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Section 1 - Definitions - Section 1. In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires,...
Section 1a - Retail Access to Generation Services and Choice of Suppliers; Electric Company Restructuring; Divestment; Ownership and Operation of Generating Facility Producing Solar Energy; Municipalities at High Risk From the Effects of Climate Chan... - Section 1A. (a) The department is hereby authorized and directed...
Section 1b - Service Territories for Distribution Companies; Rates - Section 1B. (a) The department shall define service territories for...
Section 1c - Marketing Companies - Section 1C. Any marketing company formed by an electric company...
Section 1d - Billing of Retail Customers; Notice of Offers Available by Participating Non-Utility Competitive Suppliers; Payment to Supplier by Electric Distribution Company - Section 1D. Beginning January 1, 1998, all electric and gas...
Section 1e - Performance Based Rate Schemes; Labor Displacement or Reductions; Mediation of Small Claims - Section 1E. (a) The department is hereby authorized to promulgate...
Section 1f - Consumer Protections; Rules and Regulations - Section 1F. The department is hereby authorized and directed to...
Section 1g - Transition Costs and Charges - Section 1G. (a)(1) The department shall, in accordance with the...
Section 1h - Financing Orders - Section 1H. (a) As used in this section the following...
Section 1i - Service Quality Standards Reports to Be Filed by Investor-Owned Electric Distribution, Transmission, and Natural Gas Distribution Companies; Penalty for Failure to Meet Service Quality Standards - Section 1I. Each investor-owned electric distribution, transmission, and natural gas...
Section 1j - Establishment of Standards of Acceptable Performance for Emergency Preparation and Restoration of Service for Electric and Gas Distribution Companies; Investigation of Violation of Standards; Penalties - [ Text of section effective until June 24, 2021. For...
Section 1k - Penalties to Be Credited Back to Customers - Section 1K. Any penalty levied by the department against an...
Section 2 - Construction - Section 2. In construing sections 69G to 69O, inclusive, 70,...
Section 3 - Corporations Governed by Chapter - Section 3. This chapter shall apply to gas and electric...
Section 4 - Application of Chapter 156b - Section 4. The following sections of chapter one hundred and...
Section 4a - State Secretary; Examination of Documents; Approval; Instances of Corporate Omission - Section 4A. The state secretary shall examine each document submitted...
Section 5 - Organization of Corporation; Certification by State Secretary - Section 5. The organization of a corporation to be formed...
Section 5a - Name; Restrictions; Injunctive Relief - Section 5A. The name of a corporation subject to this...
Section 6 - Articles of Organization; Contents - Section 6. (a) The articles of organization shall state: (1)...
Section 8 - Amendment of Articles of Organization; Changes in Capital Stock or Corporate Name - Section 8. A corporation subject to this chapter may authorize,...
Section 8a - Amendment of Articles of Organization; Change in Business Authorized or Any Other Change - Section 8A. A corporation subject to this chapter may authorize,...
Section 8b - Articles of Amendment; Submission to State Secretary; Effective Date; Filing - Section 8B. Within sixty days after any meeting at which...
Section 8c - Restatement of Articles of Organization; Adoption; Submission to State Secretary; Filing; Effective Date - Section 8C. Every corporation may authorize, at a meeting duly...
Section 8d - Confirmation of Organization or Subsequent Proceedings; Certificate; Submission to State Secretary; Effective Date - Section 8D. If doubts arise as to the legality of...
Section 9 - Hydro-Electric Plants; Issue of Preferred Stock and Bonds; Acquisition of Storage Reservoir - Section 9. An electric company which owns or operates an...
Section 9a - Electric Companies Providing Electricity to Other Companies; Ownership of Stock - Section 9A. An electric company may, in its agreement of...
Section 10 - Issuance of Capital Stock; Notification of Department - Section 10. A corporation subject to this chapter shall, upon...
Section 11 - Payment of Price of Share - Section 11. No gas or electric company shall declare any...
Section 12 - Improper Issue of Stock or Scrip Certificates; Effect; Penalty - Section 12. All certificates of stock or scrip issued in...
Section 12a - Convertible Debentures - Section 12A. A corporation subject to this chapter, and subject...
Section 13 - Mortgage of Property - Section 13. A corporation subject to this chapter may, by...
