General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 164 Manufacture and Sale of Gas and Electricity

• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 164, Section 1
  In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the following words shall have the following meanings: “Aggregator”, an entity which groups together electricity customers for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Retail access to generation services and choice of suppliers; electric company restructuring; divestment; ownership and operation of generating facility producing solar energy - Chapter 164, Section 1A
  (a) The department is hereby authorized and directed to require electric companies organized pursuant to the provisions of this chapter to accommodate retail access to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Service territories for distribution companies; rates - Chapter 164, Section 1B
  (a) The department shall define service territories for each distribution company by March 1, 1998, based on the service territories actually served on July 1,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Marketing companies - Chapter 164, Section 1C
  Any marketing company formed by an electric company shall be in the form of an affiliate of the electric company and shall be separate from...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Billing of retail customers; notice of offers available by participating non-utility competitive suppliers; payment to supplier by electric distribution company - Chapter 164, Section 1D
  Beginning January 1, 1998, all electric and gas bills sent to a retail customer shall be unbundled to separately reflect the rates charged for generation,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Performance based rate schemes; labor displacement or reductions; mediation of small claims - Chapter 164, Section 1E
  (a) The department is hereby authorized to promulgate rules and regulations to establish and require performance based rates for each distribution, transmission, and gas company...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Consumer protections; rules and regulations - Chapter 164, Section 1F
  The department is hereby authorized and directed to require electric companies organized pursuant to this chapter to accommodate retail access to generation services and choice...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Transition costs and charges - Chapter 164, Section 1G
  (a)(1) The department shall, in accordance with the provisions of this section, identify and determine, upon application by a distribution company and the applicable electric...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Financing orders - Chapter 164, Section 1H
  (a) As used in this section the following words shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the following meanings:— “Agency”, the Massachusetts Industrial Finance Agency,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Service quality standards reports to be filed by investor-owned electric distribution, transmission, and natural gas distribution companies; penalty for failure to meet service quality standards - Chapter 164, Section 1I
  Each investor-owned electric distribution, transmission, and natural gas distribution company shall file a report with the department by March first of each year comparing its...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment of standards of acceptable performance for emergency preparation and restoration of service for electric and gas distribution companies; investigation of violation of standards; penalties - Chapter 164, Section 1J
  The department shall promulgate rules and regulations to establish standards of acceptable performance for emergency preparation and restoration of service for electric and gas distribution...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties to be credited back to customers - Chapter 164, Section 1K
  Any penalty levied by the department against an investor-owned electric distribution, transmission or natural gas distribution company for any violation of the department’s standards of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Construction - Chapter 164, Section 2
  In construing sections 69G to 69O, inclusive, 70, 71, 74 to 83, inclusive, 92 to 95, inclusive, 103, 105, 106, 109, 112 to 114, inclusive,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Corporations governed by chapter - Chapter 164, Section 3
  This chapter shall apply to gas and electric companies organized or chartered under any general or special laws applicable thereto, and to the respective officers...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application of chapter 156B - Chapter 164, Section 4
  The following sections of chapter one hundred and fifty-six B shall apply to corporations subject to this chapter: (a) Sections seven, nine, nine A, ten,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - State secretary; examination of documents; approval; instances of corporate omission - Chapter 164, Section 4A
  The state secretary shall examine each document submitted to him under the provisions of this chapter. If he finds that the provisions of law relative...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Organization of corporation; certification by state secretary - Chapter 164, Section 5
  The organization of a corporation to be formed under this chapter shall be effected in accordance with the requirements of section twelve of chapter one...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Name; restrictions; injunctive relief - Chapter 164, Section 5A
  The name of a corporation subject to this chapter shall contain the words “gas company” or “electric company”, as the case may be. Such corporation...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Articles of organization; contents - Chapter 164, Section 6
  (a) The articles of organization shall state: (1) that the incorporators (stating their names, including their given names, and post office addresses) associate themselves with...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1973, 860, Sec. 6 - Chapter 164, Section 7
  Repealed, 1973, 860, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Amendment of articles of organization; changes in capital stock or corporate name - Chapter 164, Section 8
  A corporation subject to this chapter may authorize, at a meeting duly called for the purpose, an amendment of its articles of organization by vote...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Amendment of articles of organization; change in business authorized or any other change - Chapter 164, Section 8A
  A corporation subject to this chapter may authorize, at a meeting duly called for the purpose, an amendment of its articles of organization, by vote...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Articles of amendment; submission to state secretary; effective date; filing - Chapter 164, Section 8B
  Within sixty days after any meeting at which any amendment of the articles of organization has been adopted or within thirty days after any necessary...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Restatement of articles of organization; adoption; submission to state secretary; filing; effective date - Chapter 164, Section 8C
  Every corporation may authorize, at a meeting duly called for the purpose, by vote of a majority of each class of stock outstanding and entitled...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Confirmation of organization or subsequent proceedings; certificate; submission to state secretary; effective date - Chapter 164, Section 8D
  If doubts arise as to the legality of the organization of any corporation created by special charter for a purpose mentioned in this chapter, which...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Hydro-electric plants; issue of preferred stock and bonds; acquisition of storage reservoir - Chapter 164, Section 9
  An electric company which owns or operates an hydro-electric plant may, subject to all laws governing the issue of capital stock by electric companies, issue...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Electric companies providing electricity to other companies; ownership of stock - Chapter 164, Section 9A
  An electric company may, in its agreement of association or, in case of a company already organized, at any time and from time to time,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Issuance of capital stock; notification of department - Chapter 164, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Payment of price of share - Chapter 164, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Improper issue of stock or scrip certificates; effect; penalty - Chapter 164, Section 12
  All certificates of stock or scrip issued in violation of the preceding section shall be void; and the directors of the corporation which issues them...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Convertible debentures - Chapter 164, Section 12A
