General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 82 The Laying Out, Alteration, Relocation and Discontinuance of Public Ways, and Specific Repairs Thereon
- Massachusetts General Laws - Jurisdiction; notice; hearings - Chapter 82, Section 1
County commissioners, councils of governments, or other duly authorized councils, committees or boards, in this chapter called county commissioners, in their respective jurisdictions may lay...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Petition; recognizance - Chapter 82, Section 2
If common convenience and necessity require a new highway from town to town or from place to place within the same town, or the alteration,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of proposed taking and view or hearing; publication - Chapter 82, Section 3
Fifteen days at least before the time appointed for a view or hearing, the commissioners shall cause notice of the time and place appointed therefor...
- Massachusetts General Laws - View of premises; adjudication - Chapter 82, Section 4
They shall view the premises if they consider it expedient or if requested by any party interested; and shall hear the parties, either at the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Procedure on objections to proposal - Chapter 82, Section 5
If at the time of the view or hearing as provided in section three when a plan has been prepared no person interested objects, the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Changes between termini; establishment of building lines - Chapter 82, Section 6
They may make such changes between the termini of the highway described in the petition, relative to the direction and course of such highway or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Taking land or easement by eminent domain; damages - Chapter 82, Section 7
If it is necessary, for the purpose of laying out, altering or relocating a highway, or establishing a building line in connection therewith, to acquire...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Construction requirements; payment of expenses - Chapter 82, Section 8
The commissioners, in their return, shall determine and specify the manner in which a new highway shall be laid out or an existing one altered,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Culverts and cattle passes - Chapter 82, Section 9
If the commissioners require a culvert, cattle pass or other passageway to be made under a highway, they may order the town to construct the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Specific repair of ways - Chapter 82, Section 10
If, upon a petition for the laying out or alteration of a highway, the commissioners, after a view and hearing, are of the opinion that...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Relocation - Chapter 82, Section 11
If application is made to the commissioners by a town, or by five inhabitants thereof, to relocate or order specific repairs on a way within...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Entry upon private lands for purpose of reconnaissances, surveys, soundings, inspections and examinations - Chapter 82, Section 11A
Whenever the commissioners or their authorized agents deem it necessary to make reconnaissances, surveys, soundings, inspections or examinations to obtain information for the layout and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Payment of damages and costs of construction - Chapter 82, Section 12
When a highway has been finally laid out, altered, relocated, discontinued or maintenance discontinued, or when specific repairs are ordered on an existing highway by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Payment of expenses of rejected petitions - Chapter 82, Section 13
If a highway is not finally laid out, relocated, altered, discontinued or maintenance discontinued, or if specific repairs are not ordered, the expenses of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Failure by municipalities to construct highways laid out by commissioners - Chapter 82, Section 14
If, after a highway has been laid out by the commissioners, a city or town whose duty it is to make such highway, or a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Remedy against delinquent municipalities - Chapter 82, Section 15
If a delinquent city or town does not pay its proportion of such expenses and charges within sixty days after the date of said notice,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Payment of county’s share of expense - Chapter 82, Section 16
When a highway which has been laid out, specifically repaired, relocated or altered, is completed, in whole or in part, the commissioners shall view and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Jurisdiction - Chapter 82, Section 17
The city council of a city and the selectmen or road commissioners of a town may exercise original jurisdiction, concurrent with the county commissioners, of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notice to county commissioners of final action on petitions - Chapter 82, Section 18
Within two weeks after final action relative to the alteration or relocation of a highway or making specific repairs thereon, under the preceding section, the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Appeal to county commissioners - Chapter 82, Section 19
An appeal may be taken to the county commissioners from any action under the two preceding sections, and they shall thereupon give a public hearing,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Applicability to railroad crossings - Chapter 82, Section 20
The three preceding sections shall not affect sections fifty-nine to eighty-two, inclusive, of chapter one hundred and fifty-nine, and sections ninety-five to one hundred and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Authority to lay out ways - Chapter 82, Section 21
The selectmen or road commissioners of a town or city council of a city may lay out, relocate or alter town ways, for the use...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of intention - Chapter 82, Section 22
Seven days at least prior to the laying out, relocation or alteration of a town way or private way a written notice of the intention...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Filing and acceptance of plan - Chapter 82, Section 23
No town way or private way which has been laid out, relocated or altered by the selectmen or road commissioners shall, except as hereinafter provided,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Taking by eminent domain; damages - Chapter 82, Section 24
