Massachusetts Statutes

Section 9. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, all cities and towns of the authority shall contribute to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority State and Local Assistance Fund an amount in the aggregate not less than $136,026,868 …

Section 1. Wherever used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the following words or terms shall have the following meanings: ''Authority'', an authority established by section three or section fourteen. ''Council'', the regional transit authority council estab…

Section 10. If as of the last day of June in any year there was any net cost of service, an authority shall notify the state treasurer of the amount of such net cost of service and all other facts required by the treasurer in order to proceed in accordance with the provisions of …

Section 12. The state auditor shall make an audit of the accounts of each authority, in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards, once every 3 years and as often as the state auditor determines is necessary and make a report thereon to the secretary, the g…

Section 13. An authority and all its real and personal property shall be exempt from taxation and from betterments and special assessments; and an authority shall not be required to pay any tax, excise or assessment to or for the commonwealth or any of its political subdivisions;…

Section 14. An authority described in section two of this chapter shall be deemed to be established (a) after twenty per cent of the votes on the advisory board have recorded themselves in favor of calling a meeting to vote on the establishment of the authority, (b) notice of the…

Section 15. Any city or town which is a member of an authority may place upon the official ballot at any biennial or regular or special city election or annual or special town election the following question: Such question shall not be placed upon the official ballot unless the c…

Section 16. In the event of any conflict between the regulatory powers and duties of the department of telecommunications and energy in respect to mass transportation service within an area, the department of telecommunications and energy shall resolve such dispute and exercise s…

Section 17. An authority is hereby authorized to provide by resolution at one time or from time to time for the issue of bonds of the authority for any one or more of the following purposes: (1) To acquire by purchase or otherwise, plan, design, construct, reconstruct, alter, rec…

Section 18. In the discretion of the authority such bonds shall be secured by a trust agreement by and between the authority and a corporate trustee, which may be any trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company within the commonwealth. Either the resolution providi…

Section 19. Bonds issued under this chapter are hereby made securities in which all public officers and public bodies of the commonwealth and its political subdivisions, all insurance companies, and savings banks, co-operative banks and trust companies in their banking department…

Section 2. The territory within and the inhabitants of each of the following groups of cities and towns may, upon compliance with section fourteen, become a body politic and corporate and a political subdivision of the commonwealth under the name preceding each group. Southeaster…

Section 20. Any holder of bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter or of any of the coupons appertaining thereto, and the trustee under the trust agreement, if any except to the extent the rights herein given may be restricted by such resolution or trust agreement, may, …

Section 21. An authority is authorized to provide by resolution at one time or from time to time for the issue of interest bearing or discounted notes for the purposes and in the amounts that bonds may be issued. The notes shall be payable within three years from their dates, but…

Section 22. Each authority is authorized and directed from time to time to take all necessary action to secure any federal assistance which is or may become available to the commonwealth or any of its subdivisions for any of the purposes of this chapter. If any federal law, admin…

Section 23. The commonwealth, acting by and through the executive office for administration and finance, may enter into contract or contracts with the authorities created pursuant to this chapter providing that fifty per cent of the net cost of service of each authority shall be …

Section 24. Section ten of chapter forty A, sections twenty-eight, fifty-nine to sixty-four, inclusive, eighty-three to eighty-five, inclusive, and ninety-two to one hundred and four, inclusive, of chapter one hundred and fifty-nine, and sections eighty-nine, one hundred and thre…

Section 25. Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to authorize or permit any authority established by this chapter to directly operate any mass transportation service.

Section 26. The regional transit authorities shall establish a stabilization fund into which the authorities shall deposit revenues in excess of expenditures. Said stabilization fund shall have a fund balance no greater than 15% of total revenues for all regional transit authorit…

Section 27. There shall be a regional transit authority council for the purposes of coordination and sharing information and best practices in matters of security and public safety planning and preparedness, service delivery, cost savings, and administrative efficiencies. Members…

Section 3. Any city or town, or group or combination of cities or towns, other than a city or town included in the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority in which the Authority operates a fixed bus service, may, upon compliance with this section and with the approval of a cit…

Section 4. The affairs of an authority shall be managed by an administrator who shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the advisory board of the authority established pursuant to section five; provided, however, that the administrator shall not be appointed until afte…

Section 5. There shall be an advisory board to each authority consisting of the city manager, in the case of a Plan D or Plan E city, or the mayor of each other city, and the chairman of the board of selectmen of each town having such board, or the town manager or town administra…

