Massachusetts General Laws
Chapter 166a - Community Antenna Television Systems
Section 14 - Appeals by Aggrieved Applicants

Section 14. Any applicant for a license or renewal of a license who is aggrieved by a denial of its application by the issuing authority or by its failure to act within the period of sixty days, or any licensee who is aggrieved by the action of an issuing authority in modifying, suspending, cancelling, revoking, declaring a license forfeited, denying consent to the transfer or assignment of a license or control thereof, or by the issuing authority's failure to act within the period of sixty days may appeal therefrom to the department within thirty days following notice of such action or within thirty days following the expiration of a sixty day period of inaction, by a petition in writing, setting forth all material facts in the case.
The department shall hold a hearing upon each such appeal, requiring due notice to be given to all interested parties.
If the department approves the action of the issuing authority it shall issue notice to them to that effect, but if the department disapproves of their action it shall issue a decision in writing advising said issuing authority of the reasons for its decision and ordering the issuing authority to conform with such decision. The department shall not, in any event, order a license to be issued until the application for said license has been granted by the issuing authority.
Upon the petition of ten per cent of the subscribers who are taxpayers of the city or town in which a license has been granted by such authority or who are registered voters in the voting precinct or district in the area or areas to be served as set out in the license, or the consumers' council, or upon its own initiative, the department may investigate the granting, renewal, transfer or assignment of such a license or the conduct of the business being done thereunder, and may, after a hearing, modify, suspend, revoke or cancel such license for cause.
If the issuing authority fails to suspend, revoke, cancel or declare forfeited a license or to perform any other disciplinary act when lawfully ordered so to do by the department upon appeal or otherwise, within such reasonable time as it may prescribe, the department may itself revoke such license or perform such act, with the same force and effect as if issued or performed by the issuing authority, but no license shall be issued by the department except in ratification of a prior issuance to the same party by the issuing authority.

Structure Massachusetts General Laws

Massachusetts General Laws

Part I - Administration of the Government

Title XXII - Corporations

Chapter 166a - Community Antenna Television Systems

Section 1 - Definitions

Section 2 - Division of Community Antenna Television

Section 2a - Commissioner; Powers and Duties; Employees

Section 3 - Licenses for Construction or Operation of Systems, Necessity, Non-Exclusiveness, Contents

Section 4 - License Applications, Necessity, Form, Contents, Signatures, Disclosure of Ownership; Additional Service Areas, Addition to License

Section 5 - Conditions Imposed on Licensee

Section 6 - Hearing, Notice; Multiple Applicants, Choice, Grounds, Statement of Reasons

Section 7 - License Transfers or Assignments; Approval

Section 8 - Installation and Maintenance of System, Standards; Financial and Ownership Statements, Requirements, Public Inspection

Section 9 - Application Fees; Initial Licenses, Renewals, Transfers or Assignments; Annual License Fees

Section 10 - Complaints as to Operation of System, Procedure; Licensees' Reports as to Complaints Received and Disposition

Section 11 - Revocation of License; Grounds

Section 12 - Mandamus, Injunctive, or Other Judicial Proceedings; Institution or Intervention by Department

Section 13 - Renewal of Licenses; Forms; Requisite Information

Section 14 - Appeals by Aggrieved Applicants

Section 15 - Rate Regulation

Section 16 - Issuance of Standards and Regulations; Mediation Between Cities and Towns; Representation Before f.c.c.; Certification of Performance; Distribution of Obscene Material

Section 17 - Visitation, Examination, Subpoena, and Oath Administering Powers of Department

Section 18 - Violations, Penalties

Section 19 - Hearings, Applicability of Administrative Procedure Act; Public Hearings

Section 20 - Systems Constructed, Purchased, and Operated by Cities and Towns, Applicability of Chapter

Section 22 - Interference With Rights of Building Occupants Served by System; Installation; Consent of Property Owners; Multiple Dwelling Units, Manufactured Housing Communities