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Department of Highways.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Department of highways; powers and duties - Chapter 81, Section 1
The department of highways, in this chapter called the department, shall compile statistics relative to the public ways of counties, cities and towns, and make...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Road information; duties of local officials - Chapter 81, Section 2
County commissioners and city and town officers who have the care of and authority over public ways shall, on request, furnish the department with any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Purchase and maintenance of road machinery; storage quarters - Chapter 81, Section 3
Steam road rollers and other road machinery, purchased by the department and owned by the commonwealth shall be managed and maintained under the direction of...
Laying Out of State Highways.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Petition to lay out state highways - Chapter 81, Section 4
If county commissioners, aldermen or selectmen adjudge that public necessity and convenience require that the commonwealth lay out and take charge of a new or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Filing of highway plan; right to abandon or discontinue; width of highway - Chapter 81, Section 5
If the department determines, after public notice and a hearing of all parties interested, that public necessity and convenience require that a way should be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Alteration of location - Chapter 81, Section 6
The department may alter the location of a state highway in a city or town by filing a plan thereof and a certificate that the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Acquisition of land outside limits of existing highway - Chapter 81, Section 7
If it is necessary to acquire land for the purposes of a state highway outside the limits of an existing public way, the department may...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Acquisition of land to alter ways connecting with state highways - Chapter 81, Section 7A
In connection with the laying out, alteration or reconstruction of a state highway, the department may alter or relocate connecting ways as may be necessary....
- Massachusetts General Laws - Acquisition of slope easement to protect existing ways - Chapter 81, Section 7B
Wherever in this chapter the department is authorized to take land by eminent domain under chapter seventy-nine, in connection with the laying out, widening or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Limited access ways; definition; acquisition of land; motorist service facilities - Chapter 81, Section 7C
If the department determines that public necessity and convenience require that a limited access way shall be laid out, it shall lay out such way...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Public utility easements and cattle passes - Chapter 81, Section 7D
The department may grant easements within state highway locations for wires, pipes, poles, conduits and cattle passes.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sale, transfer, lease or rental of excess lands - Chapter 81, Section 7E
The department may sell at public or private sale any land, or rights in land, the title to which has been acquired by the department...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Entry on private land for purpose of surveys, soundings and drillings - Chapter 81, Section 7F
Whenever the department deems it necessary to make surveys, soundings, drillings or examinations to obtain information for or to expedite the construction of state highways...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Relocation of public utilities; purchase of lands and easements - Chapter 81, Section 7G
Whenever, in connection with the laying out, widening, relocating, constructing or altering of a public way by the department, land or an easement therein owned...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Lease of lands for public parking facility - Chapter 81, Section 7H
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department may, with the approval of the governor and council, lease land adjacent to, over or under a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Agreements with railroads, transit authorities or other public authorities or municipalities regarding relocation or other work; advancement of funds - Chapter 81, Section 7I
The department is hereby authorized to enter into agreements with railroad corporations, transit authorities or other public authorities or municipalities for the purpose of performing...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Relocation assistance; acquisition of real property; payments; compliance with federal acts - Chapter 81, Section 7J
In any federally aided program, the department of highways, in this section referred to as the department, is hereby authorized and directed to do all...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Relocation of facilities of public utilities; entry upon lands - Chapter 81, Section 7K
Whenever land or an easement therein is taken by the department by eminent domain for the purpose of relocating certain facilities of a public utility...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Lease of air rights over state highways - Chapter 81, Section 7L
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department may, with the approval of the governor, lease at one time or from time to time for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Acquisition of land for parks, historic sites, etc., to replace land required for federal highways - Chapter 81, Section 7M
Whenever a federal-aid highway program or project requires the use of any land which is part of a public park, recreation area or wildlife and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Construction of state highways; advertising for proposals - Chapter 81, Section 8
The department, when about to construct a state highway, shall advertise in two or more newspapers published in each county in which the highway lies,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Engineering survey services contracts; bids - Chapter 81, Section 8A
Every contract for engineering survey services awarded by the department shall be awarded to the lowest responsible and eligible bidder on the basis of competitive...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1931, 432 - Chapter 81, Section 9
Chapter 81: Section 9. Repealed, 1931, 432
- Massachusetts General Laws - Contributions by cities and towns - Chapter 81, Section 10
The mayor, selectmen or road commissioners or the board or officer having charge of the maintenance and care of highways, if so authorized by the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Acquisition of land to supply road materials - Chapter 81, Section 11
The department shall have the same power as aldermen, selectmen or road commissioners in relation to the purchase or taking of land to furnish materials...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Discontinuance or abandonment - Chapter 81, Section 12
The department, with the concurrence of the county commissioners, may discontinue as a state highway any way or section of way laid out and constructed...