Section 13a - Issuance and Pledge of Bonds Secured by Prior Liens - Section 13A. A corporation subject to this chapter may, by...
Section 14 - Proceedings to Determine Necessity of Issue of Stock, Bonds, Coupon Notes or Other Evidences of Indebtedness - Section 14. Gas and electric companies shall issue only such...
Section 15 - Invitation for Proposals for Purchase of Bonds - Section 15. A gas or electric company, under the supervision...
Section 15a - Issue or Sale of Bonds, Etc. at Less Than Par Value or Face Amount - Section 15A. Except as otherwise provided in this section, a...
Section 16 - Making Good Impairment of Capital Stock - Section 16. If, when the department approves an issue of...
Section 16a - Inadequate Depreciation Allowances; Corrective Orders of Department; Use of Funds Restricted; Enforcement - Section 16A. If, when the department under this chapter approves...
Section 17 - Improper Issue of Stock, Bonds or Other Securities; Penalty - Section 17. A director, treasurer or other officer or agent...
Section 17a - Investments; Approval of Department; Violations by Officers; Penalty - Section 17A. No gas or electric company shall, except in...
Section 18 - Disposition of Shares - Section 18. Except as otherwise provided in this section, shares...
Section 19 - Sale of Unissued Capital Stock; Terms; Auction Sale - Section 19. A gas or electric company may issue any...
Section 20 - Commencement of Business; Liability of Officers, Contribution - Section 20. A corporation subject to this chapter shall not...
Section 21 - Authorization Necessary to Transfer Franchise, Lease Works or Contract to Carry on Works - Section 21. A corporation subject to this chapter shall not,...
Section 22 - Deposits - Section 22. All deposits of funds of corporations subject to...
Section 23 - Voting by Stockholders; Proxy - Section 23. Stockholders may vote in person or by proxy....
Section 24 - Voting by Stockholders; Articles of Organization or By-Laws Controlling - Section 24. (a) Whenever, with respect to any action to...
Section 25 - Stockholders of Public Service Corporation; Use of Name or Title Thereof Prohibited; Violations; Penalty; Proceedings; Injunction; Exception - Section 25. No person owning, holding or controlling shares of...
Section 29 - Change of Officers; Filing of Certificate of Change - Section 29. A duplicate of each certificate of change of...
Section 30 - Change of Location - Section 30. The department may, after notice and a public...
Section 31 - Amount of Stock in Gas Companies Held by Corporation - Section 31. A manufacturing or other corporation having its place...
Section 33 - Fees for Filing Certificates, Articles and Copies of Votes - Section 33. The fees for filing the following certificates, documents...
Section 33a - Promotional or Political Advertising Expenditures - Section 33A. No gas or electric company regulated by the...
Section 34 - Town's Authority to Operate Gas or Electric Plant or Community Antenna Television System - Section 34. A town may, in accordance with this chapter,...
Section 34a - Municipal Street Lighting Service - Section 34A. (a) Any city or town receiving street lighting...
Section 34b - Replacement of Existing Poles - Section 34B. A distribution company or a telephone company engaging...
Section 35 - Vote of City to Acquire Plant - Section 35. A city shall not acquire such a plant...
Section 36 - Vote of Town to Acquire Plant - Section 36. A town shall not acquire such a plant...
Section 37 - Certification of Vote of City or Town to Department - Section 37. After a city or town has voted under...
Section 38 - Certification of Subsequent Votes - Section 38. If a city or town which has authorized...
Section 39 - Failure to Certify Vote; Penalty - Section 39. A city or town clerk failing to comply...
Section 40 - Debt Incurred for Establishing, Purchasing, Extending, etc., Light Plant - Section 40. A city or town which has duly voted...
Section 41 - Enlargement of Plant - Section 41. A city or town owning such a plant...
Section 42 - Purchase of Existing Plant - Section 42. If, when a town votes to establish a...
Section 43 - Determination by Department of Purchase Price; Tender of Deed; Acquisition Upon Failure to Tender - Section 43. If a town which votes to establish a...
Section 45 - Purchase of Property in Adjoining Town - Section 45. If a town purchases a gas or electric...
Section 46 - Distribution to Adjoining Town - Section 46. A town which has acquired, as hereinbefore provided,...
