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FREDERICK street, from 313 Houghton west.
FREEMAN avenue, from 27 River north to Bracewell ave.
FRONT street, northeast from Cliff to Glen ave. FULLER street, from 366 Hougton west.
FURNACE street, from Main street bridge south to Witt ave GALLUP street, from 380 Main to TTnion.
GLEASON street, from Hougton east to Eagle. Clarksburg. GLEN avenue, from 300 Frankl'n south to Front.
GOODRICH street. north from 475 W. Main to Walden.
GRACE street, from Richmond ave south. GRANITE street, from Rock south.
GRANT street, from 33 Lincoln west to Elm.
GREYLOCK avenue, from new Greylock road north to Fitchubrg railroad.
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GREYLOCK street, from State south and west to city line. GROVE street, from 56 Bracewell ave north to Hali. GROVER street, north from Cleveland ave.
HALL street, west fr.m 201 Eagle to 61 N. Holden. HARRIS street, north from River ex. to North.
HARRISON street, from West Main street to new Greylock road. HARRISON avenue, south from 157 E. Quincy.
HATHAWAY street, from North south to River. HIGH street, from 29 W. Main south.
HIGHLAND avenue, from Lawrence to Davenport.
HODGE'S crossing, from south end of State to east road to Adams. HOLBROOK street, from 34 Wall east to Meadow.
HOLDEN street, from 61 Main north to River.
HOOKER street, from 173 State west to Francis.
HOOSAC court, entrance 95 1-2 Main. HOOSAC street, from Church west to 248 Ashland. HOUGHTON street, from River north to city limits. HOWLAND Farms, formerly Zylonite, south end of State.
HUDSON street, from 204 Eagle east to Prospect.
IRVING avenue, from Whitman west to Witt street.
ISLAND avenue, from new Greylock road south.
JACKSON street, from 170 Eagle, Larkin corner, east to Prospect. JAMES street, west from River ex. JOHN street, north from Front to Maple. JOHNSON street, northeast from 479 Union.
JONES Hill, in Clarksburg, north Hougtonville.
KEMP avenue, south from 462 Main to Bradley.
KEMP street, north from 457 Main to Union.
KNOX street, from High west to Forest.
LAKE street, runs south, east side of Park.
LAMOUREUX place, from High west.
LARKIN corner, cor 170 Eagle and Jackson.
LAUREL avenue, from Liberty north to Freeman school. LAWRENCE avenue, from 279 Ashland east.
LEONARD terrace, off Montara.
LEWIS place, off High.
LIBERTY stret, north from 219 Hougton east to 231 Eagle. LINCOLN street, from 25 Center north to River. LLOYD street, from 167 State west.
LOFTUS street, north from 299 River to North. LUTHER street, from 97 Eagle west and north. MAGNOLIA terrace, rear River. west of Veazie. MAIN street, from Five Points west to Phoenix bridge.
MAPLE street, east from Beach to John. MARIETTA street, from 26 Franklin north.
MARION avenue, south through West End Park from W. Main to Fourth.
MARSHALL street, from 19 Main north to River. MEADOW street, from 101 E. Quincy south to Bradley. MILL Row, southwest from W. Main to Braytonville mill. MILLARD avenue, from Eagle east in Clarksburg. MILLARD street, from Hudson south. MILLER'S Lane, from 35 Union north.
MINER street, east from cor Main and Pleasant to Union. MONTANA street, from 70 Porter south to Lawrence ave.
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MONTGOMERY street. from 80 Prospect east to Cliff. MORRIS street, from 34 Summer south to Quincy. MORTON Hill, west from Walnut street. MOWBRAY street, west from Whitman to Witt street. MOWBRAY avenue, west from Whitman to Witt street. NELSON street, off 106 Veazie.
NEW GREYLOCK Road, west from 568 W. Main to Greylock. NORMAL terrace, Church opp. Normal school.
NORTH street, from 245 Houghton west to Tyler.
NORTH CHURCH street, now Church.
NORTH HOLDEN street, from 97 River north to Hospital. NORTHERN LIGHTS avenue, from 139 Franklin north. NOTCH road from 568 W. Main south.
O'BRIEN lane. off. 25 Eagle.
