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2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140d - Consumer Credit Cost Disclosure › Section 17 - Oral Response to Cost of Credit Inquiry

Section 17. In responding orally to any inquiry about the cost of credit, a creditor, regardless of the method used to compute finance charges, shall state rates only in terms of the annual percentage rate, except that in the case of an open-end-credit plan, the periodic rate also may be stated and, in the case of an other than open-end-credit plan where a major component of the finance charge consists of interest computed at a simple annual rate, the simple annual rate also may be stated. The commissioner may, by regulation, provide an exception from this section for a transaction or class of transactions for which the creditor cannot determine in advance the applicable annual percentage rate.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140d - Consumer Credit Cost Disclosure › Section 18 - Model Disclosure Forms and Clauses

Section 18. The use of model disclosure forms and clauses for common transactions to facilitate compliance with the disclosure requirements and to aid and assist the borrower in understanding the transaction by utilizing readily understandable language to simplify the technical nature of the disclosures, issued by the bureau, shall be deemed to be in compliance with the provisions of this chapter. Nothing in this section may be construed to require a creditor to use any such model form or clause. A creditor shall be deemed to be in compliance with the disclosure provisions of this chapter with respect to other than numerical disclosures if the creditor (1) uses any appropriate model form or clause as published by the bureau, or (2) uses any such model form or clause and changes it by (A) deleting any information that is not required by this chapter, or (B) rearranging the format, if in making such deletion or rearranging the format, the creditor does not affect the substance, clarity or meaningful sequence of the disclosure.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140d - Consumer Credit Cost Disclosure › Section 19 - Time for Sending Statement; Noncompliance; Finance Charge

Section 19. (a) The creditor shall mail or deliver to the customer the statement or statements required by subsection (b) of section eleven for each billing cycle at least 14 days before the end of the next succeeding billing cycle or the payment due date, whichever is earlier. If the creditor fails to mail or deliver such statement or statements within the specified period, he shall not be entitled to any finance charge with respect to the next succeeding billing cycle based upon the balance of the preceding billing cycle.
If any such finance charge is assessed or collected, the customer shall receive a credit or refund for any such finance charge assessed or collected other than in accordance with the provisions of this section within the two billing cycles following such assessment or collection, the failure to provide such credit or refund within the period specified shall subject the creditor to the penalties provided in section thirty-two.
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply in any case where a creditor has been prevented, delayed or hindered in making timely mailing or delivery of such periodic statement within the time period specified in said subsection because of an act of God, war, natural disaster, strike or other excusable or justifiable cause, as determined by the commissioner.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140d - Consumer Credit Cost Disclosure › Section 20 - Sale of Goods or Services at Retail; Finance Charge Under Open-End-Credit Plan; Computation

Section 20. If a finance charge is imposed under an open-end credit plan on balances resulting from the sale of goods or services at retail made in reliance on a credit card, the finance charge applicable to said balances for any cycle shall be computed on (i) the previous balance after deducting all payments on account received by the creditor during the cycle and all credits to the account during the cycle applicable to any sale reflected in the previous balance; or (ii) the average daily balance determined by adding the daily balances on the account for each day in the billing cycle and dividing the total by the number of days in the billing cycle; or (iii) daily balances; provided, however, that no finance charge may be computed on any new sale reflected for the first time in the account during the billing cycle if there was no balance outstanding in the account at the beginning of the cycle, or if such balance is solely attributable to a finance charge assessed with respect to the preceding billing cycle, or if the sum of all payments received by the creditor during the cycle and all credits to the account applicable to any balance outstanding at the beginning of the cycle is equal to or exceeds the amount of such balance outstanding.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140d - Consumer Credit Cost Disclosure › Section 21 - Application of Credit Cardholder's Funds Held by Issuer; Authorization; Agreement Statement

