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2019 Massachusetts General Laws
Part I - Administration of the Government
Title XXII - Corporations
Chapter 160 - Railroads
- Section 1 - Definitions
- Section 2 - Boston; Tribunal Acting in Place of County Commissioners
- Section 3 - Application
- Section 4 - Corporation Chartered Concurrently With Another State
- Section 5 - Corporation or Trustees Operating Railroad of Another
- Section 6 - Purchase of Railroad by Commonwealth
- Section 7 - Taking by Eminent Domain
- Section 8 - Map and Engineer's Report to Accompany Petition for Charter
- Section 9 - Depositary for Plans and Profiles
- Section 10 - Notice of Route
- Section 11 - Limits Specified in Charter
- Section 12 - Fixing of Route
- Section 13 - Formation
- Section 14 - Contents of Agreement of Association
- Section 15 - Associates' Authority
- Section 16 - Publication of Agreement of Association
- Section 17 - Application for Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity
- Section 18 - Map; Engineer's Report
- Section 19 - Submission of Map and Report to Local Officials
- Section 20 - Fixing of Route by Local Officials; Certificate Fee
- Section 21 - Fixing of Route by Department Upon Failure to Agree
- Section 22 - Spurs, Branches and Connecting and Terminal Tracks
- Section 23 - Certificate of Facts of Subscription
- Section 24 - Certificate of Compliance; Filing; Certificate of Incorporation
- Section 25 - Change in Amount of Capital Stock; Change of Gauge
- Section 26 - Limit Upon Time to Acquire Certificate of Incorporation
- Section 27 - Limit Upon Time to Construct Railroad
- Section 28 - Narrow Gauge Railroads; Paid-Up Capital Stock
- Section 29 - First Meeting of Incorporators; Notice; Waiver of Notice
- Section 30 - Adoption of By-Laws; Election of Directors
- Section 31 - Managing Officers
- Section 32 - Selection of Officers; Treasurer's Bond; Clerk's Qualifications and Duties; Terms of Office; Vacancies
- Section 33 - Stockholders' Meeting
- Section 34 - Special Meetings
- Section 35 - Voting by Corporation Upon Its Own Stock
- Section 36 - Voting Rights of Stockholders
- Section 37 - Meetings of Directors
- Section 38 - Certificate
- Section 39 - Assessment; Failure to Pay Assessment
- Section 40 - Collection of Assessment
- Section 41 - Increase of Capital Stock; Purposes
- Section 42 - Corporation Consolidated With One in Another State; Unauthorized Capital Stock Increase
- Section 43 - Issue of Preferred Stock
- Section 44 - Designation of Preferred Stock; Filing of Record of Proceedings; Contents of Certificate
- Section 45 - Voting Power of Preferred Stock; Amount of Stock
- Section 46 - Offer of Preferred Stock to Common Shareholders
- Section 47 - Issue of Shares, Bonds, Notes or Other Evidences of Indebtedness
- Section 48 - Approval by Department of Issue
- Section 49 - Exchange for Registered Bonds
- Section 50 - Validity
- Section 51 - Default on Mortgage; Contract to Allow Those in Possession to Operate
- Section 52 - Trustees in Possession of Railroad; Annual Meeting
- Section 53 - Trustees in Possession of Railroad; Election and Confirmation of Trustees
- Section 54 - Trustees in Possession of Railroad; Jurisdiction of Supreme Judicial Court
- Section 55 - Purchaser Under Foreclosure
- Section 56 - Necessity of Payment of Par for Shares; Limit Upon Capital Stock
- Section 57 - Liability for Issuing Void Stock
- Section 58 - Use of Each Other's Railroad
- Section 59 - Service Provided to Other Railroad; Compensation
- Section 60 - Rates for Services for Connecting Company
- Section 61 - Foreign Railroads' Privilege as Connecting Road
- Section 62 - Lease by One Connecting Railroad to the Other
- Section 63 - Term of Lease
- Section 64 - Taking Securities of Other Corporations
- Section 65 - Telegraph Company Stock
- Section 65a - Holding Stock in Railroad Car and Equipment Companies
