Massachusetts General Laws
Title XXII - Corporations
Chapter 160 - Railroads

Section 17 - Application for Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity - Section 17. After compliance with the provisions of sections thirteen...

Section 18 - Map; Engineer's Report - Section 18. The directors shall prepare a map of the...

Section 20 - Fixing of Route by Local Officials; Certificate Fee - Section 20. If the board of aldermen of a city...

Section 21 - Fixing of Route by Department Upon Failure to Agree - Section 21. If they fail so to agree, the directors...

Section 22 - Spurs, Branches and Connecting and Terminal Tracks - Section 22. The route fixed under the two preceding sections...

Section 23 - Certificate of Facts of Subscription - Section 23. When the amount of capital stock named in...

Section 24 - Certificate of Compliance; Filing; Certificate of Incorporation - Section 24. When it is shown to the satisfaction of...

Section 25 - Change in Amount of Capital Stock; Change of Gauge - Section 25. If the capital stock fixed in the agreement...

Section 26 - Limit Upon Time to Acquire Certificate of Incorporation - Section 26. The agreement of association, and all proceedings thereunder,...

Section 27 - Limit Upon Time to Construct Railroad - Section 27. If a corporation does not begin the construction...

Section 28 - Narrow Gauge Railroads; Paid-Up Capital Stock - Section 28. A corporation which has a railroad of the...

Section 29 - First Meeting of Incorporators; Notice; Waiver of Notice - Section 29. Upon the issue of such certificate of incorporation,...

Section 30 - Adoption of By-Laws; Election of Directors - Section 30. At such first meeting, or at any adjournment...

Section 31 - Managing Officers - Section 31. The business of every corporation shall be managed...

Section 32 - Selection of Officers; Treasurer's Bond; Clerk's Qualifications and Duties; Terms of Office; Vacancies - Section 32. The directors shall be elected annually by the...

Section 33 - Stockholders' Meeting - Section 33. There shall be an annual meeting of the...

Section 34 - Special Meetings - Section 34. A special meeting of the stockholders shall be...

Section 35 - Voting by Corporation Upon Its Own Stock - Section 35. A railroad corporation shall not, directly or indirectly,...

Section 36 - Voting Rights of Stockholders - Section 36. Stockholders entitled to vote shall have one vote...

Section 37 - Meetings of Directors - Section 37. Meetings of the board of directors may be...

Section 38 - Certificate - Section 38. Each stockholder shall be entitled to a certificate,...

Section 39 - Assessment; Failure to Pay Assessment - Section 39. The directors may from time to time assess...

Section 40 - Collection of Assessment - Section 40. If a subscriber neglects to pay his assessment...

Section 41 - Increase of Capital Stock; Purposes - Section 41. A railroad corporation, for the purpose of building...

Section 42 - Corporation Consolidated With One in Another State; Unauthorized Capital Stock Increase - Section 42. If a railroad corporation owning a railroad in...

Section 43 - Issue of Preferred Stock - Section 43. A railroad corporation organized under the laws of...

Section 44 - Designation of Preferred Stock; Filing of Record of Proceedings; Contents of Certificate - Section 44. Each class of preferred stock issued under authority...

Section 45 - Voting Power of Preferred Stock; Amount of Stock - Section 45. Any preferred stock issued under authority of section...

Section 46 - Offer of Preferred Stock to Common Shareholders - Section 46. Upon any issue of preferred stock the new...

Section 47 - Issue of Shares, Bonds, Notes or Other Evidences of Indebtedness - Section 47. A railroad corporation may issue shares of capital...

Section 48 - Approval by Department of Issue - Section 48. Before any railroad corporation shall issue any shares...

Section 49 - Exchange for Registered Bonds - Section 49. At the request of the owner or holder...

Section 50 - Validity - Section 50. All bonds or notes issued by a railroad...

Section 51 - Default on Mortgage; Contract to Allow Those in Possession to Operate - Section 51. If a railroad corporation, having executed a mortgage...

Section 52 - Trustees in Possession of Railroad; Annual Meeting - Section 52. Trustees in possession of a railroad under a...

