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2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 147 - State and Other Police, and Certain Powers and Duties of the Office of Public Safety and Inspections of the Division of Professional Licensure › Section 56 - Sale of Power Lawn Mowers; Safety Devices Required; Rules and Regulations; Penalty

Section 56. Every motor-driven implement or machine used for the purpose of cutting grass sold, offered for sale, or held with intent to sell in the commonwealth shall be equipped with a safety device designed and attached by the manufacturer in accordance with the specifications and requirements established by the commissioner of the division of occupational licensure for the purpose of protecting the operator thereof and any other person from objects which may be ejected or propelled from the blade area of such implement or machine. Said commissioner may promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to enforce the provisions of this section. Whoever violates any provisions of this section or of any rule or regulation promulgated hereunder shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars for each offense.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 147 - State and Other Police, and Certain Powers and Duties of the Office of Public Safety and Inspections of the Division of Professional Licensure › Section 57 - Installation, Repair or Maintenance of Security Systems; Licensure; Exceptions

Section 57. The words ''security system'', as used in sections fifty-seven to sixty-one, inclusive, shall mean wires, conduits, apparatus, devices, fixtures, or other appliances installed and interconnected electrically or electronically to permit access control, proprietary signalling, surveillance and the detection of burglary, intrusion, holdup, or other conditions requiring response or the transmission of signals or audible alarms.
No person, firm or corporation shall engage in, advertise, or hold himself or itself out as being engaged in the business of installing, repairing, or offering maintenance for security systems, notwithstanding the name or title used in describing such business, unless licensed for such purpose as provided in sections fifty-eight and fifty-nine of this chapter and section three of chapter one hundred and forty-one. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than two hundred nor more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.
Nothing in this section shall apply either to 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 or computer systems by a person, firm or corporation primarily engaged in the telecommunications or information systems industry.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 147 - State and Other Police, and Certain Powers and Duties of the Office of Public Safety and Inspections of the Division of Professional Licensure › Section 58 - Application for License; Filing; Contents; Proof of Qualifications

Section 58. An application for a license to engage in the security systems business shall be filed with the commissioner on forms furnished by him, and statements of fact therein shall be under oath of the applicant. Such application shall include a certification by each of three reputable citizens of the commonwealth residing in the community in which the applicant resides or has a place of business, or the community in which the applicant proposes to conduct his business, that he has personally known the applicant for at least three years, that he has read the application and believes each of the statements contained therein to be true, that he is not related to the applicant by blood or marriage, and that the applicant is honest and of good moral character.
An applicant for a license to engage in the security systems business shall provide proof to the commissioner that he has successfully qualified for electrical licensure under the provisions of section three of chapter one hundred and forty-one.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 147 - State and Other Police, and Certain Powers and Duties of the Office of Public Safety and Inspections of the Division of Professional Licensure › Section 59 - Issuance of License; Effect of Felony Conviction; Term; Contents; Renewal

Section 59. The commissioner may issue to an applicant complying with the provisions of section fifty-eight a license to engage in the security systems business; provided, however, that no such license shall be issued to any person who has been convicted in any state of the United States of a felony, unless a hearing is held and the commissioner, at his or her discretion, determines a license is appropriate. Any person who has been convicted of a violation of section ninety-nine or ninety-nine A of chapter two hundred and seventy-two shall not be issued a license, unless a hearing is held and the commissioner, at his or her discretion, determines a license is appropriate. If any license has been previously issued to such person, it shall be revoked.
Such license shall be valid for two years, shall state the name under which the licensed business is to be conducted, and the address of its principal office, and shall be posted by the licensee in a conspicuous place in such office. The name of the business, so licensed, shall not contain any words which denote or imply any association with agencies of the United States, the commonwealth or any of its political subdivisions. Failure to comply with the provisions of this paragraph shall constitute cause for revocation of such license.
The commissioner may biennially renew and may at anytime for cause, after notice and hearing, revoke any such license. An application for renewal shall be on a form furnished by the commissioner.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 147 - State and Other Police, and Certain Powers and Duties of the Office of Public Safety and Inspections of the Division of Professional Licensure › Section 60 - Employee Statements; Filing; Security Check; False Statements by Licensee or Employee; Penalties

