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MA Gen L ch 164a § 21 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 164a - New England Power Pool|Section 21 - Refunding Bonds; Issuance Authorized; Restrictions

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 section one of chapter forty-four, may issue refunding bonds for the purpose of paying bonds issued by it or on its behalf under sections eleven to twenty-two, inclusive, at maturity or upon acceleration or redemption, subject to the approval of the department under this chapter. The refunding bonds may be issued in sufficient amounts to pay or provide the principal of the bonds being refunded, together with any redemption premium thereon, any interest accrued or to accrue to the date of payment of such bonds, the expenses of issue of the refunding bonds, the expenses of redeeming the bonds being refunded, and such reserves for debt service or other capital or current expenses from the proceeds of such refunding bonds as may be required by a trust agreement or resolution securing bonds or notes. The refunding bonds may be issued not more than five years prior to the maturity or redemption date of bonds being refunded. The issue of refunding bonds, the maturities and other details thereof, the security therefor, the rights of the holders thereof, and the rights, duties and obligations of the city or town in respect of the same shall be governed by the provisions of this chapter relating to the issue of bonds other than refunding bonds insofar as the same may be applicable, but no bonds shall be refunded to a date later than the refunded bonds could have matured hereunder.
MA Gen L ch 164a § 22 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 164a - New England Power Pool|Section 22 - Bonds and Notes; Issuance Authorized

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 political subdivision thereof and without any other proceedings or the happening of any other conditions or things than those proceedings, conditions or things which are specifically required therefor by this chapter. The provisions of this chapter authorizing the issue of bonds and notes shall not be deemed to preclude the issue of bonds and notes under any other authority.
MA Gen L ch 164a § 23 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 164a - New England Power Pool|Section 23 - Zoning Regulations; Exemption of Facilities Used by Electric Utilities

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 one or more domestic or foreign electric utilities pursuant to authority set forth in this chapter shall be considered a building, structure or land used or to be used by a public service corporation and each such utility shall be considered a public service corporation.
MA Gen L ch 164a § 24 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 164a - New England Power Pool|Section 24 - Transmission Lines of Electric Utilities; Petition for Authority to Construct, Use or Take Rights of Way by Eminent Domain Authorized

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 transmitted thereover, be lines for the transmission of electricity for which an electric utility may petition under section seventy-two of chapter one hundred sixty-four for authority to construct and use, or continue to use, or to take by eminent domain under chapter seventy-nine lands, or rights-of-way or widenings thereof.
MA Gen L ch 164a § 25 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 164a - New England Power Pool|Section 25 - Ownership or Control of Domestic Electric Utilities by Foreign Corporations; Applicability of Corporation Law

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, as defined in said chapter, owns or controls a majority of the capital stock of said domestic electric utility, provided such ownership or control results from action pursuant to authority granted by this chapter.
MA Gen L ch 164a § 26 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 164a - New England Power Pool|Section 26 - Municipal Electric Departments; Application of Chapter

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 hundred and seventy-three, and to such additional municipal electric departments created after that date which comply with the following provisions:  (a) Such an additional municipal electric department shall first acquire or construct a plant for the generation, transmission or distribution of electricity only after the department, after notice and opportunity for hearing, shall have found that such acquisition or construction and the terms thereof to be consistent with the public interest and that the facilities for furnishing and distributing electricity in the territory to be served by such municipal electric department would not be diminished thereby; and  (b) The two votes required by section thirty-five or thirty-six of chapter one hundred sixty-four shall have been at meetings held not less than twelve months apart nor more than twenty-four months apart.
MA Gen L ch 164a § 27 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 164a - New England Power Pool|Section 27 - Construction of Chapter

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 shall not affect the interpretation of other laws. If any provision of this chapter shall be held unconstitutional, such unconstitutionality shall not affect any other provisions, except as hereinafter set forth in this section. In the event it is finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction that a municipal electric department is not subject, with respect to any electric power facilities financed under sections eleven to twenty-two, inclusive, to payments in lieu of taxes under paragraphs (b), (c) or (d) of section eight by reason of the unconstitutionality of any of said paragraphs, or that the borrowing limitation set forth in clause (i) of paragraph (1) of subsection (b) of section nine is unconstitutional, the municipal electric department involved shall, and any person may, file written notice of such decision with the department. Such notice shall include a statement that it is filed pursuant to this section. After such a filing the department shall not have any further authority to approve the issue of bonds under this chapter except (i) where it finds that any electric utility has, prior to such filing, undertaken substantial expense or liability in expectation of such bond financing, or (ii) where notes have been issued, prior to such a filing, under sections eleven to twenty-two, inclusive, in anticipation of revenue bonds.
MA Gen L ch 164b § 1 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 164b - Regulation of Steam Distribution Companies|Section 1 - Supervision by Department of Public Utilities