Section 53 - Trustees in Possession of Railroad; Election and Confirmation of Trustees - Section 53. At the annual meeting held under the preceding...

Section 54 - Trustees in Possession of Railroad; Jurisdiction of Supreme Judicial Court - Section 54. The supreme judicial court shall have jurisdiction in...

Section 55 - Purchaser Under Foreclosure - Section 55. A purchaser of a railroad at a sale...

Section 56 - Necessity of Payment of Par for Shares; Limit Upon Capital Stock - Section 56. A railroad corporation shall not declare any stock...

Section 57 - Liability for Issuing Void Stock - Section 57. A certificate of stock or scrip issued in...

Section 58 - Use of Each Other's Railroad - Section 58. If a railroad constructed after April eighth, eighteen...

Section 59 - Service Provided to Other Railroad; Compensation - Section 59. If two corporations are authorized as in the...

Section 60 - Rates for Services for Connecting Company - Section 60. If the corporations cannot agree upon the stated...

Section 61 - Foreign Railroads' Privilege as Connecting Road - Section 61. A railroad corporation created by the laws of...

Section 62 - Lease by One Connecting Railroad to the Other - Section 62. Two railroad corporations, incorporated under the laws of...

Section 63 - Term of Lease - Section 63. A railroad corporation shall not lease or contract...

Section 64 - Taking Securities of Other Corporations - Section 64. A railroad corporation, unless authorized by the general...

Section 65 - Telegraph Company Stock - Section 65. A railroad corporation may hold stock in a...

Section 65a - Holding Stock in Railroad Car and Equipment Companies - Section 65A. A railroad corporation may hold stock in companies...

Section 65b - Real Estate, Warehouse, Industrial Facility, and Industrial Development Companies Stock - Section 65B. A railroad corporation may hold stock in real...

Section 66 - Guaranty of Steamship Company Bonds - Section 66. A railroad corporation may guarantee, to an amount...

Section 67 - Associate in Formation of Grain Elevator Corporation - Section 67. A railroad corporation may become an associate under...

Section 68 - Acquisition, Retention, Sale or Guarantee of Other's Bonds or Notes - Section 68. A corporation owning a railroad connecting with another...

Section 69 - Powers of Railroad Corporations; Aid in Construction of Branch or Connecting Railroads - Section 69. A railroad corporation may aid in the construction...

Section 70 - Terminal, Express and Subsidiary Companies; Interest of Railroads in Stock and Securities - Section 70. A railroad corporation may acquire, hold, vote, sell...

Section 70a - Steamship Companies, Ferries, Ferry Boats, Docks, Motor Vehicles and Aircraft - Section 70A. A railroad corporation may acquire, hold, maintain and...

Section 71 - Prohibition After 1907 - Section 71. No corporation owning, leasing or operating a railroad...

Section 72 - Application for Consolidation; Notice; Hearing; Determination - Section 72. The presidents, or a majority of the boards...

Section 73 - Rates and Facilities of Consolidated Railroads - Section 73. In case of any lease, purchase and sale...

Section 74 - Violations; Penalties - Section 74. A railroad corporation, which violates any provision of...

Section 75 - Determination of Method of Crossing Highways - Section 75. No railroad corporation shall purchase or take by...

Section 76 - Estimate of Cost; Subscription for Capital Stock; Certificate of Compliance - Section 76. No railroad corporation shall take by eminent domain...

Section 77 - Consent to Locate Within Three Miles of State House - Section 77. No railroad or part thereof which is operated...

Section 78 - Authorized Purchases - Section 78. A railroad corporation may purchase land for the...

Section 79 - Filing of Descriptions With Department - Section 79. The corporation may, within one year after it...

Section 80 - Proceedings to Fix Location of Land - Section 80. If a railroad corporation is not able to...

Section 81 - Change of Location - Section 81. If a railroad corporation is not able to...

Section 82 - Taking of Land - Section 82. After the location of the railroad has been...

Section 83 - Taking of Land for Purposes Other Than a Railroad - Section 83. If a railroad corporation requires land for any...

Section 84 - Lands or Rights of Other Railroads - Section 84. A railroad corporation may purchase, or take in...

Section 85 - Purposes for Change - Section 85. A railroad corporation, with the written approval of...