Section 6. In addition to all power otherwise granted to an authority by law, the authority shall have the following powers, in each case to be exercised by the administrator of the authority unless otherwise specifically provided:— (a) to adopt and use a corporate seal and desig…

Section 6A. (a) Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, an authority established pursuant to this chapter shall not, subject to appropriation, charge passenger fare for a trip on regularly scheduled fixed route service, or for a trip on complementary paratrans…

Section 7. In addition to the powers granted to the authority under section six and all other powers granted by law, the authority shall have the power to establish on a self-liquidating basis one or more separate units of mass transportation facilities and equipment. In establis…

Section 8. An authority shall be subject to the following limitations, conditions, obligations and duties:— (a) The authority shall have the duty to develop, finance and contract for the operation of mass transportation facilities and equipment in the public interest consistent w…

Section 9. If in any year the commonwealth shall be called upon to pay any amount on account of the net cost of service of any regional transit authority except the Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority, unless said authority elects not to assess costs as provided in section nine A…

Section 9A. If in any year the commonwealth shall be called upon to pay any amount on account of the net cost of service of the Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority, the total amount of such net cost of service may be assessed in whole or in part upon the cities and towns which ar…

Section 1. It is hereby declared that rail transportation offers economic and environmental advantages with respect to land use air and noise pollution, energy efficiency, safety, and costs per ton mile of movement to the extent that the preservation, development and maintenance …

Section 2. Whenever used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the following words or terms shall have the following meanings:— ''Executive office'', the office of planning and programming established under chapter six C. ''Rail rights-of-way'', lands other than…

Section 3. The executive office shall take such steps as may be necessary to provide for the development, promotion, preservation, and improvement of an adequate, safe, efficient and convenient rail system for the movement of passengers and freight in the commonwealth. In carryin…

Section 4. The executive office or the department of highways acting pursuant to paragraph (f) of section six is hereby authorized and directed to expend such funds as may be appropriated or otherwise made available for the acquisition, construction, preservation, rehabilitation,…

Section 5. The executive office or the department of highways acting pursuant to paragraph (f) of section six of this chapter may enter into contracts or agreements to provide financial assistance, from such funds as may be provided for the purpose, for all or part of the costs o…

Section 6. The secretary, in addition to any other powers and duties conferred or imposed upon him by this chapter or any other general or special law, shall have the following powers and duties: (a) To serve as the principal source of rail transportation planning for the commonw…

Section 7. (a) To the extent not inconsistent with federal law, no railroad company which conducts or has conducted operations within the commonwealth shall sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of railroad rights-of-way or related facilities without first offering such rights-of-w…

Section 8. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the secretary of transportation may offer and convey surplus rail and other track material, surplus rail-related equipment, such as signals, and surplus railroad bridge materials to freight railroads operating…

Section 1. It is hereby declared that intercity bus transportation services offer economic and environmental advantages with respect to energy conservation and efficiency, air and noise pollution, public safety and costs per passenger mile of movement to the extent that the prese…

Section 2. Whenever used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the following words or terms shall have the following meaning:— ''Executive office'', the office of planning and programming established under chapter six C. ''Intercity coach'', any vehicle with a s…

Section 3. The executive office is hereby authorized to expend such funds as may be appropriated or otherwise made available for the acquisition of intercity coaches, and for necessary planning and other costs incidental to said acquisition, and to lease said coaches to eligible …

Section 4. The executive office, through the secretary, shall, in addition to any other powers and duties conferred or imposed upon him by this chapter or any other general or special law, promulgate rules and regulations deemed necessary to administer a Massachusetts intercity b…

Section 5. Pursuant to the provisions of section four, the executive office may enter into lease agreements with eligible intercity carriers for the use of intercity coach vehicles. The terms of each such agreement shall be set forth by the secretary and be subject to the followi…

Section 1. In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the ''department'' means the department of public utilities. An ''interested party'', in any proceeding under this chapter before the department, the board of aldermen of any city or the selectmen of any town, sha…

Section 10. If the board of aldermen or the selectmen deem public convenience and necessity require the railroad to be constructed in part longitudinally upon a public way or place, they may, in granting or agreeing to a location thereon, prescribe how the tracks shall be laid, t…

Section 11. The certificate of incorporation issued by the state secretary to the company shall contain the words, ''electric railroad companies'', instead of the words, ''railroad corporations''.

Section 12. If an electric railroad company, incorporated under this chapter, does not begin the construction of its railroad and expend thereon at least ten per cent of the amount of its original capital stock within two years after the date of its certificate of incorporation, …