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Article 19. To see if the town will authorize the Board of Park Commissioners to hire trucks for the removal of surplus material from the State Road Boston and Maine R. R. underpass project to Phillips Park and appropriate five hundred dollars ($500) therefor, as recommended by the Park Commissioners.
Article 20. To see if the town will authorize the Board of Park Commissioners to purchase playground equipment, as recommended by the Planning Board, to be located on Jackson and Abbott Parks, and appropriate four hundred thirty dollars ($430) therefor, as recommended by the Park Commissioners.
Article 21. To see if the town will authorize the Board of Park Commissioners to build sixty (60) lineal feet of ten (10) row bleach- ers, duplicating present steel bleachers, with thirty (30) lineal feet to be located on each end of the present steel bleachers on the foot- ball field at Phillips Park, and appropriate seventeen hundred dollars ($1,700) therefor, as recommended by the Park Commission- ers.
Article 22. To see if the town will authorize the Board of Park Commissioners to build three hundred ten (310) lineal feet of chain link fence to be four (4) feet high to be located on Essex street be- tween the two stone piers at the entrance to Jackson Park and ap- propriate two hundred seventy-five dollars ($275) therefor, as recom- mended by the Park Commissioners.
Article 23. To see if the town will authorize the Board of Park Commissioners to build an electric weld fence to be four (4) feet high to be located around the Abbott Memorial on Abbott Park and appropriate one hundred and sixty-five dollars ($165) therefor, as recommended by the Park Commissioners.
Article 24. To see if the town will appropriate eight thousand dollars ($8,000), which is an amount equal to that received by the town from insurance on the building occupied by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, to be used for the erection or purchase of a suitable building for the benefit of the Veterans of Foreign Wars; provided the necessary funds can be obtained from the Federal government or other agency to erect or purchase this building as a Federal pro- ject.
Article 25. To see what action the town will take in relation to the appropriation or raising of money for permanent street and for sidewalk construction.
Article 26. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000) for the proper observance of the Fourth of July.
Article 27. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of five hundred dollars ($500) for the proper observance of Armistice Day.
Article 28. To see if the town will vote to restore the annual appropriation of two hundred dollars ($200) to the Swampscott Fire- men's Relief Association for the observance of the Firemen's Me- morial Sunday.
Article 29. To see if the town will vote to authorize the laying of water mains in Foster road and on Windsor avenue, pursuant to the provisions of Section 25, Chapter 82 (Ter. Ed) of the General Laws and authorize the Selectmen to take the necessary steps there- for, and appropriate the sum of $20,000. to be used on condition that an additional sum for such purpose is furnished by the Federal
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government, and that the town shall receive deeds granting an ease- ment or fee in such way or ways and a waiver of damages by the owners or persons holding interest therein; or vote to take such other action in relation thereto.
Article 30. To see if the town will vote to amend, modify or annul Section 8 of Chapter 7 of the town by-laws insofar as the same may relate to the laying of water mains or doing other public work on Foster road or on Windsor avenue.
Article 31. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Board of Selectmen to appoint a wire inspector and appropriate money therefor.
Article 32. To see if the town will vote to add the following to its zoning by-laws: "No vacant land shall be used for a market or for the sale of any commodity or shall there be erected upon such land any structure, pumps or other mechanical device except that, in each case, after a public hearing of which seven days' notice shall be given in such manner as the Board of Selectmen may prescribe; said Board shall determine that the purpose for which the land is sought to be used will not be substantially detrimental to the use of property in the vicinity thereof."
Article 33. To see if the town will appropriate the sum of $2,500 to be used by the High School Committee in the completion of the High School and grounds, as petitioned for by the High School Committee.
Article 34. To see if the town will vote to purchase a power sprayer to supplement the one now in use, and appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the Moth Superintendent.
Article 35. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of $750 to be used on the W. P. A. Recreational Project.
Article 36. To see if the town will vote to erect and equip a new Police Station and appropriate money therefor.
Article 37. To see if the town will authorize the Moderator to appoint a committee to proceed with the construction and equipment of such Police Station, with power in the name and behalf of the town to employ an architect, enter into contract and do all necessary and incidental to the construction and equipment of such station, and appropriate money therefor.