OLDS street, from Harrison street to Greylock ave.
ORCHARD terrace, from 51 Liberty north.
PALMER avenue, west from Hathaway to Tyler.
PARK avenue, south from 434 Main.
PATTISON avenue, west from Walnut.
PATTISON street, west from Notch road to city limits.
PEARL street, from 18 Main south.
PEBBLE street, from Robinson south.
PERRY avenue, from Washington ave south to Elmwood ave. PHILLIPS street, now N. Holden. PHOENIX street, north from 15 Main.
POTTER p.ace, from 109 Eagle west. PROSPECT street, from 150 Eagle east thence north to Franklin. PROTECTION avenue, Greylock. QUINCY street, from 99 Church west to Morris. RAND'S lane, east from 84 Ashland.
PITTS street, from 9 North street north. PLEASANT street, from 244 Main to 191 Church. PORTER street, from 251 Church west to 179 Ashland.
RAND street, from Miner school park to 23 Reed.
RAY street, from 36 Franklin south to Wesleyan. RAYMOND court, east from Brooklyn. REED street, north from Main to Union.
RESERVOIR road, from 63. Furnace southwest to Notch. RESERVOIR road, continuation of Furnace southwest. RICHMOND avenue, west from High. RICHVIEW avenue, southwest from 450 W. Main.
RICHVIEW street, east from 50 Dover to Meadow.
RIVER street, from 141 Eagle west to Tyler.
RIVER street extension, from River west to Burdickville. ROCK street, from Pebble west to Granite.
ROBINSON street, from 59 Furnace west to Pebble. ROYAL avenue, south from 32 Washington ave to Porter. RYAN'S lane, from 53 Center north. SANFORD'S lane, from 40 Washington avenue south. SECOND street, west from West End terrace to Notch road. SCHOOL street, west from 41 Veazie. SOUTH street, from 40 Spring to Washington ave. SPRING street. from 130 Church southwest to 22 Washington ave
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STATE street, from 47 Main south to city limits. ST. JOHN'S court, north from 45 Summer. SUMMER street, from 73 Church west to State. SUMMIT avenue, from 398 Main south (Kempville). SUMMIT street, from Beacon north to Clarksburg.
TANNERY yard, south from Union above first bridge.
TEMPLE street, off River opp. Brown
THIRD street, west from West End terrace to Marion ave.
TREMONT street, from Beason north to Franklin.
TYLER street. north from River north.
UNION street, from 72 Eagle east.
VADNER lane, south from 56 Center
VALENCIA street, south from W. Main, Greylock.
VEAZIE street, north from 267 River.
VINCENT avenue, from 460 Main south to E. Quincy.
WALDEN street, west from Fairground ave to Goodrich.
WALL street, from E. Quincy south to Cherry.
WALKER street, from Five Roads north to Clarksburg and Stamford.
WALNUT street, west and south from 199 State.
WASHINGTON avenue, from 211 Church west to Ashland.
WARREN street, from Richmond ave south.
WAVERLY place, west from Holden.
WEBSTER avenue, from 109 Holden.
WELLS avenue, from cor Franklin and Summit to city limits. WESLEYAN extension, from 168 Prospect to Summit.
WESLEYAN street, from 230 Eagle to Prospect.
WEST END PAK, bounded by W. Main and Notch road. WEST END TERRACE, south through West End Park.
WHEELER avenue, head of Houghton street, Clarksburg. WHITMAN street, from Richmond ave south.
WILLOW Dell, from 45 Union southeast to Miner.
WILLOW street, from Washington avenue south to Porter.
WILLIAM street, north from School to North. WINTER street, east 28 Elmwood ave to Yale.
WITT avenue, south from Furnace.
WITT street, from Richmond ave south to Mowbray. WYNDHAM Terrace, from 28 Dover west to Church. YALE street, from Holbrook south to Winter.
