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MA Gen L ch 111 § 173b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 173b - Entry Upon Premises Within Water Shed of Source of Water Supply

Section 173B. Any water board or board of water commissioners of a city, town or water district and any executive officer or agent of any such board or of a public institution or water company furnishing water for domestic purposes, and any police officer employed by such a water board, board of water commissioners, public institution or water company, may enter any premises except dwelling houses within the water shed of the source of water supply of such city, town, district, institution or company to ascertain whether the provisions of this chapter relative to water supply and the rules and regulations adopted under section one hundred and sixty are being obeyed.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 174 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 174 - Driving Animal on Ice of Pond or Stream Used for Domestic Water Supply

Section 174. Whoever, not being engaged in cutting or harvesting ice, or in hauling logs, wood or lumber, drives any animal on the ice of a pond or stream used for domestic water supply for a town shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one month.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 174a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 174a - Prevention of Defilement of Domestic Water Supply by Gulls or Terns

Section 174A. In order to preserve the purity and prevent the pollution of the waters of any reservoir, pond, and stream used for domestic water supply, by the watershed system of the division of watershed management of the metropolitan district commission, or by a town, water supply or fire and water district, public institution or water company, said division, the public board or commission, or the governing board in case of a water company, having control of such waters may authorize one or more of its employees, so far as permissible under federal law, to take such reasonable means and use such appliances and weapons as, in the judgment of such public board or commission, or governing board, as the case may be, will prevent the defilement of said waters by gulls or terns, any provision of chapter one hundred and thirty-one to the contrary notwithstanding. Every such division, public board or commission and governing board shall keep an accurate account of all birds killed by its employees under authority of this section and submit such account to the director of the division of fisheries and wildlife of the department of fish and game at such times and covering such periods as he may prescribe.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 175 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 175 - Protection of Charles River From Pollution

Section 175. The department of environmental protection, in this section called the department, shall make reasonable orders, having due regard for the particular circumstances of each case, prohibiting the entrance or discharge of sewage into any part of the Charles river or its tributaries, and preventing the entrance or discharge therein of any other substance which may be injurious to the public health or may tend to cause an offensive odor or to create a public nuisance or to obstruct the flow of water or to diminish the public use or enjoyment of said river, its tributaries, or adjacent areas, including all waste or refuse from any factory or other establishment where persons are employed. Any finding of fact made by the department in making such an order shall be prima facie evidence in any proceeding to enforce such order. The department shall consult and advise with the owner of any factory or establishment, or with any municipality, discharging any substance into the Charles river or any of its tributaries, at his or its request or of the department's own motion, as to the best practicable and reasonably available method of making such substance harmless. The supreme judicial and the superior court shall have jurisdiction in equity to enforce any order made by the department hereunder. Proceedings to enforce any such order shall be instituted and prosecuted by the attorney general upon the request of the department. Whoever violates any order of the department made under authority of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than one thousand dollars.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 181 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 181 - Enforcement of Vaccination of Inhabitants of Towns

Section 181. Boards of health, if in their opinion it is necessary for public health or safety, shall require and enforce the vaccination and revaccination of all the inhabitants of their towns, and shall provide them with the means of free vaccination. Whoever refuses or neglects to comply with such requirement shall forfeit five dollars.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 182 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 182 - Vaccination of Inmates of Institutions Supported by Aid of Commonwealth

Section 182. The board of health of a town where any incorporated manufacturing company, infirmary, training or industrial school, hospital or other establishment where the poor or sick are received, prison, jail or house of correction, or any institution supported or aided by the commonwealth, is situated may, if it decides that it is necessary for the health of the employees or inmates or for the public safety, require the authorities of said establishment or institution, at the expense thereof, to cause all said employees or inmates to be vaccinated.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 183 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 183 - Exemptions From Vaccination Requirement

Section 183. Any person over eighteen presenting a certificate, signed by the register of a probate court, that he is under guardianship shall not be subject to section one hundred and eighty-one; and any child presenting a certificate, signed by a registered physician designated by the parent or guardian, that the physician has at the time of giving the certificate personally examined the child and that he is of the opinion that the physical condition of the child is such that his health will be endangered by vaccination, shall not, while such condition continues, be subject to the two preceding sections.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 184 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 184 - Establishment and Maintenance of Bacteriological Laboratories

Section 184. In order to better preserve public health and secure greater accuracy in the diagnosis of communicable diseases, county commissioners may establish and maintain bacteriological laboratories, or provide such laboratory facilities for their respective counties as they deem advantageous, and may expend necessary sums therefor. No expenditures shall be made under this section until the laboratories or the laboratory facilities established or provided in accordance herewith have been inspected and approved by the department.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 184a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 184a - Certificates of Approval Relative to Bacteriological Laboratories; Rules and Regulations; Renewals; Fees