Section 60. A person, firm or corporation licensed under the provisions of sections fifty-eight and fifty-nine may employ in his security systems business as many persons as he may deem necessary, but no person shall be employed by any licensee until he shall have executed and furnished to such licensee a statement under oath setting forth his full name, date of birth and residence, his parents names and places of birth, the business or occupation in which he has been engaged for the three years immediately preceding the date the statement is furnished and that he has or has not been convicted of a felony or of any offense involving moral turpitude. Such statements shall be kept on file by the licensee and furnished to the commissioner who shall have a security check performed on said employment applicant. Upon completion of the security check, the commissioner, at his or her own discretion, shall furnish to the qualified applicant a certificate of clearance which shall be valid for two years.
If a licensee falsely states or represents that a person was or is in his employ, such false statement or representation shall be cause for revocation or suspension of his license and shall be subject to the penalties set forth in section fifty-seven. Whoever falsely states or represents that he is employed or has been employed by a licensee shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 147 - State and Other Police, and Certain Powers and Duties of the Office of Public Safety and Inspections of the Division of Professional Licensure › Section 61 - Fees

Section 61. The fee for the filing of an original security systems license and for the filing of a renewal of such license shall be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven. Said fees shall not exceed two hundred and fifty dollars for an original license and one hundred and twenty-five dollars for a renewal thereof.
The fee for a certificate of clearance shall be determined in a like manner, but shall not exceed fifty dollars for an original or renewal of said certificate.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 147 - State and Other Police, and Certain Powers and Duties of the Office of Public Safety and Inspections of the Division of Professional Licensure › Section 62 - Acceptance of Education, Training or Service Completed by Applicant as Member of Armed Forces Toward Qualification Requirements to Receive License or Certification; Validity of License or Certificate During Active Service of Holder; Expedited Licensing of Spouse of Member of Armed Services

Section 62. (a) The commissioner shall coordinate and adopt a uniform policy within the division to, upon presentation of satisfactory evidence by an applicant for certification or licensure under the authority of the division, accept education, training or service completed by an individual as a member of the armed forces, as defined in clause Forty-third of section 7 of chapter 4, or the United States military reserves toward the qualifications required to receive the license or certification in question.
(b) Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, if a licensee or certificate holder, who received a license or certificate under the authority of the division, is engaged in active service in the armed forces of the United States, as defined in clause Forty-third of section 7 of chapter 4, the license or certification held by that licensee or certificate holder shall remain valid until the licensee or certificate holder is released from active duty and for a period of not less than 90 days following that release.
(c) Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the commissioner shall establish a procedure within the division to, upon the presentation of satisfactory evidence by an applicant for certification or licensure under the authority of the division, expedite the issuance of a license or certification for a person: (i) who is certified or licensed in a state other than the commonwealth; (ii) whose spouse is a member of the armed forces in the United States; (iii) whose spouse is the subject of a military transfer to the commonwealth; and (iv) who left employment to accompany a spouse to the commonwealth. The procedure shall include, but not be limited to: (1) issuing the person a license or certificate if, in the opinion of the division, the requirements for licensure or certification of the other state are substantially equivalent to the requirements for licensure or certification in the commonwealth; or (2) issuing the person a temporary license or certificate to allow the person to perform services while completing any specific requirements that may be required in the commonwealth but were not required in the state in which the person was licensed or certified.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 147 - State and Other Police, and Certain Powers and Duties of the Office of Public Safety and Inspections of the Division of Professional Licensure › Section 63 - Prohibition of Assistance to Federal Law Enforcement Agency or Any Other State's Law Enforcement Agency or Any Private Citizen or Quasi-Law Enforcement Agent in Investigation or Inquiry Into Services Constituting Legally-Protected Health Care Activity

Section 63. (a) As used in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly requires otherwise:
''Law enforcement agency of the commonwealth'', any state, municipal, college or university police department, sheriff's department, correctional facility, prosecutorial office, court, probation office, or a program of more than 1 of any such entity, or any other non-federal entity in the commonwealth charged with the enforcement of laws or the custody of detained persons.
(b) Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary and except as required by federal law, no officer or employee of a law enforcement agency of the commonwealth, while acting under color of law, shall provide information or assistance to a federal law enforcement agency or any other state's law enforcement agency or any private citizen or quasi-law enforcement agent in relation to an investigation or inquiry into services constituting legally-protected health care activity, as defined in section 11I1/2 of chapter 12, if such services would be lawful as provided if they occurred entirely in the commonwealth.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention › Section 1 - Definitions

