General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 146 Inspection of Boilers, Air Tanks, Etc. Licenses of Engineers, Firemen, and Operators of Hoisting Machinery
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 146, Section 1
The following words as used in this chapter, unless a contrary meaning is specifically prescribed or the context otherwise requires, shall have the following meanings:...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rules in general; prescription of tests; form of certificate of inspection; assistance of attorney general - Chapter 146, Section 2
The board shall formulate rules or adopt rules formulated by a recognized engineering organization, for the construction, installation and inspection of steam boilers and power...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Changes in rules; hearings; notices - Chapter 146, Section 3
The board shall hold public hearings annually on the first Thursday in May and November, and at such other times as it may determine, on...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Effective date of changes in rules affecting construction of boilers; special type of boilers - Chapter 146, Section 4
Changes in the rules which affect the construction of new boilers shall take effect six months after their filing as provided in section two; provided,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Enforcement of statutes and rules; entry of premises in pursuance of duties - Chapter 146, Section 5
The division shall enforce this chapter and the rules of the board except when otherwise provided. All inspectors of the division may enter any premises...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Annual inspection; extension of time; first inspection - Chapter 146, Section 6
All steam boilers and their appurtenances except those specified in the following section shall be thoroughly inspected externally and internally at least once a year....
- Massachusetts General Laws - Boilers excepted from inspections - Chapter 146, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Necessity of inspection; issuance, display and accessibility of certificate - Chapter 146, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Pressure; safety appliances - Chapter 146, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Reports as to boilers not inspected by insurers - Chapter 146, Section 10
Whoever owns, or uses or causes to be used, any such boiler, unless the same is under the periodically guaranteed inspection of an insurance company...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Inspections while boiler is being operated - Chapter 146, Section 11
All such boilers shall be inspected externally at least once each year when in operation, and the inspector shall observe the pressure of steam carried...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Removing, tampering with or loading safety valve - Chapter 146, Section 12
No person shall remove or tamper with any safety appliance prescribed by the board nor load the safety valve to a greater pressure than that...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Persons authorized to inspect boilers - Chapter 146, Section 13
The inspection of boilers and appurtenances shall be made by the division, under the supervision of the chief, or by inspectors of insurance companies authorized...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Inspectors of insurers; notice of cessation of employment - Chapter 146, Section 14
Every insurance company, or a reinsurer, authorized to insure boilers and pressure vessels in the commonwealth and making inspections of such boilers and pressure vessels,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Non-certificated inspectors of insurers - Chapter 146, Section 15
No person shall act as an inspector of boilers for an insurance company unless he holds a certificate of competency under section sixty-two.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Inspection certificate issued by insurer and signed by non-certificated inspector - Chapter 146, Section 16
If any insurance company issues a certificate of inspection signed by an inspector who does not hold a certificate of competency, the commissioner may, if...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Reports by inspectors; recommendations - Chapter 146, Section 17
The inspectors of the division shall make reports of all inspections and shall make such recommendations to the chief as they may deem expedient.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Reports of inspections by insurers - Chapter 146, Section 18
Every insurance company shall forward to the chief, within fourteen days after each inspection, reports of all boilers inspected by it. Such reports shall be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Reports of cancellation and refusal of insurance - Chapter 146, Section 19
Every insurance company shall report immediately to the chief the name of the owner or user and the location of every boiler required by this...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Safety appliances for, and inspection of, heating boilers - Chapter 146, Section 20
Boilers and their appurtenances used exclusively for heating purposes, which are not required by this chapter to be inspected, shall be provided with such safety...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Preparation of boiler for inspection; notice; forbidding operation of boiler - Chapter 146, Section 21
The owner or user of a boiler required by this chapter to be inspected shall prepare the boiler for inspection as directed by the inspector....
