Massachusetts General Laws
Title XIV - Public Ways and Works
Chapter 82 - The Laying Out, Alteration, Relocation and Discontinuance of Public Ways, and Specific Repairs Thereon

Section 1 - Jurisdiction; Notice; Hearings - Section 1. County commissioners, councils of governments, or other duly...

Section 2 - Petition; Recognizance - Section 2. If common convenience and necessity require a new...

Section 3 - Notice of Proposed Taking and View or Hearing; Publication - Section 3. Fifteen days at least before the time appointed...

Section 4 - View of Premises; Adjudication - Section 4. They shall view the premises if they consider...

Section 5 - Procedure on Objections to Proposal - Section 5. If at the time of the view or...

Section 6 - Changes Between Termini; Establishment of Building Lines - Section 6. They may make such changes between the termini...

Section 7 - Taking Land or Easement by Eminent Domain; Damages - Section 7. If it is necessary, for the purpose of...

Section 8 - Construction Requirements; Payment of Expenses - Section 8. The commissioners, in their return, shall determine and...

Section 9 - Culverts and Cattle Passes - Section 9. If the commissioners require a culvert, cattle pass...

Section 10 - Specific Repair of Ways - Section 10. If, upon a petition for the laying out...

Section 11 - Relocation - Section 11. If application is made to the commissioners by...

Section 11a - Entry Upon Private Lands for Purpose of Reconnaissances, Surveys, Soundings, Inspections and Examinations - Section 11A. Whenever the commissioners or their authorized agents deem...

Section 12 - Payment of Damages and Costs of Construction - Section 12. When a highway has been finally laid out,...

Section 13 - Payment of Expenses of Rejected Petitions - Section 13. If a highway is not finally laid out,...

Section 14 - Failure by Municipalities to Construct Highways Laid Out by Commissioners - Section 14. If, after a highway has been laid out...

Section 15 - Remedy Against Delinquent Municipalities - Section 15. If a delinquent city or town does not...

Section 16 - Payment of County's Share of Expense - Section 16. When a highway which has been laid out,...

Section 17 - Jurisdiction - Section 17. The city council of a city and the...

Section 18 - Notice to County Commissioners of Final Action on Petitions - Section 18. Within two weeks after final action relative to...

Section 19 - Appeal to County Commissioners - Section 19. An appeal may be taken to the county...

Section 20 - Applicability to Railroad Crossings - Section 20. The three preceding sections shall not affect sections...

Section 21 - Authority to Lay Out Ways - Section 21. The selectmen or road commissioners of a town...

Section 22 - Notice of Intention - Section 22. Seven days at least prior to the laying...

Section 23 - Filing and Acceptance of Plan - Section 23. No town way or private way which has...

Section 24 - Taking by Eminent Domain; Damages - Section 24. If it is necessary to acquire land for...

Section 25 - Sewers and Pipes - Section 25. In a town which accepts the provisions of...

Section 28 - Completion of Way by County Commissioners - Section 28. If a town in which a town way...

Section 29 - Private Ways; Laying Out, Relocation or Alteration by Commissioners - Section 29. If the laying out, relocation or alteration of...

Section 30 - Discontinuance by Commissioners - Section 30. Upon the application in writing of a person...

Section 31 - Costs for Hearing Petitions; Recognizance - Section 31. If an application is made to the county...

Section 32 - Report of Laid Out, Relocated or Altered Roads; Recordation - Section 32. When a town way or private way is...

Section 32a - Abandonment of Municipal Ways - Section 32A. The board or officers of a city or...

Section 32b - Taking Slope Easement to Protect Ways - Section 32B. Wherever in this chapter or in any city...

Section 32c - Easements for Erection of Snow Fences - Section 32C. A city or town may purchase, receive, or...

Section 33 - Footways - Section 33. Cities and towns may lay out footways for...

Section 34 - Reserved Spaces Along Ways; Rights of Pedestrians Injured by Streetcars - Section 34. If the city council of a city, or...

Section 35 - Bicycle Paths - Section 35. The board or officers authorized to lay out...

Section 35a - Laws Relative to Public Ways; Definition - Section 35A. The board or officers authorized to lay out...

Section 36 - Penalty for Misuse of Bicycle Paths - Section 36. Whoever trespasses upon bicycle paths named in the...

Section 37 - Building Lines - Section 37. If a city by its city council or...

Section 38 - Acquisition of Land for Road Materials - Section 38. The county commissioners, aldermen or selectmen or road...

Section 39 - Commencement of Proceedings - Section 39. Petitions to the county commissioners relative to highways...

Section 40 - Definitions Applicable to Secs. 40a to 40e - Section 40. The following words, as used in this section...

Section 40a - Excavations; Notice - Section 40A. No excavator installing a new facility or an...

Section 40b - Designation of Location of Underground Facilities - Section 40B. Within 72 hours, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays and...

Section 40c - Excavator's Responsibility to Maintain Designation Markings; Damage Caused by Excavator - Section 40C. After a company has designated the location of...

Section 40d - Local Laws Requiring Excavation Permits; Public Ways - Section 40D. Nothing in this section shall affect or impair...

Section 40e - Violations of Secs. 40a to 40e; Punishment - Section 40E. Any person or company found by the department...