Housing Program

The purposes of 105 CMR 410.000 are to protect the health, safety and well-being of the occupants of housing and of the general public, to facilitate the use of legal remedies

 available to occupants of substandard housing, to assist boards of health in their enforcement of this code and to provide a method of notifying interested parties of violations of

 conditions which require immediate attention.

HUMAN HABITATION

105 CMR 400.000 State Sanitary Code I General Administrative Procedures and 105 CMR 410.000 State Sanitary Code II Minimum Standards of Fitness for Human

Habitation are hereby adopted as most recently amended as a local regulation with the additions of the following: 

Penalties

(c) (1) These regulations may be enforced by those procedures noted in the Town of Reading General Bylaw Article 21. In the event that procedure is followed, a person shall be subject

 to a fine of thirty-five dollars ($35.00). Each day that the offense continues shall constitute a separate offense.

Storage of Garbage and Rubbish

(D) The occupants of each dwelling, dwelling unit and rooming unit shall be responsible for the proper placement of this garbage and rubbish in the receptacles required in 105 CMR

 410.600 (C) or at the point of collection by the owner. Garbage and rubbish shall be placed at the curb no earlier than 4:00 PM the day before the scheduled collection day. 

Penalty for Failure to Comply with Order

Any person who shall fail to comply with any order issued pursuant to the provisions of 105 CMR 410.000 shall upon conviction be fined not less than ten nor more than five hundred

 dollars. Each day’s failure with an order shall constitute a separate violation. See also 105 CMR 410.854 (B). These regulations may be enforced by those procedures noted in the Town

 of Reading Bylaw Article 21. In the event that procedure is followed, a person shall be subject to a fine of thirty-five dollars per offense. Each day that the offense continues shall

 constitute a separate offense. 

Penalty for Other Offense

Any person who shall violate any provision of 105 CMR 410.000 for which penalty is not otherwise provided in any of the General Laws or in any other provision of 105 CMR 410.000

 shall upon conviction be fined not less than ten nor more than five hundred dollars. These regulations may be enforced by those procedures noted in Town of Reading General Bylaw

 Article 21. In the event that procedure is followed, the person shall be subject to a fine of thirty-five dollars per offense. Each day that the offense continues shall constitute a separate

 offense.