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Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks - Chapter 83

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Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks - Chapter 83, Section 1

Authorization; connecting sewers; approval of plans; acquisition of lands by eminent domain or purchase; agreements with municipalities or districts; contracts . Section 1. A city ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks - Chapter 83, Section 2

Plans and records . Section 2. Plans and descriptions of all main drains and common sewers belonging to a town, with a true record of ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks - Chapter 83, Section 3

Sewer connections . Section 3. The board or officers of a city or town having charge of the repair and maintenance of sewers may, upon ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks - Chapter 83, Section 3A

Private ways; repair of sewers . Section 3A. The board or officers of a city or town having charge of the repair and maintenance of ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks - Chapter 83, Section 4

Highway ditches or drains . Section 4. The department of highways, county commissioners, and the officers having charge of highways in any city or town ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks - Chapter 83, Section 5

Separate systems for drainage of water and sewage . Section 5. In this section surface or storm water and such other waters as shall be ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks - Chapter 83, Section 6

Sewage disposal works . Section 6. A town, with the approval of the department of environmental protection, after a public hearing by said department of ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks - Chapter 83, Section 7

Examination of sewage disposal works; prevention of nuisances . Section 7. If the department of environmental protection determines upon examination that a filter bed or ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks - Chapter 83, Section 8

Digging up public ways; permits . Section 8. No person shall dig up or make an excavation in a public way for the laying, altering ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks - Chapter 83, Section 9

Obstruction of ditches . Section 9. Whoever, by himself, his agents or servants, deposits in or along any ditch or drain constructed under section four ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks - Chapter 83, Section 10

Rules and regulations regarding use and connections . Section 10. A city, town or sewer district may, from time to time, prescribe rules and regulations ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks - Chapter 83, Section 11

Sewer connections . Section 11. The board of health of a town may require the owner or occupant of any building upon land abutting on ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks - Chapter 83, Section 12

Repair of private drains . Section 12. If a city council or a town accepts this section or has accepted corresponding provisions of earlier laws, ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks - Chapter 83, Section 13

Equity jurisdiction . Section 13. The supreme judicial court and the superior court shall have jurisdiction in equity to restrain the unlawful use of common ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks - Chapter 83, Section 14

Authorization . Section 14. A person who enters his particular drain into a main drain or common sewer, or who by more remote means receives ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks - Chapter 83, Section 15

Sewerage systems; adoption; assessment; uniform units; separation of costs . Section 15. The city council of a city or a town may adopt a system ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks - Chapter 83, Section 15A

Redetermination of assessment . Section 15A. Any city at any meeting of the proper municipal authority, or any town at a town meeting, may, from ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks - Chapter 83, Section 15B

Estimated sewer assessments; construction of water pollution control facilities . Section 15B. A city or town may assess and collect estimated sewer assessments in connection ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks - Chapter 83, Section 16

Charge for use of sewers . Section 16. The aldermen of any city or the sewer commissioners, selectmen or road commissioners of a town, may ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks - Chapter 83, Section 16A

Certificate of acceptance; effect; recordation . Section 16A. If the rates and charges due to a city, town, municipality, or sewer district, which accepts this ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks - Chapter 83, Section 16B

Effective date of sewer charge lien; termination; methods of collection and enforcement of rate or charge . Section 16B. Such lien shall take effect by ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks - Chapter 83, Section 16C

Certification of rate or charge to assessors; commitment as tax . Section 16C. If a rate or charge for which a lien is in effect ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks - Chapter 83, Section 16D

Application of other law; powers of tax collectors . Section 16D. Except as otherwise provided, the provisions of chapters fifty-nine and sixty shall apply, so ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks - Chapter 83, Section 16E

Remedies of aggrieved real estate owners . Section 16E. An owner of real estate aggrieved by a charge imposed thereon under sections sixteen A to ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks - Chapter 83, Section 16F

Recovery of real estate owner against tenants . Section 16F. An owner of real estate who, in order to prevent the imposition of a lien ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks - Chapter 83, Section 16G

Deferral of charges . Section 16G. In a city, town or district which accepts the provisions of this section, the board responsible for assessing charges ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks - Chapter 83, Section 17

Payment for permanent sewer privileges . Section 17. The aldermen of any city except Boston or a town in which main drains or common sewers ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks - Chapter 83, Section 18

Method of assessment . Section 18. The city council of a city or a town which itself is, or the officers of which are, entitled, ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks - Chapter 83, Section 19

Assessments; extension of time for payment . Section 19. The aldermen of a city or the sewer commissioners, selectmen or road commissioners of a town ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks - Chapter 83, Section 20

Fee for use of sewers . Section 20. The owners of land or parts thereof not liable to assessment, or not in fact assessed, may ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks - Chapter 83, Section 21

Assessment on land abutting on more than one way . Section 21. If land abuts upon more than one way, assessments for sewers based wholly ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks - Chapter 83, Section 22

Assessment of sewers built by landowners . Section 22. If an ordinance or by-law provides that any drain or sewer laid in any land or ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks - Chapter 83, Section 23

Cost of sewers; payment of portion by municipality . Section 23. A town by vote of its town meeting or a city by vote of ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks - Chapter 83, Section 24

Assessment for particular sewers . Section 24. The owner of any land benefited by the laying out of a particular sewer from the common sewer ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks - Chapter 83, Section 25

Establishment . Section 25. The aldermen of a city or the selectmen or road commissioners of a town may, if in their judgment the public ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks - Chapter 83, Section 26

Assessments . Section 26. In the order for the construction of a new sidewalk or the reconstruction of a sidewalk with material of more permanent ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks - Chapter 83, Section 27

Recording of statements; assessment liens . Section 27. Whenever the aldermen of a city or the sewer commissioners, selectmen or road commissioners of a town ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks - Chapter 83, Section 28

Application of betterment law . Section 28. The provisions of chapter eighty relative to the apportionment, division, reassessment, abatement and collection of assessments, and to ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks - Chapter 83, Section 29

Betterment assessments created by special act; duration of lien . Section 29. Notwithstanding any provision in any special act to the contrary, any lien for ...

Last modified: March 27, 2006