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$1,000.00
Emergency Loans
7,000.00
Outstanding December 31, 1946 22,000.00
$30,000.00
$30,000.00
BORROWING CAPACITY Inside Statutory Limit of Indebtedness
Valuation 1944
$7,402,500.00
Valuation 1945
7,325,960.00
Valuation 1946
7,458,520.00
Less Abatements 1944
$172,140.00
Less Abatements 1945
155,300.00
Less Abatements 1946
134,000.00
$461,440.00
$22,186,980.00
461,440.00
Valuation for three years less abatements Total borrowing capacity, 5% of average
$21,725,540.00
362,092.30
Outstanding Dec. 31, 1946 $23,000.00
Net borrowing capacity (Inside debt limit)
339,092.30
$362,092.30
$362,092.30
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TOWN OF RANDOLPH Balance Sheet - December 31, 1946 GENERAL ACCOUNTS
Cash
ASSETS
LIABILITIES AND RESERVES
Accounts Receivable:
Taxes:
Levy of 1945:
Polls
$322.00
Personal
65.10
Real Estate
15,937.91
Accounts Payable: Town Clerk Expense
$130.00
Vital Statistics
125.00
Levy of 1946:
Polls
$836.00
Personal
731.25
Old Age Assistance
800.00
Real Estate
58,675.13
1,826.40
$60,242.38
Motor Vehicle Excise Taxes:
Levy of 1945
$107.02
2,159.20
Levy of 1946
1,385.74
78,060.15 Proceeds of Dog Licenses-Due County
101.80
Tax Titles
14,168.20
Tailings
89.23
Tax Possessions
29,008.61
Sale of Real Estate Funds Federal Grants: Old Age Assistance $3,760.02
Temporary Aid
6,031.00
Aid to Dependent Children 266.70
Aid to Highways-Chapter 90: State
$1,000.00
George Deen Fund
320.87
County
1,000.00
Smith-Hughes Fund
220.33
2,000.00
4,567.92
$141,259.99
Temporary Loans: In Anticipation of Revenue, 1946 Reimbursement
$50,000.00 2,000.00
$52,000.00
$16,325.01
School General Expense
443.00
Hospitalization 328.40
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Pay Roll Deductions: War Bonds Withholding Tax
$188.00
2,347.20
15,268.20
Derartmental: Old Age Assistance
$829.49
6,860.49
$4,026.72
Water:
Levy of 1944
Levy of 1945
Levy of 1946
$245.79 948.07 5,972.15
Overlay Deficit:
Levy of 1943
$1,313.03
Levy of 1944
1,302.52
Levy of 1945
200.10
Street Drains:
Cole Terrace
$500.00
Liberty St. 400.00
900.00
Land Damage
962.92
Public Welfare Special
494.00
Crawford Land
1.00
Anniversary Program
125.00
Rehabilitation Expense
52.12
War Memorial
1,000.00
Women's Defense Corps
55.03
Water Extensions: High St. $3,244.26
Ballard St. 2,202.63
5,446.89
9,535.76
139.07
Reserve Fund-Overlay Surplus Overlay Reserved for Abatement of Taxes: Levy of 1946 Reserved for adjustment of Taxes:
1,688.64
Real Estate 1940
$40.47
Real Estate 1941
37.62
Real Estate 1942
38.95
Real Estate 1943
38.00
Real Estate 1944
39.90
194.94
95
Unexpended Balances : Attorney Fees Street Layouts: Edwin Street $50.00
248.80
7,166.01
Hildegarde Street 50.00
Dorr Street 75.00
Byron Street 75.00
250.00
2,815.65
Under Estimates:
State Parks and Reservations
184.25
38.19
$281,523.35
$281,523.35
DEBT ACCOUNTS
$45,000.00
School Loans Municipal Relief Loans
22,000.00
$45,000.00
$45,000.00
BONDED INDEBTEDNESS
Date
Tower Hill School
W.P.A.
Emer.
Emer.