Section 21. A person issuing a credit card shall not apply any funds of the cardholder held for any purpose by the issuer of the card in order to satisfy a debt arising from the use of such credit card unless such action was previously authorized by the cardholder in a separately signed agreement whereby the cardholder agrees to pay debts incurred in his open-end-credit account by permitting the card issuer to deduct periodically all or a portion of such debt from the cardholder's deposit account; provided, however, that such action shall not be taken with respect to a disputed item if the cardholder so requests. This agreement shall contain the following statement appearing conspicuously on the face thereof:
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO SIGN THIS AGREEMENT IN ORDER TO OBTAIN A CREDIT CARD.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140d - Consumer Credit Cost Disclosure › Section 23 - Transfer of Funds Following Default of Debt; Written Notice; Applicability

Section 23. No bank or credit union shall transfer any funds held in any account of the customer in said bank or credit union as a consequence of a default of a debt owed to such institution unless the customer has been provided a written notice, prior to the time the loan is made, which states the institution may transfer such funds to reduce or extinguish such a debt. The provisions of this section shall not apply to open-end-credit plans which are subject to section twenty-one.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140d - Consumer Credit Cost Disclosure › Section 24 - Guaranty of Obligations of Other Persons; Notice of Additional Obligations

Section 24. No person who executes a guaranty of the obligations of another in connection with an application by such other person for an open-end-credit plan or for an extension of credit other than an open-end-credit plan shall be liable as a result of such guaranty for an obligation not arising under such plan or extension of credit unless such person has been notified of such additional obligation in advance.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140d - Consumer Credit Cost Disclosure › Section 26 - Cardholder Liability for Unauthorized Use

Section 26. (a)(1) A cardholder shall be liable for the unauthorized use of a credit card only if:
(A) The card is an accepted credit card;
(B) The liability is not in excess of fifty dollars;
(C) The card issuer gives adequate notice to the cardholder of the potential liability;
(D) The card issuer has provided the cardholder with a description of a means by which the card issuer may be notified of loss or theft of the card, which description may be provided on the face or reverse side of the statement required by subsection (b) of section eleven or on a separate notice accompanying such statement;
(E) The unauthorized use occurs before the card issuer has been notified that an unauthorized use of the credit card has occurred or may occur as a result of loss, theft, or otherwise; and
(F) The card issuer has provided a method whereby the user of such card can be identified as the person authorized to use it.
(2) For purposes of this section, a card issuer has been notified when such steps as may be reasonably required in the ordinary course of business to provide the card issuer with the pertinent information have been taken, whether or not any particular officer, employee, or agent of the card issuer does in fact receive such information.
(b) In any action by a card issuer to enforce liability for the use of a credit card, the burden of proof is upon the card issuer to show that the use was authorized or, if the use was unauthorized, then the burden of proof is upon the card issuer to show that the conditions of liability for the unauthorized use of a credit card, as set forth in subsection (a), have been met.
(c) Nothing in this section imposes liability upon a cardholder for the unauthorized use of a credit card in excess of his liability for such use under other applicable law or under any agreement with the card issuer.
(d) Except as provided in this section, a cardholder shall incur no liability from the unauthorized use of a credit card.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140d - Consumer Credit Cost Disclosure › Section 27 - Unauthorized Use of Credit Cards

Section 27. (a) Whoever knowingly in a transaction uses or attempts or conspires to use any counterfeit, fictitious, altered, forged, lost, stolen, or fraudulently obtained credit card to obtain money, goods, services, or anything else of value which within any one-year period has a value aggregating one thousand dollars or more; or
(b) Whoever, with unlawful or fraudulent intent, transports or attempts or conspires to transport a counterfeit, fictitious, altered, forged, lost, stolen, or fraudulently obtained credit card knowing the same to be counterfeit, fictitious, altered, forged, lost, stolen, or fraudulently obtained; or
(c) Whoever, with unlawful or fraudulent intent, uses any instrumentality of interstate or foreign commerce to sell or transport a counterfeit, fictitious, altered, forged, lost, stolen, or fraudulently obtained credit card knowing the same to be counterfeit, fictitious, altered, forged, lost, stolen, or fraudulently obtained; or
(d) Whoever knowingly receives, conceals, uses, or transports money, goods, services, or anything else of value which (1) within any one-year period has a value aggregating one thousand dollars or more, and (2) has been obtained with a counterfeit, fictitious, altered, forged, lost, stolen, or fraudulently obtained credit card; or
(e) Whoever knowingly receives, conceals, uses, sells, or transports one or more tickets for interstate or foreign transportation, which (1) within any one-year period have a value aggregating five hundred dollars or more, and (2) have been purchased or obtained with one or more counterfeit, fictitious, altered, forged, lost, stolen, or fraudulently obtained credit cards; or
(f) Whoever in a transaction furnishes money, property, services, or anything else of value, which within any one-year period has a value aggregating one thousand dollars or more, through the use of any counterfeit, fictitious, altered, forged, lost, stolen, or fraudulently obtained credit card knowing the same to be counterfeit, fictitious, altered, forged, lost, stolen, or fraudulently obtained shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140d - Consumer Credit Cost Disclosure › Section 28 - Liability of Business for Unauthorized Use of Credit Cards

