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Section 1 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies; Subscription and Payment for Stock; Filing of Statement - Section 1. A telegraph or telephone company shall not commence...
Section 2 - Debt Limitation - Section 2. Such company shall not at any time contract...
Section 3 - Liability of President and Treasurer for Wilful Neglect or Omission - Section 3. The president and treasurer of such company shall...
Section 4 - Issue of Stock, Bonds, Coupon Notes and Other Evidences of Indebtedness - Section 4. Such company shall issue only such amount of...
Section 5 - Enforcement of Orders of Department Relating to Stocks and Bonds - Section 5. The supreme judicial or superior court shall have...
Section 6 - Improper Issue; Penalty - Section 6. A director, treasurer or other officer or agent...
Section 7 - Increase of Capital Stock; Shareholders' Rights to New Shares - Section 7. If any such company increases its capital stock,...
Section 8 - Shares Authorized to Be Sold at Auction; Place of Sale - Section 8. If such increase does not exceed four per...
Section 9 - Issue of Stock or Scrip Before Payment for Shares at Par - Section 9. No such company established under the laws of...
Section 10 - Effect of Issue of Stock or Scrip Before Payment for Shares; Liability of Directors - Section 10. All certificates of stock or scrip issued in...
Section 11 - Annual Return - Section 11. Every telephone or telegraph company doing business in...
Section 12 - Failure to Make Annual Return; Penalty - Section 12. Any such company neglecting to make the annual...
Section 12a - Condensed Return of Business and Financial Condition - Section 12A. Every company subject to the requirements of section...
Section 13 - Telephone Companies; Connections With Exchanges; Equal Facilities for All Companies; Definition of ''person'' or ''company'' - Section 13. A person owning, controlling or operating a telephone...
Section 14 - Connections With Exchanges; Equal Facilities for Applicants for Telephone Service; Cost of Extensions - Section 14. A person owning, controlling or operating a telephone...
Section 14a - Enhanced 911 Service - Section 14A. (a) In order to establish statewide enhanced 911...
Section 15 - Equal Facilities for Those Connecting With Exchange; Enforcement - Section 15. The supreme judicial or superior court shall have...
Section 15a - Entitlement to Hand Sets as Station Equipment - Section 15A. A telephone company, upon request therefor by a...
Section 15b - Sales and Transfers to Similar Corporations - Section 15B. A corporation organized under the laws of the...
Section 15c - Emergency Calls; Refusal to Yield Party Line; Misrepresentation of Emergency - Section 15C. Any person who shall wilfully refuse to yield...
Section 15d - Energized Cables in Excavations Endangering Telephone Company Employees; Notice to Electric Company; Precautionary Cooperation - Section 15D. No telephone company which has underground wires or...
Section 15e - Definitions; Required Equipment and Services for Disabled Subscribers; Advisory Committee on Disabled Persons' Accessibility to Telephone Service - Section 15E. (a) As used in this section, the following...
Section 16 - Receipt and Transmission of Despatches - Section 16. A telegraph company shall receive despatches from and...
Section 17 - Rates to Other Telegraph Companies or by Mail - Section 17. A telegraph company shall receive, compute and transmit...
Section 18 - Violations; Penalties - Section 18. A telegraph company which wilfully neglects or refuses...
Section 19 - Liability for Negligent Transmission; Claim; Exceptions - Section 19. A telegraph company shall be liable for damages...
Section 20 - Indication of Time Filed and Received on Addressee's Copy - Section 20. Every person engaged in the business of transmitting...
Section 21 - Location of Construction of Electric Transmission Lines - Section 21. A company incorporated for the transmission of intelligence...
Section 21a - Coming Into Close Proximity to High Voltage Lines - Section 21A. No person shall require or permit any employee...
Section 21b - Protection of Overhead High Voltage Lines - Section 21B. The operation or erection of any tools, machinery...
Section 21c - Warnings; Operation of Equipment Near High Voltage Lines - Section 21C. The owner, agent or employer responsible for the...
Section 21d - Warning Signs; Size; Posting - Section 21D. Warning signs shall be placed: (1) Within the...
Section 21e - Notification of Operation Near High Voltage Lines - Section 21E. Before any operations are to be performed within...
Section 21f - Exemptions; Definitions - Section 21F. The provisions of sections twenty-one A to twenty-one...
Section 21g - Violations; Penalties; Liability - Section 21G. (a) Whoever violates any of the provisions of...
Section 22 - Consent of Municipal Officers to Construct or Alter Lines - Section 22. A company desiring to construct a line for...
Section 22a - Definitions - Section 22A. As used in this section and in sections...
Section 22b - Program for Prohibition or Removal of Overhead Wires - Section 22B. The planning board of any town, if any,...
Section 22c - Prohibition and Removal of Overhead Wires; Fines and Penalties - Section 22C. After such report has been filed, the municipality...
