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MA Gen L ch 161 § 87 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 161 - Street Railways|Section 87 - Temporary Discontinuance of Use of Tracks

Section 87. The aldermen or selectmen may order a company to discontinue temporarily the use of any tracks within the limits of their city or town, if they determine that public safety or convenience so requires.
MA Gen L ch 161 § 88 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 161 - Street Railways|Section 88 - Liability of Municipality for Alteration or Discontinuance of Public Way

Section 88. A city or a town which, for any lawful purpose, takes up, alters or discontinues public ways in which the tracks of a company are located, shall not be liable in damages therefor to said company.
MA Gen L ch 161 § 89 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 161 - Street Railways|Section 89 - Opening Way or Bridge to Make Repairs; Liability for Loss or Injury

Section 89. A company shall not be required to keep any portion of the surface material of public ways and bridges in repair, but it shall remain subject to all legal obligations imposed in original grants of locations, and may, as incident to its corporate franchise, and without being subject to the payment of any fee or to any other condition precedent, open any such way or bridge in which any part of its railway is located, in order to make repairs or renewals of the railway, or of any part thereof, and the superintendent of streets or other officer exercising like authority, or the board of aldermen or selectmen shall issue the necessary permits therefor in a city or town where such are required. If, during the original construction or subsequent alteration or extension or the making of any such repairs or renewals of any railway or a portion thereof, said surface material is disturbed, the company which owns or operates such railway shall, at its own cost, except as provided in sections seventy-one and eighty-two, replace to the reasonable satisfaction of the said superintendent, or other officer, said surface material with the same form of construction as that which was disturbed, or, by first obtaining the approval thereof by such officer, with a different material and form of construction, and shall restore said way or bridge to as good condition as existed at the time of such disturbance. Such company shall be liable for any loss or injury sustained by any person in the management and use of its tracks and during the construction, alteration, extension, repair or renewal of its railway, or while replacing the surface of any way disturbed as aforesaid, and resulting from the carelessness, neglect or misconduct of its agents or servants who are engaged in the prosecution of such work, if notice of such loss or injury is given to the company and an action therefor is commenced in the manner provided by section eighteen of chapter eighty-four. This section shall not affect the obligations of any company in respect of the construction or maintenance of any bridge or part thereof which any private person or corporation may be liable, in whole or in part, to construct or maintain.
MA Gen L ch 161 § 90 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 161 - Street Railways|Section 90 - Liability of Municipality; Recovery From Railway

Section 90. If, upon the trial of an action against the commonwealth, a city, town, railroad corporation or bridge corporation, the plaintiff recovers damages for an injury to his person or property caused by reason of a defect in a public way or bridge occupied by the tracks of a company, and such company is liable for such damages under the preceding section, and has had reasonable notice to defend the action, the commonwealth, city, town, railroad corporation or bridge corporation may recover the damages, and all the costs of both plaintiff and defendant in the action from said company.
MA Gen L ch 161 § 91 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 161 - Street Railways|Section 91 - Guards and Railings on Bridges

Section 91. Every company shall, in a manner satisfactory to the department, erect and maintain guards or railings upon every bridge, or draw of a bridge, crossed by its tracks, to prevent its cars from running off. If, for sixty days after service on it of an order of the department relative to such guards or railings, it fails to comply therewith, it shall, for each month of such failure subsequent to said sixty days, forfeit two hundred dollars, to the use of the city or town.
MA Gen L ch 161 § 92 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 161 - Street Railways|Section 92 - Stopping at Railroad Crossings

Section 92. If a street railway crosses at the same level a steam railroad where locomotive engines are in daily use, every motorman of a car upon the street railway shall, when approaching the point of intersection, stop his car within one hundred feet of the crossing; but the department may, for such term and under such restrictions as it may from time to time prescribe, modify or suspend the requirements of this section with respect to any such crossing by a street railway of a railroad built for private use under section two hundred and forty-five of chapter one hundred and sixty, or of a branch, spur or siding of a railroad built or used only for the transportation of freight to the premises of manufacturing or other industrial plants. For each violation of this section, the motorman shall forfeit ten dollars, and the company employing him shall forfeit twenty dollars.
MA Gen L ch 161 § 93 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 161 - Street Railways|Section 93 - Warning of Approach of Street Car

