Massachusetts General Laws
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 148, § 26C (2026)
Certain public accommodations; automatic smoke or heat detectors
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Section 26C. Apartment houses containing six or more dwelling units, hotels, boarding or lodging houses, or family hotels which are not regulated by section twenty-six A or twenty-six B shall be equipped with automatic smoke or heat detectors as provided by the rules and regulations of the board of fire prevention regulations.
The head of the fire department as defined in section one shall enforce the provisions of this section.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1
case, 1983–1983 · leading case: Coonamessett Inn v. Chief of the Falmouth Fire Dep't, 454 N.E.2d 914 (Mass. App. Ct. 1983).
Coonamessett Inn v. Chief of the Falmouth Fire Dep't, 454 N.E.2d 914 (Mass. App. Ct. 1983). “By this action in the Superior Court, the plaintiffs sought a declaration (1) that a local option statute (G. L. c. 148, § 26C) was not validly accepted by the town of Falmouth (town); (2) that the Board of Fire Prevention Regulations (Board) had no authority under G.”
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