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MA Gen L ch 165 § 10 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 165 - Water and Aqueduct Companies|Section 10 - Testing of Meters; Report; Cost

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 test of any water meter to determine the accuracy of the same. The department shall forthwith cause such examination and test as in its judgment is practicable and reasonable to be made by a competent and disinterested person, and shall furnish to the company or corporation and to the customer a certificate of the result and expense thereof. The person designated to make such examination and test may at any reasonable time enter upon the premises where the meter to be inspected is placed for the purpose of making the inspection. If upon examination and test, it appears the appliance does not register correctly, the department may order the company or corporation to correct or remove such meter and substitute a correct meter. The department may establish such rules and regulations, fix such standards, prescribe such fees, and employ such means and methods in, and in connection with, such examinations and tests of water meters as it deems most practicable, expedient and economical, and may purchase such materials, apparatus and standard measuring instruments for such examinations and tests as it deems necessary. All fees for examination and tests shall be in the first instance paid by the person, company or corporation making the application therefor; but if the examination or test is made at the request of the customer, and the meter is found to be incorrect because too fast, the company or corporation shall pay such fees to the department, to be repaid by it to the applicant. Whoever being engaged in the sale of water maintains upon the premises of a customer for the purpose of determining the charge to be made for water supplied to him a meter which is found upon examination and test to register incorrectly as against such customer, shall refund to him such an amount as if not agreed upon, shall, upon application of the customer and after opportunity given to the vendor to be heard, be determined by the department. A meter shall be deemed to be correct for the purposes of this section if it appears from such examination or test that it does not vary more than two per cent from accuracy. This section shall not authorize or prohibit differential prices for water supplied by any such company or corporation.
MA Gen L ch 165 § 11 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 165 - Water and Aqueduct Companies|Section 11 - Intentional Injury to or Interference With Meter; Penalty

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, or prevents such meter from duly registering the quantity of water supplied through it, or hinders or interferes with its proper action or just registration, or attaches a pipe to a main or pipe belonging to a city, town, district or water company, or otherwise uses or causes to be used the water supplied by a city, town, district or company without the consent of the same, unless it passes through a meter set by such city, town, district or company, shall be punished by a fine of triple the amount of damages sustained thereby or $1,000, whichever is greater or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both. Damages shall include the value of the water used and the cost of labor and equipment repair and replacement.
MA Gen L ch 165 § 11a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 165 - Water and Aqueduct Companies|Section 11a - Procedure for Shutting Off the Flow of Water on Failure to Pay Lawful Charges

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 of any customer who has failed or refused to pay the lawful charges of said company for water previously consumed. The officers, employees or agents of said company may, upon any business day between the hours of eight ante meridian and four post meridian, enter upon the premises of a customer whose payments are in arrears and close a valve, remove or disconnect a meter pipe or fitting, if necessary, for the purpose of shutting off the flow of water as above authorized, provided, however, that the customer has been given thirty-six hours notice in person or by registered or certified mail directed to his last address furnished to the company. If such address is different from the address of the premises affected a copy of such notice shall also be so mailed to the address thereof.
MA Gen L ch 165 § 11b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 165 - Water and Aqueduct Companies|Section 11b - Shutting Off Water Service to Domicile Occupied by Seriously Ill Person; Notice; Penalty

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 written notice from the municipal health authorities or a registered physician verifying the fact of such illness. Any company violating this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than twenty-five dollars for each day during which the violation continues.
MA Gen L ch 165 § 11c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 165 - Water and Aqueduct Companies|Section 11c - Indebtedness of Prior Property Owner; Water Supply for New Owner

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 owner to the said water company for water previously furnished to said premises.
MA Gen L ch 165 § 11d (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 165 - Water and Aqueduct Companies|Section 11d - Entry on Premises to Examine Water Meters and Facilities

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 his photograph, issued to him by his employer, may at any reasonable time enter any premises supplied with water by such city, town, district or company for the purpose of examining or removing meters, pipes, fittings and works for supplying or regulating the supply of water and of ascertaining the quantity of water consumed or supplied.
MA Gen L ch 165 § 12 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 165 - Water and Aqueduct Companies|Section 12 - Application to Other Statutes

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 chapter one hundred and sixty-six except that all rights and duties imposed on the department by sections four and five of said chapter one hundred and sixty-six shall in the case of aqueduct companies be exercised by the state secretary.
MA Gen L ch 165 § 13 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 165 - Water and Aqueduct Companies|Section 13 - Certificate of Payment of Capital Stock