Section 47 - Extension of Services to Adjoining Town - Section 47. The department may, after notice and a public...
Section 47a - Exemption From Requirements Allowing Competitive Choice of Generation Supply; Prohibition of Retail Sales by Nonmunicipal Suppliers and Electric Companies Within Municipal Service Territory; Sale of Electricity at Wholesale; Sale of Ele... - Section 47A. (a) Any municipal lighting plant established pursuant to...
Section 47b - Facilities and Equipment Located Outside Municipal Limits - Section 47B. Any municipality acting by and through its municipal...
Section 47c - Municipal Lighting Plant Cooperatives - Section 47C. (a) Any municipal lighting plant created in a...
Section 47d - Exemption From Public Records and Open Meeting Requirements in Certain Instances - Section 47D. A municipal lighting plant created pursuant to the...
Section 47e - Facilities for Operation of Telecommunications Systems for Municipal Use; Construction, Purchase, Lease and Maintenance; Debt - Section 47E. A municipal lighting plant or a cooperative public...
Section 51 - Purchase of Gas, Electricity, Equipment, Supplies or Materials From Another Town - Section 51. A town which has acquired a plant for...
Section 52 - Purchase of Electricity by Town From Street Railway - Section 52. A town in which no person or corporation...
Section 53 - Delivery by Street Railway; Metering - Section 53. Electricity supplied by a street railway company to...
Section 54 - Disagreement as to Price Paid to Street Railway; Action of Department - Section 54. If a town voting to purchase electricity from...
Section 55 - Municipal Light Board - Section 55. A town which has established or votes to...
Section 55a - Agreements Between Municipal Light Boards and Cities or Towns - Section 55A. A municipal light board may enter into an...
Section 56 - Management of Plant - Section 56. The mayor of a city, or the selectmen...
Section 56a - Municipal Light Commission; Definition; Contracts of Members - Section 56A. The words ''municipal light commission'' as used in...
Section 56b - Contracts of Commission; Requisites - Section 56B. All contracts made by a municipal light commission...
Section 56c - Contracts of Commission; Filing With City or Town Auditor; Preservation; Public Inspection; Penalty - Section 56C. Every municipal light commission or manager thereof, who...
Section 56d - Contracts of Commission; Advertisements and Bids; Application of Section - Section 56D. No contract for the purchase of equipment, supplies...
Section 56e - Removal of Members; Notice and Hearing; Appeal - Section 56E. Any member of a municipal light board or...
Section 57 - Manager's Annual Financial Report; Tax Levy; Expenditure of Income - Section 57. At the beginning of each fiscal year, the...
Section 57a - Appropriations for Maintenance and Operation; Payment in Advance of Receipts - Section 57A. Any city or town having a municipal light...
Section 57b - Income From Investment or Deposit of Proceeds of Municipal Bonds or Notes Issued for Gas or Electrical Purposes - Section 57B. Any city or town having a municipal light...
Section 57c - Appropriations From Insurance Escrow Account - Section 57C. Any city or town having a municipal light...
Section 58 - Schedule of Prices for Gas and Electricity - Section 58. There shall be fixed schedules of prices for...
Section 58a - Advance Deposit; Shut Off for Non-Payment; Removal of Appliances for Distribution - Section 58A. A sufficient deposit to secure the payment for...
Section 58b - Lien Upon Real Estate for Nonpayment of Service Charges - Section 58B. If the rates and charges due to a...
Section 58c - Time for and Length of Lien - Section 58C. Such lien shall take effect by operation of...
Section 58d - Unpaid Charges Added to Real Estate Taxes - Section 58D. If a rate or charge for which a...
Section 58e - Interest on Taxes Due by Reason of Unpaid Charges - Section 58E. Except as otherwise provided, the provisions of chapters...
Section 58f - Abatement of Real Estate Tax Imposed by Reason of Unpaid Charges - Section 58F. An owner of real estate aggrieved by a...
Section 59 - Notice of Change of Price to Department - Section 59. When a town fixes or changes a price,...
Section 60 - Entitlement to Service; Review by Department - Section 60. A town shall not be compelled to furnish...
Section 61 - Assessment of Cost of Establishing Service - Section 61. A town acquiring a plant may provide by...
Section 62 - Protection of Plant; Municipal Ordinances - Section 62. A town operating a plant may pass ordinances...
