SECTION 1. Definitions

SECTION 2. Boston; tribunal acting in place of county commissioners

SECTION 3. Application

SECTION 4. Corporation chartered concurrently with another state

SECTION 5. Corporation or trustees operating railroad of another

SECTION 6. Purchase of railroad by commonwealth

SECTION 7. Taking by eminent domain

SECTION 8. Map and engineer's report to accompany petition for charter

SECTION 9. Depositary for plans and profiles

SECTION 10. Notice of route

SECTION 11. Limits specified in charter

SECTION 12. Fixing of route

SECTION 13. Formation

SECTION 14. Contents of agreement of association

SECTION 15. Associates' authority

SECTION 16. Publication of agreement of association

SECTION 17. Application for certificate of public convenience and necessity

SECTION 18. Map; engineer's report

SECTION 19. Submission of map and report to local officials

SECTION 20. Fixing of route by local officials; certificate fee

SECTION 21. Fixing of route by department upon failure to agree

SECTION 22. Spurs, branches and connecting and terminal tracks

SECTION 23. Certificate of facts of subscription

SECTION 24. Certificate of compliance; filing; certificate of incorporation

SECTION 25. Change in amount of capital stock; change of gauge

SECTION 26. Limit upon time to acquire certificate of incorporation

SECTION 27. Limit upon time to construct railroad

SECTION 28. Narrow gauge railroads; paid-up capital stock

SECTION 29. First meeting of incorporators; notice; waiver of notice

SECTION 30. Adoption of by-laws; election of directors

SECTION 31. Managing officers

SECTION 32. Selection of officers; treasurer's bond; clerk's qualifications and duties; terms of office; vacancies

SECTION 33. Stockholders' meeting

SECTION 34. Special meetings

SECTION 35. Voting by corporation upon its own stock

SECTION 36. Voting rights of stockholders

SECTION 37. Meetings of directors

SECTION 38. Certificate

SECTION 39. Assessment; failure to pay assessment

SECTION 40. Collection of assessment

SECTION 41. Increase of capital stock; purposes

SECTION 42. Corporation consolidated with one in another state; unauthorized capital stock increase

SECTION 43. Issue of preferred stock

SECTION 44. Designation of preferred stock; filing of record of proceedings; contents of certificate

SECTION 45. Voting power of preferred stock; amount of stock

SECTION 46. Offer of preferred stock to common shareholders

SECTION 47. Issue of shares, bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness

SECTION 48. Approval by department of issue

SECTION 49. Exchange for registered bonds

SECTION 50. Validity

SECTION 51. Default on mortgage; contract to allow those in possession to operate

SECTION 52. Trustees in possession of railroad; annual meeting

SECTION 53. Trustees in possession of railroad; election and confirmation of trustees

SECTION 54. Trustees in possession of railroad; jurisdiction of supreme judicial court

SECTION 55. Purchaser under foreclosure

SECTION 56. Necessity of payment of par for shares; limit upon capital stock

SECTION 57. Liability for issuing void stock

SECTION 58. Use of each other's railroad

SECTION 59. Service provided to other railroad; compensation

SECTION 60. Rates for services for connecting company

SECTION 61. Foreign railroads' privilege as connecting road

SECTION 62. Lease by one connecting railroad to the other

SECTION 63. Term of lease

SECTION 64. Taking securities of other corporations

SECTION 65. Telegraph company stock

SECTION 65A. Holding stock in railroad car and equipment companies

SECTION 65B. Real estate, warehouse, industrial facility, and industrial development companies stock

SECTION 66. Guaranty of steamship company bonds

SECTION 67. Associate in formation of grain elevator corporation

SECTION 68. Acquisition, retention, sale or guarantee of other's bonds or notes

SECTION 69. Powers of railroad corporations; aid in construction of branch or connecting railroads

SECTION 70. Terminal, express and subsidiary companies; interest of railroads in stock and securities

SECTION 70A. Steamship companies, ferries, ferry boats, docks, motor vehicles and aircraft

SECTION 71. Prohibition after 1907

SECTION 72. Application for consolidation; notice; hearing; determination

SECTION 73. Rates and facilities of consolidated railroads

SECTION 74. Violations; penalties

SECTION 75. Determination of method of crossing highways

SECTION 76. Estimate of cost; subscription for capital stock; certificate of compliance