Emer.
N. & E. Rand Schools
Emer.
Emer.
Total
1947
$3,000.00
$1,000.00
$2,000.00
$1,000.00
$2,000.00
$5,000.00
$1,000.00
$1,000.00
$16,000.00
1948
2,000.00
. 1,000.00
2,000.00
5,000.00
1,000.00
1,000.00
12,000.00
1949
1,000.00
2,000.00
5,000.00
1,000.00
1,000.00
10,000.00
1950
...
5,000.00
1,000.00
1,000.00
7,000.00
$3,000.00
$1,000.00
$4,000.00
$3,000.00
$6,000.00 $20,000.00
$4,000.00
$4,000.00
$45,000.00
Net Funded or Fixed Debt
Revenue Reserved for Appropriation: Coddington Fund Interest Revenue Reserved Until Collected: Motor Vehicle Excise Tax
$1,491.80
Tax Title
14,168.20
Tax Possessions
29,008.61
Departmental
9,850.91
Water
7,166.03
Tax Title Receipts Reserved Surplus Revenue
61,685.55
206.00
131,834.45
$23,000.00
STATEMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS AND PAYMENTS FOR 1946
ACCOUNT
Appropria- tions and Balance
Transfers and Refunds
Grants and Gifts
Payments
Accounts Payable
Transfers
Balance
To Surplus
Moderator
$65.00
$65.00
Selectmen
3,212.00
3,211.95
$0.05
Accountant
2,170.00
2,156.36
13.64
Treasurer
4,187.50
4,185.34
2.16
Tax Collector
5,000.00
4,999.88
.12
Assessors
3,550.00
$100.00
3,641.66
8.34
Attorney's Fees
1,000.00
751.20
248.80
Costs and Claims
1,252.50
52.50
1,296.30
8.70
Registration
1,225.00
1,222.20
2.80
Elections
1,585.00
1,585.00
Finance Committee
215.00
195.50
19.50
Town Clerk
1,112.50
982.39
$130.00
11
Vital Statistics
150.00
25.00
125.00
Town Offices
2,654.00
2,600.89
ยท53.11
Trustees Stetson Hall
475.00
475.00
Police Department
25,835.70
25,411.87
423.83
Lock-Up
225.00
195.70
29.30
Dog Officer
300.00
300.00
Sealer, Weights and Measures
310.00
310.00
Building Inspector
100.00
97.40
2.60
Fire Department
24,065.00
24,028.52
.
36.48
Tree and Moth Departments
1,600.00
1,590.40
9.60
Health Department
16,112.50
14,950.12
328.40
833.98
County Hospital Assessment
5,165.22
5,165.22
Highway General
17,557.50
17,554.99
2.51
Highway Snow and Ice
12,000.00
12,000.00
Chapter 90 Road
1,000.00
*2,000.00
2,999.57
.43
Street Repairs and Drains
2,660.00
1,746.17
$900.00
13.83
Street Lights
12,427.08
12,113.97
313.11
Street Layouts
250.00
250.00
Land Damage
952.92
962.92
Old Age Assistance
41,694.85
22,246.76
34,965.26
93,399.50
800.00
600.00
3,760.02
347.35
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STATEMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS AND PAYMENTS FOR 1946
ACCOUNT
Appropria- tions and Balance
Transfers and Refunds
Grants and Gifts
Payments
Accounts Payable
Transfers
Balance
To Surplus
Aid to Dependent Children
8,525.00
2,497.77
8,966.52
500.00
266.70
1,289.55
Public Welfare
17,900.00
1,236.43
18,662.59
75.60
398.24
Veteran's Benefits
6,100.00
26.20
5,112 85
1,013.35
Physicians' Fees
500.00
410.00
90.00
School Department
179,245.42
1,994.06
178,240.42
443.00
2,556.06
Stetson School Roof
1,400.00
1,339.30
60.70
Tower Hill Playground
1,000.00
1,000.00
George Deen Fund
310.87
250.00
120.00
120.00
320.87
Turner Library
2,200.00
2,195.40
4.60
Insurance
5,500.00
43.35
5,525.34
18.01
Town Reports
1,272.36
1,272.36
Memorial Day Exercises
500.00
500.00
Rehabilitation Expense
136.06
83.94
52.12
Care of Clocks
40.00
40.00
Women's Defense Corps
100.00
44.97
55.03
Accounts Payable
788.50
658.65
129.85
Unpaid Bills
9,437.56
9,040.98
Water Department
19,965.00
3.93
19,935.04
33.89
Water-High Street
3,600.00
355.74
Water-Ballard Street
2,400.00
197.37
2,202.63
Interest and Discount
2,300.00
20.00
2,301.70
Maturing Debt
16,000.00
16,000.00
War Bonds
1,312.50
Withholding Tax
14,848.27
Parks and Recreation Tax
491.34
State Audit
921.54
Dog Licenses
1,361.00
County Tax
8,845.52
State Tax
6,100.00
Revenue Notes
126,800.00
Refunds
3,357.17
Cash on Hand, December 31, 1946
141,259.99
$816,557.60
*To be re-imbursed
