General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 142 Supervision of Plumbing
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 142, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Application of statutes - Chapter 142, Section 2
Sections one through twenty-two, except section twenty-one, shall apply to all cities and towns.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Master plumbers or gas fitters, journeymen and apprentices; licensing; advertising; display of license or certificate - Chapter 142, Section 3
No person shall engage in the business as a master plumber or a master gas fitter or work as a journeyman plumber or as a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Apprentices; licensing; application; employment; on-the-job training, rules and regulations - Chapter 142, Section 3A
Every apprentice shall before starting his apprenticeship file an application, accompanied by the appropriate fee, with the examiners, requesting that he be issued an apprentice...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certificates of plumbing or gas fitting corporations or partnerships - Chapter 142, Section 3B
A person duly licensed in the commonwealth as a master plumber or as a master gas fitter may apply to the examiners for a certificate...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rules of examiners; qualifications of applicants; applications; examinations; issuance of license; probationary license; credit for veterans - Chapter 142, Section 4
The examiners may make rules as they consider proper for the performance of their duties and shall promulgate rules and regulations governing the qualifications of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Plumbers employed by cities, institutions or corporations; installations and repairs - Chapter 142, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Fees for licenses and examinations - Chapter 142, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Territorial coverage, transfer, term, renewal, fee, suspension and revocation of licenses; names of licensees forwarded to towns; registration - Chapter 142, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Licensed plumber or gas fitter continuing education course - Chapter 142, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notice to examiners of violation of statute, ordinance or regulation - Chapter 142, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1965, 358, Sec. 1 - Chapter 142, Section 8
Repealed, 1965, 358, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1986, 557, Sec. 130 - Chapter 142, Section 9
Repealed, 1986, 557, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Inspection districts; expense - Chapter 142, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Inspectors appointed from civil service list; approval of plumbing or gas fitting; exemption - Chapter 142, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Plumbing and gasfitting inspectors; cities over seventy-five thousand; appointment - Chapter 142, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Plumbing and gas fitting inspectors; continuing education - Chapter 142, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Additional inspectors; inspector engaging in plumbing or gas fitting work - Chapter 142, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Regulations - Chapter 142, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Persons learning plumbing and gas fitting businesses - Chapter 142, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Reports by inspectors of buildings and boards of health - Chapter 142, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Work or employment of workers without required registration or license; violation of statute, ordinance or regulation by persons, cities or towns - Chapter 142, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Statements by manufacturer on range boilers and water heaters; certificates relative to cast iron water fronts, heater elements and hot water tanks - Chapter 142, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Construction, installing, relocating and repairing requirements; capacity; strength; solder; pressure - Chapter 142, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Safety devices for hot water tanks; statements by manufacturer; approval; pipes and fittings - Chapter 142, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Installed or junked range boilers - Chapter 142, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Buildings owned, used and constructed by commonwealth - Chapter 142, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Permits for plumbing and gas fitting work; proof of liability insurance or bond - Chapter 142, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement and violation of statutes - Chapter 142, 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...
Last modified: September 11, 2015