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