Section 93. The board of aldermen or the selectmen may, subject to the approval of the department, establish such regulations, requiring the motorman or conductor to give notice or warning of the approach of street cars, as they deem will best secure the unobstructed use of the tracks and the free passage of the cars.
MA Gen L ch 161 § 94 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 161 - Street Railways|Section 94 - Obstruction of Tracks

Section 94. Whoever wilfully obstructs a company or the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority in the legal use of a railway track, or delays the passing of its cars thereon, or wilfully obstructs a company or the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority in the legal use of a public way by a trackless trolley vehicle, or delays the passing of its trackless trolley vehicles thereon, or aids or abets in such obstruction or delay, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than three months. Whoever commits any of said acts in such a manner as to endanger the life or safety of persons conveyed in or upon said cars, or trackless trolley vehicles, or aids or abets therein, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than ten years.
MA Gen L ch 161 § 94a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 161 - Street Railways|Section 94a - Littering Public Transportation Facilities; Penalty

Section 94A. Whoever places or throws filth, rubbish or any other substance within a station, waiting room, or terminal of a public transportation facility, or upon the platform, stairs, grounds or on other premises of a public transportation facility, after having been forbidden to do so either by notice posted thereon, or by the person who has the lawful control of said premises, or by a railroad, railway, or railway express officer or by any police officer, shall be punished by a fine of not more than twenty-five dollars and may be arrested without a warrant by such officer and kept in a convenient place, not more than twenty-four hours Sundays and legal holidays excepted, at or before the expiration of which he shall be taken before a proper court or magistrate and proceeded against according to law.
MA Gen L ch 161 § 95 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 161 - Street Railways|Section 95 - Loitering

Section 95. Whoever without right enters, remains in or loiters within a station, waiting room, or terminal of a public transportation facility, or upon the platform, stairs, grounds or other premises of a public transportation facility, after having been forbidden so to do either by notice posted thereon, or by the person who has the lawful control of said premises, or by a railroad, railway or railway express officer or by any police officer, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars and may be arrested without a warrant by such officer and kept in custody in a convenient place, not more than twenty-four hours, Sundays and legal holidays excepted, at or before the expiration of which time he shall be taken before a proper court or magistrate and proceeded against according to law.
MA Gen L ch 161 § 96 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 161 - Street Railways|Section 96 - Obstruction of Ways and Bridges by Railway; Penalty

Section 96. If a company, its agents or servants, wilfully or negligently obstructs a public way or bridge, or hinders the passing of vehicles over the same, or wilfully detains the cars of another company having the lawful right to pass thereon, such company shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars; and any such agent or servant shall be punished by a fine of not more than ten dollars or by imprisonment for not more than three months.
MA Gen L ch 161 § 97 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 161 - Street Railways|Section 97 - Children Selling Newspapers on Railway Cars; Penalty

Section 97. If a company, its agent or servant, allows a child under ten years to enter upon or into any of its cars for the purpose of selling newspapers or other articles therein or offering them for sale, it shall forfeit fifty dollars, to be recovered by any person by an action brought within three months after the offence has been committed.
MA Gen L ch 161 § 98 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 161 - Street Railways|Section 98 - Safety Devices for Cars and Station Platforms

Section 98. A company shall equip its cars, when in use, with such headlights, fenders, wheel guards, brakes, and other safety devices, and shall provide such protection, human or otherwise, at its station platforms, as may be required from time to time by the department.
MA Gen L ch 161 § 99 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 161 - Street Railways|Section 99 - Emergency Tools and Lifting Jack

Section 99. All street railway cars operated in the commonwealth shall be equipped with an emergency lifting jack and with such other emergency tools as may be approved by the department. Any company, its officers or employees, operating a street railway car in the use of which this section is violated, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars.
MA Gen L ch 161 § 100 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 161 - Street Railways|Section 100 - Heating Railway Cars

