Legal Opinion
MacLaurin v. City of Holyoke
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided August 18, 2016No. SJC 11865PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLenk, J.
We are called upon in these consolidated cases to construe G. L. c. 148, § 261, the residential sprinkler provision, one of a number of provisions requiring the installation of automatic sprinkler systems contained in G. L. c. 148, the fire prevention act. The residential sprinkler provision mandates the installation of automatic sprinklers in new residential buildings of four or more units, and in such existing buildings when they are “substantially rehabilitated so as to constitute the equivalent of new construction.” See G. L. c. 148, § 261.
In 2006, the plaintiff, Robert MacLaurin, 8…
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