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MA Gen L ch 141 § 1a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 141 - Supervision of Electricians|Section 1a - Electrician Licensure Requirement; Exceptions

[ First paragraph effective until July 18, 2021. For text effective July 18, 2021, see below.]  Section 1A. No person, firm or corporation shall enter into, engage in, or work at the business or occupation of installing wires, conduits, apparatus, devices, fixtures, or other appliances for carrying or using electricity for light, heat, power, fire warning or security system purposes, unless such person, firm or corporation shall be licensed by the state examiners of electricians in accordance with this chapter and, with respect to security systems, unless such person, firm or corporation shall also be licensed by the commissioner of the division of professional licensure in accordance with the provisions of sections fifty-seven to sixty-one, inclusive, of chapter one hundred and forty-seven.[ First paragraph as amended by 2021, 39, Sec. 83 effective July 18, 2021. See 2021, 39, Sec. 128. For text effective until July 18, 2021, see above.]  No person, firm or corporation shall enter into, engage in, or work at the business or occupation of installing wires, conduits, apparatus, devices, fixtures, or other appliances for carrying or using electricity for light, heat, power, fire warning or security system purposes, unless such person, firm or corporation shall be licensed by the state examiners of electricians in accordance with this chapter and, with respect to security systems, unless such person, firm or corporation shall also be licensed by the commissioner of the division of occupational licensure in accordance with the provisions of sections fifty-seven to sixty-one, inclusive, of chapter one hundred and forty-seven.  This chapter shall not apply to: a person not engaged in the business described in this section who employs or contracts for the services of a person, firm or corporation engaged in such business; or to an apprentice employed by a person, firm or corporation licensed in accordance with this chapter; or to an agent, employee or assistant of a person, firm or corporation licensed in accordance with this chapter who does not engage in or perform the actual work described in this section.
MA Gen L ch 141 § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 141 - Supervision of Electricians|Section 2 - State Examiners; Rules; Examinations; Reports

Section 2. The state examiners of electricians, in this chapter called the examiners, may make necessary rules for the proper performance of their duties.  They shall hold frequent examinations in Boston, and, twice in each year, shall hold examinations in at least five other convenient places within the commonwealth, and they may hold annual or occasional examinations in other places. Public notice shall be given of all examinations.  They shall make a biennial report of their doings in each odd-numbered year.
MA Gen L ch 141 § 2a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 141 - Supervision of Electricians|Section 2a - Examinations; Uniform Requirements for Towns; Credit to Veterans; Frequency; Types; Supervision; Sanction of Examiners

Section 2A. In the conduct of examinations they shall make uniform requirements for all towns, which may be revised from time to time, as circumstances require. They shall grant a credit of five per cent to the examination standing of each applicant who is a veteran, as defined in clause Forty-third of section seven of chapter four. Said examinations shall be sufficiently frequent to give ample opportunity for all applicants to be thoroughly and carefully examined, may be written or in practical work, and may be supervised by one or more of the examiners, but no license shall be granted without the sanction of the examiners. The examiners shall promulgate regulations to determine the allowable education and work hour credits for veterans and military personnel.
MA Gen L ch 141 § 2b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 141 - Supervision of Electricians|Section 2b - Electricians Licensed in Other States; Reciprocal Licensure Without Examination; Fees

Section 2B. The examiners may license without examination any person who has been licensed as an electrician in another state under laws which, in the opinion of the examiners, maintain standards substantially the same as those of the commonwealth for electricians. The amount of the fee for licensing without examination under this section for a master and journeyman electrician's license shall be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven for the filing thereof.
MA Gen L ch 141 § 4 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 141 - Supervision of Electricians|Section 4 - Transferability, Suspension and Revocation of Certificates

Section 4. No certificates issued under this chapter shall be assignable or transferable. They may, after hearing, be suspended or revoked by the examiners upon failure or refusal of the licensee to comply with the rules and requirements of the examiners, or for other sufficient cause.
MA Gen L ch 141 § 5 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 141 - Supervision of Electricians|Section 5 - Engagement in Business or Work Without Compliance With Statutes; Enforcement

