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Section 1 - Appointment of Fire Wards; Penalty for Failure to Give Notice of Acceptance - Section 1. Selectmen may annually, in March or April, appoint...
Section 2 - Duties; Badge of Office - Section 2. If a fire breaks out, the firewards shall...
Section 3 - Demolition of Buildings - Section 3. Three or more firewards present at a place...
Section 4 - Powers of Fire Officials; Demolition of Buildings - Section 4. If a city by its city council or...
Section 5 - Indemnification for Demolition - Section 5. If such demolition of a building is the...
Section 6 - Powers and Duties; Commanding Assistance - Section 6. Such firewards or other officers may require assistance...
Section 7 - Powers and Duties; Direction of Fire Fighting Operations; Penalty for Noncompliance - Section 7. They may direct the stations and operations of...
Section 8 - Appointment of Forest Wardens; Tenure - Section 8. The mayor in cities, subject to charter provisions,...
Section 9 - Duties; Fire Prevention - Section 9. If a fire occurs in woodland, the forest...
Section 10 - Powers; Appointment of Assistants; Commandeering of People and Property - Section 10. The forest warden may appoint deputies to assist...
Section 11 - Penalty for Refusal of Aid - Section 11. Whoever, without sufficient cause, wilfully refuses or neglects...
Section 12 - Compensation - Section 12. Payment shall be made to forest wardens, their...
Section 13 - Setting Open Air Fires; Conditions and Restrictions; Penalty for Violation - Section 13. No person shall set, maintain or increase a...
Section 15 - Powers of Arrest - Section 15. The forester, the state fire warden or any...
Section 16 - Definitions - Section 16. For the purposes of this section and section...
Section 16a - Handling of Slash - Section 16A. Every owner, lessee, tenant or occupant of lands,...
Section 17 - Disposition of Slash Cut Near Highways - Section 17. Any person who cuts or causes to be...
Section 18 - Disposition of Slash Cut by Public Utility Companies - Section 18. Electric, telephone and telegraph companies which, at the...
Section 19 - Enforcement of Regulations Prohibiting Accumulations of Slash - Section 19. The forester, or any duly authorized assistant, the...
Section 20 - Penalty for Violating Provisions Prohibiting Accumulations of Slash - Section 20. Violation of any provision of sections 16 to...
Section 21 - Spark Arresters; Requirements; Penalty for Noncompliance - Section 21. Whoever operates in or adjacent to forest or...
Section 22 - Inspection of Machines Requiring Spark Arresters - Section 22. The forester or his assistants or the state...
Section 23 - Fire Observation Towers - Section 23. Towns may construct, in co-operation with other towns...
Section 24 - Firefighting Expenditures - Section 24. Money appropriated by a town under section eleven...
Section 25 - Duties; Extinguishment of Fires; Investigation of Causes; Posting of Warning Notices - Section 25. Except as provided in section twenty-four, every forest...
Section 26 - Penalty for Destruction of Warning Notices - Section 26. Whoever wilfully and maliciously tears down or destroys...
Section 27 - Liability for Trespass - Section 27. Forest wardens, their deputies and assistants, foresters, chief...
Section 28 - State Fire Warden; Powers and Duties; Reports - Section 28. The state fire warden appointed under section five...
Section 28b - Fire Patrols in Dry Areas; Authorization; Payment of Costs - Section 28B. When the forest fire hazard, as determined by...
Section 28c - Closing of Forest Lands During Dry Periods; Penalty for Trespassing - Section 28C. When, in the judgment of the director of...
Section 36 - Promotion of Call Men to Permanent Force; Conditions - Section 36. Any town which has accepted chapter four hundred...
Section 36a - Promotion of Call Men to Regular Force; Conditions; Qualifications - Section 36A. Any town which has not accepted chapter four...
Section 37 - Application of Sections Relating to Appointment of Call Men to Regular Force - Section 37. The provisions of section thirty-six or section thirty-six...
Section 39 - Compensation of Persons Employed in Fire Department; Procedure for Acquisition - Section 39. The chief engineer or other officer in charge...
