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A structure for accessory use may be placed at either side of a dwelling provided such accessory structure is not erected or maintained within ten feet of a side lot line.
Side yards shall be at all points ten feet in clear width from the front property line to the rear line of the house, or to the rear line of an attached or semi- detached accessory structure.
Yards for Non-residential Buildings
Any use, not residential or accessory, permitted in a residential district shall observe all provisions of this by-law in regard to depth and width of yards as applied to dwellings.
GENERAL PROVISIONS SECTION 11
Accessory Uses
(a) Accessory uses shall be on the same lot with the building of the owner or lessee, and shall be such as do not alter the character of the premises on which they are located or impair the neighborhood.
(b) Garage space for not more than two cars shall be permitted as an accessory use in residence districts.
(c) Where manufacturing of any kind is allowed as an accessory use, it shall be restricted to such light manufacturing as is incidental to a permitted use and where the product is customarily sold on the premises by the producer to the consumer.
(d) The use of a room or rooms in a dwelling as an office or studio by a physician, dentist, lawyer, music teacher, or other professional person resident in
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the dwelling may be permitted as an accessory use. In such cases a professional sign of not over one square foot in area may be used.
(e) Hotels, as distinct from apartment houses, where permitted under this by-law, shall contain no arrangements of any description for private cooking or house-keeping.
SECTION 12 Non-Conforming Uses
(a) Any Building, part of a building or premises which, at the time of the adoption of this by-law, is being put to a non-conforming use may continue to be used for the same purpose.
(b) A non-conforming use may be changed to a more restricted use or to a conforming use, but it shall not be changed to a less restricted use.
(c) In residence districts, when a non-conforming use has been discontinued for a period of one year, it shall not be reestablished and future use shall be in conformity with this by-law.
SECTION 13 District Boundaries
The district boundaries shall be as shown on the zoning map, the scale of the map, and the figures entered to serve as guides; the building inspector to decide in all cases of doubt, Where the boundary line divides a lot in a single or joint ownership at the time such district is established, a use authorized on the less restricted portion of such lot may be extended into the more restricted portion, but in no case for more than twenty feet over the established line. Where a busi- ness or manufacturing district adjoins a residence dis- trict and has its main frontage on one street, that street
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shall be used for the frontage and for all receiving and delivering of goods and no lots opening only on a side street may be used. Where a district is indicated as fronting on two intersecting streets both frontages may be used.
SECTION 14 Location of Automobile Services
No portion of the front or side lines of a public garage, automobile repair shop, greasing station, stor- age battery service station, or gasoline filling station, or any of their appurtenances or accessory uses, shall hereafter be placed within fifty feet of any residence district. No driveway to such premises shall be in any part within fifty feet of any residential district. No such premises shall have any driveway entrance or exit for motor vehicles within three hundred feet of the property used by any public or private school, public library, church, playground or institution for the sick or dependent, or for children under sixteen years of age. Every filling station shall hereafter be located not less than fifteen feet inside the building line and no filling shall be done except into cars standing on the property of the filling station. An automobile repair shop shall be classed as an industrial use.
SECTION 15 Permits by Selectmen Required
No permit for an apartment house or hotel, or for the place of business of any blacksmith, builder, car- penter, contractor, mason, plumber, roofer, tinsmith, telephone exchange, upholsterer, undertaker, or for any mentioned use under heads 7 and 8 of Section 6, or head 6A of Section 4, or for anything permitted only under Section 7, shall be issued by the Building Inspec- tor except with the written approval of the Selectmen
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as provided in this Section and subject to such condi- tions as the Board of Selectmen may deem it proper to impose.
Any person desiring to obtain the permission of the Selectmen for any purpose for which permission is required under this by-law, shall make written appli- cation therefor and the Selectmen shall hold a public hearing thereon after such notice as they may direct and render a decision. They may make rules for such hearings, and shall notify all holders of real estate who might be affected and shall at such hearings hear such owners and others who may desire to be heard. No permit shall be granted by the Selectmen without considering the effects upon the neighborhood and the Town. If a permit may be issued with conditions, such as will protect the community, such conditions shall be specified in writing on the permit, and such conditions may from time to time be changed in the interests of the community. If a permit would result in substantial injury it shall be refused.
SECTION 16. Variation in laws
In general this by-law is supplementary to other laws and by-laws affecting the use, height and area of buildings, structures and premises. Where this by-law imposes a greater restriction upon the use, height and area of buildings, structures or premises than is im- posed by other provisions of laws or by-laws, the pro- visions of this by-law shall control.
