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Massachusetts General Laws - Regulations and By-Laws Relative to Ways and Bridges - Chapter 85Legal Research Home > Massachusetts Lawyer > Regulations and By-Laws Relative to Ways and Bridges > Massachusetts General Laws - Regulations and By-Laws Relative to Ways and Bridges - Chapter 85 Direction signs; erection and maintenance by cities and towns . Section 1. Except as otherwise provided in section two, every city and town shall erect ...
Traffic signs or devices; erection and maintenance; rules and regulations . Section 2. The department of highways, in this chapter called the department, shall erect ...
Removal of vehicles interfering with snow and ice removal . Section 2A. The department, for the purpose of insuring the free flow of traffic or ...
Limited access and express state highways; regulation of use . Section 2B. The department for purpose of promoting public safety upon limited access and express ...
Towing of vehicles from state highways . Section 2C. The department, for the purpose of promoting public safety and convenience, may authorize by any rule ...
Signs on state highways indicating availability of certain services . Section 2D. The department may, upon application by an interested person or persons and upon ...
Regulations to exclude persons and vehicles from state highways . Section 2E. Notwithstanding the provisions of section eighteen of chapter ninety, the department for purposes ...
Change of name of ways or parks; appeal . Section 3. When the name of any public way, place or section, or of any public ...
Approval of name for way other than public way in city or town . Section 3A. No way in any city or town which is ...
Changing of name of way . Section 3B. When any way in a city or town which is open for public use but has not ...
Construction of sidewalks by adjoining landowners . Section 4. A person owning or occupying land adjoining a public way in a town may construct a ...
Removal of snow and ice from sidewalks by abutting landowners; penalties . Section 5. Cities by ordinance and towns by by-laws may provide for the ...
Assessment of cost of removal of snow and ice from sidewalks . Section 6. Any town which accepts this section or has accepted corresponding provisions ...
Exemption from assessment by agreement of owner to remove snow and ice . Section 7. Any person, or the agent of any person, owning an ...
Storage and use of snow removal chemicals; regulations; reports; penalty . Section 7A. No person shall store sodium chloride, calcium chloride or chemically treated abrasives ...
Depositing snow on state highways . Section 7B. No person other than an employee in the service of the commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof ...
Permits for signs and other structures projecting into or over ways . Section 8. The municipal board or officer having charge of the laying out ...
Permits; exemption of certain structures . Section 9. The provisions of section eight shall not apply to signs or other structures projecting into or over ...
Flashing lights on billboards, etc.; discontinuance orders; penalties; exceptions . Section 9A. The department, after a public hearing, may order the discontinuance of flashing lights ...
Regulation of use of ways; penalties . Section 10. Towns may make ordinances and by-laws to prevent the pasturing of cattle or other animals, either ...
Coasting on ways in cities . Section 10A. Selectmen in towns, and the aldermen or other board or officer having charge of ways in cities, ...
Arrest without warrant for driving at excessive speed . Section 11. Whoever violates an ordinance or by-law prohibiting persons from riding or driving at a ...
Bicycles; registration . Section 11A. No resident of any city which accepts this section by vote of its city council, or of any town which ...
Bicycles; operation and equipment; regulations; federal product safety standards, effect; races; violations; penalties . Section 11B. Every person operating a bicycle upon a way, as ...
Bicycle law violations; civil disposition; notice . Section 11C. Every city and town shall, pursuant to clause (16B) of section twenty-one of chapter forty, provide ...
Bicycle helmets; display of sign requiring use . Section 11D. Every person engaged in the retail business of selling or renting bicycles, in line skates, ...
Massachusetts General Laws - Regulations and By-Laws Relative to Ways and Bridges - Chapter 85, Section 12 to 14 Repealed, 1941, 710, Sec. 2 . ...
Funeral processions . Section 14A. A funeral procession of not more than ten vehicles shall have the right, except on Sundays and legal holidays, to ...
Flares; use by certain commercial vehicles . Section 14B. Whenever any commercial vehicle having a gross weight in excess of five thousand pounds other than ...
Lights on vehicles . Section 15. Every vehicle, whether stationary or in motion, on any public way, shall have attached to it a light or ...
Duty of driver at night to give name to officer on request . Section 16. Every person shall while driving or in charge of or ...
Penalty for violation of Sec. 15 or 16 . Section 17. Whoever violates any of the provisions of section fifteen or section sixteen shall be ...
Soliciting from vehicles on public ways . Section 17A. Whoever, for the purpose of soliciting any alms, contribution or subscription or of selling any merchandise, ...
Riding on rear or side of street railway car, motor bus or trackless trolley . Section 17B. Whoever rides upon the rear or side of ...
Moving of buildings in public way . Section 18. No person shall move a building in a public way without written permission from the selectmen ...
Leading, driving, or conveying dangerous wild animals on public ways . Section 19. Whoever leads or drives a bear or other dangerous wild animal or ...
Regulation of speed on county bridges . Section 20. The county commissioners may establish by-laws regulating the speed at which persons may ride or drive ...
Regulation of speed on town bridges . Section 21. A town may establish ordinances or by-laws to prohibit persons from riding or driving horses at ...
Warning signs on state highways for protection of school children . Section 21A. Subject to the provisions of section two, cities and towns are hereby ...
Regulation of speed on incorporated bridges . Section 22. The proprietors of an incorporated bridge may make by-laws to prohibit persons from riding or driving ...
Regulation of travel on state ways; penalties . Section 23. The governor, with the advice and consent of the council, may make by-laws for the ...
Posting of regulations on bridges . Section 24. No person shall be liable to penalty under the four preceding sections for violation of a by-law ...
Jurisdiction of district court over bridges . Section 25. District courts in the towns in which the bridge terminates, shall have jurisdiction of complaints for ...
Drawbridges . Section 26. The department, county commissioners or any city or town in which a draw for the passage of vessels through a bridge ...
Duties of draw tender . Section 27. When such ordinances or by-laws have been approved, the department, county commissioners or the city or town shall ...
Liability of owners of vessel for injury to bridge . Section 28. If a vessel, through the negligence of the persons having it in charge, ...
Removal of vessel obstructing draw . Section 29. Such draw tender may remove a vessel which obstructs such draw, or interferes with the passage of ...
Injury to surface of way; traction engines and heavy vehicles; permits; regulations; liability . Section 30. Except as provided in section nineteen A of chapter ...
Permit for certain vehicles exceeding weight limitations to operate on through routes; application; notice of approval or disapproval; violations; revocation or suspension of permit . ...
Speed of heavy vehicles with metallic tires . Section 31. No vehicle which with its load weighs more than four tons shall, when equipped with ...
Penalties for violations of Secs. 30, 30A, and 31 . Section 32. Any person violating any provision of section thirty, thirty A, or thirty-one, or ...
Scope of Secs. 30 to 32 . Section 33. Nothing in sections thirty to thirty-two, inclusive, shall affect the liability of the commonwealth or of ...
Protection of bridges from heavy loads . Section 34. Except as otherwise provided in the following section, the department, person or local authorities having control ...
Approval by department of public works of construction of highway bridges; liability for damages to bridges . Section 35. No bridge on a public highway ...
Construction and loading of vehicles to prevent dropping of load on way; penalty . Section 36. No person shall drive or move a motor vehicle ...
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