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PART I. ADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT

TITLE XIV. PUBLIC WAYS AND WORKS

CHAPTER 82. THE LAYING OUT, ALTERATION, RELOCATION AND DISCONTINUANCE OF PUBLIC WAYS, AND SPECIFIC REPAIRS THEREON

PROCEDURE OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS IN RESPECT
TO TOWN WAYS AND PRIVATE WAYS

Chapter 82: Section 32B. Taking slope easement to protect ways

Section 32B. Wherever in this chapter or in any city charter a board of officers is authorized to take land by eminent domain under chapter seventy-nine, in connection with the laying out, widening, altering or relocating of a public way, such board of officers shall be authorized to take an easement in land adjoining the location of the public way consisting of a right to have the land of the location protected by having the surface of such adjoining land slope from the boundary of the location.