Section 63 - Duties of Municipality and Its Officers; Violations; Penalties - Section 63. A town manufacturing or selling gas or electricity...
Section 65 - Application of Chapter to Plants Authorized by Special Act - Section 65. A town authorized by special act to construct,...
Section 66 - Application of Chapter and By-Laws of Town to Plant Authorized by Special Act - Section 66. This chapter, and all ordinances or by-laws of...
Section 67 - Revocation of Rights, Locations or Licenses - Section 67. No town having within its limits the main...
Section 68 - Sale of Plant by Town - Section 68. A town which has acquired a municipal lighting...
Section 69 - Enforcement by Supreme Judicial Court - Section 69. The supreme judicial court for the county where...
Section 69a - Purchase, Sale and Distribution of Natural Gas by Municipality - Section 69A. Any city or town which maintains or operates...
Section 69b - Definitions - Section 69B. The following words and phrases as used in...
Section 69c - Cadet Engineers; Power of City or Town to Contract for Training; Contents of Contract - Section 69C. Any city or town owning or operating a...
Section 69d - Cadet Engineers; Selection - Section 69D. Applicants for training and employment as cadet engineers...
Section 69e - Cadet Engineers; Civil Service Laws; Retirement Benefits; Workmen's Compensation - Section 69E. The employment of the cadet engineer in ''on...
Section 69f - Expenses - Section 69F. All expenses, obligations or commitments for the payment...
Section 69g - Definitions - Section 69G. As used in section sixty-nine H to sixty-nine...
Section 69h - Energy Facilities Siting Board - Section 69H. There is hereby established an energy facilities siting...
Section 69h1/2 - Hydropower Generation Facilities - Section 69H1/2. For the purpose of this section, the following...
Section 69i - Long-Range Forecasts of Electric and Gas Companies; Filing; Hearings; Approval - Section 69I. The department shall approve or reject long-range plans;...
Section 69j - Petition for Approval of Construction; Notice of Intention to Construct Oil Facilities; Public Hearings; Approval or Rejection - Section 69J. No applicant shall commence construction of a facility...
Section 69j1/4 - Construction of Generating Facility - Section 69J1/4. No applicant shall commence construction of a generating...
Section 69j1/2 - Fees for Applications to Construct Electricity Facilities - Section 69J1/2. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special...
Section 69k - Certificate of Environmental Impact and Public Interest; Construction of Facilities; Petition; Issuance; Conditions; State Agencies and Local Governments Restricted; Transfer; Amendment; Applicability - Section 69K. Any electric, gas or oil company which proposes...
Section 69k1/2 - Certificate of Environmental Impact and Public Interest With Respect to a Generating Facility - Section 69K1/2. Any applicant that proposes to construct or operate...
Section 69l - Petition for Certificate or Amendment Thereof; Form; Information Required; Affidavit of Service and Notice - Section 69L. A. Except in the case of an application...
Section 69l1/2 - Application for Certificate With Respect to a Generating Facility - Section 69L1/2. (a) An applicant for a certificate pursuant to...
Section 69m - Public Hearings on Petitions; National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit; Notices; Procedures; Fact Sheets - Section 69M. Upon receipt of a petition for a certificate...
Section 69n - Parties in Interest to Proceedings - Section 69N. The parties in interest to the proceedings on...
Section 69o - Decision Granting or Denying Application; Findings and Opinions; Applicability - Section 69O. As expeditiously as possible but in no event...
Section 69o1/2 - Decision Granting or Denying Application With Regard to a Generating Facility; Findings and Opinions - Section 69O1/2. As expeditiously as possible, but in no event...
Section 69p - Judicial Review - Section 69P. Any party in interest aggrieved by a decision...
Section 69q - Joint Inter-Agency Investigations, Hearings or Orders; Interstate Compacts and Federal Agreements Authorized - Section 69Q. The board, in the discharge of its duties...
Section 69r - Eminent Domain; Taking by Electric or Gas Companies, Generation Companies or Wholesale Generation Companies; Procedures; Restrictions - Section 69R. Any electric or gas company, generation company, or...
Section 69s - Eminent Domain With Respect to Oil Pipelines; Requisite Procedures; Rights Relative to Taking - Section 69S. Any company may petition the board for the...
