Massachusetts Code — 166
Browse 76 sections in division 166 of the Massachusetts code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 1. Telephone and telegraph companies; subscription and payment for stock; filing of statement
- § 2. Debt limitation
- § 3. Liability of president and treasurer for wilful neglect or omission
- § 4. Issue of stock, bonds, coupon notes and other evidences of indebtedness
- § 5. Enforcement of orders of department relating to stocks and bonds
- § 6. Improper issue; penalty
- § 7. Increase of capital stock; shareholders' rights to new shares
- § 8. Shares authorized to be sold at auction; place of sale
- § 9. Issue of stock or scrip before payment for shares at par
- § 10. Effect of issue of stock or scrip before payment for shares; liability of directors
- § 11. Annual return
- § 12. Failure to make annual return; penalty
- § 12A. Condensed return of business and financial condition
- § 13. Telephone companies; connections with exchanges; equal facilities for all companies; definition of ''person'' or ''company''
- § 14. Connections with exchanges; equal facilities for applicants for telephone service; cost of extensions
- § 14A. Enhanced 911 service
- § 15. Equal facilities for those connecting with exchange; enforcement
- § 15A. Entitlement to hand sets as station equipment
- § 15B. Sales and transfers to similar corporations
- § 15C. Emergency calls; refusal to yield party line; misrepresentation of emergency
- § 15D. Energized cables in excavations endangering telephone company employees; notice to electric company; precautionary cooperation
- § 15E. Definitions; required equipment and services for subscribers with disabilities; advisory committee on accessibility to telephone service for persons with disabilities
- § 16. Receipt and transmission of despatches
- § 17. Rates to other telegraph companies or by mail
- § 18. Violations; penalties
- § 19. Liability for negligent transmission; claim; exceptions
- § 20. Indication of time filed and received on addressee's copy
- § 21. Location of construction of electric transmission lines
- § 21A. Coming into close proximity to high voltage lines
- § 21B. Protection of overhead high voltage lines
- § 21C. Warnings; operation of equipment near high voltage lines
- § 21D. Warning signs; size; posting
- § 21E. Notification of operation near high voltage lines
- § 21F. Exemptions; definitions
- § 21G. Violations; penalties; liability
- § 22. Consent of municipal officers to construct or alter lines
- § 22A. Definitions
- § 22B. Program for prohibition or removal of overhead wires
- § 22C. Prohibition and removal of overhead wires; fines and penalties
- § 22D. Removal of overhead wires; sequence; replacement; fines and penalties
- § 22E. Cooperative agreements to remove overhead wires
- § 22F. Notice of hearing or ordinance to remove overhead wires
- § 22G. Emergency erection of overhead wires
- § 22H. Underground construction; responsibility of utility
- § 22I. Underground construction; customer service facilities
- § 22J. Removal of municipal equipment from poles
- § 22K. Extension of time for removal
- § 22L. Rate differential; adoption of removal ordinance
- § 22M. Billing surcharge; adoption of removal ordinance
- § 22N. Effective date of adopting ordinance
- § 23. Citizens establishing and maintaining lines
- § 24. Construction of lines for private use; privileges of town; protection of lines
- § 25. Underground telegraph, telephone or television lines; regulations
- § 25A. Attachments; authority to regulate
- § 26. Violation of regulations
- § 27. Approval by department of ordinances or regulations of municipality
- § 28. Approval by department of location; public hearing; place of hearing; determination; fees
- § 29. Persons entitled to damages
- § 30. Regulations concerning wires
- § 31. Fixtures supporting wires or cables; marking to show ownership
- § 32. Municipal inspector of wires; appointment; qualifications; powers and duties; liability for removal of wires
- § 32A. Inspector of wires working as electrician; inspection by assistant inspector
- § 33. Enforcement of Secs. 30 to 32
- § 34. Poles and other structures used to support lines; protection of employees and public
- § 35. Use of poles and other fixtures for communication without consent of owner
- § 36. Marking name of corporation maintaining or operating on poles or other fixtures
- § 37. Prescriptive easements
- § 38. Intentional injury or destruction of property; penalty
- § 39. Temporary removal of wires; refusal of company to act
- § 40. Removal of wires without notice; penalty
- § 41. Removal of wires without notice; exception
- § 42. Liability of telegraph company for injury caused by poles, wires or other apparatus
- § 42A. Telecommunication service; fraud; penalty
- § 42B. Fraudulently avoiding charges for telecommunication service; use of equipment, etc.; penalties
- § 43. Owners and associations subject to chapter
- § 44. Service observing; interception