Massachusetts Statutes

Section 46. The commission, within fourteen days after making any order granting a location, or an extension, alteration or revocation of a location, referred to in sections forty-three and forty-four, shall deposit a copy of such order in the office of the clerk of the city or t…

Section 47. All companies operating under the four preceding sections shall remain subject to the duties and liabilities imposed by other provisions of law consistent with said sections, and shall have the powers, duties and rights therein authorized, all of which shall be in add…

Section 49. The commission may make such agreements with any railroad corporation as may be necessary to secure or facilitate the laying out, extension, construction and maintenance of a boulevard under the care or control of the commission across railroad lands or locations, and…

Section 50. The commission shall give the railroad corporation thirty days' written notice of the proposed work, accompanied by a plan thereof; and if the commission is unable to agree with the railroad corporation across whose land or location it desires to lay out, extend and c…

Section 51. The department of telecommunications and energy, upon petition of the commission and after due notice to the railroad corporation, shall hear the parties, and, if of the opinion that said petition should be granted, shall make a decree describing the place, time and m…

Section 52. All expenses of, and incident to, constructing and maintaining any roadway or parkway crossing a railroad, as provided in the three preceding sections, shall be borne by the commonwealth, and shall be paid out of the funds available for use by the commission for boule…

Section 53. The commission may provide band concerts in such parks, parkways or other places under its control for boulevard or reservation purposes, and at such times, as it may select. Said commission shall include in its annual estimate of the expense of maintenance of the urb…

Section 66A. No person shall be employed by the metropolitan district commission as a beach or swimming pool lifeguard unless he has attained his eighteenth birthday, except that said commission may, if there is no suitable list of eligible applicants to fill existing vacancies, …

Section 67. The commission may enter into an agreement with any electric light, power or gas company within the metropolitan parks district for a period not exceeding ten years, for the lighting of any part of the boulevards or reservations under the control of the commission, up…

Section 68. The commission and any electric light, power or gas company which supplies service to the commission, whether by contract or in accordance with rates established under the provisions of sections ninety-three and ninety-four of chapter one hundred and sixty-four, shall…

Section 69. The commission may replace or rebuild any bridge over the Charles river within the metropolitan parks district whenever funds for the purpose shall become available by gift under the provisions of this section; provided, that no such bridge shall be replaced or rebuil…

Section 70. No person shall deface or injure any part of the Charles river dam, or any wharf, wall or other structure or any mechanism connected therewith, or unnecessarily open any drawbridge connected therewith or obstruct the passage thereof; nor shall any person, without the …

Section 71. No person shall permit or suffer any vessel, scow, raft or float to come in contact with either of the gates of the lock of the Charles river dam. Whoever violates this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars.

Section 74. The commission may license the maintenance of those parts of buildings and of the foundations of buildings which on July first, nineteen hundred and ten, projected into, upon or over the embankment of the Charles river basin. Said licenses shall be granted upon such t…

Section 75. The division may appoint from the office of environmental law enforcement a harbor master and assistant harbor masters who shall respectively have and exercise within the Charles river basin all the powers and authority which now appertain by law to the offices of har…

Section 76A. The metropolitan district commission, after a public hearing notice of which shall be sent to the department of environmental protection, and to all cities and towns bordering on the Charles river basin, as defined by section two of chapter five hundred and twenty-fo…

Section 76B. Any such permit shall be upon the condition that water taken thereunder for purposes other than fire protection shall be supplied only to such manufacturers as can use it in a system of closed pipes without opening at any point within their premises; that it is to be…

Section 76C. No manufacturing establishment shall be supplied with water taken from the basin under a permit granted under the two preceding sections until proper and suitable connections have been made for use of city or town water, so that, in case of revocation of the permit, …

Section 76D. No permit granted under sections seventy-six A and seventy-six B shall authorize the taking of water from said basin to such an extent as substantially to affect the maintenance of the water level in said basin at the height required by chapter four hundred and sixty…

Section 76E. For the purpose of meeting the expenses of constructing such works and of laying such mains and pipes, a city or town receiving a permit as aforesaid may borrow money, subject to the provisions of section eight of chapter forty-four.

