| Chapter 187 |
| 2025 -- H 5946 SUBSTITUTE A Enacted 06/24/2025 |
| A N A C T |
| RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- STATE BUILDING CODE |
Introduced By: Representatives Casey, Corvese, Casimiro, Finkelman, Read, Messier, O'Brien, Solomon, Potter, and Edwards |
| Date Introduced: February 28, 2025 |
| It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: |
| SECTION 1. Chapter 23-27.3 of the General Laws entitled "State Building Code" is hereby |
| amended by adding thereto the following section: |
| 23-27.3-703. Construction fencing safeguards. |
| (a) In addition to any standard, practice or procedure relating to safeguards to be used in |
| and around construction sites promulgated by this code, during work hours it shall be a violation |
| of this section for any owner, operator, or manager of a construction project on a construction site |
| whether on public or private property, to cause, permit, or authorize the site to be secured by a |
| locked chain, gate, fence, or other barrier designed to obstruct access in or out of the construction |
| site by vehicle or person on foot. At all times while construction is taking place on worksite, an |
| access point shall remain open so that employees working on the site have the ability to freely enter |
| and exit. |
| (b) Violations of this section shall, for a first offense, be punishable by a written warning |
| to the operators of the construction site with an order to open or unlock whatever barrier is in place; |
| subsequent violations of this section shall result in an immediate stoppage of work on the site until |
| a hearing is scheduled with the director of the department of labor and training and a one thousand |
| dollar ($1,000) fine for each day the construction site was found to have been locked without an |
| open access point for workers to freely enter and exit. |
| SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
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