Section 1. In this chapter the following words, unless a different meaning is required by the context or is specifically prescribed, shall have the following meanings:—
''Department'', the department of fire services.
''Division'', the division of fire safety of the department of fire services.
''Head of the fire department'', the chief executive officer of the fire department in a city, town, fire district, the 104th fighter wing fire department, the Devens fire department established pursuant to chapter 498 of the acts of 1993 or the Massachusetts military reservation fire department having such an officer, otherwise the fire commissioner, board of fire commissioners or fire engineers, or commissioner of public safety; and, in towns not having a fire department, the chief engineer, if any, otherwise the chairman of the board of selectmen.
''Local licensing authority'', in towns, including those towns which have adopted a town management form of government, the board of selectmen; in Boston, the board of street commissioners; in cities having adopted one of the plans of government provided in chapter forty-three, the city council, or the licensing board or commission in such cities wherein such a board or commission is authorized by statute or ordinance to grant licenses under this chapter; in other cities, the board of aldermen, or the licensing board or commission in cities wherein such a board or commission is authorized by statute or ordinance to grant licenses under this chapter; provided, that in any town having over twenty thousand inhabitants, an unpaid licensing board of three members may be appointed or designated by the board of selectmen to act as the licensing authority in issuing licenses for garages for not more than two automobiles or motor vehicles. In case the board of aldermen or city council constitute such authority, any hearing required by this chapter may be held before a committee thereof.
''Marshal'', the state fire marshal or his designee.
''Board'', the board of fire prevention regulations established under section four of chapter twenty-two D.
''Building'', a combination of any materials, whether portable or fixed, having a roof, to form a structure for the shelter of persons, animals or property. For the purpose of this definition ''roof'' shall include an awning or any similar covering, whether or not permanent in nature. The word ''building'' shall be construed where the context allows as though followed by the words ''or part or parts thereof''.
''Structure'', a combination of materials assembled at a fixed location to give support or shelter, such as a building, framework, retaining wall, tent, reviewing stand, platform, bin, fence, sign, flagpole, mast for radio antenna or the like. The word ''structure'' shall be construed, where the context allows, as though followed by the words ''or part or parts thereof''.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention › Section 2 - Investigations of Fires or Explosions by Local Officials; Notice to Marshal of Suspicious Origins or Undetermined Causes; Reports; Records

Section 2. The head of a fire department in a city, town, or district wherein a fire or explosion has destroyed or damaged property shall investigate the cause and circumstances thereof in order to determine if such fire or explosion was caused by carelessness or design or shall cause such an investigation to be made by a member of the fire department of such city, town or district. They shall begin such investigation forthwith after such fire or explosion, and if it appears to the official making such investigation that the fire or explosion is of suspicious origin or is the result of a violation of law, or if he is unable to determine the cause, he shall immediately notify the marshal. All other fires or explosions by which a loss is sustained shall, within forty-eight hours, excluding Sundays and holidays, be reported in writing to the marshal. Reports required by this section shall be on forms furnished by the department, and shall contain a statement of all facts relating to the cause and origin of the fire or explosion that can be ascertained, the extent of damage thereof, the insurance upon the property damaged, and such other information as may be required. The marshal shall keep or cause to be kept a record of all fires or explosions occurring in the commonwealth, with the results of such investigations, and such records shall be open to public inspection.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention › Section 2a - Notice of Unauthorized Ignition of Fire Within Public or Private Schools or on School Grounds; Submission of Report by School Principal

Section 2A. The principal of any public or private school that provides instruction to pupils in any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, shall immediately report any incident involving the unauthorized ignition of any fire within the school building or on school grounds to the local fire department. The principal shall submit a written report of the incident to the head of the fire department within 24 hours on a form furnished by the department of fire services. The report shall be filed without regard to the extent of the fire or whether there was a response by the fire department. The head of the fire department shall report such incident to the marshal in accordance with section 2.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention › Section 3 - Investigations by Marshal; Examination of Witnesses; Perjury; Criminal Complaint; Prosecutions; Reports to Commissioner of Insurance

Section 3. The marshal shall investigate or cause to be investigated the circumstances of all fires or explosions of suspicious origin of which he has notice, and may investigate or cause to be investigated the circumstances of any fire or explosion occurring anywhere within the commonwealth. For such purposes the marshal, or his designee, may summon and examine on oath, administered by the marshal or such person so designated, any person supposed to know or have means of knowing any material facts touching the subject of investigation. Such witnesses may be kept apart and examined separately, and such examination shall be reduced to writing, and false testimony therein shall be perjury. Any justice of a district court or of the superior court, upon application of the marshal, or person so designated, may compel the attendance of such witnesses and the giving of such testimony in the same manner and to the same extent as before said court. If, upon such investigation, the marshal, or person so designated, believes that the evidence is sufficient to charge any person with crime, he shall make a complaint therefor, and shall furnish the proper officers with the evidence and names of witnesses obtained by him. The marshall shall, when required, report to the commissioner of insurance his proceedings and the progress of prosecutions instituted hereunder.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention › Section 4 - Persons Authorized to Enter and Inspect Premises; Inspections of Institutions; Reports

