- Location
- Massachusetts
From MECA
Here is the text that would be added to our current rules
Hearing on HB 3940, An Act Relative to Clarifying Homeowners Right to Perform Electrical Work, at the State House, Room A-1 at 1pm on Tuesday, Feb. 28th.
Here is the text that would be added to our current rules
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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In the Year Two Thousand Twelve
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An Act relative to clarifying homeowners right to perform electrical work.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority
of the same, as follows:
1 SECTION 1. Section 3L of chapter 143 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2010 Official
2 Edition, is hereby amended by inserting at the end thereof the following paragraph: -
3 ?Nothing in this section shall be construed to provide the inspector of wires with the authority to
4 reject a permit application of an applicant who is not a certified electrician; provided, that the
5 property indicated on the permit application is the applicant?s primary residence, the applicant is
6 the owner of the property, and the property is no greater than a single family house.?