Massachusetts General Laws

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 143, § 6 (2026)

Local inspector; duties

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Section 6. The local inspector, immediately upon being informed by report or otherwise that a building or other structure or anything attached thereto or connected therewith in that city or town is dangerous to life or limb or that any building in that city or town is unused, uninhabited or abandoned, and open to the weather, shall inspect the same; and he shall forthwith in writing notify the owner, lessee or mortgagee in possession to remove it or make it safe if it appears to him to be dangerous, or to make it secure if it is unused, uninhabited or abandoned and open to the weather. If it appears that such structure would be especially unsafe in case of fire, it shall be deemed dangerous within the meaning hereof, and the local inspector may affix in a conspicuous place upon its exterior walls a notice of its dangerous condition, which shall not be removed or defaced without authority from him. Upon such notice under either of the preceding sentences, the owner, lessee or mortgagee in possession shall furnish a floor plan of such building or other structure to the chiefs of the fire and police departments of the city or town.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 11 cases, 1925–2019 · leading case: South Commons Condo. Ass'n v. Charlie Arment Trucking, Inc., 775 F.3d 82 (1st Cir. 2014).
South Commons Condo. Ass'n v. Charlie Arment Trucking, Inc., 775 F.3d 82 (1st Cir. 2014). · cites it 3× “” Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 143, §§ 6 , 7. 6 That triggering standard, moreover, is at least as limiting as the ones at issue in San Gerónimo and Herwins.”
Vigorito v. City of Chelsea, 124 N.E.3d 699 (Mass. App. Ct. 2019). · cites it 3× “On September 17, 2015, the city issued an order to demolish or make safe, pursuant to G. L. c. 143, § 6, to seven "Owner(s)/Potential Interested Parties" (the estate), the then-owners of the property.”
Ribeiro v. Town of Granby, 481 N.E.2d 466 (Mass. 1985). “1 (1980) (substantially restating G. L. c. 143, § 6).”
Rich v. Mayor of Malden, 147 N.E. 586 (Mass. 1925). · cites it 2× “G. L. c. 143, §§ 6, 14, 48, 61. The distinction between a public office and an employment is pointed out with full citation of cases in Attorney General v.”
Gallant v. City of Fitchburg, 739 F. Supp. 2d 39 (D. Mass. 2010). · cites it 2× “” Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 143, § 6 . This requirement is echoed in the state building code.”
Nolan v. Parker, 446 N.E.2d 722 (Mass. App. Ct. 1983). “In the instant case the judge also considered G. L. c. 143, §§ 6, 8 and 9, and the town’s by-laws.”
Dimaggio v. Mystic Bldg. Wrecking Co. Inc., 166 N.E.2d 213 (Mass. 1960). “G. L. c. 143, §§ 6, 8, 9, as amended; Silverblatt v.”
Silverblatt v. Livadas, 164 N.E.2d 875 (Mass. 1960). “person as the mayor . . . may designate shall be inspector of buildings, and .”
South Commons Condo. Ass'n v. City of Springfield, 967 F. Supp. 2d 457 (D. Mass. 2013). “” Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 143, § 6 ; 780 C.M.R.”
Nichols Coll. v. Bldg. Inspector of Dudley, 19 Mass. L. Rptr. 553 (Mass. Super. Ct. 2005). · cites it 3× “This is an action, commenced on June 17, 2005, by which the plaintiff Nichols College is seeking an order, under the provisions of G.L.c. 143, §§6, and 57, which compels the immediate issuance of a demolition permit from the building inspector of the Town of Dudley in order to…”
Morais v. City of Lowell, 738 N.E.2d 1158 (Mass. App. Ct. 2000). “The first, by declaring the building “open and abandoned and dangerous and unsafe,” appears to be based on G. L. c. 143, § 6, and the second is stated as G.”
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