General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 45 Public Parks, Playgrounds and the Public Domain
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 45, Section 1
In this chapter “town” shall not include city. In this chapter “park” shall include a city or town common dedicated to the use of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Board of park commissioners; membership; tenure; vacancies; removals - Chapter 45, Section 2
A town may elect a board of park commissioners, consisting of three or five persons and prescribe their terms of office, or the members of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Acquisition of property for parks - Chapter 45, Section 3
Any such board may locate public parks within its city or town and for that purpose may take in fee by eminent domain under chapter...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Connecting ways; extent of power of eminent domain - Chapter 45, Section 4
Such boards may connect any public park or way, under their control, with any part of the city or town for which they are appointed...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and duties of boards of park commissioners - Chapter 45, Section 5
Such boards may lay out and improve public parks, make rules for their use and government, appoint all necessary engineers, surveyors, clerks and other officers,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Leasing of concessions; bids - Chapter 45, Section 5A
Whenever the board or officer having charge of the public parks in a city or town having a population of more than fifty thousand determines...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Funds received for betterments; disposition - Chapter 45, Section 6
All amounts received for betterments which accrue by the laying out of parks under this chapter shall be applied to the payment of park loans.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Erection of buildings in parks - Chapter 45, Section 7
Land taken for or held as a park under this chapter shall be forever kept open and maintained as a public park, and no building...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Use of parks by military forces - Chapter 45, Section 8
Without the consent of such board no military organization shall camp, parade, review, or perform any military evolution or exercise in, or enter, any park...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Annual reports of park commissioners - Chapter 45, Section 9
Such boards shall make reports of their respective doings and detailed statements of all receipts, expenditures and liabilities for the preceding financial year, in towns...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1924, 209, Sec. 3 - Chapter 45, Section 10
Repealed, 1924, 209, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Restrictions on height of buildings on parkways - Chapter 45, Section 11
In a city which by a vote of its city council, or in a town which by vote of a town meeting, accepts this section,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Authorization for improvement of open spaces - Chapter 45, Section 12
A city or town having public grounds or open spaces in any of its public ways, which have been or may be designated by it...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Trespassing in parks; destruction of park property; penalty - Chapter 45, Section 13
Any person who wilfully or maliciously drives cattle, horses or other animals, or any vehicle, on or across such grounds or ways, or destroys or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Playgrounds; acquisition; use; management - Chapter 45, Section 14
Any city or town may acquire land and buildings within its limits by gift or purchase, or by eminent domain under chapter seventy-nine, or may...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Playgrounds for minors - Chapter 45, Section 15
Every town having a population of more than five thousand which accepts this section, and every city and town having such population which has accepted...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Procedure for accepting law requiring playgrounds for minors - Chapter 45, Section 16
In towns which have a population of more than five thousand and which have not already satisfied the provisions of the preceding section or corresponding...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Temporary playgrounds - Chapter 45, Section 17
If in a town in the metropolitan parks district, or in any city, tenement buildings are built about or contiguous to open spaces, the owners...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Use of streets for recreation or playground purposes - Chapter 45, Section 17A
For the purpose of promoting recreation, play or sport, the city of Boston, by written order of its commissioner of transportation promulgated upon written request...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Persons entitled to use playgrounds - Chapter 45, Section 18
This chapter shall not be construed to prohibit the use of any playgrounds or recreation centers by adults or children of special age groups at...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Chain link metal basketball nets prohibited - Chapter 45, Section 18A
A chain link metal basketball net shall not be used in a public park, playground, or recreation center.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Acquisition of property; use - Chapter 45, Section 19
A town, by a two thirds vote at an annual town meeting, or a city, by a two thirds vote of the city council, may...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Method of acquisition - Chapter 45, Section 20
If a city or town has determined to take land for a public domain as provided by the preceding section, the aldermen or the selectmen...
- Massachusetts General Laws - City or town forests; management - Chapter 45, Section 21
The selectmen in the town and the mayor and the city council in a city shall appoint a special town forest committee to manage and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Buildings; erection; lease - Chapter 45, Section 22
Any city or town owning a public domain may lease any building thereon, and it may erect thereon any building for public instruction and recreation....
- Massachusetts General Laws - Limitation on use of funds - Chapter 45, Section 23
No land shall be taken or purchased for a public domain, no building erected thereon and no expenditures authorized or made or liability incurred therefor...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Petition for shore reservation - Chapter 45, Section 23A
A town bordering on tidewater may, at an annual town meeting, vote to instruct its selectmen to petition in writing the county commissioners of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Submission of plans and estimates of cost of shore reservation - Chapter 45, Section 23B
If the commissioners, after a public hearing upon the petition and after such further investigation as the commissioners consider desirable, determine that public necessity requires...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Taking or acquisition of land for establishment of shore reservation - Chapter 45, Section 23C
After being authorized by the general court to establish any such reservation, the commissioners, on behalf of the county, may take by eminent domain under...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Penalty for violation of rules and regulations made under authority of chapter - Chapter 45, Section 24
Whoever violates any rule or regulation for the government or use of any land or way taken or held under this chapter or for like...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Posting of emergency numbers at ice skating facilities - Chapter 45, Section 25
In cities and towns the emergency telephone numbers of the local municipally-designated emergency ambulance service to render emergency first aid and transport persons to hospitals...
Last modified: September 11, 2015