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MA Gen L ch 160 § 228 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 228 - Tampering With Tools or Appliances

Section 228. Whoever unlawfully uses, removes or tampers with any tools or appliances carried on the cars of a railroad corporation as required by section one hundred and sixty-three shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than three months, or both.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 229 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 229 - Defects in Highway; Liability of City or Town; Recovery From Railroad

Section 229. If, upon the trial of an action against a city or town, the plaintiff recovers damages for an injury to his person or property caused by reason of a defect in a highway, within the location of a railroad, and if the corporation owning the railroad is liable for such damages, and has had reasonable notice to defend the action, the city or town may recover from the corporation such damages and the costs of both plaintiff and defendant in the action.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 231 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 231 - Gross Negligence of Person in Control of Train; Penalty

Section 231. Whoever, having the management or control of a railroad train while being used for the common carriage of persons, is guilty of gross negligence in or in relation to the management or control thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than three years.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 232 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 232 - Neglect of Railroad to Give Signals at Crossing; Damages; Contributory, Gross or Wilful Negligence

Section 232. If a person is injured in his person or property by collision with the engines or cars or rail-borne motor cars of a railroad corporation at a crossing such as is described in section one hundred and thirty-eight, and it appears that the corporation neglected to give the signals required by said section or to give signals by such means or in such manner as may be prescribed by orders of the department, and that such neglect contributed to the injury, the corporation shall be liable for all damages caused by the collision, or, if the life of a person so injured is lost, to damages recoverable in tort, as provided in section two of chapter two hundred and twenty-nine, unless it is shown that, in addition to a mere want of ordinary care, the person injured or the person who had charge of his person or property was, at the time of the collision, guilty of gross or wilful negligence, or was acting in violation of the law, and that such gross or wilful negligence or unlawful act contributed to the injury.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 233 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 233 - Non-Liability of Railroad for Acts of Expressmen

Section 233. A railroad corporation shall not be liable to any person for personal injuries caused by the acts or omissions of any persons or companies doing an express business over its railroad or of their servants or agents.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 234 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 234 - Liability; Insurance of Railroad and Owner

Section 234. Every railroad corporation shall be liable in damages to a person whose buildings or other property may be injured by fire communicated by its locomotive engines, and shall have an insurable interest in the property upon its route for which it may be so held liable, and may procure insurance thereon in its own behalf. If held liable in damages, it shall be entitled to the benefit of any insurance effected upon such property by the owner thereof, less the cost of premium and expense of recovery. The money received as insurance shall be deducted from the damages, if recovered before they are assessed; and if not so recovered, the policy of insurance shall be assigned to the corporation held liable in damages, and it may maintain an action thereon.  For the purposes of this section, the words ''tourist railroad'' shall include any person, railroad, corporation or other entity engaged in ''tourist rail operations''. The words ''tourist rail operations'' shall include all services and activities by a tourist railroad in connection with the transportation of passengers for purposes of tourism or excursions, including, but not limited to, the operation of trains, trackage, and equipment, or the use or maintenance of railroad equipment, tracks, and any pertinent facilities, including equipment, tracks, or facilities of a rail facility provider. The words ''rail facility provider'' shall include any person, railroad, corporation, or other entity providing rail facilities for use by a tourist railroad for purposes of tourist rail operations.  Agreements between a tourist railroad and a rail facility provider for the conduct of tourist rail operations shall provide that the tourist railroad shall secure and maintain a comprehensive general liability insurance policy covering the liability of the tourist railroad and the rail facility providing for any and all property damage, personal injury, bodily injury, and death arising out of any cause whatsoever, regardless of degree of fault, in the performance of such tourist operations. Such insurance policy shall include coverage for employees subject to the provisions of the Federal Employers Liability Act, 45 USC Sec. 51 et seq. Such policy shall name the tourist railroad and the rail facility provider as named insureds shall have policy limits of not less than three million dollars per occurrence and three million dollars in the aggregate and may be subject to a reasonable self-insured retention. In no event shall the tourist railroad or the rail facility provider be liable in excess of the coverage limits of such insurance policy for any and all claims whether compensatory or punitive for property damage, personal injury, bodily injury, or death arising out of such tourist rail operations.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 235 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 235 - Spark Arresters

Section 235. Every corporation operating a railroad shall install and maintain on locomotives in its service spark arresters or other suitable devices capable of preventing the discharge of sparks or other material which could start a fire. Said spark arresters or other suitable devices shall be subject to the approval and inspection of the department.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 235a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 235a - Clearing of Inflammable Material Along Right of Way

Section 235A. Every railroad corporation shall, between April first and December first in each year, keep the full width of all its locations, to a point two hundred feet distant from the center line on each side thereof, clear of dead leaves, dead grass, dry brush or other inflammable material, and shall not at any time leave any deposit of fire, hot ashes or live coals upon its locations in the immediate vicinity of woodlands or grass lands, and shall post in stations and other conspicuous places within its location and right of way such notices and warning placards as are furnished to it for the purpose by the director of the division of forests and parks in the department of environmental management; provided, that this section shall not prohibit any railroad corporation from piling or keeping upon its location or right of way cross-ties or other material necessary for the maintenance and operation of its railroad.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 236 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 236 - Clearing of Adjoining Land; Notice of Intent to Enter

