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MA Gen L ch 148 § 9 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 9 - Regulations Relating to Explosives and Inflammable Materials; Reports of Quantities and Locations; Ordinances and By-Laws

Section 9. The board shall make rules and regulations for the keeping, storage, use, manufacture, sale, handling, transportation or other disposition of gunpowder, dynamite, crude petroleum or any of its products, or explosive or inflammable fluids or compounds, tablets, torpedoes or any explosives of a like nature, or any other explosives, fireworks, firecrackers, or any substance having such properties that it may spontaneously, or acting under the influence of any contiguous substance, or of any chemical or physical agency, ignite, or inflame or generate inflammable or explosive vapors or gases to a dangerous extent, and may prescribe the location, materials and construction of buildings to be used for any of the said purposes. Such rules and regulations shall require persons keeping, storing, using, selling, manufacturing, handling or transporting dynamite or other high explosives to make reports to the department in such particulars and in such detail that the quantity and location thereof will always be a matter of authentic record in the department. Cities and towns may also make and enforce ordinances and by-laws, not inconsistent with said rules and regulations, relative to the subject matter of this section. Each city or town shall submit a copy of each such ordinance or by-law to the board within ten days after the passage thereof. Any ordinance or by-law regulating blasting operations, or the use, handling, transportation or storage of dynamite or gunpowder, shall not take effect until such ordinance or by-law is approved by the board, except that any such ordinance or by-law that has not been approved or disapproved by the board within ninety days after the receipt thereof shall be deemed to have been approved.
MA Gen L ch 148 § 9a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 9a - Model Rocket Engines; Storage; Manufacture; Use; Sale

Section 9A. The board shall make rules and regulations for the keeping, storage, manufacture, sale and use of model rocket engines and for the launching, operation and flying of model rockets in accordance with nationally recognized standards for model rocketry as promulgated by the National Fire Protection Association. As used in this section, ''model rocket engine'' shall mean a solid propellant rocket engine produced by a commercial manufacturer in which all chemical ingredients of a combustible nature are preloaded and ready for use, and ''model rocket'' shall mean an aero model that ascends into the air without use of aerodynamic lifting forces against gravity that is propelled by means of a model rocket engine that includes a device for returning it to the ground in a condition to fly again and whose structural parts are made of nonmetallic material.
MA Gen L ch 148 § 10 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 10 - Regulations Relative to Fire Prevention

Section 10. The board of fire prevention regulations shall make, and from time to time may alter, amend and repeal, rules and regulations relative to fire prevention which said board is authorized or required under any provision of this chapter or of section four of chapter twenty-two D to adopt or make. Such rules and regulations, and any alterations, amendments, or repeals thereof, shall be filed with the state secretary in accordance with the provisions of chapter thirty A. Subsequent to filing and publication by the state secretary, the marshal shall cause one copy to be forwarded to each officer or board in each city or town in the commonwealth whose duties under any provisions of this chapter are affected thereby.  The board shall hold public hearings on the first Thursday in May and October in each year, and at such other times as it may determine, on petitions for changes in the rules and regulations formulated by it. If, after any such hearing, it shall deem it advisable to make changes in said rules and regulations, it shall appoint a day for a further hearing, and shall give notice thereof and of the changes proposed by advertising in such newspapers, and, where appropriate, in such trade, industry or professional publications as the agency may select at least ten days before said hearing. If the board on its own initiative contemplates changes in said rules and regulations, like notice and a hearing shall be given and held before the adoption thereof.
MA Gen L ch 148 § 10a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 10a - Heads of Fire Departments; Permits; Inspections; Records; Fees; List of Fire Department Heads

