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MA Gen L ch 143 § 3y (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 143 - Inspection and Regulation Of, and Licenses For, Buildings, Elevators and Cinematographs|Section 3y - Inspector of Buildings, Building Commissioner or Local Inspector; Appointment

Section 3Y. In any city or town which accepts the provisions of this section, inspector of buildings, building commissioner or local inspector so employed and designated under this section shall be appointed for a minimum term of three years and such three year term or more shall not be diminished by an unexpired term of a predecessor, and he shall not be removed from office during his term except for just cause and after a hearing has been held on charges by and before the appointing authority.
MA Gen L ch 143 § 3z (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 143 - Inspection and Regulation Of, and Licenses For, Buildings, Elevators and Cinematographs|Section 3z - Part Time Inspector of Buildings, Building Commissioner, Local Inspector, or Alternate Inspector; Other Employment

Section 3Z. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, in any city, town or district which accepts the provisions of this section, any part time inspector of buildings, building commissioner, local inspector or alternate inspector may practice for hire or engage in the business for which he is certified, licensed or registered under the building code, while serving as such inspector; provided, however, that within the area over which he has jurisdiction as inspector or alternate inspector, he shall not exercise any of his powers and duties as such inspector, including those of enforcement officer of the state building code for the construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair, demolition or removal work done by himself, his employer, employee or one employed with him.  The inspection of such work shall be performed by the inspector of buildings or building commissioner of another city, town or district or by a special assistant inspector of buildings or assistant building commissioner who is appointed solely for the purpose of performing such inspections by the mayor of a city, the board of selectmen of a town or the governing board of a district.  This section shall take effect in a city, town or district upon its acceptance in a city, by the vote of the city council, subject to the provisions of the charter of such city; in a town, by a vote of town meeting; in a municipality having a town council form of government, by a vote of the town council, subject to the provisions of the charter of such municipality; and in a district, by the vote of the cities and towns of the district.
MA Gen L ch 143 § 6 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 143 - Inspection and Regulation Of, and Licenses For, Buildings, Elevators and Cinematographs|Section 6 - Local Inspector; Duties

Section 6. The local inspector, immediately upon being informed by report or otherwise that a building or other structure or anything attached thereto or connected therewith in that city or town is dangerous to life or limb or that any building in that city or town is unused, uninhabited or abandoned, and open to the weather, shall inspect the same; and he shall forthwith in writing notify the owner, lessee or mortgagee in possession to remove it or make it safe if it appears to him to be dangerous, or to make it secure if it is unused, uninhabited or abandoned and open to the weather. If it appears that such structure would be especially unsafe in case of fire, it shall be deemed dangerous within the meaning hereof, and the local inspector may affix in a conspicuous place upon its exterior walls a notice of its dangerous condition, which shall not be removed or defaced without authority from him. Upon such notice under either of the preceding sentences, the owner, lessee or mortgagee in possession shall furnish a floor plan of such building or other structure to the chiefs of the fire and police departments of the city or town.
MA Gen L ch 143 § 7 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 143 - Inspection and Regulation Of, and Licenses For, Buildings, Elevators and Cinematographs|Section 7 - Removal or Making Structure Safe; Putting Up Fence

Section 7. Any person so notified shall be allowed until twelve o'clock noon of the day following the service of the notice in which to begin to remove such structure or make it safe, or to make it secure, and he shall employ sufficient labor speedily to make it safe or remove it or to make it secure; but if the public safety so requires and if the aldermen or selectmen so order, the inspector of buildings may immediately enter upon the premises with the necessary workmen and assistants and cause such unsafe structure to be made safe or taken down without delay, and a proper fence put up for the protection of passers-by, or to be made secure. If such a building or structure is taken down or removed, the lot shall be levelled to uniform grade by a proper sanitary fill to cover any cellar or foundation hole and any rubble not removed.
MA Gen L ch 143 § 8 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 143 - Inspection and Regulation Of, and Licenses For, Buildings, Elevators and Cinematographs|Section 8 - Failure to Remove or Make Structure Safe; Survey Board; Survey; Report

