General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 83 Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks
- Massachusetts General Laws - Authorization; connecting sewers; approval of plans; acquisition of lands by eminent domain or purchase; agreements with municipalities or districts; contracts - Chapter 83, Section 1
A city or town may lay out, construct, maintain and operate a system or systems of common sewers and main drains in public or private...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Common sewers and main drains in public or private ways; voter approval and comprehensive water resources management plan - Chapter 83, Section 1A
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 1 and 3 to the contrary, any municipality or sewer district adopting this section is hereby authorized to lay out,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Connection of abutting land to common sewer; requirements; amendment of comprehensive water resources management plan - Chapter 83, Section 1B
At the commencement of operation of the municipalities’ sewer system authorized by section 1A, the owner of land abutting upon a private or public way...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certification by board of health for additional connections; service for municipal buildings, public restrooms or public service uses - Chapter 83, Section 1C
After commencement of operations of the sewer system authorized pursuant to section 1A, additional connections shall be permitted within the final area of concern by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Assessments upon connection of abutting land to common sewer - Chapter 83, Section 1D
Notwithstanding the provisions of chapters 80 and 83 to the contrary, a municipality acting under section 1A may make assessments upon owners of land abutting...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Written decision regarding approval or denial of connection to common sewer; appeal - Chapter 83, Section 1E
Every decision by the board or officer having charge of sewers permitting or denying a connection to the sewer system pursuant to sections 1A to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Discrimination prohibited - Chapter 83, Section 1F
In carrying out the provisions of sections 1A to 1E, inclusive, a municipality shall not discriminate against any person on the grounds of race, color,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Separate account; collection, deposit and use of funds - Chapter 83, Section 1G
Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, a municipality with a comprehensive water resources management plan under review or approved...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Borrowing or assessing funds for construction of wastewater treatment system - Chapter 83, Section 1H
Notwithstanding section 7 of chapter 44, a municipality or sewer district adopting section 1A may borrow and assess betterments for a term not to exceed...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Plans and records - Chapter 83, Section 2
Plans and descriptions of all main drains and common sewers belonging to a town, with a true record of the charges of making and repairing...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sewer connections - Chapter 83, Section 3
The board or officers of a city or town having charge of the repair and maintenance of sewers may, upon request of the owner of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Private ways; repair of sewers - Chapter 83, Section 3A
The board or officers of a city or town having charge of the repair and maintenance of sewers may at the request of the owner...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Highway ditches or drains - Chapter 83, Section 4
The department of highways, county commissioners, and the officers having charge of highways in any city or town may construct ditches or drains for the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Separate systems for drainage of water and sewage - Chapter 83, Section 5
In this section surface or storm water and such other waters as shall be specified by the department of public health shall be designated as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sewage disposal works - Chapter 83, Section 6
A town, with the approval of the department of environmental protection, after a public hearing by said department of all parties interested, of which notice...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Examination of sewage disposal works; prevention of nuisances - Chapter 83, Section 7
If the department of environmental protection determines upon examination that a filter bed or other works for the treatment, purification and disposal of sewage causes...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Digging up public ways; permits - Chapter 83, Section 8
No person shall dig up or make an excavation in a public way for the laying, altering or repairing of a drain or sewer without...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Obstruction of ditches - Chapter 83, Section 9
Whoever, by himself, his agents or servants, deposits in or along any ditch or drain constructed under section four any material which will obstruct the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations regarding use and connections - Chapter 83, Section 10
A city, town or sewer district may, from time to time, prescribe rules and regulations regarding the use of common sewers to prevent the entrance...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sewer connections - Chapter 83, Section 11
The board of health of a town may require the owner or occupant of any building upon land abutting on a public or private way,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repair of private drains - Chapter 83, Section 12
If a city council or a town accepts this section or has accepted corresponding provisions of earlier laws, the board of health may require the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Equity jurisdiction - Chapter 83, Section 13
The supreme judicial court and the superior court shall have jurisdiction in equity to restrain the unlawful use of common sewers or the placing or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sewer assessments; authorization - Chapter 83, Section 14
A person who enters his particular drain into a main drain or common sewer, or who by more remote means receives benefit thereby for draining...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sewerage systems; adoption; assessment; uniform units; separation of costs - Chapter 83, Section 15
The city council of a city or a town may adopt a system of sewerage for a part or the whole of its territory, and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Redetermination of assessment - Chapter 83, Section 15A
Any city at any meeting of the proper municipal authority, or any town at a town meeting, may, from time to time, redetermine the uniform...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Estimated sewer assessments; construction of water pollution control facilities - Chapter 83, Section 15B
A city or town may assess and collect estimated sewer assessments in connection with the construction of water pollution collection, pumping, treatment and disposal facilities....
