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Article 6. To see what action the town will take in relation to salaries of the Surveyor of Highways and Water and Sewer Commissioners for the en- suing year.
Article 7. To see what action the town will take in relation to the recom- mendations not calling for the appropriation of money, as contained in the re- ports of officers, boards or committees.
Article 8. To see what action the town will take in relation to the recom- mendations calling for the appropriation of expenditure of money, the creation of a debt, or the disposition of town property, as set forth in the reports of officers, boards or committees.
Article 9. To see what action the town will take in relation to the approp- riation of money for departmental and other expenses, as recommended and set forth on pages 208 and 209 of the annual town report.
Article 10. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Moderator to appoint a committee of not less than three nor more than five persons to make a study of the public service, particularly as to whether the public service may be operated to better advantage, with greater economy, and with more effi- ciency by consolidating departments, by establishing a board of public works, by remaining as at present, or by any other arrangement; and to report its findings to the town, such report to be printed and to be mailed to each town meeting member not less than ten days prior to any town meeting which it is proposed to place the report before; said report to be made at least thirty days prior to the date of the next annual town meeting, and that for the use of said committee in carrying on its work the sum of $100 be appropriated, as recom- mended by the Board of Selectmen.
Article 11. To see if the town will vote to authorize the selectmen, or any other board or officials the town may desire, to petition the legislature to amend Chapter 300 of the Act of 1927, the so-called representative town meet- ing act, by providing that there shall be a finance committee of five instead of eight, and that said committee may be selected at large by the Moderator, as recommended by the Board of Selectmen.
Article 12. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to sell, after first giving notice of the time and place of sale by posting such notice of sale in some convenient and public place in the town fourteen days at least before the sale, property taken by the town under tax title procedure provided, that the Selectmen or whosoever they may authorize to hold such public auction may reject any bid which they deem inadequate, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 13. To see if the town will vote to sell the premises taken by it on tax lien against Joseph Raimo, et al, identified as Land Court Foreclosure Case No. 5226.
Article 14. To see if the town will vote to transfer the following unused balances from loan orders viz: High School Committee $1.90 and Stanley School, $41.71, to the account of New High School building.
Article 15. To see if the town will vote to appropriate to the Account of Unpaid Bills the sum of $43.67 to cover bills contracted prior to January 1, 1936, and remaining unpaid at the time of closing the books for the year 1935: Soldiers' Relief, $6.95; Tree Warden, $12.11; Fire, $24.61.
Article 16. To see if the town will take action to refund to the chairman of the World War Honor Roll Committee money expended by him over and the above alloted appropriation, and appropriate two hundred and thirty dollars and twenty-four cents ($230.24) for the same.
Article 17. To see if the town will appropriate to the Account of unpaid Bills the sum of $10,097.14 to cover the remaining unpaid bills of the Public Welfare Department prior to December 31, 1934.
Article 18. To see if the town will appropriate to the Account of Unpaid Bills the sum of $3,591.29 to cover the remaining unpaid bills of the Public Welfare Department prior to December 31, 1935.
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Article 19. To see if the town will authorize the Board of Public Welfare to appoint one of its own members as agent and investigating officer and fix the salary of such an appointee at $1200 and appropriate money therefor, as pro- vided by Chapter 41, Sec. 4A, of the General Laws (Ter. Ed.)
Article 20. To see if the town will authorize the Board of Assessors, the Park Commission, the Board of Public Welfare and the Planning Board to ap- point a member of such boards to act as secretary thereof and receive pay there- for, as provided by Chapter 41, Section 4A of the General Laws, Tercentenary edition.
Article 21. To see what action the town will take in relation to the appro- priation or raising of money for permanent street construction.
Article 22. To see if the town will vote to resurface Thomas road, from Burrill street to Walker road, Farragut road from Thomas road to State road and Beach Bluff avenue, from Humphrey street to Atlantic avenue, with bi- tuminus macadam and appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the Surveyor of Highways.
Article 23. To see if the town will vote to rebuild the iron fence under the Boston & Maine Railroad bridge on Burrill street and appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the Surveyor of Highways.
Article 24. To see if the town will vote to build a fence on Bay View drive for the protection of the public and appropriate money therefor, as recom- mended by the Surveyor of Highways.