Section 86 - Change of Direction - Section 86. A railroad corporation, having taken land for its...

Section 87 - Limitation Upon Tax Exemption - Section 87. Land, outside the location of the railroad five...

Section 88 - Prescriptive Rights of Adjoining Landholders - Section 88. No length of possession or occupancy of land,...

Section 89 - Description of Locations of Railroads; Rules and Regulations - Section 89. The department shall, from time to time, prescribe...

Section 90 - Fencing of Railroad Property - Section 90. After a railroad corporation has taken land in...

Section 91 - Eminent Domain; Order Securing Landowners - Section 91. At the time of awarding damages to landowners...

Section 92 - Enforcement of Order Securing Landowners - Section 92. If the corporation neglects to comply with such...

Section 93 - Fences and Gates Along Length of Railroad - Section 93. Every railroad corporation shall erect and maintain suitable...

Section 93a - Fences Along Railroad Tracks in Cities and Towns - Section 93A. If the mayor of a city or the...

Section 94 - Recovery by Railroad From Person Required to Fence - Section 94. If a person other than a railroad corporation...

Section 95 - Grade Separation of Railroad Tracks by Agreement - Section 95. If two or more railroad corporations whose tracks...

Section 96 - Consent for One Railroad to Cross Another or to Cross Navigable Water - Section 96. A railroad shall not be constructed across another...

Section 97 - Highway Crossings; Obstructions; Grade Separations - Section 97. A railroad laid out across a public way...

Section 98 - Over-Passes and Under-Passes; Height - Section 98. If the railroad is constructed to pass over...

Section 99 - Material Used to Surface Bridges and Approaches - Section 99. Cities and towns may make agreements with railroad...

Section 100 - Alteration of Grade of Highway; Decree of County Commissioners; Security - Section 100. A railroad corporation may raise or lower a...

Section 101 - Alteration of Course of Highway; Decree of County Commissioners; Security; Eminent Domain - Section 101. A railroad corporation may alter the course of...

Section 102 - Level Grade Crossing of Highway - Section 102. If a railroad is laid out across a...

Section 103 - Level Grade Crossing; Rails Protected to Enable Easy Passage - Section 103. A railroad corporation whose railroad is crossed by...

Section 104 - Proceedings to Lay Out Public Way Across Railroad - Section 104. A public way may be laid out across...

Section 104a - Building, Equipment or Machinery Moving; Duty of Railroad; Reimbursement of Costs - Section 104A. Whenever a person wishes to move a building,...

Section 105 - Alteration of Course of Canal - Section 105. A railroad corporation may, with the consent of...

Section 106 - Remedy of Obstruction or for Failure to Repair - Section 106. If, upon application to the county commissioners by...

Section 107 - Construction and Repair of Bridges, Approaches and Abutments - Section 107. Every railroad corporation shall, except as provided in...

Section 108 - Jurisdiction of County Commissioners - Section 108. County commissioners shall have original jurisdiction of questions...

Section 109 - Separation of Private Land; Order of Commissioners Relative to Crossing - Section 109. If a railroad lawfully laid out through land...

Section 110 - Denial of Access to Private Land; Order for Crossing by Department - Section 110. If by the laying out of a railroad,...

Section 111 - Decisions of Commissioners; Appeal - Section 111. A party aggrieved by a decision or order...

Section 112 - Proceedings Perfecting Appeal - Section 112. The appellant, to perfect the appeal, shall, within...

Section 113 - Appeal; Hearing; Department's Powers - Section 113. The department shall hear the appeal in the...

Section 114 - Rights of Way Across Tracks by Prescription - Section 114. No right of way across any railroad track...

Section 115 - Construction; Additional Capital Stock; Certificate of Necessity and Convenience; Fee - Section 115. A railroad corporation, after having finished the construction...

Section 116 - Switch Connections With Private Interests - Section 116. A railroad corporation, upon the application of any...

Section 117 - Order for Switch Connection by Department - Section 117. If any railroad corporation fails to install or...

Section 118 - Certification by Department - Section 118. A railroad or branch or extension thereof shall...

