Chapter 149

Section 29. Officers or agents contracting in behalf of the commonwealth or in behalf of any county, city, town, district or other political subdivision of the commonwealth or other public instrumentality for the construction, reconstruction, alteration, remodeling, repair or dem…

Section 29A. Whenever any surety bond shall be given in connection with any written contract for the erection, alteration, repair or removal of any private building or structure upon privately owned land, containing a condition for the payment of all labor and material used or re…

Section 29B. No provision in specifications inviting bids for construction work reserving the right to waive or cancel the requirement for furnishing a payment bond shall be valid as a defense against a claimant who relied upon the provision requiring the furnishing of the paymen…

Section 29C. Any provision for or in connection with a contract for construction, reconstruction, installation, alteration, remodeling, repair, demolition or maintenance work, including without limitation, excavation, backfilling or grading, on any building or structure, whether …

Section 29D. Every bid bond, every performance bond and every payment bond issued for any construction work in the commonwealth shall be the bond of a surety company organized pursuant to section 105 of chapter 175 or of a surety company authorized to do business in the commonwea…

Section 29E. (a) As used in this section the following words shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: ''Contract for construction'', a contract for which a lien may be established under sections 2 or 4 of chapter 254 on a project for which…

Section 29F. (a) As used in this section, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— ''Claim'', an allegation that a person seeking payment of retainage breached the person's contract for construction for the project; p…

Section 3. The inspection and investigation carried on by the attorney general shall be a regular and systematic inspection and investigation of all places of employment, other than places of employment of persons engaged in domestic service in the home of the employer, and the c…

Section 30. The service of all laborers, workmen, mechanics, foremen and inspectors now or hereafter employed by the commonwealth or any county therein or any town which, by vote of the city council, or of the voters at a town meeting, accepts this section or has accepted section…

Section 30A. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter or other general or special law, the service of all persons employed by the commonwealth is hereby restricted to five tours of duty in any one work week, and to such hours in any one work week, not less than thirty-…

Section 30B. All service in excess of eight hours in any one tour of duty or forty hours in any one work week rendered by any employee of the commonwealth at the request of an officer of the commonwealth or other person whose duty it is to employ, direct or control such employee,…

Section 30C. The service of all members of the uniformed members of the state police and land based environmental police officers of the division of law enforcement shall consist of an average of forty hours per week over a period of one or more work weeks not in excess of eight,…

Section 31. The service of all laborers, workmen and mechanics now or hereafter employed by any town which has accepted section twenty of chapter one hundred and six of the Revised Laws, or section forty-two of chapter five hundred and fourteen of the acts of nineteen hundred and…

Section 32. In construing sections thirty, thirty-one, thirty-three and thirty-four the words ''laborers, workmen and mechanics'' shall be deemed to include engineers and also janitors, custodians and other employees doing similar work in schools or other public buildings under t…

Section 33. It shall not be a violation of section thirty or thirty-one if, in the event of a Saturday half holiday being given to a laborer, workman or mechanic, his hours of labor upon other working days are increased sufficiently to make a total of forty-eight hours for his we…

Section 33A. Except as otherwise provided in this section and notwithstanding any other provision of general or special law, the service of all persons employed by every city in which this section has been accepted in the manner provided in earlier provisions thereof, or shall be…

Section 33B. Except as otherwise provided in this section and notwithstanding any other provision of general or special law, the service of all persons employed by every city in which this section shall be accepted, in the case of cities having a Plan E charter, by the affirmativ…

Section 33C. Notwithstanding any other provision of general or special law, any permanent employee of a city or town who is required to work in excess of his regular number of maximum hours per week as regulated by law, ordinance or by-law or rule shall be compensated for such ad…

Section 33D. Any employee of the commonwealth, of any county, and of any city or town which accepts the provisions of this section, shall be allowed a leave of absence without loss of pay of not more than eight hours in each calendar year for the purpose of donating platelets, pl…

Section 33E. (a) An employee of the commonwealth or of a county, or of a city or town that accepts this section, may take a leave of absence of not more than 30 days in a calendar year to serve as an organ donor, without loss of or reduction in pay, without loss of leave to which…

Section 34. Every contract, except for the purchase of material or supplies, involving the employment of laborers, workmen, mechanics, foremen or inspectors, to which the commonwealth or any county or any town, subject to section thirty, is a party, shall contain a stipulation th…

Section 34A. Every contract for the construction, alteration, maintenance, repair or demolition of, or addition to, any public building or other public works for the commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof shall contain stipulations requiring that the contractor shall, …

Section 34B. Every contract for the construction, alteration, maintenance, repair or demolition of, or addition to, any public works for the commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof shall contain stipulations requiring that the contractor shall pay to any reserve police …

Section 34C. The provisions of sections thirty, thirty-four and thirty-five and of any other pertinent sections shall apply to the commonwealth or any city or town only to the extent that such application will not be inconsistent with the provisions of section thirty A or section…

Section 35. Any agent or official of the commonwealth or of any county, city or town, or any contractor or sub-contractor, or any agent or person acting on behalf of any contractor or sub-contractor, who violates section thirty, thirty-one or thirty-four shall be punished by a fi…

Section 36. Sections thirty, thirty-one and thirty-four shall not apply to the preparation, printing, shipment and delivery of ballots to be used at a caucus, primary, state, city or town election, and said sections and sections forty-eight and fifty-six shall not apply during th…

Section 37. In any town not subject to section thirty or thirty-one nine hours shall constitute a day's work for all laborers, workmen and mechanics employed by or on behalf of such town.

