Repair of highways and town ways at expense of towns . Section 1. Highways and town ways, including railroad crossings at grade with such highways ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Repair of Ways and Bridges - Chapter 84, Section 2

Repair of bridge by two or more towns; repair of drawbridge . Section 2. If two or more towns within the same county which are ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Repair of Ways and Bridges - Chapter 84, Section 3

Enforcement of order for repair . Section 3. If any town does not comply with any orders passed by the county commissioners under the preceding ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Repair of Ways and Bridges - Chapter 84, Section 4

Warrants against delinquent towns . Section 4. If a delinquent town does not pay its proportion of such expenses and charges within sixty days after ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Repair of Ways and Bridges - Chapter 84, Section 5

Appropriation for construction, repair, and maintenance of highway through two or more towns . Section 5. When a highway runs through two or more towns, ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Repair of Ways and Bridges - Chapter 84, Section 5A

Removal of snow or ice; equipment and employees . Section 5A. The selectmen, highway surveyor, highway commissioners, or other board or officer having charge of ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Repair of Ways and Bridges - Chapter 84, Section 6

Sanding of tarred ways . Section 6. Any public way which has been spread with tar, oil or similar substance, shall, within three hours thereafter, ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Repair of Ways and Bridges - Chapter 84, Section 7

Duties of surveyors of highways and road commissioners . Section 7. Surveyors of highways and road commissioners shall remove whatever obstructs the public ways within ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Repair of Ways and Bridges - Chapter 84, Section 7A

Notice of repair, construction or reconstruction of road or highway . Section 7A. Surveyors of highways, road commissioners, or any other person, agency, or authority ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Repair of Ways and Bridges - Chapter 84, Section 8

Fences, gates or bars to prevent spread of disease; removal . Section 8. No surveyor, road commissioner or other person shall, without an order from ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Repair of Ways and Bridges - Chapter 84, Section 9

Ditches by side of ways . Section 9. A surveyor or road commissioner may cause a watercourse occasioned by the wash of a way to ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Repair of Ways and Bridges - Chapter 84, Section 10

Entry upon land to secure and protect public way; damages . Section 10. The selectmen or road commissioners may enter upon, use or survey or ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Repair of Ways and Bridges - Chapter 84, Section 11

State aid for keeping highway open in winter . Section 11. The department of highways may co-operate with the proper officers of cities, towns and ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Repair of Ways and Bridges - Chapter 84, Section 11A

Maintenance of highways constructed or improved in whole or in part by county . Section 11A. When a public way other than a state highway ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Repair of Ways and Bridges - Chapter 84, Section 12

Meeting of proprietors and occupants of private way or bridge; warrant; clerk and surveyor . Section 12. If four or more persons are the proprietors ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Repair of Ways and Bridges - Chapter 84, Section 13

Refusal or neglect of proprietor or occupant to comply with vote . Section 13. A proprietor or occupant who refuses or neglects to comply with ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Repair of Ways and Bridges - Chapter 84, Section 14

Financing repairs . Section 14. The proprietors and occupants may, at a meeting for that purpose, authorize any person to contract for making and keeping ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Repair of Ways and Bridges - Chapter 84, Section 15

Personal injuries or property damage from defective ways . Section 15. If a person sustains bodily injury or damage in his property by reason of ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Repair of Ways and Bridges - Chapter 84, Section 16

Damage caused by excessive load . Section 16. If a person, without the consent of the county, city, town or person required by law to ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Repair of Ways and Bridges - Chapter 84, Section 17

Injury or damage caused by snow or ice . Section 17. A county, city or town shall not be liable for an injury or damage ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Repair of Ways and Bridges - Chapter 84, Section 18

Notice of injury; contents; limitation of action . Section 18. A person so injured shall, within thirty days thereafter, give to the county, city, town ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Repair of Ways and Bridges - Chapter 84, Section 19

Service of notice . Section 19. Such notice shall be in writing, signed by the person injured or by some one in his behalf, and ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Repair of Ways and Bridges - Chapter 84, Section 20

Omissions in notice; notice of insufficiency . Section 20. A defendant shall not avail himself in defence of any omission to state in such notice ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Repair of Ways and Bridges - Chapter 84, Section 21

Notice to owner of private property . Section 21. Sections eighteen, nineteen and twenty shall apply to actions against persons founded upon the defective condition ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Repair of Ways and Bridges - Chapter 84, Section 22

Neglect to repair way; penalty . Section 22. If a town neglects to repair any way which it is obliged to keep in repair, or ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Repair of Ways and Bridges - Chapter 84, Section 23

Dedicated ways . Section 23. A way opened and dedicated to the public use, which has not become a public way, shall not, except as ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Repair of Ways and Bridges - Chapter 84, Section 24

Damage from defects in dedicated ways . Section 24. The board or officer having authority over public ways in a town shall, if the public ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Repair of Ways and Bridges - Chapter 84, Section 25

Repairs made on way within six years of injury . Section 25. If, upon the trial of an indictment or action brought to recover damages ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Repair of Ways and Bridges - Chapter 84, Section 26

Liability of abutting lot owner . Section 26. If the owner of a lot abutting upon a public way in a city dedicates to the ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Repair of Ways and Bridges - Chapter 84, Section 27

Excavations abutting public way; liability of owners . Section 27. If, on premises abutting on a public way, an excavation is a hazard to travelers ...

Massachusetts General Laws - Repair of Ways and Bridges - Chapter 84, Section 27A

Erection of barriers at excavations abutting public ways; duty of owner; penalty . Section 27A. The owner of any land which abuts a public way ...

Last modified: March 27, 2006