General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 143 Inspection and Regulation Of, and Licenses For, Buildings, Elevators and Cinematographs

• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 143, 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”,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1968, 232 - Chapter 143, Section 2
  Repealed, 1968,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Buildings operated by commonwealth or its subdivisions; window cleaners and elevator inspections - Chapter 143, 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,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Regulations relative to egress from, and fire prevention in, state house - Chapter 143, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Evacuation of state house in case of disaster; fire drills - Chapter 143, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inspector of buildings or building commissioner; local inspectors; employment and designation; qualifications; city or town without local inspectors - Chapter 143, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement of state building code - Chapter 143, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1972, 802, Sec. 17 - Chapter 143, Section 3B
  Repealed, 1972, 802, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1945, 645, Sec. 3 - Chapter 143, Section 3C
  Repealed, 1945, 645, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1972, 802, Sec. 17 - Chapter 143, Section 3D
  Repealed, 1972, 802, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1945, 645, Sec. 3 - Chapter 143, Section 3E 3F
  Repealed, 1945, 645, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1972, 802, Sec. 17 - Chapter 143, Section 3G to 3J
  Repealed, 1972, 802, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1950, 534, Sec. 2 - Chapter 143, Section 3K
  Repealed, 1950, 534, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Regulations relative to electrical wiring and fixtures; notice of electrical installation - Chapter 143, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1951, 752 - Chapter 143, Section 3M
  Repealed, 1951,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Gas fitting; permit; notice; penalties - Chapter 143, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Gas fitting; appointment and duties of inspector - Chapter 143, Section 3O
  Each city and town shall provide by ordinance or by-law for the appointment of an inspector of gas piping and gas appliances in buildings who...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appeal to board of electricians’ appeals; judicial review - Chapter 143, Section 3P
  Whoever is aggrieved by a notice, interpretation, order, requirement or direction of an inspector of wires or other person charged with the enforcement of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Convalescent, nursing, etc., homes; rules and regulations regarding safety of persons and fire prevention - Chapter 143, Section 3Q
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the provisions of this chapter relative to the safety of persons and the prevention of fire...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Apartment houses; exterior doors and locks - Chapter 143, Section 3R
  At least one of the doors of the main common entryway into every apartment house having more than three apartments shall be so designed or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Multiple dwellings; posting name and address of owner or agent; penalty - Chapter 143, Section 3S
  An owner of a dwelling which is rented for residential use, who does not reside therein and who does not employ a manager or agent...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Safety glazing materials; use in construction of buildings in hazardous locations; definitions for Secs. 3U and 3V - Chapter 143, Section 3T
  The following phrases, as used in sections three U and three V shall, unless the context requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— “Safety glazing material”,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Labeling of safety glazing materials - Chapter 143, Section 3U
  Each light of safety glazing material manufactured, distributed, imported, or sold for use in hazardous locations or installed in such a location within the commonwealth...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties for failure to install, etc. safety glazing materials; applicability to employees of violators - Chapter 143, Section 3V
  Whoever knowingly sells, fabricates, assembles, glazes, installs, consents or causes to be installed glazing materials other than safety glazing materials in, or for use in,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Conformance of plans and specifications for erection or alteration of public buildings to rules and regulations of board to facilitate use by the physically handicapped as requirement for issuance of certificate of approval - Chapter 143, Section 3W
  In issuing a certificate of approval for the erection or alteration of a public building under section fifteen, a supervisor of plans shall, in addition...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Building permits for ten or more residential units; notice to local postmaster - Chapter 143, Section 3X
  The inspector of buildings in cities and towns shall notify the local United States postmaster upon the issuance of any building permit containing ten or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inspector of buildings, building commissioner or local inspector; appointment - Chapter 143, Section 3Y
  In any city or town which accepts the provisions of this section, inspector of buildings, building commissioner or local inspector so employed and designated under...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Part time inspector of buildings, building commissioner, local inspector, or alternate inspector; other employment - Chapter 143, Section 3Z