Section 4. The marshal, the head of the fire department, or any person to whom the marshal or the head of the fire department may delegate the authority, may, in the performance of the duties imposed by this chapter, or in furtherance of the purpose of any provision of any law, ordinance or by-law relating to the subject matter of this chapter, or of any rule or regulation of the board of fire prevention regulations, established under section four of chapter twenty-two D, in this chapter referred to as the board, or any order of the marshal or head of the fire department, enter at any reasonable hour any building or other premises, or any ship or vessel, to make inspection or investigation, without being held or deemed to be guilty of trespass.
The marshal or the head of a fire department to whom he may delegate authority, shall make an inspection every three months of institutions as defined by the state building code, licensed by and under the supervision of the department of public health, or licensed by the department of public welfare, and shall make a report of such inspection to each such department on forms submitted to the marshal by such department for this purpose. Said marshal of such head of a fire department shall also make an inspection every three months of the premises specified in innholder's licenses issued under chapter one hundred and forty.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention › Section 5 - Investigation of Premises and Alleys as to Fire Hazards; Remedy of Conditions; Expenses; Penalty

Section 5. The marshal, the head of the fire department or any person to whom the marshal or the head of the fire department may delegate his authority in writing may, and upon complaint of a person having an interest in any building or premises or property adjacent thereto, shall, at any reasonable hour, enter into buildings and upon premises, which term for the purposes of the remainder of this section shall include alleys adjacent thereto, within their jurisdiction and make an investigation as to the existence of conditions likely to cause fire. They shall, in writing, order such conditions to be remedied, and whenever such officers or persons find in any building or upon any premises any accumulation of combustible rubbish including, but not limited to, waste paper, rags, cardboard, string, packing material, sawdust, shavings, sticks, waste leather or rubber, broken boxes or barrels or any other refuse or useable materials that is or may become dangerous as a fire menace or as an obstacle to easy ingress into or egress from such buildings or premises, they shall, in writing, order the same to be removed or such conditions to be remedied. Notice of such order shall be served upon the owner, occupant or his authorized agent by a member of the fire or police department. If said order is not complied with within twenty-four hours, the person making such order, or any person designated by him, may enter into such building or upon such premises and remove such refuse or any useable materials or abate such conditions at the expense of such owner or occupant. Any expense so incurred by or on behalf of the commonwealth or of any city or town, shall be a debt due the commonwealth or the city or town, as the case may be, upon completion of such removal or abatement and the rendering of an account therefor to the owner. 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 the claims for such debt, shall apply to any debt referred to in this section, except that the marshal or the head of the fire department shall act hereunder in place of the mayor or board of selectmen. In the case of debts due the commonwealth, the collector of taxes shall pay over to the treasurer of the commonwealth the amounts collected by him. Any such owner or occupant who fails or refuses to comply with said order shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars for each consecutive forty-eight hours during which such failure or refusal to comply continues.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention › Section 5a - Unvented Liquid Fired Space Heaters; Use or Sale Prohibited

Section 5A. No person shall use, allow to be used, sell or offer for sale any unvented liquid fired space heater. Whoever violates the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention › Section 6 - Neglect or Refusal of Officers to Comply With Duty

Section 6. Any city, town or district officer who wilfully neglects or refuses to comply with any duty or requirement imposed upon him by the preceding sections shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than two hundred dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 148 - Fire Prevention › Section 8 - Reports to Heads of Fire Departments, Insurance Companies, Property Owners and Other Interested Persons

Section 8. The marshal shall report to insurance companies, to owners of property, or to other persons interested in the subject matter of an investigation of the cause and circumstances of a fire any information obtained by such investigation which may in his opinion require attention from or by such insurance companies, owners of property or other persons. The fire commissioner of the city of Boston shall make like reports of fires investigated by him or by a person by him designated under section three. The marshal shall also report to the head of the fire department the results of any investigation into fires of suspicious origin reported to him by such head as required by section two.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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 26F1/2, 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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 21/2 years or by a fine of not more than $5,000, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.