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 president, treasurer and a majority of its directors, stating the fact of such payment, the manner in which the capital has been paid in and has been invested or voted to be invested, and approved by said secretary, shall be filed in the office of the state secretary.
MA Gen L ch 165 § 14 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 165 - Water and Aqueduct Companies|Section 14 - Conveyance of Property in Payment for Stock

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 the extent of such value, if a description of such property and a statement of the value at which it has been taken in payment, in such detail as the state secretary shall require or approve, is included in the certificate mentioned in the preceding section, and a statement that he is satisfied that such valuation is fair and reasonable is endorsed by him upon such certificate.
MA Gen L ch 165 § 15 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 165 - Water and Aqueduct Companies|Section 15 - Corporations Organized Under Earlier Law; Meetings and Records

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 laws, may at a legal meeting agree upon the method of calling future meetings of the corporation, and may choose a clerk, who shall be sworn and who shall record in books to be provided and kept by him for that purpose all by-laws, votes and other proceedings of the corporation. Such books shall at all times be subject to the inspection of any person appointed for that purpose by the general court.
MA Gen L ch 165 § 16 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 165 - Water and Aqueduct Companies|Section 16 - Record of Proprietors' Names

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 each.
MA Gen L ch 165 § 17 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 165 - Water and Aqueduct Companies|Section 17 - Officers

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 be the president of the corporation.
MA Gen L ch 165 § 18 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 165 - Water and Aqueduct Companies|Section 18 - Assessments; Defaults; Sale of Shares

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 thereof to pay an assessment, they may sell by public auction so many of his shares as will be sufficient to pay the assessment and the necessary charges, such sale being first advertised three weeks successively in a newspaper published in the county, or notices thereof being posted thirty days at least before the sale in public places in the town. The surplus proceeds arising from the sale shall be paid to the owner of the shares sold.
MA Gen L ch 165 § 20 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 165 - Water and Aqueduct Companies|Section 20 - Opening Streets or Ways

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 or way therein for the purpose of placing such pipes as are necessary in constructing its aqueduct or in repairing or extending the same, if the same is so done as not to prevent the convenient passing of teams and vehicles.
MA Gen L ch 165 § 21 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 165 - Water and Aqueduct Companies|Section 21 - Continuing Liability on Contracts After Dissolution

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 capable as a corporation in all its suits relative to such contracts until they are performed, if suit is commenced within six years after the dissolution or after the right of action accrued.
MA Gen L ch 165 § 22 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 165 - Water and Aqueduct Companies|Section 22 - Satisfaction of Judgment Against Shareholders After Dissolution

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 months after it is recovered, the judgment creditor may satisfy the same out of the private estate of the shareholders or any of them, as if the judgment had been against them in their private capacity.
MA Gen L ch 165 § 23 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 165 - Water and Aqueduct Companies|Section 23 - Interest of Shareholders in Real Property After Dissolution

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 or interests in the stock of the corporation.
MA Gen L ch 165 § 24 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 165 - Water and Aqueduct Companies|Section 24 - Malicious Injury to Aqueduct; Penalty

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 the offence is committed, and shall be liable to the corporation for treble the amount of damages sustained thereby.
MA Gen L ch 165 § 25 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 165 - Water and Aqueduct Companies|Section 25 - Conductors From Aqueducts for Fire Fighting

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 water as is necessary if a building is on fire therein and such conductors are so secured that water shall not be drawn therefrom except for the purpose of extinguishing fires.
MA Gen L ch 165 § 26 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 165 - Water and Aqueduct Companies|Section 26 - Means of Taking Water for Fire Fighting

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 pipes therein of an aqueduct corporation, they may direct the engineers of the fire department to request the corporation to put into such conductors or pipes, in such places as said engineers shall think necessary, connections or conductors for the purpose of attaching hydrants or conducting water into reservoirs. If the corporation refuses or neglects for two weeks after such request to comply therewith, said engineers may make such connections at the cost of the town, using all necessary means for making the same and using reasonable care for the protection of the pipes and works of such corporation.
MA Gen L ch 165 § 27 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 165 - Water and Aqueduct Companies|Section 27 - Recovery of Land Owner for Damages

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 entitled to damages for such injury by the act establishing such corporation or otherwise, may recover such damages under chapter seventy-nine.
MA Gen L ch 165 § 28 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 165 - Water and Aqueduct Companies|Section 28 - Acquisition of Real Estate in Excess of Limit