SPERRY avenue, east from 116 Holden
Parochial Schools
St. Joseph Parochial school, 68 Eagle
Notre Dame Parochial school, 228 Main
NORTH ADAMS
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CITY CHARTER
1905
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North Adams City Charter
AN ACT TO
Incorporate the City of North Adams
See an Act to Abolish the Board of Public Works of the City of North Adams and for Other Purposes on Page Following Charter. Be it enacted, etc., as folloms :
TITLE I. MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT
Section 1. The inhabitants of the town of North Adams, shall, in case of the acceptance of this act by the voters of the said town as hereinafter provided, continue to be a body politic and corporate, under the name of the city of North Adams; and as such shall have, exercise and enjoy all rights, immunities, powers and privilexes, and shall be subject to all the duties and obliga- tions, now pertaining to and incumbent upon the said town as a municipal corporation.
Section 2. The administration of all the fiscal, prudential and mu- nicipal affairs of said city, with the government thercof, shall, ex- cept the affairs of public schools, be vested in an executive de- partment, which shall consist of one officer, to be called the mayor, and in a legislative department which shall consist of a single body, to be called the city council, the members whereof shall be called councilmen. The executive department shall never ex- : ercise any legislative power, except as herein otherwis provided.
Section 3. The territory of said city shall first be divided into seven wards, as hereinafter provided, but said number, upon any subsequent division cf said city into new wards, may be increased
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by an affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the city council, passed previous to and in the year of such division.
TITLE 2. ELECTIONS AND MEETINGS.
Section 4. The municipal election shall take place annually on the third Tuesday of December, and the municipal year shall be- gin on the first Monday of January following. All meetings of the citizens for municipal purposes shall be called by warrants issued by order of the city council, which shall be in such form and be served and returned in such manner and at such tmes, as the city council may by ordinance direct.
Section 5. At such municipal election the qualified voters shall give in their votes by ballot in the several wards for mayor and councilmen. and fo" the members of the board of assessors, board of trustees of the public library, and of the school committee then to be elected, and the person receiving the highest number of votes for any office shan be deemed and declared to be elected to such office; and whenever two or more persons are to be elected to the same office the several persons, up to the number required to be cnosen, receiving the highest number of votes shall be deemed ana declared to be elected. If it shall appear that there is no choice of mayor, or if the person elected mayor shall refuse to accept the office, or shall die before qualifying, or if vacancy in said office shall occur subsequently and more than three months previous to the expiration of the municipal year, the city council shall forth- with cause warrants to be issued for a new election. and the same proceedings shall be had in all respects as hereinbefore provided for the election of mayor and shall be repeated until the election of mayor is completed. If the full number of members of the city council has not been elected, or if a vacancy in the office of coun- cilman shall occur subsequently and more than six months pre- vious to the expiration of the municipal year, the council may forthwith elect some person or persons to fill the vacancy or va- cancies until the next annual municipal election. The board of assessors shall consist of three persons, who shall be elected in a manner provided in section forty-one for the election of trustees of the public library.
Section 6. All meetings for the election of national, state, county and district officers shall be called by order of the city council, in the same manner as meetings for municipal elections are called.
Section 7. The city council may, when no convenient wardroom for holding the meetings of the citizens of any ward can be had
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within the territorial limits of such ward, appoint and direct, in the warrant for calling any meeting of the citizens of such ward that the meeting be held in some convenient place within the limits of any adjacent ward of the city; and for such purpose the place so assigned shall be deemed and taken to be a part of the ward for which the election is held.
Section 8. General meetings of the citizens qualified to vote may from time to time be held according to the right secured to the people by the constitution of this Commonwealth, and all such meetings may, and upon the request in writing of fifty qualified. voters setting forth the purposes thereof, shall be duly called by the city council.
TITLE 3. LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT.
Section 9. The members of the city council shall consist of twenty-one councilmen at large, who shall be elected by the inhab- itants of the city as follows: At the first muncipal election held under this act twenty-one members at large of the council shall be elected by the qualified voters of the entire city, seven to serve for the term of three years, seven for the term of two years and seven for the term of one year, beginning with the first Monday in Jan- uary then next ensuing; and thereafter seven members at large of said city council shall be elected in a like manner at each annual municipal election, to serve for the term of three years beginning with the first Monday in January next ensuing, in place of the members at large whose term then expires. At the first municipal election no voter shall vote for more than five of the councilmen to to be elected for each term, that is to say, not more than fifteen in the aggregate on one ballot, and the seven having the highest num- ber of votes for each term shall be declared elected. At all muni- cipal elections subsequent to the first election no voter shall vote for more than five of the seven councilmen to be elected at an an- nual election on one ballot, and the seven having the highest num- ber of votes shall be declared elected. The councilmen shall hold office for three years, except as herein otherwise provided, begin- ning with the first Monday in January next succeeding their elec- tion and until their successors shall be elected and qualified. A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. In case an election is held to fill a vacancy or vacan- cies in the council a voter may vote for the councilmen necessary to fill such vacancies in addition to the number above provided.
