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APPENDIX "L."

STATUTES.

APPENDIX "L."

STATUTES.

THE TRANSPORTATION CORPORATIONS LAW. LAWS 1890, CHAPTER 566.

AN ACT in relation to transportation corporations, excepting railroads, constituting chapter forty of the general laws.

ARTICLE VI.

GAS AND ELECTRIC LIGHT CORPORATIONS.

Section 60. Incorporation.

61. Powers.

62. Inspectors of gas meters.

63. Deputy inspectors.

64. Inspection of gas meters.

65. Gas or electric light must be supplied on application.

66. Deposit of money may be required.

67. Entry of buildings to meters or lights.

68. Refusal or neglect to pay rent.

69. No rent for meters to be charged.

70. Price of gas.

Section 60. Incorporation. Three or more persons may be come a corporation for manufacturing and supplying gas for lighting the streets and public and private buildings of cities, villages and towns in this state, or for manufacturing and using electricity for producing light, heat or power, and in lighting streets, avenues, public parks and places, and public and private buildings of cities, villages and towns within this state, or for two or more of such purposes, by making, signing, acknowledging and filing a certificate stating the name of the corporation, its objects, the amount of its capital stock, the term of its existence not to exceed fifty years, the number of shares of which the stock shall consist, the number of directors not less than three nor more than thirteen, the names and places of residence of the directors

for the first year, and the names of the towns, villages, cities and counties in which the operations of the corporation are to be carried on, and thereupon the persons who shall have signed the same, their associates and successors shall be a corporation by the name stated in the certificate. (As amended by L. 1900, ch. 575.)

§ 61. Powers. Every such corporation shall have the following additional powers.

1. If incorporated for the purpose of supplying gas for light, to manufacture gas, and to acquire by purchase or otherwise natural gas and to sell and furnish such quantities of gas as may be required in each city, town and village named in its certificate of incorporation, for lighting the streets, and public or private buildings or for other purposes; and to lay conductors for conducting gas through the streets, lanes, alleys, squares and highways, in each such city, village and town, with the consent of the municipal authorities thereof, and under such reasonable regulations as they may prescribe; and such municipal authorities shall have power to exempt any such corporation from taxation on their personal property for a period not exceeding three years from the organization of the corporation. Any corporation authorized under any general or special law of this state to manufacture and supply gas shall have the like powers and privileges. (As amended by L. 1900, ch. 575, and by L. 1902, ch. 596.)

2. If incorporated for the purpose of using electricity for light, heat or power, to carry on the business of lighting by electricity or using it for heat or power in cities, towns and villages within this state, and the streets, avenues, public parks and places thereof, and public and private buildings therein; and for the purposes of such business to generate and supply electricity; and to make, sell or lease all machines, instruments, apparatus, and other equipments therefor, and to lay, erect and construct suitable wires, or other conductors, with the necessary poles, pipes or other fixtures in, on, over and under the streets, avenues, public parks and places of such cities, towns or villages, for conducting and distributing electricity, with the consent of the municipal authorities thereof, and in such manner and under such reasonable regulations, as they may prescribe.

3. Any two or more corporations organized under this article. or under any general or special law of the state for the purpose

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