  A corporation subject to this chapter, and subject to the limitations and restrictions of section fourteen, may, by a vote of the holders of a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Mortgage of property - Chapter 164, Section 13
  A corporation subject to this chapter may, by vote of the holders of a majority of its shares outstanding and entitled to vote thereon at...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Issuance and pledge of bonds secured by prior liens - Chapter 164, Section 13A
  A corporation subject to this chapter may, by vote of the holders of a majority of its shares outstanding and entitled to vote thereon at...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Proceedings to determine necessity of issue of stock, bonds, coupon notes or other evidences of indebtedness - Chapter 164, Section 14
  Gas and electric companies shall issue only such amount of stock and bonds, and of coupon notes and other evidences of indebtedness payable at periods...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Invitation for proposals for purchase of bonds - Chapter 164, Section 15
  A gas or electric company, under the supervision of the department, selling, offering for sale or issuing, bonds, debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Issue or sale of bonds, etc. at less than par value or face amount - Chapter 164, Section 15A
  Except as otherwise provided in this section, a gas or electric company shall not issue or sell any bonds, debentures, notes or other evidences of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Making good impairment of capital stock - Chapter 164, Section 16
  If, when the department approves an issue of new stock, bonds or other securities by a gas or electric company, it determines that the fair...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inadequate depreciation allowances; corrective orders of department; use of funds restricted; enforcement - Chapter 164, Section 16A
  If, when the department under this chapter approves an issue of stock, bonds, coupon notes or other evidences of indebtedness of a corporation, or passes...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Improper issue of stock, bonds or other securities; penalty - Chapter 164, Section 17
  A director, treasurer or other officer or agent of a gas or electric company who knowingly votes to authorize the issue of, or knowingly signs,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Investments; approval of department; violations by officers; penalty - Chapter 164, Section 17A
  No gas or electric company shall, except in accordance with such rules and regulations as the department shall from time to time prescribe, loan its...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Disposition of shares - Chapter 164, Section 18
  Except as otherwise provided in this section, shares of the capital stock of a gas or electric company shall be offered at such price, not...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of unissued capital stock; terms; auction sale - Chapter 164, Section 19
  A gas or electric company may issue any unissued shares of its capital stock from time to time authorized under its articles of incorporation in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Commencement of business; liability of officers, contribution - Chapter 164, Section 20
  A corporation subject to this chapter shall not begin business until the whole amount of its capital stock, or such part thereof as may have...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Authorization necessary to transfer franchise, lease works or contract to carry on works - Chapter 164, Section 21
  A corporation subject to this chapter shall not, except as otherwise expressly provided, transfer its franchise, lease its works or contract with any person, association...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Deposits - Chapter 164, Section 22
  All deposits of funds of corporations subject to this chapter shall be made by the officers thereof in national banks, duly chartered trust companies, savings...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Voting by stockholders; proxy - Chapter 164, Section 23
  Stockholders may vote in person or by proxy. No proxy dated more than six months before the meeting named therein shall be valid and no...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Voting by stockholders; articles of organization or by-laws controlling - Chapter 164, Section 24
  (a) Whenever, with respect to any action to be taken by the stockholders of a corporation subject to this chapter, the articles of organization or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Stockholders of public service corporation; use of name or title thereof prohibited; violations; penalty; proceedings; injunction; exception - Chapter 164, Section 25
  No person owning, holding or controlling shares of stock of any public service corporation shall use any name or title or other words that, in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1973, 860, Sec. 16 - Chapter 164, Section 26 to 28
  Repealed, 1973, 860, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Change of officers; filing of certificate of change - Chapter 164, Section 29
  A duplicate of each certificate of change of officers filed pursuant to section fifty-three of chapter one hundred and fifty-six B with respect to a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Change of location - Chapter 164, Section 30
  The department may, after notice and a public hearing, authorize a gas or electric company to carry on its business in any town in the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Amount of stock in gas companies held by corporation - Chapter 164, Section 31
  A manufacturing or other corporation having its place of business in a city or town where a gas company proposes to manufacture gas for light...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1973, 860, Sec. 18 - Chapter 164, Section 32
  Repealed, 1973, 860, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fees for filing certificates, articles and copies of votes - Chapter 164, Section 33
  The fees for filing the following certificates, documents and copies of votes required to be filed by corporations subject to this chapter with the state...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Promotional or political advertising expenditures - Chapter 164, Section 33A
  No gas or electric company regulated by the department under this chapter may recover from any ratepayer of such company any direct or indirect expenditure...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Town’s authority to operate gas or electric plant or community antenna television system - Chapter 164, Section 34
  A town may, in accordance with this chapter, construct, purchase or lease, and maintain within its limits, one or more plants for the manufacture or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Municipal street lighting service - Chapter 164, Section 34A
  (a) Any city or town receiving street lighting service from an electric company pursuant to a tariff which provides for the use by such municipality...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Replacement of existing poles - Chapter 164, Section 34B
  A distribution company or a telephone company engaging in the removal of an existing pole and the installation of a new pole in place thereof...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Vote of city to acquire plant - Chapter 164, Section 35
  A city shall not acquire such a plant until authorized by a two thirds vote of its city council, or of a majority of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Vote of town to acquire plant - Chapter 164, Section 36
  A town shall not acquire such a plant until authorized by a two thirds vote, taken by ballot with the use of the voting list,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certification of vote of city or town to department - Chapter 164, Section 37
  After a city or town has voted under section thirty-five or thirty-six, the city or town clerk shall forthwith transmit to the department a certified...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certification of subsequent votes - Chapter 164, Section 38
  If a city or town which has authorized the acquisition of such a plant subsequently votes to establish, purchase, reconstruct, extend or enlarge a plant,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Failure to certify vote; penalty - Chapter 164, Section 39
  A city or town clerk failing to comply with any provision of the two preceding sections shall forfeit not more than twenty-five dollars.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Debt incurred for establishing, purchasing, extending, etc., light plant - Chapter 164, Section 40
  A city or town which has duly voted to acquire a municipal lighting plant may incur debt as provided in section eight of chapter forty-four...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enlargement of plant - Chapter 164, Section 41