Section 10A. The head of the fire department in each city, town or fire district shall grant, in accordance with the rules and regulations of the board, such permits for use in such city, town or fire district as may be required by such rules and regulations, and make such inspections therein, and have and exercise such powers and duties in connection therewith, as the marshal may direct. The head of the fire department shall keep a record of every permit so issued, and shall furnish the marshal with such information in respect to such permits as he may require. The head of the fire department or the marshal may revoke any such permit for cause. A fee of $25 may be charged by the head of the fire department for any permit granted under this section, unless otherwise set in a town by the board of selectmen or town council, or in a city by the mayor, but such fee shall not exceed $50 except as provided in this paragraph. If a smoke detector inspection, conducted pursuant to section 26F, and a carbon monoxide alarm inspection, conducted pursuant to section 26F.5, are conducted simultaneously, the owner shall not be subject to an additional fee for the carbon monoxide alarm inspection. The fee for either a carbon monoxide alarm inspection or a smoke detector inspection, conducted separately, shall not exceed: $50 for a single-family dwelling or a single dwelling unit; $100 for a 2–family dwelling; $150 for any building or structure with 6 or fewer residential units; and $500 for any building or structure with more than 6 units.  The clerk of each city and town shall annually, not later than April first, transmit to the marshal in writing the name and official address of the head of the fire department in his city or town, or in the fire district or districts in which his town is located or which is or are established within his town.
MA Gen L ch 148 § 10b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 10b - Violation of Regulations of Board

Section 10B. Any person who knowingly violates any rule or regulation made by the board of fire prevention regulations shall, except as otherwise provided, be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars.
MA Gen L ch 148 § 10c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 10c - Alteration, Repair or Installation of Oil Burners; Necessity of Certificate; Exceptions

Section 10C. No person shall alter, repair or install any oil burning equipment or any of the appurtenances thereto, except for electrical wiring and connections, as defined by rules and regulations promulgated under the provisions of section ten governing the construction, installation and operation of oil burning equipment and the keeping, storage and use of fuel oil or other inflammable products used in connection therewith, unless he holds a certificate granted by an examiner for the certification of oil burner technicians. Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding sentence, the cleaning of an oil burner strainer or nozzle or the cleaning or replacement of a photo cell, in any building or structure by the owner or manager thereof or by any regular employee of such owner or manager in a building or structure owned or managed by his employer, may be done without the holding by such owner, manager or employee of a certificate as an oil burner technician.
MA Gen L ch 148 § 10d (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 10d - Certificate as Oil Burner Technician; Minimum Age; Application; Fee; Examination; Duration of Certificate; Electrical Work

Section 10D. Any person who has attained eighteen years of age may make application to the department for a certificate as an oil burner technician. Application for such certification shall not be made more often than once in thirty days. A fee shall accompany each application, the amount 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. The application shall be in such form and contain such information as the state fire marshal may require. Within one month after the date of receipt of his application the applicant shall be examined as to his experience and ability to alter, repair and install oil burning equipment, and, if found by an examiner to be qualified, he shall forthwith be issued a certificate. Said certificate shall be valid throughout the commonwealth until the date of birth of the licensee occurring more than twelve months but not more than twenty-four months after the effective date of such license and may be renewed within two years after its expiration without examination upon the payment of a renewal fee as determined pursuant to the aforementioned chapter seven provision. If any such license or the renewal thereof expires in an even year, any subsequent renewal shall expire on the next anniversary of the licensee's date of birth occurring in an even year. If any such license or renewal thereof expires in an odd year, any subsequent renewal shall expire on the next anniversary of the licensee's date of birth occurring in an odd year. A license issued to a person born on February twenty-ninth shall, for the purposes of this section, expire on March first. Licenses not renewed at the expiration date shall become void, and shall after one year be reinstated only by reexamination of the licensee. A notice of the date of expiration of a license shall, at least thirty days prior to such date, be sent to the licensee.  A person holding a certificate as an oil burner technician may connect or disconnect for the purpose of repair or replacement, any device or control required by rules and regulations of the board to be a part of an oil burner installation, or being an integral part of the oil burning equipment, at the connection on such device, control or part to be repaired or replaced, notwithstanding any contrary provision of chapter one hundred and forty-one. Any person licensed as an electrician under said chapter one hundred and forty-one may do any electrical work in connection with the alteration, repair or installation of oil burning equipment without being certified as an oil burner technician.
MA Gen L ch 148 § 10e (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 10e - Apprentice Certificates; Fee; Duration; Expiration; Renewal