Section 5. 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 hereinbefore defined, without having complied with this chapter, shall for the first offence be punished by a fine of not less than $1,000 and not more than $1,500, for a second offence by a fine of not less than $1,500 and not more than $2,000 and for each subsequent offence by a fine of not less than $2,000 and not more than $2,500 or by imprisonment in the house of correction for six months, or both.  The examiners and the inspectors of wires in each city and town, as defined in section thirty-two of chapter one hundred and sixty-six, shall be charged with the enforcement of this chapter. They shall have all necessary powers to require compliance therewith, including the power to institute and prosecute proceedings in the superior court department of the trial court.
MA Gen L ch 141 § 6 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 141 - Supervision of Electricians|Section 6 - Liability for Work of Employee

Section 6. No person, firm or corporation holding a ''certificate A or certificate C'' shall be liable for work done by his or its employees, unless it appears that such work was done with his or its knowledge or consent or by his or its authorization.
MA Gen L ch 141 § 7 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 141 - Supervision of Electricians|Section 7 - Nonapplicability of Statutes

Section 7. This chapter shall not apply to: the installation, repairing, and wiring of elevators; the work in connection with the erection, construction, maintenance or repair of lines for transmission of electricity from the source of supply to the service switch on the premises where used by municipal electric plants, by electric companies as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and sixty-four, by gas companies authorized to make or sell electricity, by electric street railway companies, by electric railroad companies or by railroad companies; the work of such plants or companies on premises owned or controlled by them; the work of said municipal electric plants or of said electric or gas companies in installing, maintaining and repairing on the premises of customers, service connections and meters and other apparatus and appliances remaining the property of such plants or companies after installation; public employees engaged in the work of installing, maintaining or repairing public signalling systems; the work in connection with the lighting of public ways, alleys, private ways, or public parks, areas or squares; the work of companies subject to regulation by the department of public utilities or the department of telecommunications and cable, and incorporated for the transmission of intelligence by electricity in installing, maintaining or repairing wires, apparatus, fixtures, or other appliances used by such companies and necessary for, or incident to, their business, whether or not such wires, conduits, apparatus, fixtures or other appliances are on its own premises; or the work in connection with the installation, construction, maintenance, repair and renovation of telephone equipment, cable television service or computer systems by a person, firm or corporation primarily engaged in the telecommunications or the information systems industry.
MA Gen L ch 141 § 8 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 141 - Supervision of Electricians|Section 8 - Learners or Apprentices; Theatrical Companies; Employers Without a Certificate; Liability Insurance

Section 8. Electricians regularly employed by persons, firms or corporations other than holders of certificate A, may install such electrical wiring, conduits and appliances or make such repairs as may be required only on the premises and property of such persons, firms or corporations; provided that such electricians hold journeymen's licenses, and have otherwise complied with this chapter. Any such person, firm or corporation may employ learners or apprentices to work with and under the direct personal supervision of electricians referred to in this paragraph in said installation and repair work, provided that no such journeyman electrician shall have more than one learner or apprentice working with him and under his supervision as aforesaid; but not more than one such learner or apprentice shall be so employed for each journeyman electrician.  Electricians employed by theatrical companies may install temporary wiring and appliances required for the purpose of the engagement of any such company, subject to the supervision of a person licensed under this chapter.  Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, no permit for the performance of electrical work pursuant to chapters one hundred and forty-one and one hundred and forty-three shall be issued by any city or town unless the licensee provides proof of liability insurance, including ''completed operation'' coverage, which has been issued by an insurance company licensed to do business in the commonwealth, or a bond or other type of indemnity against liability providing substantially equivalent coverage. In lieu of said insurance requirement the permit issuing authority shall accept the signature of the owner or his agent on the uniform application for a permit for work to be performed by electricians.
MA Gen L ch 141 § 9 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 141 - Supervision of Electricians|Section 9 - Misstatements