  A city or town owning such a plant shall not, except by a vote taken in the manner prescribed in section eight of chapter forty-four,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Purchase of existing plant - Chapter 164, Section 42
  If, when a town votes to establish a municipal lighting plant, any person or municipality was, at the time of the first vote required by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Determination by department of purchase price; tender of deed; acquisition upon failure to tender - Chapter 164, Section 43
  If a town which votes to establish a municipal lighting plant fails, within one hundred and fifty days from the passage of the final vote...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1929, 379, Sec. 3 - Chapter 164, Section 44
  Repealed, 1929, 379, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Purchase of property in adjoining town - Chapter 164, Section 45
  If a town purchases a gas or electric lighting plant having mains, poles, wires or other distributing apparatus in an adjoining town where there is...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Distribution to adjoining town - Chapter 164, Section 46
  A town which has acquired, as hereinbefore provided, mains, poles, wires or other distributing apparatus in an adjoining town may thereafter manufacture, sell and distribute...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Extension of services to adjoining town - Chapter 164, Section 47
  The department may, after notice and a public hearing, authorize a town which has acquired a municipal lighting plant to extend its mains or lines...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Exemption from requirements allowing competitive choice of generation supply; prohibition of retail sales by nonmunicipal suppliers and electric companies within municipal service territory; sale of electricity at wholesale; sale of electricity in adjoining service territory; restrictions on service to present customers of municipal lighting plants; referendum on competitive choice of generation supply - Chapter 164, Section 47A
  (a) Any municipal lighting plant established pursuant to the provisions of this chapter or special law shall be exempt from the requirements to allow competitive...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Facilities and equipment located outside municipal limits - Chapter 164, Section 47B
  Any municipality acting by and through its municipal light board may construct, purchase, operate, own, lease, rent, maintain, dispose of, share costs of, or otherwise...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Municipal lighting plant cooperatives - Chapter 164, Section 47C
  (a) Any municipal lighting plant created in a manner provided for in this chapter shall be allowed to form cooperative public corporations for the purpose...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Exemption from public records and open meeting requirements in certain instances - Chapter 164, Section 47D
  A municipal lighting plant created pursuant to the provisions of this chapter or any special law shall be exempt from the public record requirements of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Facilities for operation of telecommunications systems for municipal use; construction, purchase, lease and maintenance; debt - Chapter 164, Section 47E
  A municipal lighting plant or a cooperative public corporation and any municipal lighting plant member thereof, established pursuant to this chapter or any general or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1929, 379, Sec. 7 - Chapter 164, Section 48 to 50
  Repealed, 1929, 379, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Purchase of gas, electricity, equipment, supplies or materials from another town - Chapter 164, Section 51
  A town which has acquired a plant for the manufacture or distribution of gas may purchase gas from another town authorized to sell the same...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Purchase of electricity by town from street railway - Chapter 164, Section 52
  A town in which no person or corporation is engaged in generating or distributing electricity for sale and which has voted or shall vote to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Delivery by street railway; metering - Chapter 164, Section 53
  Electricity supplied by a street railway company to a town shall be delivered to the distributing system of said town at some specified place or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Disagreement as to price paid to street railway; action of department - Chapter 164, Section 54
  If a town voting to purchase electricity from a street railway company is unable to agree with such company at the expiration of a contract,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Municipal light board - Chapter 164, Section 55
  A town which has established or votes to establish a gas or electric plant may elect a municipal light board consisting of either three or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Management of plant - Chapter 164, Section 56
  The mayor of a city, or the selectmen or municipal light board, if any, of a town acquiring a gas or electric plant shall appoint...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Municipal light commission; definition; contracts of members - Chapter 164, Section 56A
  The words “municipal light commission” as used in this section and in sections fifty-six B to fifty-six E, inclusive, shall mean a light commission, gas...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Contracts of commission; requisites - Chapter 164, Section 56B
  All contracts made by a municipal light commission where the amount involved is five thousand dollars or more shall be in writing. Any contract made...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Contracts of commission; filing with city or town auditor; preservation; public inspection; penalty - Chapter 164, Section 56C
  Every municipal light commission or manager thereof, who makes or executes a contract on behalf of a municipal lighting plant, where the amount involved is...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Contracts of commission; advertisements and bids; application of section - Chapter 164, Section 56D
  No contract for the purchase of equipment, supplies or materials, the actual or estimated cost of which amounts to $25,000 or more, and no contract...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Removal of members; notice and hearing; appeal - Chapter 164, Section 56E
  Any member of a municipal light board or municipal light commission appointed under the provisions of any general or special law may be removed by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Manager’s annual financial report; tax levy; expenditure of income - Chapter 164, Section 57
  At the beginning of each fiscal year, the manager of municipal lighting shall furnish to the mayor, selectmen or municipal light board, if any, an...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appropriations for maintenance and operation; payment in advance of receipts - Chapter 164, Section 57A
  Any city or town having a municipal light plant may appropriate money for the maintenance and operation of such plant, specifying that the same shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Income from investment or deposit of proceeds of municipal bonds or notes issued for gas or electrical purposes - Chapter 164, Section 57B
  Any city or town having a municipal light plant shall appropriate any income from the investment or deposit of proceeds of bonds or notes of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appropriations from insurance escrow account - Chapter 164, Section 57C
  Any city or town having a municipal light plan shall appropriate any income from the investment or deposit of funds in the insurance escrow account...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Schedule of prices for gas and electricity - Chapter 164, Section 58
  There shall be fixed schedules of prices for gas and electricity, which shall not be changed oftener than once in three months. Any change shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Advance deposit; shut off for non-payment; removal of appliances for distribution - Chapter 164, Section 58A
  A sufficient deposit to secure the payment for gas or electricity for 3 months may be required in advance from any consumer, and if the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Lien upon real estate for nonpayment of service charges - Chapter 164, Section 58B
  If the rates and charges due to a municipal lighting plant, which accepts the provisions of this section and sections fifty-eight C to fifty-eight F,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Time for and length of lien - Chapter 164, Section 58C
  Such lien shall take effect by operation of law on the day immediately following the due date of such rate or charge, and, unless dissolved...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unpaid charges added to real estate taxes - Chapter 164, Section 58D