Section 10E. An examiner shall upon payment of a fee, the amount 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 issue without examination an apprentice certificate to any person who applies therefor, which certificate shall permit him to assist and work under the supervision of a person holding a certificate as an oil burner technician in the alteration, repair or installation of oil burning equipment. An apprentice certificate shall be valid until the date of birth of the licensee occurring more than twelve months but not more than twenty-four months after the effective date of such license, and shall be renewed without examination upon the payment of a fee as determined under the aforementioned chapter seven provision. If any such license or the renewal thereof expires in an even year, any subsequent renewal shall expire on the next anniversary of the licensee's date of birth occurring in an even year. If any such license or renewal thereof expires in an odd year, any subsequent renewal shall expire on the next anniversary of the licensee's date of birth occurring in an odd year. A license issued to a person born on February twenty-ninth shall, for the purposes of this section, expire on March first.
MA Gen L ch 148 § 10f (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 10f - Rules and Regulations Regarding Types and Classes of Certificates

Section 10F. The board may make such reasonable rules and regulations as it deems suitable for the issuance of various types and classes of certificates to cover the various types of oil burner installations. A certificate may cover one or more or all types of installations or may be limited to a specific type of installation.
MA Gen L ch 148 § 10g (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 10g - Suspension or Revocation of Certificates

Section 10G. Any certificate may, after due notice and hearing, be suspended or revoked by an examiner for a violation by the certificate holder of any rule or regulation promulgated by the board relative to construction, installation and operation of oil burning equipment. Any applicant for an oil burner technician certificate or holder of such certificate aggrieved by the action of an examiner in refusing to issue or in revoking or suspending such certificate may, within ten days, appeal therefrom to the chief of inspections of the department, who shall designate three inspectors to sit as a board and to conduct a hearing on such appeal within thirty days. The decision of said board shall be final.
MA Gen L ch 148 § 10h (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 10h - Firms or Corporations; Licensing Requirements

Section 10H. No firm or corporation engaged in the business of altering, repairing or installing oil burning equipment shall be required to hold a certificate as an oil burner technician; provided that such work is performed for them by persons certified as oil burner technicians.
MA Gen L ch 148 § 11 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 11 - Expert Assistants; Laboratory

Section 11. The marshal may expend the amount annually appropriated for the employment of expert assistance, and also for maintaining a laboratory to aid in the enforcement of the laws relative to explosives and inflammable fluids and compounds. Expert assistants employed under this section shall aid in the enforcement of all laws, rules and regulations which it is the duty of the department to administer and enforce, and shall perform such other duties as the marshal may prescribe. Said expert assistants shall be exempt from chapter thirty-one and the rules and regulations made thereunder.
MA Gen L ch 148 § 12 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 12 - License and Permit for Manufacture of Fireworks; Sale, Transfer, or Exchange of Explosive Materials; Punishment

Section 12. No building shall be used for the manufacturing of fireworks or firecrackers without a license from the local licensing authority. No building or structure shall be used for the manufacturing or storage of explosive materials without a permit issued by the marshal. Any person who has applied for or has been issued such a permit by the marshal, shall be deemed to have consented to periodic administrative inspections by the marshal or his designees of any building, structure, magazine or facility used to store such explosive materials or any records relating thereto. No person shall sell, transfer or exchange explosive materials within the commonwealth to any other person unless: (1) said transferee possesses the proper permit or certificate to possess, receive or store explosive materials; and (2) said transferee maintains, at the place of delivery, an approved, permitted, explosive storage magazine or bunker. Any information, data or record maintained by the marshal or his agents or designees, in any form, relative to the amount, location or nature of explosive material within the commonwealth, shall not be considered a public record, as defined in clause Twenty-sixth of section 7 of chapter 4. Such exception from the definition of ''Public records'' shall not preclude the release of such information to law enforcement personnel.  As used in this section, the words ''explosive materials'', ''fireworks'' and ''firecrackers'' shall be defined by the board pursuant to its authority as provided by section 9. The board shall promulgate regulations to carry out this section, including strict record keeping requirements. Any person who violates this section shall be punished by imprisonment in a house of correction for not more than 2.5 years or by a fine of not more than $5,000, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
MA Gen L ch 148 § 14 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 14 - Inflammable Fluids in Motor Vehicles