Section 38. All laborers, workmen and mechanics permanently in the employ of the commonwealth who are within the provisions of section thirty as affected by sections thirty-two and thirty-six shall be entitled to an annual vacation of at least twelve working days with pay.

Section 39. The maximum hours of labor of laborers, workmen and mechanics, of ward attendants, ward nurses, industrial and occupational therapists and watchmen, and of employees in kitchen, dining-room and domestic services, in state and county institutions, and of officers and i…

Section 4. The department shall promptly report to the department of public health all cases of disease in industrial establishments affecting the health of the community.

Section 41. Except as provided in section sixty-five of chapter ninety-two, all laborers, workmen and mechanics employed by the commonwealth in any capacity, or by any officer, department or board on behalf of the commonwealth, who are permanent employees or who have been certifi…

Section 42. So far as possible, all work by laborers, workmen and mechanics employed by the commonwealth or by any officer, department, board or commission on behalf of the commonwealth, shall be on the day work basis.

Section 43. The application of a citizen of the commonwealth for employment in any department of the commonwealth or of any political subdivision thereof or in any department of a street railway company, operated, owned, controlled or financially aided in any way by the commonwea…

Section 44. No veteran, as defined in section one of chapter thirty-one, in the service of the commonwealth or of any county, city or town therein, except policemen, firemen, and members of the office of public safety and inspections of the division of occupational licensure or t…

Section 44A. (1) The words defined in this section shall have the meaning set forth below whenever they appear in sections forty-four A through forty-four H, inclusive, of this chapter unless indicated otherwise or unless the context in which they are used clearly requires a diff…

Section 44B. (1) The awarding authority shall prepare for bidding purposes a sufficient number of sets of plans and specifications so that there will be available without cost or charge, except for a fully refundable deposit for return of the same in good condition, one complete …

Section 44C. The commissioner may suspend or debar contractors in accordance with the provisions of section twenty-nine F of chapter twenty-nine.

Section 44D. (1) (a) Every bid or offer submitted for a contract subject to section forty-four A shall be accompanied by a copy of a certificate of eligibility issued by the commissioner showing that the bidder or offeror has the classification and capacity rating to perform the …

Section 44E. (1) Whenever general bids are invited for a contract subject to section 44A and whenever sub-bids are invited in connection with such a contract subject to subsection (1) of section 44F, the awarding authority shall prescribe 1 place for filing the general bids and 1…

Section 44F. (1)(a) Every contract subject to section forty-four A shall include specifications and, if deemed necessary or convenient by the awarding authority, plans, detailing all labor and materials to be furnished thereunder. Such specifications shall have a separate section…

Section 44G. (A) ''Allowance'' as used herein means a sum of money covering one or more items of labor or labor and materials which is designated in bid documents and which general bidders are required to use in computing their bids. The use of such allowances shall be prohibited…

Section 44H. Except as otherwise provided by sections 44A to 44H, inclusive, and except for the consideration and determination after contract award as to whether an item is equal to an item named or described in the specifications for a contract, the attorney general or his desi…

Section 44I. If any provision of sections forty-four A to forty-four H, inclusive, or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance shall be held invalid or unconstitutional, the other provisions of said sections or the application of such provision to any perso…

Section 44J. (1) No public agency or authority of the commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof shall award any contract for which competitive bids are required pursuant to section forty-four A of this chapter or section thirty-nine M of chapter thirty, or for which compe…

Section 44M. As used in this section the following words shall have the following meanings:— ''New Building'', an entire building or any addition to an existing building that adds at least ten per cent gross floor space to the building, where the cost of construction is estimated…

Section 45. Whoever requires an employee to work in any mill or factory on any legal holiday, except to perform such work as is both absolutely necessary and can lawfully be performed on Sunday, shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifteen hundred dollars.

Section 46. No person shall require or request any employee of a manufacturing or mechanical establishment to work more hours in any one day than is limited by law, in order to make up time lost by reason of a legal holiday.

Section 47. Whoever, except at the request of the employee, requires an employee engaged in any commercial occupation or in the work of any industrial process not subject to the following section or in the work of transportation or communication to do on Sunday the usual work of …

Section 48. Every employer of labor engaged in carrying on any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment or workshop in the commonwealth shall allow every person, except those specified in section fifty, but including watchmen and employees maintaining fires, employed…