Section 40 - Certificates of Employment; Penalty for Refusing to File - Section 40. If such chief engineer or other officer wilfully...
Section 41 - Application of Sections Relating to Compensation for Enginemen and Fire Department Employees - Section 41. The three preceding sections shall be in force...
Section 42 - Establishment of Fire Departments; Appointment of Fire Chief; Compensation; Removal; Powers and Duties - Section 42. Towns accepting the provisions of this section and...
Section 42a - Establishment in Towns Under Direction of Selectmen; Appointment of Fire Chief, Other Officers and Firemen; Compensation; Removal; Regulations; Control of Department - Section 42A. In towns which accept this section or have...
Section 43 - Duties of Fire Chief; Role of Forest Warden - Section 43. The chief of a fire department shall act...
Section 44 - Application of Sections Establishing a Fire Department and Appointing and Defining Duties of Fire Chief - Section 44. The three preceding sections shall not affect the...
Section 44a - Private Fire Fighting Units; Contracts - Section 44A. No city or town or the Massachusetts Port...
Section 45 - Engineers; Appointments; Removals; Vacancies - Section 45. The selectmen, except as provided in the three...
Section 46 - Organization of Engineers - Section 46. They shall, immediately after such appointment, notify each...
Section 47 - Engineers; Powers and Duties - Section 47. The engineers, in the extinguishment of fires, shall...
Section 48 - Organization of Firefighters - Section 48. Firefighters may organize companies, elect officers and establish...
Section 49 - Engineers; Duties; Liabilities; Privileges and Exemptions - Section 49. The engineers and all persons appointed by them...
Section 51 - Penalty for Failing to Maintain Proper Fire Fighting Equipment - Section 51. A town or the engineers thereof violating any...
Section 51a - Breathing Apparatus - Section 51A. Each city, town or district shall equip any...
Section 52 - Board of Engineers; Duties - Section 52. The board of engineers shall have the care...
Section 53 - Engineers; Promulgation of Rules and Regulations for Fire Prevention - Section 53. They may make regulations as to the carrying...
Section 54 - Engineers; Promulgation of Rules and Regulations Relating to Conduct at Fires; Penalty for Noncompliance - Section 54. They may make regulations, consistent with law, for...
Section 55 - Tenure of Members - Section 55. A town which has established a fire department...
Section 56 - Hours of Labor - Section 56. Except in towns subject to section fifty-nine, any...
Section 57 - Days Off; Vacations - Section 57. Subject to section fifty-nine, members of the fire...
Section 57a - Days Off for Working on Holidays - Section 57A. If any permanent member of the fire fighting...
Section 57b - Fire Fighters; Attendance of Afl–cio–clc Convention - Section 57B. Members of the fire department in any city,...
Section 57c - Fire Fighters; Attendance of Massachusetts Permanent Firemen's Association or Massachusetts State Firemen's Association Conventions - Section 57C. Members of the fire department in any city...
Section 57d - Fire Fighters; Working on Holidays; Additional Pay or Day Off - Section 57D. If any permanent member of the fire fighting...
Section 57e - Fire Chiefs; Working on Holidays; Additional Pay - Section 57E. If the chief of a fire department of...
Section 57g - Compensation of Certain Heads of Fire and Police Departments - Section 57G. The permanent, full-time fire chief or chief engineer...
Section 57h - Union Officers; Leave to Perform Elected Responsibilities - Section 57H. The elected officers of the Professional Firefighters of...
Section 57i - Officers of Professional Organization; Leave Without Loss of Pay or Benefits - Section 57I. In any city, town or district which accepts...
Section 58 - Fire Chiefs; Tenure; Removal; Conditions - Section 58. In every town which accepted chapter two hundred...
Section 58a - Hours of Duty of Permanent Firemen; Application of Sections Relating to Hours of Duty - Section 58A. The hours of duty of the permanent members...
Section 58b - Hours of Duty of Permanent Firemen; Limitations; Application of Other Sections Relating to Hours of Duty; Acceptance of Provision by Electorate - Section 58B. The hours of duty of the permanent members...