Section 184A. The department, at the request of any person owning or operating a bacteriological laboratory, may issue a certificate of approval of the performance at such laboratory of bacteriological or serological tests set forth in such certificate; provided, that no such certificate shall be granted hereunder except in accordance with such suitable and reasonable rules and regulations as the department shall establish; authority to establish, and from time to time to alter and amend, such rules and regulations being hereby granted to the department. Rules and regulations governing approval of such bacteriological laboratories made under authority hereof may include provisions relative to the location and equipment of such laboratories, the personal and professional qualifications of the personnel thereof, and the methods employed thereat. The department may from time to time submit to, or request from, any such laboratory such specimens for examination as it may deem necessary to determine whether or not such laboratory can properly perform such tests. Certificates of approval issued under authority hereof shall be valid for one year from their dates of issue and may be annually renewed. The fee for the issue, and for each annual renewal, of every such certificate shall be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven; provided, that no such fee shall be charged or collected on account of any such laboratory established and maintained by the commonwealth or by any political subdivision thereof. Any such certificate may be revoked by the department, after thirty days' notice to such laboratory and the opportunity to be heard by the department, if in its judgment the public interest so requires.  For the purposes of this section, a bacteriological laboratory is defined to be a place or establishment advertised, and maintained or purported to be maintained, in whole or in part, for the purpose of accepting for and subjecting to bacteriological or serological study or analysis, or both, specimens of blood, sputum, urine, feces or other fluids, secretions or excretions of the body of persons ill, or suspected of being ill, with a disease dangerous to the public health, or of the body of persons who are to serve as donors or recipients of blood or derivatives of blood.  The department is hereby further authorized to grant certificates of approval for laboratory tests upon milk, foods, eating utensils, water and sewage in accordance with such rules and regulations as the department may establish under the authority granted above. Only one certificate and one fee shall be required for all of the tests mentioned in this section.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 184b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 184b - Blood Banks

Section 184B. No blood bank, so-called, shall be established and maintained in the commonwealth except by a hospital licensed by the department under the provisions of section fifty-one. The American Red Cross, the Center for Blood Research, Inc., federal hospitals, and hospitals operated by the department of public health may establish and maintain a blood bank, provided that such blood bank is approved by the commissioner and the public health council as meeting all applicable regulations developed under the authority of this chapter.  Any violation of this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or the revocation of the right to establish and maintain a blood bank, or both.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 184c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 184c - Donation of Blood by Minors

Section 184C. A minor 17 years of age or older may donate his blood without the prior assent thereto by his parent or guardian. A minor 16 to 17 years of age may donate his blood with the prior assent thereto of his parent or guardian.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 185 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 185 - Disinfecting Public Mutoscopes and Other Apparatus

Section 185. The proprietor or manager of any place of public amusement or other place where there are provided for public use and entertainment mutoscopes or any other machine or apparatus of such nature that the person using the same breathes or speaks into it, or, to see or hear, holds any part thereof in contact with or near to his eyes or ears, shall disinfect the same, in such manner as shall be approved by the board of health, at least twice during such hours, in every twenty-four hours, as the machine or apparatus is offered for use by the public. This section shall not apply to telephones.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 185a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 185a - Rules of Instruction, Test Cards and Other Appliances

Section 185A. The department of public health, after consultation with the department of education, shall prescribe and furnish to school committees suitable rules of instruction, test cards, blanks, record books and other useful appliances for accomplishing the purposes of sections fifty-three to fifty-seven, inclusive, of chapter seventy-one and may furnish said material to such boards of health as may require it in the performance of their duties. The department may provide for pupils in the teachers colleges instruction and practice in the best methods of testing the sight and hearing of children.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 186 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 186 - Public Use of Machines Requiring Application of Lips

Section 186. No person shall provide for public use or entertainment in any place of public amusement or other place of public resort any so-called lung testing machine or similar contrivance the use of which requires the application of any part thereof to the lips. Violations of this or the preceding section shall be punished by a fine of not more than twenty-five dollars.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 186a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 186a - Shoe-Fitting Machines; Restrictions on Use; Penalty

Section 186A. No person shall operate or maintain a shoe-fitting device or machine which uses fluoroscopic, X–ray or radiation principles, except for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes by or under the direction of a physician or podiatrist registered under the laws of the commonwealth. Violations of this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than twenty-five dollars.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 186b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 186b - Sale of ''flammable'' Fabric or Related Material to Be Used for Children's Sleepwear; Penalties

