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f <br /> BOUNDARIES OF CITIES AND TOWNS 42 § 1 <br /> ,i <br /> § 1. Seaward boundary <br /> .1< The seaward boundary of cities and towns bordering on the open sea shall <br /> coincide with the marine boundary of the commonwealth. The boundary lines <br /> in tide water between adjacent coastal municipalities, as located and defined by <br /> xperiment or Instruction the board of harbor and land commissioners under chapter one hundred and <br /> ninety-six of the acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-one, except in so far as the <br /> boundary lines so located and defined purported to vary boundary lines in tide <br /> water between municipalities theretofore established by the general court, <br /> together with such boundary lines theretofore so established, as such boundary <br /> WNS lines have been subsequently changed by the general court or defined by <br /> decrees of the land court, with such additions to or subtractions from the length <br /> thereof as have been made by natural changes in the shore line of the <br /> lation; copy of records to commonwealth, are hereby confirmed and established as the legal boundary <br /> lines in tide water between said adjacent municipalities; provided, that such <br /> I boundary lines shall hereafter be changed from time to time to conform to any <br /> change in said shore line. <br /> bns; notice to contiguous Amended by St.1933,c.278,§ 3. <br /> 1. <br /> Historical and Statutory Notes <br /> St.1881,c. 196,§ 1. <br /> P.S.1882,c.27,§ 2. <br /> R.L.1902,c.25,§ 1. <br /> i <br /> St.1933,c. 278,§ 3,approved June 21, 1933, of the commonwealth as defined in section <br /> i rewrote the section, which prior thereto read: three of chapter one." <br /> "The boundary line of towns bordering upon <br /> the sea shall coincide with the marine boundary <br /> irch <br /> Cross References <br /> law allows you to <br /> Boundaries of nats,see c,240,§ 19 et seq. <br /> n Duty of department of highways to prepare maps showing boundaries of cities and towns,see c.81, <br /> Jurisdictional boundaries,see c. 131,§ 4. <br /> rferences to a case Marine boundaries of commonwealth,see c, 1,§ 3, <br /> Seaward boundaries of coastal counties,see c.34,§ 1. <br /> -esearch, see the Westlaw Venue of crimes near seaward boundary,see c.277,§ 57. <br /> i Library References <br /> ' Municipal Corporations«25. C.J.S. Municipal Corporations §§ 37, 41 to <br /> Towns e-4. 43. <br /> Westlaw Topic Nos.268,381. C.J.S.Towns N 10, 13 to 14, 16. <br /> lws Annotated have <br /> Research References <br /> Treatises and Practice Aids 18A Mass. Prac. Series § 17.29, Flood Plain, <br /> es 18 Mass.Prac.Series§ 1.2,Boundaries, Wetlands and Tidal Areas. <br /> 3 <br />