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MA Gen L ch 148 § 34a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 34a - Assembly Use Group Building; Dangerous Condition

Section 34A. (a) Any owner, occupant, lessee or other person having control or supervision of any assembly use group building, as defined by the state building code, and who causes or permits a dangerous condition to exist on the premises at anytime shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000 or by imprisonment in the house of correction for not more than 2.5 years, or both.  For the purposes of this section, ''dangerous condition'' shall mean:—  (1) any blocked or impeded ingress or egress;  (2) the failure to maintain or the shutting off of any fire protection or fire warning system required by law;  (3) the storage of any flammable or explosive without a properly issued permit in quantities in excess of allowable limits of any permit to store;  (4) the use of any firework or pyrotechnic device, as defined by the board of fire prevention regulations, without a properly issued permit; or  (5) exceeding the occupancy limit established by the local building inspector pursuant to chapter 143.  Nothing in this section shall preclude the issuance of a citation for a code violation, as provided for by chapter 148A.  (b) Whoever is convicted of a second or subsequent violation of paragraph (a) shall be punished by a fine of not more than $25,000 or by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 5 years or in a house of correction for not more than 2.5 years, or both such fine and imprisonment.
MA Gen L ch 148 § 34b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 34b - Serious Bodily Injury; Penalties

Section 34B. Any person who wantonly or recklessly violates the state building code or state fire code and thereby causes serious bodily injury or death to any person shall be punished by a fine of not more than $25,000 or by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 5 years or in a house of correction for not more than 2.5 years, or both.  For purposes of this section, ''serious bodily injury'' shall mean bodily injury that results in a permanent disfigurement, loss or impairment of a bodily function, limb or organ, or a substantial risk of death.
MA Gen L ch 148 § 34c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 34c - Subsequent Violations of State Building Code or State Fire Code

Section 34C. Whoever (1) commits a second or subsequent violation of the state building code or state fire code, including any incorporated specialized codes, or any lawful order of the marshal, the head of the fire department or a state or local building inspector or (2) continues to violate any such code or order after receipt of actual notice of such violation or order, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000 or by imprisonment for 1 year in the house of correction or by both such fine and imprisonment. Notice may be provided by in-hand service, by posting the same in a conspicuous place on the premises in violation, or by the lawful issuance of a citation pursuant to chapter 148 A. This section shall not apply to such violations which are under appeal pursuant to section 100 of chapter 143, if such appeal was timely filed.
MA Gen L ch 148 § 34d (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 34d - Enforcement of Orders of Marshall or Head of Fire Department

Section 34D. Notwithstanding any other general or special law to the contrary, the housing court, the district court or the superior court shall have jurisdiction and equitable powers to enforce the lawful orders of the marshal or head of the fire department pursuant to this chapter.
MA Gen L ch 148 § 37 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 37 - Tanks for Storage of Fluids; Permits; Violation of Statute or Regulation; Annual Inspection; Fees

Section 37. No person shall construct, maintain or use any tank or container of more than ten thousand gallons' capacity, for the storage of any fluid other than water, unless the same is located underground, without first securing a permit therefor from the marshal. The marshal may, after notice and hearing, revoke any such permit for cause. Whoever violates this section or a rule or regulation made under the following section shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than one thousand dollars.  The marshal shall establish rules and regulations providing for the inspection of tanks or containers on an annual basis or at such other frequency as determined by the marshal. In determining the frequency the marshal may consider factors including, but not limited to, tank size, type of construction, tank contents, potential safety hazards, and tank safety and containment systems. The inspection fee shall be determined annually by the secretary of administration and finance pursuant to section 3B of chapter 7. The rules and regulations shall require owners or operators to maintain the tanks or containers and to keep records of inspections, repairs and maintenance for each tank or container in a form as prescribed by the marshal. The marshal may establish or adopt inspection standards or parts thereof for tanks and containers and qualifications for those persons authorized to conduct inspections pursuant to this section. In addition to the inspections required by regulation, the marshal may, at any time during reasonable business hours, inspect the premises' tanks or containers, dikes, facilities, equipment and records to determine compliance with this section or related regulations.
MA Gen L ch 148 § 37b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 37b - Grants for Removal or Replacement of Fuel Storage Tanks

