MGL CHAPTER 19D Section 1810/17/2014 General Laws: CHAPTER 19D, Section 18
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Section 18. (a) Assisted living residences shall not be subject to the provisions of sections twenty-
five B to twenty-five H, inclusive, section fifty-one and sections seventy E to seventy-three B,
inclusive, of chapter one hundred and eleven or the seventh full paragraph of section nine of chapter
forty A of the General Laws.
(b) No person or residential facility offering, providing or arranging for the provision of assistance
with or supervision of instrumental activities of daily living only shall be required to obtain
certification under this chapter or a license pursuant to section seventy-one of chapter one hundred
and eleven of the General Laws.
(c) For the purposes of this chapter, and any other general or special law classifying real estate
property for the purpose of taxation, and notwithstanding the provisions of section twenty-seven C of
chapter twenty-nine of the General Laws, a municipality shall classify the portion of any building
operated as an assisted living residence in the same category as property held or used for human
habitation.
(d) Regardless of the designation of an assisted living residence as a residential, institutional or
other use under any zoning ordinance, assisted living residences certified under this chapter shall
be regarded as residential uses for the purposes of the state building code and shall be so
regarded by the building inspectors of each city and town in the commonwealth.
PART I
TITLE II
CHAPTER 19D
Section 18
ADMINISTRA TION OF THE GOV ERNMENT
EXECUTIV E AND ADMINISTRA TIVE OFFICERS
OF THE COMMONWEA LTH
ASSISTED LIV ING
Classif ication of as sisted living res idences