Chapter 166 - TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANIES, AND LINES FOR THE TRANSMISSION OF ELECTRICITY

Section 166:1 - Telephone and telegraph companies; subscription and payment for stock; filing of statement
Section 166:2 - Debt limitation
Section 166:3 - Liability of president and treasurer for wilful neglect or omission
Section 166:4 - Issue of stock, bonds, coupon notes and other evidences of indebtedness
Section 166:5 - Enforcement of orders of department relating to stocks and bonds
Section 166:6 - Improper issue; penalty
Section 166:7 - Increase of capital stock; shareholders' rights to new shares
Section 166:8 - Shares authorized to be sold at auction; place of sale
Section 166:9 - Issue of stock or scrip before payment for shares at par
Section 166:10 - Effect of issue of stock or scrip before payment for shares; liability of directors
Section 166:11 - Annual return
Section 166:12 - Failure to make annual return; penalty
Section 166:12A - Condensed return of business and financial condition
Section 166:13 - Telephone companies; connections with exchanges; equal facilities for all companies
Section 166:14 - Connections with exchanges; equal facilities for applicants for telephone service; cost of extensions
Section 166:14A - Enhanced 911 telephone service; public service answering points; public phones
Section 166:15 - Equal facilities for those connecting with exchange; enforcement
Section 166:15A - Entitlement to hand sets as station equipment
Section 166:15B - Sales and transfers to similar corporations
Section 166:15C - Emergency calls; refusal to yield party line; misrepresentation of emergency
Section 166:15D - Energized cables in excavations endangering telephone company employees; notice to electric company; precautionary cooperation
Section 166:15E - Definitions; required equipment and services for disabled subscribers; advisory committee on disabled persons' accessibility to telephone service
Section 166:16 - Telegraph companies; receipt and transmission of despatches
Section 166:17 - Rates to other telegraph companies or by mail
Section 166:18 - Violations; penalties
Section 166:19 - Liability for negligent transmission; claim; exceptions
Section 166:20 - Indication of time filed and received on addressee's copy
Section 166:21 - Location of construction of electric transmission lines
Section 166:21A - Coming into close proximity to high voltage lines
Section 166:21B - Protection of overhead high voltage lines
Section 166:21C - Warnings; operation of equipment near high voltage lines
Section 166:21D - Warning signs; size; posting
Section 166:21E - Notification of operation near high voltage lines
Section 166:21F - Exemptions; definitions
Section 166:21G - Violations; penalties; liability
Section 166:22 - Consent of municipal officers to construct or alter lines
Section 166:22A - Definitions
Section 166:22B - Program for prohibition or removal of overhead wires
Section 166:22C - Prohibition and removal of overhead wires; fines and penalties
Section 166:22D - Removal of overhead wires; sequence; replacement; fines and penalties
Section 166:22E - Cooperative agreements to remove overhead wires
Section 166:22F - Notice of hearing or ordinance to remove overhead wires
Section 166:22G - Emergency erection of overhead wires
Section 166:22H - Underground construction; responsibility of utility
Section 166:22I - Underground construction; customer service facilities
Section 166:22J - Removal of municipal equipment from poles
Section 166:22K - Extension of time for removal
Section 166:22L - Rate differential; adoption of removal ordinance
Section 166:22M - Billing surcharge; adoption of removal ordinance
Section 166:22N - Effective date of adopting ordinance
Section 166:23 - Citizens establishing and maintaining lines
Section 166:24 - Construction of lines for private use; privileges of town; protection of lines
Section 166:25 - Underground telegraph, telephone or television lines; regulations
Section 166:25A - Attachments; regulation by department of public utilities
Section 166:26 - Violation of regulations
Section 166:27 - Approval by department of ordinances or regulations of municipality
Section 166:28 - [Effective Until 3/1/2026] Approval by department of location; public hearing; place of hearing; determination; fees
Section 166:28 - [Effective 3/1/2026] Approval by department of location; public hearing; place of hearing; determination; fees
Section 166:29 - Persons entitled to damages
Section 166:30 - Regulations concerning wires
Section 166:31 - Fixtures supporting wires or cables; marking to show ownership
Section 166:32 - Municipal inspector of wires; appointment; qualifications; powers and duties; liability for removal of wires
Section 166:32A - Inspector of wires working as electrician; inspection by assistant inspector
Section 166:33 - Enforcement of secs. 30 to 32
Section 166:34 - Poles and other structures used to support lines; protection of employees and public
Section 166:35 - Use of poles and other fixtures for communication without consent of owner
Section 166:36 - Marking name of corporation maintaining or operating on poles or other fixtures
Section 166:37 - Prescriptive easements
Section 166:38 - Intentional injury or destruction of property; penalty
Section 166:39 - Temporary removal of wires; refusal of company to act
Section 166:40 - Removal of wires without notice; penalty
Section 166:41 - Removal of wires without notice; exception
Section 166:42 - Liability of telegraph company for injury caused by poles, wires or other apparatus
Section 166:42A - Telecommunication service; fraud; penalty
Section 166:42B - Fraudulently avoiding charges for telecommunication service; use of equipment, etc.; penalties
Section 166:43 - Owners and associations subject to chapter
Section 166:44 - Service observing; interception