- Massachusetts General Laws - Fees; payment to commonwealth - Chapter 146, Section 22
The owner or user of a boiler inspected by the division shall pay to the commissioner, a fee, the amount of which shall be determined...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of inspection; prerequisites; necessity - Chapter 146, Section 23
If upon inspection the district engineering inspector finds the boiler to be in safe working order with the fittings necessary to safely and properly set...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Numbering, stamping or tagging boiler; defacement or removal of number - Chapter 146, Section 24
Every boiler which has been inspected by the division shall be numbered either by stamping the number upon the boiler or by attaching a numbered...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Submission of information of boiler inspection by insurance company to department; issuance of certificate of inspection - Chapter 146, Section 25
Insurance companies shall, after each internal and external inspection, if the boiler and its appurtenances conform to the rules of the board and if they...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Insurance on non-certificated boiler; notice; inspection; boiler not conforming to rules - Chapter 146, Section 26
If a boiler is insured which has not previously been inspected externally and internally and a certificate of inspection issued, the company so insuring shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of inspection; contents; display; accessibility - Chapter 146, Section 27
The certificate of inspection issued by the division, or by an insurance company, shall state the name of the owner or user, the location, size...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1924, 461 - Chapter 146, Section 28
Repealed, 1924,
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notification of defects - Chapter 146, Section 29
The owner or user of any boiler required by this chapter to be inspected shall immediately notify the division or the insurance company, if the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Expiration or cancellation of insurance - Chapter 146, Section 30
If the insurance on any boiler required by this chapter to be inspected expires, or is cancelled because the insurers deem it unsafe to continue...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Hydrostatic pressure test - Chapter 146, Section 31
If, in the judgment of the inspector of the division or of the insurance company, it is advisable to apply a hydrostatic pressure test to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Prevention of entry on premises - Chapter 146, Section 32
No person shall prevent or attempt to prevent the chief or any inspector of the division from entering any premises on which a boiler is
- Massachusetts General Laws - Violation of statutes or rules - Chapter 146, Section 33
Whoever violates any provision of sections five to thirty-two, inclusive, or of the rules of the board shall be punished by a fine of not...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Necessity of certificate of inspections; exceptions - Chapter 146, Section 34
No person shall install or use, or cause to be installed or used, any tank or other receptacle for the storing of compressed air at...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Regulations - Chapter 146, Section 35
The board shall prescribe regulations, conforming to recognized standards of engineering practice, for the size, shape, construction, gauges, operation, maximum pressure, safety devices, use of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Inspections - Chapter 146, Section 36
The division shall inspect at least once in two years all such tanks or other receptacles, except such as are covered by a policy of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of location of tanks - Chapter 146, Section 37
Owners of such tanks or other receptacles shall notify the commissioner of the location thereof.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Reports of inspections by insurers - Chapter 146, Section 38
Every insurance company authorized to insure air tanks within the commonwealth shall forward to the commissioner, within fourteen days after each inspection of an air...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Inspection tests; preparation - Chapter 146, Section 39
The air tank or other receptacle shall be prepared for internal inspection by the owner or user. The inspection plugs, handhole plates and manhole plates...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Fees; payment to commonwealth - Chapter 146, Section 40
A fee to be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven shall be paid to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Violation of statutes or regulations - Chapter 146, Section 41
Whoever violates any provision of sections thirty-four to thirty-nine, inclusive, or any regulation made under authority thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Safety valves - Chapter 146, Section 42
No person shall use an ammonia compressor unless it is equipped with a safety valve.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rules; formulation - Chapter 146, Section 43
The board shall formulate rules for the size, design, location and piping of safety valves on ammonia compressors
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rules; effect; printing; furnished on request - Chapter 146, Section 44
The rules so formulated shall have the force of law and shall be printed and furnished to those requesting them by the division.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Changes in rules - Chapter 146, Section 45
