Section 197b – Lead Paint Inspectors; Deleaders; Licensure
Section 197B. (a) The director shall, by July first, nineteen hundred and eighty-eight, establish regulations for the licensing of lead paint inspectors. The director shall prescribe the requirements for licensure and may set conditions and restrictions governing the revocation and suspension of licenses. The director shall periodically assess the number of applications for licensed lead […]
Section 197c – Child Exhibiting Dangerous Blood Lead Level After Issuance of Letters of Compliance or Interim Control; Liability
Section 197C. (a) If, after the issuance of a letter of full compliance pursuant to subsection (c) of section one hundred and ninety-seven, a child under the age of six exhibits a blood lead level in excess of the level considered dangerous to the child’s immediate health as determined by the department, the director shall […]
Section 197d – Secured Lenders; Liability
Section 197D. (a) No secured lender shall be considered an owner for purposes of sections one hundred and eighty-nine A to one hundred and ninety-nine B, inclusive, unless and until such secured lender has acquired legal title pursuant to applicable law, and takes actual physical possession, at which point he shall be considered an owner; […]
Section 197e – Lead Abatement Loan Program
Section 197E. There shall be a loan program in the department of housing and community development for lead abatement throughout the commonwealth. Said program shall assist residential property owners in financing the abatement and containment of lead paint hazards. The director of housing and community development, in consultation with the commissioner and the lead poisoning […]
Section 198 – Violations of State Sanitary Code; Enforcement
Section 198. Violations of this section shall not constitute violations of the state sanitary code when (i) an owner has received a letter of full compliance, or (ii) an owner has received a letter of interim control; provided that in the case where an owner has received a letter of interim control and the tenant […]
Section 199 – Liability of Owner of Premises; Punitive Damages
Section 199. (a) Except as provided in section one hundred and ninety-seven D, the owner of any premises shall be liable for all damages to a child under six years of age at the time of poisoning, upon proof that said child’s blood lead level equals or exceeds the blood lead level at which the […]
Section 199a – Unlawful Practices in Selling, Renting, or Leasing Premises Containing Lead in Paint, Plaster or Materials
Section 199A. (a) It shall be an unlawful practice for purposes of chapter one hundred and fifty-one B for the owner, lessee, sublessee, real estate broker, assignee, or managing agent of any premises to refuse to sell, rent, lease or otherwise deny to or withhold from any person or to discriminate against any person in […]
Section 199b – Exemptions From Secs. 189a to 199a
Section 199B. The provisions of sections one hundred and eighty-nine A to one hundred and ninety-nine A, inclusive, shall not apply to any dwelling unit having fewer than two hundred and fifty square feet of floor space calculated on the basis of total habitable room area or which is used as a rooming house; provided, […]
Section 184 – Establishment and Maintenance of Bacteriological Laboratories
Section 184. In order to better preserve public health and secure greater accuracy in the diagnosis of communicable diseases, county commissioners may establish and maintain bacteriological laboratories, or provide such laboratory facilities for their respective counties as they deem advantageous, and may expend necessary sums therefor. No expenditures shall be made under this section until […]
Section 192a – Field Testing and Approval of New Methods of Removing Paint and Other Materials Containing Lead
Section 192A. The director shall investigate, field test and approve new methods of removing or covering paint, plaster, or other materials containing dangerous levels of lead that facilitate compliance with section one hundred and ninety-seven with greater efficiency, safety or economy. The director shall consult with the department of labor standards prior to field testing […]