Section 37B. Notwithstanding the provisions of section thirty-seven A, grants authorized pursuant to said section thirty-seven A may be awarded for either the removal or replacement of a fuel storage tank; provided, however, that no such grant shall exceed fifty percent of the total cost of any such removal or replacement.
MA Gen L ch 148 § 38 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 38 - Regulations Relative to Tanks

Section 38. The board shall make rules and regulations governing the construction, use, and maintenance of tanks to which section thirty-seven applies; governing the removal and relocation of tanks to which section thirty-eight A applies; and governing the allocation of grants to cities and towns to which section thirty-seven A applies.
MA Gen L ch 148 § 39a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 39a - Regulations for Permits for Displays of Fireworks; Fees

Section 39A. The board shall make rules and regulations for the granting of permits for supervised displays of fireworks by municipalities, fair associations, amusement parks and other organizations or groups of individuals. Such rules and regulations shall provide in part that (a) every such display shall be handled by a competent operator to be approved by the chief of the fire department or officer or officers having similar powers and duties, of the municipality in which the display is to be held and shall be of such a character, and so located, discharged or fired as, in the opinion of the chief of the fire department or the officer or officers having similar powers and duties, after proper inspection, not to be hazardous to property or to endanger any person or persons, (b) application for permits shall be made in writing at least fifteen days in advance of the date of the display, and (c) no permit so granted shall be transferable. The fee for such permits shall be set by the chief of the fire department or the officer or officers having similar powers and duties of the municipality in which the display is to be held, but in no event shall any such fee be greater than twenty-five dollars.
MA Gen L ch 148 § 40 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 40 - Storage of Fireworks; Bonds for Manufacture and Storage; Fee

Section 40. No person shall store fireworks in quantities except such as may be permitted by the rules and regulations of the board outside the premises of a fireworks manufactory in any building or other structure located within one thousand feet of any church, theatre, hall, place of assembly, factory or any inhabited building, nor shall any person manufacture fireworks, unless he has previously filed with the clerk of the city or town in which the said fireworks are to be manufactured or stored a bond running to the treasurer of the said city or town with a surety or sureties approved by the said treasurer, in such penal sum, not less than ten thousand dollars, as the mayor of the city or the selectmen of the town, with the approval of the marshal, shall determine to be necessary to cover the losses, damages or injuries that might ensue from the said manufacture or storage. The bond shall be conditioned upon the payment of any judgment obtained in an action against said person so manufacturing or storing fireworks for or on account of any loss, damage or injury resulting to persons or property by reason of the said manufacture or wholesale storage. Such person shall pay to the said clerk the fee provided by clause (16) of section thirty-four of chapter two hundred and sixty-two.
MA Gen L ch 148 § 41 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 41 - Actions on Bonds

Section 41. Action on a bond filed under section forty or forty-two may be brought by any person holding a judgment to secure the payment of which the bond was filed and may be brought by such person in the name of the city or town treasurer, or of the state treasurer, as the case may be, but for the use and benefit, and at the cost and expense, of the person so bringing the said action; provided, that such a judgment was recovered in an action brought within twelve months of the time when the cause of action accrued.
MA Gen L ch 148 § 42 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 42 - Displays or Exhibits of Fireworks; Bonds