Any changes in the rules as formulated by the board shall be made in accordance with sections three and four.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Necessity of certificate of inspection; exceptions; inspections; reports; prohibition of operation; fees; rules and regulations; penalty - Chapter 146, Section 45A
No person shall operate or cause to be operated a refrigeration or air conditioning system, or any appurtenance thereof, excepting refrigeration or air conditioning systems...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Necessity; exceptions - Chapter 146, Section 46
No person shall have charge of or operate a steam boiler or engine or its appurtenances, except boilers and engines upon locomotives, turbines on test...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Checklist for steam boiler maintenance - Chapter 146, Section 46A
The commissioner shall develop a log book which shall include a checklist for the proper daily steam boiler maintenance that shall be required to be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Prima facie evidence of violation of statute - Chapter 146, Section 47
If such steam engine or boiler or an appurtenance thereof is found to be in charge of, or operated by, a person not duly licensed...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Ascertainment of horse power - Chapter 146, Section 48
When liquid or gaseous fuel, electric or atomic energy or any other source of heat is used, the horsepower of a boiler shall be determined...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Classes of licenses and work permitted; license renewal; continuing education - Chapter 146, Section 49
Licenses shall be granted according to the competence of the applicant and shall be classified as follows: Engineer’s licenses: First class, to have charge of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Prerequisites for examinations - Chapter 146, Section 50
To be eligible for examination for a second class fireman’s license, a person must furnish evidence as to his previous training, and, except students attending...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Nuclear power plant operators and engineers; eligibility of applicants; examinations; fees - Chapter 146, Section 50A
To be eligible for examination for a license as an assistant nuclear power plant operator, a person shall have been employed in a steam power...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Nuclear power plant operators and engineers; licenses classified - Chapter 146, Section 50B
Licenses to have charge of and to operate a nuclear steam power plant, in which plant steam is generated by the release of heat energy...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Nuclear power plant operators and engineers; minimum supervising and shift requirements - Chapter 146, Section 50C
Every nuclear power plant shall have at least one nuclear power plant senior supervising engineer. One nuclear power plant operating engineer and one assistant nuclear...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Display of license; daily record of boiler, condition and repairs; filing; accessibility - Chapter 146, Section 51
An engineer’s or fireman’s license shall be so placed in the engine or boiler room of the plant operated by the licensee as to be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1948, 140 - Chapter 146, Section 52
Repealed, 1948,
- Massachusetts General Laws - Necessity of licenses; classification of hoisting machinery; exemptions - Chapter 146, Section 53
(a) No person shall operate derricks, cableways, machinery used for discharging cargoes, temporary elevator cars used on excavation work or used for hoisting building material,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations; classifications of hoisting machinery; criteria for issuing apprentice operator licenses - Chapter 146, Section 53A
The commissioner shall issue rules and regulations, pursuant to chapter 30A, embodying the classifications of hoisting machinery and establishing criteria and procedures for the issuance,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Carrying of license or temporary permit - Chapter 146, Section 54
A license or temporary permit to operate hoisting machinery shall be carried on the person of the operator or apprentice operator while operating such hoisting...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Violation of Sec. 53, 53A, or 54; penalties - Chapter 146, Section 54A
Whoever violates any provision of section 53, 53A or 54, or any rule or regulation made thereunder, shall be punished by a fine of not...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Violation of statutes or rules; prevention of entry on premises - Chapter 146, Section 55
Whoever violates any provision of sections forty-two to fifty-one, inclusive, or any rule made thereunder, or prevents or attempts to prevent an inspector from entering...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Examiners; administration of oath to applicants - Chapter 146, Section 56
The chief and inspectors of the division shall act, as provided in sections fifty-seven to sixty-seven, inclusive, as examiners of applicants for certificates of competency...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Application; fees, number of examinations; frequency of applications - Chapter 146, Section 57
Each application for a license as an engineer or fireman of a class specified herein or as an operator of hoisting machinery not run by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Taking notes at examinations and on appeals; representative of insurer - Chapter 146, Section 58
In all examinations, except examinations for temporary permits, or appeals the applicant may have one person present who may take notes if he so desires....
