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MA Gen L ch 92 § 41 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIV - Public Ways and Works|Chapter 92 - Metropolitan Sewers, Water and Parks|Section 41 - Maintenance of Accommodations for Boating and Bathing

Section 41. The commission may provide and maintain upon reservations and boulevards under its care, suitable accommodations for bathing and boating, and for the use of the same may establish rules and regulations and make reasonable charges. A disabled veteran or a handicapped person whose vehicle bears the distinctive type number plate authorized by section two of chapter ninety shall not be required to pay the charges established under the provisions of this section.
MA Gen L ch 92 § 42 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIV - Public Ways and Works|Chapter 92 - Metropolitan Sewers, Water and Parks|Section 42 - Locations for Common Sewers and Drains Across Reservations or Boulevards

Section 42. The commission may grant to towns locations for common sewers and drains in and across reservations or boulevards under its care and control. Whenever a drain or sewer is laid in locations so granted, the board of town officers respectively authorized to levy and collect assessments for the laying of drains and sewers in such town shall have the same power to levy and collect assessments for drains and sewers laid in said reservations or boulevards as is given to them by law in the case of drains and sewers laid in the public ways of such town; provided, that no such assessment shall be levied upon any lands belonging to the commonwealth.
MA Gen L ch 92 § 43 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIV - Public Ways and Works|Chapter 92 - Metropolitan Sewers, Water and Parks|Section 43 - Locations for Street Railways, Electric Railroads and Public Utilities Within Boulevards and Reservations; Hearing

Section 43. The commission in consultation with the department of public utilities or the department of telecommunications and cable may grant locations to street railways or electric railroads within the boulevards and reservations in its care and control, and may also grant upon, under, along or across such boulevards and reservations such locations as shall be found by order of the commission after public hearing to be required by public convenience and necessity for poles, wires, cables or pipes for the transmission of electricity for light, heat, or power or for the distribution of gas or for the transmission of intelligence by electricity. No grant of a location to a gas or electric company under the provisions of this and the following section shall affect the rights of parties under sections eighty-six, eighty-seven and eighty-eight of chapter one hundred and sixty-four in cases involving locations in public ways of a town other than locations upon, under, along or across such boulevards or reservations, but such rights shall be determined without reference to the provisions of this and the four following sections or to the grant of any location thereunder.
MA Gen L ch 92 § 44 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIV - Public Ways and Works|Chapter 92 - Metropolitan Sewers, Water and Parks|Section 44 - Notice of Hearing on Petition for Location; Rules and Regulations

Section 44. Subject to the provisions of section forty-three, the commission, upon petition of a duly authorized official or representative of a street railway, electric railroad, gas or electric company for such location, shall give notice to all parties interested of the time and place at which the commission will give a hearing upon such petition, at least fourteen days before the hearing, by publication in one or more newspapers published in each town where the location petitioned for would lie, and if none such is published, then by publication in one or more newspapers published in each county where the location petitioned for would lie; and after hearing, if in the opinion of the commission public convenience and necessity so require, it may grant such location, or any part thereof, upon such terms, conditions and obligations, and for such compensation, as the public interest and a due regard for the rights of the commonwealth may require. Any such location shall be void unless written acceptance by a duly authorized official or representative of the company is filed with the commission within sixty days after such company receives notice of the granting of the same. No order of the department of public utilities or the department of telecommunications and cable or of the commission shall be required for, but the commission may make rules and regulations governing, the renewing, repairing or replacing of poles, wires, cables or pipes for the transmission of electricity for light, heat or power or for the distribution of gas, once erected or constructed in accordance with law, or the making of house connections or connections between duly located pipes, conduits and distributing poles.
MA Gen L ch 92 § 45 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIV - Public Ways and Works|Chapter 92 - Metropolitan Sewers, Water and Parks|Section 45 - Alteration, Extension or Revocation of Locations

Section 45. The commission may by order alter, extend or revoke any such location whenever in its opinion the public interest or the rights of the commonwealth so require; provided, that before so doing notice and hearing shall be given to the company and all persons interested, as provided in the preceding section; and provided, further, that any such company or any persons interested in any such order may appeal therefrom to the governor, within fourteen days after the filing of a copy of such order, as provided in the following section.
MA Gen L ch 92 § 46 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIV - Public Ways and Works|Chapter 92 - Metropolitan Sewers, Water and Parks|Section 46 - Record of Order; Fee

