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MA Gen L ch 48 § 67 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 48 - Fires, Fire Departments and Fire Districts|Section 67 - Voting Lists; Preparation and Correction

Section 67. The registrars of voters of towns containing fire districts, or the prudential committee in districts composed of portions of two or more towns, shall, at least ten days before the annual fire district election, make correct alphabetical lists of all persons qualified to vote at such election; shall cause such lists to be posted in two or more public places in said district; and shall correct said lists in the same manner as they are required by law to correct voting lists for town elections.
MA Gen L ch 48 § 68 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 48 - Fires, Fire Departments and Fire Districts|Section 68 - Application Sections Relating to the Deposit of Ballots

Section 68. Section eight of chapter forty-one and sections eighty-three and one hundred and six of chapter fifty-four shall apply to fire districts.
MA Gen L ch 48 § 69 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 48 - Fires, Fire Departments and Fire Districts|Section 69 - Taxation; Purposes

Section 69. Such districts may, at meetings called therefor, raise money by taxation for the purchase of engines and other articles necessary for the extinguishment of fires, for hydrant and water service, for the purchase of land, for the erection and repairs of necessary buildings, for the erection and maintenance of street lamps within their limits, for the purchase, operation and maintenance of ambulances, for the payment of a proper charge of an insurance company for acting as surety on an official bond which may be given to such district by any of its officers, and for other incidental expenses of the fire department. The prudential committee of such district may accept an insurance company as sufficient surety upon such bond.
MA Gen L ch 48 § 71 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 48 - Fires, Fire Departments and Fire Districts|Section 71 - Prudential Committee; Selection; Duties; Treasurer; Bond; Duties

Section 71. Such districts shall choose a prudential committee, which shall expend, for the purposes prescribed by the district, the money so raised or borrowed, and shall choose a treasurer, who shall give bond for the faithful performance of his official duties in a sum and with sureties approved by the prudential committee. He shall receive all money belonging to the district, and shall pay over and account for the same according to its order or that of the prudential committee.
MA Gen L ch 48 § 72 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 48 - Fires, Fire Departments and Fire Districts|Section 72 - Temporary Treasurer; Bond

Section 72. If the treasurer is prevented from performing his official duties, or if the office is vacant, the prudential committee may in writing appoint a temporary treasurer, who shall give a bond in like manner as the treasurer and shall hold his office until another is chosen.
MA Gen L ch 48 § 73 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 48 - Fires, Fire Departments and Fire Districts|Section 73 - Collection of Taxes

Section 73. The clerk shall certify to the assessors of the town all votes of the district authorizing interest to be added to taxes and all sums of money voted to be raised, which shall be assessed and collected in the same manner as town taxes, and shall be paid over to the district treasurer. The assessors, treasurer and collector of a town in which such district is organized shall have the same powers and perform the same duties relative to the assessment and collection of the money voted by the fire district as they have and exercise relative to the assessment, collection and abatement of town taxes, and the sums so voted shall be assessed upon the property, real and personal, within the district.
MA Gen L ch 48 § 74 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 48 - Fires, Fire Departments and Fire Districts|Section 74 - Board of Engineers; Rules and Regulations; Appointment of Personnel

Section 74. The board of engineers may make and publish rules and regulations as provided in case of fire departments by sections fifty-three and fifty-four. It may appoint and remove enginemen, hosemen and hook and ladder men, and fill vacancies in the companies.
MA Gen L ch 48 § 75 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 48 - Fires, Fire Departments and Fire Districts|Section 75 - Engineers; Extent of Authority; Liability of Districts

Section 75. Engineers shall have and exercise within their district the powers and authority of firewards of towns relating to the extinguishment of fires and the demolition of buildings; and districts shall be liable in the same manner for acts done by such engineers, or by their orders, as towns for acts done by firewards.
MA Gen L ch 48 § 76 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 48 - Fires, Fire Departments and Fire Districts|Section 76 - Firemen; Privileges and Immunities; Compensation

Section 76. Members of the fire department of such district shall have the immunities and privileges of firewards and enginemen of towns, and shall receive such compensation as the district determines.
MA Gen L ch 48 § 77 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 48 - Fires, Fire Departments and Fire Districts|Section 77 - Authentication of District Rules and Regulations