Section 186B. It shall be unlawful to sell or offer for sale any fabric or related material or finished piece of clothing which is designed to be used in the manufacture, or sold as items, of children's sleepwear up to and including size 14, when such fabric or related material or finished piece of clothing shall be defined as ''Flammable'' under the provisions of chapter ninety-four B. Whoever himself or by his servant or agent, violates any provision of this section shall, for the first offense, be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars; and, for the second or subsequent offense, by a fine of not less than two hundred nor more than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than ninety days, or both.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 187 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 187 - Enforcement of Chapter

Section 187. The supreme judicial or superior court, upon the application of the board of health of a town, may enforce the orders of said board relative to public health. Sections eleven and twelve of chapter two hundred and fourteen shall apply to such cases; but a jury may be summoned under said sections, if there is no sitting of the court, within one month after issues have been framed.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 188 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 188 - Disposition of Fines and Forfeitures

Section 188. Fines and forfeitures incurred under the general laws, the special laws applicable to a town, or the ordinances, by-laws and regulations of a town, relative to health, shall enure to the use of such town except where the forfeiture is incurred by said town.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 189 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 189 - Application of Chapter to Cities

Section 189. Unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions of this chapter shall apply to cities so far as consistent with their several charters.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 189a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 189a - Definitions Applicable to Secs. 189a to 199b

Section 189A. For the purposes of this section and sections one hundred and ninety to one hundred and ninety-nine B, inclusive, the following words shall, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, have the following meanings:—  ''Abatement'', the removal and replacement of paint, plaster or other accessible structural material containing dangerous levels of lead.  ''Advisory committee'', the committee established in section one hundred and ninety.  ''Child-occupied facility'', a building or portion thereof constructed before 1978 and visited regularly by the same child, under 6 years of age, on at least 2 different days within a week if each day's visit lasts at least 3 hours, the combined weekly visits last at least 6 hours and the combined annual visits last at least 60 hours, and shall include but not be limited to, day care centers, preschools and kindergarten classrooms; provided, however, that child-occupied facilities may be located in residential premises or in public or commercial buildings.  ''Commissioner'', the commissioner of public health.  ''Containment'', the encapsulation, covering or enclosing by means authorized by the director, of paint, plaster or other accessible structural material containing dangerous levels of lead.  ''Department'', the department of public health.  ''Director'', the lead poisoning control director provided for in section one hundred and ninety.  ''Owner'', any person who alone or jointly or severally with others (i) has legal title to any premises; (ii) has charge or control of any premises as an agent who has authority to expend money for compliance with the state sanitary code, executor, administrator, trustee or guardian of the estate or the holder of legal title; (iii) is an estate or trust of which such premises is a part, or the grantor or beneficiary of such an estate or trust; or (iv) is the association of unit owners of a condominium or cooperative, which shall be considered an owner solely with respect to common areas and exterior surfaces and fixtures of such condominium or cooperative; provided, however, that the term ''owner'' shall not include a secured lender except to the extent provided in section one hundred and ninety-seven D.  ''Premises'', any residential premises, dwelling unit or residential property constructed prior to nineteen hundred and seventy-eight.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 190 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 190 - Program for the Prevention, Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment of Lead Poisoning; Lead Poisoning Control Director; Advisory Committee

Section 190. Subject to appropriation, the department shall establish a statewide program for the prevention, screening, diagnosis and treatment of lead poisoning, including elimination of the sources of such poisoning, through such research, educational, epidemiologic and clinical activities as may be necessary.  The commissioner shall appoint a lead poisoning control director, who shall serve at the pleasure of the commissioner. The director shall be responsible, subject to the authority of the commissioner, for carrying out and administering all programs created pursuant to this section and sections one hundred and ninety-one to section one hundred and ninety-nine B, inclusive, except as otherwise indicated herein. The director may contract with any agencies, individuals or groups for the provision of necessary services, subject to appropriation; and shall issue and from time to time, amend, such rules and regulations as may be necessary; provided, however, that such rules, regulations or amendments shall be filed with the joint committee on health care and the joint committee on housing and urban development at least thirty days before the effective date of such rules, regulations and amendments.  The governor shall appoint an advisory committee for the lead poisoning prevention program, which shall consist of fourteen members who shall serve at the pleasure of the governor. At least four of said fourteen members shall be physicians or persons active in the field of public health; at least one of said members shall be a representative of the Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations; at least two of said members shall be parents of children under six years of age who reside in lower-income urban areas; at least one of said members shall be a representative of the Massachusetts Rental Housing Association; at least one of said members shall be a representative of the Massachusetts Bankers Association; at least one of said members shall be a representative of the Massachusetts Association of Realtors; and at least one of said members shall be a representative of the property and casualty insurance industry. The committee shall advise the director on matters of policy; shall be consulted by the director prior to the issuance of rules and regulations; and shall perform such other duties as the director may request. The members of the advisory committee shall not be paid for their services, but they may be reimbursed for travel and other expenses necessary for the performance of their duties.