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General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 82 the Laying Out, Alteration, Relocation and Discontinuance of Public Ways, and Specific Repairs Thereon.
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Procedure of County Commissioners in Respect to Highways.
- Massachusetts General Laws - County commissioners; jurisdiction; notice; hearings - Chapter 82, Section 1
County commissioners, councils of governments, or other duly authorized councils, committees or boards, in this chapter called county commissioners, in their respective jurisdictions may lay...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Petition; recognizance - Chapter 82, Section 2
If common convenience and necessity require a new highway from town to town or from place to place within the same town, or the alteration,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of proposed taking; publication - Chapter 82, Section 3
Fifteen days at least before the time appointed for a view or hearing, the commissioners shall cause notice of the time and place appointed therefor...
- Massachusetts General Laws - View of premises; adjudication - Chapter 82, Section 4
They shall view the premises if they consider it expedient or if requested by any party interested; and shall hear the parties, either at the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Procedure on objections to proposal - Chapter 82, Section 5
If at the time of the view or hearing as provided in section three when a plan has been prepared no person interested objects, the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Changes between termini; establishment of building lines - Chapter 82, Section 6
They may make such changes between the termini of the highway described in the petition, relative to the direction and course of such highway or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Taking land or easement by eminent domain; damages - Chapter 82, Section 7
If it is necessary, for the purpose of laying out, altering or relocating a highway, or establishing a building line in connection therewith, to acquire...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Construction requirements; payment of expenses - Chapter 82, Section 8
The commissioners, in their return, shall determine and specify the manner in which a new highway shall be laid out or an existing one altered,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Culverts and cattle passes - Chapter 82, Section 9
If the commissioners require a culvert, cattle pass or other passageway to be made under a highway, they may order the town to construct the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Specific repair of ways - Chapter 82, Section 10
If, upon a petition for the laying out or alteration of a highway, the commissioners, after a view and hearing, are of the opinion that...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Relocation - Chapter 82, Section 11
If application is made to the commissioners by a town, or by five inhabitants thereof, to relocate or order specific repairs on a way within...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Entry upon private lands for purpose of reconnaissances, surveys, soundings, inspections and examinations - Chapter 82, Section 11A
Whenever the commissioners or their authorized agents deem it necessary to make reconnaissances, surveys, soundings, inspections or examinations to obtain information for the layout and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Payment of damages and costs of construction - Chapter 82, Section 12
When a highway has been finally laid out, altered, relocated, discontinued or maintenance discontinued, or when specific repairs are ordered on an existing highway by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Payment of expenses of rejected petitions - Chapter 82, Section 13
If a highway is not finally laid out, relocated, altered, discontinued or maintenance discontinued, or if specific repairs are not ordered, the expenses of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Procedure if municipalities fail to construct highway laid out by commissioners - Chapter 82, Section 14
If, after a highway has been laid out by the commissioners, a city or town whose duty it is to make such highway, or a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Remedy against delinquent municipalities - Chapter 82, Section 15
If a delinquent city or town does not pay its proportion of such expenses and charges within sixty days after the date of said notice,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Payment of county's share of expense - Chapter 82, Section 16
When a highway which has been laid out, specifically repaired, relocated or altered, is completed, in whole or in part, the commissioners shall view and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - City and town officers; jurisdiction - Chapter 82, Section 17
The city council of a city and the selectmen or road commissioners of a town may exercise original jurisdiction, concurrent with the county commissioners, of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notice to county commissioners of final action on petitions - Chapter 82, Section 18
Within two weeks after final action relative to the alteration or relocation of a highway or making specific repairs thereon, under the preceding section, the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Appeal to county commissioners - Chapter 82, Section 19
An appeal may be taken to the county commissioners from any action under the two preceding sections, and they shall thereupon give a public hearing,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Applicability to railroad crossings - Chapter 82, Section 20
The three preceding sections shall not affect sections fifty-nine to eighty-two, inclusive, of chapter one hundred and fifty-nine, and sections ninety-five to one hundred and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Authority to lay out ways - Chapter 82, Section 21
The selectmen or road commissioners of a town or city council of a city may lay out, relocate or alter town ways, for the use...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of intention - Chapter 82, Section 22
Seven days at least prior to the laying out, relocation or alteration of a town way or private way a written notice of the intention...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Filing and acceptance of plan - Chapter 82, Section 23
No town way or private way which has been laid out, relocated or altered by the selectmen or road commissioners shall, except as hereinafter provided,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Taking by eminent domain and damages - Chapter 82, Section 24
If it is necessary to acquire land for the purposes of a town way or private way which is laid out, altered or relocated by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers and pipes - Chapter 82, Section 25
In a town which accepts the provisions of this section or has accepted corresponding provisions of earlier laws, the selectmen, road commissioners or sewer commissioners...