Section 77. No by-law, rule or regulation adopted by a fire district imposing a penalty shall be in force until approved by the attorney general and published at least three times in one or more newspapers, if any, published in the town; otherwise, in one or more newspapers published in the county where the fire district is situated.
MA Gen L ch 48 § 77a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 48 - Fires, Fire Departments and Fire Districts|Section 77a - Holding Real Estate for Public Use; Lease of Land or Public Building

Section 77A. A fire district may hold real estate for the public use of its inhabitants and may by its prudential committee let or lease for not more than ten years, on such terms as said committee may determine, land, a public building or part thereof.
MA Gen L ch 48 § 78 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 48 - Fires, Fire Departments and Fire Districts|Section 78 - Recovery of Penalties; Prosecution; Disposition

Section 78. Penalties under any of the four preceding sections may be recovered in tort in the name of the chief engineer and appropriated to expenses of the fire department of the district, or on complaint or indictment to the use of the commonwealth. If the chief engineer dies, resigns or removes during the pendency of such action, it shall not abate, but his successor shall be admitted to prosecute it. Residence in the district shall not disqualify a judge, juror or officer in such action.
MA Gen L ch 48 § 79 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 48 - Fires, Fire Departments and Fire Districts|Section 79 - Annexation and Exclusion

Section 79. A district, at a meeting called therefor, may annex adjacent territory and its inhabitants, if a majority of the voters of said territory petition therefor, defining the limits thereof; or may, on the petition of any person, with the assent of the town containing such district, exclude him or his estate therefrom; provided, however, that such exclusion shall be granted by the district without such assent of the town if the petitioner or his estate is so situated as to be unable to benefit from any fire or water facilities owned by the district, or is so situated as to be more accessible to the fire or water facilities of another fire district; and provided, further, that such exclusion shall not be granted by the district if the petitioner or his estate is so situated as to be able to benefit either from the fire facilities or the water facilities owned by the district. The petition for exclusion shall be filed with the prudential committee of the district not later than the date set for the filing of petitions for the insertion of articles in the warrant of the district meeting at which the petition is to be acted upon, and shall state the petitioner's reason for seeking exclusion. The prudential committee shall cause an appropriate article to be inserted in the warrant for said meeting, shall examine the reason stated and shall report its findings, with recommendations, to said meeting. Any such petitioner, aggrieved by the action of the prudential committee, or by the action of the voters of the district on his petition, may appeal to the superior court sitting in equity within the county in which the district is located for a remedy. Upon such appeal, said court shall, if the reason set forth by the petitioner is found to lie within the intent of this section, grant such exclusion.  The grant of exclusion shall exempt the person and estate of the petitioner from any tax levied by reason of any appropriation made by the district after the filing of the petition as provided herein.
MA Gen L ch 48 § 80 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 48 - Fires, Fire Departments and Fire Districts|Section 80 - Continuance of Existing Districts

Section 80. Fire districts heretofore legally organized shall continue and be subject to the provisions of this chapter relative to fire districts.
MA Gen L ch 48 § 81 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 48 - Fires, Fire Departments and Fire Districts|Section 81 - Appropriation

Section 81. The sum of eighteen thousand dollars may be paid annually from the state treasury to furnish relief to firemen injured in the performance of their duty at a fire or in going thereto or returning therefrom, or while engaged in company drills, when such drills are ordered by the chief, acting chief or board of engineers of the fire department, or required by city ordinance or town by-law, and to widows and children of firemen killed in the performance of such duty. Payments on account of said relief shall be determined in manner and amount, on properly approved vouchers, by the commissioners on firemen's relief, in the same manner as other claims against the commonwealth. Five hundred dollars of the amount hereby authorized may be expended for the traveling and incidental expenses of said commissioners.
MA Gen L ch 48 § 82 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 48 - Fires, Fire Departments and Fire Districts|Section 82 - Additional Persons Eligible for Benefits

Section 82. Any officer or member in active service in an incorporated protective department co-operating with a fire department, and any person performing the duties of a fireman in a town having no organized fire department, shall be entitled to the benefits provided by the preceding section.
MA Gen L ch 48 § 83 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 48 - Fires, Fire Departments and Fire Districts|Section 83 - Allowance to Families of Deceased Firemen; Exception