Section 42. No person engaged in the business of displaying or exhibiting fireworks shall, by himself or his agents, discharge, fire off, explode or display fireworks unless he has on file with the state treasurer a bond running to the state treasurer with a surety or sureties approved by him for the penal sum of fifteen thousand dollars, and for such additional penal sum as the marshal shall determine to be necessary to cover the losses, damages or injuries that might ensue to persons or property by reason thereof. The bond shall be conditioned upon the payment of any judgment obtained in an action brought against said person so discharging, firing off, exploding or displaying fireworks, for or on account of any loss, damage or injury resulting to persons or property by reason of the said discharging, firing off, exploding or displaying of said fireworks. As used in this section, the word ''persons'' shall include municipal corporations, and the word ''loss'' shall include the reasonable expense of a city or town incurred in the extinguishing of fires caused by said discharging, firing off, exploding or displaying of said fireworks.
MA Gen L ch 148 § 43 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 43 - Actions on Bonds; Pro Rating Claims; Other Remedies

Section 43. No action for injury to an employee of a person required to give a bond under section forty or forty-two shall be brought on such bond if such injury arises out of and in the course of the employment. If claims under any bond filed under either of said sections are established to an amount greater than the penal sum of the bond, such claims shall be paid pro rata to the amount of the penal sum and executions shall issue accordingly. Nothing in the three preceding sections shall deprive a person suffering loss, damage or injury of any other right or remedy provided by law.
MA Gen L ch 148 § 44 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 44 - Firecrackers and Pyrotechnical Ship or Railway Signals

Section 44. Firecrackers and pyrotechnical ship or railway signals shall be included and classed as fireworks, but the provisions of the four preceding sections shall not apply to the storage of pyrotechnical ship or railway signals nor to the discharge, firing or exploding of the said signals when used for the protection of life and property.
MA Gen L ch 148 § 45 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 45 - Violation of Secs. 40 to 44

Section 45. Whoever violates any provision of the five preceding sections shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than six months, or both.
MA Gen L ch 148 § 46 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 46 - Inflammable Stove Polish and Foundry Paste; Regulations; Penalties

Section 46. No person shall manufacture, store, keep for sale, sell or transport any compound for use as a stove polish containing any liquid or compound whatsoever which will emit a gas that will flash at a temperature of less than one hundred and forty degrees Fahrenheit, except that foundry paste which contains inflammable compound, if packed in metal containers, sealed by fusion and weighing in gross not less than five pounds, and if such container is labeled ''Dangerous-Inflammable compound—Keep away from fire, heat and lights'' may be manufactured, stored, kept for sale, sold or transported for use only by stove foundries, stove manufacturers and stove dealers on their own premises under rules and regulations prescribed by the board. The flash point of said compound shall be ascertained in the manner prescribed by such rules and regulations. Whoever violates this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than six months or both.
MA Gen L ch 148 § 50 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 50 - Search Warrants for Explosive, Inflammable and Combustible Substances Kept Contrary to Statutes or Regulations

Section 50. Upon complaint made to a court or justice authorized to issue warrants in criminal cases that the complainant has probable cause to suspect and does suspect that gunpowder, dynamite or any other explosives, crude petroleum or any of its products, or explosive or inflammable fluids, or any of the articles named in section thirty-nine, are kept or are to be found in any place contrary to this chapter or regulations made hereunder, such court or justice may issue a search warrant in conformity with chapter two hundred and seventy-six, so far as applicable, commanding the officer to whom the warrant is directed to enter any shop, building, manufactory, vehicle or vessel specified in the warrant, and there make diligent search for the articles specified in the warrant, and make return of his doings forthwith to the court or justice having jurisdiction thereof. Such warrants may be directed to a police officer, the marshal or to the head of the fire department.
MA Gen L ch 148 § 51 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 51 - Forfeiture of Explosive, Inflammable and Combustible Substances; Sale or Destruction; Proceeds

Section 51. Articles seized under the preceding section may, after due notice and hearing, be adjudged to be forfeited, and may be ordered to be sold or destroyed in such manner as the court or magistrate may direct, and the proceeds, if any, paid into the county treasury.
MA Gen L ch 148 § 52 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 52 - Matches Kept for Sale or Use in Store

Section 52. Whoever keeps matches for sale or use in any store unless the same are in unbroken cases or in a metal or other fireproof receptacle with the cover closed, except when it is necessary to obtain access thereto, shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars.
MA Gen L ch 148 § 52a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 52a - Sale of Exploding Matches, Cigars or Cigarettes

