Massachusetts Code — 164
Browse 262 sections in division 164 of the Massachusetts code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 1. Definitions
- § 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 change
- § 1B. Service territories for distribution companies; rates
- § 1C. Marketing companies
- § 1D. Billing of retail customers; notice of offers available by participating non-utility competitive suppliers; payment to supplier by electric distribution company
- § 1E. Performance based rate schemes; labor displacement or reductions; mediation of small claims
- § 1F. Consumer protections; rules and regulations
- § 1G. Transition costs and charges
- § 1H. Financing orders
- § 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
- § 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
- § 1K. Penalties to be credited back to customers
- § 2. Construction
- § 3. Corporations governed by chapter
- § 4. Application of chapter 156B
- § 4A. State secretary; examination of documents; approval; instances of corporate omission
- § 5. Organization of corporation; certification by state secretary
- § 5A. Name; restrictions; injunctive relief
- § 6. Articles of organization; contents
- § 8. Amendment of articles of organization; changes in capital stock or corporate name
- § 8A. Amendment of articles of organization; change in business authorized or any other change
- § 8B. Articles of amendment; submission to state secretary; effective date; filing
- § 8C. Restatement of articles of organization; adoption; submission to state secretary; filing; effective date
- § 8D. Confirmation of organization or subsequent proceedings; certificate; submission to state secretary; effective date
- § 9. Hydro-electric plants; issue of preferred stock and bonds; acquisition of storage reservoir
- § 9A. Electric companies providing electricity to other companies; ownership of stock
- § 10. Issuance of capital stock; notification of department
- § 11. Payment of price of share
- § 12. Improper issue of stock or scrip certificates; effect; penalty
- § 12A. Convertible debentures
- § 13. Mortgage of property
- § 13A. Issuance and pledge of bonds secured by prior liens
- § 14. Proceedings to determine necessity of issue of stock, bonds, coupon notes or other evidences of indebtedness
- § 15. Invitation for proposals for purchase of bonds
- § 15A. Issue or sale of bonds, etc. at less than par value or face amount
- § 16. Making good impairment of capital stock
- § 16A. Inadequate depreciation allowances; corrective orders of department; use of funds restricted; enforcement
- § 17. Improper issue of stock, bonds or other securities; penalty
- § 17A. Investments; approval of department; violations by officers; penalty
- § 18. Disposition of shares
- § 19. Sale of unissued capital stock; terms; auction sale
- § 20. Commencement of business; liability of officers, contribution
- § 21. Authorization necessary to transfer franchise, lease works or contract to carry on works
- § 22. Deposits
- § 23. Voting by stockholders; proxy
- § 24. Voting by stockholders; articles of organization or by-laws controlling
- § 25. Stockholders of public service corporation; use of name or title thereof prohibited; violations; penalty; proceedings; injunction; exception
- § 29. Change of officers; filing of certificate of change
- § 30. Change of location; reasonableness and public interest factors considered
- § 31. Amount of stock in gas companies held by corporation
- § 33. Fees for filing certificates, articles and copies of votes
- § 33A. Promotional or political advertising expenditures
- § 34. Town's authority to operate gas or electric plant or community antenna television system
- § 34A. Municipal street lighting service
- § 34B. Replacement of existing poles
- § 35. Vote of city to acquire plant
- § 36. Vote of town to acquire plant
- § 37. Certification of vote of city or town to department
- § 38. Certification of subsequent votes
- § 39. Failure to certify vote; penalty
- § 40. Debt incurred for establishing, purchasing, extending, etc., light plant
- § 41. Enlargement of plant
- § 42. Purchase of existing plant
- § 43. Determination by department of purchase price; tender of deed; acquisition upon failure to tender
- § 45. Purchase of property in adjoining town
- § 46. Distribution to adjoining town
- § 47. Extension of services to adjoining town
- § 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 electricity in adjoining service territory; restrictions on service to present customers of municipal lighting plants; referendum on competitive choice of generation supply
- § 47B. Facilities and equipment located outside municipal limits
- § 47C. Municipal lighting plant cooperatives
