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Section 1 - Duties; Jurisdiction to Enforce - Section 1. Every common carrier of merchandise or other property...
Section 2 - Penalty - Section 2. Every such carrier who wilfully neglects or refuses...
Section 3 - Limitations Upon Liability Imposed by Carrier - Section 3. No common carrier of passengers shall, by rule,...
Section 4 - Security Required of Employee to Indemnify Against Neglect; Penalty - Section 4. A corporation engaged in carrying passengers or in...
Section 5 - Foreign Express Businesses; Appointment of General Agent - Section 5. Every association of persons who are not inhabitants...
Section 6 - Foreign Express Businesses; General Agent's Bond - Section 6. Such general agent shall give bond to the...
Section 7 - Foreign Express Businesses; Failure of Agent to Comply With Secs. 5 and 6; Penalty - Section 7. No person shall act for more than thirty...
Section 8 - Protection of Carriers; Misuse of Orders; Penalty - Section 8. Whoever, with intent to defraud or injure in...
Section 9 - Express Business Upon Steamboat Lines; Application of Provisions Relating to Railroads - Section 9. Sections one hundred and ninety-three, two hundred and...
Section 10 - Enforcement of Chapter by Department of Telecommunications and Cable and Department of Public Utilities - Section 10. The department of telecommunications and cable shall enforce...
Section 11 - Record of Action by Department - Section 11. Every vote, recommendation and order of the department...
Section 12 - Services Supervised and Regulated by Department - Section 12. The department shall, so far as may be...
Section 12e - Third Party Verification Service Providers; Registration - Section 12E. (a) (1) A company that provides third party...
Section 13 - Inquiry Into Rates, Etc. - Section 13. The department may inquire into the rates, charges,...
Section 14 - Unjust Rates, Fares or Charges; Orders to Fix; Orders for Reparation - Section 14. Whenever the department shall be of opinion, after...
Section 15 - Free Service, Tickets, Passes or Transportation Prohibited; Exceptions - Section 15. Except as provided by section two hundred of...
Section 16 - Regulations, Practices, Equipment, Appliances or Service of Carrier; Department Control, Hearing and Order; Proof of Compliance - Section 16. If the department is of opinion, after a...
Section 16a - Factors in Ordering Discontinuance or Abandonment of Railway Service - Section 16A. The department before authorizing any railroad to discontinue...
Section 17 - Charges for Service; Regulation - Section 17. All charges made, demanded or received by any...
Section 18 - Classes of Rates Established by Carrier; Special Rates - Section 18. Subject to the powers of the department to...
Section 19 - Filing of Rate Schedules - Section 19. Every common carrier shall file with the department...
Section 19a - Directory Assistance Rate Schedules - Section 19A. The department may approve a rate, fare, toll...
Section 19b - Automatic Telephone Dialing Systems; Definition - Section 19B. As used in sections nineteen C and nineteen...
Section 19c - Notification of Wish Not to Receive Calls From Automatic Telephone Dialing System - Section 19C. Any person who is a customer of a...
Section 19d - Design and Operation of Automatic Telephone Dialing Systems - Section 19D. Any automatic telephone dialing system sold in the...
Section 19e - Solicitations by Telephone; Required Disclosures; Misrepresentation - Section 19E. No person shall solicit a sale or order...
Section 19f - Posting Rates, Terms and Conditions of Retail Services on Website; Department Notification of Changes - Section 19F. (a) Notwithstanding section 19, a common carrier furnishing...
Section 20 - Notice and Hearing Upon Proposed Rate Schedule Changes; Order - Section 20. Whenever the department receives notice of any changes...
Section 21 - Establishment of Through Routes for Passengers and Freight - Section 21. Wherever there is no satisfactory through route for...
Section 22 - Railway Signals Required by Department - Section 22. The department may from time to time require...
Section 23 - Notice to Railway of Recommended Improvements and Changes - Section 23. If the department is of opinion that repairs...
Section 24 - Hearing Upon Complaint Concerning Service or Rates of Carrier Transmitting Intelligence by Electricity - Section 24. Upon written complaint, relative to the service or...
Section 25 - Hearings; Notice to Interested Members of General Court - Section 25. The department shall give seasonable notice by mail...
Section 26 - Valuation and Revaluation of Carrier's Property - Section 26. The department may investigate and determine the fair...
Section 27 - Inspections - Section 27. The department may, either through its members or...
Section 28 - Notice of Accidents - Section 28. Every railroad corporation, railway company and carrier of...
Section 29 - Investigation of Accidents - Section 29. An inspector shall, under the direction of the...
Section 30 - Defects; Information by Employee; Protection of Source - Section 30. An employee may make written complaint to the...
Section 31 - Forms of Accounts, Records and Memoranda - Section 31. The department may, from time to time, prescribe...
Section 32 - Annual Return; Form; Time of Filing; Amendment - Section 32. The department shall prescribe the forms for the...
Section 33 - Express Business; Annual Return - Section 33. Every person doing an express business upon either...
Section 34 - Examination of Books, etc.; Subpoena Duces Tecum - Section 34. The department, through its commissioners or by employees...
Section 34a - Supervision of Companies Affiliated With Carrier - Section 34A. (a) The department shall have general supervision of...
Section 35 - Examination of Condition of Company on Request of Interested Party - Section 35. Upon the written application of a director, or...
Section 36 - Annual Audit - Section 36. The department may provide for an annual audit...
Section 37 - Service of Orders of Department; Notification of Receipt and Acceptance - Section 37. Every order of the department shall be served...
