General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 252 Improvement of Low Land and Swamps
- Massachusetts General Laws - General provisions - Chapter 252, Section 1
If it is necessary or useful (1) to drain or flow a meadow, swamp, marsh, beach or other low land held by two or more...
- Massachusetts General Laws - State reclamation and mosquito control board - Chapter 252, Section 2
One employee of the department of environmental protection designated by its commissioner, one employee of the department of food and agriculture designated by its commissioner,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Board; investigations; reports - Chapter 252, Section 3
The board may investigate the question of utilizing wet lands, including meadows, swamps, marshes, beaches and other low lands, and may ascertain what lands, if...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Board; power to employ engineers, etc.; expenses - Chapter 252, Section 4
In carrying out the provisions of this chapter, the board may employ necessary engineers, assistants, or other agents, who may enter on land which the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Proceedings under Secs. 1 to 14C; parties; petition; notice - Chapter 252, Section 4A
The commonwealth, acting through one or more state departments, and any city, town or district, or any combination thereof, to the extent of their ownership...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Petition to the board; investigation; appointment and compensation of district commissioners - Chapter 252, Section 5
The proprietors of any area described in section one or a majority in interest either in value or area may petition the board setting forth...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Improvements; undertaking without forming district; commissioners; powers; mosquito control - Chapter 252, Section 5A
If the board determines that the proposed improvements should be undertaken and that their construction and maintenance may be effected without the formation of a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Mosquito breeding areas; designation as public nuisance; control programs - Chapter 252, Section 5B
The board of health of a city or town not included in an area designated by an identifying name for the purpose of section five...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Reclamation district; formation - Chapter 252, Section 6
The district commissioners, in this and the ten following sections called the commissioners, after being sworn, shall call a meeting of the proprietors of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Reclamation district; liability insurance - Chapter 252, Section 6A
Any district established under this chapter may pay a proper charge for effecting insurance providing an indemnity or protection of such district or of any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Surveys and investigations; expense of improvements; hearings; recording of improvements - Chapter 252, Section 7
As soon as the district shall have been organized under the provisions of section six the commissioners shall, under the direction of the board, cause...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Expenses; contribution by state - Chapter 252, Section 8
Should the board be of the opinion that a part of the expense of the improvements made under sections one to fourteen B, inclusive, should...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Meeting; choosing method of financing; bonds - Chapter 252, Section 9
As soon as possible after the recording of the description, plan and estimate as provided in section seven, the commissioners shall request the clerk to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Financing; power of district to adopt alternative methods - Chapter 252, Section 10
The district may vote to adopt any of the three methods of financing hereinafter specified. (1) If all the members of the district agree, the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Assessments; collections - Chapter 252, Section 11
The clerk of the district shall certify to the assessors of the town or towns in which the land of the district lies all sums...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Commissioners; powers and duties - Chapter 252, Section 12
If sections one to seven, inclusive, have been complied with, and payment of the expense of the improvements has been arranged under section nine or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Erection of temporary dams; aggrieved parties; notice; appeal - Chapter 252, Section 13
If the commissioners find it necessary or expedient to lower or raise the water to obtain a view of the land or for the more...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Expenses; submission to the board; approval; payment - Chapter 252, Section 14
The commissioners shall at least once a month at such time as the board may require submit to it the accounts and vouchers for expenses...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Reclamation districts; further improvements; procedure - Chapter 252, Section 14A
A reclamation district organized under this chapter may from time to time at a legal meeting called for the purpose, vote to undertake further improvements...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Additional water power or supply; prescriptive rights; necessity of vote before development - Chapter 252, Section 14B
No person obtaining an additional water power or water supply by the doing of any work contemplated by sections one to fourteen B, inclusive, shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Injury to improvements; penalty; damages - Chapter 252, Section 14C
Whoever obstructs or injures any ditch, tide gate, dike or other structure constructed or used for any purpose authorized by any provision of sections one...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Personnel decisions by mosquito control projects and mosquito control districts - Chapter 252, Section 14D
Mosquito control projects and mosquito control districts shall have sole authority in all personnel decisions including, but not limited to, the following: the hiring and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - General provisions - Chapter 252, Section 15
A town or person owning low land, ponds, swamps, quarries, mines or mineral deposits, which, on account of adjacent lands belonging to other persons or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Petition; security - Chapter 252, Section 16
A party desiring to make such improvements shall file a petition therefor with the county commissioners for the county where the greater part of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notice - Chapter 252, Section 17
The commissioners at their first meeting after the filing of the petition shall order notice of the time and place of meeting, to consider the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Laying out; taking; damages - Chapter 252, Section 18
If, after examination, inspection and a hearing, they find that the improvements prayed for are required by the public convenience and necessity they shall so...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Benefits; duty of commissioner to assess - Chapter 252, Section 19
The commissioners shall assess the amount awarded as damages upon the persons for whose use the improvements are to be made, in proportion to the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repairs - Chapter 252, Section 20
If it is necessary to repair an improvement so made, a majority of the persons benefited by it may cause such repairs to be made,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Petition to mayor and aldermen or selectmen - Chapter 252, Section 21
If the land mentioned in section fifteen lies entirely in one town, the petition may be made to the mayor and aldermen or selectmen thereof,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Fees - Chapter 252, Section 22
The mayor and aldermen or selectmen shall each receive two dollars for each day’s service upon such petition, and the city or town clerk shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Appeal - Chapter 252, Section 23
A party aggrieved by the refusal of the mayor and aldermen or selectmen to make such order, may, within one year thereafter, petition the county...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment; proceedings - Chapter 252, Section 24
With the approval of the state reclamation board, hereinafter called the board, any city or town along the seacoast of the commonwealth may, in a...
Last modified: September 11, 2015