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MA Gen L ch 159c § 6 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 159c - Telemarketing Solicitation|Section 6 - Consumer Objections to Receipt of Unsolicited Telephonic Sales Calls; Methods of Compilation; Notification of Solicitors

Section 6. The office shall promulgate regulations to carry out this chapter which shall: (i) require each local exchange company to inform consumers of the opportunity to provide notification to the office or its contractor that such consumer objects to receiving unsolicited telephonic sales calls; (ii) specify the methods by which each such consumer shall give notice to the office or its contractor of the consumer's objection to receiving such sales calls or revocation of such notice; provided, however, that there shall be no cost to the consumer for joining the listing; (iii) specify the length of time for which a notice of objection shall be effective and the effect of a change of telephone number on such notice; (iv) specify the methods by which such objections and revocations shall be collected and added to the no sales solicitations calls listing; (v) specify the methods by which a person or entity desiring to make telephonic sales calls may obtain access to the no sales solicitation calls listing as required to avoid calling the telephone numbers of consumer included in such listing; and (vi) specify such other matters relating to the listing that the office deems desirable.
MA Gen L ch 159c § 7 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 159c - Telemarketing Solicitation|Section 7 - National Consumer Database; Inclusion of Commonwealth Portion in No Sales Solicitation Calls Listing

Section 7. If the Federal Communications Commission establishes a single national database of telephone numbers of consumers who do not wish to receive unsolicited telephonic sales calls pursuant to 47 U.S.C. section 227 (c)(3), the office shall include that part of such single national database that relates to the commonwealth in the listing established pursuant to this chapter.
MA Gen L ch 159c § 8 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 159c - Telemarketing Solicitation|Section 8 - Violations; Enforcement by Attorney General; Consumer Action; Penalties; Attorney's Fees and Costs

Section 8. (a) The attorney general may initiate proceedings relating to a knowing violation or threatened knowing violation of this chapter. Such proceedings may include, without limitation, an injunction, a civil penalty of not more than $5,000 for each knowing violation, but not less than $1,500 for a knowing violation involving a consumer who is 65 years of age or older, and additional relief in a court of competent jurisdiction. The attorney general may also issue investigative demands and subpoenas, administer oaths and conduct hearings in the course of investigating a violation of this chapter.  (b) A person who has received more than 1 unsolicited telephonic sales call within a 12–month period by or on behalf of the same person or entity in violation of this chapter may: (i) bring an action to enjoin the violation; (2) bring an action to recover for actual monetary loss from such knowing violation or to receive not more than $5,000 in damages for such knowing violation, whichever is greater; or (iii) bring both such actions.  (c) In a civil proceeding resulting from a transaction involving a violation of this chapter, the prevailing party, after judgment in the trial court and exhaustion of all appeals, if any, shall be awarded reasonable attorney's fees and costs from the nonprevailing party.
MA Gen L ch 159c § 9 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 159c - Telemarketing Solicitation|Section 9 - Defense to Action or Proceeding for Violation

Section 9. It shall be a defense in any action or proceeding brought pursuant to this chapter that the defendant has established and implemented, with due care, reasonable practices and procedures to effectively prevent unsolicited telephonic sales calls in violation of this chapter.
MA Gen L ch 159c § 10 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 159c - Telemarketing Solicitation|Section 10 - Time Limitations for Actions or Proceedings

Section 10. No action or proceeding shall be brought pursuant to this chapter: (i) more than 3 years after the person bringing the action knew or should have known of the occurrence of the alleged violation; or (ii) more than 3 years after the termination of a proceeding or action arising out of the same violation by the commonwealth, whichever is later.
MA Gen L ch 159c § 11 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 159c - Telemarketing Solicitation|Section 11 - Use of Information Contained in No Sales Solicitation Listing

Section 11. Information contained in the no sales solicitation listing established pursuant to this chapter shall be used only for the purposes of compliance with this chapter or in a proceeding or action under section 8. Such information shall not be subject to public inspection or disclosure.
MA Gen L ch 159c § 12 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 159c - Telemarketing Solicitation|Section 12 - Jurisdiction; Nonresidents

Section 12. A court of the commonwealth may exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident or his executor or administrator as to an action or proceeding authorized by this chapter.
MA Gen L ch 159c § 13 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 159c - Telemarketing Solicitation|Section 13 - Remedies Not Exclusive

Section 13. The remedies, duties, prohibitions and penalties provided in this chapter shall not be exclusive and shall be in addition to all other causes of action, remedies and penalties provided by law, including any applicable remedies pursuant to chapter 93A.
MA Gen L ch 159c § 14 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 159c - Telemarketing Solicitation|Section 14 - Advisory Group; Availability of Educational Materials; Written and Electronic Information