Section 28. The exemption provided by subsection (a) of section two shall not apply to the provisions of sections twenty-five, twenty-six and twenty-seven, except that a card issuer and a business or other organization which provides credit cards issued by the same card issuer to ten or more of its employees may by contract agree as to liability of the business or other organization with respect to unauthorized use of such credit cards without regard to the provisions of section twenty-six, but in no case may such business or other organization or card issuer impose liability upon any employee with respect to unauthorized use of such a credit card except in accordance with and subject to the limitations of said section twenty-six.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140d - Consumer Credit Cost Disclosure › Section 28a - Cardholder Discounts; Surcharges; Finance Charge

Section 28A. (a)(1) With respect to a credit card which may be used for extensions of credit in sales transactions in which the seller is a person other than the card issuer, the card issuer may not, by contract or otherwise, prohibit any such seller from offering a discount to a cardholder to induce the cardholder to pay cash, check or similar means rather than use a credit card.
(2) No seller in any sales transaction may impose a surcharge on a cardholder who elects to use a credit card in lieu of payment by cash, check or similar means.
(b) With respect to any sales transaction, any discount from the regular price offered by the seller for the purpose of inducing payment by cash, check or other means not involving the use of an open-end-credit plan or a credit card shall not constitute a finance charge under section four if such discount is offered to all prospective buyers and its availability is disclosed clearly and conspicuously.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140d - Consumer Credit Cost Disclosure › Section 28b - Participation in Credit Card Plans; Conditions

Section 28B. Notwithstanding any agreement to the contrary, a card issuer may not require a seller, as a condition to participating in a credit card plan, to open an account with or procure any other service from the card issuer or its subsidiary or agent.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140d - Consumer Credit Cost Disclosure › Section 29 - Rules and Regulations; Consistency With Federal Fair Credit Billing Act

Section 29. The commissioner may prescribe from time to time rules and regulations consistent with the provisions of the Federal Fair Credit Billing Act 15 USC 1666 to 1666j, inclusive, and the regulations promulgated thereunder, and a creditor upon whom such rules and regulations impose duties or obligations, shall make or give to a customer the disclosures, information and notices required of him by such rules and regulations, and such disclosures, information and notices shall constitute compliance with the provisions of this chapter.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140d - Consumer Credit Cost Disclosure › Section 31 - Prohibited Acts; Penalty

Section 31. Whoever willfully and knowingly:
(1) Gives false or inaccurate information or fails to provide information which he is required to disclose under the provisions of this chapter or any regulation issued thereunder,
(2) Uses any chart or table authorized by the commissioner or the bureau under section five in such a manner as to consistently understate the annual percentage rate determined under subclause (A) of clause (1) of subsection (a) of section five, or
(3) Otherwise fails to comply with any requirement imposed under this chapter, or any rule or regulation issued thereunder, shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars or imprisoned 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 140d - Consumer Credit Cost Disclosure › Section 35 - Limitations on Creditors' Liability and Consumer Rescission Rights