Section 1. For purposes of this chapter, the term ''department'' shall refer to the department of public utilities. The department shall have supervision of facilities operated by steam distribution companies for the sole purpose of ensuring public safety and shall establish reasonable rules and regulations pertaining to the construction and operation of steam distribution facilities and equipment used in manufacturing and transporting steam. The department shall keep itself informed as to the methods, practices, and condition of all facilities and equipment associated with the distribution of steam, including ducts and conduits, and shall make such examinations and investigations of the steam distribution system as necessary, including the adequacy of operation, maintenance and capital improvements to insure safe operation of facilities operated by a steam distribution company.
MA Gen L ch 164b § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 164b - Regulation of Steam Distribution Companies|Section 2 - Filing of Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws; Safety Report; Penalty for Failure to Comply With Regulations

Section 2. Each steam distribution company shall file a certified copy of its certificate of incorporation and bylaws with the department. By March first of each year each company shall file a report on safety related matters as the department may specify, including but not limited to number, duration and causes of all steam leakage incidents, distribution system accidents and service outages, time elapsed between the incident and the return to service following a repair. The department may levy fines against a steam distribution company for failure to comply with regulations promulgated by the department. In determining the appropriateness of any fine, the department shall consider the seriousness of the violation and the good faith compliance efforts of the steam distribution company.
MA Gen L ch 164b § 3 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 164b - Regulation of Steam Distribution Companies|Section 3 - Notice to Attorney General of Violation of Chapter; Authority of Municipality and Department of Fire Services Undiminished

Section 3. The department shall provide written notice to the attorney general of any violation of this chapter. The department's authority shall not diminish the authority of any municipality to regulate steam distribution, nor shall it diminish the authority of the department of fire services under chapter 146.
MA Gen L ch 164b § 4 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 164b - Regulation of Steam Distribution Companies|Section 4 - Exemption

Section 4. Any entity operating a steam distribution system that does not meet the definition of a steam distribution company set forth in section 1 of chapter 164 shall be exempt from the requirements of this chapter and section 18A of chapter 25 if the entity files a detailed inspection and maintenance plan with the department every 2 years.
MA Gen L ch 165 § 1 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 165 - Water and Aqueduct Companies|Section 1 - Definitions

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 a municipal corporation, and other than a landlord supplying his tenant, engaged in the distribution and sale of water in the commonwealth through its pipes or mains.  ''Department'', the department of public utilities.
MA Gen L ch 165 § 1a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 165 - Water and Aqueduct Companies|Section 1a - Adequacy of Distribution System; Approval

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 the adequacy of its distribution system has first been obtained from the department, and unless proof of compliance with chapter one hundred and eleven has been furnished to the department.
MA Gen L ch 165 § 1b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 165 - Water and Aqueduct Companies|Section 1b - Rules and Regulations

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 administration thereof.
MA Gen L ch 165 § 1c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 165 - Water and Aqueduct Companies|Section 1c - Plastic Pipe Connections; Installation; Notice to Property Owner or Occupant; Grounding of Structure; Penalty

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 building or dwelling house, and sending a copy of such notice to the wire inspector of the city or town in which the building or dwelling house is located. Such notice shall include a warning that the required grounding of the building or dwelling house might be affected by the installation of plastic pipe. Within thirty days of such notice, the owner of such building or dwelling house shall cause the building or dwelling house to be properly grounded. Upon the expiration of such thirty day period, the wire inspector shall inspect the building or dwelling house to determine that the building or dwelling house has been grounded in accordance with safety standards.  Whoever fails to ground a building or dwelling house in accordance with safety standards within thirty days after such notice, as hereinbefore provided, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars.
MA Gen L ch 165 § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 165 - Water and Aqueduct Companies|Section 2 - Application of Other Statutes

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 through eight-four, ninety-two, ninety-three, ninety-four, ninety-six, ninety-eight, ninety-nine, one hundred and one, one hundred and two A, one hundred and two B and one hundred and twenty-eight of chapter one hundred and sixty-four shall include and apply to all such corporations and companies, provided that nothing in section five A or section six of said chapter shall require the inclusion of the words ''electric company'' or ''gas company'' in the name of any such corporation or company.
MA Gen L ch 165 § 2a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 165 - Water and Aqueduct Companies|Section 2a - Filing Schedule of Rates and Prices by Water Districts

