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2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 137 - Grade Crossings; Interlocking Signals

Section 137. The department may, on the application of a railroad corporation whose railroad crosses another railroad at the same level, after notice to the parties and a hearing, authorize the applicant at its own expense, to establish and maintain a system of interlocking or automatic signals at any crossing of said railroad, and to erect and maintain the necessary wires, rods, signal posts and signals, in such manner as the department shall prescribe. Such corporation, after the system has been established and approved in writing by the department, shall be exempt as to such crossing from the requirements of section one hundred and thirty-five so long as the department continues its approval. Upon payment to such corporation by the corporation owning or operating the other railroad at such crossing of so much of the cost of establishing such system of signals as, upon petition of the latter corporation and a hearing, is awarded by the department, both railroad corporations shall, as to that crossing, be exempted from the requirements of said section. Until such payment the latter corporation shall semi-annually contribute toward the expense of operating said signals an amount equal to the cost to it of operating the signals used by it at said crossing before the establishment of the signals herein provided for. After the payment of such award, the expense of maintaining and operating such system of signals shall be borne by the two railroad corporations according to the proportions fixed by the award for paying the original cost of the signals. So much of the award as relates to the cost of maintaining and operating said signals may, at the request of either party, be revised at the expiration of five years from the original award or from any revision thereof.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 138 - Warning to Public

Section 138. Every railroad corporation shall cause a bell of at least thirty-five pounds in weight, and a whistle, to be placed on each locomotive engine passing upon its railroad; and such bell shall be rung or at least three separate and distinct blasts of such whistle sounded at the distance of at least eighty rods from the place where the railroad crosses upon the same level any public way or traveled place over which a signboard is required to be maintained as provided in sections one hundred and forty and one hundred and forty-one; and such bell shall be rung or such whistle sounded continuously or alternately until the engine has crossed such way or traveled place. This section shall not affect the authority conferred upon the department by the following section.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 138a - Warning Devices at Crossings

Section 138A. A railroad corporation whose railroad is crossed by a public way at the same grade shall, at its own expense, install at any such grade crossing designated by the department and used by through passenger trains or cars or through freight trains a device to activate by hand a warning signal which shall audibly or visibly warn an approaching train from the grade crossing of danger at said grade crossing.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 139 - Regulation by Department of Use of Warning Devices

Section 139. The department, upon petition, and after notice to the railroad corporation and a public hearing, may, for good cause shown, recommend to such railroad corporation such changes as it considers proper in the manner of making up and shifting freight trains or freight cars, and of sounding of whistles on locomotives, and it may by written order forbid or regulate the sounding of whistles on the locomotives of such corporation at any specified grade crossings of the tracks of such corporation with any public way. The corporation which is subject to such order shall, until the order has been modified or annulled by the department, conform in all respects to the terms thereof.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 140 - Signs Protecting Public Ways

Section 140. Every railroad corporation shall cause boards, supported by posts or otherwise at such height as to be easily seen by travelers, and not obstructing travel, containing on each side in capital letters at least nine inches long the following inscription,—RAILROAD CROSSING—LOOK OUT FOR THE ENGINE,—to be placed and constantly maintained across each public way where it is crossed by the railroad at the same level; or the corporation may substitute therefor warning boards on each side of the crossing, of such form, size and description as the department approves.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 141 - Signs Protecting a Traveled Place

Section 141. The board of aldermen of a city or the selectmen of a town where a traveled place is crossed by a railroad at the same level, if of opinion that it is necessary for the better security of the public that boards such as are described in the preceding section should be maintained at such traveled place, may in writing request the railroad corporation to erect and maintain them. If it refuses or neglects so to do, they may apply to the department. If the department, after public notice and a hearing, decides that such erection is necessary for the better security of the public, the corporation shall comply with such decision.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 142 - Signs Erected by Municipalities

Section 142. Every county, city and town shall, except as hereinafter provided, and the department of highways shall, unless in any case it deems it unnecessary or impracticable so to do, place and maintain warning signs on every public way subject to its jurisdiction where the way crosses the tracks of a railroad at grade. Said warning signs shall be placed in a conspicuous location beside the public way on each side of the crossing at a distance of not less than two hundred and fifty feet from the nearest rail of the crossing and shall conform in design with the official standards of the department of highways.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 143 - Signs Erected by Municipality; Duty to Supply