Section 35. (a) For any consumer credit transaction subject to this chapter that is consummated before September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ninety-five, a creditor or any assignee of a creditor shall have no civil, administrative or criminal liability under this chapter for, and a consumer shall have no extended rescission rights under section ten with respect to:
(1) the creditor's treatment, for disclosure purposes, of:
(i) taxes described in clause (3) of subsection (d) of section four;
(ii) fees described in clauses (2) and (5) of subsection (e) of said section four;
(iii) fees and amounts referred to in clause (7) of subsection (e) of said section four;
(iv) borrower-paid mortgage broker fees referred to in clause (6) of subsection (a) of said section four.
(2) the form of written notice used by the creditor to inform the obligor of the rights of the obligor under the provisions of section ten if the creditor provided the obligor with a properly dated form of written notice published and adopted by the commissioner or a comparable written notice, and otherwise complied with all the requirements of this chapter regarding notice; or
(3) any disclosure relating to the finance charge imposed with respect to the transaction if the amount or percentage actually disclosed -
(i) may be treated as accurate for the purposes of this chapter if the amount disclosed as the finance charge does not vary from the actual finance charge by more than two hundred dollars;
(ii) may, under clause (2) of said subsection (a) of said section four, be treated as accurate for the purposes of section ten; or
(iii) is greater than the amount or percentage required to be disclosed under this chapter.
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to:
(1) any individual action or counterclaim brought under this chapter which was filed before June first, nineteen hundred and ninety-five;
(2) any class action brought under this chapter for which a final order certifying a class was entered before January first, nineteen hundred and ninety-five;
(3) the named individual plaintiffs in any class action brought under this chapter which was filed before June first, nineteen hundred and ninety-five; or
(4) any consumer credit transaction with respect to which a timely notice of rescission was sent to the creditor before June first, nineteen hundred and ninety-five.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 140d - Consumer Credit Cost Disclosure › Section 36 - Exemption From Requirements of Federal Law; Action for Determination by Bureau That Commonwealth Requirements Substantially Similar to Federal Requirements

Section 36. The commissioner may take any action necessary, including but not limited to promulgating regulations under chapter 30A, to apply for or to preserve a determination by the bureau, or its successor agency, that under the laws of the commonwealth any class of credit transactions within the commonwealth shall be subject to requirements substantially similar to the federal requirements and that there are adequate provisions for enforcement of such requirements.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 141 - Supervision of Electricians › Section 1 - Definitions

Section 1. The following words as used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, shall have the following meanings:
''Fee'', a fee to be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven.
''Fire warning system'', an inherently power limited system of wires, conduits, apparatus, devices, fixtures or other appliances installed and interconnected electrically or electronically for the detection of heat, smoke, or products of combustion, or for the transmission of signals or audible alarms.
''Inherently power limited system'', a system requiring no overcurrent protection due to design and construction.
''Journeyman electrician'', a person qualified to do the work of installing, repairing, or maintaining wires, conduits, apparatus, devices, fixtures, or other appliances used for heat, light, power, fire warning or security system purposes.
''Master electrician'', a person, firm or corporation having a regular place of business who, by the employment of journeyman or apprentices, performs the work of installing, repairing or maintaining wires, conduits, apparatus, devices, fixtures or other appliances used for light, heat, power, fire warning or security system purposes; provided, however, that no journeyman electrician so employed shall have more than one apprentice under his supervision; and provided, further, that not more than one such apprentice shall be employed for each journeyman electrician.
''Security system'', an inherently power limited system of 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.
''System'', a fire warning, security or other inherently power limited system, wire, conduit or device which conducts or consumes electricity and is electrically or electronically activated.
''Systems contractor'', a person, firm or corporation having a regular place of business who, by the employment of systems technicians or apprentices, performs the work of installing, repairing or maintaining wires, conduits, apparatus, devices, fixtures or other appliances used for systems; provided, however, that no systems technician so employed shall have more than one apprentice under his supervision; and provided, further, that not more than one such apprentice shall be employed for each systems technician.
''Systems technician'', a person qualified to do the work of installing, repairing or maintaining wires, conduits, apparatus, devices, fixtures or other appliances used for systems.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 141 - Supervision of Electricians › Section 1a - Electrician Licensure Requirement; Exceptions