Section 14. The office shall establish an advisory group comprised of government entities, local telecommunications companies, businesses, senior citizens and other community advocates to compile and promote a list of educational literature to help consumers understand their options with regard to telephonic sales calls. The office shall work with local telecommunications companies to disseminate to their residential subscribers information about the availability of and instructions on how to request educational literature from the office. The office shall include on its internet website information that informs consumers of their rights to be placed on the no sales solicitation calls listing and the various methods, including notice to the office, of placing their names on the no sales solicitation calls listing.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 1 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 1 - Definitions

Section 1. The following words as used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, shall have the following meanings:  ''Board of aldermen'' or ''selectmen'' includes the board or other authority exercising the powers of a board of aldermen or of selectmen; but nothing herein shall be construed as affecting the veto power of a mayor of any city.  ''Department'', the department of public utilities.  ''Public way'', any way laid out by public authority.  ''Railroad'', a railroad or railway of the class usually operated by steam power.  ''Railroad corporation'', the corporation which lays out, constructs, maintains or operates a railroad of the class usually operated by steam power.  ''Railroads and railways'', all railroads and railways except tramways in mines and marine railways.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 2 - Boston; Tribunal Acting in Place of County Commissioners

Section 2. The duties imposed by this chapter upon county commissioners as a tribunal of original jurisdiction relative to the fixing of routes or to the location, construction, maintenance and operation of railroads shall, in Boston, unless it is otherwise expressly provided, devolve upon the city council of said city. The duties imposed upon the county commissioners by reference or appeal from the board of aldermen shall, in cases arising in Boston, devolve upon the department.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 3 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 3 - Application

Section 3. Railroad corporations established in the commonwealth shall be subject to this chapter and chapter one hundred and fifty-nine which, so far as inconsistent with charters granted since March eleventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, shall be an alteration and amendment thereof; but this section shall not impair the validity of any special power heretofore conferred by charter or other special act upon a particular railroad corporation which had exercised such power before February first, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, or prevent the continued exercise thereof conformably, so far as may be, to this chapter and chapter one hundred and fifty-nine.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 4 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 4 - Corporation Chartered Concurrently With Another State

Section 4. A railroad corporation chartered by the concurrent legislation of this and other states shall, as regards any portion of its railroad lying within this commonwealth, be entitled to all the benefits and be subject to all the liabilities of the railroad corporations of this commonwealth.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 5 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 5 - Corporation or Trustees Operating Railroad of Another

Section 5. If a railroad which has been laid out and constructed by one corporation is lawfully maintained and operated by another corporation, the latter corporation shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter and chapter one hundred and fifty-nine respecting or arising from the maintenance and operation of such railroad, as if such railroad had been laid out and constructed by it. If a railroad is lawfully maintained and operated by trustees, they shall in like manner be subject to the provisions of law respecting or arising from the maintenance and operation of such railroad which apply to the corporation for whose stockholders or creditors they are trustees.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 6 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 6 - Purchase of Railroad by Commonwealth

Section 6. This chapter and chapter one hundred and fifty-nine shall not impair the rights of the commonwealth as asserted or reserved in previous statutes, and the commonwealth may, at any time during the continuance of the charter of a railroad corporation after the expiration of twenty years from the opening of its railroad for use, purchase of the corporation its railroad and all its franchise, property, rights and privileges by paying therefor such amount as will reimburse to it the amount of capital paid in, with a net profit thereon of ten per cent a year from the time of the payment thereof by the stockholders to the time of the purchase.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 7 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 7 - Taking by Eminent Domain

Section 7. The commonwealth may, at any time after one year's written notice to a railroad corporation, take its railroad, franchise and other property by eminent domain under chapter seventy-nine; provided, however, that said notice shall not be required if the corporation does not conduct railroad operations in the commonwealth.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 8 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 8 - Map and Engineer's Report to Accompany Petition for Charter

Section 8. A petition to the general court for a charter for a railroad corporation shall not be acted upon, unless accompanied by such a map of the route and by such a report of a competent engineer, as is specified in section eighteen.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 9 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 9 - Depositary for Plans and Profiles

Section 9. Plans and profiles presented to a committee of the general court in the hearing of a petition for such a charter shall be deposited by it in the state library.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 10 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 10 - Notice of Route

Section 10. Such petition shall not be acted upon, until notice thereof has been published according to law, designating the route with such certainty as to give reasonable notice to all persons interested therein that their rights may be affected by the granting of the petition, and that they may have an opportunity to appear and object thereto.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 11 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 11 - Limits Specified in Charter

Section 11. Every charter shall confine the railroad within the limits indicated by the notice required in the preceding section, shall specify the several cities and towns through which the railroad may pass, and shall otherwise designate the route thereof with as much certainty as the nature of the case will admit.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 12 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 12 - Fixing of Route

Section 12. The route of the railroad of a corporation established by special charter, and of its branches and extensions, shall be fixed according to sections twenty and twenty-one except so far as they may have been fixed by special statute; and such railroad, branches and extensions shall be located and constructed according to the provisions of this chapter regulating the location and construction of railroads by corporations incorporated under general laws, except that section seventeen shall not apply, if authority so to locate and construct has been granted by special act of the general court.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 13 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 13 - Formation

