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MA Gen L ch 146 § 85a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 146 - Inspection of Boilers, Air Tanks, Etc. Licenses of Engineers, Firemen, and Operators of Hoisting Machinery|Section 85a - Apprentice Sprinkler Fitters

[ Text of section effective until July 18, 2021. For text effective July 18, 2021, see below.]  Section 85A. Every apprentice sprinkler fitter shall before starting his apprenticeship file an application, accompanied by the appropriate fee, with the office of public safety and inspections of the division of professional licensure, requesting that he be issued an apprentice license. Said application shall be made on a form to be furnished by said office, and shall require the applicant to state his age, the date on which he is to commence his apprenticeship, the name and address of his employer, and such other information as said office may require. Upon receipt thereof said office shall forthwith mail to him a certificate to that effect. A person may be employed as an apprentice sprinkler fitter by a fire protection sprinkler contractor only. Such apprentices shall work under the direct supervision of a fire protection sprinkler contractor or journeyman sprinkler fitter. A fire protection sprinkler contractor may employ one or more apprentices but not more than one apprentice may be so employed for each journeyman sprinkler fitter. Chapter 146: Section 85A. Apprentice sprinkler fitters [ Text of section as amended by 2021, 39, Sec. 109 effective July 18, 2021. See 2021, 39, Sec. 128. For text effective until July 18, 2021, see above.]  Section 85A. Every apprentice sprinkler fitter shall before starting his apprenticeship file an application, accompanied by the appropriate fee, with the office of public safety and inspections of the division of occupational licensure, requesting that he be issued an apprentice license. Said application shall be made on a form to be furnished by said office, and shall require the applicant to state his age, the date on which he is to commence his apprenticeship, the name and address of his employer, and such other information as said office may require. Upon receipt thereof said office shall forthwith mail to him a certificate to that effect. A person may be employed as an apprentice sprinkler fitter by a fire protection sprinkler contractor only. Such apprentices shall work under the direct supervision of a fire protection sprinkler contractor or journeyman sprinkler fitter. A fire protection sprinkler contractor may employ one or more apprentices but not more than one apprentice may be so employed for each journeyman sprinkler fitter.
MA Gen L ch 146 § 86 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 146 - Inspection of Boilers, Air Tanks, Etc. Licenses of Engineers, Firemen, and Operators of Hoisting Machinery|Section 86 - Classification and Limitation of Licenses

Section 86. A license for a refrigeration technician, refrigeration contractor or a refrigeration trainee shall be classified and limited as to the maximum size of the refrigerating system with which the applicant is familiar in installing or servicing, and the applicant shall be licensed for that particular size of system; provided, however, that any person may make application for and, if found to be qualified, receive a license to engage in the installation and servicing of all sizes of refrigerating systems.
MA Gen L ch 146 § 87 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 146 - Inspection of Boilers, Air Tanks, Etc. Licenses of Engineers, Firemen, and Operators of Hoisting Machinery|Section 87 - Pipefitters, Inapplicability of Provisions

Section 87. The provisions of sections eighty-one to eighty-six, inclusive, relative to the examining and licensing of pipefitters shall not apply to pipefitting performed by a person regularly in the employ of an industrial plant, firm corporation, college, gas company, electric company engaged in the generation, sale, transmission or distribution of electricity, or a utility steam distribution system as may be required on the premises and property of such industrial plant, firm corporation, hospital, school, college, gas company, electric company or utility steam distribution system, nor shall such provisions apply to such pipefitting performed by an engineer or fireman, licensed under section forty-six, in a place where he is regularly employed.
MA Gen L ch 146 § 88 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 146 - Inspection of Boilers, Air Tanks, Etc. Licenses of Engineers, Firemen, and Operators of Hoisting Machinery|Section 88 - Refrigeration Technicians, Inapplicability of Provisions

Section 88. The provisions of sections eighty-one to eighty-six, inclusive, relative to the examining and licensing of refrigeration technicians, contractors or trainees shall not apply to the installation, replacement, maintenance or alteration of any air conditioning or refrigeration systems, including apparatus or equipment, covered under the provisions of this chapter as are found on the premises or property of such industrial plant, public or private utility company, firm, corporation, hospital, school or college, by a person regularly in the employ of such industrial plant, public or private utility company, firm, corporation, hospital, school or college.
MA Gen L ch 146 § 88a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 146 - Inspection of Boilers, Air Tanks, Etc. Licenses of Engineers, Firemen, and Operators of Hoisting Machinery|Section 88a - Exclusion From Sprinkler Fitter's Examination and Licensing Requirements for Certain Public Water System Employees

