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MA Gen L ch 166 § 21b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 166 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies, and Lines for the Transmission of Electricity|Section 21b - Protection of Overhead High Voltage Lines

Section 21B. The operation or erection of any tools, machinery or equipment, or any part thereof capable of vertical, lateral, or swinging motion; the handling or storage of any supplies, materials or apparatus or the moving of any house or other building, or any part thereof, under, over, by or near overhead high voltage lines, shall be prohibited, if at any time during such operation or other manipulation it is intended or necessary to bring such equipment, tools, materials, buildings or any part thereof within six feet of such overhead high voltage lines, except where such high voltage lines have been effectively guarded against danger from accidental contact, by either:  (1) The erection of mechanical barriers to prevent physical contact with high voltage conductors; or  (2) De-energizing the high voltage conductors and grounding where necessary. Only in the case of either of such exceptions may the six foot clearance required be reduced. The required six foot clearance shall not be provided by movement of the conductors through strains impressed by attachments or otherwise upon the structures supporting the overhead high voltage lines, nor upon any equipment, fixtures, or attachments thereon.  If neither (1) or (2) are practicable in the opinion of the utility company or other owner or operator of such overhead lines, and it is necessary to temporarily relocate the high voltage conductors, mutually agreeable arrangements shall be made with the owner or operator of such lines for their temporary relocation.  (3) In addition to (1) and (2), an insulated cagetype guard or other effective protective device of a type approved by the commissioner of labor and industries shall be installed about the boom or arm of all hoisting or other such construction equipment, except backhoes or dippers, being operated in proximity of overhead high voltage lines.  (4) All mechanical barriers and all insulated protective devices referred to herein shall be of such character and construction as are suited to work operations, and adequate for the electrical conditions to be encountered.  (5) All mechanical barriers and all insulated protective devices shall be maintained in good functioning condition and shall be subject to periodic inspection.  The provisions of this section and the preceding section, insofar as they require the erection of mechanical barriers or the de-energizing of high voltage conductors, shall not apply to the transportation of a crane, power shovel or other similar types of construction equipment upon a public way when such equipment is being transported to a construction site.
MA Gen L ch 166 § 21c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 166 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies, and Lines for the Transmission of Electricity|Section 21c - Warnings; Operation of Equipment Near High Voltage Lines

Section 21C. The owner, agent or employer responsible for the operation of equipment shall post and maintain in plain view of the operator on each crane, derrick, power shovel, drilling rig, hay loader, hay stacker, pile driver, or similar apparatus, any part of which is capable of vertical, lateral or swinging motion, an approved weather-resistant warning sign legible at twelve feet reading ''WARNING—Unlawful to operate this equipment within SIX FEET of high voltage lines.''
MA Gen L ch 166 § 21d (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 166 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies, and Lines for the Transmission of Electricity|Section 21d - Warning Signs; Size; Posting

Section 21D. Warning signs shall be placed: (1) Within the equipment readily visible to operator of cranes and other equipment when at the controls of such equipment;  (2) On the outside of equipment in such number and locations as to be readily visible to mechanics or other persons engaged in the work operations.  Warning signs shall be not less than five inches in height, nor less than seven inches in width.
MA Gen L ch 166 § 21e (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 166 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies, and Lines for the Transmission of Electricity|Section 21e - Notification of Operation Near High Voltage Lines

Section 21E. Before any operations are to be performed within six feet of any overhead high voltage lines, the person or persons responsible for the work to be done shall promptly notify the utility or other company owning or operating the overhead high voltage lines.  The work shall be performed only after satisfactory arrangements have been negotiated between the owner or operator of the lines and the contractor.
MA Gen L ch 166 § 21f (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 166 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies, and Lines for the Transmission of Electricity|Section 21f - Exemptions; Definitions

