[ Text of section effective until April 10, 2007. For text effective April 10, 2007, see below.]
Section 1. In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the "department'' means the department of telecommunications and energy. 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, shall include any person whose land is to be taken or whose estate abuts upon any highway through which the electric railroad is to pass, and any railroad corporation or street railway company having a location in any city or town included within the proposed route of the electric railroad company.
Chapter 162: Section 1. Definitions
[ Text of section as amended by 2007, 19, Sec. 34 effective April 10, 2007. See 2007, 19, Sec. 54. For text effective until April 10, 2007, see above.]
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, shall include any person whose land is to be taken or whose estate abuts upon any highway through which the electric railroad is to pass, and any railroad corporation or street railway company having a location in any city or town included within the proposed route of the electric railroad company.