Section 10. The mayor and the councilmen elect shall. annually, on the first Monday in January, at ten o'clock in the forenoon,
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meet and be sworn to the faithful discharge of their duties. The oath shall be administered at their first meeting after the ac- ceptance of this act, by the town clerk, and in subsequent years by the city clerk, or, in his absence, by any justice of the peace, and shall be duly certified on the journal of the city council. In case of the absence of the mayor elect on the first Monday in January, or if a mayor shall not then have been elected, the oath of office may be at any time thereafter be administered to him, and at any time thereafter in like manner, the oath of office may be admin- istered to any member of the council who has been previously ab- sent or has been subsequently elected; and every such oath shall be duly certified as aforesaid.
Section 11. After the oath has been administered to the council- men present they shall be called to order, at their first organiza- tion by the town clerk, and in subsequent years by city clerk, or in case of the absence of the city clerk, by the oldest senior member present. The council shall then proceed to elect one of their own number president of the council by ballot. If no quorum is pres ent an adjournment shall be taken to a later hour or to the next day, and therealter the same proceedings shall be had from day to day until a quorumn is present. If any person receives the votes of a majority of all the members of the council, such person shall be declared chosen president thereof. If on the first day on which a quorum is present no person receives the votes of such majority, they shall proceed to ballot until some person receives the votes of such majority or an adjournment to the succeeding day is taken, and on each succeeding day a plurality of those voting shall be suf- ficient for an election. No other business shall be in order until à president is chosen. The president shall be sworn by the town or city clerk, as the case may be, or in case of the absence of the clerk, by any justice of the peace. The council shall then proceed to the choice of a city clerk, in the same manner as above pro- vided for the choice of president. The president may be removed from the presidency of the council and the clerk may be removed from office by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of all the mem- bers of the council, taken by roll call. The president of the council shall have the same right to vote as any other member thereof.
Section 12. The mayor may at any time call a special meeting of the city council, by causing written notification thereof together with a statement of the subjects to be considered thereat, to be deposited in the postoffice, postpaid and addressed to the persons
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to be notified, or left at the usual place of residence of each mem- ber of the council, at least twenty-four hours before the time ap- pointed for such meeting.
Section 13. The city council shall determine the rules of its own proceedings and shall be judge of the election returns and qualifications of its own members. In case of the absence of the president the council shall choose a president pro tempore. and a plurality of the votes cast shall be sufficient for a choice. The council shall sit with open doors, whether in session as a council or as a committee of the whole, and shall cause a journal of its proceedings to be open to public inspection. The vote of the coun- cil upon any question shall be taken by roll call when the same is requested by at least three members. A majority of the mem- bers of the council shall be required to constitute a quorum, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day. The council shall, so far as it is not inconsistent with this act, have and exercise all the legislative powers of the towns, and have all the powers and subject to all the liabilities of city councils and of either branch thereof, under the general laws of the Commonwealth, and it may by ordinance prescribe the manner in which powers shall be exer- cised. They shall receive no compensation for their services as members of the city council or any committee thereof.
Section 14. Neither the city council nor any members of com- mittee thereof shall directly or indirectly take part in the em- ployment of labor, the making of contracts, the purchase of ma- terials or supplies, the construction, alteration or repair of any public works, buildings or other property, or the care, custody or management of the same, or in the conduct of any of the execu- tive or administrative business of the city, or in the expenditure of public money, except such as may be necessary for the contin- gent and incidental expenses of the city council, nor in the ap- pointment or removal of any officers, except as herein otherwise provided; but nothing in this section contained shall affect the powers or duties of the council in relation to state aid to disabled soldiers and sailors and of the families of those killed in the civil war.