Section 8. If an owner, lessee or mortgagee in possession of such unsafe structure refuses or neglects to comply with the requirements of such notice within the time limited, and such structure is not made safe or taken down as therein ordered, or made secure, a careful survey of the premises shall be made by a board consisting in a city of the city engineer, the head of the fire department, as such term is defined in section one of chapter one hundred and forty-eight, and one disinterested person to be appointed by the local inspector, and in a town of a surveyor, the head of the fire department and one disinterested person to be appointed by the local inspector. If there is no city engineer in such city or no head of the fire department in such city or town, the mayor or selectmen shall designate one or more officers or other suitable persons in place of the officers so named as members of said board. A written report of such survey shall be made, and a copy thereof served on such owner, lessee or mortgagee in possession.
MA Gen L ch 143 § 9 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 143 - Inspection and Regulation Of, and Licenses For, Buildings, Elevators and Cinematographs|Section 9 - Dangerous or Abandoned Structures Removed or Made Safe by Local Inspector; Costs; Penalty; Use of Structure

Section 9. If such report declares such structure to be dangerous or to be unused, uninhabited or abandoned, and open to the weather, and if the owner, lessee or mortgagee in possession continues such refusal or neglect, the local inspector shall cause it to be made safe or taken down or to be made secure, and, if the public safety so requires, said local inspector may at once enter the structure, the land on which it stands or the abutting land or buildings, with such assistance as he may require, and secure or remove the same, and may remove and evict, under the pertinent provisions of chapter two hundred thirty-nine or otherwise, any tenant or occupant thereof, and may erect such protection for the public by proper fence or otherwise as may be necessary, and for this purpose may close a public highway. In the case of such demolition, the local inspector shall cause such lot to be levelled to uniform grade by a proper sanitary fill. The costs and charges incurred shall constitute a debt due the city or town upon completion of the work and the rendering of an account therefor to the owner of such structure, and shall be enforced in an action of contract, and such owner, lessee or mortgagee in possession shall, for every day's continuance of such refusal or neglect after being so notified, be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars. The provisions of the second paragraph of section three A of chapter one hundred and thirty-nine, relative to liens for such debt and the collection of claims for such debt, shall apply to any debt referred to in this section, except that the local inspector shall act hereunder in place of the mayor or board of selectmen. During the time such order is in effect it shall be unlawful to use or occupy such structure or any portion thereof for any purpose.
MA Gen L ch 143 § 9a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 143 - Inspection and Regulation Of, and Licenses For, Buildings, Elevators and Cinematographs|Section 9a - Taking or Injuring Other Property in Removing Dangerous Structures or Making Them Safe

Section 9A. If, by any act done by an officer of a city or town for the purpose of making safe or taking down any dangerous structure, any real estate other than such structure or the parcel of land upon which it stands is taken, used or injured, any person owning an interest in such real estate and not having an interest in such dangerous structure may recover damages for such taking, use or injury from such city or town in a petition for the assessment thereof under chapter seventy-nine filed in the superior court for the county in which such real estate is situated within one year after such taking, use or injury; provided, that if such taking, use or injury occurred not more than three years prior to the effective date of this section, said petition may be filed not more than one year after said effective date.
MA Gen L ch 143 § 10 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 143 - Inspection and Regulation Of, and Licenses For, Buildings, Elevators and Cinematographs|Section 10 - Remedy of Person Ordered to Remove a Dangerous Structure or Make It Safe

Section 10. An owner, lessee or mortgagee in possession aggrieved by such order may have the remedy prescribed by section two of chapter one hundred and thirty-nine; provided, that no provision of said section two shall be construed so as to hinder, delay or prevent the local inspector acting and proceeding under section nine; and provided, further, that this section shall not prevent the city or town from recovering the forfeiture provided in said section nine from the date of the service of the original notice, unless the order is annulled by the jury.
MA Gen L ch 143 § 11 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 143 - Inspection and Regulation Of, and Licenses For, Buildings, Elevators and Cinematographs|Section 11 - Service of Notice on Non-Resident; Certificate

Section 11. If an owner, lessee or mortgagee in possession lives out of the commonwealth, the notice required by section six may be served upon him by a notary public, whose certificate of service under his notarial seal shall be sufficient evidence thereof.
MA Gen L ch 143 § 12 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 143 - Inspection and Regulation Of, and Licenses For, Buildings, Elevators and Cinematographs|Section 12 - Restraint of Construction, Repair, or Use of a Structure; Order for Removal