Article 25. To see if the town will vote to appropriate a sum of money for the repair of the rail fence along the wall on Humphrey street at Blaney Beach, as recommended by the Surveyor of Highways.
Article 26. To see if the town will appropriate money for repairing the roofs of the wooden buildings at the town yard, as recommended by the Sur- veyor of Highways.
Article 27. To see if the town will vote to purchase the following equip- ment for the Highway Department: one motor driven sidewalk plow and one 5-ton truck to take the place of one that has been in service for the past ten years, as recommended by the Surveyor of Highways.
Article 28. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of $1,000 to clean the town beaches, as recommended by the Surveyor of Highways.
Article 29. To see if the town will vote to accept Sherwood road as a public way as laid out by the Board of Selectmen, in accordance with a plan made by W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, and to appropriate money therefor, as petitioned for by George J. Place, et al.
Article 30. To see if the town will vote to accept as a public way Beverly road, so-called, in accordance with a plan made by W. W. Pratt, Town Engin- eer, dated February 4, 1932, now on file in the Town Engineer's office, and appropriate the sum of five hundred dollars ($500) for the purpose of surfacing, oiling and grading the same, as petitioned for by Thomas S. Bubier, et al.
Article 31. To see if the town will vote to authorize and direct the Board of Selectmen to petition the General Court for legislation to enable the town of Swampscott to establish a Board of Public Works, as recommended by the Committee on Salaries and Wages, as petitioned for by James W. Santry, et al.
Article 32. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of $10,000 to be used by the Board of Selectmen in providing the required sponsors' con- tribution in providing Works Progress Administration projects, as recommended by the Board of Selectmen.
Article 33. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of $200 to be used on Recreational Projects No. 5123.
Article 34. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of $3,000 or such other sum as may be necessary to install new toilets in the Clarke school, as recommended by the School Committee.
Article 35. To see if the town will vote to relay the water main in Porter place, a distance of about 184 feet, and appropriate money therefor, as recom- mended by the Water and Sewerage Board.
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Article 36. To see if the town will vote to relay the water main in Law- rence terrace, a distance of about 225 feet, and appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Board.
Article 37. To see if the town will vote to relay the water main in Stearns street, a distance of about 200 feet, and appropriate money therefor, as recom- mended by the Water and Sewerage Board.
Article 38. To see if the town will vote to relay the water main in Ay- cliffe road, a distance of about 175 feet, and appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Board.
Article 39. To see if the town will vote to relay the water main in Moun- tain avenue, a distance of about 265 feet, and appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Board.
Article 40. To see if the town will vote to transfer from the Water Avail- able Surplus $5000 to Water Emergency fund, as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Board.
Article 41. To see if the town will vote to appropriate $3950 to build a small fireproof building on southwest side of Central Fire Station to house fire alarm apparatus, also to purchase the repeater, transmitter, battery racks, terminal cabinet, etc., and to do all necessary work to put same in working order, as recommended by the Board of Fire Engineers.
Article 42. To see if the town will vote to remodel the building now lo- cated on the Highway Department land on Paradise road, known as the Tree Department Locker, so that all equipment of the department may be housed in one place, the building also to furnish a work shop for the department and appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the Tree Warden and Moth Superintendent.
Article 43. To see if the town will vote to purchase a power sprayer to supplement the one now in use, and appropriate money therefor, as recommend- ed by the Moth Superintendent.
Article 44. To see if the town will vote to purchase a new 112 ton truck for the use of the Moth and Tree Warden Departments and appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the Tree Warden and Moth Superintendent.
Article 45. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of $1,000 for the proper observance of the Fourth of July.
Article 46. To see if the town will vote to transfer the yard at the Clarke School or any portion of the same from the School Committee to the Park Department, for the purpose of a playground, as recommended by the Plan- ning Board.
Article 47. To see if the town will vote to grade and equip as a play- ground the land described in the foregoing article and to appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the Planning Board.
Article 48. To see if the town will vote to transfer the yard at the Stanley School or any portion of the same from the School Committee to the Park Department for the purpose of a playground, as recommended by the Planning Board.
Article 49. To see if the town will vote to grade and equip as a play- ground the land described in the foregoing article and to appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the Planning Board.
Article 50. To see if the town will vote to transfer the yard at the Machon School or any portion of the same from the School Committee to the Park Department for the purpose of a playground, as recommended by the Planning Board.