Section 21F. The provisions of sections twenty-one A to twenty-one E, inclusive, shall not apply to the construction, reconstruction, operation and maintenance of overhead electrical conductors and their supporting structures and associated equipment by authorized electrical workers; nor to any authorized person engaged in the construction, reconstruction, operation and maintenance of overhead electrical or communications circuits or conductors and their supporting structures and associated equipment of rail transportation systems, electrical generating, transmission or distribution systems, or communications systems.  As used in sections twenty-one A to twenty-one F, inclusive, the words ''high voltage'' shall mean a voltage in excess of four hundred and forty volts, measured between conductors, or measured between the conductor and the ground; the words ''mechanical barrier'' shall mean, temporary devices for separating and preventing contact between material or equipment and overhead electrical conductors, such as:—  (a) Series of poles or the equivalent;  (b) Nonconductive enclosures around conductors.  ''De-energizing'' shall mean removing the voltage from electrical conductors.  ''Temporary relocation'' shall mean:  (a) Removing electrical conductors from poles;  (b) Elevating electrical conductors from poles;  (c) Rerouting electrical conductors.  ''Authorized person'' shall mean:  (a) Employees of a light and power company with respect to the electrical system of such a company, and the employees of a transportation system with respect to the electrical circuits of such system;  (b) Employees of communication utilities, state, county or municipal agencies having authorized circuit construction on the poles or structures of an electric power company or transportation system or communication system;  (c) Employees of an industrial plant with respect to the electrical system of such plant;  (d) Employees of any electrical or communications contractor with respect to work under his supervision.  ''Warning sign'' shall mean a weather resistant sign of not less than five inches by seven inches with a yellow background and black lettering reading as follows: ''WARNING—Unlawful to operate this equipment within SIX FEET of high voltage lines.''
MA Gen L ch 166 § 21g (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 166 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies, and Lines for the Transmission of Electricity|Section 21g - Violations; Penalties; Liability

Section 21G. (a) Whoever violates any of the provisions of sections twenty-one A to twenty-one F, inclusive, shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.  (b) If a violation of any of the provisions of sections twenty-one A to twenty-one F, inclusive, results in physical or electrical contact with any overhead high voltage line, the person, firm, corporation, or association violating said provisions shall be liable to the owner or operator of such high voltage line for all damage resulting from such contact and for all liability incurred by such owner or operator as a result of any such contact.
MA Gen L ch 166 § 22b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 166 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies, and Lines for the Transmission of Electricity|Section 22b - Program for Prohibition or Removal of Overhead Wires

Section 22B. The planning board of any town, if any, or in a town having no such board, the board of selectmen and the city council of any city or a committee designated and appointed for the purpose by it, may (after completing such preliminary consideration and study, including consultation with any utility as it may deem appropriate) at any time by resolution designating the time and place therefor call a public hearing to ascertain whether the public safety, health, convenience or welfare would be advanced by a program (a) prohibiting new installation or construction of or (b) requiring progressive removal of poles and overhead wires and associated overhead structures within all or any part or parts of the municipality. After such hearing the planning board, board of selectmen, city council or committee, as the case may be, shall make a report of its findings, conclusions, and recommendations which shall be filed with the records of the city council or the town meeting of the municipality.
MA Gen L ch 166 § 22c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 166 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies, and Lines for the Transmission of Electricity|Section 22c - Prohibition and Removal of Overhead Wires; Fines and Penalties

Section 22C. After such report has been filed, the municipality may adopt an ordinance or by-law which shall forbid a utility to install or construct except by way of replacement or upgrading of existing facilities any poles and overhead wires and associated overhead structures upon, along or across any public way within all or any part or parts of the municipality and shall require a utility to remove immediately any poles and overhead wires and associated overhead structures installed or constructed by it in violation of such ordinance or by-law. Any such ordinance or by-law shall specify whether it applies to all of the municipality or only to a part or parts thereof and, if only to a part or parts, shall describe such part or parts with reasonable certainty by reference to the names of any way or ways to all or any designated portions thereof to which it applies, by reference to a map, or by other suitable means. Any person who installs or constructs any poles and overhead wires and associated overhead structures in violation of any such ordinance or by-law shall be punished by a fine of not less than one thousand dollars and not more than five thousand dollars. Any person who fails to remove immediately any poles and overhead wires and associated overhead structures in violation of any such ordinance or by-law shall be punished by a fine of not less than one thousand dollars and not more than five thousand dollars for each consecutive fifteen day period during which his failure continues.
MA Gen L ch 166 § 22e (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 166 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies, and Lines for the Transmission of Electricity|Section 22e - Cooperative Agreements to Remove Overhead Wires

