MASSACHUSETTS SOBER HOUSING CORPORATION v. AUTOMATIC SPRINKLER APPEALS BOARD

No. 05-P-1089.

66 Mass. App. Ct. 701 (2006)

MASSACHUSETTS SOBER HOUSING CORPORATION v. AUTOMATIC SPRINKLER APPEALS BOARD & another.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

July 12, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce T. Macdonald for the plaintiff.

Annapurna Balakrishna, Assistant Attorney General, for Automatic Sprinkler Appeals Board.

Cheryl Anne Watson for city of Chelsea.

Present: Perretta, Brown, & Kafker, JJ.


KAFKER, J.

Massachusetts Sober Housing Corporation (MSHC), a nonprofit organization that operates group housing for recovering substance abusers, appeals from a judgment ordering MSHC to install an automatic sprinkler system in its Chelsea group home pursuant to G. L. c. 148, § 26H. This statute, which applies to any city or town that has voted to accept its provisions, requires "every lodging house or boarding house" to be protected with an adequate system of...

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