- § 47D. Exemption from public records and open meeting requirements in certain instances
- § 47E. Facilities for operation of telecommunications systems for municipal use; construction, purchase, lease and maintenance; debt
- § 51. Purchase of gas, electricity, equipment, supplies or materials from another town
- § 52. Purchase of electricity by town from street railway
- § 53. Delivery by street railway; metering
- § 54. Disagreement as to price paid to street railway; action of department
- § 55. Municipal light board
- § 55A. Agreements between municipal light boards and cities or towns
- § 56. Management of plant
- § 56A. Municipal light commission; definition; contracts of members
- § 56B. Contracts of commission; requisites
- § 56C. Contracts of commission; filing with city or town auditor; preservation; public inspection; penalty
- § 56D. Contracts of commission; advertisements and bids; application of section
- § 56E. Removal of members; notice and hearing; appeal
- § 57. Manager's annual financial report; tax levy; expenditure of income
- § 57A. Appropriations for maintenance and operation; payment in advance of receipts
- § 57B. Income from investment or deposit of proceeds of municipal bonds or notes issued for gas or electrical purposes
- § 57C. Appropriations from insurance escrow account
- § 58. Schedule of prices for gas and electricity
- § 58A. Advance deposit; shut off for non-payment; removal of appliances for distribution
- § 58B. Lien upon real estate for nonpayment of service charges
- § 58C. Time for and length of lien
- § 58D. Unpaid charges added to real estate taxes
- § 58E. Interest on taxes due by reason of unpaid charges
- § 58F. Abatement of real estate tax imposed by reason of unpaid charges
- § 59. Notice of change of price to department
- § 60. Entitlement to service; review by department
- § 61. Assessment of cost of establishing service
- § 62. Protection of plant; municipal ordinances
- § 63. Duties of municipality and its officers; violations; penalties
- § 65. Application of chapter to plants authorized by special act
- § 66. Application of chapter and by-laws of town to plant authorized by special act
- § 67. Revocation of rights, locations or licenses
- § 68. Sale of plant by town
- § 69. Enforcement by supreme judicial court
- § 69A. Purchase, sale and distribution of natural gas by municipality
- § 69B. Definitions
- § 69C. Cadet engineers; power of city or town to contract for training; contents of contract
- § 69D. Cadet engineers; selection
- § 69E. Cadet engineers; civil service laws; retirement benefits; workmen's compensation
- § 69F. Expenses
- § 69G. Definitions applicable to Secs. 69H to 69W
- § 69H. Energy facilities siting board
- § 69I. Long-range forecasts of electric and gas companies; filing; hearings; approval
- § 69J. Petition for approval of construction; filing guidelines; approval or rejection; application of section
- § 69K. Certificate of environmental impact and public interest; construction of facilities; petition; issuance; conditions; state agencies and local governments restricted; transfer; amendment; applicability
- § 69L. Petition for certificate or amendment thereof; form; information required; affidavit of service and notice
- § 69M. Public hearings on petitions; national pollutant discharge elimination system permit; notices; procedures; fact sheets
- § 69N. Parties in interest to proceedings
- § 69O. Decision granting or denying application; findings and opinions; applicability
- § 69P. Judicial review
- § 69Q. Joint inter-agency investigations, hearings or orders; interstate compacts and federal agreements authorized
- § 69R. Eminent domain; taking by electric or gas companies, generation companies or wholesale generation companies; procedures; restrictions
- § 69S. Eminent domain with respect to oil pipelines; requisite procedures; rights relative to taking
- § 69T. Consolidated permits for large clean energy infrastructure facilities
- § 69U. Consolidated permit for small clean transmission and distribution infrastructure facility
- § 69V. Consolidated permit for small clean energy generation facility or small clean energy storage facility
- § 69W. De novo adjudication of final decision of local government on consolidated permit application of small clean energy infrastructure facility
- § 70. Opening of streets by gas company; liability; repairing streets
- § 70A. Application to department to lay main; hearing; determination; fees
- § 71. Construction of transmission lines
- § 72. Taking land for transmission lines
- § 72A. Survey preliminary to eminent domain proceedings; notice to landowners; damages
- § 73. Pipes, mains, wires and conduits crossing railroads