  If a rate or charge for which a lien is in effect under section fifty-eight C has not been added to or committed as a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Interest on taxes due by reason of unpaid charges - Chapter 164, Section 58E
  Except as otherwise provided, the provisions of chapters fifty-nine and sixty shall apply, so far as pertinent, to all rates and charges certified to the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Abatement of real estate tax imposed by reason of unpaid charges - Chapter 164, Section 58F
  An owner of real estate aggrieved by a charge imposed thereon under sections fifty-eight B to fifty-eight E, inclusive, may apply for an abatement thereon...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of change of price to department - Chapter 164, Section 59
  When a town fixes or changes a price, a notice thereof in form specified by the department shall be filed within sixty days with the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Entitlement to service; review by department - Chapter 164, Section 60
  A town shall not be compelled to furnish gas or electricity to any person or corporation except upon order of the department, to whom any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Assessment of cost of establishing service - Chapter 164, Section 61
  A town acquiring a plant may provide by ordinance or by-law for the equitable assessment upon the owner or occupant of any premises of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Protection of plant; municipal ordinances - Chapter 164, Section 62
  A town operating a plant may pass ordinances or by-laws, imposing penalties not exceeding fifty dollars, to protect the plant, control its use and prevent...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Duties of municipality and its officers; violations; penalties - Chapter 164, Section 63
  A town manufacturing or selling gas or electricity for lighting shall keep records of its work and doings at its manufacturing station, and in respect...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1978, 512, Sec. 13 - Chapter 164, Section 64
  Repealed, 1978, 512, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application of chapter to plants authorized by special act - Chapter 164, Section 65
  A town authorized by special act to construct, purchase, lease, establish or maintain a gas or electric plant shall be subject to this chapter, so...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application of chapter and by-laws of town to plant authorized by special act - Chapter 164, Section 66
  This chapter, and all ordinances or by-laws of any town acting under its provisions relative to the manufacture, use or distribution of gas or electricity,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Revocation of rights, locations or licenses - Chapter 164, Section 67
  No town having within its limits the main gas works or the central electric station, or the major portion of the wires, poles, conduits or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of plant by town - Chapter 164, Section 68
  A town which has acquired a municipal lighting plant shall not sell it for the purpose of abandoning the distribution of gas or electricity to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement by supreme judicial court - Chapter 164, Section 69
  The supreme judicial court for the county where the town is situated shall have jurisdiction on petition of the department or of twenty taxable inhabitants...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Purchase, sale and distribution of natural gas by municipality - Chapter 164, Section 69A
  Any city or town which maintains or operates a municipal lighting plant which includes a gas plant may purchase, sell and distribute natural gas, and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 164, Section 69B
  The following words and phrases as used in sections sixty-nine C to sixty-nine F, inclusive, shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the following meanings:—...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Cadet engineers; power of city or town to contract for training; contents of contract - Chapter 164, Section 69C
  Any city or town owning or operating a municipal lighting or municipal gas plant pursuant to the provisions of this chapter may contract for the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Cadet engineers; selection - Chapter 164, Section 69D
  Applicants for training and employment as cadet engineers shall be selected by a selection committee as hereinafter provided upon request of the municipal light board....
• Massachusetts General Laws - Cadet engineers; civil service laws; retirement benefits; workmen’s compensation - Chapter 164, Section 69E
  The employment of the cadet engineer in “on the job training” shall not be subject to civil service laws and rules, but the appointment shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Expenses - Chapter 164, Section 69F
  All expenses, obligations or commitments for the payment of money incurred by the contracting city or town, pursuant to the provisions of sections sixty-nine B...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 164, Section 69G
  As used in section sixty-nine H to sixty-nine R, inclusive, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings:— “Applicant”, a person or persons...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Energy facilities siting board - Chapter 164, Section 69H
  There is hereby established an energy facilities siting board within the department, but not under the supervision or control of the department. Said board shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Hydropower generation facilities - Chapter 164, Section 69H1/2
  For the purpose of this section, the following words shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the following meanings:— “Federal Energy Regulatory Commission”, the federal...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Long-range forecasts of electric and gas companies; filing; hearings; approval - Chapter 164, Section 69I
  The department shall approve or reject long-range plans; provided, however, that a long-range plan submitted in conjunction with a petition to construct a facility may...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Petition for approval of construction; notice of intention to construct oil facilities; public hearings; approval or rejection - Chapter 164, Section 69J
  No applicant shall commence construction of a facility at a site unless a petition for approval of construction of that facility has been approved by...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Construction of generating facility - Chapter 164, Section 69J1/4
  No applicant shall commence construction of a generating facility unless a petition for approval of construction of that generating facility has been approved by the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fees for applications to construct electricity facilities - Chapter 164, Section 69J1/2
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the department may charge a fee of seventy-five thousand dollars for each application...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of environmental impact and public interest; construction of facilities; petition; issuance; conditions; state agencies and local governments restricted; transfer; amendment; applicability - Chapter 164, Section 69K
  Any electric, gas or oil company which proposes to construct or operate facilities in the commonwealth may petition the board for a certificate of environmental...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of environmental impact and public interest with respect to a generating facility - Chapter 164, Section 69K1/2
  Any applicant that proposes to construct or operate a generating facility in the commonwealth may petition the board for a certificate of environmental impact and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Petition for certificate or amendment thereof; form; information required; affidavit of service and notice - Chapter 164, Section 69L
  A. Except in the case of an application for a certificate with respect to a generating facility, which shall be subject to the provisions of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application for certificate with respect to a generating facility - Chapter 164, Section 69L1/2
  (a) An applicant for a certificate pursuant to section 69K1/2 shall file with the board a petition, in such form as the board may prescribe,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Public hearings on petitions; national pollutant discharge elimination system permit; notices; procedures; fact sheets - Chapter 164, Section 69M
  Upon receipt of a petition for a certificate in compliance with the provisions of section 69L or section 69L1/2, whichever is applicable, the board shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Parties in interest to proceedings - Chapter 164, Section 69N
