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2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 92 - Metropolitan Sewers, Water and Parks › Section 38 - Rules and Regulations for Charles River Basin; Publication; Proof of Rules

Section 38. The department may make reasonable rules and regulations, not impairing freight traffic, for the care, maintenance, protection and policing of the Charles river basin as defined in section two of chapter five hundred and twenty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and nine and amendments thereof, breaches of which rules and regulations shall be breaches of the peace punishable by fine not exceeding fifty dollars for each offence. The division shall cause such rules and regulations to be published once in a newspaper published in Boston, and such publication shall be sufficient notice to all persons. The sworn certificate of the director of such publication shall be prima facie evidence thereof. A copy of any such rule or regulation, or of a rule or regulation made under the preceding section, attested by the commissioner, shall be prima facie evidence that said rule or regulation was made by the division.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 92 - Metropolitan Sewers, Water and Parks › Section 69 - Charles River Bridges

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 rebuilt unless the consent of the city council and of the selectmen of any town in which any part of the bridge is situated shall first be obtained. Any such bridge may be replaced or rebuilt without a draw for the passage of vessels, and may be of no greater height above the water than, in the judgment of the commission, the architectural appearance of the bridge would require, except that every such bridge over the Charles river basin shall be so constructed as to leave a clear height of at least twelve feet above the ordinary level of the water in the basin over the main ship channel, and the piers and other obstructions to the flow of the river shall be constructed in such form and in such places as the secretary of war of the United States shall approve. When the work of replacing or rebuilding any such bridge is completed, the bridge shall be maintained and policed under and in accordance with the laws governing such maintenance and policing at the time when the work was begun. The state treasurer may receive, hold, manage and invest any funds given or bequeathed to him in trust by any person, upon such terms, conditions and limitations as the donor may impose, for the purpose of enabling the commission to carry out the provisions of this section, and the commission, whenever it shall deem that the public interests so require, may expend, under authority of this section and of any other provision relating to the acquirement and maintenance of reservations or boulevards by the commission, any such funds in accordance with the terms, conditions or limitations aforesaid. Any owner or lessee of property abutting on the Charles river above any drawless bridge built under the authority of this section and under authority of the act of congress entitled ''An Act to authorize the construction of drawless bridges across a certain portion of the Charles river in the State of Massachusetts'', approved February twenty-seven, nineteen hundred and eleven, shall be entitled to adequate compensation for damages, if any, caused to said property or leasehold interests therein, by reason of the interference with access by water to said property due to the construction of any such drawless bridge, in accordance with provisos contained in said act of congress. Upon petition of any such owner or lessee entitled to such damages, filed in the supreme judicial court within one year after any such bridge without a draw is opened for public travel, said court shall appoint three commissioners to hear the parties in interest, and to assess the damages to said property; and the decision of said commissioners as to the amount of said damages and as to questions of fact involved shall be final.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 92 - Metropolitan Sewers, Water and Parks › Section 79 - Taking or Acquisition of Lands for Reservations

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-nine, lands and rights in land for reservations within the urban parks district, or take bonds for the conveyance thereof; and may take by eminent domain under said chapter, or acquire by agreement or otherwise, the right forever, or for such period of time as the commissioner deems expedient, to plant, care for, maintain or remove trees, shrubs and growth of any kind within certain spaces regulated by the division along or near rivers and ponds within said district; and may take or impose by eminent domain under said chapter, or acquire the benefit of, by agreement or otherwise, such restrictions upon such regulated spaces as it deems expedient; provided, that no private property shall be taken or restrictions imposed by eminent domain hereunder without the concurrence of a majority of the stewardship council and of the board of park commissioners, if any, of the town where said property is situated.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 92 - Metropolitan Sewers, Water and Parks › Section 80 - Taking or Acquisition of Land for Boulevards

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 the metropolitan parks district, although the land so taken, or any part thereof, be already a public way; provided, that the concurrence of the city council in Boston for Suffolk county or the concurrence of each other county or city or town outside of Suffolk county, wherein any portion of any public way, land or rights in land is taken by eminent domain, be obtained to the taking of said portion by vote of its county commissioners, city council or selectmen, respectively.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 92 - Metropolitan Sewers, Water and Parks › Section 83 - Granting or Accepting Title to Interest in Land; Sale of Personal Property of Park System

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 taken or acquired by it for the purposes of said sections, and may accept and assent to any deed containing reservations of such easements or other interests in land, all for such considerations or rentals, and upon such terms, restrictions, provisions or agreements, as the department may deem best. The department may sell at public or private sale surplus earth, rock, ice, wood, hay, standing grass, old buildings, and materials no longer needed for the maintenance of boulevards or reservations under its charge and may collect the money due from such sales and sue to recover or enforce the collection thereof in the courts of the commonwealth.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 92 - Metropolitan Sewers, Water and Parks › Section 84 - Abandonment of Interests in Land

