The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Massachusetts
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Massachusetts General Laws, Part I, Title XXI, Chapter 149
- Issued
- 2026-09-28 Sept. 28, 2026
- Effective
- standing (read as 2026-09-28)
- End
- standing
- In force
- Standing since Sept. 28, 2026 (a statutory duty; in force throughout the six quarters)
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Workplace rulesStanding duty
- Addressees
- employers; owners or persons in control of every building in which a person is employed
- Character
- workplace duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Massachusetts DUT-MA
Operative words
Every factory, workshop, manufacturing, mechanical and mercantile establishment, railroad freight house, railway express terminal, public garages and premises used by express, trucking and transportation companies and any other building in which a person is employed, other than a building under construction, shall be well lighted, well ventilated and kept free from unsanitary conditions
Penalty
Enforcement under c. 149 (Attorney General; DLS); penalties as provided in the chapter
What it required
Every building in which a person is employed must be well ventilated and kept free from unsanitary conditions 'according to reasonable rules and regulations adopted by the attorney general establishing minimum requirements'; the standing sanitation and ventilation duty into which the pandemic cleaning, disinfection and ventilation protocols fit.