Section 143. Every railroad corporation shall, within four months after receiving a written request therefor, furnish to any county, city or town in the commonwealth, or to the department of highways, as the case may be, a sufficient number of such warning signs to enable such county, city or town, or the said department, from time to time to comply with the preceding section. The said signs shall be furnished, as aforesaid, without charge, unless they are to be used for replacement purposes, in which case the railroad corporation may require the payment of the net cost thereof.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 144 - Release of Railroad or Municipality From Duty to Provide Signs

Section 144. When it appears that the placing of the signs prescribed by section one hundred and forty or section one hundred and forty-two or by both of said sections, is impracticable or unnecessary, the department, on petition, may release the railroad corporation or the county, city or town, as the case may be, from compliance with said section or sections.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 145 - Violations; Penalties

Section 145. If any county, city or town shall neglect, for sixty days, to comply with the requirements of section one hundred and forty-two, unless released therefrom by order of the department of telecommunications and energy, or unless prevented by the failure of any railroad corporation to comply with the requirements of section one hundred and forty-three, or if any railroad corporation shall neglect, for sixty days after the expiration of the four months prescribed in section one hundred and forty-three, to comply with the requirements thereof, it shall forfeit one dollar for each day during which such neglect continues, to be recovered in an action of tort brought in the name and for the use of the commonwealth by the attorney general or by the district attorney of the district where the violation occurred.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 146 - Damaging Warning Signs; Penalty

Section 146. Any person who unlawfully removes, throws down, injures or defaces any such sign shall be punished by a fine of not more than ten dollars, to the use of the county, city or town placing and maintaining the sign, or of the commonwealth, if the sign is placed and maintained by the department of highways.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 147 - Gates or Flashing Lights at Crossing of Railroad and Public Way

Section 147. Where a railroad and a public way or travelled place cross at the same level, the department, after notice to the interested parties and a hearing, shall order the crossing to be protected by gates, flagman, flashing light signals or such other protective measures as the department determines the better security of human life or the convenience of public travel requires, and the railroad corporation operating the railroad over the crossing shall install, maintain and operate the protection in compliance with such order. The cost of installing, maintaining and operating such protection shall be apportioned by the department between the railroad passing over the crossing, the town or city in which the highway is located, the county, if the highway is a county road, or the commonwealth, if the highway is a state highway, and any land in a limited and determinable area receiving benefit or advantage, other than the general advantage to the community, from such protection, and in accordance with the relative benefit to be derived by each from such protection, giving due consideration to whether the railroad or the highway was first constructed, to the nature and volume of highway travel, to the number of trains operated by the railroad over the crossing, and to all other relevant facts and circumstances. No part of the cost of installing, maintaining or operating such protection shall be apportioned or charged under this section against any city or town in the fourteen cities and towns or the sixty-four cities and towns, both as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and sixty-one A, with respect to any crossing of a railroad or railroad corporation operated under any contract with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. Any costs apportioned against land under this section shall be levied, assessed and collected in the same manner as a betterment under chapter eighty, so far as applicable.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 149 - Signals at Crossing of Railroad Above Highway Level

Section 149. The department may require a railroad corporation whose railroad crosses a highway by a crossing above the level of the highway to give such signal as the department may designate of the approach of trains to such crossing. The department may in each case determine the nature of the signal to be given, and, in its discretion, may require an automatic signal.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 150 - Obstruction of View by Standing Wood; Petition for Removal; Payment for Damages

Section 150. If the view of a railroad crossing or highway at grade is obstructed by standing wood in woodlands, the railroad corporation or ten citizens of a town may petition the county commissioners for the county where such crossing is situated for the removal of such standing wood; and the commissioners, after notice and a hearing, shall make such orders as to such removal as the public safety demands. They shall also prescribe the limits within which such standing wood shall be taken, and shall determine the damage sustained. Such damage and the expense incident thereto may be recovered from the railroad corporation under chapter seventy-nine.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 151 - Obstruction of Public Way by Railroad; Penalty

Section 151. A railroad corporation, or receiver or assignee thereof, or its or his servant or agent, shall not wilfully or negligently obstruct or unnecessarily or unreasonably use or occupy a public way, or in any case wilfully obstruct, use or occupy it with cars or engines for more than five minutes at one time; and if a public way has been thus used or occupied with cars or engines, the railroad corporation, or receiver or assignee thereof, shall not again use or occupy it with the cars or engines of a freight train, until a sufficient time, not less than three minutes, has been allowed for the passage across the railroad of such travelers as were ready and waiting to cross when the former occupation ceased. A railroad corporation, receiver or assignee thereof, who violates this section, shall forfeit not less than two hundred nor more than five hundred dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 152 - Reasonable Use of Crossing; Regulation by Department

