Section 3. The board may investigate the question of utilizing wet lands, including meadows, swamps, marshes, beaches and other low lands, and may ascertain what lands, if any, may advantageously be drained for agricultural or industrial uses, the protection of the public health, the utilization of deposits therein, or for other purposes. It may publish and disseminate facts of general interest ascertained in the conduct of any such investigation, and may make and publish surveys of tracts of land in need of drainage, showing their situation, areas and outlets, the best methods and the cost of draining them, the uses to which they are best adapted, and such other details as it deems advisable. It shall make an annual report.
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