Section 1 – Department Defined

Section 1. In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the ”department” means the department of public utilities.

Section 10 – Purchase of Electricity

Section 10. Any corporation doing business under this chapter may purchase electricity from any person, city or town, engaged in its manufacture or distribution or from any street railway company, on such terms and conditions as the department approves, and, with like approval, may make contracts with any corporation having poles, wires, conduits or other […]

Section 11 – Purchase of Real and Personal Property

Section 11. Any corporation doing business under this chapter may purchase and hold personal and real estate necessary or convenient for the operation of its lines.

Section 12 – Security for Liability of Company; Persons Enforcing Payment

Section 12. The department of its own motion or upon petition of any interested party may, if after notice and a hearing it finds that such action is necessary for the protection of the public, require any corporation doing business under this chapter to furnish security by bond and/or otherwise, in such amount and of […]

Section 2 – Powers

Section 2. Any corporation organized as provided in this chapter, and any domestic street railway company may, as hereinafter provided, transport for hire passengers, freight, express parcels and mail over public ways or over private lands with the consent of the owners thereof by the system known as trolleymotor or trackless trolley, and may build, […]

Section 4 – Content of Agreement of Association; Execution of Agreement

Section 4. The agreement of association shall state— (a) That the subscribers thereto associate themselves with the intention of forming a trolleymotor or trackless trolley company; (b) The corporate name assumed, which shall be one not in use by any other trolleymotor or trackless trolley company, or by any street railway company, or, in the […]

Section 5 – Laws Applicable to Organization

Section 5. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, corporations organized hereunder shall be organized in accordance with the general laws governing the organization of street railway companies so far as applicable and consistent with this chapter.

Section 6 – Permit From Authorities Having Jurisdiction Over Public Ways

Section 6. Every corporation undertaking to perform in public ways the kind of public service authorized by this chapter shall first procure a permit from the authorities having jurisdiction over such public ways in the manner prescribed in and in accordance with section seven of chapter one hundred and sixty-one, and the granting of such […]

Section 7 – Service as Common Carrier

Section 7. Every corporation undertaking to perform the kind of public service authorized by this chapter shall thereupon become a common carrier, with all the duties and liabilities of common carriers, and the department shall have the same jurisdiction over the operation and the service rendered that it has over street railway companies, except that […]

Section 8 – Application of Laws Governing Street Railways

Section 8. Every corporation doing business under this chapter shall be subject to general laws governing street railway companies in respect to the future issue of stocks and bonds, consolidation, leases, revocation of permits and locations; and shall also be subject to the same regulation and supervision, and shall file with the department the same […]

Section 9 – Commencement of Operation; Limitation

Section 9. The right of any corporation to erect poles, wires and other appliances in accordance with any permit granted under section six, and to operate trackless trolley vehicles upon the line designated in such permit, shall cease as to so much thereof as shall not be in operation within two years after the date […]