Section 70 - Opening of Streets by Gas Company; Liability; Repairing Streets - Section 70. A gas company may, with the written consent...
Section 70a - Application to Department to Lay Main; Hearing; Determination; Fees - Section 70A. Any gas company desiring to lay a main...
Section 71 - Construction of Transmission Lines - Section 71. A corporation subject to this chapter may, as...
Section 72 - Taking Land for Transmission Lines - Section 72. (a) Any electric company, distribution company, generation company,...
Section 72a - Survey Preliminary to Eminent Domain Proceedings; Notice to Landowners; Damages - Section 72A. The department may upon petition authorize an electric...
Section 73 - Pipes, Mains, Wires and Conduits Crossing Railroads - Section 73. A corporation subject to this chapter, to the...
Section 74 - Recovery by Town of Damages Paid as Result of Defect in Street - Section 74. If a person injured in his person or...
Section 75 - Regulation by Municipal Authorities - Section 75. The aldermen or selectmen may regulate, restrict and...
Section 75a - Installation of Gas Meters; Compliance With Regulations for Preventing Escape of Gas - Section 75A. No gas company or municipality distributing gas shall...
Section 75b - Qualifying to Do Business - Section 75B. Any person, partnership, corporation or any other legal...
Section 75c - Right of Eminent Domain - Section 75C. Any natural gas pipe line company may petition...
Section 75d - Survey Preliminary to Eminent Domain Proceedings; Liability - Section 75D. The provisions of section seventy-two A shall be...
Section 75e - Regulation of Construction and Operation - Section 75E. Natural gas pipe line companies shall be subject...
Section 75f - Restoration of Ground Surface Following Installation - Section 75F. Any natural gas pipe line company which lays...
Section 75g - Marking of Location of Underground Line - Section 75G. Any natural gas pipe line company which lays...
Section 75h - Licenses, Permits, etc., for Pipeline Maintenance, Construction and Operation - Section 75H. A person, partnership, corporation or any other legal...
Section 76 - Supervisory Authority of Department - Section 76. The department shall have the general supervision of...
Section 76a - Dealings With Affiliated Companies - Section 76A. The department shall have the general supervision of...
Section 76b - Streets or Ways; Construction Over, Across or Along High Pressure Gas Mains - Section 76B. Any person or municipality laying out or constructing...
Section 76c - Rules and Regulations - Section 76C. The department may establish from time to time...
Section 76d - Utility Underground Plant Damage Prevention System; Establishment - Section 76D. All natural gas pipeline companies, cable television companies,...
Section 77 - Annual Report of Department - Section 77. The department shall make an annual report of...
Section 78 - Notice of Violation - Section 78. If any electric, gas, generation, transmission, or distribution...
Section 79 - Enforcement of Orders of Department; Equity Jurisdiction - Section 79. The supreme judicial or superior court shall have...
Section 80 - Location of Office of Company; Records; Inspection of Records by Department - Section 80. Gas and electric companies shall have an office...
Section 81 - Form of Books and Accounts - Section 81. Gas and electric companies or persons engaged in...
Section 82 - Form of Records of Work at Manufacturing Station - Section 82. Gas and electric companies and manufacturing companies or...
Section 83 - Annual Return; Form; Other Information to Department - Section 83. Gas and electric companies and manufacturing companies and...
Section 84 - Failure to Make or Amend Return; Penalty - Section 84. Each such gas or electric company or manufacturing...
Section 84a - Condensed Return of Business and Financial Condition - Section 84A. Gas and electric companies and manufacturing companies and...
Section 85 - Examination of Records by Department; Confidential Nature of Information; ''affiliated Company'' Defined - Section 85. The officers and employees of the department may...
Section 85a - Filing Copies of Existing Contracts With Affiliated Companies - Section 85A. A gas or electric company that has, prior...
Section 85b - Emergency Response Plans; Submission for Review and Approval; Contents; Penalties for Failure to File; Denial of Recovery of Service Restoration Costs for Failure to Implement Emergency Response Plan - Section 85B. (a) Each electric distribution, transmission and natural gas...
Section 86 - Consent of Municipality to Entry of Another Gas Company - Section 86. In a town where a gas company exists...
Section 87 - Consent of Municipality to Entry of Another Electric Company - Section 87. In a town where a person is engaged...