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 it may acquire and hold may apply to the department of telecommunications and energy for authority to acquire and hold real estate in excess of the amount so limited, and said department may grant such authority if it shall find that such additional real estate is necessary or convenient for such company in carrying out the purposes of its organization and that the acquisition and holding thereof will not be contrary to the public interest.
MA Gen L ch 166 § 1 (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 1 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies; Subscription and Payment for Stock; Filing of Statement

Section 1. A telegraph or telephone company shall not commence the construction of its line until three fourths of its capital stock have been unconditionally subscribed for, and at least one half has been paid in in cash; and the directors shall, within ten days after commencing construction, file in the office of the state secretary a sworn statement of such subscription and payment. For the purposes of sections 1 to 10, inclusive, the word ''company'' shall not include a municipal lighting plant or cooperative which operates a telecommunications system pursuant to section 47E of chapter 164.
MA Gen L ch 166 § 2 (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 2 - Debt Limitation

Section 2. Such company shall not at any time contract or owe debts to a larger amount than one half of its capital stock actually paid in.
MA Gen L ch 166 § 3 (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 3 - Liability of President and Treasurer for Wilful Neglect or Omission

Section 3. The president and treasurer of such company shall be jointly and severally liable for all its indebtedness, in case of wilful neglect or omission on their part to comply with any provision of section one, two or eleven.
MA Gen L ch 166 § 4 (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 4 - Issue of Stock, Bonds, Coupon Notes and Other Evidences of Indebtedness

Section 4. Such company shall issue only such amount of stock and bonds, and of coupon notes and other evidences of indebtedness payable at periods of more than three years, as the department of telecommunications and cable may from time to time approve as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which such issue of stock, bonds, coupon notes or other evidences of indebtedness has been authorized. Said department shall on an application for such issue, within thirty days after the final hearing thereon, render a written decision assigning the reasons therefor, and, if approving such issue, specifying the respective amounts of stock, bonds, coupon notes or other evidences of indebtedness approved for the respective purposes to which the proceeds thereof are to be applied. The decision shall, within seven days after it has been rendered, be filed in the office of the department and a certificate of said decision shall, within three days after rendition and before the stock, bonds, coupon notes or other evidences of indebtedness as aforesaid are issued, be filed in the office of the state secretary, and a duplicate thereof delivered to the corporation which shall enter the same upon its records. Such corporation shall not apply the proceeds of such stock, bonds, coupon notes or other evidences of indebtedness as aforesaid to any purpose not specified in such certificate.
MA Gen L ch 166 § 5 (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 5 - Enforcement of Orders of Department Relating to Stocks and Bonds

Section 5. The supreme judicial or superior court shall have jurisdiction in equity, upon the application of the department, attorney general, any stockholder or interested party, to enforce the preceding section and all lawful orders and decisions, conditions or requirements of said department in pursuance thereof. In this chapter, ''department'' or ''department of telecommunications and energy'' means the department of telecommunications and cable.
MA Gen L ch 166 § 6 (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 6 - Improper Issue; Penalty

Section 6. A director, treasurer or other officer or agent of any such company who knowingly votes to authorize the issue of, or knowingly signs, certifies or issues, stock or bonds contrary to section four, or who knowingly votes to authorize the application, or knowingly applies the proceeds, of such stock or bonds contrary to said section, or who knowingly votes to assume or incur, or knowingly assumes or incurs in the name or behalf of such corporation, any debt or liability except for the legitimate purposes of the corporation shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.
MA Gen L ch 166 § 7 (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 7 - Increase of Capital Stock; Shareholders' Rights to New Shares

Section 7. If any such company increases its capital stock, such new shares necessary to produce the amount of increased capital stock authorized shall, except as provided in the following section, be offered proportionately to its stockholders at not less than the market value thereof at the time of increase, to be determined by the department of telecommunications and cable, taking into account previous sales of stock of the corporation and other pertinent conditions, which determination shall be in writing and with the date thereof shall be certified to and recorded in the books of the corporation. The directors, upon the approval of such increase as provided in section four and the determination of the market value as hereinbefore provided, shall cause written notice of such increase to be given to each stockholder who was such at the date of the vote to increase, stating the amount of such increase, the number of shares or fractions of shares to which he, according to the proportionate number of his shares at the date of such vote, is entitled, the price at which he is entitled to take them, and fixing a time, not less than fifteen days after the date of such determination, within which he may subscribe for such additional stock. Each stockholder may, within the time limited, subscribe for his portion of such stock, which shall be paid for in cash before the issue of a certificate therefor.