Section 22E. Any utility organized and existing under the laws of or doing business in this commonwealth and any municipality may enter into, and from time to time amend, and perform a cooperation agreement pursuant to which (a) the utility shall pay to the municipality in each calendar year for a period of years specified in such agreement an amount which shall be not less than two per cent of such utility's gross revenue or in the case of a distribution company as defined in section 1 of chapter 164, 7 per cent of retail delivery revenues derived during the next preceding calendar year from its customers in said municipality and (b) the municipality shall expend during such term as such agreement may specify an amount not exceeding the sums paid to it by the utility pursuant to such agreement to remove (or cause to be removed) any poles and overhead wires and associated overhead structures of such utility and, if needed for the continuation of such utility's service, to replace the same (or cause them to be replaced) with underground facilities. In carrying out its obligations under any such cooperation agreement, a municipality may exercise all of its powers appurtenant to the performance of any public work and may award contracts in the same manner and subject to the same limitations and restrictions as would apply to like contracts in reference to the planning or performance of any public work. Such cooperation agreement may contain any and all such provisions as shall be consistent with the purposes of this section, including a provision that the municipality shall expend a portion of the sums paid to it by the utility for the provision of customer's service facilities.
MA Gen L ch 166 § 22f (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 166 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies, and Lines for the Transmission of Electricity|Section 22f - Notice of Hearing or Ordinance to Remove Overhead Wires

Section 22F. The municipality shall comply with the following provisions with reference to notice:  (a) When the planning board, board of selectmen, city council or committee of any municipality calls a public hearing pursuant to section twenty-two B, the clerk of the municipality shall publish a copy of said resolution in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality at least once not more than fifteen nor less than five days prior to said hearing.  (b) When a municipality adopts an ordinance or by-law pursuant to section twenty-two C or section twenty-two D the clerk of the municipality shall, in addition to any other notice required by law, notify all utilities known to have poles and overhead wires and associated overhead structures affected by said ordinance or by-law and all persons known to own real property served by said poles and overhead wires and associated overhead structures, by mailing a copy thereof to said persons and utilities within thirty days after the date it was adopted.
MA Gen L ch 166 § 22g (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 166 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies, and Lines for the Transmission of Electricity|Section 22g - Emergency Erection of Overhead Wires

Section 22G. The board of selectmen or city council of any municipality may grant special permission, for such period and on such terms as it may deem appropriate, in cases of emergency or unusual circumstances, without discrimination as to any person or utility, to erect, construct, install, maintain, use or operate, poles and overhead wires and associated overhead structures, notwithstanding the provisions of any ordinance or by-law adopted pursuant to section twenty-two C or twenty-two D. No person shall be deemed to have violated any ordinance or by-law adopted pursuant to section twenty-two C or section twenty-two D for doing any act authorized by any such special permission.
MA Gen L ch 166 § 22h (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 166 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies, and Lines for the Transmission of Electricity|Section 22h - Underground Construction; Responsibility of Utility

Section 22H. If underground construction is necessary to provide replacement facilities for any poles and overhead wires and associated overhead structures removed pursuant to any ordinance or by-law enacted pursuant to section twenty-two D the utility shall be responsible to furnish in connection with such replacement facilities only that portion of the conduits, conductors and associated equipment required to be furnished by it under its applicable rules, regulations and tariffs on file with the department (hereinafter called the ''utility's service facilities''); provided, however, that the utility shall by its tariff offer to carry its lines up to any structure which is to receive service or a distance of fifty feet from the street, whichever is the lesser; and provided, further, that if any ordinance or by-law adopted pursuant to section twenty-two D so provides, any utility in providing underground replacement facilities for any poles and overhead wires and associated overhead structures shall install customer's service facilities. Underground construction by the utility, or by or on behalf of any municipality, pursuant to any cooperation agreement entered into pursuant to section twenty-two E shall be accomplished in accordance with the rules and regulations authorized by the department, and shall be scheduled so as to be completed at or prior to removal of such poles and overhead wires and associated overhead structures as are being removed.
MA Gen L ch 166 § 22i (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 166 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies, and Lines for the Transmission of Electricity|Section 22i - Underground Construction; Customer Service Facilities