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, in any city, town or district which accepts the provisions of this section,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1972, 802, Sec. 22 - Chapter 143, Section 4 5
  Repealed, 1972, 802, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Local inspector; duties - Chapter 143, Section 6
  The local inspector, immediately upon being informed by report or otherwise that a building or other structure or anything attached thereto or connected therewith in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Removal or making structure safe; putting up fence - Chapter 143, Section 7
  Any person so notified shall be allowed until twelve o’clock noon of the day following the service of the notice in which to begin to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Failure to remove or make structure safe; survey board; survey; report - Chapter 143, Section 8
  If an owner, lessee or mortgagee in possession of such unsafe structure refuses or neglects to comply with the requirements of such notice within the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dangerous or abandoned structures removed or made safe by local inspector; costs; penalty; use of structure - Chapter 143, Section 9
  If such report declares such structure to be dangerous or to be unused, uninhabited or abandoned, and open to the weather, and if the owner,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Taking or injuring other property in removing dangerous structures or making them safe - Chapter 143, Section 9A
  If, by any act done by an officer of a city or town for the purpose of making safe or taking down any dangerous structure,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Remedy of person ordered to remove a dangerous structure or make it safe - Chapter 143, 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;...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Service of notice on non-resident; certificate - Chapter 143, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Restraint of construction, repair, or use of a structure; order for removal - Chapter 143, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inspection by inspector of department of public safety - Chapter 143, Section 13
  Any inspector of the division of inspection, if called upon by the aldermen of any city or by the selectmen of any town, shall inspect...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Dangerous structures removed or rendered safe - Chapter 143, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1972, 802, Sec. 28 - Chapter 143, Section 15 to 16
  Repealed, 1972, 802, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Furnishing safety inspection or advisory services; liability of insurers - Chapter 143, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1972, 802, Sec. 28 - Chapter 143, Section 17 to 21C
  Repealed, 1972, 802, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Auxiliary emergency lighting systems; exit signs; rules and regulations - Chapter 143, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Articles placed on fire escapes - Chapter 143, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Articles obstructing stairways - Chapter 143, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1972, 802, Sec. 28 - Chapter 143, Section 24 to 31
  Repealed, 1972, 802, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fire escapes for schoolhouses - Chapter 143, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1972, 802, Sec. 30 - Chapter 143, Section 33 34
  Repealed, 1972, 802, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Responsibility of licensee of theatres and halls - Chapter 143, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1972, 802, Sec. 32 - Chapter 143, Section 36 to 42
  Repealed, 1972, 802, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fire escape affixed by joint owner, lessee or occupant; projection over highway or right of way - Chapter 143, Section 43
  If a building is owned, leased or occupied, jointly or in severalty, any owner, lessee or occupant may affix to any part of the outside...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1972, 802, Sec. 32 - Chapter 143, Section 44 to 49
  Repealed, 1972, 802, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Hindering commissioner, chief of inspection or inspectors or local inspectors from entering building or enclosure - Chapter 143, Section 50
  Any person who hinders or prevents or attempts to prevent the commissioner, the chief of inspections of the department or any inspector or local inspector...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Liability for violation of statutes; criminal prosecution; notice to firm or corporation - Chapter 143, Section 51
  The owner, lessee, mortgagee in possession or occupant, being the party in control, of a place of assembly, theatre, special hall, public hall, factory, workshop,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1972, 802, Sec. 36 - Chapter 143, Section 52 to 54
  Repealed, 1972, 802, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Acceptance or approval of construction plans or specifications; seal of architect or professional engineer - Chapter 143, Section 54A
  No officer, board or commission of the commonwealth, or of any city, town or district, charged with the enforcement of the state building code or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1972, 802, Sec. 38 - Chapter 143, Section 55 56
  Repealed, 1972, 802, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Restraint of construction, alteration or use of structure - Chapter 143, Section 57
  The supreme judicial court or superior court shall have jurisdiction in equity to enforce the provisions of this chapter, the provisions of the state building...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Jurisdiction of prosecutions and proceedings at law - Chapter 143, Section 58
