Revere, MA Rental Inspections: Inspection Programs (2026)
Key Facts
- Inspection trigger
- Required before every occupancy or vacancy change
- Inspection deadline
- Board must inspect within 5 working days
- Missed deadline
- Landlord may rent the unit if Board misses deadline
- Standard applied
- State Sanitary Code Article II fitness standards
- Penalty
- Up to $20 per day of noncompliance
- Posting
- Certificate posted in common area or given to occupant
Summary
Every Revere rental unit must pass a Board of Health inspection before a new occupant moves in. Municipal Code § 8.08.010 requires the owner or agent to request the inspection by certified mail before occupancy or vacancy, and § 8.08.040 gives the Board just five working days to complete it or the landlord may rent the unit anyway.
§ 8.08.010. Inspection request before occupancy. Whenever a dwelling unit, apartment or tenement, other than those in a hotel or motel, is to be occupied or vacated by an occupant the owner of the owner's agent of such real property shall be responsible for notifying the board of health of such proposed occupancy or vacancy and for requesting by certified mail or appropriate board of health forms an inspection, as required by this chapter. § ... 8.08.040. ... Inspection deadline after notification. The board of health shall make the inspection provided for in this chapter within five working days of notification. If such inspection has not been made within five working days, the landlord may rent the apartment.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: rev 4804778; v14 updated 2026-05-04).
Full Breakdown
08, Sanitary Fitness of Rental Units, applies to every dwelling unit, apartment, or tenement in Revere except units in a licensed hotel or motel. 010, whenever a covered unit is about to be occupied or vacated, the owner or the owner's agent must notify the Board of Health of the change and request an inspection, either by certified mail or on the Board's own inspection-request form. 020 sets the substantive standard: the Board (or its agents) must certify the unit against Article II of the State Sanitary Code, the Minimum Standards of Fitness for Human Habitation promulgated by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, before the unit may be occupied or reoccupied.
040; if it fails to inspect within that window, the landlord is free to rent the apartment without a certificate. 030 requires a written order (or a copy of the inspection form) listing the specific Article II violations that must be fixed, and the owner must tell the Board once they are corrected. 050). 070).
Violations & Fines
An owner or lessor who lets any person live in, occupy, or inhabit a covered rental unit without a Board of Health certificate of fitness is fined up to twenty dollars for each day the violation continues, under § 8.08.080. That failure, like the certificate status itself, becomes part of the public record. Appeals of a Board refusal to certify go through the same channel as State Sanitary Code Article II appeals, per § 8.08.050.
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