Massachusetts General Laws
Title XXII - Corporations
Chapter 161 - Street Railways

Section 13 - Election of Officers; Term; Qualifications; Treasurer's Bond; Appointment of Other Officers - Section 13. The directors shall be elected annually by the...

Section 14 - Stockholders' Meetings - Section 14. There shall be an annual meeting of the...

Section 15 - Special Meetings - Section 15. A special meeting of the stockholders shall be...

Section 16 - Voting by Corporation of Own Shares - Section 16. A company shall not directly or indirectly vote...

Section 17 - Voting by Shareholders; Proxies - Section 17. Stockholders entitled to vote shall have one vote...

Section 18 - Directors' Meetings - Section 18. Meetings of the board of directors may be...

Section 19 - Stock Certificates - Section 19. Each stockholder shall be entitled to a certificate...

Section 20 - Issuance of Certificate - Section 20. Certificates of stock shall not be issued by...

Section 20a - Change of Par Value of Capital Stock - Section 20A. Every corporation subject to this chapter may, at...

Section 21 - Assessments; Default of Shareholder - Section 21. The directors may assess upon all the shares...

Section 22 - Collection of Assessments - Section 22. If a subscriber fails to pay his assessment...

Section 23 - Subscription for Stock; Payment for Stock; Conditions to Building Railway - Section 23. A company shall not begin to build its...

Section 24 - Liability Prior to Payment for Capital Stock - Section 24. The directors of a company shall be jointly...

Section 25 - Purposes Authorizing Increase in Capital Stock or Bond Issue; Action of Department - Section 25. A company, for the purpose of building an...

Section 26 - Supplying Working Capital; Stock Increase or Bond Issue - Section 26. In addition to the purposes for which a...

Section 27 - Reduction of Capital Stock; Approval of Department; Liability of Directors - Section 27. On petition of a company for authority to...

Section 28 - Issue of Stock and Bonds; Authorization; Certificate of Department; Filing - Section 28. A company shall issue only such amounts of...

Section 29 - Limit of Issue of Bonds, Coupon Notes and Other Evidences of Indebtedness - Section 29. A company, unless expressly authorized by its charter...

Section 30 - Enforcement of Provisions Relating to Issue of Stocks and Bonds - Section 30. The supreme judicial or superior court shall have...

Section 31 - Penalty for Improper Issue of Stocks and Bonds - Section 31. A director, treasurer or other officer or agent...

Section 32 - Preferred Stock - Section 32. A company organized under the laws of the...

Section 33 - Exchange of Common for Preferred; Limitations - Section 33. Any such company may, upon such terms and...

Section 34 - Designation of Each Class of Preferred; Record of Proceeding Creating Class; Content of Certificate - Section 34. Each class of preferred stock issued under sections...

Section 35 - Preferred Stock; Voting Powers; Issue, Etc. - Section 35. Preferred stock issued under sections thirty-two to thirty-five,...

Section 36 - Prohibition - Section 36. A company shall not declare any stock or...

Section 37 - Effect of Issue; Liability of Directors - Section 37. A certificate of stock or scrip issued in...

Section 38 - Time to Begin Operation; Extension - Section 38. A company, incorporated under the laws of the...

Section 39 - Extension of Railway Into Other Cities and Towns - Section 39. A company, which, by its charter or certificate...

Section 40 - Connecting Locations - Section 40. A company whose petition for a location, necessary,...

Section 41 - Real and Personal Estate; Stock or Bonds of Other Street Railways - Section 41. A company may purchase and hold real and...

Section 42 - Recreation and Pleasure Resorts; Sale of Alcoholic Beverages - Section 42. A company may, except in Boston, acquire, hold,...

Section 43 - Motive Power - Section 43. A company may use electricity, or such other...

Section 44 - Use of Motor Vehicles Not Running on Rails - Section 44. Any company, with the approval of the department,...

Section 45 - Manufacture, Use and Transmission of Electricity - Section 45. A company may, for all purposes necessary or...

Section 46 - Use of Tracks by Another Railway - Section 46. A company may permit another street railway company...

Section 47 - Interchange of Traffic and Cars Between Companies - Section 47. The department may, on petition of a company...

Section 48 - Use of Railroad Tracks - Section 48. A company, with the consent of a railroad...

Section 49 - Street Sprinkling Cars Upon Railway Tracks - Section 49. A company may allow street sprinkling cars or...

Section 50 - Municipal Street Maintenance Cars Upon Railway Tracks - Section 50. A company may, with the consent of the...

