Chapter 160 - RAILROADS

Section 160:1 - Definitions
Section 160:2 - Boston; tribunal acting in place of county commissioners
Section 160:3 - Application
Section 160:4 - Railroad corporation chartered concurrently with another state
Section 160:5 - Corporation or trustees operating railroad of another
Section 160:6 - Purchase of railroad by commonwealth
Section 160:7 - Taking by eminent domain
Section 160:8 - Map and engineer's report to accompany petition for charter
Section 160:9 - Depositary for plans and profiles
Section 160:10 - Notice of route
Section 160:11 - Limits specified in charter
Section 160:12 - Fixing of route
Section 160:13 - Formation of corporation
Section 160:14 - Contents of agreement of association
Section 160:15 - Associates' authority
Section 160:16 - Publication of agreement of association
Section 160:17 - Application for certificate of public convenience and necessity
Section 160:18 - Map; engineer's report
Section 160:19 - Submission of map and report to local officials
Section 160:20 - Fixing of route by local officials; certificate fee
Section 160:21 - Fixing of route by department upon failure to agree
Section 160:22 - Spurs, branches and connecting and terminal tracks
Section 160:23 - Certificate of facts of subscription
Section 160:24 - Certificate of compliance; filing; certificate of incorporation
Section 160:25 - Change in amount of capital stock; change of gauge
Section 160:26 - Limit upon time to acquire certificate of incorporation
Section 160:27 - Limit upon time to construct railroad
Section 160:28 - Narrow gauge railroads; paid-up capital stock
Section 160:29 - First meeting of incorporators; notice; waiver of notice
Section 160:30 - Adoption of by-laws; election of directors
Section 160:31 - Managing officers
Section 160:32 - Selection of officers; treasurer's bond; clerk's qualifications and duties; terms of office; vacancies
Section 160:33 - Stockholders' meeting
Section 160:34 - Special meetings
Section 160:35 - Voting by corporation upon its own stock
Section 160:36 - Voting rights of stockholders
Section 160:37 - Meetings of directors
Section 160:38 - Stock certificate
Section 160:39 - Assessment; failure to pay assessment
Section 160:40 - Collection of assessment
Section 160:41 - Increase of capital stock; purposes
Section 160:42 - Corporation consolidated with one in another state; unauthorized capital stock increase
Section 160:43 - Issue of preferred stock
Section 160:44 - Designation of preferred stock; filing of record of proceedings; contents of certificate
Section 160:45 - Voting power of preferred stock; amount of stock
Section 160:46 - Offer of preferred stock to common shareholders
Section 160:47 - Issue of shares, bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness
Section 160:48 - Approval by department of issue
Section 160:49 - Exchange for registered bonds
Section 160:50 - Validity
Section 160:51 - Default on mortgage; contract to allow those in possession to operate
Section 160:52 - Trustees in possession of railroad; annual meeting
Section 160:53 - Trustees in possession of railroad; election and confirmation of trustees
Section 160:54 - Trustees in possession of railroad; jurisdiction of supreme judicial court
Section 160:55 - Purchaser under foreclosure
Section 160:56 - Necessity of payment of par for shares; limit upon capital stock
Section 160:57 - Liability for issuing void stock
Section 160:58 - Use of each other's railroad
Section 160:59 - Service provided to other railroad; compensation
Section 160:60 - Rates for services for connecting company
Section 160:61 - Foreign railroads' privilege as connecting road
Section 160:62 - Lease by one connecting railroad to the other
Section 160:63 - Term of lease
Section 160:64 - Taking securities of other corporations
Section 160:65 - Telegraph company stock
Section 160:65A - Holding stock in railroad car and equipment companies
Section 160:65B - Real estate, warehouse, industrial facility, and industrial development companies stock
Section 160:66 - Guaranty of steamship company bonds
Section 160:67 - Associate in formation of grain elevator corporation
Section 160:68 - Acquisition, retention, sale or guarantee of other's bonds or notes
Section 160:69 - Powers of railroad corporations; aid in construction of branch or connecting railroads
Section 160:70 - Terminal, express and subsidiary companies; interest of railroads in stock and securities
Section 160:70A - Steamship companies, ferries, ferry boats, docks, motor vehicles and aircraft
Section 160:71 - Consolidation prohibited after 1907
Section 160:72 - Application for consolidation; notice; hearing; determination
Section 160:73 - Rates and facilities of consolidated railroads
Section 160:74 - Violations; penalties
Section 160:75 - Determination of method of crossing highways
Section 160:76 - Estimate of cost; subscription for capital stock; certificate of compliance
Section 160:77 - Consent to locate within three miles of state house
Section 160:78 - Authorized purchases of land
Section 160:79 - Filing of descriptions with department
Section 160:80 - Proceedings to fix location of land
Section 160:81 - Change of location
Section 160:82 - Taking of land
Section 160:83 - Taking of land for purposes other than a railroad
Section 160:84 - Lands or rights of other railroads
Section 160:85 - Purposes for change of location
Section 160:86 - Change of direction
