General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 165 Water and Aqueduct Companies
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 165, Section 1
In sections one to eleven, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meanings:— “Corporation” or “company”, every person, partnership, association or corporation, other than...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Adequacy of distribution system; approval - Chapter 165, Section 1A
No corporation or company shall engage in the distribution or sale of water in the commonwealth through its pipes or mains unless written approval of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations - Chapter 165, Section 1B
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 - Plastic pipe connections; installation; notice to property owner or occupant; grounding of structure; penalty - Chapter 165, Section 1C
No water company shall install plastic pipe connections in any building or dwelling house without first giving notice to the occupant or owner of said...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Application of other statutes - Chapter 165, Section 2
Sections four through eight D, ten, eleven, twelve, twelve A, thirteen, fourteen, sixteen, sixteen A, seventeen, seventeen A, eighteen, nineteen, twenty-one through twenty-five, thirty-three, seventy-eight...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Filing schedule of rates and prices by water districts - Chapter 165, Section 2A
Water districts shall file with the department schedules, in such form as the department shall from time to time prescribe, showing all rates, prices and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Base rate for water charges and fees; increases for high volume users - Chapter 165, Section 2B
All municipalities or water districts within the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, but not including communities serviced by the Connecticut Valley Aqueduct shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Powers of department of environmental protection; impairment - Chapter 165, Section 3
This chapter shall not affect or impair the powers and duties of the department of environmental protection with respect to water supply under chapter one...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Supervisory authority of department - Chapter 165, Section 4
The department shall have general supervision of all corporations and companies subject to this chapter, and shall make all necessary examinations and inquiries and keep...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Filing copies of existing contracts with affiliated companies; violations - Chapter 165, Section 4A
A water company that has, prior to the effective date of this section, entered into or shall thereafter enter into any contract with an affiliated...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Water companies; eminent domain or purchase; waters, water rights, lands and easements - Chapter 165, Section 4B
Any water company or corporation subject to this chapter having franchise rights encompassing an entire city, town or district may, subject to determination by the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Acquisition of water works and other water company property by town - Chapter 165, Section 5
In all proceedings for the acquisition by a town of the water works and other property of a water company created by special law in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Engineering services and advice - Chapter 165, Section 6
In all proceedings conducted by the department under the laws relating to the petition of any water company for authorization to issue capital stock or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Annual report - Chapter 165, Section 7
The department shall make an annual report of all its doings under this chapter, together with such suggestions as to the condition of affairs or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Opening of streets by one other than water company; consent of municipal officers - Chapter 165, Section 8
In a town where a water company exists in active operation, no other company or person shall dig up and open the streets, lanes and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Review of action of municipal officers relating to opening of streets - Chapter 165, Section 9
Any corporation, company or person aggrieved by the decision of the aldermen or selectmen under the preceding section may, within thirty days after notice of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Testing of meters; report; cost - Chapter 165, Section 10
A customer of a company or corporation subject to this chapter, or such company or corporation, may apply to the department for an examination and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Intentional injury to or interference with meter; penalty - Chapter 165, Section 11
Whoever unlawfully and intentionally injures, or suffers to be injured, a water meter belonging to a city, town, district, or company engaged in supplying water,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Procedure for shutting off the flow of water on failure to pay lawful charges - Chapter 165, Section 11A
Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a water company may shut off the flow of water from its mains or pipes to the premises...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Shutting off water service to domicile occupied by seriously ill person; notice; penalty - Chapter 165, Section 11B
No water company shall intentionally shut off the water service to any domicile occupied by a person who is seriously ill if the company receives...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Indebtedness of prior property owner; water supply for new owner - Chapter 165, Section 11C
A water company shall not refuse to supply water to any premises on application of the owner thereof because of the indebtedness of a prior...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Entry on premises to examine water meters and facilities - Chapter 165, Section 11D
Any person employed by a city, town, district or company engaged in supplying water who displays on his outer garment a suitable identification badge bearing...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Shutting off water to non-customer occupants in residential buildings; notice; procedures; payment of amount due; effect of waiver; reprisals; penalties; rules and regulations - Chapter 165, Section 11E
No water company shall shut off the flow of water to any residential building in which the occupant thereof is not the customer of record...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Application to other statutes - Chapter 165, Section 12
Aqueduct companies shall, except as otherwise herein provided, be subject to chapter one hundred and fifty-eight and also to sections four to ten, inclusive, of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of payment of capital stock - Chapter 165, Section 13
Immediately after the payment of the capital of an aqueduct company, as authorized by the state secretary, a certificate, signed and sworn to by its...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Conveyance of property in payment for stock - Chapter 165, Section 14
A conveyance to an aqueduct company of real or personal property at a fair valuation shall be a sufficient payment of the capital stock to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Corporations organized under earlier law; meetings and records - Chapter 165, Section 15
The proprietors of an aqueduct corporation, which has been organized under chapter one hundred and ten of the Public Statutes or corresponding provisions of earlier...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Record of proprietors’ names - Chapter 165, Section 16
The clerk, at or immediately after the first meeting, shall enter in the books the names of the several proprietors and the shares owned by
- Massachusetts General Laws - Officers - Chapter 165, Section 17
The proprietors may choose any number of directors and other officers to manage the business; and the directors shall choose one of their number to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Assessments; defaults; sale of shares - Chapter 165, Section 18
The directors may make such assessments on each share as they find necessary; and, upon the default of a proprietor for thirty days after notice...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1941, 275, Sec. 1 - Chapter 165, Section 19
Repealed, 1941, 275, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Opening streets or ways - Chapter 165, Section 20
Such corporation may, with the written consent of the aldermen of a city or the selectmen of a town, dig up and open any street...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Continuing liability on contracts after dissolution - Chapter 165, Section 21
Contracts made by or with such a corporation shall remain in force after its dissolution, and the shareholders at such dissolution shall continue liable and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Satisfaction of judgment against shareholders after dissolution - Chapter 165, Section 22
If no corporate property can be found to satisfy a judgment recovered against the shareholders after the dissolution, and it is not satisfied within six...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Interest of shareholders in real property after dissolution - Chapter 165, Section 23
If the corporation at its dissolution is seized of real estate, the proprietors shall become tenants in common thereof in proportion to their respective shares...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Malicious injury to aqueduct; penalty - Chapter 165, Section 24
Whoever maliciously injures an aqueduct or any of its appurtenances shall forfeit not more than one hundred dollars to the use of the town where...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Conductors from aqueducts for fire fighting - Chapter 165, Section 25
A town in which such aqueduct is situated may put conductors into the pipes for the purpose of drawing therefrom, free of expense, as much...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Means of taking water for fire fighting - Chapter 165, Section 26
If the selectmen consider it necessary, for the protection of persons and property in their town against fire, to take water from the conductors or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Recovery of land owner for damages - Chapter 165, Section 27
Any person who has sustained injury in his land or by the diversion of water by the operations of an aqueduct corporation, and who is...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Acquisition of real estate in excess of limit - Chapter 165, Section 28
Any water or aqueduct company which is limited by its charter or by any other special law as to the amount of real estate which...
Last modified: September 11, 2015