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 charges to be charged or collected within the commonwealth for the sale and distribution of water.
MA Gen L ch 165 § 2b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 165 - Water and Aqueduct Companies|Section 2b - Base Rate for Water Charges and Fees; Increases for High Volume Users

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 institute water charges and fees that incorporate a base rate for all users; provided, that said base rate shall be increased at an increasing block rate to fairly reflect the resource demand and consumption of high volume users of water.
MA Gen L ch 165 § 3 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 165 - Water and Aqueduct Companies|Section 3 - Powers of Department of Environmental Protection; Impairment

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 hundred and eleven.
MA Gen L ch 165 § 4 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 165 - Water and Aqueduct Companies|Section 4 - Supervisory Authority of Department

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 itself informed as to the compliance by all such corporations and companies with the law.
MA Gen L ch 165 § 4a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 165 - Water and Aqueduct Companies|Section 4a - Filing Copies of Existing Contracts With Affiliated Companies; Violations

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 company as herein defined, for the payment of any fees, salaries, commissions or percentages for services of any kind furnished or rendered, or to be furnished or rendered, to such water company shall file with the department within ten days after said effective date a copy of any such existing contract and any extension or modification thereof, if in writing, or, if not in writing, a statement of all the terms thereof, and within ten days after the execution of any such contract, or of any extension or modification of any such contract whether or not existing on said effective date, a copy thereof, if in writing, or, if not in writing, a statement setting forth all the terms thereof. The words ''affiliated company'', as appearing in this section, shall be defined as in section eighty-five of chapter one hundred and sixty-four except that, in construing the definition in said section eighty-five for the purposes hereof, the words ''a company subject to this chapter'' shall mean a company as defined in section one of this chapter. A water company failing to file a copy or statement as required herein shall forfeit five dollars for each day during which such failure continues. All such forfeitures may be recovered by an information in equity brought in the supreme judicial court by the attorney general, at the relation of the department, and when so recovered shall be paid to the commonwealth.
MA Gen L ch 165 § 4b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 165 - Water and Aqueduct Companies|Section 4b - Water Companies; Eminent Domain or Purchase; Waters, Water Rights, Lands and Easements

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 department after notice and a public hearing as to the public convenience and necessity, and with the advice and consent of the department of environmental protection, take by eminent domain under chapter seventy-nine or acquire by purchase or otherwise and hold the waters, or any portion thereof, of any pond, brook, spring, stream or groundwater sources within its franchise territory not already appropriated for purposes of public water supply, and any water or flowage rights connected therewith, and such lands, rights of way and other easements as may be necessary for collecting, storing, holding, purifying and treating such water and protecting and preserving the purity thereof, and for conveying the same to any place within its franchise territory.
MA Gen L ch 165 § 5 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 165 - Water and Aqueduct Companies|Section 5 - Acquisition of Water Works and Other Water Company Property by Town

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 the commonwealth providing for the appointment of commissioners for the determination of the price to be paid for such water works and property, the matters to be referred to, heard and determined by, such commissioners shall be referred to, heard and determined by, the department, and its determination and award shall have the same force and effect as if the determination and award had been made by the commissioners provided for in the charters of such companies.
MA Gen L ch 165 § 6 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 165 - Water and Aqueduct Companies|Section 6 - Engineering Services and Advice

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 bonds, and in all matters connected with the determination by the department of any question relating thereto and before any such authorization is given, the department of environmental protection shall, on request of the department, furnish without charge engineering services and advice for its assistance and guidance in such proceedings.
MA Gen L ch 165 § 7 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 165 - Water and Aqueduct Companies|Section 7 - Annual Report

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 conduct of the corporations and companies as may be appropriate and with such abstracts of the returns required by section two as it deems expedient.
MA Gen L ch 165 § 8 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 165 - Water and Aqueduct Companies|Section 8 - Opening of Streets by One Other Than Water Company; Consent of Municipal Officers

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 highways of such town for the purpose of laying water mains and pipes therein without the consent of the aldermen or selectmen after notice, by publication or otherwise, to all parties interested and a public hearing.
MA Gen L ch 165 § 9 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 165 - Water and Aqueduct Companies|Section 9 - Review of Action of Municipal Officers Relating to Opening of Streets

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 said decision, appeal therefrom to the department which shall thereupon give due notice to and hear all parties interested, and render decision thereon.