Section 152. Upon an application to the department, according to section twenty-four of chapter one hundred and fifty-nine, stating that a crossing of a railroad with a public way at the same level is improperly used by a railroad corporation with its freight engines, freight cars or freight trains to the unreasonable inconvenience or danger of the public, the department, after notice, shall hear the parties; and, if public convenience or safety so requires, it may direct that after a date to be fixed by it such railroad corporation shall not use such crossing or any part thereof for making up, connecting or disconnecting freight trains, or the engines or cars of such trains, or for the purpose of distributing freight or freight cars; and to prevent the same may prescribe such changes to be made in the construction of side tracks, branches and connections, in proximity to such crossings, and such regulations limiting the use of such crossings, as may be necessary. The department may at any time modify its order after a hearing and for cause shown.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 154 - Brakes and Brakemen

Section 154. Every railroad corporation shall cause a sufficient brake to be attached to every car used upon its railroad for the transportation of passengers, and to every car used for the transportation of freight, except four-wheel cars used only for freight; and shall cause at least one brakeman for every two cars in a passenger train to be stationed thereon, and one brakeman for the last car of every freight train to be stationed thereon. A corporation which violates this section shall forfeit not more than one hundred dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 155 - Control of Brakes by Engineer; Inspection

Section 155. A railroad corporation, in moving traffic between points in the commonwealth, shall not use any locomotive not equipped with a power driving wheel brake and appliances for operating the train brake system; nor run any train in such traffic unless a sufficient number of cars in it are so equipped with power or train brakes that its speed can be controlled by the engineer of the locomotive which is drawing such train, without the use of the common hand brakes by the brakeman. Said brakes and brake appliances shall be tested or examined periodically by the department, and shall be so tested or examined while the cars are in motion and under both normal and emergency conditions. A record of each such test or examination shall be kept by the department. When such corporation has equipped a sufficient number of its cars with such power or train brakes, it may lawfully refuse to receive from connecting lines of railroad any cars used in such traffic which are not sufficiently equipped with such power or train brakes as will work and readily interchange with the brakes in use on its own cars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 156 - Safety Couplers on Freight Cars

Section 156. A railroad corporation shall cause to be placed upon both ends of every freight car owned by it and which it may lawfully use such automatic or other safety coupler as the department, after an examination and test, may prescribe, and the department may annul any such requirement made by it.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 157 - Use of Car Not Equipped With Automatic Couplers

Section 157. A railroad corporation, in moving traffic between points in the commonwealth, shall not haul or use, or permit to be hauled or used, on its lines any car which is not equipped with couplers coupling automatically by impact, and which do not require men to go between the cars to uncouple them.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 158 - Grab Irons

Section 158. A railroad corporation, in moving traffic between points in the commonwealth, until otherwise ordered by the department, shall not use any car, except flat cars equipped with automatic couplers, which is not provided with secure grab irons or hand holds on the ends and sides for greater security to men in coupling and uncoupling cars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 159 - Standard Height of Draw Bars for Freight Cars

Section 159. The standard height of draw bars for freight cars, measured perpendicularly from the level of the top of the rails to the centres of the draw bars, shall be thirty-four and one half inches for standard gauge railroads and twenty-six inches for narrow gauge railroads, with a maximum variation from such standard height, in either case, of three inches between the draw bars of empty and loaded cars; and no freight car with draw bars which do not comply with the above standard, whether loaded or unloaded, shall be used in moving traffic between points in the commonwealth.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 160 - Violations; Penalty

Section 160. A railroad corporation which violates any provision of sections one hundred and fifty-five, one hundred and fifty-seven, one hundred and fifty-eight and one hundred and fifty-nine, shall forfeit one hundred dollars, to be recovered in an action of tort brought in the name and for the use of the commonwealth by the attorney general or the district attorney for the district where the offence was committed.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 162 - Extension of Time for Equipment