Section 88A. (a) The sprinkler fitter's examination and licensing requirements under sections 81 to 86, inclusive, shall not apply to individuals who are: (i) regularly employed by a public water system or who are utility contractors approved and working for a public water system; and (ii) performing sprinkler fitting work related to the emergency installation and repair and the testing and maintenance of hydrants and appurtenant pipes and valves that are within the jurisdiction of the public water system; provided, however, that the exemption shall only apply to work related to hydrants and appurtenant pipes and valves and shall not include work on any other component of a fire protection sprinkler system.  (b) Individuals who are regularly employed by a public water system or who are utility contractors approved and working for a public water system may perform sprinkler fitting work related to the installation, repair, testing and maintenance of hydrants and appurtenant pipes and valves of a multi-purpose system within the jurisdiction of the public water system; provided, however, that such work shall not include work on any other component of a fire protection sprinkler system.  (c) The department may promulgate rules and regulations to enforce this section.
MA Gen L ch 146 § 89 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 146 - Inspection of Boilers, Air Tanks, Etc. Licenses of Engineers, Firemen, and Operators of Hoisting Machinery|Section 89 - Penalties

Section 89. Any person, firm or corporation, or employee thereof, and any representative, member or officer of such firm or corporation individually, entering upon or engaging in the business and work as defined in section eighty-one, without having complied with this chapter, shall for the first offense be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars, and for a subsequent offense by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the house of correction for six months or both.  Whoever prevents, or attempts to prevent, an inspector from entering any premises in the discharge of the inspector's duty shall be punished by a fine of not less than $250 and not more than $3,000, or by imprisonment for not more than 3 months, or both such fine and imprisonment.  Any person who permits an unlicensed person to engage in pipefitting, as defined in section 81, shall be punished by a fine of not less than $1,000 and not more than $3,000, or by imprisonment for not more than 3 months, or both such fine and imprisonment.
MA Gen L ch 146 § 90 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 146 - Inspection of Boilers, Air Tanks, Etc. Licenses of Engineers, Firemen, and Operators of Hoisting Machinery|Section 90 - Fee for the Issuance of Certificate of Inspection

Section 90. The owner or user of a boiler or air tank or other receptacle inspected by an inspector shall pay a fee to be determined annually by the secretary of administration and finance pursuant to section 3B of chapter 7 for the issuance of a certificate of inspection by the department.
MA Gen L ch 147 § 1 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 147 - State and Other Police, and Certain Powers and Duties of the Office of Public Safety and Inspections of the Division of Professional Licensure|Section 1 - Definitions and Duties of Commissioner and Division of Professional Licensure

[ Text of section effective until July 18, 2021. For text effective July 18, 2021, see below.]  Section 1. The commissioner of the division of professional licensure, in this chapter called the commissioner, shall have charge of the administration and enforcement of all laws, rules and regulations which it is the duty of the division of professional licensure, in this chapter called the division, to administer and enforce, and shall, except as is otherwise provided, direct all inspections and investigations. He shall, subject to the approval of the governor, make all necessary rules for the government of his division, for reports to be made by officers under him and for the performance of their duties. He shall make an annual report. Chapter 147: Section 1. Definitions and duties of commissioner and division of occupational licensure [ Text of section as amended by 2021, 39, Sec. 110 effective July 18, 2021. See 2021, 39, Sec. 128. For text effective until July 18, 2021, see above.]  Section 1. The commissioner of the division of occupational licensure, in this chapter called the commissioner, shall have charge of the administration and enforcement of all laws, rules and regulations which it is the duty of the division of occupational licensure, in this chapter called the division, to administer and enforce, and shall, except as is otherwise provided, direct all inspections and investigations. He shall, subject to the approval of the governor, make all necessary rules for the government of his division, for reports to be made by officers under him and for the performance of their duties. He shall make an annual report.
MA Gen L ch 147 § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 147 - State and Other Police, and Certain Powers and Duties of the Office of Public Safety and Inspections of the Division of Professional Licensure|Section 2 - Inspectors; Powers and Duties; Appointment as Special State Police

