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AN ACT 70 provide for the incorporation and
control of Gas and Electric Companies, Tor
lighting, heating, manufacturing and mechan-
ical purposes.
making, generating, selling, distributing and
supplying gas or electricity. or both, 1or ngnt-
ing, heating, manufacturing or mecn2nicai
purposes in any city or town. OF t lWo state or
for either or any such purposes, may pc organ
lied under the provisions OF secIions siAIecl,
seventeen, eighteen, nineteen ana sweny ~ ~
chapter forty-eight Of the revised statues "a
this state, and acts amendatory thereoI anu
additional thereto, and all PROVISIONS OF sa.u 4
chapter and acts are hereby made aPpncaoie 70
such corporations. But no corporation, organ.
lied hereunder, shall have authority, wltnou'
special act Of the legislature TO make, generate,
sell, distribute or supply gas or electricity, VI
town. in or to which another company, person
or firm are making, generating, senng, uissii
butIng or supplying, or are authorizea 10 In4Ac,
generate. sell, distribute or supply gas OF
electricity, or both, without the consent OF such
other company, person or hrm.
SECT O. The certificate provided by sara sec
ton eighteen to be prepared ana nted IN az
secretary of states office, shall specify IN auui-
ton to the statements required by SAID sectioH,
the city or town, or the adjoining cities or
towns within which said corporation PROPOSES
to make generate, sell, distribute or supply
gas or electricity, or both. for the purposes
named in section one OF this act ana no corpora
ton shall be authorized to make. generate, seli,
city or town not specified in said certihcate.
SECT. 3. Any manufacturing corporation
located and doing business IN town OF city III
which a company Incorporated under TINS acI
proposes to manufacture and introduce gas or
electricity for any of the purposes named IN
this act may take and hold stock In such gas OF
electric company to an amount not exceeding
ten per cent of the capital stock of such last
named company. ,
this act shall be authorized to purchase, noIu
/ n y,
erty as shall be necessary for the purposes LOT
which it is created
SECT. 5. Every such corporation shall nave
authority to lay its pipes and wires ana con-
struct and maintain its lines in, upon, along
over across and under the roads and streets IN
any city or town in which 1t IS authorized 10
supply gas or electricity, or both, SUBJECT now
ever, to the conditions and restrictions herein,
after royided. But no corporation ORGANIZED
hereunder shall have authority, except py
special act of the legislature, TO take, apgro.
pirate or use, the location, pipes, lines or other
property of any other corporation, person OF
| firm, doing or authorized to do a similar DUST
ness, without the consent of such other corpora
| ton, person or firm. "a.
| seer g. No such corporation shall lay It's
pipes or bury its wires i'll any road or street, or
dig up or open the ground in any road or street,
until it shall have obtained permit In writing
from the municipal officers OF the city or Town.
in which such road or street is located, Whicn
permit shall be signed by such municipal ON,
GERS and shall specify the roads and streets anu
the location therein in which such pipes or
wires shall be laid but such permit snail not
affect the right of any party or parties 10 re-
cover damages for any injury to persons OF
property by the doings of any such corporation.
Upon application to them for such perlnit, inc
municipal officers to whom it Is presented Snail
appoint time and place OF nearing ine eotcs
and cause said corporation to give puDllc nollGe
thereof by publication in some newspaper pun
lished or printed in said city or town. II any, az
least fourteen days before said hearing 1o NO
or city, then by posting such notice IN Two OF
more public and conspicuous places tnereih' d.
least fourteen days before said hearing. Az
such hearing any resident and property owner
lin said city or town, and all other parties inter-
ested, may appear, and shall be given an oppor-
| tunity to be heard.
| open such roads and streets in such manner
| as to discomnode the public travel as httle ~
| possible and shall put all such highways, ROADS
| and streets which It shall dig into and open,
| into as good repair as they were before they
were dug into and opened; and on failure SO TO
do within a reasonable time such corporation
| shall be decreed guilty of nuisance.
| SECT. 8. Every such corporation authorized
| to make generate, distribute ana supply eleG,
tricity for the purposes named IN tnis acC sh:an
| be authorized to construct anu malntaih ios
poles lines, fixtures and appliances upon, along,
| over and across the roads and streets OF any
city or town in which it is authorized TO 90 Dusl
| ness upon the conditions and under the resIric-
| tions provided herein and by chapter three
| hundred and seventy-eight of the pubic laws OF
eighteen hundred and eighty-hve, and all acts
additional thereto and amendatory thereoI, anu
| ali the provisions of said chapter and acts NOT
| inconsistent herewith are hereby maae applt
| cable to such corporations; provided, however,
| that the same shall not be so constructed as 70
| incommode the use of such roads and streets
| for public travel; and provided, further, tnat
| no such corporation shall inJure, cut down or
| destroy any fruit trees, or any tree OF snrup
standing and growing for the purposes Oh shade
or ornament 1900. :
| SECT. o. Any such corporation, by vote at
| meeting of its stockholders called Tor the pur-
| nose NAV issue coupon or registered bonds TO
provide means for constructing its lines and
| plant funding its floating debt or TOT Ihe pay
ment of money borrowed for any lawful PUT
pose and may mortgage or pledge, as security
| for the payment of the principal and interest,"
of such bonds a part or all of It's property anu
| franchise. Such bonds may be issued IN sums
not less than one hundred dollars each; payaoie
at periods not exceeding twenty years from the
date thereof, and bearing interest," n0t exceed
ing six per cent year payable annually OF se,i
annually, to an amount which, inciuuing that
I of bonds previously issued, shall not exceed In
all the capital stock of the corporation actual
/ ly paid in at the time.
| Seer. 10. Every corporation Incorporatedu I'M
der the provisions of this act shall be liable In
| ali cases to repay any city or town all sums of
| money that said city or town may ne oDilRed
| to nay on any Judgment recovered against IL 1or
| DAMAGES accustomed by any obstruction, digging
| nm or displacement of any way or street by said
corporation together with counsel fees and
| EXPENSES necessarily incurred in defending said
town in actions therefor; provided, however,
I
| commencement of any and all suits for such
| damage and such corporation shall have the
right to defend any such action at It's own
Seer. IL. This act shall take effect when
approved. Approved March ISL
| Chapter 1903.
| AN ACT to provide for the incorporation and
| control of Telegraph Companies and Tele-
| phone Companies.
| seer 1. Telegraph companies and telephone
| COMPANIES and companies for the operation OF
both telegraphs and telephones may be organ
| lied under the provisions of sections sixteen,
seventeen. eighteen, nineteen and twenty of
| chapter forty-eight of the revised statutes OF
| this state and acts amendatory thereof and ad.
| ditional thereto and all the provisions of said
| sections and acts are hereby made applicable
| to such corporations.
/ SrcT . The certificate provided by said
section eighteen to be prepared and MED IN the
secretary of states office, shall set forth in
| addition to the statements required by said
section, the general route of telegraph or tele-
phone lines proposed to he constructed by such
| corporation and the points to be connected
| thereby.
| SECT 8. Corporations organized under the
| provisions of this act shall have authority,
! except as herein limited, to construct, main
| tain and operate it's lines upon and along the
| route or routes and between the points stated
| in lis certificate of Incorporation. But no cor
| poratiou organized hereunder shall have au-
thority without special act of the legislature, to
| construct its lines along the route or routes,
used or authorized to be used, by any other tel
egraph or telephone company, person or firm
or between points connected, or authorized TO
he connected. by the lines of any such company