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Massachusetts · Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 272, § 86D
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“On every floor of a building not equipped with an automatic sprinkler system, where horses or mules are stabled, there shall be kept in accessible locations and filled at all times, four pails of water and one pail of sand, for each one thousand square feet of floor space, to be used for no other purpose than extinguishing fires and to be so marked.”
This section doesn't print a penalty of its own. Other parts of the General Laws of Massachusetts may set one; we haven't looked them up, so we don't state one here.
We didn't find a history note for this section on the official page, so we don't give a year.
Our reading
Where horses or mules are stabled in a building with no automatic sprinklers, every floor needs four pails of water and one pail of sand for each thousand square feet, kept full, easy to reach, and marked as being for fires and nothing else. A 3,000-square-foot floor works out to twelve pails of water and three of sand (our arithmetic).
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