Massachusetts · statute · Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 146 · 105 active provisions
Section 1. The following words as used in this chapter, unless a contrary meaning is specifically prescribed or the context otherwise requires, shall have the following meanings: ''Board'', the board of boiler rules appointed under section ten of chapter twenty-two. ''Boiler'', A closed pressure vessel in which water i…
Section 1A. Inspectors; appointment; powers and duties; appointment as special state police; oath of office (a) The state fire marshal shall appoint a chief of inspections, who shall not be subject to the provisions of chapter 31, who may be removed for cause, and the position of chief of inspections shall be classifie…
Section 2. The board shall formulate rules or adopt rules formulated by a recognized engineering organization, for the construction, installation and inspection of steam boilers and power reactor vessels and piping as used in atomic energy installations and for ascertaining the safe working pressure to be carried there…
Section 3. The board shall hold public hearings annually on the first Thursday in May and November, and at such other times as it may determine, on petitions for changes in the rules formulated by it. If, after any such hearing, it shall deem it advisable to make changes in said rules, it shall appoint a day for a furt…
Section 4. Changes in the rules which affect the construction of new boilers shall take effect six months after their filing as provided in section two; provided, that the board may, upon request, permit the application of such change in rules to boilers manufactured or installed during said six months. When a person d…
Section 5. The division shall enforce this chapter and the rules of the board except when otherwise provided. All inspectors of the division may enter any premises in the pursuance of their duty.
Section 6. All steam boilers and their appurtenances except those specified in the following section shall be thoroughly inspected externally and internally at least once a year. Upon written application made to it by the owner or user of a pressure vessel or boiler, the board may, when the public interest and convenie…
Section 7. The preceding section shall not apply to boilers of railroad locomotives, motor vehicles or steam fire engines brought into the commonwealth for temporary use in times of emergency, nor to boilers used in private residences, nor to those used for heating purposes which carry pressures not exceeding fifteen p…
Section 8. No person shall operate or cause to be operated any boiler required by this chapter to be inspected until it has been inspected, and the certificate of inspection required by section twenty-three or twenty-five has been issued and so placed in the engine or boiler room of the plant as to be easily read, or i…
Section 9. No person shall operate or cause to be operated any boiler required by this chapter to be inspected at pressures in excess of the safe working pressure ascertained by the rules of the board and stated in the certificate of inspection nor unless the boiler is equipped with such safety appliances as are prescr…
Section 10. Whoever owns, or uses or causes to be used, any such boiler, unless the same is under the periodically guaranteed inspection of an insurance company authorized to insure boilers in the commonwealth, shall report in writing to the chief the location of such boiler, before the work of installation of such boi…
Section 11. All such boilers shall be inspected externally at least once each year when in operation, and the inspector shall observe the pressure of steam carried and the general condition of each boiler, and ascertain if the safety valve and the appliances for indicating the pressure of steam and level of the water i…
Section 12. No person shall remove or tamper with any safety appliance prescribed by the board nor load the safety valve to a greater pressure than that allowed by the certificate of inspection.
Section 13. The inspection of boilers and appurtenances shall be made by the division, under the supervision of the chief, or by inspectors of insurance companies authorized to insure steam boilers in the commonwealth; or, in the case of shop inspections in a boiler shop outside of the commonwealth, by such other inspe…
Section 14. Every insurance company, or a reinsurer, authorized to insure boilers and pressure vessels in the commonwealth and making inspections of such boilers and pressure vessels, shall have in its employ at least one inspector who holds a certificate of competency under section sixty-two and who resides in the com…
Section 15. No person shall act as an inspector of boilers for an insurance company unless he holds a certificate of competency under section sixty-two.
Section 16. If any insurance company issues a certificate of inspection signed by an inspector who does not hold a certificate of competency, the state fire marshal may, if it is a domestic company, proceed against it under section six of chapter one hundred and seventy-five or may, if it is a foreign company, revoke o…
Section 17. The inspectors of the division shall make reports of all inspections and shall make such recommendations to the chief as they may deem expedient.
Section 18. Every insurance company shall forward to the chief, within fourteen days after each inspection, reports of all boilers inspected by it. Such reports shall be made in a standard format that has been authorized and approved by the department, and shall contain all orders made by the company regarding such boi…
Section 19. Every insurance company shall report immediately to the chief the name of the owner or user and the location of every boiler required by this chapter to be inspected, upon which they have cancelled or refused insurance, giving the reasons therefor.
Section 20. Boilers and their appurtenances used exclusively for heating purposes, which are not required by this chapter to be inspected, shall be provided with such safety appliances as shall be prescribed by the board, and the division shall inspect such boilers upon application of the owner.
Section 21. The owner or user of a boiler required by this chapter to be inspected shall prepare the boiler for inspection as directed by the inspector. The inspector shall, if requested, give the owner or user at least fourteen days' notice to prepare a boiler for inspection; provided, that no notice shall be required…
Section 22. The owner or user of a boiler inspected by the division shall pay to the state fire marshal, a fee, the amount of which shall be determined according to the provisions referred to hereunder, for each boiler internally and externally inspected and for each visit for external inspection under steam, and for e…
Section 23. If upon inspection the district engineering inspector finds the boiler to be in safe working order with the fittings necessary to safely and properly set up the boiler and its appurtenances conform to the rules of the board, the department shall issue to the owner or user thereof a certificate of inspection…
Section 24. Every boiler which has been inspected by the division shall be numbered either by stamping the number upon the boiler or by attaching a numbered metal tag by a seal or otherwise to the boiler or its fittings. No person except an inspector of the division shall deface or remove any such number or tag.