Article 51. To see if the town will vote to grade and equip as a play- ground the land described in the foregoing article and to appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the Planning Board.
Article 52. To see if the town will authorize the Board of Park Commiss- ioners to build 240 linnear feet of ten (10) row bleachers as specified by plan drawn by Town Engineer, to be located on one side of the new football field at
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Phillips park, and appropriate five thousand dollars ($5000) therefor, as recom- mended by the Park Commissioners.
Article 53. To see if the town will authorize the Board of Park Commis- sioners to build a locker building, as specified by plan of Town Engineer, to be located on Phillips park, and appropriate ten thousand dollars ($10,000) there- for, as recommended by the Park Commissioners.
Article 54. To see if the town will authorize the Board of Park Com- missioners to fill in another strip at Phillips Park, adjacent to east side and the length of the new football field, and appropriate five thousand dollars ($5,000) therefor, as recommended by the Park Commissioners.
Article 55. To see if the town will authorize the Board of Park Commis- sioners to purchase playground equipment, as recommended by Planning Board, to be located at Jackson and Phillips Parks, and appropriate four hundred eighty dollars ($480) therefor, as recommended by the Park Commis- sioners.
Article 56. To see if the town will vote to transfer the sum of $7,000 from the Cemetery Lots fund and income to the account of Cemetery Improvement, for the purpose of continuing the work at the cemetery.
Article 57. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of $500 for the proper observance of Armistice Day, as petitioned for by the Ameri- can Legion.
Article 58. To see if the town will vote to adopt the following by-law or some modification thereof for the purpose of regulating billboards or other out- door advertising devices:
Section 1. Authorization. In conformity with the General Laws and lawful state regulations for the proper control and restriction of outdoor adver- tising devices, and without relaxing any restrictions on said devices im- posed by such regulations, said devices in the town of Swampscott are hereby further restricted as provided in the following sections:
Section 2. Exemptions. This by-law shall apply exclusively to outdoor ad- vertising within public view of any highway, public park or reservation. It shall not apply to signs or other devices controlled under the provisions of Section 1, 2 or 8, of Chapter 85, General Laws, or to signs or other de- vices on or in the rolling stock, stations, subways or structures of or used by common carriers, except advertising devices on bridges or viaducts or abutments thereof ; and, except for lawful restrictions as to size and location, it shall not apply to signs or other devices which advertise or indicate either the person occupying the premises in question or the business transacted thereon or advertise the property itself or any part thereof as for sale or to let and which contain no other advertising matter. It also shall not apply to any advertising device legally permitted and maintained on the date of the taking effect of this by-law, until one year after the first day of July next following said date.
Section 3. Definitions:
"Advertising devices" shall mean billboards, painted bulletins, poster panels, signs, placards and other outdoor units designed to call public attention to the matter displayed thereon.
"Advertising sign" or "sign" shall mean any outdoor advertising device. "Sign-board" shall mean any structure designed for displaying an out- door advertisement.
"Highway" shall mean any public way.
"Public Park" shall mean a piece of public land of at least five thousand square feet set apart for beauty and public enjoyment.
"Public reservation" shall mean a piece of public land set apart for re- creational use, as a state or municipal forest, as a protection to a public water supply, as a memorial, or cemetery, or as a place of unusual scenic or historical interest.
"Permitted" shall mean authorized by an official permit.
"Display" shall mean to make or maintain visible from any highway, public park or reservation.
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"Area" of a sign or signboard shall mean the area of the face view of the entire device, including all attachments except supports and lattice at the base thereof.
"Residential District" shall mean any area zoned as residential.
"Non-conforming business" shall mean a business located in a residential or rural district, other than such rural business as farming or the raising and sale on the same premises of farm, garden or orchard products.
"Lawful sign" shall mean any outdoor advertising device not prohibited by any provision of law or by any lawful regulation.
"Accessory sign" shall mean any outdoor advertising device which car- ries only advertisements strictly incidental and subordinate to a lawful use of the premises on which it is located, including signs indicating bus- iness transacted or goods sold or produced on the premises or an occupant thereof, but not including any sign sold or rented to an outside party.
"Sign on a wall" shall mean a sign closely attached throughout to and facing with that wall, or in a window or door therein.
"Lot" shall mean a plot of ground containing and devoted to the purposes of a building, or laid out to contain a building, with all required open spaces; or a larger tract of unbuilt, undivided land under one ownership.
