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Section 1Jurisdiction; notice; hearings
Section 2Petition; recognizance
Section 3Notice of proposed taking and view or hearing; publication
Section 4View of premises; adjudication
Section 5Procedure on objections to proposal
Section 6Changes between termini; establishment of building lines
Section 7Taking land or easement by eminent domain; damages
Section 8Construction requirements; payment of expenses
Section 9Culverts and cattle passes
Section 10Specific repair of ways
Section 11Relocation
Section 11AEntry upon private lands for purpose of reconnaissances, surveys, soundings, inspections and examinations
Section 12Payment of damages and costs of construction
Section 13Payment of expenses of rejected petitions
Section 14Failure by municipalities to construct highways laid out by commissioners
Section 15Remedy against delinquent municipalities
Section 16Payment of county’s share of expense
Section 17Jurisdiction
Section 18Notice to county commissioners of final action on petitions
Section 19Appeal to county commissioners
Section 20Applicability to railroad crossings
Section 21Authority to lay out ways
Section 22Notice of intention
Section 23Filing and acceptance of plan
Section 24Taking by eminent domain; damages
Section 25Sewers and pipes
Section 26, 27Repealed, 1985, 276
Section 28Completion of way by county commissioners
Section 29Private ways; laying out, relocation or alteration by commissioners
Section 30Discontinuance by commissioners
Section 31Costs for hearing petitions; recognizance
Section 32Report of laid out, relocated or altered roads; recordation
Section 32AAbandonment of municipal ways
Section 32BTaking slope easement to protect ways
Section 32CEasements for erection of snow fences
Section 33Footways
Section 34Reserved spaces along ways; rights of pedestrians injured by streetcars
Section 35Bicycle paths
Section 35ALaws relative to public ways; definition
Section 36Penalty for misuse of bicycle paths
Section 37Building lines
Section 38Acquisition of land for road materials
Section 39Commencement of proceedings
Section 40Definitions
Section 40AExcavations; notice
Section 40BDesignation of location of underground facilities
Section 40CExcavator’s responsibility to maintain designation markings; damage caused by excavator
Section 40DLocal laws requiring excavation permits; public ways
Section 40EViolations of Secs. 40A to 40E; punishment
Section 41, 42Repealed, 1980, 502, Sec. 2