Chap. 0350 An Act IN ADDITION TO AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A BOARD OF GAS COMMISSIONERS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Sections 1. Any gas company in this Commonwealth, whether furnishing gas under the provisions of general laws or of any special charter or of any contract with any city or town, may apply to the board of gas commissioners to fix and determine the price of the gas to be thereafter sold and delivered by said company, or to revise any former order or action of said board in regard to the quality or price thereof; said board after such notice as it shall deem expedient shall give a public hearing on such application to thc petitioner and to the city or town and such other persons interested as may desire to be heard, and thereafter may pass such orders and take such action in regard to the subject matter as it may deem just and reasonable, and the orders and decrees of such board in relation to the price and quality of the gas thereafter to be furnished by said company shall be thereafter binding upon all parties until further order of said board. "Whenever, pursuant to section nine of chapter three hundred and fourteen of thc acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, the said board has ordered a reduction in thc price of gas or improvement in quality thereof the maximum price fixed by such order shall not be increased by the company named therein except in the manner herein provided.
Section 2. All companies and individuals engaged in the business of manufacturing and selling gas or electricity for light or fuel shall make a written report within twenty-four hours to the board of gas commissioners of every
accident caused by the gas or electricity manufactured or supplied by them, whereby an emplo}ree or any other person shall sutler bodily injury, or loss of life, or be rendered insensible, stating the time, place and circumstances of the accident, and such other facts in relation thereto as the board may require ; and the board shall present in its annual report an abstract of all such cases. The board shall personally investigate all cases which it may deem to require investigation.
Section 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day of June in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.
Approved May 17, 188S.