Section 83. If a person entitled under either of the two preceding sections to the benefits provided in section eighty-one is killed, or dies within sixty days from injuries received, while in the performance of duties entitling him to such benefits, and his death is certified to the comptroller by the town clerk and the attending physician or medical examiner, the comptroller shall certify for payment to the executor or administrator of such person, out of the appropriation annually made for the purpose, the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars for the use equally of his widow and minor children; or if there are minor children but no widow, to their use; or if there is no minor child, to the use of the widow; and if there is no widow or minor child, to the use of the next of kin if dependent on such deceased person for support. A child of full age dependent upon such person for support shall be regarded as a minor child. No payments shall be made under this section or section eighty-one on account of the death of a member of the fire department of a city or town in respect to which compensation is payable under section eighty-nine of chapter thirty-two.
MA Gen L ch 48 § 87 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 48 - Fires, Fire Departments and Fire Districts|Section 87 - Standardization of Fire Fighting Equipment

Section 87. The department of fire services may make rules and regulations providing for the standardization throughout the commonwealth of threads on fire hose couplings, fittings and hydrant outlets for public fire protection. The state fire marshal shall prepare said rules and regulations, and they shall take effect subject to section thirty-seven of chapter thirty when approved by said commissioner and by the governor and council and on such dates as they may fix.
MA Gen L ch 48 § 88 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 48 - Fires, Fire Departments and Fire Districts|Section 88 - Fire Fighters; Performance of Police Duties

Section 88. No city or town shall require a permanent member of its fire department to perform the duties of a police officer during his tour of duty. No fire fighter shall, in connection with any industrial or labor dispute, perform the duties of a police officer or any duties other than those regularly performed by him.
MA Gen L ch 48 § 89 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 48 - Fires, Fire Departments and Fire Districts|Section 89 - Fire Fighters; Firearms

Section 89. No fire fighter shall be required to carry firearms in the performance of his duty.
MA Gen L ch 48 § 90 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 48 - Fires, Fire Departments and Fire Districts|Section 90 - Fire District; Municipal Agency

Section 90. For the purposes of chapter 268A, a fire district shall be considered a municipal agency and each part-time firefighter of such fire district and any person who performs professional services for such a fire district on a part-time, intermittent or consultant basis, shall be considered a special municipal employee.
MA Gen L ch 49 § 1 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 49 - Fences, Fence Viewers, Pounds and Field Drivers|Section 1 - Fence Viewers; Appointment; Tenure

Section 1. The mayor of each city, subject to confirmation by the city council, and the selectmen of each town shall annually appoint two or more fence viewers, to hold office for one year and until their successors are qualified.
MA Gen L ch 49 § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 49 - Fences, Fence Viewers, Pounds and Field Drivers|Section 2 - Definition of Fences

Section 2. Fences four feet high, in good repair, constructed of rails, timber, boards, iron or stone, and brooks, rivers, ponds, creeks, ditches and hedges, or other things which the fence viewers consider equivalent thereto, shall be deemed legal and sufficient fences.
MA Gen L ch 49 § 3 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 49 - Fences, Fence Viewers, Pounds and Field Drivers|Section 3 - Maintenance of Partition Fences

Section 3. The occupants of adjoining lands enclosed with fences shall, so long as both of them improve the same, maintain partition fences in equal shares between their enclosures, unless they otherwise agree.
MA Gen L ch 49 § 4 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 49 - Fences, Fence Viewers, Pounds and Field Drivers|Section 4 - Failure to Maintain Partition Fence; Proceedings by Adjoining Occupant

Section 4. If a person refuses or neglects to repair or rebuild the part of a partition fence which under this chapter he is required to maintain, any person aggrieved may complain to the fence viewers, who, after notice to each party, shall view the fence; and if they determine that it is insufficient and that a partition fence is required, they shall so state in writing to the delinquent occupant, and direct him to repair or rebuild his part within such time as the fence viewers may determine; and if the fence is not so repaired or rebuilt, the complainant, after having repaired or rebuilt his part of said fence, may repair or rebuild the part of such occupant.
MA Gen L ch 49 § 5 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 49 - Fences, Fence Viewers, Pounds and Field Drivers|Section 5 - Remedy for Repair of Deficient Fence