Section 88 - Review of Decision Issued Under Secs. 86 or 87 - Section 88. Any person aggrieved by the decision of the...
Section 89 - Rights of Another Municipality to Enter Another Town - Section 89. A town which has duly acquired a municipal...
Section 90 - Conditions Imposed Upon Entry of Supplier of Electricity in Bulk - Section 90. In consenting to the laying, erecting, maintaining or...
Section 91 - Enforcement of Conditions Imposed Under Sec. 90 - Section 91. The supreme judicial or superior court shall have...
Section 92 - Right of User to Gas or Electricity - Section 92. On written petition of any person, having a...
Section 92a - Right of User in Bulk to Gas - Section 92A. On written petition of any person, corporation or...
Section 93 - Price or Quality of Gas or Electricity; Public Hearing; Notice - Section 93. On written complaint of the attorney general, of...
Section 94 - Schedule of Rates, Prices and Charges; Contracts; Filing; Proposed Changes; Notices; Investigations; Hearings - Section 94. Electric companies shall file with the department schedules,...
Section 941/2 - Sales of Compressed Natural Gas for Use as a Motor Fuel - Section 941/2. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section ninety-four or...
Section 94a - Contracts for Purchase of Gas or Electricity; Review of Price Paid - Section 94A. No gas or electric company shall hereafter enter...
Section 94b - Contracts With Affiliated Companies; Approval by Department - Section 94B. No gas or electric company shall, without the...
Section 94c - Dealings Between Gas or Electric Affiliated Company; Burden of Proof - Section 94C. Whenever, in any proceeding before the department under...
Section 94d - Penalties for Delinquencies and Discounts - Section 94D. No gas or electric company shall collect from...
Section 94e - Notification of Termination of Contract Filed Under Sec. 94 - Section 94E. A gas or electric company required to file...
Section 94f - Rates, Prices and Charges of Gas Companies; Effect of Orders of f.p.c. - Section 94F. In connection with any investigation by the department...
Section 94g - Proposed Performance Program; Unit Heat Rate Audit; Public Hearing; Periodic Report; Deductions; Fuel Charge; Base Rates; Rules and Regulations - Section 94G. (a) At least once a year, on dates...
Section 94h - Condominiums; Common Areas; Rates - Section 94H. No gas or electric company shall furnish gas...
Section 94i - Cost-Allocation Method for Determining Base Distribution Rates - Section 94I. In each base distribution rate proceeding conducted by...
Section 95 - Reports of Accidents - Section 95. Corporations, persons and municipalities engaged in the manufacture,...
Section 96 - Purchase, Sale, Consolidation or Merger; Procedure; Public Interest Determination - Section 96. (a) For purposes of this section, the following...
Section 97 - Acquisition of Water Storage Reservoir or Hydro-Electric Plant by Electric Company - Section 97. An electric company may, subject to sections ninety-eight...
Section 98 - Rights of Company Acquiring Water Storage Reservoir or Hydro-Electric Plant - Section 98. The purchasing or consolidated company shall except as...
Section 99 - Increase of Capital Stock to Affect Acquisition - Section 99. The purchasing or consolidated company may, for the...
Section 99a - Property Held as Tenants in Common by Electric Companies - Section 99A. Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, if an...
Section 100 - Sale of Property to Another Gas or Electric Company; Exceptions - Section 100. Any company subject to this chapter engaged both...
Section 101 - Time for Filing Applications for Approval of Sales or Consolidations - Section 101. All applications for the approval by the department...
Section 102 - Consolidation of Boston Consolidated Gas and Boston Edison - Section 102. The six preceding sections shall not be construed...
Section 102a - Consolidation or Merger; Agreement, Provisions; Submission of Article to State Secretary; Form; Requisites and Information; Approval; Effectiveness; Filings - Section 102A. Corporations desiring to consolidate or merge pursuant to...
Section 102b - Certificate of Consolidation or Merger; Issuance; Fee - Section 102B. Upon the payment of a fee to be...
Section 102c - Enforcement of Consumer Protection Provisions; Arbitration - Section 102C. (a) The attorney general is hereby authorized to...
Section 103 - Accuracy of Meters; Records - Section 103. The department, in accordance with its rules and...