  The parties in interest to the proceedings on a petition for a certificate shall include the following: (1) the applicant; (2) each public officer entitled...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Decision granting or denying application; findings and opinions; applicability - Chapter 164, Section 69O
  As expeditiously as possible but in no event later than six months from the date of filing of the petition for a certificate pursuant to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Decision granting or denying application with regard to a generating facility; findings and opinions - Chapter 164, Section 69O1/2
  As expeditiously as possible, but in no event later than 180 days from the date of filing a petition for a certificate with regard to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Judicial review - Chapter 164, Section 69P
  Any party in interest aggrieved by a decision of the board shall have a right to judicial review in the manner provided by section five...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Joint inter-agency investigations, hearings or orders; interstate compacts and federal agreements authorized - Chapter 164, Section 69Q
  The board, in the discharge of its duties under this chapter, is authorized to make joint investigations, hold joint hearings within or without the commonwealth,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Eminent domain; taking by electric or gas companies, generation companies or wholesale generation companies; procedures; restrictions - Chapter 164, Section 69R
  Any electric or gas company, generation company, or wholesale generation company may petition the department for the right to exercise the power of eminent domain...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Eminent domain with respect to oil pipelines; requisite procedures; rights relative to taking - Chapter 164, Section 69S
  Any company may petition the board for the right to exercise the power of eminent domain with respect to oil pipelines specified and contained in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Opening of streets by gas company; liability; repairing streets - Chapter 164, Section 70
  A gas company may, with the written consent of the aldermen or the selectmen, dig up and open the ground in any of the streets,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Application to department to lay main; hearing; determination; fees - Chapter 164, Section 70A
  Any gas company desiring to lay a main for the transmission of gas which will of necessity pass through one or more cities or towns...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Construction of transmission lines - Chapter 164, Section 71
  A corporation subject to this chapter may, as provided in chapter one hundred and sixty-six, construct lines for the transmission of electricity. Nothing in this...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Taking land for transmission lines - Chapter 164, Section 72
  (a) Any electric company, distribution company, generation company, or transmission company or any other entity providing or seeking to provide transmission service may petition the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Survey preliminary to eminent domain proceedings; notice to landowners; damages - Chapter 164, Section 72A
  The department may upon petition authorize an electric company to enter upon lands of any person or corporation for the purpose of making a survey...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Pipes, mains, wires and conduits crossing railroads - Chapter 164, Section 73
  A corporation subject to this chapter, to the extent that it is authorized to make, sell, transmit or distribute gas or electricity, or both, may,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Recovery by town of damages paid as result of defect in street - Chapter 164, Section 74
  If a person injured in his person or property by a defect in a public way caused by the operations of a corporation subject to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Regulation by municipal authorities - Chapter 164, Section 75
  The aldermen or selectmen may regulate, restrict and control all acts and doings of a corporation subject to this chapter which may in any manner...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Installation of gas meters; compliance with regulations for preventing escape of gas - Chapter 164, Section 75A
  No gas company or municipality distributing gas shall install or replace a meter measuring gas supplied to any premises except in accordance with regulations prescribed...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Qualifying to do business - Chapter 164, Section 75B
  Any person, partnership, corporation or any other legal entity, organized under the laws of the commonwealth which shall desire to construct and operate a natural...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Right of eminent domain - Chapter 164, Section 75C
  Any natural gas pipe line company may petition the department for the right to exercise the power of eminent domain under chapter seventy-nine. It shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Survey preliminary to eminent domain proceedings; liability - Chapter 164, Section 75D
  The provisions of section seventy-two A shall be applicable to natural gas pipe line companies.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Regulation of construction and operation - Chapter 164, Section 75E
  Natural gas pipe line companies shall be subject to such reasonable rules and regulations as the department may prescribe or adopt pertaining to the construction...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Restoration of ground surface following installation - Chapter 164, Section 75F
  Any natural gas pipe line company which lays pipes or other underground equipment or structures, or repairs or alters the same, on any land on...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Marking of location of underground line - Chapter 164, Section 75G
  Any natural gas pipe line company which lays pipes or other underground equipment or structures on any land on which it does not have a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licenses, permits, etc., for pipeline maintenance, construction and operation - Chapter 164, Section 75H
  A person, partnership, corporation or any other legal entity which intends to construct a natural gas pipeline within this state and has filed for a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Supervisory authority of department - Chapter 164, Section 76
  The department shall have the general supervision of all gas and electric companies and shall make all necessary examination and inquiries and keep itself informed...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dealings with affiliated companies - Chapter 164, Section 76A
  The department shall have the general supervision of every affiliated company, as defined in section eighty-five, with respect to all relations, transactions and dealings, direct...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Streets or ways; construction over, across or along high pressure gas mains - Chapter 164, Section 76B
  Any person or municipality laying out or constructing a street, place or way, except a residential driveway, over, across or along a high pressure gas...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations - Chapter 164, Section 76C
  The department may establish from time to time such reasonable rules and regulations consistent with this chapter as may be necessary to carry out the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Utility underground plant damage prevention system; establishment - Chapter 164, Section 76D
  All natural gas pipeline companies, cable television companies, steam distribution companies and public utility companies, as defined in section three of chapter twenty-five, shall create,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Annual report of department - Chapter 164, Section 77
  The department shall make an annual report of its doings under this chapter, with such suggestions as to the condition of affairs or conduct of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of violation - Chapter 164, Section 78
  If any electric, gas, generation, transmission, or distribution company, or any supplier violates or fails to comply with the provisions of law, or violates or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement of orders of department; equity jurisdiction - Chapter 164, Section 79
  The supreme judicial or superior court shall have jurisdiction in equity, upon application of the department, to enforce its lawful orders and all laws relative...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Location of office of company; records; inspection of records by department - Chapter 164, Section 80