SECTION 17 Plats
Applications for building permits shall be ac- companied by a plat of the lot in duplicate, drawn to scale, showing the actual dimensions of the lot and
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the exact location and size of the buildings already upon the lot and of the building to be erected, together with the streets and alleys on and adjacent to the lot. A record of such applications and plats shall be kept on file in the office of the Building Inspector.
SECTION 18.
Enforcement
This by-law shall be administered and enforced by the Building Inspector, who shall have charge of investigating and prosecuting for violations thereof. He shall approve no application of any kind, plans and specifications and intended use for which are not in all respects in conformity with this by-law. He shall issue no permit for anything covered by Section 15 until the applicant has secured the written permit of the Select- men therein required. He shall grant no permit for any use which would in his opinion prove to have, in the location where it seeks to establish itself, any nuisance qualities, notwithstanding any provision of this by-law which would seem to permit such use. Where a permit may be granted with conditions that would improve or protect the status of the community, such conditions shall be imposed and made a part of the record.
SECTION 19.
Appeals
Any person aggrieved by the refusal of the Build- ing Inspector to issue a permit under the provisions of this by-law, or any person aggrieved by the issuance of a permit or by a decision of the Building Inspector or the Selectmen made under the provisions of this by- law, may appeal under the provisions of Section 30, Chapter 40, of the General Laws.
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SECTION 20.
Exceptions Under Specific Rules
When in its judgement the public convenience and welfare will be substantially served, and where such exception will tend to improve the status of the neighborhood, or will relieve a property owner from unnecessary hardship without substantially derogating from the intent of this by-law, the Board of Appeals may in specific cases, after public notice, a hearing, and subject to appropriate conditions and safeguards, determine and vary the application of the district regulations herein established in harmony with their general purpose and intent as follows:
(a) Permit the alteration of a one family house or building, existing at the time this by-law is adopted and wherever located, to accomodate two or more families.
(b) Permit temporary and conditional structures and uses that do not conform to the regulations herein prescribed, provided that no permit shall be for more than a one year period.
(c) Permit yards of such size as will make pos- sible the use of lots of record at the time this by-law is adopted for dwellings of reasonable size under the conditions, with due protection to adjoining proper- ties.
The enumeration of the above powers in this sec- tion shall not be construed as limiting the exercise of any power conferred on the Board of Appeals by statute.
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SECTION 21.
Ammendments
The Planning Board upon its own initiative or upon petition shall hold public hearings, fourteen days' public notice of which shall be given, for the consideration of any amendments to the zoning map or to this by-law, and report to a town meeting its recommendations as to what action shall be taken. No hearing shall be held or appeals considered for any variation or change of district boundaries except as provided in Chapter 40 of the General Laws and in this section.
SECTION 22.
This By-law shall take effect as provided by law.
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Article 80 To see if the Town will vote to accept the proposed Official Map dated December 29, 1953. (Planning Board)
Article 81 To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1200.00 for construction of a new sidewalk, entrance walk and raising curbing in front of the Town Hall. (Highway Surveyor)
Article 82 To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $2500.00 for the construc- tion of a sidewalk on North Street from Church Street to County Road. This sum to be used for material alone as the labor can go under Chapter 90. (Highway Surveyor)
Article 83 To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $2100.00 for curbing to be used on North Street where necessary. This curbing should be laid this year before the hot- mix is spread on the road. The labor on this can also go under Chapter 90 work. (Highway Sur- veyor)
Article 84 To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1700.00 for a drain and two (2) Catch Basins, using 10-inch pipe on Main Street, between Route 6 and Cathaway Lane. (Highway Surveyor)
Article 85 To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1600.00 for the purchase of a new Pick-Up Truck to be used by the High- way Department. (Highway Surveyor)
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Article 80.
So Vatel
Article 81. We recommend that this article be tabled.
Postponed
Article 82 We recommend that this article be tabled.
Article 83. We recommend that this article be tabled.
Postponed
Article 84. We recommend that $1,700.00 be raised for this purpose.