Section 119 - Filing of Map and Profile, Tables of Grade and Curvature and Statement of Characteristics - Section 119. When a railroad or a branch or extension...

Section 120 - Draw Tender - Section 120. Every railroad corporation shall provide for each drawbridge...

Section 121 - Position of Bridge When Not in Use - Section 121. Every such drawbridge shall be kept closed at...

Section 122 - Passage of Vessels - Section 122. The master of a vessel applying to pass...

Section 123 - Signals Indicating Position of Bridge - Section 123. Every drawbridge shall be equipped with conspicuous day...

Section 124 - Gates - Section 124. The railroad corporation may erect, at a distance...

Section 125 - Precautions Taken by Engineer - Section 125. If a drawbridge is not furnished with such...

Section 126 - Violations; Penalty - Section 126. A railroad corporation which neglects to comply with...

Section 127 - Penalties - Section 127. Whoever violates any provisions of the seven preceding...

Section 127a - Drawbridges; Department; Exemption of Railroad From Compliance With Law - Section 127A. The department of telecommunications and energy may exempt...

Section 128 - Abandonment of Passenger Station - Section 128. A railroad corporation which has established and maintained...

Section 128a - Discontinuance of Passenger Service; Hearing; Notice; Decision of Department - Section 128A. A railroad corporation which has scheduled and operated...

Section 129 - Relocation of Passenger Stations and Freight Depots - Section 129. A railroad corporation may relocate passenger stations and...

Section 130 - Signs Indicating Way Stations - Section 130. Every railroad corporation shall indicate to its passengers...

Section 131 - Compensation for Use of Station, Railroad or Grounds of One Company by Another - Section 131. If one railroad corporation occupies or uses, or...

Section 131a - Application of Business Corporation to Acquire, Own and Operate Terminal Facilities; Notice; Hearing; Approval - Section 131A. Any corporation organized under chapter one hundred and...

Section 132 - Safety Switches - Section 132. Every switch laid in a railroad track used...

Section 133 - Protection of Employees; Blocking of Frogs, Switches and Guard Rails - Section 133. The frogs, switches and guard rails, except guard...

Section 133a - Switch Stands, Lighting - Section 133A. Every railroad corporation shall equip with proper lights...

Section 134 - Bridge Guards - Section 134. Whenever the department shall so order, every railroad...

Section 134a - Distance Between Sets of Tracks, Structures or Obstructions; Exemptions - Section 134A. Tracks in a yard or yard area owned...

Section 135 - Stopping of Trains at Grade Crossings - Section 135. If two railroads cross each other at the...

Section 136 - Grade Crossings; Rules and Regulations - Section 136. The department shall make general regulations for all...

Section 137 - Grade Crossings; Interlocking Signals - Section 137. The department may, on the application of a...

Section 138 - Warning to Public - Section 138. Every railroad corporation shall cause a bell of...

Section 138a - Warning Devices at Crossings - Section 138A. A railroad corporation whose railroad is crossed by...

Section 139 - Regulation by Department of Use of Warning Devices - Section 139. The department, upon petition, and after notice to...

Section 140 - Signs Protecting Public Ways - Section 140. Every railroad corporation shall cause boards, supported by...

Section 141 - Signs Protecting a Traveled Place - Section 141. The board of aldermen of a city or...

Section 142 - Signs Erected by Municipalities - Section 142. Every county, city and town shall, except as...

Section 143 - Signs Erected by Municipality; Duty to Supply - Section 143. Every railroad corporation shall, within four months after...

Section 144 - Release of Railroad or Municipality From Duty to Provide Signs - Section 144. When it appears that the placing of the...

Section 145 - Violations; Penalties - Section 145. If any county, city or town shall neglect,...

Section 146 - Damaging Warning Signs; Penalty - Section 146. Any person who unlawfully removes, throws down, injures...

Section 147 - Gates or Flashing Lights at Crossing of Railroad and Public Way - Section 147. Where a railroad and a public way or...

Section 147a - Reflectorizing of Signs, etc., at Crossings - Section 147A. All signs, signal posts, gates or other devices...

Section 148 - Failure to Erect Signs or Install Gates or Lights; Penalty - Section 148. A railroad corporation which unreasonably neglects to comply...