  Gas and electric companies shall have an office in a town where their works are located and, unless otherwise authorized by the department, shall keep...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Form of books and accounts - Chapter 164, Section 81
  Gas and electric companies or persons engaged in the manufacture and sale or distribution of gas or electricity shall keep their books and accounts in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Form of records of work at manufacturing station - Chapter 164, Section 82
  Gas and electric companies and manufacturing companies or persons engaged in the manufacture or sale of gas or electricity shall keep such records of their...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Annual return; form; other information to department - Chapter 164, Section 83
  Gas and electric companies and manufacturing companies and persons engaged in the manufacture and sale or distribution and sale of gas or electricity shall annually,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Failure to make or amend return; penalty - Chapter 164, Section 84
  Each such gas or electric company or manufacturing company or person neglecting to make the annual return required by the preceding section shall, for the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Condensed return of business and financial condition - Chapter 164, Section 84A
  Gas and electric companies and manufacturing companies and persons engaged in the manufacture and sale or distribution and sale of gas or electricity shall file...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Examination of records by department; confidential nature of information; “affiliated company” defined - Chapter 164, Section 85
  The officers and employees of the department may be authorized by it to examine the books, contracts, records, documents and memoranda or the physical property...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Filing copies of existing contracts with affiliated companies - Chapter 164, Section 85A
  A gas or electric company that has, prior to the effective date of this section, entered into or shall thereafter enter into any contract with...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Emergency response plans; submission for review and approval; contents; penalties for failure to file; denial of recovery of service restoration costs for failure to implement emergency response plan - Chapter 164, Section 85B
  (a) Each electric distribution, transmission and natural gas distribution company conducting business in the commonwealth shall annually, on or before May 15, submit to the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Consent of municipality to entry of another gas company - Chapter 164, Section 86
  In a town where a gas company exists in active operation, or where a person owns or operates works for the manufacture and sale of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Consent of municipality to entry of another electric company - Chapter 164, Section 87
  In a town where a person is engaged in the manufacture, sale or distribution of electricity, no other person shall lay, erect, maintain or use,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Review of decision issued under Secs. 86 or 87 - Chapter 164, Section 88
  Any person aggrieved by the decision of the aldermen or selectmen, under either of the two preceding sections, may, within thirty days after notice of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rights of another municipality to enter another town - Chapter 164, Section 89
  A town which has duly acquired a municipal lighting plant and is authorized to supply gas or electricity in any other town shall have all...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Conditions imposed upon entry of supplier of electricity in bulk - Chapter 164, Section 90
  In consenting to the laying, erecting, maintaining or using by an electric company, for the sole purpose of supplying electricity in bulk, of any wires...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement of conditions imposed under Sec. 90 - Chapter 164, Section 91
  The supreme judicial or superior court shall have jurisdiction in equity, on application of the department or of the mayor of any city or the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Right of user to gas or electricity - Chapter 164, Section 92
  On written petition of any person, having a residence or place of business in a town where a corporation is engaged in the manufacture, transmission...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Right of user in bulk to gas - Chapter 164, Section 92A
  On written petition of any person, corporation or municipality aggrieved by the refusal or neglect to supply gas in bulk at reasonable rates by any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Price or quality of gas or electricity; public hearing; notice - Chapter 164, Section 93
  On written complaint of the attorney general, of the mayor of a city or the selectmen of a town where a gas or electric company...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Schedule of rates, prices and charges; contracts; filing; proposed changes; notices; investigations; hearings - Chapter 164, Section 94
  Electric companies shall file with the department schedules, not less frequently than every 5 years, and gas companies shall file with the department schedules, not...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sales of compressed natural gas for use as a motor fuel - Chapter 164, Section 941/2
  (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section ninety-four or any other law to the contrary, the rates and terms for the sale of compressed natural gas...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Contracts for purchase of gas or electricity; review of price paid - Chapter 164, Section 94A
  No gas or electric company shall hereafter enter into a contract for the purchase of gas or electricity covering a period in excess of one...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Contracts with affiliated companies; approval by department - Chapter 164, Section 94B
  No gas or electric company shall, without the approval of the department, hereafter enter into a contract with a company related to it as an...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dealings between gas or electric affiliated company; burden of proof - Chapter 164, Section 94C
  Whenever, in any proceeding before the department under section fourteen, ninety-two, ninety-two A, ninety-three, ninety-four, ninety-four A or ninety-four B, the reasonableness of any payment,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties for delinquencies and discounts - Chapter 164, Section 94D
  No gas or electric company shall collect from a customer on account of his failure to pay any bill due for gas or electricity furnished...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notification of termination of contract filed under Sec. 94 - Chapter 164, Section 94E
  A gas or electric company required to file any contract with the department under section ninety-four shall, unless such contract terminates at a time expressly...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rates, prices and charges of gas companies; effect of orders of F.P.C. - Chapter 164, Section 94F
  In connection with any investigation by the department concerning the rates, prices and charges made by a gas company, the department may take into consideration...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Proposed performance program; unit heat rate audit; public hearing; periodic report; deductions; fuel charge; base rates; rules and regulations - Chapter 164, Section 94G
  (a) At least once a year, on dates set by the department, each electric company having a fuel charge approved by the department shall file...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2012, 209, Sec. 19 - Chapter 164, Section 94G1/2
  Repealed, 2012, 209, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Condominiums; common areas; rates - Chapter 164, Section 94H
  No gas or electric company shall furnish gas or electricity to the common areas and facilities which are for the exclusive use of the owners...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Cost-allocation method for determining base distribution rates - Chapter 164, Section 94I
  In each base distribution rate proceeding conducted by the department under section 94, the department shall design base distribution rates using a cost-allocation method that...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reports of accidents - Chapter 164, Section 95
  Corporations, persons and municipalities engaged in the manufacture, sale, or distribution of gas or electricity shall, within twenty-four hours after every accident caused by gas...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Purchase, sale, consolidation or merger; procedure; public interest determination - Chapter 164, Section 96