Section 2. All inspectors of the office of public safety and inspections of the division shall have and exercise throughout the commonwealth the powers of constables, police officers and watchmen, except as to the service of civil process. The governor may command their services in suppressing riots and in preserving the peace. The commissioner may request the colonel of state police to appoint such inspectors as special state police officers and invest them with such of the powers of the state police officers as said colonel may deem advisable. The commissioner, with the approval of the governor, may authorize the inspectors of the office of public safety and inspections of the division to carry badges, revolvers, clubs, handcuffs and twisters, or such other articles as may be required in the performance of their duties.
MA Gen L ch 147 § 3 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 147 - State and Other Police, and Certain Powers and Duties of the Office of Public Safety and Inspections of the Division of Professional Licensure|Section 3 - Rewards or Gifts for Services; Failure to Perform Duties

Section 3. Any inspector of the division who directly or indirectly receives a reward, gift or gratuity on account of his official services shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than three months, and shall also be discharged from office. Any inspector who fails to faithfully perform his duties shall be immediately discharged from office.
MA Gen L ch 147 § 8 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 147 - State and Other Police, and Certain Powers and Duties of the Office of Public Safety and Inspections of the Division of Professional Licensure|Section 8 - County Police; Appointment; Badge; Powers

Section 8. County commissioners may appoint as police officers persons who are in the employment of the county, who shall, when on duty, wear in plain sight a metallic badge inscribed with the words ''County Police'' and the name of the county for which they are appointed. Such officers may preserve order in any court house or in any room or building used for county business and upon the adjoining premises. They may, without a warrant, arrest idle or disorderly persons who by their presence or conduct obstruct or annoy persons using county buildings or premises, or who violate section ninety-seven of chapter two hundred and sixty-six, and may take persons so arrested to the nearest police station or other place of lawful detention.
MA Gen L ch 147 § 8a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 147 - State and Other Police, and Certain Powers and Duties of the Office of Public Safety and Inspections of the Division of Professional Licensure|Section 8a - Carrying Police Weapons and Equipment

Section 8A. A sheriff, any of his deputies, and any officer of any institution under the supervision of a sheriff if so authorized by him, the commissioner of correction, and the deputy commissioners and any other officer of the department of correction or of any institution under its supervision if so authorized by said commissioner, the chairman of the parole board and any other officer of the parole board if so authorized by said chairman, and the penal institutions commissioner of the city of Boston, his deputy, and any officer of any institution under the supervision of said penal institutions commissioner if so authorized by him, may carry revolvers, clubs, handcuffs and twisters and such other weapons as are necessary in the performance of their duties.
MA Gen L ch 147 § 10f (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 147 - State and Other Police, and Certain Powers and Duties of the Office of Public Safety and Inspections of the Division of Professional Licensure|Section 10f - Parking Control Officers

Section 10F. Any board or officer authorized to appoint police officers in any city or town which accepts this section, and any college, university or other educational institution empowered by law to make or establish rules or regulations regulating the parking of motor vehicles, may appoint parking control officers who shall have only those powers and duties conferred or imposed on police officers by section twenty A or twenty A.5 of chapter ninety.
MA Gen L ch 147 § 11 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 147 - State and Other Police, and Certain Powers and Duties of the Office of Public Safety and Inspections of the Division of Professional Licensure|Section 11 - Cities Authorized to Establish Police Force; Appointments to Force

Section 11. Any city in which the city council, with the approval of the mayor, accepts this and the two following sections or has accepted corresponding provisions of earlier laws, may establish a reserve police force; and appointments thereto shall, subject to chapter thirty-one, be made in the same manner as appointments to the regular police force of said city.
MA Gen L ch 147 § 12 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 147 - State and Other Police, and Certain Powers and Duties of the Office of Public Safety and Inspections of the Division of Professional Licensure|Section 12 - Number of Members

Section 12. The number of members of such reserve force shall not exceed five in cities in which the number of members of the regular force does not exceed fifteen. If the number of members of the regular force exceeds fifteen, one member may be added to the reserve force for every three of the regular force above fifteen and not above thirty; one for every five of the regular force above thirty and not above eighty; and one for every ten of the regular force above eighty.
MA Gen L ch 147 § 13 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 147 - State and Other Police, and Certain Powers and Duties of the Office of Public Safety and Inspections of the Division of Professional Licensure|Section 13 - Assignment to Duty; Powers and Duties; Compensation

