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Section 1 - Definitions - Section 1. In this chapter the following words, unless a...
Section 2 - Investigations of Fires or Explosions by Local Officials; Notice to Marshal of Suspicious Origins or Undetermined Causes; Reports; Records - Section 2. The head of a fire department in a...
Section 2a - Notice of Unauthorized Ignition of Fire Within Public or Private Schools or on School Grounds; Submission of Report by School Principal - Section 2A. The principal of any public or private school...
Section 3 - Investigations by Marshal; Examination of Witnesses; Perjury; Criminal Complaint; Prosecutions; Reports to Commissioner of Insurance - Section 3. The marshal shall investigate or cause to be...
Section 4 - Persons Authorized to Enter and Inspect Premises; Inspections of Institutions; Reports - Section 4. The marshal, the head of the fire department,...
Section 5 - Investigation of Premises and Alleys as to Fire Hazards; Remedy of Conditions; Expenses; Penalty - Section 5. The marshal, the head of the fire department...
Section 5a - Unvented Liquid Fired Space Heaters; Use or Sale Prohibited - Section 5A. No person shall use, allow to be used,...
Section 6 - Neglect or Refusal of Officers to Comply With Duty - Section 6. Any city, town or district officer who wilfully...
Section 7 - Reports of Marshal and Commissioner of Insurance - Section 7. The marshal shall submit annually, before February fifteenth,...
Section 8 - Reports to Heads of Fire Departments, Insurance Companies, Property Owners and Other Interested Persons - Section 8. The marshal shall report to insurance companies, to...
Section 9 - Regulations Relating to Explosives and Inflammable Materials; Reports of Quantities and Locations; Ordinances and By-Laws - Section 9. The board shall make rules and regulations for...
Section 9a - Model Rocket Engines; Storage; Manufacture; Use; Sale - Section 9A. The board shall make rules and regulations for...
Section 10 - Regulations Relative to Fire Prevention - Section 10. The board of fire prevention regulations shall make,...
Section 10a - Heads of Fire Departments; Permits; Inspections; Records; Fees; List of Fire Department Heads - Section 10A. The head of the fire department in each...
Section 10b - Violation of Regulations of Board - Section 10B. Any person who knowingly violates any rule or...
Section 10c - Alteration, Repair or Installation of Oil Burners; Necessity of Certificate; Exceptions - Section 10C. No person shall alter, repair or install any...
Section 10d - Certificate as Oil Burner Technician; Minimum Age; Application; Fee; Examination; Duration of Certificate; Electrical Work - Section 10D. Any person who has attained eighteen years of...
Section 10e - Apprentice Certificates; Fee; Duration; Expiration; Renewal - Section 10E. An examiner shall upon payment of a fee,...
Section 10f - Rules and Regulations Regarding Types and Classes of Certificates - Section 10F. The board may make such reasonable rules and...
Section 10g - Suspension or Revocation of Certificates - Section 10G. Any certificate may, after due notice and hearing,...
Section 10h - Firms or Corporations; Licensing Requirements - Section 10H. No firm or corporation engaged in the business...
Section 11 - Expert Assistants; Laboratory - Section 11. The marshal may expend the amount annually appropriated...
Section 12 - License and Permit for Manufacture of Fireworks; Sale, Transfer, or Exchange of Explosive Materials; Punishment - Section 12. No building shall be used for the manufacturing...
Section 13 - Licenses for Land for Explosives and Inflammable Materials; Certificate of Approval; Record; Certificate of Registrations; Fees; Replacements and Alterations Of, and Regulations for Buildings; Explosion Hazard; Appeals to Marshal - Section 13. No building or other structure shall, except as...
Section 14 - Inflammable Fluids in Motor Vehicles - Section 14. Gasoline or any other volatile inflammable fluid which...
Section 15 - Transportation of Explosives or Inflammable Materials; Violation of Regulations - Section 15. Whoever knowingly violates or knowingly causes or permits...
Section 16 - Fireworks, Explosives and Inflammable Materials; Violations; Penalties - Section 16. Whoever keeps, stores, uses, manufactures, sells, handles or...
Section 17 - Restraint of Erection or Use of Buildings in Violation of Statute or Regulations - Section 17. The supreme judicial or superior court may restrain...
Section 19 - Bonds for Blasting Permits; Filing Fee - Section 19. Before the issue of a permit to use...
Section 20 - Actions on Bonds; Employee of Permittee; Pro Rata Payment of Claims - Section 20. Action on a bond filed under the preceding...
Section 20a - Bond for Blasting Operations in More Than One Place - Section 20A. If the applicant for a permit to use...
Section 20b - Certificate of Competency to Conduct Blasting Operations; Application; Fee; Examination; Issuance; Duration; Expiration; Renewal; Duplicate; Restrictions Regarding Persons Subject to Restraining Order Issued Pursuant to Chapter 209a - Section 20B. No person shall conduct blasting operations unless he...