SECTION 77. Consent to locate within three miles of state house

SECTION 78. Authorized purchases

SECTION 79. Filing of descriptions with department

SECTION 80. Proceedings to fix location of land

SECTION 81. Change of location

SECTION 82. Taking of land

SECTION 83. Taking of land for purposes other than a railroad

SECTION 84. Lands or rights of other railroads

SECTION 85. Purposes for change

SECTION 86. Change of direction

SECTION 87. Limitation upon tax exemption

SECTION 88. Prescriptive rights of adjoining landholders

SECTION 89. Description of locations of railroads; rules and regulations

SECTION 90. Fencing of railroad property

SECTION 91. Eminent domain; order securing landowners

SECTION 92. Enforcement of order securing landowners

SECTION 93. Fences and gates along length of railroad

SECTION 93A. Fences along railroad tracks in cities and towns

SECTION 94. Recovery by railroad from person required to fence

SECTION 95. Grade separation of railroad tracks by agreement

SECTION 96. Consent for one railroad to cross another or to cross navigable water

SECTION 97. Highway crossings; obstructions; grade separations

SECTION 98. Over-passes and under-passes; height

SECTION 99. Material used to surface bridges and approaches

SECTION 100. Alteration of grade of highway; decree of county commissioners; security

SECTION 101. Alteration of course of highway; decree of county commissioners; security; eminent domain

SECTION 102. Level grade crossing of highway

SECTION 103. Level grade crossing; rails protected to enable easy passage

SECTION 104. Proceedings to lay out public way across railroad

SECTION 104A. Building, equipment or machinery moving; duty of railroad; reimbursement of costs

SECTION 105. Alteration of course of canal

SECTION 106. Remedy of obstruction or for failure to repair

SECTION 107. Construction and repair of bridges, approaches and abutments

SECTION 108. Jurisdiction of county commissioners

SECTION 109. Separation of private land; order of commissioners relative to crossing

SECTION 110. Denial of access to private land; order for crossing by department

SECTION 111. Decisions of commissioners; appeal

SECTION 112. Proceedings perfecting appeal

SECTION 113. Appeal; hearing; department's powers

SECTION 114. Rights of way across tracks by prescription

SECTION 115. Construction; additional capital stock; certificate of necessity and convenience; fee

SECTION 116. Switch connections with private interests

SECTION 117. Order for switch connection by department

SECTION 118. Certification by department

SECTION 119. Filing of map and profile, tables of grade and curvature and statement of characteristics

SECTION 120. Draw tender

SECTION 121. Position of bridge when not in use

SECTION 122. Passage of vessels

SECTION 123. Signals indicating position of bridge

SECTION 124. Gates

SECTION 125. Precautions taken by engineer

SECTION 126. Violations; penalty

SECTION 127. Penalties

SECTION 127A. Drawbridges; department; exemption of railroad from compliance with law

SECTION 128. Abandonment of passenger station

SECTION 128A. Discontinuance of passenger service; hearing; notice; decision of department

SECTION 129. Relocation of passenger stations and freight depots

SECTION 130. Signs indicating way stations

SECTION 131. Compensation for use of station, railroad or grounds of one company by another

SECTION 131A. Application of business corporation to acquire, own and operate terminal facilities; notice; hearing; approval

SECTION 132. Safety switches

SECTION 133. Protection of employees; blocking of frogs, switches and guard rails

SECTION 133A. Switch stands, lighting

SECTION 134. Bridge guards

SECTION 134A. Distance between sets of tracks, structures or obstructions; exemptions

SECTION 135. Stopping of trains at grade crossings

SECTION 136. Grade crossings; rules and regulations

SECTION 137. Grade crossings; interlocking signals

SECTION 138. Warning to public

SECTION 138A. Warning devices at crossings

SECTION 139. Regulation by department of use of warning devices

SECTION 140. Signs protecting public ways

SECTION 141. Signs protecting a traveled place

SECTION 142. Signs erected by municipalities

SECTION 143. Signs erected by municipality; duty to supply

SECTION 144. Release of railroad or municipality from duty to provide signs

SECTION 145. Violations; penalties

SECTION 146. Damaging warning signs; penalty

SECTION 147. Gates or flashing lights at crossing of railroad and public way

SECTION 147A. Reflectorizing of signs, etc., at crossings

SECTION 148. Failure to erect signs or install gates or lights; penalty

SECTION 149. Signals at crossing of railroad above highway level

SECTION 150. Obstruction of view by standing wood; petition for removal; payment for damages

SECTION 151. Obstruction of public way by railroad; penalty

SECTION 152. Reasonable use of crossing; regulation by department

SECTION 153. Type of power used to operate

SECTION 154. Brakes and brakemen

SECTION 155. Control of brakes by engineer; inspection

SECTION 156. Safety couplers on freight cars

SECTION 157. Use of car not equipped with automatic couplers

SECTION 158. Grab irons

SECTION 159. Standard height of draw bars for freight cars

SECTION 160. Violations; penalty

SECTION 161. Trains composed of four-wheel cars; application

SECTION 162. Extension of time for equipment

SECTION 163. Tools and devices carried on trains

SECTION 163A. Track motor cars; windshield with cleaning device and canopy

SECTION 163B. Passenger cars; safety windows and doors

SECTION 164. Repealed, 1930, 211, Sec. 2

SECTION 165. Passenger, mail or baggage car; heating devices

SECTION 166. Passenger cars; illuminating oil or fluid

SECTION 167. Platform gates

SECTION 168. Testing of locomotive boilers, rolling stock or other equipment

SECTION 169. Vacuum brakes; mufflers

SECTION 170. Safety valves; mufflers

SECTION 171. Failure to equip with mufflers; penalty

SECTION 172. Reasonable passenger accommodations

SECTION 172A. Drinking water and sanitary toilet facilities on locomotives or cabooses