- Section 65b - Real Estate, Warehouse, Industrial Facility, and Industrial Development Companies Stock
- Section 66 - Guaranty of Steamship Company Bonds
- Section 67 - Associate in Formation of Grain Elevator Corporation
- Section 68 - Acquisition, Retention, Sale or Guarantee of Other's Bonds or Notes
- Section 69 - Powers of Railroad Corporations; Aid in Construction of Branch or Connecting Railroads
- Section 70 - Terminal, Express and Subsidiary Companies; Interest of Railroads in Stock and Securities
- Section 70a - Steamship Companies, Ferries, Ferry Boats, Docks, Motor Vehicles and Aircraft
- Section 71 - Prohibition After 1907
- Section 72 - Application for Consolidation; Notice; Hearing; Determination
- Section 73 - Rates and Facilities of Consolidated Railroads
- Section 74 - Violations; Penalties
- Section 75 - Determination of Method of Crossing Highways
- Section 76 - Estimate of Cost; Subscription for Capital Stock; Certificate of Compliance
- Section 77 - Consent to Locate Within Three Miles of State House
- Section 78 - Authorized Purchases
- Section 79 - Filing of Descriptions With Department
- Section 80 - Proceedings to Fix Location of Land
- Section 81 - Change of Location
- Section 82 - Taking of Land
- Section 83 - Taking of Land for Purposes Other Than a Railroad
- Section 84 - Lands or Rights of Other Railroads
- Section 85 - Purposes for Change
- Section 86 - Change of Direction
- Section 87 - Limitation Upon Tax Exemption
- Section 88 - Prescriptive Rights of Adjoining Landholders
- Section 89 - Description of Locations of Railroads; Rules and Regulations
- Section 90 - Fencing of Railroad Property
- Section 91 - Eminent Domain; Order Securing Landowners
- Section 92 - Enforcement of Order Securing Landowners
- Section 93 - Fences and Gates Along Length of Railroad
- Section 93a - Fences Along Railroad Tracks in Cities and Towns
- Section 94 - Recovery by Railroad From Person Required to Fence
- Section 95 - Grade Separation of Railroad Tracks by Agreement
- Section 96 - Consent for One Railroad to Cross Another or to Cross Navigable Water
- Section 97 - Highway Crossings; Obstructions; Grade Separations
- Section 98 - Over-Passes and Under-Passes; Height
- Section 99 - Material Used to Surface Bridges and Approaches
- Section 100 - Alteration of Grade of Highway; Decree of County Commissioners; Security
- Section 101 - Alteration of Course of Highway; Decree of County Commissioners; Security; Eminent Domain
- Section 102 - Level Grade Crossing of Highway
- Section 103 - Level Grade Crossing; Rails Protected to Enable Easy Passage
- Section 104 - Proceedings to Lay Out Public Way Across Railroad
- Section 104a - Building, Equipment or Machinery Moving; Duty of Railroad; Reimbursement of Costs
- Section 105 - Alteration of Course of Canal
- Section 106 - Remedy of Obstruction or for Failure to Repair
- Section 107 - Construction and Repair of Bridges, Approaches and Abutments
- Section 108 - Jurisdiction of County Commissioners
- Section 109 - Separation of Private Land; Order of Commissioners Relative to Crossing
- Section 110 - Denial of Access to Private Land; Order for Crossing by Department
- Section 111 - Decisions of Commissioners; Appeal
- Section 112 - Proceedings Perfecting Appeal
- Section 113 - Appeal; Hearing; Department's Powers
- Section 114 - Rights of Way Across Tracks by Prescription
- Section 115 - Construction; Additional Capital Stock; Certificate of Necessity and Convenience; Fee
- Section 116 - Switch Connections With Private Interests
- Section 117 - Order for Switch Connection by Department
- Section 118 - Certification by Department
- Section 119 - Filing of Map and Profile, Tables of Grade and Curvature and Statement of Characteristics
- Section 120 - Draw Tender
- Section 121 - Position of Bridge When Not in Use
- Section 122 - Passage of Vessels
- Section 123 - Signals Indicating Position of Bridge
- Section 124 - Gates
- Section 125 - Precautions Taken by Engineer