Section 1A. No person, firm or corporation shall enter into, engage in, or work at the business or occupation of installing wires, conduits, apparatus, devices, fixtures, or other appliances for carrying or using electricity for light, heat, power, fire warning or security system purposes, unless such person, firm or corporation shall be licensed by the state examiners of electricians in accordance with this chapter and, with respect to security systems, unless such person, firm or corporation shall also be licensed by the commissioner of the division of occupational licensure in accordance with the provisions of sections fifty-seven to sixty-one, inclusive, of chapter one hundred and forty-seven.
This chapter shall not apply to: a person not engaged in the business described in this section who employs or contracts for the services of a person, firm or corporation engaged in such business; or to an apprentice employed by a person, firm or corporation licensed in accordance with this chapter; or to an agent, employee or assistant of a person, firm or corporation licensed in accordance with this chapter who does not engage in or perform the actual work described in this section.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 141 - Supervision of Electricians › Section 2 - State Examiners; Rules; Examinations; Reports

Section 2. The state examiners of electricians, in this chapter called the examiners, may make necessary rules for the proper performance of their duties.
They shall hold frequent examinations in Boston, and, twice in each year, shall hold examinations in at least five other convenient places within the commonwealth, and they may hold annual or occasional examinations in other places. Public notice shall be given of all examinations.
They shall make a biennial report of their doings in each odd-numbered year.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 141 - Supervision of Electricians › Section 2a - Examinations; Uniform Requirements for Towns; Credit to Veterans; Frequency; Types; Supervision; Sanction of Examiners

Section 2A. In the conduct of examinations they shall make uniform requirements for all towns, which may be revised from time to time, as circumstances require. They shall grant a credit of five per cent to the examination standing of each applicant who is a veteran, as defined in clause Forty-third of section seven of chapter four. Said examinations shall be sufficiently frequent to give ample opportunity for all applicants to be thoroughly and carefully examined, may be written or in practical work, and may be supervised by one or more of the examiners, but no license shall be granted without the sanction of the examiners. The examiners shall promulgate regulations to determine the allowable education and work hour credits for veterans and military personnel.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 141 - Supervision of Electricians › Section 2b - Electricians Licensed in Other States; Reciprocal Licensure Without Examination; Fees

Section 2B. The examiners may license without examination any person who has been licensed as an electrician in another state under laws which, in the opinion of the examiners, maintain standards substantially the same as those of the commonwealth for electricians. The amount of the fee for licensing without examination under this section for a master and journeyman electrician's license shall be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven for the filing thereof.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 141 - Supervision of Electricians › Section 4 - Transferability, Suspension and Revocation of Certificates

Section 4. No certificates issued under this chapter shall be assignable or transferable. They may, after hearing, be suspended or revoked by the examiners upon failure or refusal of the licensee to comply with the rules and requirements of the examiners, or for other sufficient cause.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 141 - Supervision of Electricians › Section 5 - Engagement in Business or Work Without Compliance With Statutes; Enforcement

Section 5. Any person, firm or corporation, or employee thereof, and any representative, member or officer of such firm or corporation individually, entering upon or engaging in the business and work hereinbefore defined, without having complied with this chapter, shall for the first offence be punished by a fine of not less than $1,000 and not more than $1,500, for a second offence by a fine of not less than $1,500 and not more than $2,000 and for each subsequent offence by a fine of not less than $2,000 and not more than $2,500 or by imprisonment in the house of correction for six months, or both.
The examiners and the inspectors of wires in each city and town, as defined in section thirty-two of chapter one hundred and sixty-six, shall be charged with the enforcement of this chapter. They shall have all necessary powers to require compliance therewith, including the power to institute and prosecute proceedings in the superior court department of the trial court.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 141 - Supervision of Electricians › Section 6 - Liability for Work of Employee

Section 6. No person, firm or corporation holding a ''certificate A or certificate C'' shall be liable for work done by his or its employees, unless it appears that such work was done with his or its knowledge or consent or by his or its authorization.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 141 - Supervision of Electricians › Section 7 - Nonapplicability of Statutes

