Massachusetts General Laws
Title XIV - Public Ways and Works
Chapter 84 - Repair of Ways and Bridges

Section 1 - Repair of Highways and Town Ways at Expense of Towns - Section 1. Highways and town ways, including railroad crossings at...

Section 2 - Repair of Bridge by Two or More Towns; Repair of Drawbridge - Section 2. If two or more towns within the same...

Section 3 - Enforcement of Order for Repair - Section 3. If any town does not comply with any...

Section 4 - Warrants Against Delinquent Towns - Section 4. If a delinquent town does not pay its...

Section 5 - Appropriation for Construction, Repair, and Maintenance of Highway Through Two or More Towns - Section 5. When a highway runs through two or more...

Section 5a - Removal of Snow or Ice; Equipment and Employees - Section 5A. The selectmen, highway surveyor, highway commissioners, or other...

Section 6 - Sanding of Tarred Ways - Section 6. Any public way which has been spread with...

Section 7 - Duties of Surveyors of Highways and Road Commissioners - Section 7. Surveyors of highways and road commissioners shall remove...

Section 7a - Notice of Repair, Construction or Reconstruction of Road or Highway - Section 7A. Surveyors of highways, road commissioners, or any other...

Section 8 - Fences, Gates or Bars to Prevent Spread of Disease; Removal - Section 8. No surveyor, road commissioner or other person shall,...

Section 9 - Ditches by Side of Ways - Section 9. A surveyor or road commissioner may cause a...

Section 10 - Entry Upon Land to Secure and Protect Public Way; Damages - Section 10. The selectmen or road commissioners may enter upon,...

Section 11 - State Aid for Keeping Highway Open in Winter - Section 11. The department of highways may co-operate with the...

Section 11a - Maintenance of Highways Constructed or Improved in Whole or in Part by County - Section 11A. When a public way other than a state...

Section 12 - Meeting of Proprietors and Occupants of Private Way or Bridge; Warrant; Clerk and Surveyor - Section 12. If four or more persons are the proprietors...

Section 13 - Refusal or Neglect of Proprietor or Occupant to Comply With Vote - Section 13. A proprietor or occupant who refuses or neglects...

Section 14 - Financing Repairs - Section 14. The proprietors and occupants may, at a meeting...

Section 15 - Personal Injuries or Property Damage From Defective Ways - Section 15. If a person sustains bodily injury or damage...

Section 16 - Damage Caused by Excessive Load - Section 16. If a person, without the consent of the...

Section 17 - Injury or Damage Caused by Snow or Ice - Section 17. A county, city or town shall not be...

Section 18 - Notice of Injury; Contents; Limitation of Action - Section 18. A person so injured shall, within thirty days...

Section 19 - Service of Notice - Section 19. Such notice shall be in writing, signed by...

Section 20 - Omissions in Notice; Notice of Insufficiency - Section 20. A defendant shall not avail himself in defence...

Section 21 - Notice to Owner of Private Property - Section 21. Sections eighteen, nineteen and twenty shall apply to...

Section 22 - Neglect to Repair Way; Penalty - Section 22. If a town neglects to repair any way...

Section 23 - Dedicated Ways - Section 23. A way opened and dedicated to the public...

Section 24 - Damage From Defects in Dedicated Ways - Section 24. The board or officer having authority over public...

Section 25 - Repairs Made on Way Within Six Years of Injury - Section 25. If, upon the trial of an indictment or...

Section 26 - Liability of Abutting Lot Owner - Section 26. If the owner of a lot abutting upon...

Section 27 - Excavations Abutting Public Way; Liability of Owners - Section 27. If, on premises abutting on a public way,...

Section 27a - Erection of Barriers at Excavations Abutting Public Ways; Duty of Owner; Penalty - Section 27A. The owner of any land which abuts a...