Section 162. The department may from time to time, after hearing and for good cause, exempt, until a date fixed by it, any railroad corporation from the requirements of sections one hundred and fifty-five, one hundred and fifty-seven, one hundred and fifty-eight and one hundred and fifty-nine.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 163 - Tools and Devices Carried on Trains

Section 163. Every railroad corporation shall equip each of the trains and cars owned or operated by it, for use in case of accident and for safety purposes, with such tools and devices as the department shall order in writing. Said tools and devices shall be kept in a place which shall be so marked as to be easily visible to all passengers. A corporation which violates the provisions of this section shall forfeit five hundred dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 163a - Track Motor Cars; Windshield With Cleaning Device and Canopy

Section 163A. Every railroad corporation shall equip each of the track motor cars operated by it with a windshield and a device for cleaning such windshield, which device shall be maintained in good order and shall be so constructed as to be controlled and operated by the operator of said track motor car; and a canopy or top of such construction as to adequately protect the occupants of such cars from rain, snow and inclement weather.
It shall be unlawful for any railroad corporation to operate any track motor car unless it is equipped with a windshield and canopy or top as provided in this section.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 163b - Passenger Cars; Safety Windows and Doors

Section 163B. No railroad corporation shall operate a passenger car manufactured after January first, nineteen hundred and seventy-nine, unless it is equipped with at least two windows on each side of said car designed to allow quick and easy egress in case of an emergency, and with access doors which shall open outward from the passenger area of the car, or which slide laterally into the wall of the car.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 165 - Passenger, Mail or Baggage Car; Heating Devices

Section 165. A passenger, mail or baggage car shall not be heated by a stove or furnace kept in the car or suspended therefrom unless it is temporarily necessary by reason of an accident or other emergency, and no method of heating such cars nor heater shall be used until it shall have been approved in writing by the department; but the department may from time to time grant such exemptions from the requirements of this section as may seem to it necessary or reasonable, and may grant permission to any railroad corporation to make such experiments in heating its passenger cars as the department determines is proper. A corporation which violates this section shall forfeit not more than five hundred dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 166 - Passenger Cars; Illuminating Oil or Fluid

Section 166. A passenger car on a railroad shall not be lighted by naphtha, nor by an illuminating oil or fluid made in part of naphtha or which will ignite at a temperature of less than three hundred degrees Fahrenheit. A corporation which violates this section shall forfeit not more than five hundred dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 167 - Platform Gates

Section 167. Every passenger, baggage, mail and express car, equipped with platforms, and owned or regularly used on any railroad in the commonwealth shall be provided at each end thereof with platform gates of a pattern approved by the department. A railroad corporation which hauls or uses, or permits to be hauled or used, on its railroad any car in violation of this section shall forfeit one hundred dollars to the use of the commonwealth, and the attorney general or the district attorney for the district where such violation occurred shall bring an action therefor.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 168 - Testing of Locomotive Boilers, Rolling Stock or Other Equipment

Section 168. The department shall make and revise regulations for testing boilers of locomotives, rolling stock or any other piece of railroad equipment designated by the department used by railroad corporations, by other corporations, and by persons, firms or associations upon any railroad or railway within the commonwealth, and every person, firm, association and corporation other than a railroad corporation, so using a locomotive, shall inform the department in writing on or before June thirtieth of each year of the number of locomotives so used by him or it, together with the length of track of such railroad or railway, its location and uses, and such other information as the department may require. This section shall apply to railroads for private use authorized by section two hundred and forty-five of this chapter. Tests under regulations made as aforesaid shall, if possible, be made by the master mechanic of the corporation, association, person or firm which constructs, repairs or uses the boiler of the locomotive, and the report of such tests shall be in form satisfactory to the department. A corporation, association, firm or person using a locomotive in the commonwealth the boiler of which has not been tested in accordance with this section shall be punished by a fine of twenty dollars for every day after notice by the department during which such use continues.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 169 - Vacuum Brakes; Mufflers

Section 169. A railroad corporation using any vacuum brake shall provide and use on every locomotive equipped therewith a muffler or other appliance, approved in writing by the department, for deadening the noise incident to the operation of such brake; but any other appliance may be used upon any locomotive for the purpose of experiment only, for not more than thirty days, but not upon more than two locomotives of the same corporation at any one time. Every application to the department for approval of such appliances shall be in writing; and such approval may be revoked by the department by written notice to the corporation.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 170 - Safety Valves; Mufflers