Section 12. The supreme judicial or superior court may restrain the construction, alteration, repair, maintenance or use of a building or structure in violation of any ordinance or by-law of a city or town or of the state building code and order its removal or abatement as a nuisance; and may restrain the further construction, alteration or repair, maintenance, use or occupancy of a building or structure reported to be dangerous, under a survey authorized by section eight, until the determination of the matter, as provided in section ten.
MA Gen L ch 143 § 13 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 143 - Inspection and Regulation Of, and Licenses For, Buildings, Elevators and Cinematographs|Section 13 - Inspection by Inspector of Office of Public Safety and Inspections

[ Text of section effective until July 18, 2021. For text effective July 18, 2021, see below.]  Section 13. Any inspector of the office of public safety and inspections of the division of professional licensure, if called upon by the aldermen of any city or by the selectmen of any town, shall inspect any building or other structure in such city or town, or anything attached to or connected therewith, which has been represented to be dangerous to life or limb. Chapter 143: Section 13. Inspection by inspector of office of public safety and inspections [ Text of section as amended by 2021, 39, Sec. 86 effective July 18, 2021. See 2021, 39, Sec. 128. For text effective until July 18, 2021, see above.]  Section 13. Any inspector of the office of public safety and inspections of the division of occupational licensure, if called upon by the aldermen of any city or by the selectmen of any town, shall inspect any building or other structure in such city or town, or anything attached to or connected therewith, which has been represented to be dangerous to life or limb.
MA Gen L ch 143 § 14 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 143 - Inspection and Regulation Of, and Licenses For, Buildings, Elevators and Cinematographs|Section 14 - Dangerous Structures Removed or Rendered Safe

Section 14. If it appears to such inspector that the building or other structure, or anything attached to or connected therewith, is dangerous to life or limb in case of fire or otherwise, he shall cause it to be removed or rendered safe in the manner provided by sections six to eleven, inclusive, and may cause proceedings to be instituted under section twelve.
MA Gen L ch 143 § 16a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 143 - Inspection and Regulation Of, and Licenses For, Buildings, Elevators and Cinematographs|Section 16a - Furnishing Safety Inspection or Advisory Services; Liability of Insurers

Section 16A. The furnishing of, or failure to furnish, safety inspection or advisory services intended to reduce the likelihood of injury, death or loss shall not subject an insurer, its agent or employee undertaking to perform such services as an incident to insurance, to liability for damages from injury, death or loss occurring as a result of any act or omission in the course of such services. This provision shall not apply in the event the active negligence of the insurer, its agent or employee created the condition which was the proximate cause of injury, death or loss.
MA Gen L ch 143 § 21d (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 143 - Inspection and Regulation Of, and Licenses For, Buildings, Elevators and Cinematographs|Section 21d - Auxiliary Emergency Lighting Systems; Exit Signs; Rules and Regulations

Section 21D. The owner, lessee or mortgagee in possession of any multiple dwelling of ten or more units shall equip such dwelling with an auxiliary emergency lighting system independent of the conventional lighting system, and lighted signs indicating both a primary and secondary means of egress by a diagram or symbol so as to assure recognition by all persons, regardless of their English-speaking ability.  The commissioner shall make and promulgate, and from time to time may alter, amend and repeal, rules and regulations relative to the standards, installation and maintenance of emergency lighting systems and exit signs required by this section. Such regulations shall include but not be limited to specifications with respect to the degree of illumination and the location of emergency lighting systems, and the degree of illumination and the location of, and the symbolism in, exit signs.
MA Gen L ch 143 § 22 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 143 - Inspection and Regulation Of, and Licenses For, Buildings, Elevators and Cinematographs|Section 22 - Articles Placed on Fire Escapes

Section 22. Any article placed upon a fire escape or an outside means of egress of any building is hereby declared a common nuisance. Any court authorized to issue warrants in criminal cases may, upon complaint under oath made by any police officer that any article is placed or maintained upon a fire escape or outside means of egress of any building, issue a warrant to bring such article when found before a court having jurisdiction of the same, and all articles seized under the authority of such a warrant shall be disposed of in like manner as gaming implements seized under chapter two hundred and seventy-six. Any owner, lessee, tenant or occupant of any building who maintains or permits to remain upon any fire escape or outside means of egress of any building any article for more than twenty minutes shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars. The existence of any article upon a fire escape or outside means of egress of any building shall be prima facie evidence that such article was so placed, maintained or permitted to remain by the occupant of the premises having access from said building to said fire escape or outside means of egress.
MA Gen L ch 143 § 23 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 143 - Inspection and Regulation Of, and Licenses For, Buildings, Elevators and Cinematographs|Section 23 - Articles Obstructing Stairways

