General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 164A New England Power Pool
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 164A, Section 1
The following words as used in this chapter shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the following meanings: “Department”, the department of public utilities. “Domestic...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Agreement provisions authorized - Chapter 164A, Section 2
The New England power pool agreement may provide for, among other things: (a) the pooling of power; (b) coordination of planning, construction and operation and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Additional powers of member domestic electric utilities - Chapter 164A, Section 3
Notwithstanding any contrary provision of any general or special law relating to the powers and authorities of domestic electric utilities or any limitation imposed by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Additional powers of member foreign electric utilities - Chapter 164A, Section 4
Notwithstanding any contrary provision of any general or special law relating to the powers and authorities of foreign electric utilities, but subject to the conditions...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Acquisition or ownership of interests in electric power facilities; tenancy in common; surrender or waiver of right of partition; validity and enforceability - Chapter 164A, Section 5
If any domestic or foreign electric utility acquires or owns an interest as a tenant in common with one or more other domestic or foreign...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Contracts; term; effect of termination of pool or agreement; exclusion from municipal debt for borrowing purposes - Chapter 164A, Section 6
Contracts under sections three and four (i) may be for a term or for an indefinite period and shall, unless otherwise provided therein, not be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Assessment and taxation of foreign electric utilities - Chapter 164A, Section 7
[ Subsection (a) effective until January 1, 2014. For text effective January 1, 2014, see below.](a) A foreign electric utility shall be subject to assessment...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Taxation of municipal electric departments owning interests in electric power facilities; definitions; exemptions; payments in lieu of taxes; application of other laws - Chapter 164A, Section 8
(a) Notwithstanding the definition of “electric power facilities” in section one, for the purposes of this section only, “electric power facilities” with respect to municipal...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Application of other laws to pool members; rate base factors - Chapter 164A, Section 9
(a) Except as otherwise expressly provided in this chapter, a domestic electric utility shall not be exempt from nor lose the benefits of any applicable...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Foreign electric utilities; ownership or operation of electric power facilities in commonwealth; notice, annual report and information to department; financing; application of laws - Chapter 164A, Section 10
(a) Each foreign electric utility which is acting pursuant to authority granted in this chapter shall, before owning or operating any electric power facilities in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Revenue bonds for project costs; interim receipts or temporary bonds; issuance; agreement for consolidation of indebtedness by participating municipalities authorized - Chapter 164A, Section 11
(a) Any city or town which is a member of the New England power pool, acting by its municipal light board, when authorized by a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Borrowing in anticipation of bonds; temporary notes; issuance by city or town - Chapter 164A, Section 12
In anticipation of the authorization or issue of bonds under this chapter, and subject to the approval of the department under this chapter, a city...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Resolutions or trust agreements securing bonds or notes; provisions; limitations; deposit, investment and application of proceeds; pledges - Chapter 164A, Section 13
(a) In the discretion of the board, but subject to the terms of the department’s approval and of the authorizing vote, any bonds or notes...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Proceeds of bonds or notes issued and moneys governed by trust agreement or resolution; deposit or investment - Chapter 164A, Section 14
Subject to the trust agreement or resolution, the proceeds of bonds or notes issued under this chapter and any other moneys governed by the trust...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bonds and notes issued; payment; liability of city or town limited; exclusion from municipal debt for borrowing purposes - Chapter 164A, Section 15
The bonds and notes issued under this chapter shall be payable solely from the funds provided therefor under this chapter, the liability of the city...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Receipts of city or town under this chapter to be held and applied in trust - Chapter 164A, Section 16
All moneys received by the city or town under this chapter shall be deemed to be trust funds to be held and applied solely as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Actions and proceedings upon bonds and notes - Chapter 164A, Section 17
Any holder of bonds or notes issued under this chapter, or of any of the coupons appertaining thereto, and the trustee under a trust agreement...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bonds and notes issued as legal investments - Chapter 164A, Section 18
Bonds and notes issued under this chapter are hereby made securities in which all public officers and public bodies of the commonwealth and its political...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bonds and notes deemed investment securities - Chapter 164A, Section 19
Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this chapter or any recitals in any bonds and notes issued under this chapter, all such bonds and notes...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bonds and notes issued; transfer, income or profit; tax exemption - Chapter 164A, Section 20
The bonds and notes issued under this chapter, their transfer and the income therefrom, including any profit made on the sale thereof, shall at all...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Refunding bonds; issuance authorized; restrictions - Chapter 164A, Section 21
Any city or town having bonds outstanding under this chapter, acting by its municipal light board, when authorized by a two-thirds vote as defined in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bonds and notes; issuance authorized - Chapter 164A, Section 22
Bonds and notes may be issued under this chapter without the consent of any department, division, commission or agency of the commonwealth or of any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Zoning regulations; exemption of facilities used by electric utilities - Chapter 164A, Section 23
For the purposes of section ten of chapter forty A, an electric power facility located within the commonwealth and used or to be used by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Transmission lines of electric utilities; petition for authority to construct, use or take rights of way by eminent domain authorized - Chapter 164A, Section 24
Lines for transmission of electricity which are electric power facilities, as defined in section one, shall, irrespective of the destination of the electricity to be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Ownership or control of domestic electric utilities by foreign corporations; applicability of corporation law - Chapter 164A, Section 25
A domestic electric utility shall not be subject to the provisions of section ten of chapter one hundred eight-one in the event a foreign corporation,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Municipal electric departments; application of chapter - Chapter 164A, Section 26
With respect to municipal electric departments, this chapter shall be applicable only to such municipal electric departments as were in existence on January first, nineteen...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Construction of chapter - Chapter 164A, Section 27
This chapter shall be construed in all respects so as to meet all constitutional requirements. Except as expressly provided herein, the provisions of this chapter...
Last modified: September 11, 2015