Massachusetts Statutes

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 regulation…

Section 3. (a) The commissioner shall prescribe from time to time such rules and regulations as may be necessary or proper in carrying out the provisions of this chapter. Such rules and regulations may contain such classifications, differentiations or other provisions, and may pr…

Section 30. Each creditor shall, when directed by the commissioner, permit the commissioner or his duly authorized representative to inspect its relevant records and evidence of compliance with this chapter, or any rule or regulation issued thereunder.

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 commissi…

Section 32. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, any creditor who fails to comply with any requirement imposed under this chapter or any rule or regulation issued thereunder including any requirement under section ten with respect to any person is liable to such pers…

Section 33. (a) Except as otherwise specifically provided in this chapter, or any rule or regulation issued thereunder, any civil action for a violation of this chapter, or any rule or regulation issued thereunder, or proceeding under section six which may be brought against a cr…

Section 34. A violation of this chapter, or any rule or regulation issued hereunder, shall constitute a violation of chapter ninety-three A.

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,…

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 tra…

Section 4. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the amount of the finance charge in connection with any consumer credit transaction shall be determined as the sum of all charges, payable directly or indirectly by the person to whom the credit is extended, and imposed…

Section 5. (a) The annual percentage rate applicable to any extension of consumer credit shall be determined in accordance with the regulations of the commissioner. (1) In the case of any extension of credit other than an open-end-credit plan, as (A) that nominal annual percentag…

Section 6. (1) In carrying out the enforcement provisions of this chapter, or any rule or regulation issued thereunder, the commissioner, in cases where an annual percentage rate or finance charge was inaccurately disclosed, shall notify the creditor of such disclosure error and …

Section 7. (a) Subject to subsection (b), a creditor shall disclose to the person who is obligated on a consumer credit transaction the information required under this chapter. In a transaction involving more than one obligor, a creditor, except in a transaction under section ten…

Section 8. (a) Information required by this chapter shall be disclosed clearly and conspicuously, in accordance with regulations of the commissioner. The terms annual percentage rate and finance charge shall be disclosed more conspicuously than other terms, data or information pr…

Section 9. If information disclosed in accordance with this chapter is subsequently rendered inaccurate as the result of any act, occurrence, or agreement subsequent to the delivery of the required disclosures, the inaccuracy resulting therefrom does not constitute a violation of…

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…

Section 10. Fees and fines collected under this chapter shall be paid to the commonwealth.

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…

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 conv…

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 i…

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 …

Section 3. The following forms of license shall be issued: certificate A, known as master electrician's license; certificate B, known as journeyman electrician's license; certificate C, known as systems contractor's license; and certificate D, known as systems technician's licens…

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 …

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 f…

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.

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…

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 corpor…

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 sub…

Section 1. In this chapter the following words shall have the following meanings:— ''Certificate'', a certificate of registration issued in accordance with section three of chapter five hundred and thirty-six of the acts of nineteen hundred and nine, section two of chapter five h…

Section 10. Two or more towns may unite in forming an inspection district, the expense thereof to be paid on such basis as may be agreed upon by the boards of health thereof.

Section 11. The said inspector of buildings, if any, otherwise the board of health, of each city and town, shall, within three months after it becomes subject to sections one to sixteen, inclusive, appoint from the classified civil service list one or more inspectors of plumbing …

Section 11A. In any city with a population over seventy-five thousand which accepts the provisions of this section, notwithstanding the provisions of section eleven or any other general or special law or ordinance to the contrary, inspectors of plumbing and the inspectors of gasf…

Section 11B. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, inspectors of plumbing and inspectors of gas fitting shall complete a minimum of 12 hours per year of continuing education which shall include the review and interpretation of plumbing and fuel gas codes and…

Section 12. No inspector of plumbing or inspector of gas fitting shall inspect or approve any plumbing or gas fitting work done by himself, his employer, employee or one employed with him, but in a city or town subject to sections one to sixteen, inclusive, the said inspector of …

Section 13. In all cities and towns, the examiners shall make and from time to time in like manner alter, amend and repeal rules and regulations relative to the construction, alteration, repair and inspection of plumbing in such cities and towns, which rules and regulations shall…

Section 14. Sections one to sixteen, inclusive, shall apply to all persons learning the business of plumbing and gas fitting when they are sent out to do the work of a journeyman.

Section 15. Inspectors of buildings and boards of health shall annually, before June first, make a detailed report to their respective cities or towns of all their proceedings under sections one to sixteen, inclusive, during the preceding year.

Section 16. Every person engaged in the business of a master plumber or a master gas fitter or working as a journeyman plumber or a journeyman gas fitter or as an apprentice gas fitter or an apprentice plumber or as an undiluted liquefied petroleum gas installer or a limited undi…

Section 17. No range boiler, tank, vessel or container, ferrous or non-ferrous, in which water is to be heated or stored under pressure for domestic, culinary or sanitary purposes, in this section and in sections eighteen and nineteen referred to as hot water tanks, shall be sold…

Section 18. No hot water tank shall be repaired, relocated or installed and connected, unless it meets the following construction requirements:— A. The actual capacity of a hot water tank shall be within seven and one half per cent of the capacity stamped on the tank. B. A hot wa…

Section 19. No hot water tank shall be installed and connected unless it is protected with safety devices as follows:— A. A hot water tank in which water is to be heated or stored under pressure greater than fifteen pounds per square inch shall be equipped with a suitable pressur…

Section 2. Sections one through twenty-two, except section twenty-one, shall apply to all cities and towns.

Section 20. The three preceding sections shall not apply to the sale or offering for sale of installed range boilers or to the sale or offering for sale of range boilers as junk.

Section 21. The examiners shall formulate rules relative to the construction, alteration, repair and inspection of all plumbing and gas fitting work in buildings owned, used and constructed by the commonwealth and in buildings owned, used and constructed by the University of Mass…

Section 21A. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, no licensed plumber or gas fitter, acting in the capacity of a self-employed contractor, shall be issued a permit for the performance of plumbing and gas fitting, pursuant to this chapter u…

Section 22. Whoever violates any provision of section seventeen, eighteen or nineteen shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars. Inspectors of plumbing or other proper authorities shall cause the provisions of said sections to be enforced.