Section 104 - Fees of Department for Examining, Comparing and Testing Gas Meters - Section 104. For examining, comparing and testing gas meters, the...
Section 105a - Storage, Transportation and Distribution of Gas; Regulation; Violations; Civil Penalties - Section 105A. Authority to regulate and control the storage, transportation...
Section 106 - Regulation of Quality of Gas - Section 106. The department shall, from time to time, ascertain...
Section 107 - Establishing Calorific Standard; Companies Exempt From Furnishing Gas of Standard Established - Section 107. To establish a calorific standard for gas, the...
Section 108 - Calorimeter Provided by Company - Section 108. Every gas company or municipal lighting plant which...
Section 109 - Inspection of Gas by Department; Establishing New Standards of Purity - Section 109. The gas of every company which supplies more...
Section 110 - Gas Below Standard; Forfeiture - Section 110. If the gas of any gas company or...
Section 111 - Unit of Measure for Sale of Gas - Section 111. The unit of measure for the sale of...
Section 112 - Meter Provers - Section 112. Every gas company with a capital paid in...
Section 113 - Use of Gas Meters Not Tested, Sealed or Stamped; Penalty - Section 113. A gas company providing a meter for measuring...
Section 114 - Testing Gas Meters in Use; Cost of Test - Section 114. Meters in use shall be tested by the...
Section 115 - Easy Ascertainment of Gas Meter Reading - Section 115. Meters for measuring gas supplied to consumers shall...
Section 115a - Replacement of Gas Meters - Section 115A. Each meter for measuring gas provided by a...
Section 116 - Entry on Premises to Examine and Maintain Gas or Electric Meters - Section 116. An officer or servant of a gas or...
Section 116a - Disconnection of Services in Case of Fire, Explosion or Other Disaster - Section 116A. In the event of a fire, explosion or...
Section 116b - Gas Company to Provide Maintenance and Improvement of Gate Boxes During Street, Sidewalk or Road Repair; Application for Assistance - Section 116B. Whenever the commonwealth or a city or town...
Section 117 - Written Statement of Amount Recorded Given by Meter Reader - Section 117. When a gas or electric meter in a...
Section 118 - Easy Ascertainment of Electric Meter Reading - Section 118. Meters for measuring electricity for lighting purposes supplied...
Section 119 - Meter Rentals - Section 119. No charge for the use of a meter...
Section 119a - Itemized Statement of Quantity of Gas, Electricity or Fuel Used at Each of Several Rates - Section 119A. When a consumer is charged for gas or...
Section 120 - Testing Electric Meters in Use; Cost of Test - Section 120. A customer of a corporation subject to this...
Section 121 - Entry Upon Premises to Make Test; Compensation of Person Making Test; Rules and Regulations - Section 121. The person designated to make such examination and...
Section 122 - Use of Incorrect Meter; Refund - Section 122. Whoever, being engaged in the sale of electricity,...
Section 123 - Prepayment Meters; Risk of Loss of Deposits - Section 123. All gas and electric companies using prepayment meters...
Section 124 - Entry of Premises to Stop Gas or Electricity - Section 124. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a...
Section 124a - Shutting Off or Failing to Restore Service During Serious Illness - Section 124A. No gas or electric company shall shut off...
Section 124b - Shutting Off Gas or Electric Service for Failure to Pay for Appliances; Prohibition - Section 124B. No gas or electric company shall shut off...
Section 124c - Nursing Homes, Homes for the Aged, Convalescent Homes, and Hospitals; Shutting Off Gas or Electric Service - Section 124C. No gas or electric utility intending to shut...
Section 124d - Shutting Off Gas or Electric Service to Tenants Not Customer of Record - Section 124D. No gas or electric company shall shut off...
Section 124e - Termination of Gas and Electric Service; Households With Residents 65 or Older - Section 124E. No gas or electric company shall shut off...
Section 124f - Shutting Off Service During Financial Hardship - Section 124F. No gas or electric company shall between November...
Section 124g - Restoration of Service Upon Payment - Section 124G. No gas or electric company which shuts off...
Section 124h - Shutting Off Service in Residence Where Infant Domiciled - Section 124H. No gas or electric company shall shut off...
Section 124i - Penalties - Section 124I. Any company found by the department to have...
Section 125 - Refusal to Supply Because of Default of Previous Occupant - Section 125. A gas or electric company shall not refuse...