Section 100. The department shall require every street railway company to heat its cars, when in use for the transportation of passengers, at such times, by such means, and to such extent, as the department shall determine, and the company shall forfeit twenty-five dollars for each trip run by any of its cars not so heated, except in case of accident to the heating process or apparatus, or other unavoidable cause. The state police shall cause this section to be enforced.
MA Gen L ch 161 § 101 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 161 - Street Railways|Section 101 - Enclosure of Platforms During Winter Months

Section 101. Every street car in use for the transportation of passengers in December, January, February and March, which, while in motion, requires the constant care or service of an employee upon its platforms or upon one of them, shall have said platforms enclosed in such manner as to protect the motormen, conductors or other employees operating such car from exposure to wind and weather in such manner as the department shall approve.
MA Gen L ch 161 § 102 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 161 - Street Railways|Section 102 - Failure to Enclose Platforms During Winter Months; Penalty

Section 102. A company failing to comply with the preceding section shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars for each day during which such failure continues.
MA Gen L ch 161 § 103 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 161 - Street Railways|Section 103 - Hours of Employment per Day; Penalty

Section 103. A day's work for all conductors, guards, drivers, motormen, brakemen, dispatchers and gatemen employed by or on behalf of a street railway or elevated railway company shall not exceed nine hours, and shall be so arranged by the employer that it shall be performed within eleven consecutive hours. No officer or agent of any such company shall require from said employees more than nine hours' work for a day's labor. Threat of loss of employment or threat to obstruct or prevent the obtaining of employment by the employees, or threat to refrain from employing any employee in the future shall be considered ''requiring'', within the meaning of this section. But this section shall not prevent an employee of the character mentioned herein, if he so desires, from working more hours than those prescribed herein for extra compensation. A company violating any provision of this section shall forfeit not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars.
MA Gen L ch 161 § 104 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 161 - Street Railways|Section 104 - Reasonable Accommodations for Passengers

Section 104. Every company shall furnish reasonable accommodations for the conveyance of passengers, and for every wilful neglect to provide such accommodations shall forfeit not less than five nor more than twenty dollars; and may establish the rates of fare for all passengers and property conveyed or transported in its cars, subject to the limitations of its charter or other provisions of law.
MA Gen L ch 161 § 105 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 161 - Street Railways|Section 105 - Additional Passenger Accommodations

Section 105. If the department deems additional accommodations including waiting rooms, stations, water closets and other sanitary conveniences for the traveling public are required upon any street railway, it may, after due notice to the company and a hearing, make an order for such additional accommodations, and may alter, renew or revoke the order. A company which, for more than one week after receiving written notice of such order, fails to comply therewith, shall forfeit to the use of the city or town where such additional accommodations are to be used, or if they are to be used in more than one city or town, to the use equally of such cities or towns, one hundred dollars for each day thereafter during which such failure continues.
MA Gen L ch 161 § 106 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 161 - Street Railways|Section 106 - Assumption of Risk

Section 106. No company shall by rule or otherwise require passengers whom it permits to ride upon the platform to do so at their own risk, and no such passenger shall be prevented from recovering compensation in damages for any injury by reason of the fact that he is so riding.
MA Gen L ch 161 § 107 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 161 - Street Railways|Section 107 - Special Service Railway Cars and Rates; Working Men's Rates; Children's Rates; Veterans' Rates; Free Passes to Public Officials

Section 107. A company may provide cars for special service, and may make special rates therefor; and may make special rates for working men and working women on week days between the hours of five and seven in the morning and five and seven in the evening, for children attending school, and for veterans of World War II attending schools or other institutions of learning under authority of any provision of the G.I. Bill of Rights, so called, as amended.  A company shall not give free tickets or passes to any state, county, city or town official, or to any person in the employ of the commonwealth or of any county, city or town, except policemen, firemen and letter carriers in uniform; but it may give them to a director of the company or to any person who is connected with it in any executive capacity. A company which violates any of the provisions of this section shall forfeit not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars.
MA Gen L ch 161 § 108 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 161 - Street Railways|Section 108 - Railway Fares; Students' Rates

