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MA Gen L ch 149 § 135 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 135 - Prosecutions; Necessity of Neglect to Make Changes; Notice; Liability of Corporate Officer

Section 135. A criminal prosecution shall not be begun against a person for a violation of any provision of sections one hundred and thirty-three or one hundred and thirty-four unless he has, after receiving notice from the attorney general of the changes necessary to comply with said sections, neglected to make such changes. A notice shall be sufficient under this section if given to one member of a firm, or to the clerk, cashier, secretary, agent or any other officer having charge of the business of a corporation, or to its attorney, or, in the case of a foreign corporation, to the officer or person having charge of any such industrial establishment or railroad establishment; and such officer or person shall be personally liable for the amount of any fine if a judgment against the corporation is unsatisfied.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 136 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 136 - Violation of Public Health Laws; Notice to Town Board of Health; Enforcement

Section 136. If it appears to an inspector that any act, neglect or fault in relation to any drain, water closet, earth closet, privy, ash pit, water supply, nuisance or other matter in any industrial establishment is punishable or remediable under any law relative to the preservation of the public health, but not under this chapter, he shall give written notice thereof to the board of health of the town where such establishment is situated, and such board of health shall thereupon inquire into the subject of the notice and enforce the laws relative thereto.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 137 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 137 - Foundry Toilet Rooms and Water Closets; Failure to Comply With Statute

Section 137. The proprietor of every foundry engaged in the casting of iron, brass, steel or other metal, and employing ten or more persons, shall establish and maintain, except in towns where it would be impracticable by reason of the absence of public or private sewerage or of any running water system, a toilet room of suitable size and condition for such persons to change their clothes therein, and provided with wash bowls, sinks or other suitable set appliances connected with running hot and cold water, and also a water closet connected with running water and separated from the said toilet room. The said water closet and toilet room shall be connected directly with the foundry building, properly heated, ventilated and protected, so far as may be reasonably practicable, from the dust of the foundry. Whoever fails to comply with this section after being requested so to do by an inspector shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 138 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 138 - Injuring Toilet Appliances

Section 138. Whoever wilfully destroys, defaces, injures or defiles any toilet appliances provided in any place of employment shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 139 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 139 - Lockers and Clothes Receptacles of Employees; Violation of Statute

Section 139. In any mercantile or manufacturing establishment or hotel or railroad where the nature of the work renders it necessary for any or all employees, before beginning work, to make a substantially complete change of clothing, exclusive of underclothing, separate lockers, closets or other receptacles, each with a lock and key, shall be provided for the use of such employees. Whoever violates this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than five nor more than twenty dollars.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 141 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 141 - Medical and Surgical Chests; Accommodations for Treatment of Injured or Ill Persons; Facilities for Heating Food; Violation of Statute

Section 141. Every person operating a factory, shop or mechanical establishment where machinery is used for any manufacturing or other purpose except for elevators, or for heating or hoisting apparatus, shall keep and maintain, free of expense to the employees, such medical or surgical chest, or both, as shall be required by the department, containing plasters, bandages, absorbent cotton, gauze, and all other necessary medicines, instruments and appliances for the treatment of persons injured or taken ill upon the premises. Every such person employing one hundred or more persons shall, if so required by the department, provide accommodations satisfactory to it for the treatment of persons injured or taken ill upon the premises, and also suitable and sanitary facilities for heating or warming food to be consumed by those employees of the factory, shop or mechanical establishment who so desire. Every person carrying on a mercantile establishment where twenty or more persons are employed shall in the manner aforesaid provide such medical and surgical chest as the department may require. Whoever violates any provision hereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than five nor more than five hundred dollars for every week during which such violation continues.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 141a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 141a - Lifting Heavy Objects in Textile Factories

Section 141A. No person or persons employed in a textile factory, whose principal employment is the tending or repairing of machinery, shall be required to lift by hand, as a regular part of his or their duties, any object or objects the combined weight of which totals more than three hundred and twenty-five pounds.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 142 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 142 - Sanitary Material for Cleaning Printing Presses

Section 142. All publishers and printers shall use a sanitary cloth or other sanitary material in cleaning their presses.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 142a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 142a - Marked Receptacles for Benzol, Carbon Tetrachloride or Other Substances Hazardous to Health

Section 142A. No person shall keep for sale, sell, transport or store, and no person shall have for use in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment, or in any other place of employment, benzene represented by the chemical formula C/6H/6, in sections one hundred and forty-two B to one hundred and forty-two F, inclusive, called benzol, carbon tetrachloride or other substance which, in the opinion of the departments of labor and workforce development and of public health, acting jointly, is so hazardous to health as to warrant regulation, in any receptacle other than part of a vehicle used exclusively for outdoor transportation, unless such receptacle is marked with the words ''Benzol'', ''Carbon Tetrachloride'' or ''Name of Substance'', together with such warning as the director of labor and workforce development and the commissioner of public health jointly by reasonable rules and regulations may require.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 142b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 142b - Marked Receptacles for Materials Containing Benzol, Carbon Tetrachloride or Other Substances Hazardous to Health