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 right in land less than the fee taken by the department by right of eminent domain for reservation or boulevard purposes, and said abandonment shall revest title thereof, as if never taken, in the persons, their heirs and assigns, in whom vested at the time of the taking.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 92 - Metropolitan Sewers, Water and Parks › Section 85 - Sale of Land or Interests in Land Acquired for Park or Boulevard Purposes

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 received or acquired and paid for by it for the purposes set forth in sections thirty-three and thirty-five, and may, with the concurrence of such park commissioners, execute a deed thereof, with or without covenants of title and warranty, all in the name and behalf of the commonwealth, to the purchaser, his heirs and assigns, and deposit said deed with the state treasurer, together with a certificate of the terms of sale and price paid or agreed to be paid at said sale, and, upon receipt of said price and upon the terms agreed in said deed, he shall deliver the deed to said purchaser. The state treasurer may, by the attorney general, sue for and collect the price and enforce the terms of any such sale.
If the department decides, under this or the preceding section, to abandon or sell any portion of the lands or rights in land so taken or acquired by it, and the park commissioners in any town where said property or right in property is situated refuse or fail to concur with the commission within fourteen days from the giving of written notice of such decision to said park commissioners, the department, upon written notice of not less than seven days to said park commissioners, may appear before the governor and council and ask their concurrence in such sale or abandonment; and if the governor and council, after hearing, concur in such sale or abandonment, it shall have full force and effect.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 92 - Metropolitan Sewers, Water and Parks › Section 86 - Reservations and Exceptions in Takings

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 the taking, any and all exceptions and reservations made in said taking in favor of any municipality within which said way or part thereof lies, and of the public, and of persons, shall be valid, effectual and binding; and in order to insure to the parties concerned the full and perfect enjoyment of the uses thereby reserved the department may make grants of or convey easements, enter into agreements, issue licenses, and generally conclude arrangements to that end; but no such grant, agreement, license or arrangement shall be taken or held to abrogate or abridge the control of the department over the land included in said taking except as in said exceptions and reservations provided, or the right of the department to make rules and regulations for the government and use of any boulevard or crossway which may be laid out and maintained over said land or over any portion thereof, not inconsistent with such exceptions and reservations.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 92 - Metropolitan Sewers, Water and Parks › Section 87 - Transfer of Care and Control of Lands or Interests in Lands

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 parks district, with the consent of such city, town, county or board, and upon such terms and for such period as may mutually be agreed upon, and enter into an agreement with any such city, town, county or board for the joint care and control or police protection of such lands or rights therein, and also for laying out, constructing and maintaining ways into or across any such lands; and any city, town, or county, or any local board within the urban parks district, may transfer, for care and control, including police protection, any land, rights, easements or interest in land in its control, although the same be already a part of a public way owned or controlled by it, to the department for such period and upon such terms as may mutually be agreed upon, and may enter into an agreement with the department for the joint care and control, including police protection, of such land or public way. All the provisions of section thirty-six shall apply in the case of any public way within the limits of such land as may be transferred, for care and control under this section, to the department, to the same extent as though such way were a boulevard maintained by the division under section thirty-five.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 92 - Metropolitan Sewers, Water and Parks › Section 88 - Agreements and Contributions for Improvement of Public Ways, Bridges or Streams

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 division, and in the expense of such work, and for such purposes or any of them, may make contribution to such city, town or county by a grant of land or rights in land, although the same be already a boulevard, or by payment of money for its portion of such expense.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 92 - Metropolitan Sewers, Water and Parks › Section 89 - Disposition of Lost or Stolen Money or Goods

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 person designated by the commission to receive the same, and he shall thereupon be relieved from further responsibility therefor.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 92 - Metropolitan Sewers, Water and Parks › Section 90 - Sale of Stolen or Lost Property

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.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 92 - Metropolitan Sewers, Water and Parks › Section 92 - Sale of Perishable Lost Property

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 commission may designate, such notice of the time and place of sale as the commission may deem reasonable and proper first being given.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 92 - Metropolitan Sewers, Water and Parks › Section 94 - Payment of Proceeds of Sale to Owner

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 him by the state treasurer out of said special account, without appropriation.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 92 - Metropolitan Sewers, Water and Parks › Section 95 - Permits for Encroachments on Land

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 owner which abuts on lands under the control of the commission, and also for the projection of eaves, cornices or ornaments of buildings over land under the control of the commission; provided, that no grant hereunder shall be made for any projection of more than three feet, nor for a projection over land of the commonwealth held or in the opinion of the commission likely to be required for a boulevard or driveway, at a height less than thirty feet above the grade which the commission may determine as that established or likely to be established as the grade of such boulevard or driveway adjacent to said private land.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 92 - Metropolitan Sewers, Water and Parks › Section 95a - Projecting Signs, Marquees, Awnings or Devices; Permits