Section 52A. Whoever sells or keeps for sale so-called exploding matches, exploding cigars or exploding cigarettes shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars.
MA Gen L ch 148 § 54 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 54 - Lighted Cigarettes, Etc. Likely to Cause Fire; Dropping or Throwing From Vehicles or Placing on Forest Lands or Fields

Section 54. Whoever drops or throws from any vehicle while the same is upon a public or private way running along or near forest land or open fields, or, except as permitted by law, drops, throws, deposits or otherwise places in or upon forest land, any lighted cigarette, cigar, match, live ashes or other flaming or glowing substance, or any substance or thing which in and of itself is likely to cause a fire, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days.
MA Gen L ch 148 § 55 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 55 - Explosive Golf Balls

Section 55. Whoever manufactures or sells or knowingly uses, or has in possession for the purpose of sale, any golf ball containing any acid, fluid, gas or other substance tending to cause the ball to explode and to inflict bodily injury shall for the first offence be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, and for any subsequent offence by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.
MA Gen L ch 148 § 56 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 56 - Parking Space Business; Licenses; Fees; Term; Suspension and Revocation; Unlicensed Business

Section 56. In any city or town which accepts the provisions of this section, no person shall engage in the business of conducting or maintaining an open-air parking space without a license therefor granted, in the city of Boston, by its commissioner of transportation, and in any other city or town, by the local licensing authority, approved in all cases by the head of the fire department. Each license granted under this section and the application therefor shall specify all the premises to be occupied by the licensee for the purpose of conducting the licensed business, the total area of the space therein to be actually used for parking or storing vehicles, and the maximum number of vehicles to be parked or stored in such area. The fee for each such license shall be such amount as may be established by the authority granting the license, and said authority may reasonably classify said licenses and fees. Licenses granted hereunder shall expire on April thirtieth following the date of issue, or on such date as may be specified therein, and may be suspended or revoked by such authority and by the head of the fire department. Whoever, not being licensed, engages in a business required by this section to be licensed, or is concerned therein, or, being licensed, violates any condition of his license or engages in such business, or is concerned therein, and any other place than that designated in his license or after notice to him that his license has been suspended or revoked, shall be punished by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any open-air parking space established under paragraph (g) of section three of chapter one hundred and sixty-one A or under paragraph (g) of section six of chapter one hundred and sixty-one B and maintained or conducted by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority or by an authority created under said chapter one hundred and sixty-one B or a lessee or licensee thereof.
MA Gen L ch 148 § 57 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 57 - Siding as Conductor of Electricity; Approval

Section 57. No side walling or siding which is a conductor of electricity shall be installed on any building unless it is properly grounded and approved by the city or town electrician or other officer having similar duties.
MA Gen L ch 148 § 58 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 58 - Fire Extinguishing Systems, Issuance of Certificates for Installation and Servicing

Section 58. The board may make such rules and regulations as it deems suitable for the issuance of various types and classes of certificates for the following:  (a) a firm engaged in the business of servicing portable fire extinguishers or installing and servicing fixed fire extinguishing systems; (b) an employee of firms engaged in the business of servicing portable fire extinguishers or installing or servicing fixed fire extinguishing systems who services extinguishers or fixed systems; (c) a firm performing hydrostatic testing of fire extinguishers.  The provisions of this section shall not apply to the following:  (a) the filling or charging of a portable fire extinguisher by the manufacturer prior to its initial sale; (b) the servicing by a firm of its own portable extinguishers or fixed systems by its own personnel specially trained for such servicing; (c) the installation or servicing of water sprinkler systems installed in compliance with the State Building Code; (d) firms engaged in the selling at wholesale or retail of portable fire extinguishers but not engaged in the installation or recharging of them; (e) fire departments recharging portable fire extinguishers as a public service where no charge is made; provided, however, that the member of the fire department is trained in the proper filling and recharging of the fire extinguishers.