Section 108. The rates of fare charged by street or elevated railway companies for the transportation of pupils of the public day schools or public evening schools, of vocational schools subject to chapter seventy-four, or of private schools, between a given point from or to which it is necessary for them to ride in traveling to or from the schoolhouses in which they attend school and their homes, whether such schoolhouses are located in the city or town where the pupils reside or in another city or town, shall not exceed one half the regular fare charged by such street or elevated railway company for the transportation of other passengers between said points, and tickets for the transportation of pupils as aforesaid, good during the days or evenings on which said schools are in session, shall be sold by said companies in lots of ten each. Upon application of any company alleging abuses in the use of such tickets, the department may impose terms and regulations, not inconsistent herewith, relative to the sale and use of such tickets, and the furnishing of tickets by such company in accordance with the terms and regulations imposed shall be a compliance with the provisions of this section. A railway company violating any provision of this section shall forfeit twenty-five dollars.
MA Gen L ch 161 § 109 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 161 - Street Railways|Section 109 - Regulation of Fares; Railroads and Street Railways

Section 109. All laws relative to changes and regulation of fares upon railroads shall apply to changes and regulation of fares upon street railways.
MA Gen L ch 161 § 110 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 161 - Street Railways|Section 110 - Free Checks or Transfers From One Railway Car to Another; Regulation

Section 110. A company shall not withdraw or discontinue the use of any free checks or free transfers from one car or line of cars to another without the approval of the department, but may regulate the use thereof to conform to rates of fare established under authority of section one hundred and four.
MA Gen L ch 161 § 111 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 161 - Street Railways|Section 111 - Notice of Change of Service

Section 111. All companies shall furnish the public with full information, by notice posted for seven consecutive days prior to the date when the same are to take effect in the cars on the lines affected, of any intended change in the running of cars, or the discontinuance of any line, or any change in the general public service of said companies.  The department shall give notice to all such companies of the foregoing provisions.
MA Gen L ch 161 § 112 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 161 - Street Railways|Section 112 - Notice of Change of Tariff or Rates to Municipalities

Section 112. The department shall forthwith, upon the filing of a petition or schedule for any change in the tariff or rates of any company, give written notice of the proposed change to the mayor or selectmen of all cities and towns where the street railway is operated, or which, in the opinion of the department, would be affected by the proposed change.
MA Gen L ch 161 § 113 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 161 - Street Railways|Section 113 - Misuse of Transfer Ticket; Penalty

Section 113. Every company shall cause to be printed on the transfer tickets issued by it to passengers the conditions under which such tickets may be used. Whoever uses a transfer ticket in violation of any such condition, or whoever uses or attempts to use a transfer ticket not issued to him, or whoever for value disposes of or attempts to dispose of to any other person a transfer ticket issued to him, or whoever for value delivers or attempts to deliver a transfer ticket not issued to him to any person, shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one month.
MA Gen L ch 161 § 113a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 161 - Street Railways|Section 113a - Fraudulent Use of Passes; Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Stations or Vehicles; Penalty

Section 113A. Whoever fraudulently attempts to, or does enter upon or leave any vehicle or station of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority by using a stolen employee or prepaid pass or a counterfeit employee or prepaid pass of said authority shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both. Whoever attempts to, or does enter or leave a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority station or vehicle in the aforesaid manner may, if such offense is committed in the presence of a police officer, including a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority police officer or railway police officer, be arrested without a warrant.
MA Gen L ch 161 § 114 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXII - Corporations|Chapter 161 - Street Railways|Section 114 - Transportation of Milk and Cream

Section 114. All companies may transport milk and cream over and upon their respective lines of railway and from and to any point thereon, subject only to the supervision of and to such regulations as may be imposed by the department.