- Massachusetts General Laws - 27. Repealed, 1985, 276 - Chapter 82, Section 26
Chapter 82: Section 26, 27. Repealed, 1985, 276
- Massachusetts General Laws - Completion of way by county commissioners - Chapter 82, Section 28
If a town in which a town way or private way has been laid out, relocated, altered or approved in pursuance of the two preceding...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Private ways; laying out, etc., by commissioners - Chapter 82, Section 29
If the laying out, relocation or alteration of a private way is desired in a town for the use of one or more persons who...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Discontinuance by commissioners - Chapter 82, Section 30
Upon the application in writing of a person aggrieved by the refusal of a town to discontinue a town way or private way, the county...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Costs for hearing petitions; recognizance - Chapter 82, Section 31
If an application is made to the county commissioners under sections twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-nine or thirty, they may cause a recognizance to be given to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Report of laid out or altered roads; recordation - Chapter 82, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Abandonment of municipal ways - Chapter 82, Section 32A
The board or officers of a city or town having charge of a public way may, after holding a public hearing, notice of which shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Taking slope easement to protect ways - Chapter 82, Section 32B
Wherever in this chapter or in any city charter a board of officers is authorized to take land by eminent domain under chapter seventy-nine, in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Easements for erection of snow fences - Chapter 82, Section 32C
A city or town may purchase, receive, or take by eminent domain easements or other rights or interests in land adjacent to a public way...
Ways and Parts of Ways for Special Purposes.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Footways - Chapter 82, Section 33
Cities and towns may lay out footways for the use of the public in the manner provided for the laying out of town ways.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Reserved spaces along ways; rights of pedestrians injured by streetcars - Chapter 82, Section 34
If the city council of a city, or a town, accepts this section or has accepted the corresponding provisions of earlier laws, the board or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bicycle paths - Chapter 82, Section 35
The board or officers authorized to lay out highways or town ways may lay out, construct and maintain bicycle paths under the provisions of law...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Laws relative to public ways; definition - Chapter 82, Section 35A
The board or officers authorized to lay out highways or town ways may lay out, construct and maintain rail trails under the laws relative to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Penalty for misuse of bicycle paths - Chapter 82, Section 36
Whoever trespasses upon bicycle paths named in the two preceding sections by driving thereon with a horse or other animal, except to cross the same,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Building lines - Chapter 82, Section 37
If a city by its city council or a town accepts this section or has accepted corresponding provisions of earlier laws, a building line not...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Acquisition of land for road materials - Chapter 82, Section 38
The county commissioners, aldermen or selectmen or road commissioners may purchase or select and lay out land within their respective counties, cities or towns, not...
Filing of Petitions.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Commencement of proceedings - Chapter 82, Section 39
Petitions to the county commissioners relative to highways and town ways may be filed with and the recognizance taken by the clerk of said commissioners,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Excavations; notice; penalties - Chapter 82, Section 40
The following words, as used in this section and sections 40A to 40E, inclusive, shall have the following meanings:— “Company”, natural gas pipeline company, petroleum...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Excavations; notice - Chapter 82, Section 40A
No excavator installing a new facility or an addition to an existing facility or the relay or repair of an existing facility shall, except in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Designation of location of underground facilities - Chapter 82, Section 40B
Within 72 hours, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays, from the time the initial notice is received by the system or at such time...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Excavator's responsibility to maintain designation markings; damage caused by excavator - Chapter 82, Section 40C
After a company has designated the location of its facilities at the location in accordance with section 40B, the excavator shall be responsible for maintaining...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Local laws requiring excavation permits; public ways - Chapter 82, Section 40D
Nothing in this section shall affect or impair local ordinances or by-laws requiring a permit to be obtained before excavation in a public way or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Violations of secs. 40A -- 40E; punishment - Chapter 82, Section 40E
Any person or company found by the department of telecommunications and energy, after a hearing, to have violated any provision of sections 40A to 40E,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - 42. Repealed, 1980, 502, Sec. 2 - Chapter 82, Section 41
Chapter 82: Section 41, 42. Repealed, 1980, 502, Sec. 2
Last modified: March 17, 2010
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