Carried
Article 85. We recommend that this article be tabled .-
103-62 Carried
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Article 86 To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or take from available funds a sum of money to grade and seed the former Sylvia lot on Hammond Street now a part of the school grounds or take any action relative thereto. (School Committee)
Article 87 To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or take from available funds a sum of money to install and maintain a street light at the entrance to the school addition on Barstow Street or take any action relative thereto. (School Committee)
Article 88 To choose all necessary Officers for the year: viz Town Clerk; Town Treasurer and Tax Collector for one year; One Selectman and Board of Public Welfare, for three years; One Water Commissioner, for three years; One Assessor, for three years; One Member of the Board of Health, for three years; Trustee for the Public Library, for three years; Wharf Commissioner, for one year; Herring Inspector, for one year; Two Con- stables, for one year; Auditor, for one year; One Member of the School Committee, for three years ; Moderator, for one year; One Member of the Planning Board, for five years; One Member of the Planning Board, for two years; One Member of the Mattapoisett Housing Authority, for five years; One Tree Warden, for one year; One High- way Surveyor, for one year.
All the above to be voted for on one ballot.
The Polls for Election of Officers will be open at the Town Hall at twelve o'clock noon and shall close at eight P.M.
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Article 86. We recommend that $500.00 be raised for this purpose.
Usted
Article 87. We recommend that $24.00 be raised for this purpose. Voted
Article 88.
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Both of said days will constitute the Annual Town Meeting.
You are directed to serve this Warrant by posting up attested copies thereof at the several places designated in the Town By-Laws, seven days at least 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 eighteenth day of January in the year One Thousand Nine Hun- dred Fifty-four.
LESTER A. CRAMPTON MANUEL C. LINHARES GEORGE S. WHITE
Board of Selectmen
A True Copy Attested : ALFRED E. FARIA,
Constable of Mattapoisett
Posted January 21, 1954 at 1:15 P.M.
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Respectfully submitted, Finance Committee : FRANK T. PIMENTAL, Jr. RICHARD N. STONE ROBERT TOWNSEND EARLE T. UNDERWOOD GEORGE YEN
Town Auditor's Report
I hereby certify that I have examined the financial accounts of the following Town Officials and have found them to be correct :
Selectmen and Board of Public Welfare
Treasurer and Tax Collector
Highway Surveyor
Water Commissioners
Wharf Commissioner
Tree Warden
School Committee
Public Library and
Board of Health.
N. FRANKLIN HARRIMAN, JR.
Town Auditor
State Auditor's Report
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Corporations and Taxation Division of Accounts State House, Boston 33
January 20, 1954
To the Board of Selectmen
Mr. Lester A. Crampton, Chairman Mattapoisett, Massachusetts
Gentlemen :
I submit herewith my report of an audit of the books and accounts of the town of Mattapoisett for the period from December 14, 1952 to December 5, 1953, made in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 44, General Laws. This is in the form of a report made to me by Mr. William Schwartz, Assistant Director of Accounts.
Very truly yours,
HERMAN B. DINE
Director of Accounts
HBD :ED
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Mr. Herman B. Dine Director of Accounts Department of Corporations and Taxation State House, Boston
Sir :
In accordance with your instructions, I have made an audit of the books and accounts of the town of Mattapoisett for the period from December 14, 1952, the date of the previous examination, to December 5, 1953, and submit the following report thereon:
The financial transactions, as entered on the rec- ords of the several departments receiving or disbursing town funds or sending out bills for collection, were examined and checked in detail.
The books and accounts of the town treasurer were examined. The recorded receipts were analyzed and checked with the records of the departments collecting money for the town and with other sources from which money was paid into the town treasury, while the payments were compared with the select- men's approved warrants and with the records of ex- penditures. The cash balance on December 5, 1953 was proved by reconciliation of the bank balances with statements furnished by the banks of deposit and by actual count of the cash in the office.
The securities, including savings bank books, representing the investments of the trust and invest- ment funds in the custody of the town treasurer and the trustee were examined and listed, the income being proved and the withdrawals being verified by com- parison with the treasurer's cash book.
The payments on account of maturing debt and in- terest were checked with the amounts falling due and with the cancelled securities on file.
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The records of tax titles held by the town were examined and checked. The amounts added to the tax title account were compared with the collector's records, the reported redemptions were checked to the treasurer's cash book, and the tax titles on hand were listed and proved.
The appropriations voted by the town were listed from the town clerk's records of town meetings, and the aggregate amount of the appropriations was checked with the total raised by the assessors in the determination of the tax rate for 1953.
The aggregate amounts expended from each of the respective appropriations as voted were checked, ledger accounts were compiled, and a balance sheet, which is appended to this report, was prepared show- ing the financial condition of the town on December 5, 1953.
