Section 21. A company incorporated for the transmission of intelligence by electricity or by telephone, whether by electricity or otherwise, or for the transmission of television signals, whether by electricity or otherwise, or for the transmission of electricity for lighting, heating or power, or for the construction and operation of a street railway or an […]
Section 21A. No person shall require or permit any employee to operate a crane, power shovel or other such types of construction equipment in close proximity to overhead high voltage lines; nor to enter upon any land, building or other premises to engage in construction work, including excavation, demolition, repair or other such work or […]
Section 21B. The operation or erection of any tools, machinery or equipment, or any part thereof capable of vertical, lateral, or swinging motion; the handling or storage of any supplies, materials or apparatus or the moving of any house or other building, or any part thereof, under, over, by or near overhead high voltage lines, […]
Section 21C. The owner, agent or employer responsible for the operation of equipment shall post and maintain in plain view of the operator on each crane, derrick, power shovel, drilling rig, hay loader, hay stacker, pile driver, or similar apparatus, any part of which is capable of vertical, lateral or swinging motion, an approved weather-resistant […]
Section 21D. Warning signs shall be placed: (1) Within the equipment readily visible to operator of cranes and other equipment when at the controls of such equipment; (2) On the outside of equipment in such number and locations as to be readily visible to mechanics or other persons engaged in the work operations. Warning signs […]
Section 21E. Before any operations are to be performed within six feet of any overhead high voltage lines, the person or persons responsible for the work to be done shall promptly notify the utility or other company owning or operating the overhead high voltage lines. The work shall be performed only after satisfactory arrangements have […]
Section 21F. The provisions of sections twenty-one A to twenty-one E, inclusive, shall not apply to the construction, reconstruction, operation and maintenance of overhead electrical conductors and their supporting structures and associated equipment by authorized electrical workers; nor to any authorized person engaged in the construction, reconstruction, operation and maintenance of overhead electrical or communications […]
Section 21G. (a) Whoever violates any of the provisions of sections twenty-one A to twenty-one F, inclusive, shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both. (b) If a violation of any of the […]
Section 22. A company desiring to construct a line for such transmission upon, along, under or across a public way shall in writing petition the board of aldermen of the city or the selectmen of the town where it is proposed to construct such line for permission to erect or construct upon, along, under or […]
Section 22A. As used in this section and in sections 22B to 22M, inclusive, the following words shall, unless the context requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— (a) ”Municipality”, any city or town. (b) ”Department”, the department of telecommunications and energy. (c) ”Planning board”, the planning board of a city or town. (d) ”Person” shall […]
Section 22B. The planning board of any town, if any, or in a town having no such board, the board of selectmen and the city council of any city or a committee designated and appointed for the purpose by it, may (after completing such preliminary consideration and study, including consultation with any utility as it […]
Section 22C. After such report has been filed, the municipality may adopt an ordinance or by-law which shall forbid a utility to install or construct except by way of replacement or upgrading of existing facilities any poles and overhead wires and associated overhead structures upon, along or across any public way within all or any […]
Section 22D. After a report has been filed under section twenty-two B, the municipality may adopt an ordinance or by-law which shall require a utility to remove its poles and overhead wires and associated overhead structures which are located upon, along or across any public way or ways within all or any part or parts […]
Section 22E. Any utility organized and existing under the laws of or doing business in this commonwealth and any municipality may enter into, and from time to time amend, and perform a cooperation agreement pursuant to which (a) the utility shall pay to the municipality in each calendar year for a period of years specified […]
Section 22F. The municipality shall comply with the following provisions with reference to notice: (a) When the planning board, board of selectmen, city council or committee of any municipality calls a public hearing pursuant to section twenty-two B, the clerk of the municipality shall publish a copy of said resolution in a newspaper of general […]
Section 22G. The board of selectmen or city council of any municipality may grant special permission, for such period and on such terms as it may deem appropriate, in cases of emergency or unusual circumstances, without discrimination as to any person or utility, to erect, construct, install, maintain, use or operate, poles and overhead wires […]
Section 22H. If underground construction is necessary to provide replacement facilities for any poles and overhead wires and associated overhead structures removed pursuant to any ordinance or by-law enacted pursuant to section twenty-two D the utility shall be responsible to furnish in connection with such replacement facilities only that portion of the conduits, conductors and […]
Section 22I. All underground construction and conduits, conductors and associated equipment necessary to receive utility service between the utility’s service facilities referred to in section twenty-two H and the service facilities in the building or structure being served shall be deemed ”customer’s service facilities”. To the extent required by any ordinance or by-law adopted pursuant […]
Section 22J. When a municipality adopts an ordinance or by-law pursuant to section twenty-two D, it shall remove its police and fire alarm circuits or any similar municipal equipment at its own expense from all poles required to be removed, and the removal of such circuits shall be completed in such manner and in such […]
Section 22K. If any act required by an ordinance or by-law adopted pursuant to section twenty-two D cannot be performed within the time provided on account of shortage of materials, war, restraint by public authorities, strikes, labor disturbances, or any other circumstances beyond the control of the person obligated to perform such act, then the […]