Section 236. Any railroad corporation may, upon giving notice as herein provided, enter upon unimproved land adjoining any location or right of way upon which it operates engines burning wood, coke or coal, and may there, at its own expense and subject to the direction of the forest warden, or the officer or board having his powers, in the city or town where the land lies, clear such land of dead leaves, dead grass and dead wood to a distance of one hundred feet from the tracks, without thereby becoming liable for trespass; provided, that no railroad corporation shall, under this section, do any acts on unimproved land outside its location or right of way, unless it has within two months given fourteen days' written notice by mail or otherwise to the occupant of the land, and to the owner thereof, if he resides or has a usual place of business in the city or town where it lies, and if the land is unoccupied and the owner does not reside or have a usual place of business in the city or town, then, unless the railroad corporation has within two months published notice of its purpose once in three successive weeks in a newspaper published in the county where the land lies, and unless it has within three days given at least twenty-four hours' notice to the forest warden, or the officer or board having his powers, in the city or town where the land lies of the location of the land which it intends to enter under this section, and of the time at which it intends to enter the same; and provided, further, that no notice hereby required shall be valid unless it sets forth the provisions of this section.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 237 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 237 - Warning of Fire Given by Train Crew

Section 237. Any engineer, conductor or other employee on a train discovering a fire burning uncontrolled on lands adjacent to the tracks shall forthwith cause a fire signal to be sounded from the engine, which shall consist of one long and three short whistle blasts repeated several times, and shall notify the next sectionmen whom the train passes, and the next telegraph station, of the existence and location of the fire. This section shall not affect the authority conferred upon the department by section one hundred and thirty-nine.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 238 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 238 - Extinguishing Fire

Section 238. Sectionmen or other employees of a railroad corporation receiving notice of the existence and location of a fire burning on land adjacent to the tracks shall forthwith proceed to the fire and shall use all reasonable efforts to extinguish it; provided, that they are not at the time employed in labors immediately necessary to the safety of tracks or to the safety and convenience of passengers and the public.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 239 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 239 - Instruction of Employees

Section 239. Railroad corporations shall inform their employees as to their duties under the four preceding sections and shall furnish them with the appropriate facilities for reporting and extinguishing such fires.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 240 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 240 - Entry Upon Public Park or Reservation

Section 240. The five preceding sections shall not authorize any railroad corporation to enter upon, or to interfere in the management or care of, any public park or reservation.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 241 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 241 - Expense of Extinguishing Fire; Liability of Railroad

Section 241. Any railroad corporation which, by its servants or agents, negligently, or in violation of law, sets fire to grass lands or forest lands shall be liable to any city or town where such fire occurs, for the reasonable and lawful expense incurred by such city or town in the extinguishment of the fire.  Cities and towns may recover in contract in the superior court sums to which they are entitled under this section.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 241a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 241a - Derailments; Removal of Wreckage and Debris

Section 241A. Every railroad corporation shall within thirty days after a derailment on any right-of-way or location upon which it operates its railroad remove all wreckage and debris caused by such derailment. Any violation of the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine of fifty dollars and each day of such violation shall constitute a separate offense.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 242 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 242 - Content; Inspection; Violations

Section 242. A railroad corporation shall at all times submit its books to the inspection of any committee of the general court authorized to inspect them. The directors of every railroad corporation shall annually within the time prescribed by section thirty-two of chapter one hundred and fifty-nine transmit to the department a return of the corporation for the year ending on December thirty-first preceding which shall be sworn to by the treasurer and the chief accounting officer of the corporation. Such return shall state whether any fatal accident or serious injury has occurred to a passenger or other person upon the railroad during the year, and, if so, the cause of such accident or injury and the circumstances under which it occurred; shall set forth copies of all contracts or leases made with other railroad corporations during the year, and specify the receipts and expenditures under the same; and shall include a detailed statement of all particulars relative to the railroad, its business, receipts and expenditures during the year, in the form to be prescribed by the department under said section thirty-two. The books of each corporation shall be so kept that returns may be made in exact conformity with the form so prescribed; and the accounts shall be closed on December thirty-first in each year, so that a balance sheet of that date can be taken therefrom and included in the return. Every railroad corporation, neglecting to make said annual return within the time prescribed as aforesaid, or to amend said return within fifteen days, when required by the department as provided in said section thirty-two, shall forfeit fifty dollars for each day during which such neglect continues; and if such corporation unreasonably refuses or neglects to make said return, it shall forfeit not more than five thousand dollars.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 243 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 243 - Quarterly Statement