Section 38 - Effect of Request or Advice of Department - Section 38. No request or advice of the department shall...
Section 39 - Violations; Action by Attorney General - Section 39. If in the judgment of the department any...
Section 40 - Violations or Threatened Violations; Mandamus or Injunction - Section 40. Whenever the department is of opinion that a...
Section 41 - Representation at Hearings Concerning Proposed Legislation Affecting Department - Section 41. The department may be represented at any public...
Section 43 - Annual Report of Department - Section 43. The department shall make an annual report including...
Section 44 - Examinations or Audits by Department; Divulging Information; Penalty - Section 44. Any employee or agent of the department who...
Section 50 - Offer of New Capital Stock to Stockholders; Notice; Price; Time of Acceptance - Section 50. Any corporation which owns or operates a railroad,...
Section 51 - Auction of New Capital Stock - Section 51. If such increase does not exceed four per...
Section 52 - Basis of Determination by Department as to Amount of New Capital Stock - Section 52. The determination by the department, under the provisions...
Section 53 - Computation of Amount of Capital Stock as Basis for Bond Issue - Section 53. In computing the amount of capital stock of...
Section 54 - Approval by Department; Public Hearing - Section 54. A lease or purchase and sale of the...
Section 57 - Consent of Department - Section 57. A railway shall not be constructed across the...
Section 58 - Supervision of Crossing Following Consent of Department - Section 58. In any case in which the consent or...
Section 59 - Proceedings to Alter Crossing - Section 59. If a public way and a railroad cross...
Section 60 - Eminent Domain - Section 60. If it is decided that the location of...
Section 61 - Party to Carry Award Into Effect and to Pay Charges - Section 61. A commission of three disinterested persons, appointed as...
Section 62 - Appointment of Commission; Hearing; Notice - Section 62. Unless the parties in interest agree as provided...
Section 63 - Revision of Award; Jury - Section 63. A party aggrieved by said award may, within...
Section 64 - Recovery After Alteration of Proportion of Expense - Section 64. The party designated for that duty, having carried...
Section 65 - Proceedings to Abolish Grade Crossings - Section 65. The department of highways shall proceed to make...
Section 70 - Manner and Limits of Grade Crossing Abolitions; Costs; Apportionment - Section 70. The department of highways shall proceed to consider...
Section 72 - Crossing Abolished Upon State Highway; Clear View - Section 72. Whenever a grade crossing is abolished upon a...
Section 73 - Financing Cost of Abolishing Crossing by Street Railway Company - Section 73. The amount of any expenditure under section eighty...
Section 74 - Change of Location - Section 74. If in an order of abolition under section...
Section 75 - Damages - Section 75. All damages sustained by any person in his...
Section 76 - Settlement of Claims; Failure to File Petition - Section 76. In any case arising under the preceding section,...
Section 77 - Expenses of Maintenance and Repair - Section 77. After the completion of the work, the expense...
Section 78 - Audit of Expenses; Investigations; Orders of Payment of Apportioned Share - Section 78. All accounts of expense incurred by the railroad...
Section 79 - Enforcement; Review - Section 79. The superior court shall have jurisdiction in equity...
Section 80 - Proceedings Upon Agreement as to Alterations - Section 80. If the board of aldermen of a city...
Section 82 - Application - Section 82. Sections fifty-nine to sixty-four, inclusive, of this chapter...
Section 83 - Examination by Railways; Report; Submission of Plans for Bridge - Section 83. Every railroad corporation and railway company shall, upon...
Section 84 - Maintenance and Repair; Hearing; Order - Section 84. If the county commissioners of a county, the...
Section 85 - Enforcement - Section 85. If railroad corporations, railway companies, counties, cities, towns,...
Section 86 - Formation of Relief Corporation - Section 86. Seven or more persons, a majority of whom...
Section 87 - By-Laws; Statements of Membership and Financial Condition - Section 87. The by-laws of such corporation shall be approved...
Section 88 - Association of Railroad Corporation With Relief Corporations - Section 88. A railroad corporation operating a railroad or portion...
Section 92 - Badges - Section 92. Special police officers appointed by the colonel of...
Section 93 - Powers - Section 93. Railroad, railway, railway express or steamboat police officers...
Section 94 - Arrest of Offenders - Section 94. The person so arrested by railroad, railway or...
Section 95 - Compensation of Police; Liability for Misconduct of Police - Section 95. Railroad, railway, railway express and steamboat police officers...
Section 96 - Action for Debt Due for Constructing a Railroad - Section 96. A person to whom a debt is due...
Section 97 - Exception; Contractor - Section 97. A person who has contracted to construct the...
Section 98 - Notice of Intention by Materialman; Filing; Fee - Section 98. A person shall not have such right of...
Section 99 - Statement of Amount Due for Labor Performed; Filing; Fee - Section 99. A person shall not have such right of...
Section 100 - Limitation of Actions - Section 100. Such action shall not be maintained unless begun...
Section 101 - Evasion of Payment of Toll or Fare - Section 101. (a) Whoever fraudulently evades or attempts to evade...
Section 102 - Designation of Torpedoes or Other Explosives - Section 102. No railroad corporation or railway company or any...
Section 103 - Injury to Signals, Tracks, Cars, Etc. - Section 103. Whoever unlawfully and intentionally injures, molests or destroys...
Section 104 - Throwing or Shooting Missiles - Section 104. Whoever wilfully throws or shoots a missile at...
Section 105 - Application - Section 105. The jurisdiction, powers, authority and discretion delegated to...