Section 9. Any person applying for a journeyman electrician's license or a systems technician's license and making any misstatement as to his experience or other qualifications, or any person, firm or corporation subscribing to, or vouching for, any such misstatement shall be subject to the penalties set forth in section five.
MA Gen L ch 141 § 10 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 141 - Supervision of Electricians|Section 10 - Disposition of Fees and Fines

Section 10. Fees and fines collected under this chapter shall be paid to the commonwealth.
MA Gen L ch 142 § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 142 - Supervision of Plumbing|Section 2 - Application of Supervision of Plumbing Statutes

Section 2. Sections one through twenty-two, except section twenty-one, shall apply to all cities and towns.
MA Gen L ch 142 § 3 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 142 - Supervision of Plumbing|Section 3 - Master Plumbers or Gas Fitters, Journeymen and Apprentices; Licensing; Advertising; Display of License or Certificate

Section 3. No person shall engage in the business as a master plumber or a master gas fitter or work as a journeyman plumber or as a journeyman gas fitter or as an apprentice plumber or as an apprentice gas fitter or as an undiluted liquefied petroleum gas installer or as a limited undiluted liquefied petroleum gas installer, nor solicit, by sign, listing or any other form of advertisement, work regulated or controlled by this chapter or by any ordinance, by-law, rule or regulation made hereunder, unless he is lawfully registered, or has been licensed by the examiners as provided in this chapter. Any person so licensed as a master plumber or a journeyman plumber may carry on the work of a gas fitter throughout the commonwealth, notwithstanding any local ordinance, by-law, rule or regulation to the contrary, and may engage in the work of installing house drainage and connecting with common sewers without being required to have any local license therefor, but shall be subject to local regulations relative to permits and bonding requirements. This section shall not apply to authorized employees of any gas company organized under chapter one hundred and sixty-four; said employees shall not require a gas fitter's license while performing work for said gas company.  The license or certificate of a journeyman plumber or a gas fitter or an apprentice plumber or a gas fitter shall be exhibited whenever required by an inspector of plumbing or gas fitting.  The license or certificate of a master plumber or a master gas fitter shall at all times be displayed conspicuously within his place of business. Any sign, listing or advertisement of a master plumber, a master gas fitter, a journeyman plumber or a journeyman gas fitter shall contain his designation and license number.
MA Gen L ch 142 § 3a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 142 - Supervision of Plumbing|Section 3a - Apprentices; Licensing; Application; Employment; On-the-Job Training, Rules and Regulations

Section 3A. Every apprentice shall before starting his apprenticeship file an application, accompanied by the appropriate fee, with the examiners, requesting that he be issued an apprentice license. Said application shall be made on a form to be furnished by the examiners, 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 the examiners may require. Upon receipt thereof the examiners shall license said applicant as an apprentice and shall forthwith mail to him a certificate to that effect.  A person may be employed as an apprentice plumber by a master plumber only. A person may be employed as an apprentice gas fitter by a master gas fitter only. Such apprentices shall work under the direct supervision of a master plumber or a journeyman plumber or a master or a journeyman gas fitter. A master plumber or a master gas fitter may employ one or more apprentices but not more than one apprentice may work under the direct supervision of a master plumber, a master gas fitter or a journeyman plumber or a journeyman gas fitter.  Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, students in a vocational school accredited by the department of education, under the direct personal supervision of a master plumber or a journeyman who is certified as an instructor by the division of occupational education in said department shall be permitted to engage in an on-the-job training program, so-called, on installations approved by the examiners and conducted in cooperation with such a vocational school.  The examiners may formulate rules and regulations relative to said on-the-job training program.
MA Gen L ch 142 § 3b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 142 - Supervision of Plumbing|Section 3b - Certificates of Plumbing or Gas Fitting Corporations or Partnerships

