Massachusetts General Laws - The Laying Out, Alteration, Relocation and Discontinuance of Public Ways, and Specific Repairs Thereon - Chapter 82, Section 32

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Report of laid out, relocated or altered roads; recordation.

Section 32. When a town way or private way is laid out, relocated or altered by the selectmen or road commissioners or by the county commissioners, they shall in their report or return thereof specify the manner in which such way is laid out, relocated or altered and shall transmit to the town clerk a description of the location and bounds thereof, which shall within ten days be recorded by him in a book kept for that purpose; and no town shall contest the legality of a way laid out by it and accepted and recorded as provided in this chapter. Sections twenty-six to thirty-two, inclusive, shall apply to cities.

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