Section 14. Gasoline or any other volatile inflammable fluid which emits a vapor at a temperature below one hundred degrees Fahrenheit when tested in the open air shall, when in any motor vehicle which is in a building or other structure, be deemed to be kept in such building or other structure within the meaning of the preceding section; provided, that this section shall not apply to any building in existence on July first, nineteen hundred and eleven, in which not more than two automobiles or motor vehicles are kept, if such building or part thereof is not used either for human habitation or for holding gatherings of more than twenty persons, or for giving entertainments, instruction or employment to more than that number, or to any private garage not in existence on said July first which is an appurtenance to a dwelling and in which not more than three automobiles or motor vehicles are kept.
MA Gen L ch 148 § 15 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 15 - Transportation of Explosives or Inflammable Materials; Violation of Regulations

Section 15. Whoever knowingly violates or knowingly causes or permits the violation of any regulation adopted and prescribed for the transportation of gunpowder and other explosives or explosive or inflammable fluids or compounds shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.
MA Gen L ch 148 § 16 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 16 - Fireworks, Explosives and Inflammable Materials; Violations; Penalties

Section 16. Whoever keeps, stores, uses, manufactures, sells, handles or otherwise disposes of any of the articles mentioned in section nine, in violation of section twelve or thirteen or of any regulation, ordinance or by-law made under section nine, or whoever violates any regulation made under section thirteen, or whoever, not being exempt from the provisions of section thirteen relating to the filing of a certificate of registration, fails to file said certificate and to pay such fee as may be established under section thirteen, shall, except as provided in sections fifteen and thirty-five and in section one hundred and two A of chapter two hundred and sixty-six, be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one month, or both.
MA Gen L ch 148 § 17 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 17 - Restraint of Erection or Use of Buildings in Violation of Statute or Regulations

Section 17. The supreme judicial or superior court may restrain the erection, occupation or use of a building in violation of section thirteen or of any regulation made thereunder.
MA Gen L ch 148 § 19 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 19 - Bonds for Blasting Permits; Filing Fee

Section 19. Before the issue of a permit to use an explosive in the blasting of rock or any other substance as prescribed by the department, the applicant for the permit shall file with the clerk of the city or town where the blasting is to be done a bond running to the city or town, with sureties approved by the treasurer thereof, for such penal sum, not exceeding ten thousand dollars, as the marshal or the officer granting the permit shall determine to be necessary in order to cover the risk of damage that might ensue from the blasting or its keeping therefor; provided, that the marshal or the officer granting the permit may determine that a single and blanket bond in a penal sum not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars is sufficient to cover the risk of damage from all blasting operations of the applicant, either under the permit so issued or under future permits to use explosives in blasting operations. The bond shall be conditioned upon the payment of any loss, damage or injury resulting to persons or property by reason of such blasting or keeping. Such applicant shall pay to said clerk at the time of filing of the said bond the fee provided by clause (15) of section thirty-four of chapter two hundred and sixty-two.
MA Gen L ch 148 § 20 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention|Section 20 - Actions on Bonds; Employee of Permittee; Pro Rata Payment of Claims

Section 20. Action on a bond filed under the preceding section may be brought by any person to whom loss, damage or injury has resulted by reason of such blasting or keeping, and shall be brought in the name of, and for the use and at the cost and expense of, such person; but in no event shall action be brought on the bond for personal injury of an employee of the person receiving the permit. If claims on any bond are established to an amount greater than the penal sum thereof, such claims shall be paid pro rata to the amount of the penal sum, and executions shall issue accordingly.