Authority to Lay Out Ways

  1. Law
  2. Massachusetts General Laws
  3. Administration of the Government
  4. Public Ways and Works
  5. The Laying Out, Alteration, Relocation and Discontinuance of Public Ways, and Specific Repairs Thereon
  6. Authority to Lay Out Ways

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Section 21. The selectmen or road commissioners of a town or city council of a city may lay out, relocate or alter town ways, for the use of the town or city, and private ways for the use of one or more of the inhabitants thereof; or they may order specific repairs to be made upon such ways; and a town, at a meeting, or the city council of a city, may discontinue a town way or a private way.


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