Iodoce v. Architectural Access Board

By letter dated February 5, 1987, the defendant, then named “Architectural Barriers Board” (board), an agency within the Commonwealth’s Department of Public Safety, notified the plaintiff that, “[u]pon information received by the Architectural Barriers Board,” the Chatham Center building located at 29 Crafts Street, Newtonville, “appears to *371violate Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 22, Section 13A, and the Regulations of the Board thereunder.” The letter stated that the reported violation involved § 26.1 of the 1982 board regulations (521 Code. Mass. Regs. § 26.1 [1986]) in connection with…