Massachusetts · statute · Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 92 · 54 active provisions
Section 33. The division of state parks and recreation, hereinafter referred to as the division, may maintain and make available to the inhabitants of Arlington, Belmont, Boston, Braintree, Brookline, Cambridge, Canton, Chelsea, Dedham, Dover, Everett, Hingham, Hull, Lynn, Malden, Medford, Melrose, Milton, Nahant, Need…
Section 34. The state treasurer may, with the approval of the governor and council, receive and hold in trust for the commonwealth, exempt from taxation, any grant or devise of lands or rights in land, and any gift or bequest of money or other personal property, made for the purposes of the preceding section, and shall…
Section 34A. The executive director of the office of travel and tourism, in this section called the executive director, may receive and hold in trust for the commonwealth, exempt from taxation, any instrument of value, including but not limited to any gift or bequest of money or other personal property, and any grant o…
Section 34B. (a) The metropolitan district commission is hereby authorized to establish a park ranger program within the department to preserve, maintain and protect the parks, reservation, historic sites and open space and to ensure the environmental integrity of properties under the care, custody and control of the c…
Section 34C. Notwithstanding any general or special law or administrative bulletin to the contrary and pursuant to section 34, there is hereby established and set up on the books of the commonwealth a separate fund, to be known as the Blue Hills Reservation Trust Fund, which shall be used for the purposes of advancing…
Section 34D. (a) There shall be established and set up on the books of the commonwealth a separate, non-budgeted special revenue fund known as the Christian A. Herter Park Trust Fund, which shall be administered by the department of conservation and recreation. Amounts credited to the fund shall be expended, without fu…
Section 34E. (a) There shall be established and set up on the books of the commonwealth a separate, non-budgeted special revenue fund known as the Leo M. Birmingham Parkway Trust Fund, which shall be administered by the department of conservation and recreation. Amounts credited to the fund shall be expended, without f…
[ Text of section effective until July 1, 2025. For text effective July 1, 2025, see below.] Section 34F. There shall be established and set up on the books of the commonwealth a separate fund, which shall be known as the Middlesex Fells Reservation Trust Fund. The fund shall be used to advance recreational, educationa…
Section 35. The commission may connect any way, park or other public open space with any part of the towns of the urban parks district by suitable roadways or boulevards, in this chapter called boulevards, and for this purpose exercise any of the rights and powers granted the commission in respect to reservations, and…
Section 35A. The division may authorize the removal to some convenient place, through the agency of a person in the employ of the division, or by an independent contractor selected on the basis of competitive bids, any vehicle, except a vehicle owned by the commonwealth or a political subdivision thereof or by the Unit…
Section 36. The commonwealth shall be liable for injuries sustained by persons while traveling on any boulevard maintained by the division under authority of the preceding section, if the same are caused by defects within the limits of the constructed traveled roadway, in the manner and subject to the limitations, cond…
Section 37. Except as provided in section 38, the commissioner, in consultation with the director, may make rules and regulations for the government and use of the reservations, roads, driveways, parkways, boulevards or bridges under the division's care and to govern the public use of the Charles river, the Neponset ri…
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 o…
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 distinctiv…
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…
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 boulevard…
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 gi…
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; an…
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, alter…
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…
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…
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 ri…
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…
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 oth…
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 a…