If it is necessary to acquire land for the purposes of a town way or private way which is laid out, altered or relocated by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sewers and pipes - Chapter 82, Section 25
In a town which accepts the provisions of this section or has accepted corresponding provisions of earlier laws, the selectmen, road commissioners or sewer commissioners...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1985, 276 - Chapter 82, Section 26 27
Repealed, 1985,
- Massachusetts General Laws - Completion of way by county commissioners - Chapter 82, Section 28
If a town in which a town way or private way has been laid out, relocated, altered or approved in pursuance of the two preceding...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Private ways; laying out, relocation or alteration by commissioners - Chapter 82, Section 29
If the laying out, relocation or alteration of a private way is desired in a town for the use of one or more persons who...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Discontinuance by commissioners - Chapter 82, Section 30
Upon the application in writing of a person aggrieved by the refusal of a town to discontinue a town way or private way, the county...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Costs for hearing petitions; recognizance - Chapter 82, Section 31
If an application is made to the county commissioners under sections twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-nine or thirty, they may cause a recognizance to be given to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Report of laid out, relocated or altered roads; recordation - Chapter 82, Section 32
When a town way or private way is laid out, relocated or altered by the selectmen or road commissioners or by the county commissioners, they...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Abandonment of municipal ways - Chapter 82, Section 32A
The board or officers of a city or town having charge of a public way may, after holding a public hearing, notice of which shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Taking slope easement to protect ways - Chapter 82, Section 32B
Wherever in this chapter or in any city charter a board of officers is authorized to take land by eminent domain under chapter seventy-nine, in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Easements for erection of snow fences - Chapter 82, Section 32C
A city or town may purchase, receive, or take by eminent domain easements or other rights or interests in land adjacent to a public way...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Footways - Chapter 82, Section 33
Cities and towns may lay out footways for the use of the public in the manner provided for the laying out of town ways.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Reserved spaces along ways; rights of pedestrians injured by streetcars - Chapter 82, Section 34
If the city council of a city, or a town, accepts this section or has accepted the corresponding provisions of earlier laws, the board or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bicycle paths - Chapter 82, Section 35
The board or officers authorized to lay out highways or town ways may lay out, construct and maintain bicycle paths under the provisions of law...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Laws relative to public ways; definition - Chapter 82, Section 35A
The board or officers authorized to lay out highways or town ways may lay out, construct and maintain rail trails under the laws relative to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Penalty for misuse of bicycle paths - Chapter 82, Section 36
Whoever trespasses upon bicycle paths named in the two preceding sections by driving thereon with a horse or other animal, except to cross the same,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Building lines - Chapter 82, Section 37
If a city by its city council or a town accepts this section or has accepted corresponding provisions of earlier laws, a building line not...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Acquisition of land for road materials - Chapter 82, Section 38
The county commissioners, aldermen or selectmen or road commissioners may purchase or select and lay out land within their respective counties, cities or towns, not...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Commencement of proceedings - Chapter 82, Section 39
Petitions to the county commissioners relative to highways and town ways may be filed with and the recognizance taken by the clerk of said commissioners,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 82, Section 40
The following words, as used in this section and sections 40A to 40E, inclusive, shall have the following meanings:— “Company”, natural gas pipeline company, petroleum...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Excavations; notice - Chapter 82, Section 40A
No excavator installing a new facility or an addition to an existing facility or the relay or repair of an existing facility shall, except in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Designation of location of underground facilities - Chapter 82, Section 40B
Within 72 hours, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays, from the time the initial notice is received by the system or at such time...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Excavator’s responsibility to maintain designation markings; damage caused by excavator - Chapter 82, Section 40C
After a company has designated the location of its facilities at the location in accordance with section 40B, the excavator shall be responsible for maintaining...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Local laws requiring excavation permits; public ways - Chapter 82, Section 40D
Nothing in this section shall affect or impair local ordinances or by-laws requiring a permit to be obtained before excavation in a public way or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Violations of Secs. 40A to 40E; punishment - Chapter 82, Section 40E
Any person or company found by the department of telecommunications and energy, after a hearing, to have violated any provision of sections 40A to 40E,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1980, 502, Sec. 2 - Chapter 82, Section 41 42
Repealed, 1980, 502, Sec.
Last modified: September 11, 2015