Section 22d - Removal of Overhead Wires; Sequence; Replacement; Fines and Penalties - Section 22D. After a report has been filed under section...
Section 22e - Cooperative Agreements to Remove Overhead Wires - Section 22E. Any utility organized and existing under the laws...
Section 22f - Notice of Hearing or Ordinance to Remove Overhead Wires - Section 22F. The municipality shall comply with the following provisions...
Section 22g - Emergency Erection of Overhead Wires - Section 22G. The board of selectmen or city council of...
Section 22h - Underground Construction; Responsibility of Utility - Section 22H. If underground construction is necessary to provide replacement...
Section 22i - Underground Construction; Customer Service Facilities - Section 22I. All underground construction and conduits, conductors and associated...
Section 22j - Removal of Municipal Equipment From Poles - Section 22J. When a municipality adopts an ordinance or by-law...
Section 22k - Extension of Time for Removal - Section 22K. If any act required by an ordinance or...
Section 22l - Rate Differential; Adoption of Removal Ordinance - Section 22L. If at any time one or more but...
Section 22m - Billing Surcharge; Adoption of Removal Ordinance - Section 22M. In addition to all other rates, charges and...
Section 22n - Effective Date of Adopting Ordinance - Section 22N. Any ordinance or by-law adopted under the provisions...
Section 23 - Citizens Establishing and Maintaining Lines - Section 23. Selectmen may authorize citizens of the commonwealth to...
Section 24 - Construction of Lines for Private Use; Privileges of Town; Protection of Lines - Section 24. The selectmen may, upon terms and conditions prescribed...
Section 25 - Underground Telegraph, Telephone or Television Lines; Regulations - Section 25. The selectmen may, within their towns, permit telegraph,...
Section 25a - Attachments; Regulation by Department of Public Utilities - Section 25A. The following terms as used in this section...
Section 26 - Violation of Regulations - Section 26. The selectmen shall forthwith give written notice in...
Section 27 - Approval by Department of Ordinances or Regulations of Municipality - Section 27. No ordinance or regulation of a city or...
Section 28 - Approval by Department of Location; Public Hearing; Place of Hearing; Determination; Fees - Section 28. Any company subject to this chapter, except a...
Section 29 - Persons Entitled to Damages - Section 29. An owner of land abutting upon a public...
Section 30 - Regulations Concerning Wires - Section 30. A person or a corporation, private or municipal,...
Section 31 - Fixtures Supporting Wires or Cables; Marking to Show Ownership - Section 31. Such person or corporation shall plainly mark each...
Section 32 - Municipal Inspector of Wires; Appointment; Qualifications; Powers and Duties; Liability for Removal of Wires - Section 32. A city or town shall, by ordinance, vote...
Section 32a - Inspector of Wires Working as Electrician; Inspection by Assistant Inspector - Section 32A. In a city, town or district which accepts...
Section 33 - Enforcement of Secs. 30 to 32 - Section 33. The supreme judicial or superior court shall have...
Section 34 - Poles and Other Structures Used to Support Lines; Protection of Employees and Public - Section 34. Poles and other structures used to support lines...
Section 35 - Use of Poles and Other Fixtures for Communication Without Consent of Owner - Section 35. A corporation or person maintaining or operating telephone,...
Section 36 - Marking Name of Corporation Maintaining or Operating on Poles or Other Fixtures - Section 36. A corporation or person maintaining or operating telephone,...
Section 37 - Prescriptive Easements - Section 37. No enjoyment, for the purposes specified in section...
Section 38 - Intentional Injury or Destruction of Property; Penalty - Section 38. Whoever unlawfully and intentionally injures, molests or destroys...
Section 39 - Temporary Removal of Wires; Refusal of Company to Act - Section 39. Whenever, in order to move a building or...
Section 40 - Removal of Wires Without Notice; Penalty - Section 40. Whoever wilfully cuts, disconnects, removes or otherwise interrupts...
Section 41 - Removal of Wires Without Notice; Exception - Section 41. The two preceding sections shall not apply to...
Section 42 - Liability of Telegraph Company for Injury Caused by Poles, Wires or Other Apparatus - Section 42. A telegraph company shall be liable in damages...
Section 42a - Telecommunication Service; Fraud; Penalty - Section 42A. Whoever, with intent to defraud, obtains, or attempts...
Section 42b - Fraudulently Avoiding Charges for Telecommunication Service; Use of Equipment, etc.; Penalties - Section 42B. Whoever makes any instrument, apparatus, equipment or device...
Section 43 - Owners and Associations Subject to Chapter - Section 43. Owners and associations engaged in the business specified...
Section 44 - Service Observing; Interception - Section 44. Service Observing, Interception.—Service observing of telephone lines conducted...