Section 160:87 - Limitation upon tax exemption
Section 160:88 - Prescriptive rights of adjoining landholders
Section 160:89 - Description of locations of railroads; rules and regulations
Section 160:90 - Fencing of railroad property
Section 160:91 - Eminent domain; order securing landowners
Section 160:92 - Enforcement of order securing landowners
Section 160:93 - Fences and gates along length of railroad
Section 160:93A - Fences along railroad tracks in cities and towns
Section 160:94 - Recovery by railroad from person required to fence
Section 160:95 - Grade separation of railroad tracks by agreement
Section 160:96 - Consent for one railroad to cross another or to cross navigable water
Section 160:97 - Highway crossings; obstructions; grade separations
Section 160:98 - Over-passes and under-passes; height
Section 160:99 - Material used to surface bridges and approaches
Section 160:100 - Alteration of grade of highway; decree of county commissioners; security
Section 160:101 - Alteration of course of highway; decree of county commissioners; security; eminent domain
Section 160:102 - Level grade crossing of highway
Section 160:103 - Level grade crossing; rails protected to enable easy passage
Section 160:104 - Proceedings to lay out public way across railroad
Section 160:104A - Building, equipment or machinery moving; duty of railroad; reimbursement of costs
Section 160:105 - Alteration of course of canal
Section 160:106 - Remedy of obstruction or for failure to repair
Section 160:107 - Construction and repair of bridges, approaches and abutments
Section 160:108 - Jurisdiction of county commissioners
Section 160:109 - Separation of private land; order of commissioners relative to crossing
Section 160:110 - Denial of access to private land; order for crossing by department
Section 160:111 - Decisions of commissioners; appeal
Section 160:112 - Proceedings perfecting appeal
Section 160:113 - Appeal; hearing; department's powers
Section 160:114 - Rights of way across tracks by prescription
Section 160:115 - Branches and extensions; construction; additional capital stock; certificate of necessity and convenience; fee
Section 160:116 - Switch connections with private interests
Section 160:117 - Order for switch connection by department
Section 160:118 - Certification by department to open railroad for use
Section 160:119 - Filing of map and profile, tables of grade and curvature and statement of characteristics
Section 160:120 - Draw tender
Section 160:121 - Position of bridge when not in use
Section 160:122 - Passage of vessels
Section 160:123 - Signals indicating position of bridge
Section 160:124 - Gates
Section 160:125 - Precautions taken by engineer
Section 160:126 - Violations; penalty
Section 160:127 - Penalties
Section 160:127A - Drawbridges; department; exemption of railroad from compliance with law
Section 160:128 - Abandonment of passenger station
Section 160:128A - Discontinuance of passenger service; hearing; notice; decision of department
Section 160:129 - Relocation of passenger stations and freight depots
Section 160:130 - Signs indicating way stations
Section 160:131 - Compensation for use of station, railroad or grounds of one company by another
Section 160:131A - Application of business corporation to acquire, own and operate terminal facilities; notice; hearing; approval
Section 160:132 - Safety switches
Section 160:133 - Protection of employees; blocking of frogs, switches and guard rails
Section 160:133A - Switch stands, lighting
Section 160:134 - Bridge guards
Section 160:134A - Distance between sets of tracks, structures or obstructions; exemptions
Section 160:135 - Stopping of trains at grade crossings
Section 160:136 - Grade crossings; rules and regulations
Section 160:137 - Grade crossings; interlocking signals
Section 160:138 - Warning to public
Section 160:138A - Warning devices at crossings
Section 160:139 - Regulation by department of use of warning devices
Section 160:140 - Signs protecting public ways
Section 160:141 - Signs protecting a traveled place
Section 160:142 - Signs erected by municipalities
Section 160:143 - Signs erected by municipality; duty to supply
Section 160:144 - Release of railroad or municipality from duty to provide signs
Section 160:145 - Violations; penalties
Section 160:146 - Damaging warning signs; penalty
Section 160:147 - Gates or flashing lights at crossing of railroad and public way
Section 160:147A - Reflectorizing of signs, etc., at crossings
Section 160:148 - Failure to erect signs or install gates or lights; penalty
Section 160:149 - Signals at crossing of railroad above highway level
Section 160:150 - Obstruction of view by standing wood; petition for removal; payment for damages
Section 160:151 - Obstruction of public way by railroad; penalty
Section 160:152 - Reasonable use of crossing; regulation by department
Section 160:153 - Type of power used to operate
Section 160:154 - Brakes and brakemen
Section 160:155 - Control of brakes by engineer; inspection
Section 160:156 - Safety couplers on freight cars
Section 160:157 - Use of car not equipped with automatic couplers
Section 160:158 - Grab irons
Section 160:159 - Standard height of draw bars for freight cars
Section 160:160 - Violations; penalty
Section 160:161 - Trains composed of four-wheel cars; application
Section 160:162 - Extension of time for equipment
Section 160:163 - Tools and devices carried on trains