Section 7. This chapter shall not apply to: the installation, repairing, and wiring of elevators; the work in connection with the erection, construction, maintenance or repair of lines for transmission of electricity from the source of supply to the service switch on the premises where used by municipal electric plants, by electric companies as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and sixty-four, by gas companies authorized to make or sell electricity, by electric street railway companies, by electric railroad companies or by railroad companies; the work of such plants or companies on premises owned or controlled by them; the work of said municipal electric plants or of said electric or gas companies in installing, maintaining and repairing on the premises of customers, service connections and meters and other apparatus and appliances remaining the property of such plants or companies after installation; public employees engaged in the work of installing, maintaining or repairing public signalling systems; the work in connection with the lighting of public ways, alleys, private ways, or public parks, areas or squares; the work of companies subject to regulation by the department of public utilities or the department of telecommunications and cable, and incorporated for the transmission of intelligence by electricity in installing, maintaining or repairing wires, apparatus, fixtures, or other appliances used by such companies and necessary for, or incident to, their business, whether or not such wires, conduits, apparatus, fixtures or other appliances are on its own premises; or the work in connection with the installation, construction, maintenance, repair and renovation of telephone equipment, cable television service or computer systems by a person, firm or corporation primarily engaged in the telecommunications or the information systems industry.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 141 - Supervision of Electricians › Section 8 - Learners or Apprentices; Theatrical Companies; Employers Without a Certificate; Liability Insurance

Section 8. Electricians regularly employed by persons, firms or corporations other than holders of certificate A, may install such electrical wiring, conduits and appliances or make such repairs as may be required only on the premises and property of such persons, firms or corporations; provided that such electricians hold journeymen's licenses, and have otherwise complied with this chapter. Any such person, firm or corporation may employ learners or apprentices to work with and under the direct personal supervision of electricians referred to in this paragraph in said installation and repair work, provided that no such journeyman electrician shall have more than one learner or apprentice working with him and under his supervision as aforesaid; but not more than one such learner or apprentice shall be so employed for each journeyman electrician.
Electricians employed by theatrical companies may install temporary wiring and appliances required for the purpose of the engagement of any such company, subject to the supervision of a person licensed under this chapter.
Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, no permit for the performance of electrical work pursuant to chapters one hundred and forty-one and one hundred and forty-three shall be issued by any city or town unless the licensee provides proof of liability insurance, including ''completed operation'' coverage, which has been issued by an insurance company licensed to do business in the commonwealth, or a bond or other type of indemnity against liability providing substantially equivalent coverage. In lieu of said insurance requirement the permit issuing authority shall accept the signature of the owner or his agent on the uniform application for a permit for work to be performed by electricians.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 141 - Supervision of Electricians › Section 9 - Misstatements

Section 9. Any person applying for a journeyman electrician's license or a systems technician's license and making any misstatement as to his experience or other qualifications, or any person, firm or corporation subscribing to, or vouching for, any such misstatement shall be subject to the penalties set forth in section five.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 142 - Supervision of Plumbing › Section 3 - Master Plumbers or Gas Fitters, Journeymen and Apprentices; Licensing; Advertising; Display of License or Certificate

Section 3. No person shall engage in the business as a master plumber or a master gas fitter or work as a journeyman plumber or as a journeyman gas fitter or as an apprentice plumber or as an apprentice gas fitter or as an undiluted liquefied petroleum gas installer or as a limited undiluted liquefied petroleum gas installer, nor solicit, by sign, listing or any other form of advertisement, work regulated or controlled by this chapter or by any ordinance, by-law, rule or regulation made hereunder, unless he is lawfully registered, or has been licensed by the examiners as provided in this chapter. Any person so licensed as a master plumber or a journeyman plumber may carry on the work of a gas fitter throughout the commonwealth, notwithstanding any local ordinance, by-law, rule or regulation to the contrary, and may engage in the work of installing house drainage and connecting with common sewers without being required to have any local license therefor, but shall be subject to local regulations relative to permits and bonding requirements. This section shall not apply to authorized employees of any gas company organized under chapter one hundred and sixty-four; said employees shall not require a gas fitter's license while performing work for said gas company.
The license or certificate of a journeyman plumber or a gas fitter or an apprentice plumber or a gas fitter shall be exhibited whenever required by an inspector of plumbing or gas fitting.
The license or certificate of a master plumber or a master gas fitter shall at all times be displayed conspicuously within his place of business. Any sign, listing or advertisement of a master plumber, a master gas fitter, a journeyman plumber or a journeyman gas fitter shall contain his designation and license number.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 142 - Supervision of Plumbing › Section 3a - Apprentices; Licensing; Application; Employment; On-the-Job Training, Rules and Regulations