- Section 126 - Violations; Penalty
- Section 127 - Penalties
- Section 127a - Drawbridges; Department; Exemption of Railroad From Compliance With Law
- Section 128 - Abandonment of Passenger Station
- Section 128a - Discontinuance of Passenger Service; Hearing; Notice; Decision of Department
- Section 129 - Relocation of Passenger Stations and Freight Depots
- Section 130 - Signs Indicating Way Stations
- Section 131 - Compensation for Use of Station, Railroad or Grounds of One Company by Another
- Section 131a - Application of Business Corporation to Acquire, Own and Operate Terminal Facilities; Notice; Hearing; Approval
- Section 132 - Safety Switches
- Section 133 - Protection of Employees; Blocking of Frogs, Switches and Guard Rails
- Section 133a - Switch Stands, Lighting
- Section 134 - Bridge Guards
- Section 134a - Distance Between Sets of Tracks, Structures or Obstructions; Exemptions
- Section 135 - Stopping of Trains at Grade Crossings
- Section 136 - Grade Crossings; Rules and Regulations
- Section 137 - Grade Crossings; Interlocking Signals
- Section 138 - Warning to Public
- Section 138a - Warning Devices at Crossings
- Section 139 - Regulation by Department of Use of Warning Devices
- Section 140 - Signs Protecting Public Ways
- Section 141 - Signs Protecting a Traveled Place
- Section 142 - Signs Erected by Municipalities
- Section 143 - Signs Erected by Municipality; Duty to Supply
- Section 144 - Release of Railroad or Municipality From Duty to Provide Signs
- Section 145 - Violations; Penalties
- Section 146 - Damaging Warning Signs; Penalty
- Section 147 - Gates or Flashing Lights at Crossing of Railroad and Public Way
- Section 147a - Reflectorizing of Signs, etc., at Crossings
- Section 148 - Failure to Erect Signs or Install Gates or Lights; Penalty
- Section 149 - Signals at Crossing of Railroad Above Highway Level
- Section 150 - Obstruction of View by Standing Wood; Petition for Removal; Payment for Damages
- Section 151 - Obstruction of Public Way by Railroad; Penalty
- Section 152 - Reasonable Use of Crossing; Regulation by Department
- Section 153 - Type of Power Used to Operate
- Section 154 - Brakes and Brakemen
- Section 155 - Control of Brakes by Engineer; Inspection
- Section 156 - Safety Couplers on Freight Cars
- Section 157 - Use of Car Not Equipped With Automatic Couplers
- Section 158 - Grab Irons
- Section 159 - Standard Height of Draw Bars for Freight Cars
- Section 160 - Violations; Penalty
- Section 161 - Trains Composed of Four-Wheel Cars; Application
- Section 162 - Extension of Time for Equipment
- Section 163 - Tools and Devices Carried on Trains
- Section 163a - Track Motor Cars; Windshield With Cleaning Device and Canopy
- Section 163b - Passenger Cars; Safety Windows and Doors
- Section 164 - Repealed, 1930, 211, Sec. 2
- Section 165 - Passenger, Mail or Baggage Car; Heating Devices
- Section 166 - Passenger Cars; Illuminating Oil or Fluid
- Section 167 - Platform Gates
- Section 168 - Testing of Locomotive Boilers, Rolling Stock or Other Equipment
- Section 169 - Vacuum Brakes; Mufflers
- Section 170 - Safety Valves; Mufflers
- Section 171 - Failure to Equip With Mufflers; Penalty
- Section 172 - Reasonable Passenger Accommodations
- Section 172a - Drinking Water and Sanitary Toilet Facilities on Locomotives or Cabooses
- Section 173 - Women or Children in Smoking Cars
- Section 174 - Drinking Water in Railroad Cars
- Section 175 - Failure to Provide Drinking Water; Penalty
- Section 176 - Other Necessary Appliances
- Section 176a - Track Motor Cars; Lights
- Section 177 - Caps and Badges
- Section 178 - Eye Examinations
- Section 179 - Engineer; Experience
- Section 180 - Conductor; Experience
- Section 181 - Violations of Experience Requirements for Engineers and Conductors
- Section 182 - Experience of Engineer and Conductor; Exceptions
- Section 183 - Penalty for Violation of Experience Requirements for Engineers and Conductors