Section 149 - Signals at Crossing of Railroad Above Highway Level - Section 149. The department may require a railroad corporation whose...

Section 150 - Obstruction of View by Standing Wood; Petition for Removal; Payment for Damages - Section 150. If the view of a railroad crossing or...

Section 151 - Obstruction of Public Way by Railroad; Penalty - Section 151. A railroad corporation, or receiver or assignee thereof,...

Section 152 - Reasonable Use of Crossing; Regulation by Department - Section 152. Upon an application to the department, according to...

Section 153 - Type of Power Used to Operate - Section 153. A railroad corporation may operate its railroad by...

Section 154 - Brakes and Brakemen - Section 154. Every railroad corporation shall cause a sufficient brake...

Section 155 - Control of Brakes by Engineer; Inspection - Section 155. A railroad corporation, in moving traffic between points...

Section 156 - Safety Couplers on Freight Cars - Section 156. A railroad corporation shall cause to be placed...

Section 157 - Use of Car Not Equipped With Automatic Couplers - Section 157. A railroad corporation, in moving traffic between points...

Section 158 - Grab Irons - Section 158. A railroad corporation, in moving traffic between points...

Section 159 - Standard Height of Draw Bars for Freight Cars - Section 159. The standard height of draw bars for freight...

Section 160 - Violations; Penalty - Section 160. A railroad corporation which violates any provision of...

Section 161 - Trains Composed of Four-Wheel Cars; Application - Section 161. Sections one hundred and fifty-five and one hundred...

Section 162 - Extension of Time for Equipment - Section 162. The department may from time to time, after...

Section 163 - Tools and Devices Carried on Trains - Section 163. Every railroad corporation shall equip each of the...

Section 163a - Track Motor Cars; Windshield With Cleaning Device and Canopy - Section 163A. Every railroad corporation shall equip each of the...

Section 163b - Passenger Cars; Safety Windows and Doors - Section 163B. No railroad corporation shall operate a passenger car...

Section 165 - Passenger, Mail or Baggage Car; Heating Devices - Section 165. A passenger, mail or baggage car shall not...

Section 166 - Passenger Cars; Illuminating Oil or Fluid - Section 166. A passenger car on a railroad shall not...

Section 167 - Platform Gates - Section 167. Every passenger, baggage, mail and express car, equipped...

Section 168 - Testing of Locomotive Boilers, Rolling Stock or Other Equipment - Section 168. The department shall make and revise regulations for...

Section 169 - Vacuum Brakes; Mufflers - Section 169. A railroad corporation using any vacuum brake shall...

Section 170 - Safety Valves; Mufflers - Section 170. A railroad corporation using upon its locomotives a...

Section 171 - Failure to Equip With Mufflers; Penalty - Section 171. A corporation which violates any provision of the...

Section 172 - Reasonable Passenger Accommodations - Section 172. Every railroad corporation shall furnish reasonable accommodations for...

Section 172a - Drinking Water and Sanitary Toilet Facilities on Locomotives or Cabooses - Section 172A. Every railroad corporation shall equip each locomotive used...

Section 173 - Women or Children in Smoking Cars - Section 173. A railroad corporation shall not require women or...

Section 174 - Drinking Water in Railroad Cars - Section 174. Every railroad car, except private cars, sleeping cars,...

Section 175 - Failure to Provide Drinking Water; Penalty - Section 175. Violations of the preceding section shall be punished...

Section 176 - Other Necessary Appliances - Section 176. The department may require a railroad corporation to...

Section 176a - Track Motor Cars; Lights - Section 176A. Every railroad corporation shall equip each of its...

Section 177 - Caps and Badges - Section 177. Every railroad corporation shall provide a uniform hat...

Section 178 - Eye Examinations - Section 178. A railroad corporation shall not employ any person...

Section 179 - Engineer; Experience - Section 179. No person shall act as a locomotive engineer...

Section 180 - Conductor; Experience - Section 180. No person shall act as a conductor on...

Section 181 - Violations of Experience Requirements for Engineers and Conductors - Section 181. No person shall knowingly engage, promote, require, persuade,...

