Planning boards and their officers and agents may, as far as they deem it necessary in carrying out the subdivision control law, enter upon any lands and there make examinations and surveys and place and maintain monuments and marks.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 41, § 81CC
Powers of planning boards; entry on lands
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