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The 193rd General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
  1. General Laws
  2. Part I ADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT
  3. Title XIV PUBLIC WAYS AND WORKS
  4. Chapter 84 REPAIR OF WAYS AND BRIDGES
  5. Section 10 Entry upon land to secure and protect public way; damages

Section 10

Section 10: Entry upon land to secure and protect public way; damages

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.