Town of Dalton, MA
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2022-05-02
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Part I: Bylaws
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Chapter 284 Streets and Sidewalks
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Article II Acceptance of Ways
- Part I: Bylaws
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 7 Advertisements
- Ch 12 Affordable Housing
- Ch 18 Alcoholic Beverages and Marijuana
- Ch 23 Animals
- Ch 30 Assessors
- Ch 42 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 48 Burning, Open
- Ch 52 Business Registration
- Ch 62 Conservation Commission
- Ch 67 Council on Aging
- Ch 82 Elections
- Ch 85 Emergency Management
- Ch 88 False Alarms
- Ch 90 Farm and Forestry Commission
- Ch 92 Fees
- Ch 97 Finance Committee
- Ch 100 Finances
- Ch 131 Illicit Discharge Detection and Elimination
- Ch 134 Junk and Secondhand Dealers
- Ch 145 Legal Affairs
- Ch 150 Licensing
- Ch 156 Littering
- Ch 169 Mobile Home Park Rent Control Board
- Ch 185 Noise
- Ch 195 Parks and Recreation Areas
- Ch 200 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 206 Personnel Policies
- Ch 211 Planning Board
- Ch 246 Seal
- Ch 252 Sewers
- Ch 270 Solid Waste
- Ch 280 Stormwater Management and Erosion Control
- Ch 284 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 284 Art II Acceptance of Ways
- § 284-6 Acceptance criteria.
- § 284-7 Certification and layout required.
- § 284-8 Betterments and assessments.
- Ch 285 Stretch Energy Code
- Ch 290 (Reserved)
- Ch 296 Taxation
- Ch 300 Thin Film Plastic Bag Reduction
- Ch 309 Town Meetings
- Ch 316 Trespassing
- Ch 327 Vehicles, Removal of
- Ch 333 Vehicles, Unregistered or Junk
- Ch 340 Wetlands Protection
- Ch 350 Zoning
- Part II: Select Board Regulations
- Ch 401 Taxicabs
- Ch 402 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 403 Excavations
- Ch 403A Excavation and Trench Safety
- Ch 404 Fuel-Efficient Vehicle Policy
- Part III: Planning Board Regulations
- Ch 501 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 502 Scenic Roads
- Part IV: Board of Health Regulations
- Ch 601 Communicable Diseases
- Ch 603 Sewers
- Ch 604 Solid Waste
- Ch 605 Tobacco Products
- Ch 606 Well Regulations
- Ch 607 Outdoor Woodburning Furnaces
- Part V: Additional Regulations
- Ch 701 Cemetery Rules and Regulations
- Ch 702 Hawkers, Peddlers and Transient Merchants
- Appendix
- Ch A801 General Law Acceptances and Special Acts
- Ch A802 Town Manager
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
A private way which has not been approved by
the Planning Board, pursuant to the Subdivision Control Law,[1] shall not be accepted as a public way unless it is at
least 49 1/2 feet in width and at a grade approved by the Select
Board and with sidewalks, streetlights, surface drains, sanitary sewers,
water mains and septic tanks as specified by the Planning Board. The
same shall be installed in a manner approved by the Select Board and
the Water Commissioners of the Dalton Fire District.
Certification and layout by the Select Board
shall be a condition precedent to acceptance by the Town of any new
street, which certification shall be made after said Select Board
has received, in writing, a statement from the Planning Board that
its requirements have been complied with.
In the case of any streets accepted which lack any of the facilities as covered under § 284-6 above, for which betterments and/or assessments may under any law or statute be imposed, they shall be subject to and betterments and/or assessments shall be imposed if and when any of the said facilities or improvements are made or installed.