Section 58c - Overtime; Compensation - Section 58C. If an officer or member, other than the...
Section 58d - Hours of Duty of Permanent Firemen; Application of Sections Relating to Hours of Duty; Acceptance of Provisions - Section 58D. The hours of duty of the permanent members...
Section 58e - Fire Fighters; Residence - Section 58E. In any city or town which accepts this...
Section 59 - Platoon System; Submission to Electorate - Section 59. The permanent members of the uniformed fire fighting...
Section 59a - Aid to Other Municipalities; Authorization; Fire Departments Defined; Payment for Damages - Section 59A. Cities, towns and fire districts may, by ordinance...
Section 59b - Establishment of Reserve Force of Firemen; Conditions - Section 59B. Any city, except Boston, in which the city...
Section 59c - Membership - Section 59C. The number of members of such reserve force...
Section 59d - Duties; Compensation - Section 59D. The mayor, chief of the fire department or...
Section 59e - Appointments From Civil Service Eligible List - Section 59E. In any city which has accepted sections fifty-nine...
Section 60 - Establishment of Fire Departments in Districts; Duties of Officers - Section 60. Fire departments may be established in districts containing...
Section 61 - Establishment of District; Procedure - Section 61. Before a district is constituted and organized, a...
Section 62 - Organization; Notice of Meeting - Section 62. The selectmen, on written application of not less...
Section 63 - Election of Clerk; Removals; Vacancies - Section 63. If at such meeting the voters determine to...
Section 64 - Establishment of Fire Department - Section 64. The district at such meeting may vote to...
Section 65 - Selection of Engineers - Section 65. The chief engineer and assistant engineers shall be...
Section 66 - District Meetings; Time; Manner of Giving Notice; Selection of Moderator - Section 66. Every district meeting, except as otherwise provided by...
Section 67 - Voting Lists; Preparation and Correction - Section 67. The registrars of voters of towns containing fire...
Section 68 - Application Sections Relating to the Deposit of Ballots - Section 68. Section eight of chapter forty-one and sections eighty-three...
Section 69 - Taxation; Purposes - Section 69. Such districts may, at meetings called therefor, raise...
Section 71 - Prudential Committee; Selection; Duties; Treasurer; Bond; Duties - Section 71. Such districts shall choose a prudential committee, which...
Section 72 - Temporary Treasurer; Bond - Section 72. If the treasurer is prevented from performing his...
Section 73 - Collection of Taxes - Section 73. The clerk shall certify to the assessors of...
Section 74 - Board of Engineers; Rules and Regulations; Appointment of Personnel - Section 74. The board of engineers may make and publish...
Section 75 - Engineers; Extent of Authority; Liability of Districts - Section 75. Engineers shall have and exercise within their district...
Section 76 - Firemen; Privileges and Immunities; Compensation - Section 76. Members of the fire department of such district...
Section 77 - Authentication of District Rules and Regulations - Section 77. No by-law, rule or regulation adopted by a...
Section 77a - Holding Real Estate for Public Use; Lease of Land or Public Building - Section 77A. A fire district may hold real estate for...
Section 78 - Recovery of Penalties; Prosecution; Disposition - Section 78. Penalties under any of the four preceding sections...
Section 79 - Annexation and Exclusion - Section 79. A district, at a meeting called therefor, may...
Section 80 - Continuance of Existing Districts - Section 80. Fire districts heretofore legally organized shall continue and...
Section 81 - Appropriation - Section 81. The sum of eighteen thousand dollars may be...
Section 82 - Additional Persons Eligible for Benefits - Section 82. Any officer or member in active service in...
Section 83 - Allowance to Families of Deceased Firemen; Exception - Section 83. If a person entitled under either of the...
Section 87 - Standardization of Fire Fighting Equipment - Section 87. The department of fire services may make rules...
Section 88 - Fire Fighters; Performance of Police Duties - Section 88. No city or town shall require a permanent...
Section 89 - Fire Fighters; Firearms - Section 89. No fire fighter shall be required to carry...
Section 90 - Fire District; Municipal Agency - Section 90. For the purposes of chapter 268A, a fire...