Massachusetts General Laws

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 141, § 7 (2026)

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Section 7. This chapter shall not apply to: the installation, repairing, and wiring of elevators; the work in connection with the erection, construction, maintenance or repair of lines for transmission of electricity from the source of supply to the service switch on the premises where used by municipal electric plants, by electric companies as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and sixty-four, by gas companies authorized to make or sell electricity, by electric street railway companies, by electric railroad companies or by railroad companies; the work of such plants or companies on premises owned or controlled by them; the work of said municipal electric plants or of said electric or gas companies in installing, maintaining and repairing on the premises of customers, service connections and meters and other apparatus and appliances remaining the property of such plants or companies after installation; public employees engaged in the work of installing, maintaining or repairing public signalling systems; the work in connection with the lighting of public ways, alleys, private ways, or public parks, areas or squares; the work of companies subject to regulation by the department of public utilities or the department of telecommunications and cable, and incorporated for the transmission of intelligence by electricity in installing, maintaining or repairing wires, apparatus, fixtures, or other appliances used by such companies and necessary for, or incident to, their business, whether or not such wires, conduits, apparatus, fixtures or other appliances are on its own premises; or the work in connection with the installation, construction, maintenance, repair and renovation of telephone equipment, cable television service or computer systems by a person, firm or corporation primarily engaged in the telecommunications or the information systems industry.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 3 cases, 1984–1985 · leading case: Simon v. State Examiners of Electricians, 479 N.E.2d 649 (Mass. 1985).

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Simon v. State Examiners of Electricians, 479 N.E.2d 649 (Mass. 1985). · cites it 10× “Alternatively, the plaintiffs contend that they are engaged in the transmission of intelligence by electricity, within the meaning of the exemption created by G.L.c. 141, § 7. [4] The Appeals Court also rejected this argument.”

Simon v. State Examiners of Electricians, 18 Mass. App. Ct. 17 (Mass. App. Ct. 1984). · cites it 4× “141, § 1, because their systems are not for “light, heat or power purposes” and such requirements cannot be enlarged by the board through use of its rulemaking authority; and (2) that because alarm systems convey information, installation of such systems is exempt from the…”

W. Massachusetts Elec. Co. v. State Examiners of Electricians, 468 N.E.2d 1088 (Mass. App. Ct. 1984). “” Certain exemptions from this requirement are set out in G. L. c. 141, § 7. The issue on this appeal is whether the trial judge was correct in concluding that the installation of radio-controlled peak-load switches on consumer-owned hot water tanks by nonlicensed employees of…”

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