Section 142B. No person shall keep for sale, sell, transport or store, and no person shall have for use in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment, or any other place of employment, any material containing benzol, carbon tetrachloride or other substance which, in the opinion of the department of labor and workforce development and the department of public health, acting jointly, is so hazardous to health as to warrant regulation, in any receptacle other than part of a vehicle used exclusively for outdoor transportation, unless such receptacle is marked with one of the following combinations of words:— ''Contains benzol'', ''Contains carbon tetrachloride'' or ''Contains (name of substance)'', together with such warning as the director of labor and workforce development and the commissioner of public health jointly by reasonable rules and regulations may require.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 142c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 142c - Markings; Clear and Conspicuous; Size; Place

Section 142C. The words and any warning required by sections one hundred and forty-two A and one hundred and forty-two B shall be clear and conspicuous, and shall be of such size and so placed as the director of labor and workforce development and the commissioner of public health jointly by reasonable rules and regulations may require.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 142d (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 142d - Receptacles Exempt From Marking Requirements

Section 142D. The director of labor and workforce development and the commissioner of public health acting jointly may, by reasonable rules and regulations, exempt from the provisions of sections one hundred and forty-two A and one hundred and forty-two B, under such restrictions as they may deem advisable, (a) closed receptacles which are in the possession of the manufacturer by whom the contents of such receptacles were made or compounded or of a common carrier, provided in each case said director and commissioner are satisfied that such contents are to be used only outside the commonwealth; (b) receptacles containing material used exclusively as motor fuel; (c) receptacles containing material which, as last compounded, contained a per cent by weight of benzol, carbon tetrachloride or other substance which said director and commissioner determine to be not so hazardous to health as to warrant regulation.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 142e (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 142e - Reports Concerning Material Hazardous to Health

Section 142E. For the protection of persons exposed to possible injury by any material or substance which in the joint opinion of the departments of labor and workforce development and of public health, acting pursuant to sections one hundred and forty-two A and one hundred and forty-two B, is so hazardous to health as to warrant regulation, the director of labor and workforce development and the commissioner of public health, acting jointly, may by reasonable rules and regulations require such reports as they may deem advisable covering the manufacture, sale, receipt, possession or use of any such material or substance.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 142f (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 142f - Violation of Secs. 142a to 142c; Failure to Mark Receptacles; Removal or Defacement of Marks; Penalty

Section 142F. Whoever violates any provision of section one hundred and forty-two A, one hundred and forty-two B or one hundred and forty-two C, or any rule or regulation made under section one hundred and forty-two A, one hundred and forty-two B, one hundred and forty-two C, one hundred and forty-two D and one hundred and forty-two E, and whoever, being charged with the duty of marking any receptacle containing benzol, carbon tetrachloride or other substance which, in the joint opinion of the departments of labor and workforce development and of public health, is so hazardous to health as to warrant regulation, or any material in which benzol, carbon tetrachloride or other substance which, in the opinion of said departments, acting jointly, is so hazardous to health as to warrant regulation, is contained, fails so to mark the same, and whoever wilfully removes or defaces any marking made in accordance with any of said provisions or rules and regulations shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 142g (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 142g - Enforcement of Statutes and Regulations

Section 142G. The attorney general shall enforce the provisions of sections one hundred and forty-two A to one hundred and forty-two F, inclusive, and the rules and regulations made hereunder in any manufacturing or mechanical establishment or in any other place of employment in so far as the same relate to the health of employees, and the department of public health shall enforce the provisions of said sections and the rules and regulations made hereunder in so far as they apply to the keeping and storage for sale to the public in any mercantile establishment of any of the substances or materials referred to in said sections.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 143 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 143 - Definitions Applicable to Secs. 143 to 144h

Section 143. The following words, as used in this section and in sections one hundred and forty-three A and one hundred and forty-four to one hundred and forty-seven H, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, shall have the following meanings:—  ''Employer'', any person who, directly or indirectly, or through an employee or agent, furnishes to another person any materials or articles to be manufactured or worked upon in a home, and thereafter to be returned to himself or on his order, for use other than the personal use of himself or of a member of his family.  ''Home'', any room, house, apartment or other premises, whichever is most extensive, used in whole or in part as a place of dwelling.  ''Industrial homework'', any manufacture of or work upon materials or articles in a home for an employer, exclusive of domestic service.  The verb ''to manufacture'', as used in its different moods and tenses, includes to prepare, alter, repair or finish in whole or in part.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 143a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 143a - Protection From Undue Competition and of Health and Well-Being of Workers

Section 143A. Protection of factory industries from undue competition and protection of the health and well-being of the workers is a matter which concerns the general welfare of the public. Remedy for this evil has been sought through the enactment of laws to protect health and to raise living standards for workers engaged in industrial homework.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 144 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 144 - Unlawful Industrial Homework