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— “Control”, the possession of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Acquisition of water storage reservoir or hydro-electric plant by electric company - Chapter 164, Section 97
  An electric company may, subject to sections ninety-eight to one hundred and one, inclusive, from time to time purchase or acquire any or all of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rights of company acquiring water storage reservoir or hydro-electric plant - Chapter 164, Section 98
  The purchasing or consolidated company shall except as provided in the preceding section, have and enjoy all the powers, rights, locations, licenses, privileges and franchises,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Increase of capital stock to affect acquisition - Chapter 164, Section 99
  The purchasing or consolidated company may, for the purposes authorized by sections ninety-six and ninety-seven, increase its capital stock and issue bonds in the manner...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Property held as tenants in common by electric companies - Chapter 164, Section 99A
  Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, if an electric company acquires or owns an interest as a tenant in common with one or more domestic...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of property to another gas or electric company; exceptions - Chapter 164, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Time for filing applications for approval of sales or consolidations - Chapter 164, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Consolidation of Boston Consolidated Gas and Boston Edison - Chapter 164, 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.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Consolidation or merger; agreement, provisions; submission of article to state secretary; form; requisites and information; approval; effectiveness; filings - Chapter 164, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of consolidation or merger; issuance; fee - Chapter 164, 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,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement of consumer protection provisions; arbitration - Chapter 164, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Accuracy of meters; records - Chapter 164, 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,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fees of department for examining, comparing and testing gas meters - Chapter 164, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1956, 28 - Chapter 164, Section 105
  Repealed, 1956,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Storage, transportation and distribution of gas; regulation; violations; civil penalties - Chapter 164, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Regulation of quality of gas - Chapter 164, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Establishing calorific standard; companies exempt from furnishing gas of standard established - Chapter 164, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Calorimeter provided by company - Chapter 164, 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,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inspection of gas by department; establishing new standards of purity - Chapter 164, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Gas below standard; forfeiture - Chapter 164, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unit of measure for sale of gas - Chapter 164, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Meter provers - Chapter 164, 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,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Use of gas meters not tested, sealed or stamped; penalty - Chapter 164, 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,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Testing gas meters in use; cost of test - Chapter 164, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Easy ascertainment of gas meter reading - Chapter 164, Section 115
  Meters for measuring gas supplied to consumers shall register the quantity of gas passing through them in cubic feet so that the number of cubic...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Replacement of gas meters - Chapter 164, Section 115A
  Each meter for measuring gas provided by a gas company or municipal lighting plant to a consumer shall, not later than seven years from the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Entry on premises to examine and maintain gas or electric meters - Chapter 164, Section 116
  An officer or servant of a gas or electric company who is duly authorized in writing by the president, treasurer, agent or secretary or municipal...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Disconnection of services in case of fire, explosion or other disaster - Chapter 164, Section 116A
  In the event of a fire, explosion or other disaster, fire fighters and police officers shall permit any officer or servant of a gas or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Gas company to provide maintenance and improvement of gate boxes during street, sidewalk or road repair; application for assistance - Chapter 164, Section 116B
  Whenever the commonwealth or a city or town undertakes the repair of streets, roads or sidewalks the appropriate gas company shall provide for the maintenance...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Written statement of amount recorded given by meter reader - Chapter 164, Section 117
  When a gas or electric meter in a building owned or used by a customer of a gas or electric company is read by an...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Easy ascertainment of electric meter reading - Chapter 164, Section 118
  Meters for measuring electricity for lighting purposes supplied to consumers shall register the quantity of electricity passing through them in kilowatt hours, so that the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Meter rentals - Chapter 164, Section 119
  No charge for the use of a meter or for other similar purpose covering any portion of twelve consecutive months in connection with the supply...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Itemized statement of quantity of gas, electricity or fuel used at each of several rates - Chapter 164, Section 119A
  When a consumer is charged for gas or electricity at several rates according to the quantity used, his bill, to the extent that the gas...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Testing electric meters in use; cost of test - Chapter 164, Section 120
  A customer of a corporation subject to this chapter, or such corporation, may apply to the department for an examination and test of any electric...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Entry upon premises to make test; compensation of person making test; rules and regulations - Chapter 164, Section 121
  The person designated to make such examination and test may at any reasonable time enter upon the premises where the meter to be inspected is...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Use of incorrect meter; refund - Chapter 164, Section 122
  Whoever, being engaged in the sale of electricity, maintains upon the premises of a customer for the purpose of determining the charge to be made...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Prepayment meters; risk of loss of deposits - Chapter 164, Section 123
  All gas and electric companies using prepayment meters shall be responsible for the loss by fire of any money deposited in said meters.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Entry of premises to stop gas or electricity - Chapter 164, Section 124
  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a gas or electric company may stop gas or electricity from entering the premises of any person failing...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Shutting off or failing to restore service during serious illness - Chapter 164, Section 124A
  No gas or electric company shall shut off or fail to restore gas or electric service in any residence during such time as there is...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Shutting off gas or electric service for failure to pay for appliances; prohibition - Chapter 164, Section 124B
  No gas or electric company shall shut off gas or electric service in any home for the reason that a person has failed to pay...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nursing homes, homes for the aged, convalescent homes, and hospitals; shutting off gas or electric service - Chapter 164, Section 124C
  No gas or electric utility intending to shut off gas or electricity in any licensed nursing home, home for the aged, convalescent home or hospital,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Shutting off gas or electric service to tenants not customer of record - Chapter 164, Section 124D
