Congregation Beth Sholom & Community Center, Inc. v. Building Commissioner

The plaintiff, Congregation Beth Sholom & Community Center, Inc., filed a complaint in the Superior Court against various officials of the town of Framingham, raising the issue whether work it did in a building it owns and occupies constituted “major alterations” and whether, as a consequence, it is required by the terms of G. L. c. 148, § 26G, 2 to install an adequate system of automatic sprinklers in the building. Section 2 of St. 1986, c. 284, provides that the automatic sprinkler requirement would apply “to construction of buildings or additions or major alterations commenced after July…