Massachusetts General Laws
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 84, § 13 (2026)
Refusal or neglect of proprietor or occupant to comply with vote
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Section 13. A proprietor or occupant who refuses or neglects to comply with such vote, when required by the surveyor, shall be liable to him in contract for the amount of his proportion, with ten per cent interest thereon. If a person chosen clerk or surveyor under the preceding section refuses or neglects to accept that trust and take the oath, he shall forfeit five dollars. Damages and forfeitures recovered under this section shall be applied to the use of the proprietors for repairing said way or bridge.
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case, 1996–1996 · leading case: Rasnick v. Herring, 6 Mass. L. Rptr. 161 (Mass. Super. Ct. 1996).
Rasnick v. Herring, 6 Mass. L. Rptr. 161 (Mass. Super. Ct. 1996). “The condition precedent of a proprietors’ “vote” is underscored by G.L.c. 84, §13 which pegs a non-paying proprietor’s liability in contract to his “refus[al] or neglect to comply with such vote.”
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