Section 20c - Liability for Damages Caused by Blasting - Section 20C. Any person engaged in a blasting operation shall...
Section 21 - Enforcement of Laws and Regulations Relative to Blasting - Section 21. The superior court shall have jurisdiction in equity,...
Section 22 - Injuries From Explosives Kept or Transported Contrary to Statutes or Regulations - Section 22. Whoever suffers injury by the explosion of an...
Section 23 - Keeping and Use of Inflammable Fluids; Permit; Fee - Section 23. Except as otherwise provided by rules and regulations...
Section 23a - Inflammable Anti-Freeze in Hydrants - Section 23A. No inflammable fluid shall be used as an...
Section 24 - Keeping and Handling of Fire Menace Material; Carpenter or Paint Shop in Habitation - Section 24. No part of any building used for habitation...
Section 25 - Use of Salamanders or Stoves for Drying Materials - Section 25. No salamander or stove for drying any construction...
Section 25a - Second Hand Space Heaters; Unvented Space Heaters - Section 25A. No person shall sell, offer for sale or...
Section 25b - Unvented Liquid Fired Space Heaters; Use or Sale Prohibited - Section 25B. No person shall use, allow to be used,...
Section 25c - Sale of Decorating Candles; Rules and Regulations - Section 25C. The board shall make rules and regulations relating...
Section 25d - Manufacture and Sale of Children's Clothing and Sleepwear; Rules and Regulations - Section 25D. The board shall make rules and regulations relating...
Section 25e - Residential Gas Appliances; Sale or Installation - Section 25E. As used in this section, the following words...
Section 26 - Installation of Automatic Equipment on Order of Marshal - Section 26. Any basement of a mercantile establishment, any building...
Section 26a - Automatic Sprinklers in High Rise Buildings; Enforcement; Appeals - Section 26A. Every building or structure of more than seventy...
Section 26a1/2 - Automatic Sprinklers in Older High Rise Buildings; Enforcement; Installation Schedule - Section 26A1/2. Every building or structure of more than seventy...
Section 26b - Automatic Fire Warning and Smoke Detection Systems in Certain Buildings; Enforcement; Appeals - Section 26B. Every building or structure not exceeding seventy feet...
Section 26c - Certain Public Accommodations; Automatic Smoke or Heat Detectors - Section 26C. Apartment houses containing six or more dwelling units,...
Section 26d - Definitions Applicable to Secs. 26d to 26f - Section 26D. As used in this section and sections twenty-six...
Section 26e - Residential Buildings or Structures; Installation of Smoke Detectors - Section 26E. (a) All one and two family dwellings occupied...
Section 26f - Residential Buildings or Structures; Equipping With Smoke Detectors Upon Sale or Transfer - Section 26F. All buildings or structures occupied in whole or...
Section 26f1/2 - Carbon Monoxide Alarms Required in Certain Residential Structures; Regulation; Inspections; Enforcement - Section 26F1/2. (a) Every dwelling, building or structure, including those...
Section 26g - Automatic Sprinkler Systems Required for Buildings and Structures Totaling More Than 7,500 Gross Square Feet - Section 26G. Every building or structure, including any additions or...
Section 26g1/2 - Nightclubs, Dance Halls, Discotheques, Bars; Adequate System of Automatic Sprinklers - Section 26G1/2. For the purpose of this section the term...
Section 26h - Lodging or Boarding Houses; Automatic Sprinkler Systems - Section 26H. In any city or town which accepts the...
Section 26i - Multiple Dwelling Units; New Construction; Automatic Sprinkler Systems - Section 26I. In a city, town or district which accepts...
Section 27 - Failure to Comply With Order of Marshal - Section 27. Any owner of a building who, within six...
Section 27a - Shutting Off, Disconnection, Obstruction, Removal or Destruction, of Fire Protection Devices; Permit; Report; Violation of Statute; Enforcement - Section 27A. Except as hereinafter provided, no person shall shut...
Section 27b - Piling Snow on Fire Hydrants; Penalty - Section 27B. No person other than an employee in the...
Section 28 - Regulations to Prevent Fire Hazards and Fires - Section 28. The board shall make such rules and regulations,...
Section 28a - Reports of Violations of Building Laws - Section 28A. The head of the fire department or any...
Section 28b - Buildings With Canine Guards; Reports - Section 28B. The board shall by rule require, and the...
Section 29 - Application of Orders to Occupant or Owner; Payment for Cost of Changes in Premises; Maximum Expenditure - Section 29. If buildings or other premises are owned by...
Section 30 - Violations; Notice and Enforcement of Orders or Regulations - Section 30. Violation of any lawful rule, order or regulation...
