Massachusetts Statutes

Section 61. Three inspectors of the division of inspection of the department of fire services shall act as a board of examiners. The applicant shall be examined as to the construction, installation, maintenance and repair of steam boilers and their appurtenances in the case of an…

Section 61A. Three inspectors of the office of inspections of the division of professional licensure shall act as a board of examiners for the certification of competency to inspect amusement devices. The applicant shall be examined in such matters as the inspectors shall deem re…

Section 62. If the applicant is found competent he shall receive a certificate of competency to inspect steam boilers, as the case may be; provided, however, that if the holder of a certificate ceases to be employed as an inspector for a period of one year or more his certificate…

Section 62A. If the applicant is found competent he shall receive a certificate of competency to inspect amusement devices; provided, however, that if the holder of a certificate ceases to be employed as an inspector for a period of one year or more his certificate shall lapse an…

Section 63. A person who is refused a certificate of competency, or whose certificate is revoked, may appeal from such decision to the issuing authority, who shall grant a rehearing of the case by a board of five examiners, no one of whom shall have acted as an examiner in the fo…

Section 64. Whoever desires to act as an engineer or fireman shall apply for a license to the department. The applicant shall be examined by the inspector assigned to the district in which the applicant resides or is employed. The examinations shall be uniform throughout the comm…

Section 65. Whoever desires to act as an operator of hoisting machinery shall apply to the division of occupational licensure for a license. If the criteria for licensure established by the commissioner of the division of occupational licensure pursuant to section fifty-three are…

Section 65A. Whoever desires to act as an operator of compact hoisting machinery for rent for which licensure is required under section 53, on a temporary basis, shall apply to the person or entity from which the machinery is to be rented for a temporary permit; provided, however…

Section 66. A person aggrieved by the action of a single examiner in refusing, suspending or revoking a license to act as engineer or fireman may, within one week, appeal therefrom to the chief of the division of inspection of the department of fire services, who shall appoint th…

Section 66A. A person aggrieved by the action of a single examiner in refusing, suspending or revoking a license to act as an operator of hoisting machinery may, within 1 week, appeal therefrom to the commissioner of the division of occupational licensure, who shall appoint 3 ins…

Section 67. A license shall continue in force until the date of birth of the licensee occurring more than twelve months but not more than twenty-four months after the effective date of such license unless suspended or revoked for incompetence or untrustworthiness of the licensee,…

Section 67A. The chief of inspections of the division of inspection of the department of fire services, the supervising inspector of the division or an inspector of the division shall act as an examiner for the certification of oil burner technicians. The chief of inspections sha…

Section 69. The state fire marshal may expend the amount annually appropriated for investigation work, for apparatus used in connection with the inspection of steam boilers and for the installation and maintenance of apparatus in the examination of engineers and firemen.

Section 7. The preceding section shall not apply to boilers of railroad locomotives, motor vehicles or steam fire engines brought into the commonwealth for temporary use in times of emergency, nor to boilers used in private residences, nor to those used for heating purposes which…

Section 70. All hot water heating boilers, except boilers specified in section seven, when used for space heating or as a heat storage source when the primary fluid circulates only within the code containment vessel or for process heating, and their appurtenances, that come withi…

Section 71. No person shall operate or cause to be operated any boiler required by section seventy to be inspected until it has been inspected, nor shall the boiler be operated at pressures or temperatures in excess of the safe working pressure or temperature as ascertained by th…

Section 72. If in the judgment of the inspector of the division or of the insurance company, it is advisable to apply a hydrostatic test to a boiler, the owner or user shall prepare the boiler for such test, as directed by the inspector of the division or of the insurance company…

Section 73. The inspection of hot water heating boilers and their appurtenances may be made by inspectors of insurance companies authorized to insure boilers in the commonwealth; or, in the case of shop inspections in a boiler shop outside of the commonwealth, by such other inspe…

Section 74. No person shall remove or tamper with any safety appliance prescribed by the board or by the ASME Code, section one, four or eight. The safety relief valve shall not be loaded to a greater pressure than that allowed by the certificate of inspection for the boiler.

Section 75. Every insurance company authorized to insure or to reinsure boilers in the commonwealth shall have in its employ at least one inspector who holds a certificate of competency under section sixty-two and resides in the commonwealth. When an inspector holding such a cert…

Section 76. No person shall act as an inspector of boilers for an insurance company unless such person holds a certificate of competency under section 62.