Respectfully submitted, RAYMOND E. LYONS, Town Accountant
396.58
3,244.26
18.30
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TOWN OF RANDOLPH, MASS.
Report of Building Laws Committee
The Building Laws Committee, which was appointed under Article No. 7 of the Warrant for the regular town meeting held in March 1946, respectively submit the follow- ing recommended By-Laws :
These proposed By-Laws were submitted to a joint meeting of the Building By-Laws Committee and the Town Planning Board at the final reading, and were approved by that joint meeting. A copy of the By-Laws have been filed with the Planning Board.
Your committee wishes to thank the number of inter- ested citizens of the Town, who by their friendly and intelli- gent suggestions, have helped immeasurably.
Extract from Chapter 143 of the General Laws of the Commonwealth.
INSPECTION OF BUILDINGS
Section 3. Every city, except Boston, and every town which accepts this section or has accepted corresponding provisions of earlier laws may, for the prevention of fire and the preservation of life, health and morals, by ordi- nances or by-laws consistent with law and applicable throughout the whole or any defined part of its territory, regulate the inspection, materials, construction, alteration, repair, height, area, location and use of buildings and other structures within its limits, except such as are owned or occupied by the United States or by the commonwealth, and except bridges, quays and wharves, and may prescribe pen- alties not exceeding one hundred dollars for every violation of such ordinances or by-laws.
Section 4. In a town which accepts this and the follow- ing section or has accepted corresponding provisions of earlier laws, no dwelling house or other structure more than
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eight feet in length or breadth and seven feet in height, ex- cept detached houses or structures situated more than one hundred feet from any other building and wooden struc- tures erected on wooden wharves, shall be built within such limits as the town may from time to time prescribe, unless made of and covered with an incombustible material or un- less a license is granted therefor by the selectmen for public good or necessity and recorded in the town records.
Section 5. A building or structure erected in violation of the preceding section shall be deemed a common nuisance without other proof thereof than proof of its unlawful con- struction and use; and the selectmen may abate and remove it in the same manner in which boards of healths may re- move nuisances under sections one hundred annd twenty- three to one hundred and twenty-five, inclusive, of chapter one hundred and eleven.
Section 6. In a city or town which accepts this and the six following sections or has accepted corresponding pro- visions of earlier laws, the superintendent of public build- ings or such other person as the mayor of such city or the selectmen of such town may designate shall be inspector of buildings, and, immediately upon being informed by report or otherwise that a building or other structure or anything attached to or connected there with in that city or town is dangerous to life and limb, shall inspect the same; and if it appears to him to be dangerous he shall forthwith in writing notify the owner, agent or any person having an interest therein to remove it or make it safe. If it appears that such structure would be specially unsafe in case of fire, it shall be deemed dangerous within the meaning hereof, and the in- spector of buildings may affix in a conspicuous place upon its exterior walls a notice of its dangerous condition, which shall not be removed or defaced without authority from him.