Article 38. To see if the town will vote to authorize under the foregoing article, the Board of Selectmen or other agency, to apply to the proper Federal authorities for a grant of Federal funds to be used in connection with construction and equipment of a new Police Station.
Article 39. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Mod- erator to appoint a committee to study a progressive program of municipal building, and to appropriate money therefor.
Article 40. 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 Engineer, dated February 4, 1932, now on file in the Town Engineer's office, and appropriate the sum of $500 for the pur- pose of surfacing, oiling and grading the same, as petitioned for by Thomas S. Bubier, et al.
Article 41. To see if the town will vote to accept Ryan place, so-called, 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 Annie J. and Stephen W. Madden.
Article 42. To see if the town will vote to accept Common- wealth avenue as a public way, as laid out by the Board of Select- men, in accordance with a plan made by W. W. Pratt, Town Engi-
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neer, and to appropriate money therefor, as petitioned for by Jeanne P. Walters, et al.
Article 43. To see if the town will vote to accept Common- wealth terrace as a public way, as laid out by the Board of Select- men, in accordance with a plan made by W. W. Pratt, Town Engi- neer, and to appropriate money therefor, as petitioned for by Jeanne P. Walters, et al.
Article 44. To see if the town will vote to accept Tidd street 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 appro- priate money therefor.
Article 45. To see if the town will vote to accept Fairview ave- nue as a public way, as laid out by the Board of Selectmen, in ac- cordance with a plan made by W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, and to appropriate money therefor.
Article 46. To see if the town will vote to accept Blaney circle as a public way, as laid out by the Board of Selectmen, in accor- dance with a plan made by W. W. Pratt, Town Engineer, and to appropriate money therefor.
Article 47. To see if the town will vote to resurface Farragut road, from Ellis road to Paradise road, with bituminous macadam and appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the Surveyor of Highways.
Article 48. To see if the town will vote to build a surface water drain with the necessary catch basins in Beach Bluff avenue, from Hawthorne Brook culvert, a distance of 1100 feet, and appropriate money for the same, as recommended by the Surveyor of Highways.
Article 49. To see if the town will vote to build a surface water drain in Phillips avenue and Lincoln circle, with the necessary catch basins, a distance of 770 feet, and appropriate money for the same, as recommended by the Surveyor of Highways.
Article 50. To see if the town will vote to lay a surface water drain for about 600 feet, with necessary catch basins, on Ocean avenue and to appropriate money for the same, as petitioned for by Thomas W. Rogers.
Article 51. To see if the town will vote to lay a sewer in Lin- coln circle, a distance of approximately 1035 feet, and appropriate money for the same, as requested by Francis W. Paine and John H. Blodgett, trustees.
Article 52. To see if the town will vote to lay a water main in Lincoln circle, a distance of approximately 880 feet, and appropriate money for the same, as requested by Francis W. Paine and John H. Blodgett, trustees.
Article 53. To see if the town will vote to build a surface water drain, with necessary catch basins, from about 395 Essex street, northerly, for a distance of about 150 feet.
Article 54. To see if the town will vote to lay a water main from the Stand Pipe on State road to Salem street, a distance of. approximately 4,300 feet, and appropriate money therefor, as recom- mended by the Water and Sewerage Board.
Article 55. To see if the town will vote to extend the sewer in Atlantic avenue, a distance of approximately 625 feet, and appro- priate money therefor, as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Board.
Article 56. To see if the town will vote to extend Hawthorne Brook culvert to Humphrey street, and appropriate money therefor, as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Board.
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Article 57. To see if the town will vote to transfer from the Water Available Surplus account five thousand dollars ($5,000) to the Water Emergency Fund, as recommended by the Water and Sewerage Board.
'Article 58. To see if the town will vote to furnish and lay about 500 feet of water main on Catalpa circle, and appropriate the money for same, as recommended by James Nason.
Article 59. To see if the town will vote to furnish and lay about 300 feet of sewer on Catalpa circle, and appropriate the money for same, as recommended by James Nason.
Article 60. To see if the town will vote to construct a sewer in Hampshire street, and to apropriate the money therefor.
Article 61. To see if the town will vote that the Board of Se- lectmen shall have the power to make such reasonable rules and regulations as they may deem advisable from time to time, govern- ing the conduct of persons using the beaches within the town, and the conduct of those coming to and from the beaches.
