Massachusetts General Laws|Chapter 84 - REPAIR OF WAYS AND BRIDGES

Section 1 - Repair of highways and town ways at expense of towns

Section 2 - Repair of bridge by two or more towns; repair of drawbridge

Section 3 - Enforcement of order for repair

Section 4 - Warrants against delinquent towns

Section 5 - Appropriation for construction, repair, and maintenance of highway through two or more towns

Section 5A - Removal of snow or ice; equipment and employees

Section 6 - Sanding of tarred ways

Section 7 - Duties of surveyors of highways and road commissioners

Section 7A - Notice of repair, construction or reconstruction of road or highway

Section 8 - Fences, gates or bars to prevent spread of disease; removal

Section 9 - Ditches by side of ways

Section 10 - Entry upon land to secure and protect public way; damages

Section 11 - State aid for keeping highway open in winter

Section 11A - Maintenance of highways constructed or improved in whole or in part by county

Section 12 - Meeting of proprietors and occupants of private way or bridge; warrant; clerk and surveyor

Section 13 - Refusal or neglect of proprietor or occupant to comply with vote

Section 14 - Financing repairs

Section 15 - Personal injuries or property damage from defective ways

Section 16 - Damage caused by excessive load

Section 17 - Injury or damage caused by snow or ice

Section 18 - Notice of injury; contents; limitation of action

Section 19 - Service of notice

Section 20 - Omissions in notice; notice of insufficiency

Section 21 - Notice to owner of private property

Section 22 - Neglect to repair way; penalty

Section 23 - Dedicated ways

Section 24 - Damage from defects in dedicated ways

Section 25 - Repairs made on way within six years of injury

Section 26 - Liability of abutting lot owner

Section 27 - Excavations abutting public way; liability of owners

Section 27A - Erection of barriers at excavations abutting public ways; duty of owner; penalty

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