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Massachusetts General Laws - The Laying Out, Alteration, Relocation and Discontinuance of Public Ways, and Specific Repairs Thereon - Chapter 82Legal Research Home > Massachusetts Lawyer > The Laying Out, Alteration, Relocation and Discontinuance of Public Ways, and Specific Repairs Thereon > Massachusetts General Laws - The Laying Out, Alteration, Relocation and Discontinuance of Public Ways, and Specific Repairs Thereon - Chapter 82 Sponsored Links Jurisdiction; notice; hearings . Section 1. County commissioners within their respective counties may lay out, alter, relocate and discontinue highways and order specific repairs thereon ...
Petition; recognizance . Section 2. If common convenience and necessity require a new highway from town to town or from place to place within the ...
Notice of proposed taking and view or hearing; publication . Section 3. Fifteen days at least before the time appointed for a view or hearing, ...
View of premises; adjudication . Section 4. They shall view the premises if they consider it expedient or if requested by any party interested; and ...
Procedure on objections to proposal . Section 5. If at the time of the view or hearing as provided in section three when a plan ...
Changes between termini; establishment of building lines . Section 6. They may make such changes between the termini of the highway described in the petition, ...
Taking land or easement by eminent domain; damages . Section 7. If it is necessary, for the purpose of laying out, altering or relocating a ...
Construction requirements; payment of expenses . Section 8. The commissioners, in their return, shall determine and specify the manner in which a new highway shall ...
Culverts and cattle passes . Section 9. If the commissioners require a culvert, cattle pass or other passageway to be made under a highway, they ...
Specific repair of ways . Section 10. If, upon a petition for the laying out or alteration of a highway, the commissioners, after a view ...
Relocation . Section 11. If application is made to the commissioners by a town, or by five inhabitants thereof, to relocate or order specific repairs ...
Entry upon private lands for purpose of reconnaissances, surveys, soundings, inspections and examinations . Section 11A. Whenever the commissioners or their authorized agents deem it ...
Payment of damages and costs of construction . Section 12. When a highway has been finally laid out, altered, relocated or discontinued, or when specific ...
Payment of expenses of rejected petitions . Section 13. If a highway is not finally laid out, relocated, altered or discontinued, or if specific repairs ...
Failure by municipalities to construct highways laid out by commissioners . Section 14. If, after a highway has been laid out by the commissioners, a ...
Remedy against delinquent municipalities . Section 15. If a delinquent city or town does not pay its proportion of such expenses and charges within sixty ...
Payment of county’s share of expense . Section 16. When a highway which has been laid out, specifically repaired, relocated or altered, is completed, in ...
Jurisdiction . Section 17. The city council of a city and the selectmen or road commissioners of a town may exercise original jurisdiction, concurrent with ...
Notice to county commissioners of final action on petitions . Section 18. Within two weeks after final action relative to the alteration or relocation of ...
Appeal to county commissioners . Section 19. An appeal may be taken to the county commissioners from any action under the two preceding sections, and ...
Applicability to railroad crossings . Section 20. The three preceding sections shall not affect sections fifty-nine to eighty-two, inclusive, of chapter one hundred and fifty-nine, ...
Authority to lay out ways . Section 21. The selectmen or road commissioners of a town or city council of a city may lay out, ...
Notice of intention . Section 22. Seven days at least prior to the laying out, relocation or alteration of a town way or private way ...
Filing and acceptance of plan . Section 23. No town way or private way which has been laid out, relocated or altered by the selectmen ...
Taking by eminent domain; damages . Section 24. If it is necessary to acquire land for the purposes of a town way or private way ...
Sewers and pipes . Section 25. In a town which accepts the provisions of this section or has accepted corresponding provisions of earlier laws, the ...
Massachusetts General Laws - The Laying Out, Alteration, Relocation and Discontinuance of Public Ways, and Specific Repairs Thereon - Chapter 82, Section 26, 27 Repealed, 1985, 276 . ...
Completion of way by county commissioners . Section 28. If a town in which a town way or private way has been laid out, relocated, ...
Private ways; laying out, relocation or alteration by commissioners . Section 29. If the laying out, relocation or alteration of a private way is desired ...
Discontinuance by commissioners . Section 30. Upon the application in writing of a person aggrieved by the refusal of a town to discontinue a town ...
Costs for hearing petitions; recognizance . Section 31. If an application is made to the county commissioners under sections twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-nine or thirty, they ...
Report of laid out, relocated or altered roads; recordation . Section 32. When a town way or private way is laid out, relocated or altered ...
Abandonment of municipal ways . Section 32A. The board or officers of a city or town having charge of a public way may, after holding ...
Taking slope easement to protect ways . Section 32B. Wherever in this chapter or in any city charter a board of officers is authorized to ...
Easements for erection of snow fences . Section 32C. A city or town may purchase, receive, or take by eminent domain easements or other rights ...
Footways . Section 33. Cities and towns may lay out footways for the use of the public in the manner provided for the laying out ...
Reserved spaces along ways; rights of pedestrians injured by streetcars . Section 34. If the city council of a city, or a town, accepts this ...
Bicycle paths . Section 35. The board or officers authorized to lay out highways or town ways may lay out, construct and maintain bicycle paths ...
Laws relative to public ways; definition . Section 35A. The board or officers authorized to lay out highways or town ways may lay out, construct ...
Penalty for misuse of bicycle paths . Section 36. Whoever trespasses upon bicycle paths named in the two preceding sections by driving thereon with a ...
Building lines . Section 37. If a city by its city council or a town accepts this section or has accepted corresponding provisions of earlier ...
Acquisition of land for road materials . Section 38. The county commissioners, aldermen or selectmen or road commissioners may purchase or select and lay out ...
Commencement of proceedings . Section 39. Petitions to the county commissioners relative to highways and town ways may be filed with and the recognizance taken ...
Definitions . Section 40. The following words, as used in this section and sections 40A to 40E, inclusive, shall have the following meanings:— ...
Excavations; notice . Section 40A. No excavator installing a new facility or an addition to an existing facility or the relay or repair of an ...
Designation of location of underground facilities . Section 40B. Within 72 hours, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays, from the time the initial notice ...
Excavator’s responsibility to maintain designation markings; damage caused by excavator . Section 40C. After a company has designated the location of its facilities at the ...
Local laws requiring excavation permits; public ways . Section 40D. Nothing in this section shall affect or impair local ordinances or by-laws requiring a permit ...
Violations of Secs. 40A to 40E; punishment . Section 40E. Any person or company found by the department of telecommunications and energy, after a hearing, ...
Massachusetts General Laws - The Laying Out, Alteration, Relocation and Discontinuance of Public Ways, and Specific Repairs Thereon - Chapter 82, Section 41, 42 Repealed, 1980, 502, Sec. 2 . ...
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