Section 170. A railroad corporation using upon its locomotives a pop or other safety valve shall provide and use therewith a suitable and sufficient appliance for deadening the sound made by steam escaping therefrom, and, if it materially retards the escape of steam or increases the pressure upon the boiler, the corporation shall use an additional safety valve without such appliance, set at a higher point than the other but below the point at which explosion is likely to occur.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 171 - Failure to Equip With Mufflers; Penalty

Section 171. A corporation which violates any provision of the two preceding sections shall forfeit not less than one hundred nor more than three hundred dollars for every locomotive used by it in violation thereof, and a further sum of five dollars for each day upon which such locomotive shall be run in violation thereof.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 172a - Drinking Water and Sanitary Toilet Facilities on Locomotives or Cabooses

Section 172A. Every railroad corporation shall equip each locomotive used by railroad crewmen with pure refrigerated drinking water with individual, disposable cups; maintain toilet facilities on locomotives or cabooses, if cabooses are used, in a working sanitary condition; and ensure that each such toilet facility provides privacy to a person using such facility.
For the purpose of this section ''sanitary condition'' shall mean a condition of good order and cleanliness which precludes the reasonable probability of disease transmission.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 174 - Drinking Water in Railroad Cars

Section 174. Every railroad car, except private cars, sleeping cars, dining cars, parlor cars, and the smoking, buffet and observation cars used in connection with the same, while in use for the transportation of passengers, upon a train running thirty miles or more, shall be provided with a sufficient quantity of pure drinking water in such place in the car as will be convenient for the passengers, and with individual drinking cups accessible to the passengers. Said cups shall be in a proper receptacle near the water tank, and said receptacle shall be so placed as to be easily seen and shall be plainly marked as follows:
DRINKING CUPS
FOR USE
ONLY IN THIS CAR
FREE
such words to occupy a space not less than two inches wide by three inches long, and to be in clear black letters on a white background. No charge shall be made for the water or for the drinking cups. The water and cups supplied shall be subject to the supervision and approval of the department of public health, which shall enforce this and the following section.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 175 - Failure to Provide Drinking Water; Penalty

Section 175. Violations of the preceding section shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars for each trip made by a car used for transporting passengers and not provided with water and utensils for its distribution in accordance with the preceding section.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 176a - Track Motor Cars; Lights

Section 176A. Every railroad corporation shall equip each of its track motor cars operated between points in the commonwealth during the period from thirty minutes before sunset to thirty minutes after sunrise on the day next following with an electric headlight of sufficient candle power when lighted to render plainly visible during clear weather, at a distance of not less than three hundred feet in advance of such car, any track obstruction, warning sign or grade crossing, and with an electric tail light showing red to the rear when lighted, of sufficient candle power as to be plainly visible at a distance of three hundred feet, in clear weather, or with such a head or tail light or lights as any regulatory authority may require or prescribe for use in place thereof.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 177 - Caps and Badges

Section 177. Every railroad corporation shall provide a uniform hat or cap and distinguishing badge, which shall be worn by all its employees whose duties relate immediately to the transportation of passengers or their baggage. A corporation neglecting to provide such uniform hat or cap and badge shall forfeit one hundred dollars for each week of such neglect; and if such an employee neglects to wear the same when on duty, the corporation which employs him shall for each case of such neglect forfeit twenty-five dollars; and no employee, unless wearing his uniform hat or cap and badge, shall be permitted to exercise any authority or to perform any of the duties of his office.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 178 - Eye Examinations

Section 178. A railroad corporation shall not employ any person or keep him in its employ in a position requiring the employee to distinguish form or color signals, unless he has been examined for color blindness or other defective sight by a competent person employed by the corporation and has received a certificate that he is not disqualified for such position by color blindness or other defective sight. A railroad corporation which violates this section shall forfeit one hundred dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 182 - Experience of Engineer and Conductor; Exceptions

Section 182. The three preceding sections shall not apply to the operating of locomotive engines by engine hostlers in or around engine houses, or to any railroad other than a standard gauge railroad. In the event of the disability of an engineer or conductor on the road, railroad companies may employ persons without the qualifications prescribed by sections one hundred and seventy-nine and one hundred and eighty, but only for the purpose of reaching a terminal station.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 183 - Penalty for Violation of Experience Requirements for Engineers and Conductors

Section 183. Any violation of any provision of the four preceding sections shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both, and each day's violation shall constitute a separate offence.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 184 - Rest Days