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 town where the location is granted, altered, extended or revoked, and the clerk of that city or town shall receive and record the same upon the payment by the company to which said location is granted of the fee provided by clause (36) of section thirty-four of chapter two hundred and sixty-two.
MA Gen L ch 92 § 47 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIV - Public Ways and Works|Chapter 92 - Metropolitan Sewers, Water and Parks|Section 47 - Powers and Duties of Companies Operating Under Secs. 43 to 46

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 addition to and in amendment of any charter or special provision of law or of the general laws under which they are organized.
MA Gen L ch 92 § 49 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIV - Public Ways and Works|Chapter 92 - Metropolitan Sewers, Water and Parks|Section 49 - Location of Boulevards Across Railroad Lands or Locations

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 to indemnify such railroad corporation against any claims for damages to persons or property, arising out of such laying out, extension, construction and maintenance.
MA Gen L ch 92 § 50 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIV - Public Ways and Works|Chapter 92 - Metropolitan Sewers, Water and Parks|Section 50 - Notice to Railroads of Proposed Work

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 construct a boulevard, it may have its right to cross and the manner of crossing determined by the department of telecommunications and energy; provided, that no crossing of such boulevard shall be at a level with the railroad tracks and that no such boulevard shall be laid out, extended and constructed across a railroad in such manner as to injure or obstruct the railroad.
MA Gen L ch 92 § 51 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIV - Public Ways and Works|Chapter 92 - Metropolitan Sewers, Water and Parks|Section 51 - Place, Time and Manner of Constructing Crossing

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 manner of constructing such crossing, and how much, if any, of the work made necessary by such crossing shall be done by the corporation; and thereafter the commission may lay out, construct and maintain such boulevard across the railroad in accordance with the terms of said decree.
MA Gen L ch 92 § 52 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIV - Public Ways and Works|Chapter 92 - Metropolitan Sewers, Water and Parks|Section 52 - Payment of Cost of Construction and Maintenance of Crossings

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 boulevard or reservation purposes, unless otherwise determined by an agreement between the commission and any such railroad corporation.
MA Gen L ch 92 § 53 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIV - Public Ways and Works|Chapter 92 - Metropolitan Sewers, Water and Parks|Section 53 - Band Concerts

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 urban parks system for each year such sum as it may recommend should be appropriated for the purposes of this section.
MA Gen L ch 92 § 66a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIV - Public Ways and Works|Chapter 92 - Metropolitan Sewers, Water and Parks|Section 66a - Minimum Age Requirement of Lifeguards

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, appoint subject to the provisions of chapter thirty-one, except for age requirements, applicants who have attained the age of sixteen years as beach or swimming pool lifeguards, provided that such applicants meet all other requirements.
MA Gen L ch 92 § 67 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIV - Public Ways and Works|Chapter 92 - Metropolitan Sewers, Water and Parks|Section 67 - Agreements for Lighting Reservations and Boulevards; Duration; Payments Upon Expiration of Contract

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, upon such terms as said commission deems most advantageous to the commonwealth. Upon the expiration of any such agreement, if no new contract is entered into between the commission and the electric light, power or gas company, the commission may continue to make payments in accordance with the terms of such expired contract or a schedule of rates filed under the provisions of section ninety-four of chapter one hundred and sixty-four or as ordered by the department of telecommunications and energy under the provisions of section ninety-three of said chapter one hundred and sixty-four, until a new contract has been made between the commission and the electric light, power or gas company.
MA Gen L ch 92 § 68 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIV - Public Ways and Works|Chapter 92 - Metropolitan Sewers, Water and Parks|Section 68 - Quality and Price of Light; Fixing

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 upon complaint of the commission or upon application of the company to the department of telecommunications and energy, have the right to have any question of the quality or price of gas or electricity sold and delivered or of the service rendered determined by said department, and the provisions of sections ninety-three and ninety-four of chapter one hundred and sixty-four shall, as far as applicable, apply to the determination of such questions.
MA Gen L ch 92 § 70 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIV - Public Ways and Works|Chapter 92 - Metropolitan Sewers, Water and Parks|Section 70 - Injury to Charles River Dam

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 consent of the person in charge of the drawbridge, make fast to the dam, bridge, draw, guard, pier or any appurtenance thereof any vessel, scow, raft or float, or remain inside of the draw gates or on any pier, wharf, fender or appurtenance of the draw while the gates are closed; nor shall any person having charge of a vessel passing through the draw of such bridge refuse or neglect to comply with the directions of the person in charge relating to such passing. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than twenty dollars.
MA Gen L ch 92 § 71 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIV - Public Ways and Works|Chapter 92 - Metropolitan Sewers, Water and Parks|Section 71 - Collision With Gates of Lock of Charles River Dam; Penalty