Section 5. If a deficient fence which has been built up or repaired by a complainant is, after due notice to each party, adjudged sufficient by the fence viewers, and the value of the part of the delinquent occupant, together with the fees of the fence viewers, has been ascertained by a certificate under their hands, the complainant may demand either of the owner or of the occupant of the land where the fence was deficient double the amount so ascertained; and upon the neglect or refusal to pay the same for one month after demand, he may recover the same, with interest at one per cent a month, in an action of contract.
MA Gen L ch 49 § 6 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 49 - Fences, Fence Viewers, Pounds and Field Drivers|Section 6 - Disputes Regarding Repairs; Arbitration

Section 6. When a dispute arises concerning the part of a partition fence which under this chapter each party is required to build or maintain, either party may apply to the fence viewers, who, after notice to each party and a hearing, may in writing assign to each his share thereof, and may direct the time within which each party shall erect or repair his share; which assignment, being recorded in the office of the city or town clerk upon the payment by the party so applying of the fee provided by clause (33) of section thirty-four of chapter two hundred and sixty-two, shall be binding upon the parties and upon the succeeding occupants of the land.
MA Gen L ch 49 § 7 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 49 - Fences, Fence Viewers, Pounds and Field Drivers|Section 7 - Remedy for Repair of Deficient Fence Assigned by Fence Viewers

Section 7. If a person refuses or neglects to erect and maintain the part of a fence assigned to him by the fence viewers, it may be erected and maintained by the adjoining occupant, and if adjudged sufficient by the fence viewers, he shall be entitled to double the value thereof, which shall be ascertained and recovered in the manner aforesaid.
MA Gen L ch 49 § 8 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 49 - Fences, Fence Viewers, Pounds and Field Drivers|Section 8 - Remedy for Repairing More Than Just Share of Partition Fence

Section 8. If a partition fence is required under this chapter between the lands of adjoining occupants, and either of them has, before complaint made, voluntarily erected the whole fence or more than his just share thereof, or has otherwise become proprietor thereof, the fence viewers may order the other occupant to pay the value of so much thereof as may be assigned to him to repair or maintain, to be ascertained and recovered as provided in this chapter.
MA Gen L ch 49 § 9 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 49 - Fences, Fence Viewers, Pounds and Field Drivers|Section 9 - Construction and Maintenance of Fences Between Lands Divided by a River

Section 9. If lands of different persons, required under this chapter to be fenced, are divided by a river, brook, pond or creek, and one of the occupants refuses or neglects to join in making a partition fence, or they disagree respecting the same, the fence viewers shall, upon application, forthwith view such river, brook, pond or creek; and if they determine that it is not sufficient as a fence, that it is impracticable to fence on the true boundary line without unreasonable expense, and that a partition fence is required, they shall, after notice to the parties, determine how or on which side the fence shall be set up and maintained, or whether partly on the one side and partly on the other, as to them may appear just, and shall reduce their determination to writing; and if either party refuses or neglects to make and maintain his part of the fence according to such determination, it may be made and maintained as before provided, and the delinquent party shall be subject to the same costs and charges, and they shall be recovered in like manner.
MA Gen L ch 49 § 10 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Districts|Chapter 49 - Fences, Fence Viewers, Pounds and Field Drivers|Section 10 - Fences on Lands Owned in Severalty and Occupied in Common; Construction

Section 10. If land belonging to two persons in severalty has been occupied in common without a partition fence, and one of the occupants desires to occupy his part in severalty, and both occupants are in possession of beasts which would be restrained by the erection of a fence dividing the parts of each occupant, and the other occupant refuses or neglects on demand to divide the line where the fence ought to be built, or to build a sufficient fence on his part of the line when divided, the party desiring it may have the same divided and assigned by the fence viewers in the manner provided in this chapter; and the fence viewers may in writing assign a reasonable time, having regard to the season, for making the fence; and if the occupant complained of does not make his part of the fence within the time so assigned, the other party may, after having made up his part of the fence, make up the part of such occupant, and recover therefor double the sum total of the expense thereof and fees, as provided in section five.