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, and for that purpose may adopt, reasonable rules and regulations and assess penalties for violations thereof. Before the issue of a permit hereunder, the applicant shall file with the commission a bond running to the commission, in such penal sum as the commission shall determine, to indemnify and save harmless the commission and its agents and employees from all claims, loss, damage and expense in any way relating to or connected with such permit. This section shall not apply to signs or other structures projecting into or over the way a distance of less than six inches, nor to poles, wires, conduits and appurtenances of railroad, railway, telegraph and telephone, water, gas, electric light, heat and power companies.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 92a1/2 - Watershed Management › Section 2 - Division of Water Supply Protection

Section 2. There shall be within the department a division of water supply protection which shall be subject to chapter 737 of the acts of 1972. The division shall construct, maintain and operate a system of watersheds, reservoirs, water rights and rights in sources of water supply, shall supply thereby a sufficient supply of pure water to the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, and shall utilize and conserve said water and other natural resources in order to protect, preserve and enhance the environment of the commonwealth and to assure the availability of pure water for future generations. The division shall maintain a visitors' informational center at the Quabbin reservation. All records pertaining to the history of the Swift River and Ware River Valleys, land takings therein, Quabbin Reservoir construction and matters regarding the 4 discontinued towns and extant adjacent communities shall remain accessible to the public at the Quabbin Reservoir administrative facilities in Belchertown, Massachusetts.
The division of water supply protection shall be under the administrative supervision of a director, who shall be called the director of water supply protection. The director shall be responsible for the watershed system formerly under the care, custody and control of the division of watershed management of the metropolitan district commission, and the watershed system formerly under the care, custody and control of the division of water resources of the department of environmental management.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 92a1/2 - Watershed Management › Section 3 - Bridge Authority

Section 3. The division shall keep all bridges built by it across the reservoir upon the Nashua river safe, and shall have charge of, use, maintain and operate the same, and the commonwealth shall be exclusively responsible for all damages caused thereby or by any defect or want of repair therein. The department shall have the exclusive right and control over all ponds, reservoirs and other property within the watershed system, and may order all persons to keep from entering in, upon or over the waters thereof and the lands of the commonwealth or towns surrounding the same.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 92a1/2 - Watershed Management › Section 4 - Hydroelectricity Authority

Section 4. The division shall have the exclusive right to and interest in hydroelectricity developed, generated, transmitted, distributed and sold as an incident to the operation of the watershed and waterworks systems, may undertake such projects for such purposes and may authorize or contract with any other person otherwise lawfully qualified for such person to perform on reasonable terms and conditions such activities on behalf of or by arrangement with the division. The division may by lease, license or permit or on its own behalf provide for the installation and operation of electric and telecommunications transmission facilities within said systems, provided that such facilities shall not interfere with the proper operation of said systems and that no lease, license or permit for such purpose shall be made for a term of more than 40 years. Subject to contractual requirements or other legal obligations in force on the effective date of this act, the division shall permit use of water in reservoirs for hydroelectric generation only when and to the extent that water is otherwise subject to release for reasons of sound management of the reservoirs for watershed, waterworks and stream flow purposes. All revenues derived from the activities authorized herein shall annually be remitted by the division to the state treasurer who shall deposit said revenues into the general fund.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 92a1/2 - Watershed Management › Section 6 - Environmental Protection Regulations

Section 6. The division after consultation with the department of environmental protection, shall make rules and regulations by July 1, 1992 and from time to time thereafter for the protection of the watersheds and the watershed system. The regulations shall include provisions that require notice to the department and the division of applications for variances for uses or structures that affect the watersheds. Notice of hearings on the proposed regulations shall be sent to the chief executive officer of all cities and towns within the watersheds and any other cities and towns affected by such regulations. The division shall file copies of the regulations promulgated in accordance with this section with the clerk of the house of representatives and the clerk of the senate and send copies to the chief executive officer of all the cities and towns within the watersheds and any other cities and towns affected by such regulations. The regulations shall not take effect until 60 days have elapsed from the time of said filing. The division shall cause such rules and regulations to be posted at or near the waters to which they respectively apply, and shall also cause the same to be published at least once in a newspaper published in the county where said waters are in whole or in part situated, and such posting and publication shall be sufficient notice to all persons. The sworn certificate of any senior member of the department of such posting and publication, or of the posting or publication of an order made by the department, shall be prima facie evidence of the posting and publication. A copy of any such rule, regulation or order, attested by any senior member of the department, shall be prima facie evidence that said rule, regulation or order was made by department or by the commissioner, as the case may be.