Section 7. Any person so notified shall be allowed until twelve o'clock noon of the day following the service of the notice in which to begin to remove such structure or make it
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safe, and he shall employ sufficient labor speedily to make it safe or remove it; but if the public safety so requires and if the alderman or selectmen so order, the inspector of build- ings may immediately enter upon the premises with the necessary workmen and assistants and cause such unsafe structure to be made safe or taken down without delay, and a proper fence put up for the protection of passers-by.
Section 8. If an owner, agent or person interested in such unsafe structure refuses or neglects to comply with the requirements of such notice within the time limited, and such structure is not made safe or taken down as therein ordered, a careful survey of the premises shall be made by a board consisting in a city of the city engineer, the chief en- gineer of the fire department and one disinterested person to be appointed by the inspector of buildings and in a town of a surveyor, the chief engineer of the fire department and one disinterested person to be appointed by the inspector of buildings. If there is no city engineer in such city or no chief engineer of the fire department in such city or town, the mayor or selectmen shall designate one or more officers or other suitable persons in place of the officer so named as members of said board. A written report of such survey shall be made, and a copy thereof served on such owner, agent or interested person.
Section 9. If such report declares such structure to be dangerous, and if the owner, agent or person interested con- tinues such refusal or neglect, the inspector of buildings shall cause it to be safe or taken down, and costs and charges incurred shall constitute a lien upon the land upon which the building is located and shall be enforced within the time and in the manner provided for the collection of taxes on land; and such owner or interested person shall, for every day's continuance of such refusal or neglect after being so notified, forfeit to the city or town in which the structure is located not less than ten or more than fity dollars.
Section 10. An owner or interested person aggrieved
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by such order may have the remedy prescribed by section two of chapter one hundred and thirty-nine; but this section shall not prevent the city or town from recovering the for- feiture provided in the preceding section from the date of the service of the original notice, unless the order is annulled by the jury.
Section 11. If an owner or interested person lives out of the commonwealth, the notice required by section six may be served upon him by a notary public, whose certificate of service under his notarial seal shall be sufficient evidence thereof.
Section 12. The supreme judicial or superior court may restrain the construction, alteration, repair, mainte- nance or use of a building or structure in violation of any ordinance or by-law of a city or town and order its removal or abatement as a nuisance; and may restrain the further construction, alteration or repair of a building or structure reported to be dangerous, under a survey authorized by sec- tion eight, until the determination of the matter, as provided in section ten.
ARTICLE 1
ORGANIZATION-PERMITS AND PLANS
Section 1. There shall be in the Town of Randolph a department for the Inspection of Buildings.
Section 2. The officer of said department shall be called the Inspector of Buildings, who shall be an experienced builder, engineer or architect. He shall be appointed by the Selectmen, in March of each year and shall hold office for one year beginning with the first day of April following his appointment and until his successor is appointed. His com- pensation shall be regulated by the Selectmen subject to the approval of the Town at an annual or special town meeting.
Section 3. Whenever the word "Inspector" without further addition occurs in these regulations, it means the Inspector of Buildings.
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Section 4. The Inspector shall keep a record of all business of the department, and shall submit to the Select- men such reports of the same as they may require.
Section 5. The Inspector may, so far as it is necessary for the performance of his duties, enter any building or premises within said town at any reasonable hour.
Section 6. The Inspector of Buildings in his capacity as inspector of buildings, or his assistants, shall examine all buildings in the course of erection, alteration or repair, as often as practicable.
