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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 84, § 14 (2026)

Financing repairs

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Section 14. The proprietors and occupants may, at a meeting for that purpose, authorize any person to contract for making and keeping in repair such private way or bridge, may vote to raise such amount as they consider necessary for carrying such contracts into effect; and may choose assessors, who shall assess each proprietor and occupant for his proportion of such amount according to his interest in such way or bridge, and shall deliver the lists of such assessments to the surveyor, with proper warrants of distress, in substance as is prescribed by law for collection of town taxes, and the surveyor may levy and collect such taxes in the same manner as collectors of taxes are empowered to collect taxes. If a surveyor neglects or refuses to pay over according to the direction of his warrant the moneys so collected, he shall be liable to such proprietors or occupants in contract for the amount collected, together with twenty per cent interest in addition thereto.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases, 1961–1996 · leading case: Brown v. Metro. Transit Auth., 171 N.E.2d 869 (Mass. 1961).
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Brown v. Metro. Transit Auth., 171 N.E.2d 869 (Mass. 1961). “He found that no notice was given under G. L. c. 84, § 14. This is an obvious error for § 21.”
Rasnick v. Herring, 6 Mass. L. Rptr. 161 (Mass. Super. Ct. 1996). · cites it 2× “In like manner, G.L.c. 84, §14 permits the proprietors to contract for the repair of ways or bridges, to raise amounts to fund such contracts and to assess each proprietor a proportionate share of those amounts, all of which functions are prospective.”
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