Section 7 – Investigation or Examination of Trusts Owning or Holding Stock in Certain Public Utilities; Access to Information
Section 7. The department may by its members or duly authorized employees investigate and examine the books, accounts, contracts, records and memoranda of the trustees of any association or trust, who own or hold the capital stock or any part thereof of a railroad, street railway, electric railroad or elevated railway corporation, gas, electric or […]
Section 8 – Investigation or Examination of Businesses Under Same Ownership, Control or Management as Certain Public Utilities; Access to Information
Section 8. The department may by its members or duly authorized employees investigate and examine the books, accounts, contracts, records and memoranda of any partnership, express trust, voluntary association or corporation which is under the same ownership, control or management as a railroad, street railway, electric railroad or elevated railway corporation, gas, electric or water […]
Section 9 – Refusal to Submit to Investigation or Examination
Section 9. A railroad, street railway, electric railroad, elevated railway, gas, electric or water company, or corporation engaged in the common carriage of passengers by motor vehicle, or a partnership or corporation or the trustees of an express trust or voluntary association, described in sections seven and eight, which refuses or neglects to submit its […]
Section 10 – Jurisdiction in Equity
Section 10. The supreme judicial court shall have jurisdiction in equity to enforce compliance with the three preceding sections, and with all orders of the department made under authority thereof.
Section 11 – Application of Chapter to Rates or Services
Section 11. Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed as authorizing, requiring or justifying the department in making any recommendations, rulings or orders with respect to the rates charged or the service furnished by any corporation subject to its supervision, to take into consideration in any respect whatsoever any certificates of participation or shares […]
Section 12 – Annual Reports
Section 12. Every association or trust shall annually on or before June first file with the state secretary a report signed under the penalties of perjury by its trustees stating (a) the name of the association or trust; (b) the location (with street address) of its principal office in this commonwealth and elsewhere if the […]
Section 13 – Examination of Report; Approval; Endorsement; Filing; Fee
Section 13. The state secretary shall examine such report, and if he finds that it conforms to the requirements of this chapter, he shall endorse his approval thereon, and upon the payment of a fee to be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven shall […]
Section 14 – Failure to File Report
Section 14. If the trust or association fails to file its report within the time required by law, the state secretary shall give notice by mail, postage prepaid, to such trust or association in default. If the trust or association omits to file such report within thirty days after such notice of default has been […]
Section 2a – Names of or Similar to Other Businesses; Enjoining Violations
Section 2A. No association or trust shall assume the name of any corporation established under the laws of the commonwealth, or of a corporation, firm, or association or trust whether or not as defined in section one, or of an individual, carrying on business in the commonwealth at the time when the association or trust […]
Section 2b – Investment Company Trust; Trustee
Section 2B. This section shall apply to a trust that is an investment company, as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, and that is registered thereunder with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. A trustee of a trust who with respect to the trust is not an interested person, as defined in […]