Section 22I. All underground construction and conduits, conductors and associated equipment necessary to receive utility service between the utility's service facilities referred to in section twenty-two H and the service facilities in the building or structure being served shall be deemed ''customer's service facilities''.  To the extent required by any ordinance or by-law adopted pursuant to section twenty-two D may provide, any utility in providing underground replacement facilities for any poles and overhead wires and associated overhead structures shall install customer's service facilities. In all other respects the provision of customer's service facilities shall be the responsibility of the person owning, operating, leasing or renting said property, subject to applicable rules, regulations and tariffs of the utility on file with the department and to the requirements of applicable laws, ordinances and by-laws. If the person owning, operating, leasing or renting said property fails to provide such customer's service facilities which are his responsibility prior to the time for removal of the poles and overhead wires and associated overhead structures of the utility, the engineer of the municipality shall have the authority to order the disconnection and removal of any and all overhead service wires and associated facilities supplying utility service to said property at the expense of the person owning, operating, leasing or renting said property, and the municipality shall have a claim against said person for the cost thereof and a lien against said property to secure said claim. No utility shall be in violation of any such ordinance or by-law in continuing to maintain overhead facilities necessary to serve such person during the period of such person's failure to provide customer's service facilities for which he is responsible and such reasonable time thereafter as may be necessary to remove such overhead facilities. No utility shall be deemed to be in violation of any law, by-law or ordinance or any obligation to the public or to any person by reason of such utility's discontinuing service to any property in the event of failure of the person owning, operating, leasing or renting said property to provide customer's service facilities for which he is responsible prior to the removal by any utility of its poles and overhead wires and associated overhead structures as required by any ordinance or by-law adopted pursuant to section twenty-two D of this chapter.
MA Gen L ch 166 § 22j (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 166 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies, and Lines for the Transmission of Electricity|Section 22j - Removal of Municipal Equipment From Poles

Section 22J. When a municipality adopts an ordinance or by-law pursuant to section twenty-two D, it shall remove its police and fire alarm circuits or any similar municipal equipment at its own expense from all poles required to be removed, and the removal of such circuits shall be completed in such manner and in such time as not to hinder or interfere with action taken by the utility to comply with said ordinance or by-law.
MA Gen L ch 166 § 22k (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 166 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies, and Lines for the Transmission of Electricity|Section 22k - Extension of Time for Removal

Section 22K. If any act required by an ordinance or by-law adopted pursuant to section twenty-two D cannot be performed within the time provided on account of shortage of materials, war, restraint by public authorities, strikes, labor disturbances, or any other circumstances beyond the control of the person obligated to perform such act, then the time within which such act will be accomplished shall be extended for a period equivalent to the time of such limitations.
MA Gen L ch 166 § 22l (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 166 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies, and Lines for the Transmission of Electricity|Section 22l - Rate Differential; Adoption of Removal Ordinance

Section 22L. If at any time one or more but less than all of the municipalities in which the customers of any one utility are located adopt an ordinance or by-law forbidding new installation of overhead facilities under section twenty-two C, the department of telecommunications and energy shall, in accordance with the provisions of section fourteen of chapter one hundred and fifty-nine and section ninety-four of chapter one hundred and sixty-four, after notice to all the municipalities in which such customers are located, and a hearing, establish a differential between the rates charged customers located in municipalities which have adopted such ordinance and those located in municipalities which have not adopted such ordinance, provided that no such differential, however introduced or effected, shall at any time result in revenues materially exceeding any increased cost of providing service caused solely by adoption of such ordinance by such municipality. The foregoing procedure for establishing such differential shall be exclusive.