Section 7. No building shall be erected, enlarged, alt- ered, raised, moved or'torn down, nor shall any work of like nature be done upon any structure, except ordinary repairs, until written application for a permit therefor shall have been filed wiith the Inspector of Buildings, accompanied by a true copy of the plans and specifications, nor until the In- spector of Buildings shall have had opportunity to inspect the plans and specifications and the premises in question. If upon such inspection the plans and specifications conform to the building laws, the Inspector of Buildings shall there- upon issue a written permit for the work. If upon inspec- tion it is found that the plans and specifications are not in conformity with the requirements of the building laws, or if the proposed work does not appear safe and free from dan- ger from fire, the Inspector shall withhold such permit.
Section 8. Applications for permits shall be in writ- ing upon blanks furnished by the town, and shall be directed to the Inspector, who shall keep a record of the same.
Section 9. All plans and specifications deposited under Section 7 shall be dated and signed by the Inspector imme- diately upon being received by him.
Section 10. It shall be the duty of the Police Depart- ment to ascertain if the required permit has been granted for all work in progress and said department is to notify the
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owner or builder to obtain such permit at once, before pro- ceeding further with the work.
Section 11. The Inspector of Buildings shall not give a permit for the erection or alteration of any building or other structure until he has carefully examined the plans, specifications or description thereof, and ascertained that the building or structure will be of sufficient strength and have sufficient means of ingress and egress, and that its proposed location does not encroach upon any street, square or other public place, and that the building or structure will conform to law and to the by-laws of the town.
Section 12. The Inspector may require an applicant for a permit to submit with the plans of a building or other structure detailed drawings and calculations of any portions, or for a steel frame or reinforced concrete or of any type of construction not particularly described in these by-laws.
Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the Inspector from granting his approval of the erection of any part of a building or structure where the general plans and detailed descriptions have been filed for the same, before the entire detailed plans have been submitted.
Section 13. It shall be the duty of the Inspector to ap- prove or reject any plans filed with him pursuant to the provisions of this chapter within a reasonable time and within ten (10) days in any event and no work shall be commenced until a permit is issued.
Section 14. Upon approval of plans the Inspector shall issue a permit. The permit shall be void unless work is commenced within six (6) months from the date thereof.
Section 15. No building shall be lathed nor shall any metal ceiling, plaster board or other covering be put on until the Inspector has been notified that the building is ready for such work, and until he has given written consent thereto.
Section 16. Every permit by the Inspector shall state
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the purpose for which the building is to be used, and the conditions, if any, under which it is granted. A copy of each permit issued shall be recorded and said records shall be preserved.
ARTICLE 2.
DEFINITIONS OF WORDS AND TERMS
APARTMENT HOUSE. A building divided into suites of rooms, each suite intended for the residence of one family and containing the conveniences of a modern dwell- ing, including facilities for cooking.
BASEMENT. A lower story partly under ground, but which in average is at least one-half above the main grade of the adjoining ground.
CELLAR. A lower story either wholly under ground or in the average more than one-half below the main grade of the adjoining ground.
DWELLING. A building used, or constructed, or adapted to be used, wholly, or principally, for human habi- tation.
FIRST-CLASS BUILDING. A building of fireproof construction throughout.
SECOND-CLASS BUILDING. A building not of the first class, the external and party walls of which are of brick, stone, iron, concrete or other equally substantial and non-combustible material.
THIRD-CLASS BUILDING. A building not of the first or second-class.
FOUNDATION. That part of a wall below the level of the street curb; or, where the wall is not on the street, that portion of the wall below the level of the highest ground next to the wall; but foundations of party or partition walls may be construed by the Inspector to mean that portion be- low the cellar floor.
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HOTEL. A building or part thereof intended, de- signed or used for supplying food and shelter to transients or guests, and having a general public dining room or cafe or both.
HEIGHTS OF A BUILDING. The vertical distance of the highest point of the roof above the average grade of the curbs of all the adjoining street, or the average grade of. the natural ground adjoining the building (if not below the grade of the curb.)
HALF STORY. A story included in the roof of which the floor area of the rooms is not more than seventy-five per cent of the area of the ground floor.
BLOCK GRANITE. A block uniform in size, one dimension of which shall not be less than the thickness of the wall in which it is to be laid.
