Section 10. A corporation subject to this chapter shall, upon an issue of its capital stock, other than stock issued upon conversion of convertible debentures authorized pursuant to section twelve A, within thirty days after the payment or collection of the last installment thereon, notify the department of such issue by filing in the office […]
Section 100. Any company subject to this chapter engaged both in the business of an electric company and of a gas company may, notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter or of any general or special law, sell and convey its properties used or useful in the electric business or its properties used or useful […]
Section 101. All applications for the approval by the department of purchases and sales or consolidations under sections twenty-six, ninety-six, ninety-seven and one hundred shall be filed with the department within four months after the passage by the contracting companies of votes authorizing such purchase and sale or consolidation.
Section 102. The six preceding sections shall not be construed to authorize the consolidation of the Boston Consolidated Gas Company and the Boston Edison Company.
Section 102A. Corporations desiring to consolidate or merge pursuant to sections ninety-six and ninety-seven shall enter into an agreement of consolidation or merger executed in the manner and setting forth the information prescribed in the first paragraph of subsection (b) of section seventy-eight of chapter one hundred and fifty-six B. The agreement of consolidation or […]
Section 102B. 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, the state secretary shall issue a certificate in such form as he shall prescribe evidencing the filing and approval of articles of consolidation or merger in his office […]
Section 102C. (a) The attorney general is hereby authorized to bring an action under section 4 of chapter 93A to enforce the consumer protection provisions of sections 1B, 1C, 1D, 1E, 1F, and 137 of this chapter and to obtain restitution, civil penalties, injunctive relief and any other relief awarded pursuant to said chapter 93A. […]
Section 103. The department, in accordance with its rules and regulations, shall make the inspections of gas required by section one hundred and nine and inspect, examine, ascertain and prove the accuracy of all meters which are to be used for measuring illuminating gas and which are to be furnished to, or for the use […]
Section 104. For examining, comparing and testing gas meters, the department may collect a fee, the amount of which shall be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven, for each meter with a rated gas capacity of nine hundred and fifty cubic feet per hour […]
Section 105A. Authority to regulate and control the storage, transportation and distribution of gas and the pressure under which these operations may respectively be carried on is hereby vested in the department. Upon the filing with the department of a written complaint of the mayor of the city or selectmen of the town where a […]
Section 106. The department shall, from time to time, ascertain the degree of purity that can reasonably be required in gas made and supplied by persons engaged in the manufacture or sale of gas, and shall report to the general court when it deems any change in the law relative thereto is desirable, and may […]
Section 107. To establish a calorific standard for gas, the department may from time to time, after notice and a public hearing, determine how many British thermal units shall thereafter be required of gas supplied to their consumers by gas companies or municipal lighting plants. Upon application of a gas company, or the mayor or […]
Section 108. Every gas company or municipal lighting plant which distributes and sells to its consumers over fifteen million cubic feet of gas in a year shall, when required by the department, provide and maintain a suitable room not less than a quarter of a mile from the gas works with a calorimeter of a […]
Section 109. The gas of every company which supplies more than fifty consumers shall be inspected at least twice a year and as much oftener as the department may determine. The department may, from time to time establish a new standard of purity for gas, after a public hearing, determine how many grains of sulphur […]
Section 11. No gas or electric company shall declare any stock or scrip dividend or divide the proceeds of the sale of stock or scrip among its stockholders unless the department approves; nor shall any gas or electric company except as provided in this chapter issue any share of stock to any person unless the […]
Section 110. If the gas of any gas company or of any city or town supplying gas is found on three consecutive inspections or on three inspections made within a period of thirty consecutive days, upon such averaging of inspections as the department may prescribe, to be below the standard of purity fixed under the […]
Section 111. The unit of measure for the sale of gas by meter shall be the cubic foot, containing sixty-two and two thousand nine hundred and ninety-three ten-thousandths pounds avoirdupois weight of air-free distilled water at sixty degrees Fahrenheit when weighed in dry air at the same temperature and at a barometric pressure of thirty […]
Section 112. Every gas company with a capital paid in of one hundred thousand dollars or more, and every other gas company, if required by the department, and all makers and vendors of meters shall set up at some convenient place upon their premises one or more meter provers of a size and type approved, […]
Section 113. A gas company providing a meter for measuring gas supplied to a customer which, if never before used, has not been duly sealed and stamped, or, if opened after being sealed and stamped, has not been again tested, sealed and stamped, shall be punished by a fine of five dollars for every such […]
Section 114. Meters in use shall be tested by the department, on the request of the consumer or of the gas company, in the presence of the consumer if desired, and with sealed apparatus. If it finds that the meter is correct, the person requesting the inspection shall pay the fees for such inspection and […]
