105 CMR 400.400
Service of Orders
(A) Unless otherwise stated in any chapter in the State Sanitary Code, orders issued under the
provisions of the State Sanitary Code shall be served on all persons responsible for the violation of
regulations.
(B) These orders shall be served in the following manner:
(1) personally, by any person authorized to serve civil process, or
(2) by any person authorized to serve civil process by leaving a copyofthe order at his last and
usual place of abode, or
(3) by sending him a copy of the order by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested,
if he is within the Commonwealth, or
(4) if his last and usual place of abode is unknown or outside the Commonwealth, by posting a
copy of the order in a conspicuous place on or about the premises and by advertising it for at least
three out of five consecutive days in one or more newspapers of general circulation within the
municipality wherein the building or premises affected is situated.