Massachusetts Code — 49
Browse 41 sections in division 49 of the Massachusetts code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 1. Fence viewers; appointment; tenure
- § 2. Definition of fences
- § 3. Maintenance of partition fences
- § 4. Failure to maintain partition fence; proceedings by adjoining occupant
- § 5. Remedy for repair of deficient fence
- § 6. Disputes regarding repairs; arbitration
- § 7. Remedy for repair of deficient fence assigned by fence viewers
- § 8. Remedy for repairing more than just share of partition fence
- § 9. Construction and maintenance of fences between lands divided by a river
- § 10. Fences on lands owned in severalty and occupied in common; construction
- § 11. Maintenance of fences surrounding land laying common
- § 12. Purchase of rights in fence
- § 13. Enclosing of formerly unenclosed land; liability of owner; exception
- § 14. Boundary disputes
- § 15. Rebuilding of fence on true boundary; duties of adjoining owners
- § 16. Fence viewers; jurisdiction where fence is on town boundary
- § 17. Water fences
- § 18. Fence viewers; powers
- § 19. Penalty for misfeasance
- § 20. Fees
- § 21. Fences deemed a private nuisance; right of action
- § 22. Pounds; establishment; appointment of keeper
- § 23. Pounds; penalty for injuring
- § 24. Duties of field driver; taking up untended animals
- § 25. Duties of keeper; impounding of untended animals
- § 26. Fees of field driver and pound keeper
- § 27. Payment of fees
- § 28. Use of premises of field driver for keeping impounded animals; conditions
- § 29. Remedies for damage done by untended animals
- § 30. Care of distrained animals
- § 31. Duties of distrainor
- § 32. Release of distrained animals; conditions
- § 33. Notice of impounding
- § 34. Publication of notice of impounding
- § 35. Determination of amount of damages in dispute
- § 36. Procedure for settlement of claim
- § 37. Sale of animals to satisfy claim
- § 38. Disposition of proceeds
- § 39. Escaped or rescued animals; right to retake
- § 40. Penalty for rescuing distrained animals
- § 41. Rights of owner in distress proceedings