Section 51 - Coal and Other Supplies - Section 51. A company may convey in cars over its...

Section 52 - Carriers of Mail - Section 52. A company may carry the United States mail.

Section 53 - Common Carriers of Newspapers, Baggage, Express Matter and Freight - Section 53. A company, on petition of any interested party,...

Section 54 - Operation Outside Limits of Public Way or Bridge - Section 54. Except as provided in this chapter or chapter...

Section 55 - Authorization to Operate on Private Land - Section 55. A company, organized, or in process of organization,...

Section 56 - Certification Permitting Operation on Private Land; Regulation of Operation and Construction - Section 56. A street railway constructed upon private land shall...

Section 57 - Laws Applicable to Railways Located on Private Land - Section 57. A company, whose railway is constructed in part...

Section 58 - Eminent Domain - Section 58. A domestic company may apply to the board...

Section 60 - Eminent Domain; Crossing of Public Way - Section 60. A company authorized to construct its railway at...

Section 61 - Eminent Domain; Construction of Secs. 58 to 60 - Section 61. The three preceding sections shall not enlarge the...

Section 62 - Limitations - Section 62. A company shall not lease or contract for...

Section 63 - Sale or Consolidation With Intersecting or Continuing Line - Section 63. A domestic company may sell and convey the...

Section 64 - Financing Sale or Consolidation - Section 64. The purchasing or consolidated company may, subject to...

Section 65 - Powers and Duties of Combined Companies - Section 65. Such purchasing or consolidated company shall have the...

Section 66 - Use of Facilities of One Railway by Another - Section 66. Two domestic companies, whose railways connect with or...

Section 67 - Powers of Railway Contracting for Operation of Railway or Taking Lease of Railway - Section 67. A company which contracts for the operation, or...

Section 68 - Sale of Portion of Railway; Payment of Dividends From Money Received - Section 68. A company shall not appropriate for the payment...

Section 69 - Purchase of Connecting or Intersecting Line of Company Organized in Another State - Section 69. A domestic company may purchase from a street...

Section 69a - Merger of Association or Trust Owning Capital of Company Into Company - Section 69A. An association or trust which owns all of...

Section 70 - Extension of Location; Proceedings - Section 70. The board of aldermen of a city or...

Section 71 - Alteration of Location; Proceedings - Section 71. The board of aldermen of a city or...

Section 72 - Authorization to Grant in Public Way or Upon Private Land - Section 72. The several boards, departments and commissions authorized by...

Section 73 - Authorization to Grant While Bridge Closed - Section 73. If a bridge upon which a company is...

Section 74 - Application to Department - Section 74. A company whose petition for such temporary location...

Section 75 - Termination of Location - Section 75. A company which is granted such temporary location...

Section 76 - Cost of Temporary Tracks Constructed Due to Alteration of Grade Crossing - Section 76. If such bridge is altered, rebuilt, improved or...

Section 77 - Proceedings - Section 77. The board of aldermen or selectmen, after the...

Section 78 - Expense of Widening; Way Not Presently Containing Track - Section 78. If application is made for a location in...

Section 79 - Expense of Altering or Changing Grade; Way Containing Track - Section 79. If a public way where the tracks of...

Section 80 - Method as Assessing - Section 80. The provisions of chapter eighty relative to the...

Section 81 - Application to Have Way Designated as Highway; Determination; Payment for Damages - Section 81. If the board of aldermen of a city...

Section 82 - Power of Department of Highways - Section 82. If a public way in which a street...

Section 83 - Certificate of Compliance - Section 83. No street railway or portion or extension thereof...

Section 84 - Rate of Speed; Use of Tracks; Number and Routes of Cars - Section 84. The board of aldermen or the selectmen may,...

Section 85 - Clearance of Snow From Tracks; Regulations of Department of Highways - Section 85. The department of highways, in respect to state...

Section 86 - Voluntary Discontinuance of Use of Tracks; Removal of Track - Section 86. If a company voluntarily discontinues the use of...

Section 87 - Temporary Discontinuance of Use of Tracks - Section 87. The aldermen or selectmen may order a company...

Section 88 - Liability of Municipality for Alteration or Discontinuance of Public Way - Section 88. A city or a town which, for any...

Section 89 - Opening Way or Bridge to Make Repairs; Liability for Loss or Injury - Section 89. A company shall not be required to keep...

