Code of Massachusetts Regulations › 740 CMR - MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY › Title 740 CMR 21.00 - Boston-logan International Airport, Laurence G. Hanscom Field, And Worcester Regional Airport - General Provisions › Section 21.62 - Safety and Fire Prevention Requirements

Current through Register 1525, July 5, 2024
(1) No person in or upon the Airport shall do
			 or omit to do any act if the doing or omission thereof endangers unreasonably
			 or is likely to endanger unreasonably persons or property.
(2) All persons at the Airport shall exercise
			 the utmost care to guard against injury to persons or property by fire or
			 otherwise.
(3) Detected fire, or
			 safety hazards, shall be immediately reported to the Fire Controlman.
(4) No person shall smoke or carry lighted
			 cigars, cigarettes, pipes, matches or any naked flame in or upon any fuel
			 storage area, landing area, ramp or apron area, aircraft parking and storage
			 area, or any open deck, gallery or balcony contiguous to and overlooking any
			 such area, in any other place where smoking is specifically prohibited by
			 signs, upon any open space within 50 feet of any fuel servicing vehicle which
			 is not in motion, or other place at the Airport under such circumstances as may
			 or might be likely to endanger persons or property.
(5) No person shall conduct any open flame
			 operations, operate an acetylene torch, electric arc or similar flame or spark
			 producing device on any part of the Airport except in areas within leased
			 premises designated for such use by the Executive Director, without first
			 obtaining permission in writing from the Executive Director, who may require
			 that a permit be obtained. No such permit will be issued for such operations
			 within an aircraft hangar or within any fuel storage area or fuel parking area,
			 unless the work is required for the repair and maintenance of said hangars or
			 areas. Should the Fire Controlman deem a "fire guard" to be necessary, such
			 shall be provided by and at the expense of the agency responsible for the
			 existence of the fire hazard.
(6)
			 No person shall, without prior permission of the Executive Director, keep,
			 transport, handle or store at, in or upon the Airport any cargo of explosives
			 or other dangerous articles which are barred from loading in or transportation
			 by civil aircraft in the United States under the current provisions of Part 103
			 of the Federal Air Regulations promulgated by the Federal Aviation
			 Administration. Any waiver of such regulations or of any part thereof by the
			 Federal Aviation Administration or by any other competent authority shall not
			 constitute or be construed to constitute a waiver of this rule or an implied
			 permission to keep, transport, handle or store such explosives or other
			 dangerous articles at, or upon an air terminal. Advance notice of at least 24
			 hours shall be given the Executive Director to permit full investigation and
			 clearance of any operation requiring a waiver of 740 CMR 21.62(6).
(7) No person shall at any time store, keep,
			 handle, use or transport at, in, or upon the Airport any article employing
			 atomic fission or radioactive force.
(8) No person shall store, keep, handle, use,
			 dispense or transport at, in, or upon the Airport any Class A or Class B
			 explosives as defined in the Interstate Commerce Commission regulations for
			 transportation of explosives and other dangerous articles, dynamite,
			 nitroglycerine, black powder, fireworks, blasting caps, or other explosives,
			 gasoline, alcohol, ether, liquid shellac, kerosene, turpentine, formaldehyde,
			 or other flammable or combustible liquids, ammonium nitrate, sodium chlorate,
			 wethemp, powered metallic magnesium nitrocellulose film, peroxides, or other
			 readily inflammable solids or oxidizing materials, hydrochloric acid, sulfuric
			 acid or other corrosive liquids, prussic acid, phosgene, arsenic, carbolic
			 acid, potassium cyanide, tear gas, lewisite or any Class A poisons (as defined
			 in the Interstate Commerce Commission regulations for transportation of
			 explosives and other dangerous articles), or any other poisonous substances,
			 liquids or gas, or any compressed gas, or any radioactive article, substance or
			 material, at such time or place or in such manner or condition as to endanger
			 unreasonably persons or property. The Executive Director may require that a
			 permit for the storage of all such materials be obtained from the Authority, to
			 be conspicuously posted at each location and subject to annual inspection and
			 renewal. Materials normally stored on and for the operational use of an
			 aircraft shall be exempt from the provisions of 740 CMR 21.62(8).
(9) The heating of engines at the Airport
			 shall be done only by the use of steam, hot water, hot air or approved electric
			 heaters.
(10) Aircraft shall be
			 parked on ramp and apron areas so as to permit free access of fire apparatus to
			 all sides of the aircraft at any time.
(11) No aircraft, vehicles, mobile equipment,
			 power units, ramps or associated equipment shall be located so as to prevent
			 free access to and the normal use of gates, doors or passageways nor within a
			 radius of 20 feet of any fire hydrant.
(12) Fire extinguisher equipment at the
			 Airport shall not be tampered with at any time or used for any purpose other
			 than firefighting or fire prevention. All such equipment shall be inspected in
			 conformity with the National Board of Fire Underwriters' regulations. Tags
			 showing the date of the last such inspection shall be left attached to each
			 unit.
(13) The lessee of a building
			 equipped with sprinkler systems shall assign qualified employees to make
			 inspections once each month of the systems to insure their in service
			 status.