The books and accounts of the collector were ex- amined and checked. The tax, excise, and water ac- counts outstanding according to the previous examina- tion, as well as all subsequent commitment lists, were audited and proved. The cash books were footed and the reported collections were compared with the payments to the treasurer. The abatements, as record- ed, were checked to the assessors' and the water com- missioners' records of abatements granted, and the outstanding accounts were listed and proved.
Verification of the outstanding tax, excise, and water accounts was obtained by mailing notices to a number of persons whose names appeared on the books as owing money to the town, the replies received thereto indicating that the accounts, as listed, are correct.
The records of departmental accounts receivable were examined and checked. The recorded receipts
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were compared with the payments to the treasurer and the outstanding accounts were listed and proved.
The town clerk's records of dog and sporting licenses issued were examined, the payments to the State being compared with the receipts on file and the payments to the town being checked with the treas- urer's cash book.
The surety bonds of the officials required by law to furnish them for the faithful performance of their duties were examined and found to be in proper form.
In addition to the accounts mentioned, the records of all other departments collecting money for the town or committing bills for collection were examnied and checked, and the payments to the treasurer were veri- fied.
Appended to this report, in addition to the bal- ance sheet, are tables showing a reconciliation of the treasurer's cash, summaries of the tax, motor vehicle and trailer excise, tax title, departmental, and water accounts, as well as schedules showing the transac- tions and condition of the trust and investment funds.
For the cooperation extended by the town officials during the progress of the audit, I wish, on behalf of my assistants and for myself, to express appreciation.
Respectfully submitted, WILLIAM SCHWARTZ
Assistant Director of Accounts
WS:ED
TOWN OF MATTAPOISETT Balance Sheet - December 5, 1953 GENERAL ACCOUNTS
ASSETS
LIABILITIES AND RESERVES
Cash,
$158,042.44
Accounts Receivable :
Temporary Loans : In Anticipation of Reimbursement $3,000.00
Taxes :
Employees' Payroll Deductions :
Levy of 1951 :
Federal Taxes $2,074.98
Real Estate, $18.69
County Retirement System 23.93
2,098.91
Personal Property
512.77
Real Estate
6,670.85
Levy of 1953 :
Personal Property
1,722.91
Real Estate
25,467.85
Old Age Assistance Recoveries
409.55
34 393.07
Federal Grants : 257
Motor Vehicle and Trailer Excise : Levy of 1952
$79.48
Levy of 1953
645.06
Administration -
54.11
Assistance 491.38
Tax Titles and Possessions :
Tax Titles
2,134.69
Tax Possessions
892.02
Aid 2,032.06
Departmental
Infirmary Rental 200.00
Disability Assistance
4.72
Aid to Dependent Children
538.83
Veterans' Services 56.50
School
1,953.91
Wharfage
43.00
2,796.96
Overpayment to be Refunded : Poll Taxes 1952 2.00
Tailings
37.58
George Purrington, Jr., Fund, Income
28
Aid to Dependent Children : Administration 299.02
3,026.71
Old Age Assistance :
Administration 2,175.20
Assistance 1,649.34
School Lunch Fund
6,701.11 260.96
Appropriation Balances : Revenue : General 62,691.24
Disability Assistance :
724.54
Levy of 1952 :
Water Rates and Changes Aid to Highways : State 5,500.00
9,283.27
Non-Revenue : Fire Station Construction 11.32
School Contsruction 47.03
County
3,500.00
Water
42,335.31
105,084.90
Overestimate 1953 : County Tax
612.08
Sale of Real Estate Fund
640.00
Receipts Reserved for Appropriation : Road Machinery Fund 394.99
Reserve Fund-Overlay Surplus 10,513.72
Overlays Reserved for Abatements :
Levy of 1951 18.69
Levy of 1952 5,210.33
Levy of 1953
100.07
Water Loan Expense 201.60
Highways :
Chapter 90-Construction 520.63
Resurface Long Plain Road 342.64
1,193.91