Section 125a - Supply to Commonwealth or Municipality After Expiration of Contract; Price - Section 125A. A gas or electric company, generation company, wholesale...
Section 126 - Wilful Injury or Interference With Gas Meter or Other Property; Penalty; Prima Facie Evidence - Section 126. Whoever wilfully or fraudulently injures, disconnects, removes or...
Section 126a - Impersonating an Officer or Servant of a Gas or Electric Company; Penalties - Section 126A. Whoever falsely assumes, pretends to be or holds...
Section 127 - Intentional Injury to Electric Meter or Other Property; Penalty; Prima Facie Evidence - Section 127. Whoever unlawfully and with intent to avoid payment...
Section 127a - Destruction of or Tampering With, Electric or Gas Lines, Meters, etc.; Theft of Electricity or Gas - Section 127A. Whoever unlawfully and intentionally injures or destroys, or...
Section 128 - Guaranty Fund; Payment of Interest, Application to Charges and Tolls; Annual Return Statement; Violations; Penalty - Section 128. A corporation which has a franchise in and...
Section 129 - Definitions - Section 129. The following words, as used in sections one...
Section 130 - Establishment of Fund; Filing and Recording of Trust Instrument; Trustee; Dissolution of Fund - Section 130. A municipal electric department is hereby authorized, upon...
Section 131 - Powers and Duties of Fund and Trustee; Financial Statement; Amount of Fund; Authorized Trust Instrument Provisions; Amendments; Consolidation or Merger of Fund; Taxation - Section 131. A fund and the trustee shall have the...
Section 132 - Exemption of Trust Fund From Certain Insurance Laws - Section 132. A fund shall be exempt from the provisions...
Section 133 - Emergency Mutual Aid - Section 133. As used in this section the following words...
Section 134 - Load Aggregation Programs - Section 134. (a) Any municipality or any group of municipalities...
Section 135 - Corporate Retail Load Aggregators - Section 135. Any for-profit corporation, non-profit corporation, or quasi-public authority,...
Section 136 - Cooperatives - Section 136. (a) Any number of persons may associate themselves...
Section 137 - Participation in Group Purchasing of Electricity, Natural Gas, Telecommunications Services or Similar Products - Section 137. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the...
Section 138 - Definitions - Section 138. As used in this section and sections 139...
Section 139 - Class I, Ii or Iii Net Metering Facilities; Election of Net Metering; Tariffs; Limitation on Aggregate Capacity; Rules and Regulations - Section 139. (a) A distribution company customer that uses electricity...
Section 139a - Small Hydroelectric Power Net Metering Facilities Program - Section 139A. (a) For the purposes of this section, the...
Section 140 - Neighborhood Net Metering Facility; Election of Net Metering; Rules and Regulations - Section 140. A neighborhood net metering facility shall elect net...
Section 141 - Decisions or Actions Regarding Rate Design; Adjustment to Low-Income Rate Discount - Section 141. In all decisions or actions regarding rate designs,...
Section 142 - Removal of Impediments to Development of Efficient, Low-Emissions Distributed Generation - Section 142. The department shall continue to remove any impediments...
Section 143 - Small Municipal Renewable Energy Generating Facilities; Issuance of Bonds and Notes; Procurement of Required Services; Receipt and Use of Revenues - Section 143. (a) For the purposes of this section, the...
Section 144 - Uniform Natural Gas Leaks Classification System; Grading of Reported Natural Gas Leaks; Projects on Public Ways; School Zones; Gas Company Response and Reporting - Section 144. (a) There shall be uniform natural gas leaks...
Section 145 - Plan for Replacement or Improvement of Aging or Leaking Natural Gas Infrastructure - Section 145. (a) For the purposes of this section, the...
Section 146 - Electric Distribution System Resiliency Reports; Competitive Solicitation for Electric Distribution System Resiliency Non-Wires Alternatives - Section 146. (a) Electric distribution companies shall file an annual...
Section 147 - Reporting of Lost and Unaccounted for Gas - Section 147. (a) For the purposes of this section, ''lost...
Section 148 - Engineering Plans or Specifications for Work or Services Posing Material Risk to Public Safety to Bear Stamp of Certified Professional Engineer - Section 148. Any engineering plans or specifications for engineering work...