rbarker
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You must be licensed if you operate equipment in Massachusetts that is capable of: raising 10+ feet, or lifting 500+ lbs, or holding over 1/4+ yard of material For complete description of the law: http://www.malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXX/Chapter146/Section53 First paragraph, my bold: Section 53. (a) No person shall operate derricks, cableways, machinery used for discharging cargoes, temporary elevator cars used on excavation work or used for hoisting building material, when the motive power to operate such machinery is mechanical and other than steam, unless such person holds a license or temporary permit as provided in this section. The owner or user of such hoisting machinery shall not operate, or cause to be operated, such machinery, unless the person operating it is duly licensed or possesses a temporary permit. Any operator of such hoisting machinery when it is being used exclusively for agricultural purposes shall be exempt from this section.
When I first read about this I refused to believe it. Then I realized that they needed to find more money for give aways and suddenly it all makes sense. It's really fun to live in a state that makes you ashamed to admit it.
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