Massachusetts Statutes

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 prope…

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 e…

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 enforcemen…

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.

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 h…

Section 1. As used in this chapter, the following words shall, unless the context requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— ''Actual loss'', amounts payable for the cost of repair, replacement, completion or performance under the terms of a residential contracting agreeme…

Section 10. In order to be registered as a contractor or subcontractor, an applicant shall make a written application under oath to the director on a form provided by him. Said application shall set forth information that includes, but shall not be limited to:— (a) applicant's na…

Section 11. (a) Every contractor or subcontractor shall pay a registration fee in an amount equal to the sum of: (i) the fee paid by construction supervisors pursuant to section 94 of chapter 143; and (ii) an amount necessary to recover the aggregate cost to the commonwealth asso…

Section 12. No application for registration or renewal conforming to the requirements of this chapter may be denied except for a finding by the director that the applicant has done one or more of the following acts which are grounds for denial: (1) made material omissions or misr…

Section 13. (a) The director shall keep on file, in convenient form and open to public inspection, all applications for registration and copies of registrations issued and the names of all contractors or subcontractors whose registration has been revoked, suspended or surrendered…

Section 14. The following persons are not required to be registered under this chapter: the commonwealth or any of its political subdivisions; any school, public or private, offering as part of a vocational education program courses and training in any aspects of home constructio…

Section 16. The director shall be responsible for the implementation of the provisions of this chapter and the promulgation of such rules and regulations as he shall deem necessary to implement the provisions of this chapter. Prior to the adoption, amendment or repeal of any regu…

Section 17. The following acts are prohibited by contractors or subcontractors: (1) operating without a certificate of registration issued by the director; (2) abandoning or failing to perform, without justification, any contract or project engaged in or undertaken by a registere…

Section 18. If the director determines that any registrant is liable for a violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, the director may suspend the registrant's certificate of registration for such period of time as shall be determined by the director, revoke the registra…

Section 19. Any contractor or subcontractor who shall knowingly, willfully, or negligently operate without obtaining a certificate of registration as required by this chapter and who is not otherwise exempt from the registration requirement or any contractor or subcontractor who …

Section 2. (a) Every agreement to perform residential contracting services in an amount in excess of one thousand dollars shall be in writing and shall include the following documents and information: (1) the complete agreement between the owner and the contractor and a clear des…

Section 20. If the director concludes that the continuing conduct of any person alleged to be in violation of this chapter may result in substantial or irreparable harm to any citizen of the commonwealth, he may seek: (a) A permanent or temporary injunction with respect to the co…

Section 21. This chapter shall not be construed to relieve or lessen the responsibility of any person registered under this chapter or licensed under section ninety-four of chapter one hundred and forty-three, nor shall the commonwealth be deemed to have assumed any such liabilit…

Section 3. (a) Any party may bring an action to enforce any provision of this chapter, or to seek damages subject to the provisions of this chapter, in the superior court, the district court, or the small claims division of the district court. (b) In the alternative, an owner may…

Section 4. (a) There shall be a private arbitration services program approved by the director, to consider disputes between owners and registered contractors and subcontractors, concerning or arising from contracts for residential contracting services. No claim may be filed for a…

Section 5. There shall be established a Residential Contractor's Guaranty Fund within the office of consumer affairs and business regulation, to compensate owners for actual losses incurred by them as a result of registered contractor or subcontractor conduct which has been found…

Section 6. The fund administrator shall operate the fund in accordance with this chapter and maintain the fund at a level which is commensurate with claims anticipated to be made against it. All monies collected shall be deposited to the credit of the fund into a special interest…

Section 7. An owner may make a claim to the fund only if the owner has complied with section 3, has obtained a judgment or arbitration award and has filed the claim to the fund not more than 7 years from the date of the contract, the contractor has failed to pay the judgment or a…

Section 8. When the fund administrator has paid from the fund any sum to a claimant, the fund administrator shall be subrogated to all the rights of the claimant up to the amount paid, and the claimant shall assign all the claimant's right, title, and interest in the claim up to …

Section 9. (a) No contractor or subcontractor shall undertake, offer to undertake, or agree to perform residential contracting services unless registered therefor with the approval of the office of consumer affairs and business regulation. (b) It shall be the duty of the director…

