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Section 1 - Erection - Section 1. A person may, as hereinafter provided, erect and...
Section 2 - Dams; Injury to Existing Mill; Prohibition - Section 2. Such dam shall not be erected to the...
Section 3 - Height of Water - Section 3. The height to which the water may be...
Section 4 - Overflow or Injury to Land; Action for Compensation; Limitation; Venue - Section 4. The owner or occupant of land which has...
Section 7 - Jury - Section 7. Such action shall be tried by a jury...
Section 8 - Assessment of Damages - Section 8. If the jury finds that the plaintiff has...
Section 9 - Height of Dam; Determination by Jury - Section 9. If it is alleged in the plaintiff's complaint...
Section 10 - Annual and Gross Damages; Assessment by Jury - Section 10. They shall also determine by their verdict what...
Section 11 - Plaintiff; Right to Elect Gross Amount - Section 11. The plaintiff may, within three months after the...
Section 12 - Gross Amount; Time for Payment - Section 12. The owner or occupant of the mill or...
Section 13 - Annual Compensation - Section 13. If the plaintiff does not file an election,...
Section 14 - Damages; Lien on Mill - Section 14. The person who is entitled to receive said...
Section 15 - Recovery of Damages; Enforcement of Lien - Section 15. Such person may recover, in contract in the...
Section 16 - Sale on Execution - Section 16. The execution issued on such judgment, if not...
Section 17 - Redemption - Section 17. A person who is entitled to the land...
Section 18 - Costs - Section 18. The party prevailing upon such action shall be...
Section 19 - Remedies - Section 19. No action shall be maintained at common law...
Section 20 - Existing Mills and Dams; Effect of This Chapter - Section 20. This chapter shall not, except as herein expressly...
Section 21 - Reassessment; New Action - Section 21. If either party is dissatisfied with the annual...
Section 22 - Reassessment; Parties; Time - Section 22. Such new action may be maintained by and...
Section 23 - Costs; Avoidance by Offer to Pay Increased Compensation - Section 23. The owner of the mill or dam may,...
Section 24 - Costs; Avoidance by Offer to Accept Smaller Compensation - Section 24. The owner of the land may, within said...
Section 25 - Offer to Tenants - Section 25. Such offers may be made by or to...
Section 26 - Acceptance of Offer; Effect - Section 26. If the offer so made by either party...
Section 27 - Verdict; Effect Upon Action for New Damages - Section 27. If, upon an action by the owner of...
Section 28 - Tender; Effect on Costs - Section 28. In every civil action brought by the owner...
Section 29 - Tender; Judgment Upon Acceptance; Costs - Section 29. If the plaintiff accepts the amount so offered...
Section 30 - Action; Joinder of Parties - Section 30. Two or more persons who are jointly or...
Section 32 - Reversal of Judgment for Plaintiff; New Action; Time Limit - Section 32. If a judgment for the plaintiff is reversed...
Section 33 - Overflowing Public Ways; Petition - Section 33. If a person who owns, erects or maintains...
Section 34 - Notice - Section 34. Notice of the hearing upon such petition shall...
Section 35 - Change of Grade of Ways; Power of Commissioner to Order - Section 35. The commissioner may, after a hearing, order such...
Section 36 - Damages; Duty of Commissioner to Assess - Section 36. The commissioner shall assess and order the petitioner...
Section 37 - Costs - Section 37. The costs of proceedings under the preceding four...
Section 38 - Order of Commissioner; Compliance; Exoneration From Criminal Liability - Section 38. The order of the commissioner, duly issued under...
Section 39 - Dam to Flow Cranberry Land; Erection; License - Section 39. An owner or lessee of land appropriated or...
Section 40 - Expense; Apportionment; Appeal - Section 40. If a dam has been so erected or...
Section 41 - Ice Ponds; Erection of Dams; Consent of Owners; Damages - Section 41. An owner or lessee of land used for...
Section 42 - Land Flowed; Compensation - Section 42. A domestic reservoir corporation may flow the land...
Section 43 - Security - Section 43. The court in which an action for such...
Section 44 - Definitions Applicable to Secs. 44 to 48b - Section 44. For the purposes of sections 44 to 48B,...
Section 45 - Dam Registration Form; Failure to File; Penalties; Notice on Transfer of Legal Title or Change - Section 45. The owner of any dam shall file with...
Section 45a - Construction or Alteration of Dams; Permit Approval - Section 45A. No person shall construct or materially alter a...
Section 46 - Dam Inspection Form; Evaluation, Examination and Tests; Costs and Penalties - Section 46. The owner of any dam shall cause to...
Section 46a - Dam Approval; Certificate of Compliance - Section 46A. When a dam has been deemed safe, removed,...
Section 47 - Unsafe or Inadequate Dams; Action by Commissioner; Enforcement; Regulations - Section 47. (a) If the owner fails to take corrective...
Section 48 - Costs; Lien; Enforcement - Section 48. The commissioner shall make such orders as he...
Section 48a - Dam Inspection and Regulation Program; Effectiveness Report - Section 48A. During each fiscal year, the department of environmental...
Section 48b - Liability of Owner - Section 48B. The owner of a dam shall be responsible...
Section 49 - Acts of Commissioner; Effect on Liability of Owners - Section 49. No order, approval, request or advice of the...
Section 50 - Jurisdiction - Section 50. The supreme judicial and the superior courts shall...
Section 50a - Roll Dams; Warning Signs; Failure to Comply - Section 50A. The department of environmental management shall, subject to...
Section 51 - Power of Majority - Section 51. If a mill which is owned by joint...
Section 52 - Meeting of Proprietors - Section 52. One or more of the proprietors may call...
Section 53 - Notice - Section 53. The notice shall be served by an officer...
Section 54 - Repairs and Rebuilding; Mills and Dams - Section 54. At such meeting, or at any adjournment thereof,...
Section 55 - Expense of Work; Apportionment - Section 55. Each proprietor shall, upon demand, after the work...
Section 56 - Lien for Advancements - Section 56. The proprietors who advance the money so expended...
Section 57 - Guardian; Powers - Section 57. The guardian of a proprietor may act for...
Section 58 - Tenants and Remainderman; Apportionment of Expenses - Section 58. If part of the mill is held by...
Section 59 - Mortgagor and Mortgagee; Apportionment of Expenses - Section 59. A mortgagee in possession shall be considered a...
Section 60 - Tenant in Tail - Section 60. A tenant in tail of a part of...
Section 61 - Advancement for Repairs; Recovery - Section 61. All amounts due from one or more proprietors...
Section 62 - Contracts; Effect of This Chapter - Section 62. This chapter shall not affect any contract or...