Section 15. The city council shall in the month of January choose an auditor of accounts, who shall hold office for the ter. a of one year beginning with the first Monday in February next ensu- ing, and until his successor is chosen and qualified. A majority of the votes of all the members of the council taken by roll call
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shall be necessary for the choice of the auditor of accounts, and he may be removed by the council.
Section 16. The city council shall appropriate annually in the months of March and April the amount necessary to meet the ex- penditures of the city for the current municipal year. It shall take care that no money is paid from the treasury unless granted or appropriated, and shall secure a just and proper accountability by requiring bonds with sufficient penalties and sureties from all per- sons entrusted with the receipt, custody or disbursement of money. It shall as often as once in each year, ten days at least prior to the annual election, cause to be published for the use of the inhabi- tants a particular account of the receipts and expenditures of said city and a schedule of all city property and of the city debt. Any appropriation made by the city council for the erection of a city hall, or for land for a location for such building, shall be subjected to ratification by the legal voters of the city voting in their res- pective precincts at an annual municipal election. The city coun- cil may appropriate money from time to time in aid of the North Adams Hospital, and in return for such appropriations and said hospital shall receive persons for the reception of whom the city may erect, establish and maintain a hospital; but such appropria- tions shall not exceed in any one year a sum amounting to one- tenth of one per cent. of the valuation of the city for the preced- ing yeal.
Section 17. The city council shall have the power within said city to make and establish ordinances and by-laws, and to affix pen- alties as herein and by general law provided, without the sanction ' of any court or justice thereof: provided, however, that all laws and regulations now in force in the town of North Adams shall, until they shall expire by their limitation or be revised or re- pealed by the council, remain in force. Complaint for the breach of any ordinance or by-law may be made by the mayor or any head of a department or any resident of the city.
Section 18. No vote of the city council granting or bestowing an exclusive franchise of any description to any person or corpora- tion shall be valid unless the same shall be approved by. a vote of the qualified voters of the city, voting at large in their respectiv precincts at the annual municipal election.
Section 19. The city council shall not authorize the erection of school house, or of any addition thereto, nor pass any appropria- „.țion for such purpose until plans for the same have been approved .. by vote of the school committee, and such approval has been
, certified in writing to the chairman of said committee.
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Section 20. The city council shall establish a fire department for said city, to consist of a chief and of such officers and members as the city council by ordinance shall from time to time prescribe; and said council shall have authority to define their ranks and duties and in general to make such regulations concerning the con- duct and government of such department, the management of fires and the conduct of persons attending fires, as they may deem ex- pedient, and may fix such penalties for any violation of such regu- lations or any of them as are provided for breach of the ordinance of said city, The appointment of all the officers and members of such department shall be vested in the mayor exclusively, who shall have authority to remove from office any officer or member for cause. The chief and officers shall be the firewards of the city.
Section 21. The city council shall have power to establish fire limits within the city, and from time to time change or enlarge the same, and by ordinance they may regulate the construction of all buildings, erected within said fire limits, stipulating their location, size and the material of which they shall be constructed, together with such other rules and regulations as shall tend to prevent damage by fire; provided that such rules and regulations shall not be inconsistent with the laws of this Commonwealth.
Section 22. The city council shall establish by ordinance a police department, to consist of a chief of police and such officers and men as it may prescribe, and make regulations for the government of the department. The appointment of all the members of such department shall be vested in the mayor exclusively, who shall have power to remove any member for cause.
Section 23. The city council shall, with the approval of the mayor, have exclusive authority and power to order the laying out, locating anew or discontinuing of all streets and ways and highways within the limits of said city, and to assess the damages sustained by any person thereby, and further, except as herein otherwise provided, to act in all matters relating to such laying out, locating anew, altering or discontinuing. Any person aggrieved by the assessment of his damages, or other action of the coun- cil under this section, shall have the right and priv- ileges now allowed by law in such cases in appeals from decisions of th seiectmen of towns.
Section 24. In case any ordinance, order, resolution or vote in- volves the appropriation or expenditure of money to an amount which may exceed two hundred dollars, the laying of an assess- ment or the granting to a person or corporation of any right in, over or under any street or other public ground of said city, the
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