Section 182 - Experience of Engineer and Conductor; Exceptions - Section 182. The three preceding sections shall not apply to...

Section 183 - Penalty for Violation of Experience Requirements for Engineers and Conductors - Section 183. Any violation of any provision of the four...

Section 184 - Rest Days - Section 184. Every person employed as signalman, towerman, leverman, agent,...

Section 185 - Change in Number of Train Crew; Regulation by Department - Section 185. Whenever the department is of opinion, after a...

Section 186 - Determination by Railroad; Revision - Section 186. A railroad corporation may establish for its sole...

Section 187 - Reduction of Rates - Section 187. A railroad corporation may make contracts for the...

Section 188 - Extra Charges for Ticket Purchased at Place Other Than Ticket Office - Section 188. A railroad corporation shall not demand or receive...

Section 189 - Mileage Tickets; Detaching Coupons - Section 189. Every railroad corporation issuing mileage tickets shall, upon...

Section 190 - Commutation Tickets - Section 190. Every railroad corporation having a terminus in Boston,...

Section 191 - Season Tickets; Extension of Term - Section 191. All railroads issuing season tickets between points within...

Section 192 - Season Tickets; Reimbursement for Additional Fares - Section 192. All railroads issuing season tickets between points within...

Section 193 - Sale of Season Tickets to Express Messengers; Release of Liability for Personal Injury - Section 193. Every railroad corporation shall sell to an express...

Section 194 - Baggage Checks - Section 194. Every railroad corporation shall, upon request, give checks...

Section 195 - Baggage Stored Over Week End - Section 195. No charge shall be made by railroad corporations...

Section 196 - Transportation of Bicycles - Section 196. A railroad corporation which owns or operates a...

Section 197 - Cheap Morning and Evening Trains - Section 197. Every railroad corporation having a terminus in Boston...

Section 198 - Workingmen's Trains - Section 198. Every railroad corporation having a terminus in Boston...

Section 198a - Unauthorized Sale at Less Than Full Fare - Section 198A. Whoever, except a person authorized so to do...

Section 198b - Unauthorized Sale at Other Than Scheduled Rate - Section 198B. Whoever shall engage in the business of purchasing,...

Section 199 - Free Passes or Reduced Rates for Public Officials - Section 199. Any person who, being governor, lieutenant governor, member...

Section 200 - Free Passes to Former Employees Injured in Service of Railroad - Section 200. Railroad corporations may issue passes for free transportation...

Section 201 - Required Upon Request - Section 201. Every railroad corporation shall, upon request of the...

Section 202 - Determination of Compensation - Section 202. A corporation which cannot agree with the postmaster...

Section 203 - Reopening of Proceedings Determining Compensation - Section 203. Upon application to said court by either party...

Section 204 - Receipts - Section 204. A railroad corporation shall, upon request, without additional...

Section 205 - Equal Facilities; Passengers and Property - Section 205. Every railroad corporation shall, subject to the provisions...

Section 206 - Application of Sec. 205 - Section 206. The preceding section shall apply to all persons...

Section 207 - Prompt Forwarding - Section 207. Every railroad corporation shall promptly forward merchandise consigned...

Section 208 - Charges for Transportation of Freight - Section 208. A railroad corporation shall not charge or receive...

Section 209 - Violations; Penalties - Section 209. A railroad corporation violating any provision of the...

Section 210 - Freight Differential to Port of Boston - Section 210. A railroad corporation shall not, at any time,...

Section 211 - Discrimination in Rates - Section 211. A railroad corporation shall not in its charges...

Section 212 - Complete Service; Equal Tariffs - Section 212. A railroad corporation shall not receive, forward or...

Section 213 - Tariff - Section 213. Upon the petition of one or more persons...

Section 214 - Violations; Penalty - Section 214. A railroad corporation which refuses or neglects to...

Section 215 - Approval of Shareholders; Authorization by Department - Section 215. On application of any railroad corporation, authorized by...

Section 216 - Certificate of Authorization; Filing; Notice - Section 216. A certified copy of such authorization and a...

Section 217 - Rights and Liabilities Under New Name - Section 217. A railroad corporation shall have the same rights,...