Section 3A. Every apprentice shall before starting his apprenticeship file an application, accompanied by the appropriate fee, with the examiners, requesting that he be issued an apprentice license. Said application shall be made on a form to be furnished by the examiners, and shall require the applicant to state his age, the date on which he is to commence his apprenticeship, the name and address of his employer, and such other information as the examiners may require. Upon receipt thereof the examiners shall license said applicant as an apprentice and shall forthwith mail to him a certificate to that effect.
A person may be employed as an apprentice plumber by a master plumber only. A person may be employed as an apprentice gas fitter by a master gas fitter only. Such apprentices shall work under the direct supervision of a master plumber or a journeyman plumber or a master or a journeyman gas fitter. A master plumber or a master gas fitter may employ one or more apprentices but not more than one apprentice may work under the direct supervision of a master plumber, a master gas fitter or a journeyman plumber or a journeyman gas fitter.
Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, students in a vocational school accredited by the department of education, under the direct personal supervision of a master plumber or a journeyman who is certified as an instructor by the division of occupational education in said department shall be permitted to engage in an on-the-job training program, so-called, on installations approved by the examiners and conducted in cooperation with such a vocational school.
The examiners may formulate rules and regulations relative to said on-the-job training program.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 142 - Supervision of Plumbing › Section 3b - Certificates of Plumbing or Gas Fitting Corporations or Partnerships

Section 3B. A person duly licensed in the commonwealth as a master plumber or as a master gas fitter may apply to the examiners for a certificate of a plumbing corporation or for a certificate of a gas fitting corporation or a certificate of a plumbing partnership or a certificate of a gas fitting partnership upon payment of a fee and a biennial renewal fee, the amounts of which shall be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven for the filing thereof. A certificate of a plumbing corporation shall authorize a master plumber to conduct the plumbing and gas fitting business as a corporation, a certificate of a gas fitting corporation shall allow a master gas fitter to conduct the gas fitting business as a corporation, provided, that in a plumbing corporation the master plumber and in a gas fitting corporation the master gas fitter is an officer of the corporation organized under the laws of the commonwealth to engage in the business of plumbing or in the business of gas fitting. A certificate of plumbing partnership shall authorize a master plumber to conduct the plumbing and gas fitting business as a partnership, a certificate of a gas fitting partnership shall authorize a master gas fitter to conduct the gas fitting business as a partnership; provided, that all partners in a plumbing partnership are master plumbers and in a gas fitting partnership all partners are master gas fitters. For the purpose of this section, a gas company, as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and sixty-four, shall be deemed a gas fitting corporation.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 142 - Supervision of Plumbing › Section 4 - Rules of Examiners; Qualifications of Applicants; Applications; Examinations; Issuance of License; Probationary License; Credit for Veterans

Section 4. The examiners may make rules as they consider proper for the performance of their duties and shall promulgate rules and regulations governing the qualifications of applicants for examination. They shall examine each applicant desiring to engage in the business of a master plumber or a journeyman plumber, as to his practical knowledge of plumbing, house drainage, plumbing ventilation, and gas fitting. They shall examine each applicant desiring to engage in the business of a master gas fitter or a journeyman gas fitter as to his practical knowledge pertaining to gas fitting, natural and manufactured gas and the installation of undiluted liquefied petroleum. They shall examine each person who applies to be licensed as an undiluted liquefied petroleum gas installer, and each person who applies to be licensed as a limited undiluted liquefied petroleum gas installer. They shall subject each applicant to a practical test satisfactory to the examiner, who, if satisfied of his competence, shall issue to him a license as applied for. They shall hold frequent examinations in the city of Boston, and also at such other convenient places within the commonwealth as they deem necessary. Public notice shall be given of all examinations. Every application for examination shall be in the handwriting of the applicant who shall be notified by the examiners of the time and place of examination. The examiners may, without payment of any fee, issue a probationary license in force for six months to a person who, having worked as an apprentice, or under a verbal agreement for instruction, for not less than three years, presents an application therefor with the signed endorsement of his employer agreeing to be responsible for all work done under the license and to have the licensee, at the expiration of the license, present himself for examination as a journeyman.
They shall grant a credit of five per cent to the examination standing of each applicant who is a veteran, as defined in clause Forty-third of section seven of chapter four. The examiners shall promulgate regulations to determine the allowable education and work hour credits for veterans and military personnel.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 142 - Supervision of Plumbing › Section 4a - Plumbers Employed by Cities, Institutions or Corporations; Installations and Repairs

