[1893, c. 477, Sect. 4; 1894, c. 455, Sect. 4; R. L. 103, Sect. 4; 1909, c. 536, Sect. 4; 4 Op. A. G. 252.]

Temporary Suspension of License

Sect. 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, the said inspector or board of health of the town where such violation is committed may request the examiners to forbid such holder, for not more than thirty days, to engage in business in such town as a master plumber or to work as a journeyman. After notice and hearing both parties, the examiners may so forbid such holder and shall give notice of their decision to each of the parties interested.

[1909, c. 536, Sect. 4.]

Appointment and Duties of Inspectors

Sect. 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 to sections one to sixteen, inclusive, appoint from the classified civil service list one or more inspectors of plumbing who shall be practical plumbers and shall have had practical experience either as master plumbers or journeymen, continuously, during five years next preceding their appointment. Such inspector of buildings or board may remove them for cause shown and shall, subject to approval of the city council or selectmen, fix their compensation which shall be paid by the city or town. Said inspectors of plumbing shall inspect all plumbing in process of construction, alteration or repair for which permits are granted within their respective cities and towns and shall report to their appointing power or board violations of any law, ordinance, by-law, rule or regulation relative to plumbing; they shall perform such other appropriate duties as may be required. The approval of plumbing by any inspectors other than those provided for by this chapter shall not be a compliance therewith. [1893, c. 477, Sect. 5; 1894, c. 455, Sect. 5; 1895, c. 453, R. L. 103. Sect. 5; 1909, c. 536, Sect. 7.]

Appointment of Additional Inspectors

Sect. 12. No inspector of plumbing shall inspect or approve any plumbing work done by himself, his employer, employee or any one employed with him, but in a city or town subject to sections one to sixteen, inclusive, the said inspector of buildings, or the board of health, shall in the manner provided in the preceding section appoint an additional inspector of plumbing as therein provided who shall inspect plumbing so done. Said additional inspector may act in the absence or disability of the local inspector and for his services shall receive like compensation. This section shall not apply to any city or town establishing an annual salary for the inspector of plumbing and in such city or town the inspector of plumbing shall not engage in or work at the business of plumbing. [1894, c. 455, Sect. 6; R. L. 103, Sect. 6.]

Persons Learning Business of Plumbing

Sect. 14. Sections one to sixteen, inclusive, shall apply to all persons learning the business of plumbing when they are sent out to do the work of a journeyman. [1894, c. 455, Sect. 9; R. L. 103, Sect. 9.1

Expenditure of Fees

Sect. 15. Inspectors of buildings and boards of health may expend such portion of the fees collected by them under this chapter as is necessary to properly perform the duties imposed thereby, and they shall annually, before June first, make a detailed report to their respective cities or towns of all their proceedings under sections one to sixteen, inclusive, during the preceding year.

[1894, c. 455, Sect. 11; R. L. 103, Sect. 11.]

Penalty for Certain Violations

Sect. 16. Every person engaged in the business of a master plumber or working as a journeyman not lawfully registered or licensed, if required by this chapter; and every person engaging in or working at the business of plumbing in a city or town when forbidden so to do under section seven; and every master plumber who engages or employs any person to work as a journeyman who has not been so registered or licensed; and every person violating any provision of sections one to fifteen, inclusive, of this chapter or any ordinance, by-law, rule or regulation made thereunder shall be punished by fine not exceeding fifty dollars. Any city or town subject to the preceding sections of this chapter neglecting to comply with any of its provisions shall forfeit fifty dollars to the use of the commonwealth for each month during which such neglect continues.

[1888, c. 105, Sect. 2; 1893, c. 477, Sect. 7; 1894, c. 455, Sect. 8; R. L. 103, Sect. 8; 1909, c. 536, Sect. 10; 1914, c. 287; 219, Mass. 219; 225 Mass. 192.1]

Marking, etc., of Range Boilers

Sect. 17. No range boiler shall be sold or offered for sale unless its capacity is plainly marked thereon in terms of Massachusetts standard liquid measure, and with the maker's business name, in such manner as to be easily identified.

[1916, c. 154, Sect. 1.]

Same Subject.            *

Sect. 18. No copper, iron or steel pressure range boiler, plain or galvanized, or other vessel or tank in which water is to be heated under pressure, shall be sold or offered for sale without having stamped thereon the maker's guarantee that it has been tested to not less than two hundred pounds hydraulic or hydrostatic pressure to the square inch, together with the maximum working pressure at which it may be installed. And no such boiler, or other vessel or tank in which water is to be heated under pressure, shall be installed if the working pressure is greater than forty-two and one half per cent of the guaranteed test pressure marked thereon by the maker. [1916, c. 154, Sect. 2; 1917, c. 39, Sect. 1.]

Penalty for Violation of Sections 17 and 18

Sect. 19. Whoever sells or offers or exposes for sale any range boiler not marked or stamped as provided in the two preceding sections, or which is falsely marked as having a capacity which is greater by seven and one half per cent than its true capacity, or who marks or causes the same to be marked with such false capacity, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars. The inspectors of plumbing within their respective cities and towns shall cause this and the two preceding sections to be enforced.

[1916, c. 154, Sect. 3; 1917, c. 39, Sect. 2.]

Exceptions

Sect. 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 sale of range boilers as junk.

[1916, c. 154, Sect. 4.]