Article 62. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of four hundred dollars ($400) to be used for a full time police officer to patrol Fisherman's Beach during the bathing season.
Article 63. To see if the town will vote to widen a certain por- tion of Humphrey street, extending from Atlantic avenue easterly to Palmer avenue, and to appropriate such sum as may be neces- sary for this work, as recommended by the Board of Selectmen.
Article 64. To see if the town will vote to take by eminent do- main such land bounding Humphrey street, between Atlantic avenue and Palmer avenue, as may be necessary to properly effect the wid- ening of this portion of Humphrey street, in accordance with the plan dated January, 1934, drawn by W. W. Pratt, the Town Engineer, and to appropriate the necessary money therefor, as recommended by the Board of Selectmen.
Article 65. To see if the town will vote to appropriate the sum of five thousand seven hundred dollars ($5,700) or such other sum as may be necessary to install new toilets in the Clarke School, as recommended by the School Committee.
Article 66. To see if the town will vote to make such changes in the auditorium of the Town Hall as will make the space now so occupied available for offices, such changes to include new heating and lighting arrangements, and to appropriate money therefor.
Article 67. To see if the town will vote to amend and add to its building laws, Chapter XI, Article III, Section 3, entitled "Loca- tion" after words "recognized fire proof construction" in sentence relating to buildings on railroad right of way, the following: "and, furthermore, any garage constructed of a recognized fire proof con- struction may be built upon the property line," as recommended by the Building Inspector.
Article 68. To see if the town will vote to amend the zoning by-laws by adding to said by-laws wherein there is established the General Residence District, the following:
The provisions of these by-laws shall not preclude the use of the premises, consisting of land and buildings, at 42 Walker road, Swampscott, as a convalescent home.
Article 69. To see if the town will vote to rezone the property, appearing on Assesors' plans, plate 21, lot 26, located at the north- easterly corner of Puritan road and Woodbine avenue, to a double residence district from a single residence district, as now consti- tuted.
Article 70. To see if the town will vote to construct an asphalt sidewalk on both sides of Bay View drive at its easterly end on that part not already so constructed, a distance of approximately 250
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feet, to the junction of Millet road, and appropriate money for the same.
Article 71. To see if the town will vote to take by eminent do- main such land at the westerly junction of Cedar Hill terrace and Bay View avenue, as may be necessary to properly widen this sec- tion and appropriate money therefor, as petitioned for by Ernest M. Folger, et al.
Article 72. To see if the town will vote to remove the ledge at the northerly side of Millett road.
Article 73. To see if the town will vote to increase the reserve police force from three to five, as recommended by the Chief of Police.
Article 74. 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 outdoor advertising devices:
Section 1. Authorization. In conformity with the General Laws and lawful state regulations for the proper control and restriction of outdoor advertising devices, and without relaxing any restric- tions on said devices imposed by such regulations, said devices in the town of Swampscott are hereby further restricted as pro- vided in the following sections:
Section 2. Exemptions: This by-law shall apply exclusively to out- door advertising within public view of any highway, public park or reservation. It shall not apply to signs or other devices con- trolled under the provisions of Section 1, 2 or 8, of Chapter 85, General Laws, or to signs or other devices 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 restriction 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 ap- ply 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 advertis- ing device.
"Sign-board" shall mean any structure designed for displaying an outdoor 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 recreational use, as a state or municipal forest, as a protec- tion 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.
"Area" of a sign or signboard shall mean the area of the face view of the entire device, including all attachments except sup- ports 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
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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 carries only advertisements strictly incidental and su- bordinate to a lawful use of the premises on which it is located, including signs indicating business transacted or goods sold or produced on the premises or an occupant thereof, but not in- cluding any sign sold or rented to an outside party.
"Sign on a wall" shall mean a sign closely attached throughout to a 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 cor- poration shall be permitted or allowed to erect, display or main- tain any billboard or other outdoor advertising device, not ex- empted 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 law- ful 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 adver- tising 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 for- est, any lawful accessory signs not exceeding all together fifteen square feet in area within the limits of said prem- ises; or any lawful accessory signs on the front wall of any building occupied 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 bus- iness.
