Massachusetts. Highway Department

St 1919, c 350, ss 111-116 established the Dept. of Public Works, superseding the Massachusetts Highway Commission and the Commission on Waterways and Public Lands. The department was organized into a Division of Highways and a Division of Waterways and Public Lands. These divisions were consolidated pursuant to St 1927, c 297, which reorganized the department. A separate Division of Waterways was reestablished per St 1938, c 407. A Division of Public Beaches was established per St 1953, c 666, but it was abolished and its functions absorbed by the Division of Waterways per St 1958, c 640, ss 1-6 (from which they were then transferred to the Division of Forests and Parks in the Dept. of Natural Resources per St 1968, c 501, ss 1, 5-6)

Per St 1959, c 416, the Mass Transportation Commission was established within the department and abolished per St 1964, c 636, s 12. St 1963, c 821 again reorganized the department under the supervision and control of the Public Works Commission, adding divisions of administrative services, highway engineering, highway construction, and highway maintenance. St 1964, c 563, s 1 added a Bureau of Transportation Planning and Development.

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