- Massachusetts General Laws - Suspension, revocation, loss or destruction of certificates or licenses; fee - Chapter 146, Section 59
A certificate of competency to inspect boilers shall be revoked and a license as engineer or fireman or operator of hoisting machinery shall be suspended...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Request of insurer for examination of person applying for inspector of boilers or amusement devises position accompanying application; fee - Chapter 146, Section 60
The application of a person desiring to act as inspector of boilers or an inspector of amusement devices for an insurance company shall be accompanied...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Board of examiners; subject matter of examination - Chapter 146, Section 61
Three inspectors of the division shall act as a board of examiners. The applicant shall be examined as to the construction, installation, maintenance and repair...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of competency; term; expiration date; notice; renewal; lapse; reexamination; fees; suspension or revocation - Chapter 146, Section 62
If the applicant is found competent he shall receive a certificate of competency to inspect steam boilers or to inspect amusement devices, as the case...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Appeals; rehearing; fee; finality of decision - Chapter 146, Section 63
A person who is refused a certificate of competency, or whose certificate is revoked, may appeal from such decision to the commissioner, who shall grant...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Engineers and firemen; examinations; appeal - Chapter 146, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Operators of hoisting machinery; licenses; application; examination - Chapter 146, Section 65
Whoever desires to act as an operator of hoisting machinery shall apply to the department for a license. If the criteria for licensure established by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Issuance of temporary permits by person or entity from which hoisting machinery is to be rented - Chapter 146, 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,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Appeals; board of appeal; finality of decision - Chapter 146, Section 66
A person aggrieved by the action of a single examiner in refusing, suspending or revoking a license to act as engineer, fireman or operator of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Licenses; duration; fees; expiration; renewal; revocation - Chapter 146, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Examiners; time of examinations - Chapter 146, Section 67A
The chief of inspections, the supervising inspector of the division or an inspector of the division shall act as an examiner for the certification of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1953, 319, Sec. 22 - Chapter 146, Section 68
Repealed, 1953, 319, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Expenditures by commissioner for work and apparatus - Chapter 146, Section 69
The commissioner may expend the amount annually appropriated for investigation work, for apparatus used in connection with the inspection of steam boilers and for the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Inspection of hot water heating boilers; changes in rules for construction of new boilers - Chapter 146, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Unlawful operation of boilers; certificate of inspection; identification number; inspection fees - Chapter 146, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Hydrostatic test - Chapter 146, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Insurance company inspection; authorization - Chapter 146, 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;...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Safety appliances; tampering; maximum pressure - Chapter 146, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Employment of inspectors by insurance companies - Chapter 146, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Inspector of boilers; certificate of competency required - Chapter 146, 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.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Reports and recommendations of inspectors; insurance cancellation or refusal report - Chapter 146, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Preparation of boilers for inspection; notice of defect to division; operation forbidden pending issuance of certificate of inspection - Chapter 146, 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....
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of inspection; contents; display - Chapter 146, 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,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Violations; penalties - Chapter 146, Section 80
Whoever violates any provision of sections seventy to seventy-nine, inclusive, or of the rules of the board, or that of the code which is appropriate...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 146, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Examining and licensing rules - Chapter 146, Section 82
[ Text of section effective until February 15, 2013. For text effective February 15, 2013, see below.]The bureau shall promulgate rules and regulations for the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Examiners; rules; codes - Chapter 146, Section 83
The district engineering inspectors of the division shall act as examiners of applicants for fire sprinkler system contractor, pipefitter, refrigeration and sprinkler fitter licenses. For...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Necessity for license - Chapter 146, Section 84
No person shall engage in the business of a master pipefitter, or work as a journeyman or apprentice pipefitter or work as a refrigeration technician...
- Massachusetts General Laws - License applications; examinations; fees; renewal; expiration - Chapter 146, Section 85
Each application for a license under this section shall be filed with the division on a blank furnished by the division. The division shall hold...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Apprentice sprinkler fitters - Chapter 146, Section 85A
Every apprentice sprinkler fitter shall before starting his apprenticeship file an application, accompanied by the appropriate fee, with the division of inspection of the department...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Classification and limitation of licenses - Chapter 146, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Pipefitters, inapplicability of provisions - Chapter 146, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Refrigeration technicians, inapplicability of provisions - Chapter 146, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties - Chapter 146, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Fee for the issuance of certificate of inspection - Chapter 146, 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...
Last modified: September 11, 2015