General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 88 Ferries, Canals and Public Landings

• Massachusetts General Laws - Ferryman; license - Chapter 88, Section 1
  The county commissioners may license for such time as they determine any suitable person to keep a ferry for hire, and may revoke such license...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fares and tolls - Chapter 88, Section 2
  The commissioners shall establish at each ferry the fares or tolls for passengers, horses, vehicles and other things there transported, having regard to the length...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sufficiency and safety of boats - Chapter 88, Section 3
  Each ferryman shall keep sufficient and safe boats in good repair and shall give ready attendance on passengers on all occasions according to the regulations...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Remedy for damage from negligence or default of ferryman - Chapter 88, Section 4
  Whoever suffers damage by the negligence or default of a ferryman may recover the same by an action upon his bond; which may be prosecuted...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Keeping ferry without license; liability - Chapter 88, Section 5
  Whoever without license keeps a ferry and demands or receives pay or toll therefor shall forfeit not more than five dollars for each day during...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Maintenance of ferry by towns - Chapter 88, Section 6
  If the commissioners determine that it is necessary to establish a ferry, and no person appears to keep it for the profits thereof, the town...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Apportionment of expense of maintenance of ferry - Chapter 88, Section 7
  The commissioners may, either when such ferry is established between two towns or thereafter, upon the application of ten voters of either town and after...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Negligence in maintaining ferry - Chapter 88, Section 8
  A town which neglects to maintain a ferry as provided in the two preceding sections shall forfeit not more than one hundred dollars for each...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of character of load - Chapter 88, Section 9
  The master of a boat laden with goods, wares or merchandise which enters the waters of a canal to be carried thereon, shall exhibit a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - False statement as to quantity or quality of goods laden - Chapter 88, Section 10
  Whoever knowingly and with intent to defraud such proprietors makes or causes to be made a false statement of the quantity or quality of goods,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Examination of load - Chapter 88, Section 11
  A collector of tolls on a canal may detain a boat and cause the goods, wares and merchandise laden on board to be weighed; and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fencing dangerous canals - Chapter 88, Section 12
  The city council of a city or the selectmen of a town may, for the purpose of determining whether a canal or waterway within the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Failure to comply with fencing order - Chapter 88, Section 13
  If such order of the city council or selectmen is not complied with within sixty days after written notice of it has been given, or,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Laying out or alteration of common landing places; erection and maintenance of structures thereon - Chapter 88, Section 14
  In every city or town where the tide ebbs and flows there shall be provided on a tidal shore thereof at least one common landing...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Failure to lay out; appeal to county commissioners - Chapter 88, Section 15
  Any person aggrieved by the failure of the selectmen of a town to lay out suitable landing places therein, after petition therefor, or by the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Ascertainment of location of common landing place - Chapter 88, Section 16
  Upon the representation of ten or more inhabitants of a county to the county commissioners that the exact location of a common landing place in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Discontinuance; appeal - Chapter 88, Section 17
  A town at a meeting called for the purpose may discontinue any common landing place laid out under this chapter. Any resident of the town,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Recognizance for costs - Chapter 88, Section 18
  Before any action is taken upon an appeal under section fifteen or seventeen the appellants shall cause a sufficient recognizance to be given to the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Use of common landing places - Chapter 88, Section 19
  The city council of a city and the selectmen of a town may make rules and regulations concerning the use of a common landing place...

Last modified: September 11, 2015