- § 74. Recovery by town of damages paid as result of defect in street
- § 75. Regulation by municipal authorities
- § 75A. Installation of gas meters; compliance with regulations for preventing escape of gas
- § 75B. Qualifying to do business
- § 75C. Right of eminent domain
- § 75D. Survey preliminary to eminent domain proceedings; liability
- § 75E. Regulation of construction and operation
- § 75F. Restoration of ground surface following installation
- § 75G. Marking of location of underground line
- § 75H. Licenses, permits, etc., for pipeline maintenance, construction and operation
- § 76. Supervisory authority of department
- § 76A. Dealings with affiliated companies
- § 76B. Streets or ways; construction over, across or along high pressure gas mains
- § 76C. Rules and regulations
- § 76D. Utility underground plant damage prevention system; establishment
- § 77. Annual report of department
- § 78. Notice of violation
- § 79. Enforcement of orders of department; equity jurisdiction
- § 80. Location of office of company; records; inspection of records by department
- § 81. Form of books and accounts
- § 82. Form of records of work at manufacturing station
- § 83. Annual return; form; other information to department
- § 84. Failure to make or amend return; penalty
- § 84A. Condensed return of business and financial condition
- § 85. Examination of records by department; confidential nature of information; ''affiliated company'' defined
- § 85A. Filing copies of existing contracts with affiliated companies
- § 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
- § 86. Consent of municipality to entry of another gas company
- § 87. Consent of municipality to entry of another electric company
- § 88. Review of decision issued under Secs. 86 or 87
- § 89. Rights of another municipality to enter another town
- § 90. Conditions imposed upon entry of supplier of electricity in bulk
- § 91. Enforcement of conditions imposed under Sec. 90
- § 92. Right of user to gas or electricity
- § 92A. Right of user in bulk to gas
- § 92B. Electric-sector modernization plans
- § 92C. Grid modernization advisory council
- § 93. Price or quality of gas or electricity; public hearing; notice
- § 94. Schedule of rates, prices and charges; contracts; filing; proposed changes; notices; investigations; hearings
- § 94A. Contracts for purchase of gas or electricity; review of price paid
- § 94B. Contracts with affiliated companies; approval by department
- § 94C. Dealings between gas or electric affiliated company; burden of proof
- § 94D. Penalties for delinquencies and discounts
- § 94E. Notification of termination of contract filed under Sec. 94
- § 94F. Rates, prices and charges of gas companies; effect of orders of F.P.C.
- § 94G. Proposed performance program; unit heat rate audit; public hearing; periodic report; deductions; fuel charge; base rates; rules and regulations
- § 94H. Condominiums; common areas; rates
- § 94I. Cost-allocation method for determining base distribution rates
- § 95. Reports of accidents
- § 96. Purchase, sale, consolidation or merger; procedure; public interest determination
- § 97. Acquisition of water storage reservoir or hydro-electric plant by electric company
- § 98. Rights of company acquiring water storage reservoir or hydro-electric plant
- § 99. Increase of capital stock to affect acquisition
- § 99A. Property held as tenants in common by electric companies
- § 100. Sale of property to another gas or electric company; exceptions
- § 101. Time for filing applications for approval of sales or consolidations
- § 102. Consolidation of Boston Consolidated Gas and Boston Edison
- § 102A. Consolidation or merger; agreement, provisions; submission of article to state secretary; form; requisites and information; approval; effectiveness; filings
- § 102B. Certificate of consolidation or merger; issuance; fee
- § 102C. Enforcement of consumer protection provisions; arbitration
- § 103. Accuracy of meters; records
- § 104. Fees of department for examining, comparing and testing gas meters
- § 105A. Storage, transportation and distribution of gas; regulation; violations; civil penalties
- § 106. Regulation of quality of gas
- § 107. Establishing calorific standard; companies exempt from furnishing gas of standard established
- § 108. Calorimeter provided by company
- § 109. Inspection of gas by department; establishing new standards of purity
- § 110. Gas below standard; forfeiture
- § 111. Unit of measure for sale of gas
- § 112. Meter provers
- § 113. Use of gas meters not tested, sealed or stamped; penalty
- § 114. Testing gas meters in use; cost of test
- § 115. Easy ascertainment of gas meter reading
