Section 10. The selectmen or road commissioners may enter upon, use or survey or take by eminent domain under chapter seventy-nine any land they may deem necessary for the purpose of securing or protecting a public way; and any person thereby injured in his property and any owner of land adjoining a way who has sustained damage in his property by an act done for the purpose of repairing the way may recover such damages under chapter seventy-nine.
Structure Massachusetts General Laws
Part I - Administration of the Government
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 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 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 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 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