General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 84 Repair of Ways and Bridges
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repair of highways and town ways at expense of towns - Chapter 84, Section 1
Highways and town ways, including railroad crossings at grade with such highways and town ways, shall be kept in repair at the expense of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repair of bridge by two or more towns; repair of drawbridge - Chapter 84, Section 2
If two or more towns within the same county which are required by law to maintain or keep in repair a bridge upon a highway...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement of order for repair - Chapter 84, Section 3
If any town does not comply with any orders passed by the county commissioners under the preceding section, within the time and in the manner...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Warrants against delinquent towns - Chapter 84, Section 4
If a delinquent town does not pay its proportion of such expenses and charges within sixty days after the date of such notice, with interest...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Appropriation for construction, repair, and maintenance of highway through two or more towns - Chapter 84, Section 5
When a highway runs through two or more towns, they may appropriate money for the construction, repair, maintenance or improvement thereof in common, and may...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Removal of snow or ice; equipment and employees - Chapter 84, Section 5A
The selectmen, highway surveyor, highway commissioners, or other board or officer having charge of the maintenance of highways in any town which accepts this section...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sanding of tarred ways - Chapter 84, Section 6
Any public way which has been spread with tar, oil or similar substance, shall, within three hours thereafter, be covered with sand, gravel, peastone or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Duties of surveyors of highways and road commissioners - Chapter 84, Section 7
Surveyors of highways and road commissioners shall remove whatever obstructs the public ways within their respective towns or districts, or endangers, hinders or incommodes persons...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of repair, construction or reconstruction of road or highway - Chapter 84, Section 7A
Surveyors of highways, road commissioners, or any other person, agency, or authority responsible for road or highway repairs shall notify the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Fences, gates or bars to prevent spread of disease; removal - Chapter 84, Section 8
No surveyor, road commissioner or other person shall, without an order from the board of health, remove or take down fences, gates or bars which...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Ditches by side of ways - Chapter 84, Section 9
A surveyor or road commissioner may cause a watercourse occasioned by the wash of a way to be conveyed by the side of the way;...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Entry upon land to secure and protect public way; damages - Chapter 84, Section 10
The selectmen or road commissioners may enter upon, use or survey or take by eminent domain under chapter seventy-nine any land they may deem necessary...
- Massachusetts General Laws - State aid for keeping highway open in winter - Chapter 84, Section 11
The department of highways may co-operate with the proper officers of cities, towns and counties in keeping open and reasonably passable for vehicles during the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Maintenance of highways constructed or improved in whole or in part by county - Chapter 84, Section 11A
When a public way other than a state highway has been constructed or improved in whole or in part by aid of money contributed by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Meeting of proprietors and occupants of private way or bridge; warrant; clerk and surveyor - Chapter 84, Section 12
If four or more persons are the proprietors and rightful occupants of a private way or bridge, and three of them make application in writing...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Refusal or neglect of proprietor or occupant to comply with vote - Chapter 84, Section 13
A proprietor or occupant who refuses or neglects to comply with such vote, when required by the surveyor, shall be liable to him in contract...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Financing repairs - Chapter 84, Section 14
The proprietors and occupants may, at a meeting for that purpose, authorize any person to contract for making and keeping in repair such private way...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Personal injuries or property damage from defective ways - Chapter 84, Section 15
If a person sustains bodily injury or damage in his property by reason of a defect or a want of repair or a want of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Damage caused by excessive load - Chapter 84, Section 16
If a person, without the consent of the county, city, town or person required by law to keep a bridge in repair or his or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Injury or damage caused by snow or ice - Chapter 84, Section 17
A county, city or town shall not be liable for an injury or damage sustained upon a public way by reason of snow or ice...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of injury; contents; limitation of action - Chapter 84, Section 18
A person so injured shall, within thirty days thereafter, give to the county, city, town or person by law obliged to keep said way in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Service of notice - Chapter 84, Section 19
Such notice shall be in writing, signed by the person injured or by some one in his behalf, and may be given, in the case...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Omissions in notice; notice of insufficiency - Chapter 84, Section 20
A defendant shall not avail himself in defence of any omission to state in such notice the name or place of residence of the person...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notice to owner of private property - Chapter 84, Section 21
Sections eighteen, nineteen and twenty shall apply to actions against persons founded upon the defective condition of their premises, or of adjoining ways, when caused...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Neglect to repair way; penalty - Chapter 84, Section 22
If a town neglects to repair any way which it is obliged to keep in repair, or neglects to make the same reasonably safe and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Dedicated ways - Chapter 84, Section 23
A way opened and dedicated to the public use, which has not become a public way, shall not, except as provided in the two following...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Damage from defects in dedicated ways - Chapter 84, Section 24
The board or officer having authority over public ways in a town shall, if the public safety so requires, cause such ways to be closed...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repairs made on way within six years of injury - Chapter 84, Section 25
If, upon the trial of an indictment or action brought to recover damages for an injury received by reason of a defect or want of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Liability of abutting lot owner - Chapter 84, Section 26
If the owner of a lot abutting upon a public way in a city dedicates to the public or permits it to use a portion...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Excavations abutting public way; liability of owners - Chapter 84, Section 27
If, on premises abutting on a public way, an excavation is a hazard to travelers upon such way who are in the exercise of due...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Erection of barriers at excavations abutting public ways; duty of owner; penalty - Chapter 84, Section 27A
The owner of any land which abuts a public way and on which an excavation has been made within fifty feet of said way shall...
Last modified: September 11, 2015