Section 23. Every stairway of every building shall be kept free and unobstructed, and any person who permits any article to remain in any stairway of any building in such a manner as may impede the egress of any person lawfully in said building or the ingress of any person lawfully entitled to enter said building shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars. The existence of any article in any such stairway in any building shall be prima facie evidence that it was placed or permitted to remain therein by the owner, lessee, tenant or occupant of the building.
MA Gen L ch 143 § 32 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 143 - Inspection and Regulation Of, and Licenses For, Buildings, Elevators and Cinematographs|Section 32 - Fire Escapes for Schoolhouses

Section 32. If a schoolhouse in any city has not been provided with a safe and proper egress or other means of escape from fire, as required by this chapter or by pertinent sections of the state building code, within six months after written notice by the local inspector to the owner, lessee, occupant, or agent in charge thereof, the mayor, for the purpose of conforming to the provisions of this chapter or the state building code relative to egress or other means of escape from fire in schoolhouses, may, upon petition of one hundred citizens or taxpayers in such city, authorize the expenditure upon such schoolhouse of not more than fifteen per cent of the cost thereof, payable from any money in the treasury of that city which is not otherwise appropriated.
MA Gen L ch 143 § 35 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 143 - Inspection and Regulation Of, and Licenses For, Buildings, Elevators and Cinematographs|Section 35 - Responsibility of Licensee of Theatres and Halls

Section 35. The licensee shall be responsible, civilly and criminally, for noncompliance with the laws and the state building code applicable to the theatre, special hall or public hall, as defined by this chapter or by the state building code, covered by his license, and for non-compliance with the conditions thereof.
MA Gen L ch 143 § 43 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 143 - Inspection and Regulation Of, and Licenses For, Buildings, Elevators and Cinematographs|Section 43 - Fire Escape Affixed by Joint Owner, Lessee or Occupant; Projection Over Highway or Right of Way

Section 43. If a building is owned, leased or occupied, jointly or in severalty, any owner, lessee or occupant may affix to any part of the outside wall of such building any means of egress or of escape from fire specified and described by an inspector, notwithstanding the objection of any other such owner, lessee or occupant; and such means of egress or of escape may project over the highway, or over a right of way for a distance not exceeding one half the width of the right of way.
MA Gen L ch 143 § 50 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 143 - Inspection and Regulation Of, and Licenses For, Buildings, Elevators and Cinematographs|Section 50 - Hindering Commissioner, Chief of Inspection or Inspectors or Local Inspectors From Entering Building or Enclosure

Section 50. Any person who hinders or prevents or attempts to prevent the commissioner, the chief of inspections of the department or any inspector or local inspector from entering any building, structure or enclosure or part thereof in the performance of his duty in the enforcement of the laws of the commonwealth relating thereto shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars. The word ''inspector'' as used in this section, shall include an inspector of buildings of a city or town, or of a district referred to in section four A of chapter twenty-two.
MA Gen L ch 143 § 51 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 143 - Inspection and Regulation Of, and Licenses For, Buildings, Elevators and Cinematographs|Section 51 - Liability for Violation of Statutes; Criminal Prosecution; Notice to Firm or Corporation

Section 51. The owner, lessee, mortgagee in possession or occupant, being the party in control, of a place of assembly, theatre, special hall, public hall, factory, workshop, manufacturing establishment or building shall comply with the provisions of this chapter and the state building code relative thereto, and such person shall be liable to any person injured for all damages caused by a violation of any of said provisions. No criminal prosecution for such violation shall be begun until the lapse of thirty days after such party in control has been notified in writing by a local inspector as to what changes are necessary to meet the requirements of such provisions, or if such changes shall have been made in accordance with such notice. Notice to one member of a firm or to the clerk or treasurer of a corporation or to the person in charge of the building or part thereof shall be sufficient notice hereunder to all members of any firm or corporation owning, leasing or controlling the building or any part thereof. Such notice may be served personally or sent by mail.