Maintenance and Repair of State Highways.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Maintenance and repair; duties of department; definition of state highway - Chapter 81, Section 13
State highways shall be maintained and kept in good repair and condition by the department at the expense of the commonwealth. The department shall keep...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Highway landscaping; acceptance of gifts - Chapter 81, Section 13A
The department may accept in behalf of the commonwealth from owners of lands included in a strip one hundred feet deep bordering on a state...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Restoration, preservation and enhancement of scenic beauty and historic or archeological sites - Chapter 81, Section 13B
The department may acquire by eminent domain under the provisions of chapter seventy-nine or by purchase or otherwise land and rights in land within or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Removal of trees and other obstructions near highways - Chapter 81, Section 14
The department, if it can obtain consent of the owner, shall remove the trees, limbs of trees, shrubbery or any structure or other obstacle from...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Contracts for maintenance and repair - Chapter 81, Section 15
The department may contract with the town in which a state highway lies or with a private person or may make other provision for the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - 17. Repealed, 1931, 349 - Chapter 81, Section 16
Chapter 81: Section 16, 17. Repealed, 1931, 349
- Massachusetts General Laws - Defects in highways; liability - Chapter 81, Section 18
The commonwealth shall be liable for injuries sustained by persons while traveling on state highways, if the same are caused by defects within the limits...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Jurisdiction of local police; snow removal - Chapter 81, Section 19
A town shall have police jurisdiction over all state highways within its limits. It shall forthwith give written notice to the department or its employees...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1928, 357, Sec. 7 - Chapter 81, Section 19A
Chapter 81: Section 19A. Repealed, 1928, 357, Sec. 7
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sidewalks - Chapter 81, Section 20
The department shall from time to time construct sidewalks along such parts of the state highways as it determines public convenience and necessity require. Sidewalks...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Illumination of highways - Chapter 81, Section 20A
The department may illuminate, or cause to be illuminated, by means of highway lighting, traffic circles, traffic underpasses, traffic overpasses, traffic islands and other locations...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Excavations or driveway openings on state highways; conditions; enforcement - Chapter 81, Section 21
[ First paragraph effective until August 8, 2008. For text effective August 8, 2008, see below.]No state highway shall be dug up, nor opening made...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Prescriptive rights of adjoining owners - Chapter 81, Section 22
No length of possession, or occupancy of land within the limits of a state highway by an owner or occupant of adjoining land shall give...
Improvement of Ways Not State Highways.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1925, 288, Sec. 2 - Chapter 81, Section 23
Chapter 81: Section 23. Repealed, 1925, 288, Sec. 2
- Massachusetts General Laws - Improvement of ways - Chapter 81, Section 24
The department may, whenever any money is appropriated by the general court for its use in the construction or improvement of any particular way, expend...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Maintenance - Chapter 81, Section 25
When any public way has been constructed or improved in whole, or in part, with money furnished by the commonwealth, and the way is not...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Maintenance of ways in small towns - Chapter 81, Section 26
There may be expended for the repair and improvement of public ways, other than state highways, in towns having valuations of less than five million...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Maintenance of ways in small towns; contributions by county - Chapter 81, Section 26A
The county commissioners of the county wherein any public way is to be repaired or improved under the provisions of the preceding section may contribute...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Maintenance costs; conditions of payment - Chapter 81, Section 27
Expenditure of state funds under section twenty-six shall be made only upon the written petition of the selectmen, containing such information as the department may
- Massachusetts General Laws - Maintenance of ways in small towns; performance of contract - Chapter 81, Section 28
The said towns may contract with the department for the performance of the work authorized by section twenty-six; or, if the selectmen so request, the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Maintenance of ways in small towns; determination of town's contribution - Chapter 81, Section 29
The department shall determine, ad nearly as possible, the number of miles of such public ways in towns entitled to the benefits under section twenty-six,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Laying out or altering ways; consent, acquisition, funds - Chapter 81, Section 29A
The department may lay out or alter ways other than state highways in any county, city or town provided that the county commissioner of the...
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Last modified: March 17, 2010
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