Section 30a - Unlawful Tampering, Etc. With Notice of Violation; Punishment - Section 30A. Whoever unlawfully tampers with, changes, mutilates, destroys, or...
Section 31 - Appeals to Marshal - Section 31. Any person aggrieved by any act, rule, order...
Section 32 - Sharing Information by Insurers; Liability of Insurer or Arson Squad; Confidential Information - Section 32. The marshal or police or fire department or...
Section 33 - Duties and Powers of Marshal - Section 33. The marshal shall study fire hazard and fire...
Section 34 - Violation of Statutes - Section 34. Except as otherwise provided, any person violating any...
Section 34a - Assembly Use Group Building; Dangerous Condition - Section 34A. (a) Any owner, occupant, lessee or other person...
Section 34b - Serious Bodily Injury; Penalties - Section 34B. Any person who wantonly or recklessly violates the...
Section 34c - Subsequent Violations of State Building Code or State Fire Code - Section 34C. Whoever (1) commits a second or subsequent violation...
Section 34d - Enforcement of Orders of Marshall or Head of Fire Department - Section 34D. Notwithstanding any other general or special law to...
Section 37 - Tanks for Storage of Fluids; Permits; Violation of Statute or Regulation; Annual Inspection; Fees - Section 37. No person shall construct, maintain or use any...
Section 37a - Removal and Testing of Fuel Storage Tanks; Grant Programs for Municipalities and Agencies; Powers and Duties of Administrative Review Board - Section 37A. As used in this section, the term ''fuel...
Section 37b - Grants for Removal or Replacement of Fuel Storage Tanks - Section 37B. Notwithstanding the provisions of section thirty-seven A, grants...
Section 38 - Regulations Relative to Tanks - Section 38. The board shall make rules and regulations governing...
Section 38j - Residential Property Utilizing Heating Oil Tanks; Safety Requirements; Inspection; Certification - Section 38J. (a) As used in this section, the following...
Section 39 - Sales, Possession, Use, Etc. of Combustible or Explosive Substances to Produce Visible or Audible Effects; Fireworks; Definitions; Exceptions; Enforcement Procedures; Penalties - Section 39. No person shall sell, or keep or offer...
Section 39a - Regulations for Permits for Displays of Fireworks; Fees - Section 39A. The board shall make rules and regulations for...
Section 40 - Storage of Fireworks; Bonds for Manufacture and Storage; Fee - Section 40. No person shall store fireworks in quantities except...
Section 41 - Actions on Bonds - Section 41. Action on a bond filed under section forty...
Section 42 - Displays or Exhibits of Fireworks; Bonds - Section 42. No person engaged in the business of displaying...
Section 43 - Actions on Bonds; Pro Rating Claims; Other Remedies - Section 43. No action for injury to an employee of...
Section 44 - Firecrackers and Pyrotechnical Ship or Railway Signals - Section 44. Firecrackers and pyrotechnical ship or railway signals shall...
Section 45 - Violation of Secs. 40 to 44 - Section 45. Whoever violates any provision of the five preceding...
Section 46 - Inflammable Stove Polish and Foundry Paste; Regulations; Penalties - Section 46. No person shall manufacture, store, keep for sale,...
Section 50 - Search Warrants for Explosive, Inflammable and Combustible Substances Kept Contrary to Statutes or Regulations - Section 50. Upon complaint made to a court or justice...
Section 51 - Forfeiture of Explosive, Inflammable and Combustible Substances; Sale or Destruction; Proceeds - Section 51. Articles seized under the preceding section may, after...
Section 52 - Matches Kept for Sale or Use in Store - Section 52. Whoever keeps matches for sale or use in...
Section 52a - Sale of Exploding Matches, Cigars or Cigarettes - Section 52A. Whoever sells or keeps for sale so-called exploding...
Section 54 - Lighted Cigarettes, Etc. Likely to Cause Fire; Dropping or Throwing From Vehicles or Placing on Forest Lands or Fields - Section 54. Whoever drops or throws from any vehicle while...
Section 55 - Explosive Golf Balls - Section 55. Whoever manufactures or sells or knowingly uses, or...
Section 56 - Parking Space Business; Licenses; Fees; Term; Suspension and Revocation; Unlicensed Business - Section 56. In any city or town which accepts the...
Section 57 - Siding as Conductor of Electricity; Approval - Section 57. No side walling or siding which is a...
Section 58 - Fire Extinguishing Systems, Issuance of Certificates for Installation and Servicing - Section 58. The board may make such rules and regulations...
Section 59 - Display of Street Address Number on Buildings; Use in Enhanced 911 Service - Section 59. Every building in the commonwealth, including, but not...
Section 60 - Novelty Lighters; Application of Section - Section 60. (a) For the purposes of this section, ''novelty...