Massachusetts General Laws|Chapter 82 - THE LAYING OUT, ALTERATION, RELOCATION AND DISCONTINUANCE OF PUBLIC WAYS, AND SPECIFIC REPAIRS THEREON

Section 1 - Jurisdiction; notice; hearings

Section 2 - Petition; recognizance

Section 3 - Notice of proposed taking and view or hearing; publication

Section 4 - View of premises; adjudication

Section 5 - Procedure on objections to proposal

Section 6 - Changes between termini; establishment of building lines

Section 7 - Taking land or easement by eminent domain; damages

Section 8 - Construction requirements; payment of expenses

Section 9 - Culverts and cattle passes

Section 10 - Specific repair of ways

Section 11 - Relocation

Section 11A - Entry upon private lands for purpose of reconnaissances, surveys, soundings, inspections and examinations

Section 12 - Payment of damages and costs of construction

Section 13 - Payment of expenses of rejected petitions

Section 14 - Failure by municipalities to construct highways laid out by commissioners

Section 15 - Remedy against delinquent municipalities

Section 16 - Payment of county's share of expense

Section 17 - Jurisdiction

Section 18 - Notice to county commissioners of final action on petitions

Section 19 - Appeal to county commissioners

Section 20 - Applicability to railroad crossings

Section 21 - Authority to lay out ways

Section 22 - Notice of intention

Section 23 - Filing and acceptance of plan

Section 24 - Taking by eminent domain; damages

Section 25 - Sewers and pipes

Section 26, 27 - Repealed, 1985, 276

Section 28 - Completion of way by county commissioners

Section 29 - Private ways; laying out, relocation or alteration by commissioners

Section 30 - Discontinuance by commissioners

Section 31 - Costs for hearing petitions; recognizance

Section 32 - Report of laid out, relocated or altered roads; recordation

Section 32A - Abandonment of municipal ways

Section 32B - Taking slope easement to protect ways

Section 32C - Easements for erection of snow fences

Section 33 - Footways

Section 34 - Reserved spaces along ways; rights of pedestrians injured by streetcars

Section 35 - Bicycle paths

Section 35A - Laws relative to public ways; definition

Section 36 - Penalty for misuse of bicycle paths

Section 37 - Building lines

Section 38 - Acquisition of land for road materials

Section 39 - Commencement of proceedings

Section 40 - Definitions

Section 40A - Excavations; notice

Section 40B - Designation of location of underground facilities

Section 40C - Excavator's responsibility to maintain designation markings; damage caused by excavator

Section 40D - Local laws requiring excavation permits; public ways

Section 40E - Violations of Secs. 40A to 40E; punishment

Section 41, 42 - Repealed, 1980, 502, Sec. 2

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