[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Meeting of the Town of Carver as Ch. 7 of the 2015 Compilation. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The Town may make such temporary repairs on such private roads within the Town as the Select Board and Department of Public Works shall jointly deem necessary, provided, however, that:
A. 
Such repairs shall be only to the extent required as determined by the DPW;
B. 
Drainage may be included when deemed necessary by the DPW;
C. 
Such repairs shall be made only when required by public necessity as determined by the Select Board and DPW jointly;
D. 
No repairs shall be made unless at least 60% of the abutters to the way shall petition in writing the Select Board or the DPW;
E. 
No betterment charges shall be assessed unless authorized by vote of an Annual Town Meeting;
F. 
The Town shall not be liable on account of damages caused by such repairs;
G. 
No repairs shall be made to any private way unless the way shall have been opened to public use for six years prior to the date of petition for repair, unless the Select Board and DPW determine that the public safety requires such repairs; and
H. 
No cash deposit shall be required for said repairs.
Pursuant to MGL c. 40, § 6N, the Town shall make repairs to private ways in the Town of Carver only if all the following requirements are first met:
A. 
The repair to the road surface shall consist only of grading and leveling and patching with bituminous concrete, recovered asphalt paving, or processed gravel.
B. 
The repair may include drainage improvements.
C. 
No repair or drainage improvement shall be made until the Board of Public Works Commissioners has first voted as to declare the particular repair a public necessity; provided, however, that no betterment or cash deposit shall be assessed or required for a repair so declared, and there shall be no requirement of petition for abutters to the particular private way to be repaired.
D. 
No repair shall be made of any land except with express written permission from the owner thereof, unless such owner is not determinable on the records of the Assessors, and the Town shall not be liable for damages caused by such repair.
E. 
No private way shall be repaired unless said way has expressly refused to accept shall accept be eligible for repair hereunder.
F. 
The Town shall have no duty to repair a private way and such repairs shall be subject to the appropriation of funds therefor by Town Meeting.
[pursuant to MGL c. 40, § 21(1)]
A. 
No private street shall be accepted by the Town as a public way unless all of the following conditions have been met:
(1) 
The way shall have a minimum pavement width of not less than 24 feet for its entire length;
(2) 
The way shall be shown on a definitive plan endorsed by the Planning Board, and shall be actually constructed in accordance with the specifications of the definitive plan approval; and
(3) 
The way shall have been completed in accordance with said definitive plan for a period of at least 12 months, in order to ensure that the way may withstand severe winter weather.
B. 
Notwithstanding the above, the Town Meeting may accept as a public way a way that does not meet all of the conditions set forth above, upon recommendation, by a majority vote, from the Planning Board to waive such condition(s).
[pursuant to MGL c. 40, § 21(1)]
No driveway shall be constructed in such a way as to interfere with the normal flow of traffic or the drainage on any public way. In the event that said driveway has been so constructed that there exists an unsafe condition or a condition which, if not corrected, might cause or permit damage to the pavement or the drainage system of the public road, the Select Board shall give written notice to the owner of the property, stating a reasonable time within which said defect shall be corrected. In the event that the owner does not comply with said notice, the Town may take reasonable steps to correct the defect at the expense of the owner.