Section 77. The inspectors of the division shall make reports of all inspections and shall make such recommendations to the chief of inspections as they may deem expedient. Every insurance company shall forward to the chief of inspections, within fourteen days after each inspecti…

Section 78. The owner or user of a boiler required by section seventy to be inspected shall prepare the boiler for inspection as directed by the inspector. The inspector shall, if requested, give the owner or user at least fourteen days notice to prepare a boiler for inspection; …

Section 79. The certificate of inspection issued by the department shall state the name of the owner and that of the user, if different from the owner, the location of the boiler, the number of the boiler, the date of inspection, the maximum pressure at which the boiler may be op…

Section 8. No person shall operate or cause to be operated any boiler required by this chapter to be inspected until it has been inspected, and the certificate of inspection required by section twenty-three or twenty-five has been issued and so placed in the engine or boiler room…

Section 80. (a) Whoever violates any provision of sections 70 to 79, inclusive, or of the rules of the board, or that of the code which is appropriate to a boiler under the jurisdiction of the above sections, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $500, nor by less than $50…

Section 81. As used in this section and in sections eighty-two to eighty-eight, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meanings: ''Apprentice pipefitter'', a person who is registered and is learning or working at the business of pipefitting under the direct super…

Section 82. The bureau shall adopt regulations for the examining and licensing of fire sprinkler contractors, pipefitters, refrigeration technicians and sprinkler fitters, including the classification of pipefitter licenses, which shall include, but not be limited to, pipefitter …

Section 83. The district engineering inspectors of the office of public safety and inspections of the division of occupational licensure shall act as examiners of applicants for fire sprinkler system contractor, pipefitter, refrigeration and sprinkler fitter licenses. For the exa…

Section 84. No person shall engage in the business of a master pipefitter, work as a journeyman or apprentice pipefitter, work as a refrigeration technician or work on a fire protection sprinkler system as a fire protection sprinkler system contractor or as a sprinkler fitter or …

Section 85. Each application for a license under this section shall be filed with the office of public safety and inspections of the division of occupational licensure on a blank furnished by said office. The office of public safety and inspections of the division of occupational…

Section 85A. Every apprentice sprinkler fitter shall before starting his apprenticeship file an application, accompanied by the appropriate fee, with the office of public safety and inspections of the division of occupational licensure, requesting that he be issued an apprentice …

Section 86. A license for a refrigeration technician, refrigeration contractor or a refrigeration trainee shall be classified and limited as to the maximum size of the refrigerating system with which the applicant is familiar in installing or servicing, and the applicant shall be…

Section 87. The provisions of sections eighty-one to eighty-six, inclusive, relative to the examining and licensing of pipefitters shall not apply to pipefitting performed by a person regularly in the employ of an industrial plant, firm corporation, college, gas company, electric…

Section 88. The provisions of sections eighty-one to eighty-six, inclusive, relative to the examining and licensing of refrigeration technicians, contractors or trainees shall not apply to the installation, replacement, maintenance or alteration of any air conditioning or refrige…

Section 88A. (a) The sprinkler fitter's examination and licensing requirements under sections 81 to 86, inclusive, shall not apply to individuals who are: (i) regularly employed by a public water system or who are utility contractors approved and working for a public water system…

Section 89. 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 as defined in section eighty-one, without having complied with this chapter, sh…

Section 9. No person shall operate or cause to be operated any boiler required by this chapter to be inspected at pressures in excess of the safe working pressure ascertained by the rules of the board and stated in the certificate of inspection nor unless the boiler is equipped w…

Section 90. The owner or user of a boiler or air tank or other receptacle inspected by an inspector shall pay a fee to be determined annually by the secretary of administration and finance pursuant to section 3B of chapter 7 for the issuance of a certificate of inspection by the …

Section 1. The commissioner of the division of occupational licensure, in this chapter called the commissioner, shall have charge of the administration and enforcement of all laws, rules and regulations which it is the duty of the division of occupational licensure, in this chapt…

Section 10F. Any board or officer authorized to appoint police officers in any city or town which accepts this section, and any college, university or other educational institution empowered by law to make or establish rules or regulations regulating the parking of motor vehicles…

Section 11. Any city in which the city council, with the approval of the mayor, accepts this and the two following sections or has accepted corresponding provisions of earlier laws, may establish a reserve police force; and appointments thereto shall, subject to chapter thirty-on…

Section 12. The number of members of such reserve force shall not exceed five in cities in which the number of members of the regular force does not exceed fifteen. If the number of members of the regular force exceeds fifteen, one member may be added to the reserve force for eve…

Section 13. The mayor, chief of police or city marshal of a city in which such reserve force is established may assign the members thereof to duty in said city whenever and for such length of time as said mayor, chief of police or marshal may deem necessary; and when on duty the …

Section 13A. A town having an organized police force or department, other than a town in which a reserve police force is established under special law, which accepts the provisions of this section, may establish a reserve police force consisting of such number of members as the t…

Section 13B. In any city which has accepted sections eleven to thirteen, inclusive, or the corresponding provisions of earlier laws, or has a reserve police force under authority of special law, and accepts this section, no person shall, after the date of acceptance of this secti…