Section 1. In this chapter the following terms, unless a contrary meaning is required by the context or is specifically prescribed, shall have the following meanings: ''Alteration'', change in or addition to a building which reduces the means of exit or fire resistance or changes…

Section 10. An owner, lessee or mortgagee in possession aggrieved by such order may have the remedy prescribed by section two of chapter one hundred and thirty-nine; provided, that no provision of said section two shall be construed so as to hinder, delay or prevent the local ins…

Section 100. There shall be in the division of occupational licensure a building code appeals board, hereinafter called the appeals board, to consist of the board established under the provisions of section ninety-three. Whoever is aggrieved by an interpretation, order, requireme…

Section 101. The executive office of housing and livable communities shall promulgate regulations to ensure that no seller of a residential structure or a residential condominium unit, or an agent thereof, shall: (i) condition the acceptance of an offer to purchase on the prospec…

Section 11. If an owner, lessee or mortgagee in possession lives out of the commonwealth, the notice required by section six may be served upon him by a notary public, whose certificate of service under his notarial seal shall be sufficient evidence thereof.

Section 12. The supreme judicial or superior court may restrain the construction, alteration, repair, maintenance or use of a building or structure in violation of any ordinance or by-law of a city or town or of the state building code and order its removal or abatement as a nuis…

Section 13. Any inspector of the office of public safety and inspections of the division of occupational licensure, if called upon by the aldermen of any city or by the selectmen of any town, shall inspect any building or other structure in such city or town, or anything attached…

Section 14. If it appears to such inspector that the building or other structure, or anything attached to or connected therewith, is dangerous to life or limb in case of fire or otherwise, he shall cause it to be removed or rendered safe in the manner provided by sections six to …

Section 16A. The furnishing of, or failure to furnish, safety inspection or advisory services intended to reduce the likelihood of injury, death or loss shall not subject an insurer, its agent or employee undertaking to perform such services as an incident to insurance, to liabil…

Section 21D. The owner, lessee or mortgagee in possession of any multiple dwelling of ten or more units shall equip such dwelling with an auxiliary emergency lighting system independent of the conventional lighting system, and lighted signs indicating both a primary and secondary…

Section 22. Any article placed upon a fire escape or an outside means of egress of any building is hereby declared a common nuisance. Any court authorized to issue warrants in criminal cases may, upon complaint under oath made by any police officer that any article is placed or m…

Section 23. Every stairway of every building shall be kept free and unobstructed, and any person who permits any article to remain in any stairway of any building in such a manner as may impede the egress of any person lawfully in said building or the ingress of any person lawful…

Section 2A. The provisions of this chapter relative to the safety of persons in buildings shall apply to buildings and structures, other than the state house, owned, operated or controlled by the commonwealth, and to buildings and structures owned, operated or controlled by any d…

Section 2B. The commissioner shall promulgate and from time to time may amend and transmit to the commissioner of administration and finance and to the state superintendent of buildings such regulations as he may deem necessary to provide proper means of egress from and fire prot…

Section 2C. The state superintendent of buildings and the sergeant-at-arms shall prepare plans and make all necessary preparations for effecting the prompt, speedy and safe evacuation of the state house and the several floors, basements and portions thereof, in case of fire or ot…

Section 3. The chief administrative officer of each city or town shall employ and designate an inspector of buildings or building commissioner as well as such other local inspectors as are reasonably necessary to assist the inspector of buildings or building commissioner to admin…

Section 32. If a schoolhouse in any city has not been provided with a safe and proper egress or other means of escape from fire, as required by this chapter or by pertinent sections of the state building code, within six months after written notice by the local inspector to the o…

Section 35. The licensee shall be responsible, civilly and criminally, for noncompliance with the laws and the state building code applicable to the theatre, special hall or public hall, as defined by this chapter or by the state building code, covered by his license, and for non…

Section 3A. Unless otherwise provided by the state building code, the local inspector shall enforce the state building code as to any building or structure within the city or town from which he is appointed, including any building or structure owned by any authority established b…

Section 3L. The board of fire prevention regulations shall make and promulgate, and from time to time may alter, amend and repeal, rules and regulations relative to the installation, repair and maintenance of electrical wiring and electrical fixtures used for light, heat and powe…

Section 3N. No person shall engage in gas fitting in the city of Boston without first making application to the building commissioner of said city and obtaining a permit therefor in accordance with the state building code; nor shall any person engage in gas fitting in any other c…