Section 184. Every person employed as signalman, towerman, leverman, agent, train dispatcher, telegrapher or telephone operator in a railroad signal tower or railroad station, and every other person employed by a railroad in the operating of trains by the use of the telegraph, telephone or signal and interlocking switching machines shall be allowed two days of twenty-four hours each in every month for rest with regular compensation, except in a case of extraordinary emergency caused by accident, fire, flood, or danger to life or property, when the said period of rest shall be allowed after the emergency is past. Any violation of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 185 - Change in Number of Train Crew; Regulation by Department

Section 185. Whenever the department is of opinion, after a hearing had upon its own motion or upon complaint, that the number of men forming a train crew of any train is not sufficient to operate said train for the safety of the public and the employees of the railroad, it shall thereupon order such changes as it deems necessary.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 186 - Determination by Railroad; Revision

Section 186. A railroad corporation may establish for its sole benefit fares, tolls and charges upon all passengers and property conveyed or transported on its railroad, at such rates as may be determined by its directors, and may from time to time by its directors regulate the use of its railroad; but such fares, tolls and charges, and such regulations, shall be subject to revision and alteration by the general court, or by such officers or persons as it may appoint for the purpose, anything in the charter of the railroad corporation to the contrary notwithstanding.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 187 - Reduction of Rates

Section 187. A railroad corporation may make contracts for the conveyance of passengers upon designated trains for a specific distance at fixed times, at such reduced rates of fare as the parties may agree upon. Tickets may be issued for such passengers, upon which shall be plainly printed the terms upon which they may be used. Such tickets shall not be transferable without the consent of the corporation, nor shall they entitle the holder to ride upon a train not therein designated.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 188 - Extra Charges for Ticket Purchased at Place Other Than Ticket Office

Section 188. A railroad corporation shall not demand or receive for any single ticket bought or fare paid on a train or elsewhere than at its ticket offices more than ten cents in excess of the tariff rates charged at its ticket offices. When such excess is received, the conductor or other person receiving it shall give to the passenger a printed certificate which shall entitle him to receive the excess so paid at any station of the corporation in exchange for such certificate. A railroad corporation violating any provision hereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 189 - Mileage Tickets; Detaching Coupons

Section 189. Every railroad corporation issuing mileage tickets shall, upon presentation of such a ticket by a passenger, detach therefrom one coupon and no more for each mile and fraction thereof actually traveled; provided, that for distances less than three miles three coupons may so be detached. Distances to or from the station known as Back Bay on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, and the stations known as Trinity Place and Huntington Avenue on the Boston and Albany railroad, shall be computed as if to or from the Boston terminal station.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 190 - Commutation Tickets

Section 190. Every railroad corporation having a terminus in Boston, except the Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad Company, shall sell a commutation ticket good for not more than twelve rides between Boston and each station on its lines within fifteen miles of its terminal station in Boston. The said tickets, before issuance, shall be subject to approval by the department both as to the rate of fare and the conditions named therein. So far as is practicable, the rates of fare on all roads for like distances from their terminal stations shall be equal.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 191 - Season Tickets; Extension of Term

Section 191. All railroads issuing season tickets between points within the commonwealth shall, at the request and on the presentation of a season ticket by the holder thereof, place the same on deposit for not less than one week and reissue the ticket at the request of the owner, extending the period for which the ticket was issued by a number of days equal to the number during which it remained on deposit; provided, that no ticket shall be deposited more frequently than at the rate of once in three months; and a holder shall have such further privileges as the department approves.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 192 - Season Tickets; Reimbursement for Additional Fares

Section 192. All railroads issuing season tickets between points within the commonwealth shall, at the request of a holder of a season ticket, reimburse said holder for the cost of the fares paid by said holder between the stations named on the ticket whenever said holder fails to present the season ticket for fare. The holder of a season ticket in order to be entitled to reimbursement must, within one week, present to the proper officer of the railroad company the certificate given at the time of paying the fare together with the coupon from the season ticket.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 193 - Sale of Season Tickets to Express Messengers; Release of Liability for Personal Injury

Section 193. Every railroad corporation shall sell to an express messenger or to a person conducting a local express business, as provided in section two hundred and six, in its trains or cars within the commonwealth, a season ticket for his personal transportation, at a price not exceeding that at which similar tickets are sold to passengers, upon receiving from him a release of all right, to whomsoever accruing, to damages or compensation for death or for any personal injury received by him while riding on such ticket.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 196 - Transportation of Bicycles

