{"data":{"id":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-139-1","jurisdiction":"us-ma","citation":"Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 139, § 1","heading":"Orders adjudging burnt or dangerous buildings, structures or vacant land to be nuisances; notice, hearing and service of copy of order","body":"Section 1. The aldermen or selectmen in any city or town may, after written notice to the owner of a burnt, dilapidated or dangerous building or other structure, or his authorized agent, or to the owner of a vacant parcel of land, and after a hearing, make and record an order adjudging it to be a nuisance to the neighborhood, or dangerous, and prescribing its disposition, alteration or regulation. The city or town clerk shall deliver a copy of the order to an officer qualified to serve civil process, who shall forthwith serve an attested copy thereof in the manner prescribed in section one hundred and twenty-four of chapter one hundred and eleven, and make return to said clerk of his doings thereon.","path":["Part I","Title XX","Chapter 139"],"source_url":"https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXX/Chapter139/Section1","current_through":"amendments passed before May 31, 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T05:23:16Z","sha256":"a1e5d0720178c49cb34b77cdcf12afa62f5e610ade4c16e1582f8ffbc568957c","source_id":"us-ma","stale":false,"prev":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-138-80to89","next":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-139-2"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}