Section 13. The mayor, chief of police or city marshal of a city in which such reserve force is established may assign the members thereof to duty in said city whenever and for such length of time as said mayor, chief of police or marshal may deem necessary; and when on duty the members of said reserve force shall have all the powers and duties of members of the regular police force of said city. The compensation of the members of said reserve force shall be fixed by the city council.
MA Gen L ch 147 § 13a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 147 - State and Other Police, and Certain Powers and Duties of the Office of Public Safety and Inspections of the Division of Professional Licensure|Section 13a - Towns Authorized to Establish Reserve Police Force; Number; Appointments; Removal; Regulations; Powers and Duties; Compensation

Section 13A. A town having an organized police force or department, other than a town in which a reserve police force is established under special law, which accepts the provisions of this section, may establish a reserve police force consisting of such number of members as the town may determine. Appointments to such force shall be made in the same manner and subject to the same provisions of law as appointments to its regular police force. Members of said reserve force may be removed by the selectmen at any time for any reason satisfactory to them and shall be subject to such rules and regulations as the selectmen may prescribe. Said members shall, when on duty, have all the powers and duties of members of the regular police force of said town and shall be paid by the town such compensation as the selectmen may fix.
MA Gen L ch 147 § 13b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 147 - State and Other Police, and Certain Powers and Duties of the Office of Public Safety and Inspections of the Division of Professional Licensure|Section 13b - Reserve Police Forces in Cities; Appointments From Civil Service Eligible List

Section 13B. In any city which has accepted sections eleven to thirteen, inclusive, or the corresponding provisions of earlier laws, or has a reserve police force under authority of special law, and accepts this section, no person shall, after the date of acceptance of this section, be appointed to the reserve police force thereof unless the name of such person shall have been placed, on or before said date, on an eligible list established under chapter thirty-one and the rules made thereunder for such appointments.
MA Gen L ch 147 § 13c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 147 - State and Other Police, and Certain Powers and Duties of the Office of Public Safety and Inspections of the Division of Professional Licensure|Section 13c - Reserve Police Forces in Towns; Appointments From Civil Service Eligible List

Section 13C. In any town which has accepted section thirteen A, or has a reserve police force under authority of special law, and accepts this section, no person shall, after the date of acceptance of this section, be appointed to the reserve police force thereof unless appointments to such force are subject to chapter thirty-one and the name of such person shall have been placed, on or before said date, on an eligible list established under chapter thirty-one and the rules made thereunder for such appointments.
MA Gen L ch 147 § 14 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 147 - State and Other Police, and Certain Powers and Duties of the Office of Public Safety and Inspections of the Division of Professional Licensure|Section 14 - Days Off for Police; One Day Out of Thirty

Section 14. Members of the police department of every city, except Boston and such cities as have accepted chapter two hundred and ten of the acts of nineteen hundred and eleven or chapter one hundred and sixty-six of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty, and of every town which accepted chapter four hundred and seventy-six of the acts of nineteen hundred and eight and afterward did not accept chapter two hundred and ten of the acts of nineteen hundred and eleven or chapter one hundred and sixty-six of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty, shall be excused from duty for one day out of every thirty without loss of pay.
MA Gen L ch 147 § 15 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 147 - State and Other Police, and Certain Powers and Duties of the Office of Public Safety and Inspections of the Division of Professional Licensure|Section 15 - Days Off for Police; One Day Out of Fifteen

Section 15. Except in Boston, members of the police department of every town which accepted chapter two hundred and ten of the acts of nineteen hundred and eleven and did not accept chapter one hundred and sixty-six of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty shall be excused from duty for one day out of every fifteen without loss of pay.
MA Gen L ch 147 § 16 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 147 - State and Other Police, and Certain Powers and Duties of the Office of Public Safety and Inspections of the Division of Professional Licensure|Section 16 - Days Off for Police; One Day Out of Eight

Section 16. Except in Boston, members of the police department of every town which accepts or has accepted the provisions of this section by vote of its city council or selectmen, or has accepted the corresponding provisions of earlier laws in the manner therein provided, shall be excused from duty for one day out of every eight without loss of pay.