Section 144. The manufacture of or work upon any of the following by industrial homework shall be unlawful, and no permit issued under section one hundred and forty-seven or certificate issued under section one hundred and forty-seven A shall be deemed to authorize such manufacture or work upon or the delivery of materials for such manufacture: tobacco; drugs and poisons; bandages and other sanitary goods; explosives, fireworks and articles of like character; outergarments and undergarments of men, women, boys, girls, children and infants, except hosiery and women's millinery; articles, the manufacture of or work upon which by industrial homework is determined by the commissioner, after investigation and hearing in the manner provided by sections one hundred and forty-five and one hundred and forty-six to be injurious to the health or welfare of the industrial homeworkers within the industry or to render unduly difficult the maintenance of existing labor standards or the enforcement of labor standards established by law or regulation for workers in the industry.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 145 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 145 - Investigation of Industries; Order Declaring Industrial Homework Unlawful

Section 145. The attorney general may make or cause to be made an investigation of any industry which employs industrial homeworkers, in order to determine whether the wages and conditions of employment of industrial homeworkers in such industry are injurious to their health and welfare, or whether the wages and conditions of employment of such industrial homeworkers have the effect of rendering unduly difficult the maintenance of existing labor standards or the enforcement of labor standards established by law or regulation for workers in the industry. If, on the basis of information in his possession, with or without an investigation as provided in this section, the attorney general shall find that industrial homework cannot be continued within a certain industry without injuring the health and welfare of the industrial homeworkers within such industry, or without rendering unduly difficult the maintenance of existing labor standards or the enforcement of labor standards established by law or regulation for workers in such industry, the attorney general shall by order declare such industrial homework unlawful and require all employers in such industry to discontinue the furnishing within the commonwealth of material for industrial homework, and no permit issued under section one hundred and forty-seven shall be deemed thereafter to authorize the furnishing of materials for industrial homework prohibited by such order.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 146 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 146 - Hearing Preceding Order; Notice; Place; Effective Date of Order

Section 146. Before making such order the attorney general shall hold a public hearing or hearings at which an opportunity to be heard shall be afforded to any employer, or representative of employers, and any industrial homeworker, or representative of industrial homeworkers, and any other person or persons, having an interest in the subject matter of the hearing. At least thirty days before any such hearing is held public notice thereof shall be given in such manner as may be determined by the attorney general. Such hearing or hearings shall be held in such place or places as the attorney general shall deem most convenient to the employers and industrial homeworkers to be affected by such order. The attorney general shall determine the effective date of such order, which date shall be not less than ninety days after the date of its promulgation.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 146a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 146a - Distribution of Materials and Articles; Necessity of Place of Employment in Commonwealth

Section 146A. The employer shall, wherever industrial homework is permitted, distribute directly to his homeworkers all material and articles of homework. No employer shall give out any material or articles for homework through any homework contractors or distributors. No person other than an employer shall distribute to anyone any materials or articles for industrial homework.  Industrial homework shall be performed only if the employer maintains a plant or factory in this commonwealth or maintains a place of employment in this commonwealth other than a home.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 147 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 147 - Employer's Permit; Person to Whom Materials or Articles May Be Delivered; Effect of Strike; Payment of Fees Into Treasury

Section 147. No materials for manufacture or to be worked upon by industrial homework shall be delivered to any person in the commonwealth unless the employer so delivering them, or his agent if the employer is not a resident of or located within this commonwealth, has in his possession a valid permit issued by the attorney general under authority of this section, hereinafter and in sections one hundred and forty-seven A to one hundred and forty-seven H, inclusive, called an employer's permit. Such permit shall be issued by the attorney general, may be renewed annually by him, and, subject to the last sentence of section one hundred and forty-five, shall be valid for a period of one year from the date of its issuance, unless sooner revoked or suspended. Application for such permit shall be made in such form as the attorney general may from time to time by rule or regulation prescribe. No employer shall deliver or cause to be delivered any materials or articles for manufacture or to be worked upon by industrial homework to a person who is not in possession of a valid employer's permit, or a homeworker's certificate issued in accordance with this or the following section. The attorney general may revoke or suspend an employer's permit if he finds that the employer has violated any provision of sections one hundred and forty-four to one hundred and forty-seven H, inclusive, or has failed to observe or comply with any provision of his permit or has violated any rule or regulation adopted for control of industrial homework. No original permit shall be granted by the attorney general to any employer at whose plant there is a strike, and any permit so issued shall be revoked or suspended, unless the attorney general finds such strike to be unlawful under the provisions of paragraph (e) of section twenty C.  The attorney general shall collect a fee, as determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven, for the original issuance of an employer's permit, and for each renewal of such permit plus an amount for each homeworker with whom the employer directly or indirectly had business relations during the preceding calendar year. Any such fees received by the attorney general shall be paid into the treasury to the credit of the General Fund.