(d) At any boundary line of the town a lawful sign not exceed- ing 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 Selectmen 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 be- tween any points on connecting streets within fifty feet of a cor- ner of the rights of way or to obstruct any door, window or fire escape 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 res- idential 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 lawful 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
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allowed to erect, display or maintain any billboard or other out- door advertising device in any district.
(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 conspicuously 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, playground, 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 thereof are kept in neat and safe condition.
Section 7. Administration. No advertising device for which a per- mit from any state authority is required shall be erected, dis- played 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 administration of this by-law. Such officer, or in the lack of such officer, the Town Clerk, shall thereupon make an examina- tion 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 de- vice 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 de- vice 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 preceding paragraph 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 pro- visions of sections 4, 5 or 6 hereof, shall be guilty of a misde- meanor and shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, and whoever after final conviction for such vio- lation unlawfully displays such outdoor advertising 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 Ad- vertising 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 viola- tion 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 building maintained in violation of a by-law.
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Section 9. If any provision of this by-law is declared unconstitution- al or illegal by any court, the validity of the remaining provi- sions shall not be affected thereby.
Section 10. All regulations for outdoor advertising devices hereto- fore adopted by the town and in force at the time of the adop- tion of the foregoing sections are hereby repealed.
Article 75. 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.
The polls will close at 7 P.M.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting an at- tested 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 fourteenth day of January, A.D., 1937.
LESTER B. MORLEY, PHILIP E. BESSOM, KENNETH W. ULMAN, Selectmen of Swampscott.
A true copy. Attest:
WAYNE ANDERSON, Constable.
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INDEX
Index
Reports of Departments and Committees
Appropriations Recommended
29-36
Appropriations Voted
45
Assessors
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134
Board of Appeals
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158
Cemetery, Superintendent of
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160
Dental Clinic
120
Dog Officer
Election, Town
20
Finance Committee, Reports of
25
Fire Engineers
126
Forest Warden
128
Health, Board of
111
Health Officer
112
Health Nurse
120
High School Committee
205
Highway Surveyor
159
Jury List
226
Library, Trustees of
148
Milk Inspector
119
Mortuary Report
118
Moth Superintendent
129
Park Commissioners
125
Party Primary
40
Planning Board
223
Plumbing, Inspector of
121
Police Department
143
Public Welfare
206
Selectmen, Board of
229
School Census
202
School Enrollment
203
School Committee
196
School Directory
204
State Election
52
Town Clerk's Records
10
Town Clerk's Statistics
57
Town Committees Appointed
6
Town Engineer
121
Town Meeting Members
3
Town Officers Appointed
7
Town Officers Elected
2
Town Warrant, January 13, 1936
10
Town Warrant, February 17, 1936
11
Town Warrant, March 30, 1936
36
Town Warrant, April 28, 1936
40
Town Warrant, September 15, 1936
46
Town Warrant, November 3, 1936
51
Town Warrant, February 15, 1937
236
Tree Warden
128
Water and Sewerage Board
141
Weights and Measures
123
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124
Building Inspector
129
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INDEX
Financial Reports
PAGE
Accountant's Department
161
Assessors' Department
168
Assets
135
Balance Sheets
81, 107, 193
Bonds and Notes Payable
150
Bonds of Town Officers
231
Borrowing Capacity
155
Cemetery
189
Collector of Taxes
130-168
County Tax
134
Division of Accounts
59
Election and Registration
168
Engineering Department
169
Fire Department
171
Hawthorne Brook
176
Health Department
175
Highway Department
177
Interest and Maturing Debt
190
Law Department
167
Liabilities
134-151
Library
183
Moth Extermination
172
New High School
191
Old Age Assistance
219
Park Department
184
Pensions
181
Police Department
171
Public Welfare
179
Receipts
161
School Department
181
Sealer of Weights and Measures
173
Selectmen's Department
166
Sewer Department
176
Sewer Notes and Bonds
152
Soldiers' Relief
181
State Tax
134
Statistics (1893-1936)
137
Street Lighting
178
Tax Rate
136
Town Balance
165
Town Budget
31-234
Town Debt
155
Town Hall Department
169
Transfers
165-192
Treasurer's Report
150
Treasurer's Department
167
Trust Funds
156-195
Valuation
135
Water Debt
142-188
Welfare Costs
216
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