Section 4A. Master plumbers, journeymen, or apprentice plumbers, regularly employed by cities and towns or by institutions or corporations that are not engaged in the business of plumbing, may install such plumbing or make such repairs as may be required on the premises and property owned or leased and occupied by such cities, towns, institutions or corporations, provided that all such work performed by said plumbers shall be in compliance with the pertinent sections and provisions of this chapter.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 142 - Supervision of Plumbing › Section 5 - Fees for Licenses and Examinations

Section 5. The fee for the first license of a master plumber or master gas fitter, journeyman plumber or journeyman gas fitter, apprentice, undiluted liquefied petroleum gas installer, or limited undiluted petroleum gas installer or for any biennial renewal thereof, and for any examination therefor shall be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven for the filing thereof.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 142 - Supervision of Plumbing › Section 6 - Territorial Coverage, Transfer, Term, Renewal, Fee, Suspension and Revocation of Licenses; Names of Licensees Forwarded to Towns; Registration

Section 6. Licenses and certificates issued by the examiners shall be valid throughout the commonwealth, but shall not be assignable or transferable. The examiners shall forward to the board of health of each town, or to the inspector of buildings having control of the enforcement of regulations relative to plumbing and gas fitting in such town, the names and addresses of all persons in such town to whom such licenses have been granted. Licenses shall be issued for two years and may be renewed every two years on or before May first, or in case of absence, sickness or other disability of the holder, on or before such later date as the examiners may permit, upon payment of the required fee. Each holder of a master plumber's or a master gas fitter's certificate or license shall register his name and business address with said inspector of buildings if he has such control, otherwise with the board of health, in the town wherein he desires to engage in business as a master plumber or a master gas fitter. The fee for such a registration shall be set by the board of health of each town, but in no event shall any such fee be greater than twenty dollars. Any such license or certificate may, after notice and hearing, be suspended or revoked by the examiners upon the violation by the holder thereof of any statute, ordinance, by-law, rule or regulation relative to plumbing or gas fitting, upon failure or refusal of the holder thereof to comply with the rules and requirements of the examiners, or for other sufficient cause. In case of failure to renew a license aforesaid on or before May first in any year or such later date as the examiners may permit as aforesaid, the person named therein may, upon payment of the said fee and, at the discretion of the examiners, a deferred renewal fee to be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven, increased by such additional fees as would have been payable had such license been continuously renewed, receive a deferred renewal thereof which shall expire on the ensuing first day of May; provided, that such renewed license shall not constitute its holder a licensee for any period preceding its issue.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 142 - Supervision of Plumbing › Section 6a - Licensed Plumber or Gas Fitter Continuing Education Course

Section 6A. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, a licensed plumber or gas fitter shall complete a course of continuing education as determined by the examiners. The examiners shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary to carry out this section.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order › Chapter 142 - Supervision of Plumbing › Section 7 - Notice to Examiners of Violation of Statute, Ordinance or Regulation

Section 7. If, in the opinion of such inspector of buildings, if any, otherwise of the board of health, of a town, the holder of a license or certificate violates any statute, ordinance, by-law, rule or regulation relative to plumbing and gas fitting, said inspector or board of health of the town where such violation is committed shall give notice thereof to the examiners.