Section 160:163A - Track motor cars; windshield with cleaning device and canopy
Section 160:163B - Passenger cars; safety windows and doors
Section 160:165 - Passenger, mail or baggage car; heating devices
Section 160:166 - Passenger cars; illuminating oil or fluid
Section 160:167 - Platform gates
Section 160:168 - Testing of locomotive boilers, rolling stock or other equipment
Section 160:169 - Vacuum brakes; mufflers
Section 160:170 - Safety valves; mufflers
Section 160:171 - Failure to equip with mufflers; penalty
Section 160:172 - Reasonable passenger accommodations
Section 160:172A - Drinking water and sanitary toilet facilities on locomotives or cabooses
Section 160:173 - Women or children in smoking cars
Section 160:174 - Drinking water in railroad cars
Section 160:175 - Failure to provide drinking water; penalty
Section 160:176 - Other necessary appliances
Section 160:176A - Track motor cars; lights
Section 160:177 - Employees; caps and badges
Section 160:178 - Eye examinations
Section 160:179 - Engineer; experience
Section 160:180 - Conductor; experience
Section 160:181 - Violations of experience requirements for engineers and conductors
Section 160:182 - Experience of engineer and conductor; exceptions
Section 160:183 - Penalty for violation of experience requirements for engineers and conductors
Section 160:184 - Rest days
Section 160:185 - Change in number of train crew; regulation by department
Section 160:186 - Determination of fares, etc. by railroad; revision
Section 160:187 - Reduction of rates
Section 160:188 - Extra charges for ticket purchased at place other than ticket office
Section 160:189 - Mileage tickets; detaching coupons
Section 160:190 - Commutation tickets
Section 160:191 - Season tickets; extension of term
Section 160:192 - Season tickets; reimbursement for additional fares
Section 160:193 - Sale of season tickets to express messengers; release of liability for personal injury
Section 160:194 - Baggage checks
Section 160:195 - Baggage stored over weekend
Section 160:196 - Transportation of bicycles
Section 160:197 - Cheap morning and evening trains
Section 160:198 - Workingmen's trains
Section 160:198A - Unauthorized sale at less than full fare
Section 160:198B - Unauthorized sale at other than scheduled rate
Section 160:199 - Free passes or reduced rates for public officials
Section 160:200 - Free passes to former employees injured in service of railroad
Section 160:201 - Mail transport required upon request
Section 160:202 - Determination of compensation
Section 160:203 - Reopening of proceedings determining compensation
Section 160:204 - Receipts for transportation of merchandise
Section 160:205 - Equal facilities; passengers and property
Section 160:206 - Application of sec. 205
Section 160:207 - Prompt forwarding
Section 160:208 - Charges for transportation of freight
Section 160:209 - Violations; penalties
Section 160:210 - Freight differential to port of Boston
Section 160:211 - Discrimination in rates
Section 160:212 - Complete milk transportation service; equal tariffs
Section 160:213 - Tariff
Section 160:214 - Violations; penalty
Section 160:215 - Approval of shareholders for change of name; authorization by department
Section 160:216 - Certificate of authorization; filing; notice
Section 160:217 - Rights and liabilities under new name
Section 160:218 - Standing, walking or riding vehicle on railroad property; exceptions; punishment
Section 160:219 - Loitering in station
Section 160:220 - Riding upon train other than as fare-paying passenger or employee
Section 160:221 - Fees for enforcement of sec. 220
Section 160:222 - Riding or driving animals on railroad
Section 160:223 - Liability for allowing animal on railroad
Section 160:224 - Liability for failure to close railroad gate
Section 160:225 - Malicious injury to railroad; treble damages
Section 160:226 - Obstruction of passing of train
Section 160:227 - Wilfully stopping train
Section 160:228 - Tampering with tools or appliances
Section 160:229 - Defects in highway; liability of city or town; recovery from railroad
Section 160:231 - Gross negligence of person in control of train; penalty
Section 160:232 - Neglect of railroad to give signals at crossing; damages; contributory, gross or wilful negligence
Section 160:233 - Non-liability of railroad for acts of expressmen
Section 160:234 - Liability for fires; insurance of railroad and owner
Section 160:235 - Spark arresters
Section 160:235A - Clearing of inflammable material along right of way
Section 160:236 - Clearing of adjoining land; notice of intent to enter
Section 160:237 - Warning of fire given by train crew
Section 160:238 - Extinguishing fire
Section 160:239 - Instruction of employees
Section 160:240 - Entry upon public park or reservation
Section 160:241 - Expense of extinguishing fire; liability of railroad
Section 160:241A - Derailments; removal of wreckage and debris
Section 160:242 - Books and returns; content; inspection; violations
Section 160:243 - Quarterly statement
Section 160:244 - Lessee to make lessor's returns
Section 160:245 - Railroads for private use; construction; limitations
Section 160:246 - Supervisory powers of department
Section 160:247 - Corporations to construct railroads in foreign countries; formation; powers
Section 160:248 - Agreement of association
Section 160:249 - Certificate of compliance
Section 160:250 - Change in amount of capital stock
Section 160:251 - Application
Section 160:252 - Enforcement