Section 79. For the purposes set forth in section thirty-three, the commissioner, acting so far as may be in consultation with the proper local boards, on behalf of the commonwealth, may take in fee or otherwise, by purchase, gift, devise, or eminent domain under chapter seventy-…

Section 80. For the purpose of carrying out section thirty-five, the commissioner may take or acquire, in fee or otherwise, on behalf of the commonwealth, by purchase, gift, devise, or eminent domain under chapter seventy-nine, any land or easements or interests in land within th…

Section 83. The department may, for all purposes consistent with the purposes specified in sections thirty-three and thirty-five, erect, maintain and care for buildings, and grant easements, rights of way or other interests in land, including leases, in any portion of the lands t…

Section 84. The department may, with the concurrence of the park commissioners, if any, of the town within the urban parks district where the property is situated, by deed recorded in the county where the land lies, accompanied by plan or survey, abandon any easement or other rig…

Section 85. The department, with the concurrence of the park commissioners, if any, in the town within the urban parks district where the property is situated, may sell at public or private sale any portion of the lands or rights in land the title to which has been taken or recei…

Section 86. Whenever, by reason of a taking by the commonwealth through the department for reservation or boulevard purposes under section 80, a public way is so affected that the public rights therein might otherwise be abridged, either by being wholly or partly included within …

Section 87. The department may transfer, for care and control, including police protection, any lands or rights or easements or interest in land held by it under sections thirty-three and thirty-five to any city, town, county, or local board of a city or town within the urban par…

Section 88. The division may join with any city, town or county in the laying out, improvement, relocation, widening, repairing, maintaining and caring for any public way, bridge or stream which lies along or connects any reservation or boulevard owned or controlled by the divisi…

Section 89. If money, goods or other property which has been stolen, lost, abandoned or taken from a person under arrest comes into the possession of a police officer or other employee of the commission by virtue of his office or employment, he shall deliver the same to the perso…

Section 90. If no person proves ownership of such money, goods or other property within six months, the commission may cause the same, excepting money unclaimed, to be sold at public auction at such place and time and by such person as the commission may designate.

Section 91. Notice of the time and place of such sale, with a description of the property, shall be given by publishing the same once in a newspaper published in Boston.

Section 92. Such property, if perishable or liable to deteriorate greatly in value by keeping, or the value of which will probably be less than the expense of keeping, may be sold at public auction at such place and at such time within six months and by such person as the commiss…

Section 93. The proceeds of such sales, together with such unclaimed money, after deducting all reasonable charges and expenses incurred on account of such property, shall be accounted for and paid to the commonwealth.

Section 94. If within two years after any such sale the owner claims such property and proves ownership to the satisfaction of the commission, the amount of such unclaimed money or the proceeds of the sale of such property, after deducting reasonable expenses, shall be paid to hi…

Section 95. The commission may grant permits, upon such terms and conditions as it deems proper, for the projection of eaves, cornices or ornaments of buildings, beyond the line of restriction or setback established for the benefit of the commonwealth, upon the land of a private …

Section 95A. The commission may grant permits, upon such terms and conditions and for such considerations or rentals as the commission may deem proper, for the projection of signs, marquees, awnings and other devices over its property or over property under its care and control, …

Section 1. As used in this chapter, the following words, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, shall have the following meanings:— ''Advisory committee'', the watershed system advisory committee for the appropriate watershed system. ''Alteration'', draining, dumping, dr…

Section 10. The supreme judicial or superior court or any justice of either court shall, on petition of the department or of any town or person interested, have jurisdiction in equity or otherwise to enforce sections 1 to 9, inclusive, and any rule, regulation or order made there…

Section 11. The department shall assess the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority for the fiscal year costs of operating the division and other authorized charges relating to the watershed system formerly under the care, custody and control of the division of watershed manageme…

Section 12. The treasurer of the commonwealth shall charge the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority for the debt service costs of bonds issued pursuant to section 3 of chapter 564 of the acts of 1987 and sections 12 and 13 of chapter 36 of the acts of 1992 for the acquisition …

Section 13. The commissioner shall establish the Quabbin watershed advisory committee. The purpose of the committee shall be to advise the division on its policies and regulations regarding fishing, boating and other recreational activities and environmental, wildlife and habitat…

Section 14. The commissioner shall establish a Ware river watershed advisory committee. The purpose of the committee shall be to advise the division on its policies and regulations regarding recreational activities, land use and environmental, wildlife and habitat matters within …

Section 15. The commissioner shall establish a watershed system advisory committee to advise the division on its policies and regulations regarding fishing, boating, and recreational activities and other environmental and wildlife matters in all of the watershed system areas unde…

Section 16. The commissioner shall at least once every 5 years, adopt after public hearing one or more periodic watershed management plans for the watershed system, which shall have been prepared with the participation of a professionally qualified forester and the appropriate wa…

Section 17. The department, on behalf of the commonwealth, may take by eminent domain under chapter 79, or acquire by purchase or otherwise, lands in fee, easements, rights and other property that it deems necessary or desirable for carrying out the powers and duties conferred up…

Section 18. The division shall be deemed to be a public entity under section 26A of chapter 21 and shall be eligible for grants and other assistance under the Massachusetts Clean Water Act and other program of federal or state assistance for water supply, or related purposes.