Massachusetts · statute · Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 148 · 96 active provisions
Section 1. In this chapter the following words, unless a different meaning is required by the context or is specifically prescribed, shall have the following meanings:— ''Department'', the department of fire services. ''Division'', the division of fire safety of the department of fire services. ''Head of the fire depar…
Section 2. The head of a fire department in a city, town, or district wherein a fire or explosion has destroyed or damaged property shall investigate the cause and circumstances thereof in order to determine if such fire or explosion was caused by carelessness or design or shall cause such an investigation to be made b…
Section 2A. The principal of any public or private school that provides instruction to pupils in any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, shall immediately report any incident involving the unauthorized ignition of any fire within the school building or on school grounds to the local fire department. The principal shall submi…
Section 3. The marshal shall investigate or cause to be investigated the circumstances of all fires or explosions of suspicious origin of which he has notice, and may investigate or cause to be investigated the circumstances of any fire or explosion occurring anywhere within the commonwealth. For such purposes the mars…
Section 4. The marshal, the head of the fire department, or any person to whom the marshal or the head of the fire department may delegate the authority, may, in the performance of the duties imposed by this chapter, or in furtherance of the purpose of any provision of any law, ordinance or by-law relating to the subje…
Section 5. The marshal, the head of the fire department or any person to whom the marshal or the head of the fire department may delegate his authority in writing may, and upon complaint of a person having an interest in any building or premises or property adjacent thereto, shall, at any reasonable hour, enter into bu…
Section 5A. No person shall use, allow to be used, sell or offer for sale any unvented liquid fired space heater. Whoever violates the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars.
Section 6. Any city, town or district officer who wilfully neglects or refuses to comply with any duty or requirement imposed upon him by the preceding sections shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than two hundred dollars.
Section 7. The marshal shall submit annually, before February fifteenth, a detailed report of all official action in relation to fires to the commissioner of insurance, who shall embody the material portions thereof in his annual report.
Section 8. The marshal shall report to insurance companies, to owners of property, or to other persons interested in the subject matter of an investigation of the cause and circumstances of a fire any information obtained by such investigation which may in his opinion require attention from or by such insurance compani…
Section 9. The board shall make rules and regulations for the keeping, storage, use, manufacture, sale, handling, transportation or other disposition of gunpowder, dynamite, crude petroleum or any of its products, or explosive or inflammable fluids or compounds, tablets, torpedoes or any explosives of a like nature, or…
Section 9A. The board shall make rules and regulations for the keeping, storage, manufacture, sale and use of model rocket engines and for the launching, operation and flying of model rockets in accordance with nationally recognized standards for model rocketry as promulgated by the National Fire Protection Association…
Section 10. The board of fire prevention regulations shall make, and from time to time may alter, amend and repeal, rules and regulations relative to fire prevention which said board is authorized or required under any provision of this chapter or of section four of chapter twenty-two D to adopt or make. Such rules and…
Section 10A. The head of the fire department in each city, town or fire district shall grant, in accordance with the rules and regulations of the board, such permits for use in such city, town or fire district as may be required by such rules and regulations, and make such inspections therein, and have and exercise suc…
Section 10B. Any person who knowingly violates any rule or regulation made by the board of fire prevention regulations shall, except as otherwise provided, be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars.
Section 10C. No person shall alter, repair or install any oil burning equipment or any of the appurtenances thereto, except for electrical wiring and connections, as defined by rules and regulations promulgated under the provisions of section ten governing the construction, installation and operation of oil burning equ…
Section 10D. Any person who has attained eighteen years of age may make application to the department for a certificate as an oil burner technician. Application for such certification shall not be made more often than once in thirty days. A fee shall accompany each application, the amount of which shall be determined a…
Section 10E. An examiner shall upon payment of a fee, the amount of which shall be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven for the filing thereof issue without examination an apprentice certificate to any person who applies therefor, which certif…
Section 10F. The board may make such reasonable rules and regulations as it deems suitable for the issuance of various types and classes of certificates to cover the various types of oil burner installations. A certificate may cover one or more or all types of installations or may be limited to a specific type of insta…
Section 10G. Any certificate may, after due notice and hearing, be suspended or revoked by an examiner for a violation by the certificate holder of any rule or regulation promulgated by the board relative to construction, installation and operation of oil burning equipment. Any applicant for an oil burner technician ce…
Section 10H. No firm or corporation engaged in the business of altering, repairing or installing oil burning equipment shall be required to hold a certificate as an oil burner technician; provided that such work is performed for them by persons certified as oil burner technicians.
Section 11. The marshal may expend the amount annually appropriated for the employment of expert assistance, and also for maintaining a laboratory to aid in the enforcement of the laws relative to explosives and inflammable fluids and compounds. Expert assistants employed under this section shall aid in the enforcement…
Section 12. No building shall be used for the manufacturing of fireworks or firecrackers without a license from the local licensing authority. No building or structure shall be used for the manufacturing or storage of explosive materials without a permit issued by the marshal. Any person who has applied for or has been…
Section 13. No building or other structure shall, except as provided in section fourteen, be used for the keeping, storage, manufacture or sale of any of the articles named in section nine, unless the local licensing authority shall have granted a license to use the land on which such building or other structure is or…
Section 14. Gasoline or any other volatile inflammable fluid which emits a vapor at a temperature below one hundred degrees Fahrenheit when tested in the open air shall, when in any motor vehicle which is in a building or other structure, be deemed to be kept in such building or other structure within the meaning of th…