Tax Title and Possession 3,026.71
Departmental
2,796.96
Water 9,283.27
Aid to Highway
6,000.00
21,831.48
Surplus Revenue :
General :
Current Year
17,316.87
Prior Years
44,786.66
62,103.53
$219,020.18
$219,020.18
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5,329.09
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Revenue Reserved Until Collected : Motor Vehicle and Trailer Excise 724.54
Insurance on Town Vehicles
01
Treasurer's and Collector's Expense 129.03
559.28
County Hospital Assessment 423.44
Overdrawn Accounts :
9,000.00
Unprovided for or Overdrawn Accounts : Underestimates 1953 : State Parks and Reservations Assessment 135.84
DEBT ACCOUNTS
Net Funded or Fixed Debt : Inside Debt Limit : General Outside Debt Limit : General Public Service
Serial Loans :
Inside Debt Limit : Insurance Premium
$3,750.00
Fire Station Beach Property
21,000.00
$205,000.00
4,000.00
186,000.00
$28,750.00
391,000.00
Outside Debt Limit :
School
205,000.00
Water
186,000.00
391,000.00
$419,750.00
$419,750.00
TRUST AND INVESTMENT ACCOUNTS 259
Trust and Investment Funds : Cash and Securities : In Custody of Treasurer
$44 631.66
Barstow School Fund 12,200.25
In Custody of Trustee
17,346.65
R. L. Barstow Library Fund 309.26
Cemetery Funds : General Care 1,331.20
Perpetual Care 10,815.64
Post-War Rehabilitation Fund
14,653.84
$44,631.66
Lewis R. Bolles Fund
17,346.65
$61,978.31
$61,978.31
$28,750.00
George Purrington, Jr., Fund Fire Truck
$5,321.47
TOWN OF MATTAPOISETT
Balance Sheet - December 31, 1953
ASSETS
LIABILITIES AND RESERVES
Cash
$124,307.65
Overpayment to be Refunded Poll Tax 1952
2.00
2.00
Accounts Receivable
Levy of 1951 Real Estate
$18.69
$18.69
George Purrington Fund
28
28
Levy of 1952
Real Estate
4,999.21
Personal Property
512.77
5,511.98
Levy of 1953
Personal Property
1,670.48
Real Estate
19,825.47
21,495.95 27,026.62
Motor Vehicle Excise and Trailer
Levy of 1952
3.37
Levy of 1953
1,379.70
1,383.07
1,383.07
Tax Title
2,475.11
Tax Title Possessions
892.02
3,367.13
3,367.13
Unexpended Appropriation Bal- ances 12,505.44 12,505.44
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Federal Grants
Disability Assistance Aid
523.33
Disability Assistance Administration 54.11 A. D. C. Aid 1,862.26
A. D. C. Administration
290.32
O. A. A. Aid 537.36
O. A. A. Administratiton 1,715.88
4,983.26
School Lunch Fund 249.98
249.98
Tailings
37.58
37.58
Old Age Recoveries
409.55
409.55
Departmental
Fire Station Construction 11.32 11.32
Infirmary Rental
200.00
School Construction 47.03
47.03
A. D. C. 538.83
Water (Balance Note Issue) 35,636.82
35,636.82
Veterans' Services 56.50
Overestimate 1953 County Tax 612.08 612.08
Wharfage 38.00
833.33
Sale of Real Estate Fund 640.00
640.00
Water Rates and Charges 6,306.89
6,306.89
Receipts Reserved for Appropriations Road Machinery Funds 518.99
518.99
Aid to Highways
State
5,500.00
Reserve Fund-Overlay Surplus 18,616.71
18,616.71
County
3,500.00
9,000.00
Overlays Reserved for Abatements of Taxes Levy of 1951 18.69
Levy of 1952 5,210.33
Levy of 1953 100.07 5,329.09
County Hospital Assess-
ments 423.44
559.28
Overdrawn Accounts
Chap. 90 Construction 8,087.85
8,087.85
Water 6,306.89
11,890.42
Aid to Highways, Chap. 90
9,000.00
9,000.00
Marine Surplus 750.00
750.00
Surplus Revenue
79,631.27
79,631.27
$180,871.82
$180,871.82
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Unprovided for or Overdrawn Accounts State Park and Reserva- tions 135.84
Revenue Reserved Until Collected Motor Vehicle Excise and Trailer 1,383.07 Tax Title and Tax Possessions 3,367.13
Departmental 833.33
Report of the Highway Department
GENERAL HIGHWAY
Labor:
Manuel R. Nunes, Jr.
$1,988.00
Joseph Farley
1,512.00
Ray I. Bradley
838.00
Lester Crampton, Jr.
392.00
Joseph R. Nunes
136.00
John W. Nunes
84.00
Caton Aiello
49.00
Robert Raphael
48.00
John McLennan
40.00
Raymond Winslow
40.00
Joseph Sullivan
40.00
Walter A. Bowman
32.00
Alec B. Santos
24.00
Antone Nunes
24.00
Julio Martin
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