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.
MA Gen L ch 92 § 74 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIV - Public Ways and Works|Chapter 92 - Metropolitan Sewers, Water and Parks|Section 74 - Licensing of Encroachments

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 terms, conditions, restrictions and agreements, and for such period of years, not exceeding 5, as the commission may deem best; provided, that licenses shall be revocable at any time by the commission. The granting of such a license shall in no event be construed to create in the licensee any title to the land into, upon or over which any licensed encroachment shall project, and no person shall by the maintenance of parts of buildings or foundations of buildings herein described, with or without such license, acquire any rights by prescription or adverse possession in any part of the Charles river embankment.
MA Gen L ch 92 § 75 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIV - Public Ways and Works|Chapter 92 - Metropolitan Sewers, Water and Parks|Section 75 - Appointment of Harbor Master and Assistants; Duties

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 harbor master and assistant harbor masters for the port of Boston appointed by the police commissioner of the city of Boston. The division may require such further duties of these officers, consistent with law, as the commission may deem expedient. The harbor master and assistant harbor masters shall receive the pay which may be established for the grade or rank which they respectively hold in the office of environmental law enforcement.
MA Gen L ch 92 § 76a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIV - Public Ways and Works|Chapter 92 - Metropolitan Sewers, Water and Parks|Section 76a - Permit to Take Water From Basin; Hearing; Approval

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-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and nine and acts in amendments thereof and in addition thereto, and subject to the approval of said department as hereinafter provided, may grant to any such city or town which accepts sections seventy-six A to seventy-six E, inclusive, by vote of the city council or selectmen a permit to take water from said basin for purposes of fire protection and of sale, at such price as the municipality may determine, to manufacturing establishments within its limits for cooling and condensing purposes. A city or town receiving such a permit may construct and maintain on lands owned by it all necessary works and pumping stations and may lay and maintain in such lands and in its streets all necessary mains and pipes, and, to such extent and on such terms and conditions as may be authorized in such permit, may lay said mains and pipes on or in lands under the control of the division. Any permit granted hereunder shall prescribe the maximum amount of water which may be drawn from said basin thereunder, and the place and manner of taking said water and of the return of said water except such as is used for fire protection, and shall provide for the metering of said water both at the place of taking and of return, and for reimbursing the division for all expenses of supervision and inspection. Such permit shall also prescribe the location, and the mode of construction and of laying, of all works, mains and pipes within lands under the division's control, and such other terms and conditions as in the division's opinion the public interest may require. No such permit shall be granted except in such form as shall be approved by the department of environmental protection, and no construction shall be commenced or carried on thereunder until all plans and specifications have been submitted to and approved by the department of environmental protection.
MA Gen L ch 92 § 76b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIV - Public Ways and Works|Chapter 92 - Metropolitan Sewers, Water and Parks|Section 76b - Permits; Conditions; Violations; Revocation

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 discharged through a special system of outlet pipes into the basin or the canals thereof in a manner approved by the commission; and that no oil, refuse, or other substance which would be harmful to the water in the basin shall be added to the water before its return to the basin. Upon violation of any condition in the permit, or if in the opinion of the commission the use of water under the permit impairs the quality or, except for water used for fire protection, reduces the quantity of the water of the basin, the commission shall revoke the permit; and no new permit shall be granted unless the commission finds that there is no danger of future breach of condition of a permit when granted, or that the quality of the water of the basin will not be impaired.
MA Gen L ch 92 § 76c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIV - Public Ways and Works|Chapter 92 - Metropolitan Sewers, Water and Parks|Section 76c - Conditions for Supplying Manufacturing Establishments With Water

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, the manufacturing establishments affected may be supplied with water for cooling and condensing purposes from the water system of the city or town, but in such case the water after use shall not be discharged into the basin.
MA Gen L ch 92 § 76d (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIV - Public Ways and Works|Chapter 92 - Metropolitan Sewers, Water and Parks|Section 76d - Maintenance of Water Level

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-five of the acts of nineteen hundred and three and acts in amendment thereof or in addition thereto, or in quantities, or in a manner, inconsistent with the purposes and provisions of the laws establishing and governing the maintenance of said basin.
MA Gen L ch 92 § 76e (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIV - Public Ways and Works|Chapter 92 - Metropolitan Sewers, Water and Parks|Section 76e - Laying Mains and Pipes; Borrowing Money for Expenses

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.