- Massachusetts General Laws - Charge for use of sewers - Chapter 83, Section 16
The aldermen of any city or the sewer commissioners, selectmen or road commissioners of a town, may from time to time establish just and equitable...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of acceptance; effect; recordation - Chapter 83, Section 16A
If the rates and charges due to a city, town, municipality, or sewer district, which accepts this section and sections sixteen B to sixteen F,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Effective date of sewer charge lien; termination; methods of collection and enforcement of rate or charge - Chapter 83, Section 16B
Such lien shall take effect by operation of law on the day immediately following the due date of such rate or charge, and, unless dissolved...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certification of rate or charge to assessors; commitment as tax - Chapter 83, Section 16C
If a rate or charge for which a lien is in effect under section sixteen B has not been added to or committed as a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Application of other law; powers of tax collectors - Chapter 83, Section 16D
Except as otherwise provided, the provisions of chapters fifty-nine and sixty shall apply, so far as pertinent, to all rates and charges certified to the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Remedies of aggrieved real estate owners - Chapter 83, Section 16E
An owner of real estate aggrieved by a charge imposed thereon under sections sixteen A to sixteen F, inclusive, in addition to such remedy as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Recovery of real estate owner against tenants - Chapter 83, Section 16F
An owner of real estate who, in order to prevent the imposition of a lien thereon or to discharge the same, has paid charges for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Deferral of charges - Chapter 83, Section 16G
In a city, town or district which accepts the provisions of this section, the board responsible for assessing charges for the use of the common...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Payment for permanent sewer privileges - Chapter 83, Section 17
The aldermen of any city except Boston or a town in which main drains or common sewers are laid may determine that a person who...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Method of assessment - Chapter 83, Section 18
The city council of a city or a town which itself is, or the officers of which are, entitled, under sections fourteen to seventeen, inclusive,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Assessments; extension of time for payment - Chapter 83, Section 19
The aldermen of a city or the sewer commissioners, selectmen or road commissioners of a town may extend the time for the payment of such...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Fee for use of sewers - Chapter 83, Section 20
The owners of land or parts thereof not liable to assessment, or not in fact assessed, may use the common sewers for the disposal of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Assessment on land abutting on more than one way - Chapter 83, Section 21
If land abuts upon more than one way, assessments for sewers based wholly or in part upon frontage shall be assessed upon the frontage upon...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Assessment of sewers built by landowners - Chapter 83, Section 22
If an ordinance or by-law provides that any drain or sewer laid in any land or way, public or private, which is opened or proposed...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Cost of sewers; payment of portion by municipality - Chapter 83, Section 23
A town by vote of its town meeting or a city by vote of its board of aldermen or city council shall determine whether it...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Assessment for particular sewers - Chapter 83, Section 24
The owner of any land benefited by the laying out of a particular sewer from the common sewer to the boundary of the way shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment of sidewalks - Chapter 83, Section 25
The aldermen of a city or the selectmen or road commissioners of a town may, if in their judgment the public convenience so requires, establish...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Assessments for the construction or reconstruction of sidewalk - Chapter 83, Section 26
In the order for the construction of a new sidewalk or the reconstruction of a sidewalk with material of more permanent character than that with...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Recording of statements; assessment liens - Chapter 83, Section 27
Whenever the aldermen of a city or the sewer commissioners, selectmen or road commissioners of a town lay out or determine to construct a sewer...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Application of betterment law - Chapter 83, Section 28
The provisions of chapter eighty relative to the apportionment, division, reassessment, abatement and collection of assessments, and to interest, shall apply to assessments made under...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Betterment assessments created by special act; duration of lien - Chapter 83, Section 29
Notwithstanding any provision in any special act to the contrary, any lien for sewer, drain or sidewalk assessments or for betterment assessments of any other...
Last modified: September 11, 2015