- Section 184 - Rest Days
- Section 185 - Change in Number of Train Crew; Regulation by Department
- Section 185a - Repealed, 1955, 669, Sec. 3
- Section 186 - Determination by Railroad; Revision
- Section 187 - Reduction of Rates
- Section 188 - Extra Charges for Ticket Purchased at Place Other Than Ticket Office
- Section 189 - Mileage Tickets; Detaching Coupons
- Section 190 - Commutation Tickets
- Section 191 - Season Tickets; Extension of Term
- Section 192 - Season Tickets; Reimbursement for Additional Fares
- Section 193 - Sale of Season Tickets to Express Messengers; Release of Liability for Personal Injury
- Section 194 - Baggage Checks
- Section 195 - Baggage Stored Over Week End
- Section 196 - Transportation of Bicycles
- Section 197 - Cheap Morning and Evening Trains
- Section 198 - Workingmen's Trains
- Section 198a - Unauthorized Sale at Less Than Full Fare
- Section 198b - Unauthorized Sale at Other Than Scheduled Rate
- Section 199 - Free Passes or Reduced Rates for Public Officials
- Section 200 - Free Passes to Former Employees Injured in Service of Railroad
- Section 201 - Required Upon Request
- Section 202 - Determination of Compensation
- Section 203 - Reopening of Proceedings Determining Compensation
- Section 204 - Receipts
- Section 205 - Equal Facilities; Passengers and Property
- Section 206 - Application of Sec. 205
- Section 207 - Prompt Forwarding
- Section 208 - Charges for Transportation of Freight
- Section 209 - Violations; Penalties
- Section 210 - Freight Differential to Port of Boston
- Section 211 - Discrimination in Rates
- Section 212 - Complete Service; Equal Tariffs
- Section 213 - Tariff
- Section 214 - Violations; Penalty
- Section 215 - Approval of Shareholders; Authorization by Department
- Section 216 - Certificate of Authorization; Filing; Notice
- Section 217 - Rights and Liabilities Under New Name
- Section 218 - Standing, Walking or Riding Vehicle on Railroad Property
- Section 219 - Loitering in Station
- Section 220 - Riding Upon Train Other Than as Fare-Paying Passenger or Employee
- Section 221 - Fees for Enforcement of Sec. 220
- Section 222 - Riding or Driving Animals on Railroad
- Section 223 - Liability for Allowing Animal on Railroad
- Section 224 - Liability for Allowing Animal on Railroad
- Section 225 - Malicious Injury to Railroad; Treble Damages
- Section 226 - Obstruction of Passing of Train
- Section 227 - Wilfully Stopping Train
- Section 228 - Tampering With Tools or Appliances
- Section 229 - Defects in Highway; Liability of City or Town; Recovery From Railroad
- Section 230 - Repealed, 1974, 252
- Section 231 - Gross Negligence of Person in Control of Train; Penalty
- Section 232 - Neglect of Railroad to Give Signals at Crossing; Damages; Contributory, Gross or Wilful Negligence
- Section 233 - Non-Liability of Railroad for Acts of Expressmen
- Section 234 - Liability; Insurance of Railroad and Owner
- Section 235 - Spark Arresters
- Section 235a - Clearing of Inflammable Material Along Right of Way
- Section 236 - Clearing of Adjoining Land; Notice of Intent to Enter
- Section 237 - Warning of Fire Given by Train Crew
- Section 238 - Extinguishing Fire
- Section 239 - Instruction of Employees
- Section 240 - Entry Upon Public Park or Reservation
- Section 241 - Expense of Extinguishing Fire; Liability of Railroad
- Section 241a - Derailments; Removal of Wreckage and Debris
- Section 242 - Content; Inspection; Violations
- Section 243 - Quarterly Statement
- Section 244 - Lessee to Make Lessor's Returns
- Section 245 - Construction; Limitations
- Section 246 - Supervisory Powers of Department
- Section 247 - Formation; Powers
- Section 248 - Agreement of Association
- Section 249 - Certificate of Compliance
- Section 250 - Change in Amount of Capital Stock
- Section 251 - Application
- Section 252 - Enforcement
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