Section 90 - Liability of Municipality; Recovery From Railway - Section 90. If, upon the trial of an action against...

Section 91 - Guards and Railings on Bridges - Section 91. Every company shall, in a manner satisfactory to...

Section 92 - Stopping at Railroad Crossings - Section 92. If a street railway crosses at the same...

Section 93 - Warning of Approach of Street Car - Section 93. The board of aldermen or the selectmen may,...

Section 94 - Obstruction of Tracks - Section 94. Whoever wilfully obstructs a company or the Massachusetts...

Section 94a - Littering Public Transportation Facilities; Penalty - Section 94A. Whoever places or throws filth, rubbish or any...

Section 95 - Loitering - Section 95. Whoever without right enters, remains in or loiters...

Section 96 - Obstruction of Ways and Bridges by Railway; Penalty - Section 96. If a company, its agents or servants, wilfully...

Section 97 - Children Selling Newspapers on Railway Cars; Penalty - Section 97. If a company, its agent or servant, allows...

Section 98 - Safety Devices for Cars and Station Platforms - Section 98. A company shall equip its cars, when in...

Section 99 - Emergency Tools and Lifting Jack - Section 99. All street railway cars operated in the commonwealth...

Section 100 - Heating Railway Cars - Section 100. The department shall require every street railway company...

Section 101 - Enclosure of Platforms During Winter Months - Section 101. Every street car in use for the transportation...

Section 102 - Failure to Enclose Platforms During Winter Months; Penalty - Section 102. A company failing to comply with the preceding...

Section 103 - Hours of Employment per Day; Penalty - Section 103. A day's work for all conductors, guards, drivers,...

Section 104 - Reasonable Accommodations for Passengers - Section 104. Every company shall furnish reasonable accommodations for the...

Section 105 - Additional Passenger Accommodations - Section 105. If the department deems additional accommodations including waiting...

Section 106 - Assumption of Risk - Section 106. No company shall by rule or otherwise require...

Section 107 - Special Service Railway Cars and Rates; Working Men's Rates; Children's Rates; Veterans' Rates; Free Passes to Public Officials - Section 107. A company may provide cars for special service,...

Section 108 - Railway Fares; Students' Rates - Section 108. The rates of fare charged by street or...

Section 109 - Regulation of Fares; Railroads and Street Railways - Section 109. All laws relative to changes and regulation of...

Section 110 - Free Checks or Transfers From One Railway Car to Another; Regulation - Section 110. A company shall not withdraw or discontinue the...

Section 111 - Notice of Change of Service - Section 111. All companies shall furnish the public with full...

Section 112 - Notice of Change of Tariff or Rates to Municipalities - Section 112. The department shall forthwith, upon the filing of...

Section 113 - Misuse of Transfer Ticket; Penalty - Section 113. Every company shall cause to be printed on...

Section 113a - Fraudulent Use of Passes; Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Stations or Vehicles; Penalty - Section 113A. Whoever fraudulently attempts to, or does enter upon...

Section 114 - Transportation of Milk and Cream - Section 114. All companies may transport milk and cream over...

Section 115 - Railway Service Provided at Cost; Acceptance of Secs. 115 to 128 - Section 115. Any company, except the Boston Elevated Railway Company...

Section 116 - Cost of Service; Definitions - Section 116. The cost of the service shall include operating...

Section 117 - Reserve Fund - Section 117. No company may accept sections one hundred and...

Section 118 - Service at Cost; Application to Determine Status of Unfunded Debt - Section 118. Any company desiring to accept said sections shall,...

Section 119 - Use of Reserve Fund - Section 119. Whenever the income of the company is insufficient...

Section 120 - Schedules of Grades of Railway Fare and Transfer Privileges; Public Hearing; Approval or Modification - Section 120. A company accepting said sections shall file with...

Section 121 - Change in Grades of Railway Fare - Section 121. If, as of the last day of any...

Section 122 - Improvement Fund - Section 122. The company shall provide an improvement fund of...

Section 123 - Sale of Railway Property and Franchise to State or Municipality - Section 123. Any company accepting said sections shall be bound...

Section 124 - Directors Appointed by Governor; Qualifications; Powers and Privileges - Section 124. The governor, with the advice and consent of...

Section 125 - Monthly Condition Statements; Supervision and Investigation by Department - Section 125. In order that the department may at all...

Section 126 - Acceptance of Secs. 115 to 128; Commencement of Operations - Section 126. Any company desiring to accept said sections shall...

