall not be ...

Payment of damages; execution of necessary documents; time of issuance of checks . Section 7B. Immediately after the right to damages becomes vested, the board ...

Notice of taking and amount of damages; contents; service . Section 7C. Immediately after the right to damages becomes vested, the board of officers who ...

Unknown persons or persons under legal disability; manner of payment of damages; apportionment of damages; deposits . Section 7D. If the board of officers by ...

Unclaimed checks . Section 7E. If any check issued in accordance with section seven B remains unclaimed by any person entitled thereto for a period ...

Copies of notice or notice of deposit; sending to tax collectors . Section 7F. The board of officers shall, immediately upon giving notice in accordance ...

Receipt of payment or deposit; effect; recovery of interest; refund of overpayment; recovery of payment made to person not entitled thereto . Section 7G. A ...

Payment of damages of less than $2000 to prevent hardship notwithstanding title deficiencies . Section 7H. If the board of officers who have made a ...

Repealed, 1964, 579, Sec. 4 . ...

Offer of settlement; payment pro tanto; refund of excess . Section 8A. The board of officers who have made a taking under this chapter shall, ...

Time for vacation of dwellings . Section 8B. No person in possession of property which has been taken under the provisions of this chapter shall ...

Injuries to realty caused by improvements not constituting a taking . Section 9. When injury has been caused to the real estate of any person ...

Damages for injuries to property caused by acts in pais . Section 10. When the real estate of any person has been taken for the ...

Payment of damages; enforcement of provisions of certain sections; petition for writ of mandamus . Section 10A. Compliance with the provisions of sections six, seven, ...

Land lying in more than one governmental unit; petition for award of damages . Section 11. If a single parcel of land taken or injured ...

Measure of damages; federal reimbursement . Section 12. The damages for property taken under this chapter shall be fixed at the value thereof before the ...

Property taken diminished in value by disaster; full compensation; determination of fair market value; time limit . Section 12A. Notwithstanding any special or general law ...

Buildings and trees on land taken . Section 13. If there are trees upon or structures affixed to the land taken which are not included ...

Petition to superior court . Section 14. A person entitled to an award of his damages under this chapter or the body politic or corporate ...

Repealed, 1936, 385 . ...

Time for filing petition . Section 16. A petition for the assessment of damages under section fourteen may be filed within three years after the ...

Time for filing petition when original proceedings quashed . Section 17. If a person petitions for an award or assessment of his damages within the ...

Time for filing petition when validity of taking is contested . Section 18. If a suit, in which the right of a body politic or ...

Time for filing petition if improvement delayed by law . Section 19. If the time for locating or constructing a public improvement by a private ...

Petition by guardian, conservator or trustee . Section 20. If damages may be recovered under this chapter for the taking of or injury to property ...

Procedure on death of person entitled to damages . Section 21. If a person who is entitled to petition for an award or assessment of ...

Pleading and procedure; entry of judgment . Section 22. A complaint brought under section fourteen shall name all parties adversely interested who are known to ...

Petition of persons holding different interests in same property . Section 23. If joint tenants, or tenants in common, or other persons having joint or ...

Damages sustained by tenant for life or years and remaindermen; trust . Section 24. If a tenant for life or for years and the remainderman ...

Amount of damages placed in trust; damages special to separate estate . Section 25. The amount so to be placed in trust shall include only ...

Trustees for persons with legal disability; appointment; bond . Section 26. If a person having an interest in such property is, by reason of legal ...

Persons holding unusual interests; right to petition . Section 27. If there are several parties, who have several estates in the same property at the ...

Notice to other holders of interests . Section 28. Upon such petition, the court may order the petitioner to give notice thereof to all the ...

Award to persons holding different interests; apportionment . Section 29. If, on such petition, the court or jury find any of the parties entitled to ...

Appointment of guardian ad litem or trustee . Section 30. If it appears in any proceedings under the seven preceding sections that an interest in ...

Petition by tenant in possession of encumbered property . Section 31. The tenant in possession of property which is encumbered by a contingent remainder, executory ...

Mortgaged land; procedure . Section 32. If property which is taken in whole or in part by eminent domain or receives injury, for which damages ...

Apportionment of damages between mortgagors and mortgagees . Section 33. If mortgagors or mortgagees begin or become parties to such proceedings, entire damages shall, upon ...

Request for speedy trial . Section 34. Upon the filing of a petition under section fourteen by or against the commonwealth or a county, city, ...

Evidence of assessed or fair market value of property; admissibility . Section 35. The valuation made by the assessors of a town for the purposes ...

Apportionment of taxes . Section 35A. In case of a trial by jury in a proceeding brought under section fourteen, the amount, if any, to ...

Discontinuance of petition . Section 36. No petition brought under section fourteen shall be discontinued except by leave of court or by agreement of all ...

Payment of damages after exhaustion or waiver of right to appeal . Section 36A. The body politic or corporate against which an award is made ...

Interest on award of damages . Section 37. Damages under this chapter shall bear interest at the rate calculated pursuant to the provisions of this ...

Costs . Section 38. In all proceedings before county commissioners under this chapter, section eighteen of chapter thirty-four shall be applicable. In all proceedings brought ...

Settlement and tender; interest . Section 39. Whenever damages may be recovered under this chapter, the body politic or corporate liable for such damages may ...

Taking by private corporations; security for damages . Section 40. Before a taking is made or injury inflicted by a private corporation for which damages ...

Finality of award; remedy for collection . Section 41. If no petition under section fourteen is filed within the time limited, the award of damages ...

Remedies to enforce payment by private corporations . Section 42. If a private corporation has erected or laid poles, wires, pipes, rails or other structures ...

Right less than fee; effect of abandonment on award of damages . Section 43. When any easement or other right less than the fee which ...

Taking by United States . Section 44. If the agents of the United States and the persons owning or interested in any property which is ...

Tax liens on realty taken . Section 44A. If real estate taken in whole or in part by eminent domain was at the time of ...

Applicability of chapter . Section 45. No real estate shall be taken for public use by the formal vote or order of any board of ...