  District courts shall have jurisdiction concurrently with the superior court of prosecutions and proceedings at law under sections three to fifty-two, inclusive.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement of statutes and orders - Chapter 143, Section 59
  The supreme judicial court or superior court may, upon the application of the commissioner, an inspector or local inspector, enforce by any suitable process or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Restraint of use of structure; removal; presumption as to act without license or authority - Chapter 143, Section 60
  The supreme judicial court or the superior court may restrain the illegal placing, maintenance or use of any building, structure or other thing. It may,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notice to assessors of building permits - Chapter 143, Section 61
  The local inspector in every city and town shall give to the assessors thereof written notice of the granting by him of permits for the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Elevator inspection system - Chapter 143, Section 62
  The commissioner shall cause a system of elevator inspection to be instituted and maintained in the commonwealth. The commissioner shall assign an adequate number of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fees for inspections and safety tests - Chapter 143, Section 62A
  The owner or person in control of a building in which an elevator is operated shall pay fees to be determined annually by the secretary...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Test of safety devices on completion of work; certificate of approval - Chapter 143, Section 63
  On completion of the work of installation or alteration, the manufacturer of the elevator or the person making the alterations shall make a practical test...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Periodic inspections and tests; reports - Chapter 143, Section 64
  [Text of section applicable as provided by 2012, 36, Sec. 54.] All elevators shall be thoroughly inspected and a practical test made of the safety...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate or notice as to safety and construction; posting; removal; prohibition of use of elevator; penalty for violations - Chapter 143, Section 65
  If in the judgment of an inspector assigned by the commissioner that an elevator is safe, and if the elevator has been constructed in the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Reports as to unsafe conditions and accidents; inspection - Chapter 143, Section 66
  Any owner, operator or person in charge of an elevator or any person employed to inspect, repair or install an elevator shall immediately, if an...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1956, 481 - Chapter 143, Section 67
  Repealed, 1956,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Board of regulations; amendments to regulations - Chapter 143, Section 68
  The board of elevator regulations shall promulgate amendments to the regulations relating to the construction, installation, alteration and operation of all elevators, and relative to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Amendments to regulations generally; assistance by attorney general; furnished to persons concerned; hearings; notice - Chapter 143, Section 69
  The board of elevator regulations shall from time to time draft amendments to the regulations referred to in section sixty-eight, and shall forthwith transmit such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appeals; procedure; effect - Chapter 143, Section 70
  (a) Whoever is aggrieved by an interpretation, order, requirement or direction of an inspector or other person charged with the enforcement of any provision of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violation of statutes or regulations - Chapter 143, Section 71
  Any person violating or failing to comply with any provision of sections sixty-two to seventy, inclusive, or of any regulation established thereunder shall be punished...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Board of examiners; membership; qualifications; chairman; compensation of members - Chapter 143, Section 71A
  There shall be in the department a board to consist of not less than three examiners to be appointed by and serve at the pleasure...
• Massachusetts General Laws - License for construction, maintenance or repair; necessity; application of law - Chapter 143, Section 71B
  No person shall work as an elevator constructor, maintenance man and repairman in the construction, maintenance or repair of elevators unless he holds a license...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Examinations by board; fees; qualifications of applicants; terms, revocation or suspension of license; appeals; temporary licenses; continuing education requirements - Chapter 143, Section 71C
  (1) The board shall hold frequent examinations in such municipalities as it deems necessary. Public notice shall be given of all examinations. Each person that...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Working without license; violations; punishment - Chapter 143, Section 71D
  Whoever works as a constructor, maintenance man and repairman in the construction, maintenance or repair of elevators without a license, or during the suspension thereof,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definition for “elevator” - Chapter 143, Section 71E
  As used in sections 62 to 71F, inclusive, the term “elevator” shall include moving stairways, dumbwaiters, moving walks, material lifts, wheelchair lifts, automatic people movers,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - License or temporary license; necessity - Chapter 143, Section 71F
  Such license or temporary license shall not be required for the installation of signal systems, fans, telephones, electric light fixtures, illuminated thresholds and feed wires...
