Massachusetts General Laws

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 40, § 6C (2026)

Removal of ice and snow from private ways; conditions

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Section 6C. A city or town which accepts this section in the manner provided in section six D may appropriate money for the removal of snow and ice from such private ways within its limits and open to the public use as may be designated by the city council or selectmen; provided, that, for the purposes of section twenty-five of chapter eighty-four, the removal of snow or ice from such a way shall not constitute a repair of a way.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 5 cases, 1979–1994 · leading case: Casagrande v. Town Clerk of Harvard, 387 N.E.2d 571 (Mass. 1979).

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Casagrande v. Town Clerk of Harvard, 387 N.E.2d 571 (Mass. 1979). · cites it 2× “See G.L.c. 40, §§ 6C, 6D (town may remove ice and snow from private ways open *709 to public use).”

Rivers v. Town of Warwick, 641 N.E.2d 1062 (Mass. App. Ct. 1994). “Indeed, towns that have accepted the provisions of G. L. c. 40, § 6C, 6 are expressly authorized to do snow removal on private ways open to the public, and more extensive upkeep of private ways can be found to be expenditures for a public purpose if done for the benefit of the…”

Casagrande v. Town Clerk of Harvard, 387 N.E.2d 571 (Mass. 1979). · cites it 2× “See G. L. c. 40, §§ 6C, 6D (town may remove ice and snow from private ways open *709 to public use).”

Bruggeman v. McMullen, 526 N.E.2d 1338 (Mass. App. Ct. 1988). · cites it 2× “The sole basis upon which the defendants claimed before the Land Court the right to move commercial traffic from their unregistered land over Midway Avenue is that the town of Brewster, by undertaking to remove snow and ice from Midway Avenue pursuant to G. L. c. 40, §§ 6C and…”

Gallagher v. City of Medford, 1988 Mass. App. Div. 58 (Mass. Dist. Ct., App. Div. 1988). “84, § 25, the defendant’s remaining argument, that its voluntary street cleaning, snow removal and pothole repairs were designed only to insure the safe passage of emergency medical, fire and police vehicles on Baxter Street, simply begs the question at issue.”

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