Massachusetts. Laws, statutes, etc. GENERAL LAWS OF MASSACHUSETTS RELATING TO THE MANUFACTURE AND SALE OF GAS AND BY PERSONS AND CORPORATIONS, BOTH PRIVATE AND COMPRISING THE PROVISIONS OF THE REVISED LAWS WITH SUBSEQUENT ALSO THE SPECIAL LAWS RELATING TO THE BOSTON CONSOLIDATED GAS OF SMOKE IN BOSTON AND VICINITY AND A TABLE OF ALL SPECIAL LAWS RELATING TO THE AND ELECTRICITY. COMPILED BY THE BOARD OF GAS AND ELECTRIC LIGHT COMMISSIONERS. WRIGHT & POTTER PRINTING CO., STATE PRINTERS, 18 POST OFFICE SQUARE. 1910. NOTE. This edition of the general laws relating to persons and corporations, private and municipal, engaged in the business of manufacturing and selling gas and electricity, has been prepared for the convenience of parties interested, and with especial reference to the jurisdiction and duties of the Board of Gas and Electric Light Commissioners. In the absence of a codification of the laws in question, the text is made up primarily of chapters 121, 34, 58, 110 and 122 of the Revised Laws, but with these chapters and under their respective general titles are printed such other provisions of the Revised Laws and subsequent acts as are necessary to the proper interpretation and understanding of the provisions of the chapters named. The Boston Consolidated Gas Company serves so large a territory and so large a proportion of the total population of the Commonwealth that it has been deemed best to add to this compilation the recent special acts which apply to this company. The act of 1910 relative to the abatement of smoke in Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, Chelsea, Everett and Somerville imposes the duty of administering this law upon the Board, and is therefore given in full. As a matter of convenience and interest a table of all special laws relating to the manufacture and sale of gas and electricity has been added, including special laws enacted by the General Court in 1910. Sections which have been repealed are enclosed in brackets; new or substituted sections are printed in italics. Words which have been stricken out by amendment are enclosed in brackets, and words which have been inserted by amendment are printed in italics. |