• Massachusetts General Laws - License of elevator operator; duration; expiration; fees - Chapter 143, Section 71G
  No person shall work as an elevator operator unless he has received a license therefor from the commissioner of public safety. Licenses shall be valid...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Board; establishment; membership; appointment; terms; compensation; expenses; personnel - Chapter 143, Section 71H
  There shall be in the department, but not under the control of the commissioner, a recreational tramway board, in this section and sections seventy-one I...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 143, Section 71I
  As used in sections seventy-one H to seventy-one S, inclusive, the following words shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the following meanings: “Recreational tramway”,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations - Chapter 143, Section 71J
  After a hearing, the board shall adopt, and may from time to time amend or revoke, rules and regulations for the construction, operation and maintenance...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Licenses; issuance - Chapter 143, Section 71K
  No recreational tramway shall be operated unless a license for such operation has been issued by the board. Such license shall be issued for a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Fees - Chapter 143, Section 71L
  Each application for a license, as specified in the following schedule, or a renewal thereof shall be accompanied by a fee. Type of Tramway 1....
• Massachusetts General Laws - Orders; appeal - Chapter 143, Section 71M
  Any operator who is aggrieved by any order of the board may appeal therefrom to the superior court. No such appeal shall suspend the operation...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Duties of ski area operators - Chapter 143, Section 71N
  A ski area operator shall: (1) whenever maintenance or snow-making equipment is being employed on any ski slope or trail open to the public, conspicuously...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Duties of skiers - Chapter 143, Section 71O
  No skier shall embark or disembark upon a recreational tramway except at a designated location and during designated hours of operation, throw or expel any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Actions against ski area operators; limitations - Chapter 143, Section 71P
  For the purpose of sections seventy-one I to seventy-one R, inclusive, in any action brought against a ski area operator based on negligence, it shall...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Leaving the scene of skiing accident; penalty - Chapter 143, Section 71Q
  Any person who is knowingly involved in a skiing accident and who departs from the scene of such accident without leaving personal identification or otherwise...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties - Chapter 143, Section 71R
  Whoever violates any provision of section 71K, 71N, or any rule or regulation made under the provisions of section 71J, shall be punished by a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Jurisdiction and control - Chapter 143, Section 71S
  Recreational tramways shall not be subject to the provisions of chapters one hundred and fifty-nine, one hundred and sixty, one hundred and sixty-one, and one...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Booth or enclosure; necessity of inspection and approval; certificate; fire precautions - Chapter 143, Section 72
  No cinematograph or similar apparatus, thirty-five millimeter or larger, involving the use of so-called safety film shall be kept or used for the purpose of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inspection; regulations - Chapter 143, Section 73
  The inspector shall inspect any booth or enclosure in which a cinematograph or similar apparatus is to be kept or used as specified in the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Inspection fees - Chapter 143, Section 74
  For the inspection of a booth or enclosure, as provided by the preceding section, a fee shall be paid by the owner or user thereof....
