Bill > H1950

This bill clarifies the authority of local Boards of Health, which are local government bodies responsible for public health, by preventing them from banning the sale of products that are legally permitted to be sold throughout the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Specifically, it states that these boards cannot prohibit the community-wide sale of any legal consumer product by authorized businesses unless the town meeting or city council first approves a by-law to that effect. However, this restriction does not prevent a Board of Health from taking immediate action in emergency situations concerning a specific product or location due to a health code violation or other urgent health issue, as long as the action is not simply to ban the legal sale of the product.