Section 4. General Restrictions. No person, firm, association or corpor- ation shall be permitted or allowed to erect, display or maintain any bill- board or other outdoor advertising device, not exempted by Section 2 hereof, except those specified in paragraphs (a) (b) (c) (d) and (e) of this section.
(a) In districts not of a residential or rural character, any lawful sign on or attached to a wall of a building or any lawful ground or roof sign or sign board no part of which extends over fifteen feet above the part of the ground or roof on which it stands.
(b) In a residential or rural district, any lawful accessory sign or signs not exceeding five square feet in aggregate area on any one building or lot; or any lawful sign or signs advertising only the sale or rental of the premises, not exceeding a total area of ten square feet; or, on the premises of any public building, or of any farm, garden, tree- nursery or forest, any lawful accessory signs not exceeding all to- gether fifteen square feet in area within the limits of said premises; or any lawful accessory signs on the front wall of any building occu- pied by a non-conforming business.
(c) Any lawful sign not exceeding thirty-two square feet in area displayed by the town, or any sign displayed by the United States, the state or the county, relative to government business.
(d) At any boundary line of the town a lawful sign not exceeding five square feet in area indicating the meetings of any civic organization located therein.
(e) On property owned or principally occupied by a religious, civic or charitable organization, association of war veterans or the like, any lawful accessory sign displayed by written permission of the Select- men and approval of the inspector of buildings if any, for a limited period not exceeding sixty days.
Section 5. Set-backs. No advertising sign or signboard shall be permitted or allowed to be so located as to obstruct a view between any points on con- necting streets within fifty feet of a corner of the rights of way; or to ob- struct any door, window or fire excape on a building; or, if on a roof, to be set nearer than one-half its height to the wall thereof on a street front; or, in a residential district, to extend more than six inches nearer to any boundary of the lot or premises on which it is located than it would be law- ful to maintain a building, except as provided in paragraph (d) of Section 4.
Section 6. Prohibitions. Except signs exempted under Section 2, no person, firm, association or corporation shall be permitted or allowed to erect, dis- play or maintain any billboard or other outdoor advertising device in any district.
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(a) Except the owner or a tenant occupant of the premises where it is located, or a party holding written permission from either to display the device for a limited period, which party's name shall be con- spicuously displayed thereon ;
(b) Upon any rock, tree, fence or pole;
(c) Within one hundred feet of any church, public building, monument or memorial, or within three hundred feet of any public park, play- ground, or public reservation, if within view from any portion thereof; except that this paragraph shall not apply to accessory signs on the walls of buildings;
(d) .If it contains any obscene, indecent or immoral matter;
(e) Unless all parts and attachments and the ground about the base there of are kept in neat and safe condition.
Section 7. Administration. No advertising device for which a permit from any state authority is required shall be erected, displayed or maintained in the town until five days after a permit therefor, or a true copy thereof, has been filed with the Town Clerk. Whenever notice of an application for such a permit is received by the Town Clerk, he shall immediately transmit it to the Inspector of Buildings or other officer, if any, charged with the ad- ministration of this by-law. Such officer, or in the lack of such officer, the Town Clerk, shall thereupon make an examination of the case and, as promptly as possible, within thirty days of the receipt of the application by the Town Clerk, shall send written notice to the state authority to whom the application is addressed, stating whether or not the proposed advertising device would violate any provision of this by-law, and, if so, what provision. Like notice shall be sent also to the applicant and to the owner or tenant of the proposed location of the device.
At least twenty-five days before an outdoor advertising device not requiring a permit from any state authority and not exempted under Section 2 shall be erected or displayed in the town, a description thereof and of its proposed location shall be filed with the town clerk, after which the procedure shall be the same as prescribed in the preceeding para- graph in the case of an application for a state permit, except that notice whether or not the device would violate any provision of the law shall be sent, within twenty days after receipt of the description, only to the party filing the same and to the owner or tenant of the proposed location.
Section 8. Penalties and Enforcement. Whoever violates any provisions of sections 4, 5 or 6 hereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, and whoever after final conviction for such violation unlawfully displays such outdoor ad- vertising device for twenty days shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars.
The Selectmen or any officer charged with the enforcement of this by-law shall cause any such violator to be prosecuted; and shall notify the state regulatory authority of Outdoor Advertising of any and all violations of lawful state regulations.