Section 13. Fifteen or more persons may associate themselves by a written agreement of association with the intention of forming a railroad corporation.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 14 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 14 - Contents of Agreement of Association

Section 14. The agreement of association shall state:  (a) That the subscribers thereto associate themselves with the intention of forming a railroad corporation.  (b) The corporate name assumed, which shall be one not in use by any other railroad corporation in the commonwealth, or, in the judgment of the department, so similar thereto as to be likely to be mistaken for it, and which shall contain the words, ''railroad corporation'', at the end thereof.  (c) The termini of the railroad.  (d) The length of the railroad, as nearly as may be.  (e) The name of each county, city and town where the railroad is to be located.  (f) The gauge of the railroad, which shall be either four feet eight and one half inches, or three feet.  (g) The total amount of the capital stock of the corporation, which shall be not less than ten thousand dollars for each mile, if the gauge is four feet eight and one half inches, and not less than five thousand dollars for each mile, if the gauge is three feet.  (h) The par value of the shares, which shall be one hundred dollars.  (i) 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 incorporated.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 15 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 15 - Associates' Authority

Section 15. The associates may from time to time, at a meeting called therefor, reduce the amount of the capital stock, but not below the limit prescribed in the preceding section; and they may, in like manner, change the gauge of their railroad to the other gauge allowed by said section. The directors shall appoint a clerk and a treasurer, who shall hold their respective offices until a clerk and a treasurer of the corporation are chosen and qualified in their stead. The directors shall fill any vacancy in their board, or in the office of clerk or treasurer, before the organization of the corporation.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 16 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 16 - Publication of Agreement of Association

Section 16. The directors, before fixing the route of the railroad as hereinafter provided, shall publish a copy of the agreement of association in a newspaper, if any, published in each of the cities and towns where the railroad is to be located, and if, in any county, a newspaper is published in none of said cities and towns therein, in such newspaper published in said county as shall be designated by the department, at least once in each of three successive weeks; and, three weeks before fixing said route, shall also post a copy of said agreement in two or more public places in each of said cities and towns where said railroad is to be located; and the sworn certificate of the clerk shall be conclusive evidence of such publication and posting.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 17 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 17 - Application for Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity

Section 17. After compliance with the provisions of sections thirteen to sixteen, inclusive, and within thirty days after the first publication of notice of the agreement of association therein required, the directors therein named shall apply to the department for a certificate that public convenience and necessity require the construction of a railroad as proposed in such agreement. If the department refuses to issue such certificate, no further proceedings shall be had, but the application may be renewed after one year from the date of such refusal.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 18 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 18 - Map; Engineer's Report

Section 18. The directors shall prepare a map of the route on an appropriate scale, with a profile thereof on a vertical scale of ten to one as compared with the horizontal scale, and shall procure the report of a competent engineer, based on actual examination and survey, showing the kind and amount of excavation, filling, bridging and masonry required, the grades, the number of public ways and of other railroads, and of navigable streams and tide waters, to be crossed, and the manner of crossing the same, the general profile of the surface of the country through which the railroad is to pass, the feasibility of the route, the manner of constructing the railroad, and a detailed estimate of the cost of construction.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 20 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 20 - Fixing of Route by Local Officials; Certificate Fee

Section 20. If the board of aldermen of a city or the selectmen of a town named in the agreement of association, after such notice, exhibition of the map and the hearing, agree with the directors as to the said route or as to any route of the railroad in said city or town, they shall in such agreement fix the route, and sign and give to the directors a certificate setting it forth. The board of aldermen of a city or the selectmen of a town will also set a fee for such a certificate.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 21 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 21 - Fixing of Route by Department Upon Failure to Agree

Section 21. If they fail so to agree, the directors may petition the department to fix the route in said city or town; and the department, after notice to said board of aldermen or selectmen, shall hear the parties, and fix the route in such city or town, and make a certificate setting forth the route as fixed by it, which shall be certified by its clerk to the directors. The costs of the petition shall be paid by the directors. All variations from the route first proposed shall be made upon the map.
MA Gen L ch 160 § 22 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 160 - Railroads|Section 22 - Spurs, Branches and Connecting and Terminal Tracks

Section 22. The route fixed under the two preceding sections may include such spurs, branches and connecting and terminal tracks in any city or town as may be necessary to enable the corporation conveniently to collect and deliver passengers and freight therein; but no such branches, spurs or connecting or terminal tracks shall be laid longitudinally within the limits of a public way without the consent of the board of aldermen or the selectmen, who, in giving such consent, may impose such conditions as to the location, construction and use thereof as may be agreed upon between themselves and the directors. A corporation which owns or operates any such tracks so laid longitudinally in a public way shall, in respect to the same, be liable to the city or town for all loss or damage caused to it by the construction and use of such tracks and by the negligence or default of the agents or workmen of such corporation on such way.