Section 196. A railroad corporation which owns or operates a railroad of standard gauge shall check and transport between stations within the limits of the commonwealth, as baggage, and subject to the same charges, terms and liabilities as other baggage, one bicycle for each passenger who pays by a mileage book, by a ticket other than a season ticket, or in cash, the established fare, if it is not less than ten cents, exclusive of rebate. The weight of the bicycle shall be included in determining the total weight of the baggage to be transported for such passenger. Such corporation shall not require such bicycle to be crated, covered or otherwise protected.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 197 - Cheap Morning and Evening Trains

Section 197. Every railroad corporation having a terminus in Boston shall, upon the application of two hundred or more persons therefor, furnish on each week day a morning train in and an evening train out for distances not exceeding fifteen miles, or suitable cars attached to other trains, and reaching and leaving Boston at about six o'clock in the forenoon and afternoon, or at such hours as may be fixed by the department; and for such trains, shall furnish season tickets good once a day each way for six days in the week, at a rate not exceeding, for yearly tickets, three dollars a mile and for quarterly tickets, one dollar a mile.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 198 - Workingmen's Trains

Section 198. Every railroad corporation having a terminus in Boston shall furnish such number of workingmen's trains, not less than two each way, as the department, upon a petition for such trains filed with it, shall in each case order. Such trains shall arrive at Boston between six and half past seven o'clock in the morning and leave Boston between the same hours in the evening and special cars may be provided therefor. Season tickets, good once a day each way for six days in the week, shall be furnished for such trains at a rate not exceeding, for yearly tickets, three dollars a mile, and for quarterly tickets, one dollar a mile.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 198a - Unauthorized Sale at Less Than Full Fare

Section 198A. Whoever, except a person authorized so to do by the railroad corporation issuing the same, or a bona fide passenger in actual transit, sells or offers for sale any railroad ticket or portion of such a ticket entitling the holder or any specified person or persons to passage wholly within the commonwealth on any railroad passenger train or trains, such ticket or portion of a ticket having been put out by the railroad corporation issuing the same at a price less than the rate of a full one way fare for such passage under the tariff provisions then in force, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one month, or both.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 198b - Unauthorized Sale at Other Than Scheduled Rate

Section 198B. Whoever shall engage in the business of purchasing, selling or re-selling railroad tickets, railroad ticket coupons or other evidences of a right to ride on a railroad, or parts of such tickets, coupons or other evidences, or shall purchase, sell, re-sell, barter, offer for sale or barter, or advertise for sale or barter, the whole or any part of any railroad ticket, railroad ticket coupon or other evidence of a right to ride on a railroad, or shall in any manner aid in so doing, or shall obtain for himself or another, or avail himself of, any means of transportation on a railroad, at any rate or rates other than or different from those prescribed in the schedule of rates filed and published by the corporation operating such railroad or in violation of the conditions attached to any reduced rate ticket, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than one month or by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, or both. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, the provisions of section one hundred and ninety-eight A shall continue to govern as to the classes of tickets therein specified.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 199 - Free Passes or Reduced Rates for Public Officials

Section 199. Any person who, being governor, lieutenant governor, member of the council, member or member-elect of the general court, justice of the supreme judicial court, justice of the superior court, judge of probate, justice of a district court or a county commissioner, who requests, for himself or another, accepts or uses any free pass upon a railroad, or any ticket entitling him to transportation upon a railroad, for which he has paid a less price than is demanded of the public generally, and an officer, agent or employee of a railroad corporation who issues, delivers or offers to any person hereinbefore mentioned or to or for any other person at the request, solicitation or procurement of any such person, except as otherwise provided by the following section or section fifteen of chapter one hundred and fifty-nine, a free pass or any ticket entitling him to transportation at a less rate of fare than is demanded of the public generally, shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXII - Corporations › Chapter 160 - Railroads › Section 200 - Free Passes to Former Employees Injured in Service of Railroad

Section 200. Railroad corporations may issue passes for free transportation to former employees who have been injured in the service of the corporation issuing the pass. The pass shall state the nature of the injury, shall not be transferable, and shall be forfeited if used, or attempted to be used, in violation of the conditions of the pass, or if it was obtained by misrepresentation.