Any town officer or any interested party may petition the Superior Court in equity to enjoin the erection or maintenance of any outdoor advertising device erected or maintained in violation of any provision of this by-law. Town officials shall have the same right and power to cause the removal of any outdoor advertising device as of any structure or build- ing maintained in violation of a by-law.
Section 9. If any provision of this by-law is declared unconstitutional or il- legal by any court, the validity of the remaining provisions shall not be affected thereby.
Section 10. All regulations for outdoor advertising devices heretofore adopted by the town and in force at the time of the adoption of the foregoing sec- tions are hereby repealed.
Article 59. To appropriate and raise by borrowing or otherwise, under any general or special law which authorizes the town to raise money by borrowing or otherwise, such sum or sums of money as may be necessary for any or all of the purposes mentioned in the foregoing articles.
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The polls will close at 6:00 P.M.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting an attested copy thereof at the Town Hall, the Post Offices, at least one public and conspicuous place in each precinct in the town, and at or in the immediate vicinity of each railroad station in the town, seven days before the day appointed for said meeting.
Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk at the time and place of meeting aforesaid.
Given under our hands this sixteenth day of January, A.D., 1936.
PHILIP E. BESSOM, LESTER B. MORLEY, R. WYER GREENE, Selectmen of Swampscott.
A true copy. Attest: FRANK H. BRADFORD, Constable.
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INDEX
Index
Reports of Department and Committees
Appropriations Voted
24
Assessors.
118
Board of Appeals.
109
Building Inspector .
117
Cemetery, Superintendent of .
165
Dental Clinic.
104
Election, Town
15
Finance Committee, Reports of .
18
Fire Engineers
110
Fire Pumper .
199
Forest Warden
155
Health, Board of
98
Health Officer .
99
Health Nurse
104
High School Committee's report
36-44
Library, Trustees of
202
Milk Inspector .
116
Mortuary Report
103
Moth Superintendent
165 107
Planning Board.
151
Plumbing, Inspector of
116
Police Department .
137
Public Welfare. .
142
Selectmen, Board of
203
School Enrollment .
131
School Census.
131 126
School Department Directory
132
Stetson avenue underpass.
198
Town Accountant.
166
Town Clerk's Records.
10 47
Town Engineer .
112
Town Meeting Members
3
Town Officers Appointed
7
Town Officers Elected.
2
Town Warrant, February 18, 1935
10
Town Warrant, March 25, 1935
28
Town Warrant, May 1, 1935
32
Town Warrant, June 11, 1935
34
Town Warrant, December 10, 1935.
43
Town Warrant, February 17, 1936
211
Tree Warden .
164
War Memorial Committee's report
154
Water and Sewerage Board.
134
Weights and Measures
105
Highway Surveyor
163
Jury List . .
200
Park Commissioners
School Committee.
Town Clerk's Statistics
220
INDEX
Financial Reports
Accountant's Department
166
Assessors' Department .
172
Assets. . .
120
Balance Sheets.
69-95-195
Bonds and Notes Payable
156
Borrowing Capacity .
160
Cemetery . .
191
Collector of Taxes
113-172
County Tax .
118-192
Division of Accounts .
48
Election and Registration
172
Engineering Department.
173
Fire Department .
175
Health Department.
178
Highway Department .
181
Interest and Maturing Debt
192
Law Department.
172
Liabilities
119-157
Library
186
Metropolitan Assessments.
193
Moth Extermination
176
Park Department .
187
Pensions. .
183
Police Department .
174
Property Report.
120
Refuse and Garbage disposal.
179
School Department.
184
Selectmen's Contingent Fund.
170
Selectmen's Department.
170
Sewer Department. .
135-179
Sewer Notes and Bonds.
157
Snow and Ice Removal.
181
Soldiers' Relief
184
State Tax .
118-192
Statistics (1892-1935)
121
Street Lighting
181
Tax Rate.
120
Town Budget
208
Town Debt. .
19-160-196
Town Hall Department.
173
Town Receipts
166
Transfers .
169-194
Treasurer's Report .
156
Treasurer's Department .
171
Trust Funds.
161-196
Unpaid Bills.
189
Valuation .
118
Water Department .
190
Water Debt
135
Water Loans.
157
Welfare Costs
183
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