Section 218 - Standing, Walking or Riding Vehicle on Railroad Property - Section 218. Whoever knowingly, without right is present, stands, walks,...

Section 219 - Loitering in Station - Section 219. Whoever without right loiters or remains within a...

Section 220 - Riding Upon Train Other Than as Fare-Paying Passenger or Employee - Section 220. Whoever, without right rides or attempts to ride...

Section 221 - Fees for Enforcement of Sec. 220 - Section 221. Except in Suffolk county, the fees and expenses...

Section 222 - Riding or Driving Animals on Railroad - Section 222. Whoever, without the consent of a railroad corporation,...

Section 223 - Liability for Allowing Animal on Railroad - Section 223. The person through whose fault or negligence a...

Section 224 - Liability for Allowing Animal on Railroad - Section 224. Whoever enters upon or crosses a railroad at...

Section 225 - Malicious Injury to Railroad; Treble Damages - Section 225. Whoever maliciously injures a railroad, or anything pertaining...

Section 226 - Obstruction of Passing of Train - Section 226. Whoever wilfully obstructs, or aids or abets in...

Section 227 - Wilfully Stopping Train - Section 227. Whoever wilfully and maliciously stops a train on...

Section 228 - Tampering With Tools or Appliances - Section 228. Whoever unlawfully uses, removes or tampers with any...

Section 229 - Defects in Highway; Liability of City or Town; Recovery From Railroad - Section 229. If, upon the trial of an action against...

Section 231 - Gross Negligence of Person in Control of Train; Penalty - Section 231. Whoever, having the management or control of a...

Section 232 - Neglect of Railroad to Give Signals at Crossing; Damages; Contributory, Gross or Wilful Negligence - Section 232. If a person is injured in his person...

Section 233 - Non-Liability of Railroad for Acts of Expressmen - Section 233. A railroad corporation shall not be liable to...

Section 234 - Liability; Insurance of Railroad and Owner - Section 234. Every railroad corporation shall be liable in damages...

Section 235 - Spark Arresters - Section 235. Every corporation operating a railroad shall install and...

Section 235a - Clearing of Inflammable Material Along Right of Way - Section 235A. Every railroad corporation shall, between April first and...

Section 236 - Clearing of Adjoining Land; Notice of Intent to Enter - Section 236. Any railroad corporation may, upon giving notice as...

Section 237 - Warning of Fire Given by Train Crew - Section 237. Any engineer, conductor or other employee on a...

Section 238 - Extinguishing Fire - Section 238. Sectionmen or other employees of a railroad corporation...

Section 239 - Instruction of Employees - Section 239. Railroad corporations shall inform their employees as to...

Section 240 - Entry Upon Public Park or Reservation - Section 240. The five preceding sections shall not authorize any...

Section 241 - Expense of Extinguishing Fire; Liability of Railroad - Section 241. Any railroad corporation which, by its servants or...

Section 241a - Derailments; Removal of Wreckage and Debris - Section 241A. Every railroad corporation shall within thirty days after...

Section 242 - Content; Inspection; Violations - Section 242. A railroad corporation shall at all times submit...

Section 243 - Quarterly Statement - Section 243. Every railroad corporation shall, within fifty days after...

Section 244 - Lessee to Make Lessor's Returns - Section 244. Every railroad corporation shall, during the continuance of...

Section 245 - Construction; Limitations - Section 245. A person or corporation may construct a railroad...

Section 246 - Supervisory Powers of Department - Section 246. If the consent of the department is required...

Section 247 - Formation; Powers - Section 247. Fifteen or more persons, a majority of whom...

Section 248 - Agreement of Association - Section 248. The agreement of association shall state: (a) That...

Section 249 - Certificate of Compliance - Section 249. When it is shown to the satisfaction of...

Section 250 - Change in Amount of Capital Stock - Section 250. The corporation may from time to time, at...

Section 251 - Application - Section 251. Such corporation shall be subject to sections twenty-nine...

Section 252 - Enforcement - Section 252. The supreme judicial court shall have jurisdiction in...

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Massachusetts General Laws Title XXII - Corporations Chapter 160 - Railroads

Massachusetts General Laws
Title XXII - Corporations
Chapter 160 - Railroads