- § 115A. Replacement of gas meters
- § 116. Entry on premises to examine and maintain gas or electric meters
- § 116A. Disconnection of services in case of fire, explosion or other disaster
- § 116B. Gas company to provide maintenance and improvement of gate boxes during street, sidewalk or road repair; application for assistance
- § 116C. Advanced metering data repository; right to access advanced metering infrastructure customer data; opt out; accelerated switching
- § 117. Written statement of amount recorded given by meter reader
- § 118. Easy ascertainment of electric meter reading
- § 119. Meter rentals
- § 119A. Itemized statement of quantity of gas, electricity or fuel used at each of several rates
- § 120. Testing electric meters in use; cost of test
- § 121. Entry upon premises to make test; compensation of person making test; rules and regulations
- § 122. Use of incorrect meter; refund
- § 123. Prepayment meters; risk of loss of deposits
- § 124. Entry of premises to stop gas or electricity
- § 124A. Shutting off or failing to restore service during serious illness
- § 124B. Shutting off gas or electric service for failure to pay for appliances; prohibition
- § 124C. Nursing homes, homes for the aged, convalescent homes, and hospitals; shutting off gas or electric service
- § 124D. Shutting off gas or electric service to tenants not customer of record
- § 124E. Termination of gas and electric service; households with residents 65 or older
- § 124F. Shutting off service during financial hardship
- § 124G. Restoration of service upon payment
- § 124H. Shutting off service in residence where infant domiciled
- § 124I. Penalties
- § 125. Refusal to supply because of default of previous occupant
- § 125A. Supply to commonwealth or municipality after expiration of contract; price
- § 126. Wilful injury or interference with gas meter or other property; penalty; prima facie evidence
- § 126A. Impersonating an officer or servant of a gas or electric company; penalties
- § 127. Intentional injury to electric meter or other property; penalty; prima facie evidence
- § 127A. Destruction of or tampering with, electric or gas lines, meters, etc.; theft of electricity or gas
- § 128. Guaranty fund; payment of interest, application to charges and tolls; annual return statement; violations; penalty
- § 129. Definitions
- § 130. Establishment of fund; filing and recording of trust instrument; trustee; dissolution of fund
- § 131. Powers and duties of fund and trustee; financial statement; amount of fund; authorized trust instrument provisions; amendments; consolidation or merger of fund; taxation
- § 132. Exemption of trust fund from certain insurance laws
- § 133. Emergency mutual aid
- § 134. Load aggregation programs
- § 135. Corporate retail load aggregators
- § 136. Cooperatives
- § 137. Participation in group purchasing of electricity, natural gas, telecommunications services or similar products
- § 138. Definitions
- § 139. Class I, II or III net metering facilities; election of net metering; tariffs; limitation on aggregate capacity; rules and regulations
- § 139A. Small hydroelectric power net metering facilities program
- § 140. Neighborhood net metering facility; election of net metering; rules and regulations
- § 141. Decisions or actions regarding rate design; adjustment to low income or moderate income rate discount
- § 142. Removal of impediments to development of efficient, low-emissions distributed generation
- § 143. Small municipal renewable energy generating facilities; issuance of bonds and notes; procurement of required services; receipt and use of revenues
- § 144. Uniform natural gas leaks classification system; grading of reported natural gas leaks; projects on public ways; school zones; gas company response and reporting
- § 145. Plan for replacement or improvement of aging or leaking natural gas infrastructure
- § 146. Electric distribution system resiliency reports; competitive solicitation for electric distribution system resiliency non-wires alternatives
- § 147. Reporting of lost and unaccounted for gas
- § 147A. Non-emitting renewable thermal infrastructure project defined
- § 148. Engineering plans or specifications for work or services posing material risk to public safety to bear stamp of certified professional engineer
- § 149. Intervenor support grant program
- § 150. Capital improvements or additions to distribution or transmission system; cost-effectiveness and timetable analysis; deployment of advanced transmission technologies, advanced conductors, grid-enhancing technologies, or energy storage used as a distribution or transmission resource
- § 151. Meter socket adapter; installation, operation and maintenance