Section 18. If, after examination, inspection and a hearing, they find that the improvements prayed for are required by the public convenience and necessity they shall so lay out and establish the same as to do as little injury as practicable, and if it is necessary to take private property for such improvements may take it on behalf of such county under chapter seventy-nine. Any person sustaining damage in his property by the laying out or establishment of such improvements shall be entitled to recover the same under said chapter.
Structure Massachusetts General Laws
Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases
Title IV - Certain Writs and Proceedings in Special Cases
Chapter 252 - Improvement of Low Land and Swamps
Section 1 - General Provisions
Section 2 - State Reclamation and Mosquito Control Board
Section 3 - Board; Investigations; Reports
Section 4 - Board; Power to Employ Engineers, etc.; Expenses
Section 4a - Proceedings Under Secs. 1 to 14c; Parties; Petition; Notice
Section 5b - Mosquito Breeding Areas; Designation as Public Nuisance; Control Programs
Section 6 - Reclamation District; Formation
Section 6a - Reclamation District; Liability Insurance
Section 7 - Surveys and Investigations; Expense of Improvements; Hearings; Recording of Improvements
Section 8 - Expenses; Contribution by State
Section 9 - Meeting; Choosing Method of Financing; Bonds
Section 10 - Financing; Power of District to Adopt Alternative Methods
Section 11 - Assessments; Collections
Section 12 - Commissioners; Powers and Duties
Section 13 - Erection of Temporary Dams; Aggrieved Parties; Notice; Appeal
Section 14 - Expenses; Submission to the Board; Approval; Payment
Section 14a - Reclamation Districts; Further Improvements; Procedure
Section 14c - Injury to Improvements; Penalty; Damages
Section 14d - Personnel Decisions by Mosquito Control Projects and Mosquito Control Districts
Section 15 - General Provisions
Section 16 - Petition; Security
Section 18 - Laying Out; Taking; Damages
Section 19 - Benefits; Duty of Commissioner to Assess