• Massachusetts General Laws - Operator’s license; examination; qualifications; fees; renewal; expiration - Chapter 143, Section 75
  No person shall operate such apparatus in any public building until he has received a license so to do from an inspector. No such license...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1971, 772, Sec. 3 - Chapter 143, Section 76
  Repealed, 1971, 772, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1941, 553, Sec. 4 - Chapter 143, Section 77 78
  Repealed, 1941, 553, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1971, 772, Sec. 3 - Chapter 143, Section 79
  Repealed, 1971, 772, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1941, 553, Sec. 4 - Chapter 143, Section 80
  Repealed, 1941, 553, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Suspension and revocation of license; appeal - Chapter 143, Section 81
  An operator’s license may be suspended or revoked for cause at any time by an inspector; but the person whose license is so suspended or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Special exhibitions; permits; regulations; fee - Chapter 143, Section 82
  The commissioner of public safety may grant permits for the special exhibition of pictures by the use of a cinematograph or similar apparatus in a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Machines to which cinematograph statutes are not applicable; regulations - Chapter 143, Section 83
  Sections seventy-two to seventy-five, inclusive, shall not apply to any motion picture machine operated with only cellulose acetate film less than thirty-five millimeters and requiring...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violation of statutes or regulations - Chapter 143, Section 84
  Any person keeping or using a cinematograph or similar apparatus contrary to any provision of sections seventy-two to eighty-four, inclusive, or in violation of any...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Special licenses; churches, schools and public institutions; fee; regulations - Chapter 143, Section 85
  Notwithstanding any provision of sections seventy-two to eighty-four, inclusive, the commissioner of public safety, upon application accompanied by a fee of three dollars, may grant...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1971, 772, Sec. 7 - Chapter 143, Section 86
  Repealed, 1971, 772, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Misrepresentation or false stamping or marking as to kind or combustibility of film - Chapter 143, Section 87
  Whoever sells or leases or offers or exposes for sale or lease, or loans any nitrous or combustible film as cellulose acetate, incombustible or safety...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1971, 772, Sec. 7 - Chapter 143, Section 88
  Repealed, 1971, 772, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Thirty-five millimeter nitrate film generally; violation of statute - Chapter 143, Section 89
  The storage or distribution for purposes of public exhibition and all public exhibition of thirty-five millimeter or larger nitrate motion picture film is hereby prohibited....
• Massachusetts General Laws - Contract to repair or remodel dwelling; exculpatory provisions - Chapter 143, Section 90
  Any provision in a contract to repair or remodel a dwelling whereby the contractor seeks by the use of any words whatsoever to preclude or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Violations of Secs. 1 to 90; penalty - Chapter 143, Section 91
  Whoever violates any of the provisions of sections one to ninety, inclusive, shall, unless another penalty is prescribed, be punished by a fine of not...
• Massachusetts General Laws - State building code, rules and regulations or amendments thereof; retroactive effect precluded - Chapter 143, Section 92
  No new state building code, rule or regulation or amendments thereof shall affect any building permit lawfully issued, or any building or structure lawfully begun...
• Massachusetts General Laws - State board of building regulations and standards; establishment - Chapter 143, Section 93
  There is hereby established within the department of public safety a board to be known as the state board of building regulations and standards, in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and duties - Chapter 143, Section 94
  The board shall have the following powers and duties: (a) To formulate, propose, adopt and amend rules and regulations relating to (i) the construction, reconstruction,...
• Massachusetts General Laws - General objectives - Chapter 143, Section 95
  The powers and duties of the board set forth in section ninety-four shall be exercised to effect the following general objectives: (a) Uniform standards and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Specialized codes, rules or regulations - Chapter 143, Section 96
  The state building code shall incorporate any specialized construction codes, rules or regulations pertaining to building construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair or demolition promulgated by and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Amendments to state building code - Chapter 143, Section 97
  Except for the specialized codes, as defined in section ninety-six, which codes shall be amended only by the respective boards, commissions, departments or agencies authorized...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nightclubs, dance halls, discotheques, bars; automatic sprinkler system - Chapter 143, Section 97A
  (a) The board of building regulations and standards shall require the owner of any building or structure or portion thereof, that includes a place of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations imposing more restrictive standards - Chapter 143, Section 98
  The board of selectmen in a town or the mayor in a city may recommend to the board the adoption of rules and regulations imposing...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Continuing educational program of instruction - Chapter 143, Section 99
  The board shall prepare and administer a continuing educational program of instruction designed to assist all local and state inspectors of buildings in executing their...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Building code appeals board - Chapter 143, Section 100
  There shall be in the department of public safety a building code appeals board, hereinafter called the appeals board, to consist of the board established...

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