§ 1 Authorization; connecting sewers; approval of plans; acquisition of lands by eminent domain or purchase; agreements with municipalities or districts; contracts
§ 1A Common sewers and main drains in public or private ways; voter approval and comprehensive water resources management plan
§ 1B Connection of abutting land to common sewer; requirements; amendment of comprehensive water resources management plan
§ 1C Certification by board of health for additional connections; service for municipal buildings, public restrooms or public service uses
§ 1D Assessments upon connection of abutting land to common sewer
§ 1E Written decision regarding approval or denial of connection to common sewer; appeal
§ 1F Discrimination prohibited
§ 1G Separate account; collection, deposit and use of funds
§ 1H Borrowing or assessing funds for construction of wastewater treatment system
§ 2 Plans and records
§ 3 Sewer connections
§ 3A Private ways; repair of sewers
§ 4 Highway ditches or drains
§ 5 Separate systems for drainage of water and sewage
§ 6 Sewage disposal works
§ 7 Examination of sewage disposal works; prevention of nuisances
§ 8 Digging up public ways; permits
§ 9 Obstruction of ditches
§ 10 Rules and regulations regarding use and connections
§ 11 Sewer connections
§ 12 Repair of private drains
§ 13 Equity jurisdiction
§ 14 Sewer assessments; authorization
§ 15 Sewerage systems; adoption; assessment; uniform units; separation of costs
§ 15A Redetermination of assessment
§ 15B Estimated sewer assessments; construction of water pollution control facilities
§ 15C Interest on unpaid balance of sewer betterment assessment
§ 15D Apportionment of future sewer assessments or unpaid balances
§ 16 Charge for use of sewers
§ 16A Certificate of acceptance; effect; recordation
§ 16B Effective date of sewer charge lien; termination; methods of collection and enforcement of rate or charge
§ 16C Certification of rate or charge to assessors; commitment as tax
§ 16D Application of other law; powers of tax collectors
§ 16E Remedies of aggrieved real estate owners
§ 16F Recovery of real estate owner against tenants
§ 16G Deferral of charges
§ 17 Payment for permanent sewer privileges
§ 18 Method of assessment
§ 19 Assessments; extension of time for payment
§ 20 Fee for use of sewers
§ 21 Assessment on land abutting on more than one way
§ 22 Assessment of sewers built by landowners
§ 23 Cost of sewers; payment of portion by municipality
§ 24 Assessment for particular sewers
§ 25 Establishment of sidewalks
§ 26 Assessments for the construction or reconstruction of sidewalk
§ 27 Recording of statements; assessment liens
§ 28 Application of betterment law
§ 29 Betterment assessments created by special act; duration of lien
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Terms Used In Massachusetts General Laws > Chapter 83 - Sewers, Drains and Sidewalks

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Interests: includes any form of membership in a domestic or foreign nonprofit corporation. See Massachusetts General Laws ch. 156D sec. 11.01
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.