Massachusetts General Laws
Chapter 84 - Repair of Ways and Bridges
Section 5a - Removal of Snow or Ice; Equipment and Employees

Section 5A. The selectmen, highway surveyor, highway commissioners, or other board or officer having charge of the maintenance of highways in any town which accepts this section may enter into agreements for the removal of snow or ice from, including sanding on, such public ways in adjoining towns as circumstances make necessary or convenient, and any town performing work in accordance with such agreement may be reimbursed for the expense thereof by the town for which such work is performed from the regular appropriation voted for highway maintenance or snow removal.
For the purposes of this section, equipment and employees of a town while engaged in the removal of snow or ice from, including sanding on, such public ways in another town in accordance with this section shall be deemed to be engaged in the service and employ of the town performing the work hereby authorized.

Structure Massachusetts General Laws

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 5 - Appropriation for Construction, Repair, and Maintenance of Highway Through Two or More 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 12 - Meeting of Proprietors and Occupants of Private Way or Bridge; Warrant; Clerk and Surveyor

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 23 - Dedicated Ways

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