Massachusetts · statute · Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 94B · 10 active provisions
Section 1. The following words as used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires shall have the following meanings:— ''Banned hazardous substance'', any toy, or other article intended for use by children, which is a hazardous substance, or which bears or contains a hazardous substance susceptible of access…
Section 2. (a) Whenever in the judgment of the commissioner such action will promote the objectives of this chapter by avoiding or resolving uncertainty as to its application, the commissioner may by reasonable rules and regulations declare to be a hazardous substance, for the purpose of this chapter, any substance or…
Section 3. (a) No person shall sell, expose for sale, deliver, give away, have in his possession, introduce or deliver for introduction into commerce any misbranded hazardous substance or banned hazardous substance. (b) No person shall alter, mutilate, destroy, obliterate or remove the whole or any part of the label of…
Section 4. Any person who violates any of the provisions of section three shall be punished for a first offense by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than ninety days, or both; and for a second and subsequent offenses, shall be punished by impr…
Section 5. (a) Whenever the director or his duly authorized inspector finds or has probable cause to believe that any hazardous substance is misbranded, or is a banned hazardous substance within the meaning of this chapter, he shall affix or cause to be affixed to such article a tag or other appropriate marking, giving…
Section 6. (a) For the purpose of administering the provisions of this chapter, the director and inspectors shall have access and entry at reasonable times to any premises pursuant to a search warrant duly issued by a court of competent jurisdiction, provided that no sample of an alleged hazardous substance obtained in…
Section 7. For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this chapter, carriers engaged in commerce, and persons storing or receiving hazardous substances in commerce or holding such hazardous substances so received shall, upon the request of an officer or employee duly designated by the commissioner acting under auth…
Section 8. In the case of any article or substance sold by its manufacturer, distributor, or dealer which is a banned hazardous substance, whether or not it was such at the time of its sale, such article or substance shall, in accordance with regulations of the commissioner, be repurchased as follows: (a) The manufactu…
Section 9. (a) The commissioner may cause to be published from time to time reports summarizing any judgments, decrees or court orders which have been rendered under this chapter including the nature of the charge and the disposition thereof. (b) The commissioner may also cause to be disseminated information regarding…
Section 10. Sections one to nine, inclusive, may be cited and referred to as the hazardous substances labeling law.