Section 243. Every railroad corporation shall, within fifty days after the expiration of each quarter of the year, transmit to the department a quarterly statement of its business and financial condition, in such form and with such detail as the department requires, which shall at reasonable times be open to public inspection. A railroad corporation neglecting to comply with this section shall forfeit fifty dollars for each day during which such neglect continues.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 244 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 244 - Lessee to Make Lessor's Returns

Section 244. Every railroad corporation shall, during the continuance of any lease which it has taken of the railroad of another corporation, make all the returns required of the lessor; and during the continuance of such lease, the lessor shall not be required to make such returns, if, when requested by the lessee, the lessor furnishes all the information in its possession needed to make such returns; but if a railroad in this commonwealth is leased to a lessee in another state, the lessors in this commonwealth shall make the annual return.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 245 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 245 - Construction; Limitations

Section 245. A person or corporation may construct a railroad for private use in the transportation of freight; but shall not take or use lands or other property therefor without the consent of the owner thereof. No such railroad shall be connected with the railroad of another corporation without its consent; nor shall it be constructed across or upon a public way or traveled place without the consent of the board of aldermen or selectmen, or the department of highways in the case of a state highway, nor except in a place and manner approved by them. If the board of aldermen or selectmen, or the department of highways in the case of a state highway, consent, they shall from time to time make such regulations relative to motive power, rate of speed, and time and manner of using the railroad over and upon such way or traveled place, as in their judgment the public safety and convenience require, and they may order such changes to be made in the track as are rendered necessary by the alteration or repair of such way. The provisions of this chapter and chapter one hundred and fifty-nine relative to the crossing of ways and traveled places by railroad corporations shall apply to such railroad, and to the person constructing or operating the same.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 246 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 246 - Supervisory Powers of Department

Section 246. If the consent of the department is required for the crossing of a way or traveled place by a railroad for private use, it may limit the number of tracks, and may impose other conditions relative to the use of the crossing by said railroad, and may modify such limitations and conditions. The department may, upon the complaint of any party interested, or upon its own motion, exercise supervisory powers over all railroads for private use with regard to the character and condition of the roadbed, tracks, crossings, rolling stock, machinery, equipment and appliances used in or in connection with the operation of such railroads, so far as is reasonable and expedient to promote the security of persons employed in the maintenance and operation of the same and of the public.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 247 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 247 - Formation; Powers

Section 247. Fifteen or more persons, a majority of whom are inhabitants of this commonwealth, may associate themselves by a written agreement of association, with the intention of forming a corporation to construct and operate a railroad, or railroad and telegraph, in any foreign country, but in accordance with the laws of such country; and, upon complying with section two hundred and forty-nine, shall, with their associates and successors, be a corporation for the purpose aforesaid, with the powers necessary and incident thereto, and with such powers and privileges, and subject to such duties, liabilities and restrictions, as to the location, construction, maintenance and operation of its railroad, or railroad and telegraph, and the transfer of its property by mortgage, lease or otherwise, as may be fixed by such country.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 248 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 248 - Agreement of Association

Section 248. The agreement of association shall state:  (a) That the subscribers thereto associate themselves with the intention of forming a railroad corporation, or a railroad and telegraph corporation.  (b) The corporate name assumed.  (c) The termini of the railroad, or the railroad and the telegraph.  (d) The total amount of the capital stock of the corporation.  (e) The names and residences of at least five persons, who shall be subscribers to the agreement of association, to act as directors until others are chosen and qualified in their stead.  Each associate shall subscribe to the agreement of association his name, residence, post office address, and the number of shares of stock which he agrees to take; but no subscriber shall be bound to pay more than ten per cent of the amount of his subscription, unless a corporation is chartered.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 249 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 249 - Certificate of Compliance

Section 249. When it is shown to the satisfaction of the department that the requirements of the two preceding sections have been complied with, the clerk of the department, upon its order, shall annex to the agreement of association a certificate setting forth that fact. The directors shall thereupon file the agreement of association and certificate in the office of the state secretary, who, upon receipt of fifty dollars, shall receive and preserve the same in form convenient for reference and open to public inspection; and shall thereupon issue a certificate of incorporation substantially in the following form:  COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS  Be it known, that whereas (names of the subscribers to the agreement of association) have associated themselves with the intention of forming a corporation, under the name of the (name of the corporation), for the purpose of locating, constructing, maintaining and operating a railroad (or railroad and telegraph) (description of the railroad or railroad and telegraph as in the agreement of association), and have complied with the statutes of this commonwealth in such cases made and provided: Now, therefore, I, , secretary of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby certify that the persons aforesaid, their associates and successors, are legally established as a corporation, under the name of the (name of the corporation), with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, liabilities and restrictions, set forth in the general laws applicable to such corporations.  In witness whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my official signature, and affixed the great seal of said commonwealth, this day of <\/centw>, in the year .  The state secretary shall sign the certificate of incorporation and cause the great seal of the commonwealth to be thereto affixed, and such certificate shall have the force and effect of a special charter. The state secretary shall also cause a record of the certificate of incorporation to be made, and such certificate, or such record, or a certified copy thereof, shall be conclusive evidence of the existence of such corporation.