Section 3B. A person duly licensed in the commonwealth as a master plumber or as a master gas fitter may apply to the examiners for a certificate of a plumbing corporation or for a certificate of a gas fitting corporation or a certificate of a plumbing partnership or a certificate of a gas fitting partnership upon payment of a fee and a biennial renewal fee, the amounts 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. A certificate of a plumbing corporation shall authorize a master plumber to conduct the plumbing and gas fitting business as a corporation, a certificate of a gas fitting corporation shall allow a master gas fitter to conduct the gas fitting business as a corporation, provided, that in a plumbing corporation the master plumber and in a gas fitting corporation the master gas fitter is an officer of the corporation organized under the laws of the commonwealth to engage in the business of plumbing or in the business of gas fitting. A certificate of plumbing partnership shall authorize a master plumber to conduct the plumbing and gas fitting business as a partnership, a certificate of a gas fitting partnership shall authorize a master gas fitter to conduct the gas fitting business as a partnership; provided, that all partners in a plumbing partnership are master plumbers and in a gas fitting partnership all partners are master gas fitters. For the purpose of this section, a gas company, as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and sixty-four, shall be deemed a gas fitting corporation.
MA Gen L ch 142 § 4 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 142 - Supervision of Plumbing|Section 4 - Rules of Examiners; Qualifications of Applicants; Applications; Examinations; Issuance of License; Probationary License; Credit for Veterans

Section 4. The examiners may make rules as they consider proper for the performance of their duties and shall promulgate rules and regulations governing the qualifications of applicants for examination. They shall examine each applicant desiring to engage in the business of a master plumber or a journeyman plumber, as to his practical knowledge of plumbing, house drainage, plumbing ventilation, and gas fitting. They shall examine each applicant desiring to engage in the business of a master gas fitter or a journeyman gas fitter as to his practical knowledge pertaining to gas fitting, natural and manufactured gas and the installation of undiluted liquefied petroleum. They shall examine each person who applies to be licensed as an undiluted liquefied petroleum gas installer, and each person who applies to be licensed as a limited undiluted liquefied petroleum gas installer. They shall subject each applicant to a practical test satisfactory to the examiner, who, if satisfied of his competence, shall issue to him a license as applied for. They shall hold frequent examinations in the city of Boston, and also at such other convenient places within the commonwealth as they deem necessary. Public notice shall be given of all examinations. Every application for examination shall be in the handwriting of the applicant who shall be notified by the examiners of the time and place of examination. The examiners may, without payment of any fee, issue a probationary license in force for six months to a person who, having worked as an apprentice, or under a verbal agreement for instruction, for not less than three years, presents an application therefor with the signed endorsement of his employer agreeing to be responsible for all work done under the license and to have the licensee, at the expiration of the license, present himself for examination as a journeyman.  They shall grant a credit of five per cent to the examination standing of each applicant who is a veteran, as defined in clause Forty-third of section seven of chapter four. The examiners shall promulgate regulations to determine the allowable education and work hour credits for veterans and military personnel.
MA Gen L ch 142 § 4a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 142 - Supervision of Plumbing|Section 4a - Plumbers Employed by Cities, Institutions or Corporations; Installations and Repairs

Section 4A. Master plumbers, journeymen, or apprentice plumbers, regularly employed by cities and towns or by institutions or corporations that are not engaged in the business of plumbing, may install such plumbing or make such repairs as may be required on the premises and property owned or leased and occupied by such cities, towns, institutions or corporations, provided that all such work performed by said plumbers shall be in compliance with the pertinent sections and provisions of this chapter.
MA Gen L ch 142 § 5 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 142 - Supervision of Plumbing|Section 5 - Fees for Licenses and Examinations

Section 5. The fee for the first license of a master plumber or master gas fitter, journeyman plumber or journeyman gas fitter, apprentice, undiluted liquefied petroleum gas installer, or limited undiluted petroleum gas installer or for any biennial renewal thereof, and for any examination therefor shall be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven for the filing thereof.