ALTERATION. Any change in or addition to any building or any change in or addition to any other structure which converts the same into a building within the meaning of this article.
BUILDING. Any structure of which any portion is designed or used for human habitations, for a garage, barn or stable, for any manufacturing, industrial or mercantile purpose for a place of public resort or assembly or which is used in connection with the storage or sale of petroleum or any of its derivatives of any other structure not herein be- fore described which is more than eight feet in length or breadth or more than seven feet in height measuring to the extremities of all parts.
PUBLIC BUILDING. A building used or constructed, or adapted to be used in whole or in part as a church, school, hospital, theatre, hotel, or place in public assemblage, or public resort.
EXTERNAL WALL. Every outer wall or vertical enclosure of any building other than a party wall, and shall
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include piazzas, bay windows, covered porches and other ordinary and usual projection.
PARTY WALL. A wall that separates two or more buildings and is used or adepted for the use of more than one building.
UNDERPINNING. The brick, stone, or concrete wall above the foundation to the under side of the sill.
SOLID WALL. A wall without openings of any kind therein.
WOODEN BUILDING. Any building of which an external wall is constructed wholly or partly of wood. Wood frames covered with metal shall be deemed to be wood struc- tures.
ARTICLE 3.
FOUNDATIONS.
Section 1. Every wooden building shall have a founda- tion of stone, concrete or brick carried up to the surface of the ground, and the foundation, if of concrete, shall be not less than ten inches thick; if of stone, it shall be not less than sixteen inches thick and laid in cement mortar, in which the amount of sand shall not exceed three times the aggregate amount of cement and lime. The sand used shall be clean sharp sand. If of block stone the foundation shall be not less than sixteen inches thick and laid in equally good mortar with headers extending through the wall every four feet in each direction.
Section 2. The underpinning above ground of a wooden building, if of brick or approved concrete masonry shall be not less than eight inches thick.
Section 3. Such part of the foundation wall of a wooden building as may be below the grade of the cellar bot- tom may be laid of large stones without mortar, provided the wall is at least two feet thick.
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Section 4. Such buildings or structures as the Inspec- tor shall approve may rest on trench walls carried four feet below grade, on foundation walls laid without mortar or on brick or concrete piers. Such piers shall rest on a solid footing extending four feet below grade.
Section 5. In all buildings having masonry walls, foun- dation walls, if of brick, shall be at least four inches thicker than the wall directly above, and shall rest on a concrete footing at least twelve inches wider than the wall and one foot thick. Where rubble is used the wall shall be thorough- ly bonded. Foundation walls shall be thick enough to resist lateral pressure and the Inspector may order an increase of thickness for that purpose. They shall be laid solid in cement mortar, as described in Section 1. Such walls if of rubble stone, shall be at least twenty inches thick, and at least eight inches thicker than the wall above. If of block stone, they shall be at least eighteen inches thick and at least four inches thicker than the wall above.
Section 6. In no case shall the bearing on the earth ex- ceed the following unit pressure :
Solid ledge rock
Tons per sq. ft. 75
Shale, and hard pan 6
Gravel, compact sand and yellow clay, dry or wet sand, of coarse or medium size grains
4
Hard blue clay mixed or unmixed with sand, disinte- grated ledge rock 4
Medium stiff or plastic clay mixed or unmixed with sand, or fine dry sand 3
Fine grained wet sand (confined)
2
Soft clay protected against lateral displacement 1
Section 7. Any building hereafter constructed with a timber floor but without a cellar, shall have a space of at least 30 inches, properly drained and ventilated and free from rubbish and organic matter, between the ground, with- in the wall of the building, and the under side of floor beams.
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Section 8. All buildings without a cellar but with a central heating plant shall have a room for this purpose of sufficient size to allow 18 inches of clear space around the heating plant. All heater rooms shall be separated from other rooms in the building, walls, floors and ceilings, having a fire resistance rating of not less than one hour. All heater rooms must be properly vented to the outside air.
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