SECTION 173. Women or children in smoking cars

SECTION 174. Drinking water in railroad cars

SECTION 175. Failure to provide drinking water; penalty

SECTION 176. Other necessary appliances

SECTION 176A. Track motor cars; lights

SECTION 177. Caps and badges

SECTION 178. Eye examinations

SECTION 179. Engineer; experience

SECTION 180. Conductor; experience

SECTION 181. Violations of experience requirements for engineers and conductors

SECTION 182. Experience of engineer and conductor; exceptions

SECTION 183. Penalty for violation of experience requirements for engineers and conductors

SECTION 184. Rest days

SECTION 185. Change in number of train crew; regulation by department

SECTION 185A. Repealed, 1955, 669, Sec. 3

SECTION 186. Determination by railroad; revision

SECTION 187. Reduction of rates

SECTION 188. Extra charges for ticket purchased at place other than ticket office

SECTION 189. Mileage tickets; detaching coupons

SECTION 190. Commutation tickets

SECTION 191. Season tickets; extension of term

SECTION 192. Season tickets; reimbursement for additional fares

SECTION 193. Sale of season tickets to express messengers; release of liability for personal injury

SECTION 194. Baggage checks

SECTION 195. Baggage stored over week end

SECTION 196. Transportation of bicycles

SECTION 197. Cheap morning and evening trains

SECTION 198. Workingmen's trains

SECTION 198A. Unauthorized sale at less than full fare

SECTION 198B. Unauthorized sale at other than scheduled rate

SECTION 199. Free passes or reduced rates for public officials

SECTION 200. Free passes to former employees injured in service of railroad

SECTION 201. Required upon request

SECTION 202. Determination of compensation

SECTION 203. Reopening of proceedings determining compensation

SECTION 204. Receipts

SECTION 205. Equal facilities; passengers and property

SECTION 206. Application of Sec. 205

SECTION 207. Prompt forwarding

SECTION 208. Charges for transportation of freight

SECTION 209. Violations; penalties

SECTION 210. Freight differential to port of Boston

SECTION 211. Discrimination in rates

SECTION 212. Complete service; equal tariffs

SECTION 213. Tariff

SECTION 214. Violations; penalty

SECTION 215. Approval of shareholders; authorization by department

SECTION 216. Certificate of authorization; filing; notice

SECTION 217. Rights and liabilities under new name

SECTION 218. Standing, walking or riding vehicle on railroad property

SECTION 219. Loitering in station

SECTION 220. Riding upon train other than as fare-paying passenger or employee

SECTION 221. Fees for enforcement of Sec. 220

SECTION 222. Riding or driving animals on railroad

SECTION 223. Liability for allowing animal on railroad

SECTION 224. Liability for allowing animal on railroad

SECTION 225. Malicious injury to railroad; treble damages

SECTION 226. Obstruction of passing of train

SECTION 227. Wilfully stopping train

SECTION 228. Tampering with tools or appliances

SECTION 229. Defects in highway; liability of city or town; recovery from railroad

SECTION 230. Repealed, 1974, 252

SECTION 231. Gross negligence of person in control of train; penalty

SECTION 232. Neglect of railroad to give signals at crossing; damages; contributory, gross or wilful negligence

SECTION 233. Non-liability of railroad for acts of expressmen

SECTION 234. Liability; insurance of railroad and owner

SECTION 235. Spark arresters

SECTION 235A. Clearing of inflammable material along right of way

SECTION 236. Clearing of adjoining land; notice of intent to enter

SECTION 237. Warning of fire given by train crew

SECTION 238. Extinguishing fire

SECTION 239. Instruction of employees

SECTION 240. Entry upon public park or reservation

SECTION 241. Expense of extinguishing fire; liability of railroad

SECTION 241A. Derailments; removal of wreckage and debris

SECTION 242. Content; inspection; violations

SECTION 243. Quarterly statement

SECTION 244. Lessee to make lessor's returns

SECTION 245. Construction; limitations

SECTION 246. Supervisory powers of department

SECTION 247. Formation; powers

SECTION 248. Agreement of association

SECTION 249. Certificate of compliance

SECTION 250. Change in amount of capital stock

SECTION 251. Application

SECTION 252. Enforcement