Section 127 - Disposal of Property No Longer of Service - Section 127. The department may order any company accepting said...

Section 128 - Return on Stock Investment; State Directors of Railway Company; Petition for Reversal of Orders of Department - Section 128. If a majority of the state directors of...

Section 129 - Avoiding or Abolishing Grade Crossings; Eminent Domain - Section 129. For the purpose of avoiding or abolishing a...

Section 130 - Construction of Overpasses and Underpasses - Section 130. A company, which has acquired land for such...

Section 131 - Structures or Alterations Within Public Way or State Highway - Section 131. The board of aldermen of a city or...

Section 132 - Change of Railway Company's Name; Authorization - Section 132. Upon the application of any company, authorized by...

Section 133 - Filing of Certificate of Name Change - Section 133. A certified copy of such authorization and a...

Section 134 - Rights and Liabilities of Railway Company Under New Name - Section 134. A company shall have the same rights, powers...

Section 135 - Authorization of Sale by Receiver of Railway Property; Powers and Duties of Purchaser - Section 135. A receiver of the property of a company...

Section 136 - Content of Agreement of Association of Purchasers; Execution of Agreement - Section 136. The purchasers at such sale shall, with their...

Section 137 - Certificate of Incorporation; Organization of Railway Company - Section 137. The state secretary shall receive the agreement of...

Section 138 - Annual Return Transmitted to Department by Street Railway Company Directors - Section 138. The directors of every street railway company shall...

Section 139 - Tables and Abstracts Prepared by Department - Section 139. The department shall prepare tables and abstracts of...

Section 140 - Street Railway Lessee's Annual Return - Section 140. The lessee of a street railway shall make...

Section 141 - Retention of Records by State Departments and Commissions - Section 141. Every state department and commission shall keep a...

Section 142 - Equity Jurisdiction - Section 142. The supreme judicial or superior court shall have...

Section 143 - Establishment of Area - Section 143. A city or town may establish, or two...

Section 144 - Preliminary Agreements - Section 144. A city, by vote of its city council,...

Section 145 - Acceptance of Preliminary Agreements - Section 145. Upon the acceptance of such a preliminary agreement...

Section 146 - Management of Transportation Area; Appointment and Compensation of Trustees - Section 146. The management and control of a transportation area...

Section 147 - Powers of Trustees; Status of Employees of Acquired Private Companies - Section 147. The board of trustees of a transportation area...

Section 148 - Officers of Board of Trustees; Election; Treasurer's Bond; Voting; Quorum; Annual Report - Section 148. At the first meeting of the said trustees,...

Section 149 - Taking of Railway by Eminent Domain - Section 149. Upon the request of the board of trustees...

Section 150 - Discharge of Liabilities and Obligations; Basis of Contribution by Municipalities Within Area - Section 150. The cities and towns comprising a transportation area...

Section 151 - Finances of Transportation Areas - Section 151. The financial year of a transportation area shall...

Section 152 - Municipal Borrowing; Limitations - Section 152. For the purpose of acquiring street railway property...

Section 152a - Contract Between Commonwealth and Trustees for Reimbursement for Deficit From Operation of Transportation Area - Section 152A. Notwithstanding the provisions of section one hundred and...

Section 153 - Extension of Lines by Transportation Area; Purchase of Equipment; Consent of Department - Section 153. No extension of lines or trackage shall be...

Section 154 - Exclusion of Municipality From Transportation Area - Section 154. The department may exclude from a transportation area...

Section 155 - Leases of Street Railway Property; Amount of Rental; Term; Renewals; Termination - Section 155. The amount to be paid as rental under...

Section 156 - Establishment of Fare Zones and Rates of Fare - Section 156. Subject to the approval of the department, the...

Section 157 - Care of Leased Railway Property - Section 157. The trustees shall maintain the street railway property...

Section 158 - Taxation - Section 158. Nothing contained in sections one hundred and forty-three...

Section 159 - Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority; Application of Secs. 143 to 158 - Section 159. Sections one hundred and forty-three to one hundred...

Section 160 - Transportation Areas; Application of Secs. 143 to 158 - Section 160. Sections one hundred and forty-three to one hundred...

Section 161 - Avoiding Reduction or Discontinuance of Railway Service; Contributions of Municipalities - Section 161. Any city, except Boston, by vote of its...

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Massachusetts General Laws Title XXII - Corporations Chapter 161 - Street Railways

Massachusetts General Laws
Title XXII - Corporations
Chapter 161 - Street Railways