  No gas or electric company shall shut off gas or electric service to any tenant residing in a dwelling unit who, under a rental arrangement,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Termination of gas and electric service; households with residents 65 or older - Chapter 164, Section 124E
  No gas or electric company shall shut off gas or electric service to any household in which all residents are sixty-five years of age or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Shutting off service during financial hardship - Chapter 164, Section 124F
  No gas or electric company shall between November fifteenth and March fifteenth shut off gas or electric service to any residential customer who cannot pay...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Restoration of service upon payment - Chapter 164, Section 124G
  No gas or electric company which shuts off gas or electric service of a residential customer in compliance with the provisions of this chapter shall,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Shutting off service in residence where infant domiciled - Chapter 164, Section 124H
  No gas or electric company shall shut off gas or electric service in any residence in which there is domiciled a person under the age...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties - Chapter 164, Section 124I
  Any company found by the department to have wilfully violated sections one hundred and twenty-four A to one hundred and twenty-four H, inclusive, shall be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Refusal to supply because of default of previous occupant - Chapter 164, Section 125
  A gas or electric company shall not refuse to supply gas or electricity for any building or premises to a person applying therefor who is...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Supply to commonwealth or municipality after expiration of contract; price - Chapter 164, Section 125A
  A gas or electric company, generation company, wholesale generation company, or supplier which has been furnishing gas or electricity to the commonwealth or any political...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Wilful injury or interference with gas meter or other property; penalty; prima facie evidence - Chapter 164, Section 126
  Whoever wilfully or fraudulently injures, disconnects, removes or otherwise interferes with, or suffers to be injured, disconnected, removed or otherwise interfered with, any meter, pipes...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Impersonating an officer or servant of a gas or electric company; penalties - Chapter 164, Section 126A
  Whoever falsely assumes, pretends to be or holds himself out as an officer or servant of a gas or electric company for the purpose of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Intentional injury to electric meter or other property; penalty; prima facie evidence - Chapter 164, Section 127
  Whoever unlawfully and with intent to avoid payment by himself or another person for a prospective or previously rendered service the charge or compensation for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Destruction of or tampering with, electric or gas lines, meters, etc.; theft of electricity or gas - Chapter 164, Section 127A
  Whoever unlawfully and intentionally injures or destroys, or suffers to be injured or destroyed, any meter, pipe, conduit, wire, line, pole, lamp or other apparatus...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Guaranty fund; payment of interest, application to charges and tolls; annual return statement; violations; penalty - Chapter 164, Section 128
  A corporation which has a franchise in and the use of the public streets of a town for the supply and distribution or only distribution,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 164, Section 129
  The following words, as used in sections one hundred and thirty to one hundred and thirty-two, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, or a different...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment of fund; filing and recording of trust instrument; trustee; dissolution of fund - Chapter 164, Section 130
  A municipal electric department is hereby authorized, upon a vote of its municipal light board, to participate in a fund and obligate itself, solely from...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and duties of fund and trustee; financial statement; amount of fund; authorized trust instrument provisions; amendments; consolidation or merger of fund; taxation - Chapter 164, Section 131
  A fund and the trustee shall have the rights and be subject to the legal responsibilities and obligations applicable to trusts and trustees under the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Exemption of trust fund from certain insurance laws - Chapter 164, Section 132
  A fund shall be exempt from the provisions of this chapter, except as provided in sections one hundred and twenty-nine to one hundred and thirty-two,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Emergency mutual aid - Chapter 164, Section 133
  As used in this section the following words shall have the following meanings:— “Assistance”, all acts of an assisting utility conducted for or on behalf...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Load aggregation programs - Chapter 164, Section 134
  (a) Any municipality or any group of municipalities acting together within the commonwealth is hereby authorized to aggregate the electrical load of interested electricity consumers...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Corporate retail load aggregators - Chapter 164, Section 135
  Any for-profit corporation, non-profit corporation, or quasi-public authority, organized pursuant to the laws of the commonwealth, is hereby authorized to establish a corporate retail load...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Cooperatives - Chapter 164, Section 136
  (a) Any number of persons may associate themselves together as a cooperative, with or without capital stock, for the transaction of any lawful business associated...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Participation in group purchasing of electricity, natural gas, telecommunications services or similar products - Chapter 164, Section 137
  Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, (i) any non-profit institution in the commonwealth or any agency, executive office, department, board, commission, bureau,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 164, Section 138
  As used in this section and sections 139 and 140, the following words shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the following meanings:— “Agricultural net...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Class I, II or III net metering facilities; election of net metering; tariffs; limitation on aggregate capacity; rules and regulations - Chapter 164, Section 139
  (a) A distribution company customer that uses electricity generated by a Class I or Class II net metering facility may elect net metering as follows:...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Neighborhood net metering facility; election of net metering; rules and regulations - Chapter 164, Section 140
  A neighborhood net metering facility shall elect net metering as follows: (a) If the electricity generated by the neighborhood net metering facility during a billing...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Decisions or actions regarding rate design; adjustment to low-income rate discount - Chapter 164, Section 141
  In all decisions or actions regarding rate designs, the department shall consider the impacts of such actions, including the impact of new financial incentives on...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Removal of impediments to development of efficient, low-emissions distributed generation - Chapter 164, Section 142
  The department shall continue to remove any impediments to the development of efficient, low-emissions distributed generation, including combined heat and power, taking into account the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Small municipal renewable energy generating facilities; issuance of bonds and notes; procurement of required services; receipt and use of revenues - Chapter 164, Section 143
  (a) For the purposes of this section, the term “small municipal renewable energy generating facility” shall mean a generating unit that is designed for, or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Uniform natural gas leaks classification system; grading of reported natural gas leaks; projects on public ways; school zones; gas company response and reporting - Chapter 164, Section 144
  [ Text of section added by 2014, 149, Sec. 2 effective September 24, 2014.] (a) There shall be uniform natural gas leaks classification for all...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Plan for replacement or improvement of aging or leaking natural gas infrastructure - Chapter 164, Section 145
  [ Text of section added by 2014, 149, Sec. 2 effective October 1, 2014. See 2014, 149, Sec. 10.] (a) For the purposes of this...

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